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Variety | 5/29/2019 | Michael Schneider
There’s a common thread that ties together most of this year’s comedy actor contenders, and it’s pretty morbid. For a category that’s supposed to be all about chuckles, there sure is a lot of death.
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IndieWire | 5/24/2019 | Staff
Bill Hader hasn’t been shy about his dream of becoming a film director. One of his motivations in creating HBO’s “Barry” with Alec Berg was to leverage his value as performer in order to get an...
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IndieWire | 5/19/2019 | Staff
Barry Berkman isn’t blocked, he’s broken — but “Barry” is only getting better. In the Season 2 finale of Bill Hader’s existential HBO comedy, the eponymous hitman-turned-thespian tries to plug up a...
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Collider | 5/19/2019 | Adam Chitwood
If for some reason you forgot that Barry was a TV series about a hitman, the Season 2 finale was a stark reminder. The half-hour comedy wrapped up its critically acclaimed second season in striking...
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Collider | 5/12/2019 | Adam Chitwood
Spoilers for Barry Season 2 Episode 7 follow below. In the penultimate installment of Collider’s exclusive episode-by-episode breakdown of Barry Season 2 with the show’s co-creator, co-showrunner,...
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Collider | 5/6/2019 | Drew Grant
Let’s just put this out there: Barry is probably the best comedy on TV right now. And what makes it so absolutely unique is the way it satirizes the vapid, cringy narcissism of a group that’s very...
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Collider | 5/5/2019 | Adam Chitwood
The effortlessly funny and compelling nature of Barry may make the HBO series look like a deceptively straightforward show, but Season 2 Episode 6 is a prime example of how the best laid plans can...
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IndieWire | 5/5/2019 | Staff
In all the commotion of last week’s giant “Game of Thrones” battle, some viewers may have missed some exciting theatrics on another HBO episode that aired last Sunday night.
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Collider | 4/26/2019 | Adam Chitwood
The weekend of April 26th is shaping up to be grand in more ways than one. This is, of course, the highly anticipated release date of Avengers: Endgame, the culminating event of the entire Marvel...
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Collider | 4/21/2019 | Adam Chitwood
Real-life can often provide the best inspiration for art, but tackling sensitive subject matter often requires a certain degree of maturity and understanding on the part of the artist.
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IndieWire | 4/18/2019 | Staff
The 78th Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced its latest batch of winners on April 18, including nine Peabody 30 honorees in the Entertainment category. Fictional murderers had a big year in...
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Variety | 4/18/2019 | Danielle Turchiano
“The Americans,” “Barry,” “The End of the F***ing World,” “The Good Place,” “Hannah Gadsby: Nanette,” “Killing Eve,” “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj,” “Pose” and “Random Acts of Flyness” have been...
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The Playlist | 4/15/2019 | Charles Barfield
It’s not at all shocking to say that last night’s “Game of Thrones” premiere had its biggest audience of all-time. The series has been off the air since 2017 and in that time, the fanbase for the...
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Collider | 4/14/2019 | Adam Chitwood
Spoilers for Barry Season 2 Episode 3 follow below. The third episode of Barry’s second season, titled “Past = Present x Future Over Yesterday”, is a big one. Over these first few episodes, we’ve...
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/Film | 4/10/2019 | Ben Pearson
Good news for NoHo Hank fans: HBO’s Barry is officially coming back for season 3. Bill Hader and Alec Berg‘s show about a hitman who accidentally discovers his love for acting has proven to be one...
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Collider | 4/10/2019 | Allison Keene
Huzzah and kudos to Barry, Bill Hader‘s excellent HBO series, which has been renewed by the premium network today for Season 3. The series received three Emmys for its first season: Outstanding Lead...
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Variety | 4/10/2019 | Joe Otterson
“Barry” has been renewed for a third season at HBO. The news comes less than two weeks after the second season debuted on March 31. The dark comedy series, co-created by Bill Hader and Alec Berg,...
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The Playlist | 4/9/2019 | Gregory Ellwood
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the nominations for the 2019 Peabody Awards and 60 different television, streaming, radio/podcast and news programs are in the mix for 30 prestigious...
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IndieWire | 4/9/2019 | Staff
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors have shared the 60 nominees for the group’s 78th annual awards. They represent 2018’s most compelling stories and are chosen from more than 1,200 entries available...
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Collider | 4/7/2019 | Adam Chitwood
Spoilers for Barry Season 2 Episode 2 follow below. Barry Season 2 is wasting no time pulling the rug out from under the audience. The season premiere ended with Detective Loach (John Pirruccello)...
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Collider | 3/31/2019 | Adam Chitwood
Spoilers for Season 2 Episode 1 of Barry follow below. If you’re a frequent reader of Collider, you may recall that last year, Bill Hader was kind enough to speak to us at length about the final...
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IndieWire | 3/30/2019 | Staff
“Barry” fans can breathe a sigh of relief — even if they didn’t even know they needed to until now. Bill Hader has revealed that the now-beloved character of NoHo Hank nearly didn’t make it past the...
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IndieWire | 3/26/2019 | Staff
In the oft-overlapping world of prestige TV, a common solution to the sophomore slump is to go darker. Some programs take this literally, like “Ozark” with its muddy visual template, while others...
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Variety | 3/25/2019 | Will Thorne
Welcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV. Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and...
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The Playlist | 2/22/2019 | Kimber Myers
Sure, most people are counting down to the return of another HBO show for its eighth and final season on April 14, but don’t let your HBO subscription lapse before then.
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IndieWire | 2/3/2019 | Staff
Emmy hopefuls, beware: there’s a comedy hitman hiding in your midst. Bill Hader accepted the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series on Saturday night for HBO’s “Barry”...
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IndieWire | 1/28/2019 | Staff
“Barry” was one of the most critically acclaimed premieres of 2018. So what does Bill Hader’s HBO comedy do for a follow-up? Stay right in the spotlight, it looks like.
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The Playlist | 1/27/2019 | Rodrigo Perez
I’ll admit, I was definitely not convinced of or by HBO’s “Barry” at all at first. Another comedy about a hitman his moral conundrum or his emotional point of view ala “Gross Pointe Blank,” “Analyze...
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The Playlist | 1/4/2019 | Gregory Ellwood
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The Playlist | 1/4/2019 | Gregory Ellwood
The night when the worlds of film and television unite is almost upon us. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association are set to open their doors to their annual party where alcohol is encouraged, the...
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Variety | 1/2/2019 | Daniel Holloway
If not for “Up All Night With Rhonda Shear,” there would be no “Barry.” A linear precursor to binge viewing, USA’s horror-movie schlock block, which ran from late evening to early morning in the...
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Variety | 12/12/2018 | Cynthia Littleton
“Barry” and “The Kominsky Method” went all the way on their first SAG Awards ballot while “The Americans” joined the party at long last for its final season. SAG Awards voters cemented Netflix’s...
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The Playlist | 12/6/2018 | Gregory Ellwood
The Writers Guild of America announced the Television, New Media and News nominees for the 2019 WGA Awards and this appears to be. a cyclical year where many of the honorees were returning or...
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/Film | 11/8/2018 | Ben Pearson
Yesterday’s revival of The 4400 was Exhibit 9,457 in the ongoing case of Hollywood’s reliance on established intellectual property, and two upcoming TV shows, Veronica Mars and Swamp Thing, are both...
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IndieWire | 11/1/2018 | Staff
On November 1, the 2018 IndieWire Honors ceremony will celebrate eight filmmakers and actors for their achievement in creative independence. We’re showcasing their work with new interviews and...
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IndieWire | 10/2/2018 | Staff
Thanks to roles on two high-profile comedies, actress and comedian D’Arcy Carden has become the common link to the two sitcom stars most likely to be dubbed “national treasures”: Ted Danson and...
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‘Atlanta’ Shut Out Completely on Emmys Night as ‘Maisel’ and ‘Barry’ Steal the Post-‘Veep’ SpotlightIndieWire | 9/17/2018 | Staff
Monday’s Emmys broadcast began with the satirical song and dance number, “We Solved It,” referring to solving the diversity problem on TV. Of course, the joke was that the problem hadn’t been fixed,...
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Deadline | 9/17/2018 | Dade Hayes
Decades removed from his breakout turn as Fonzie on Happy Days, Henry Winkler won his first career Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy. Winkler captured the trophy for his turn as...
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/Film | 8/26/2018 | Ben PearsonIn this edition of TV Bits: And more! Rick - Morty - Teaser - Footage - Season While this Rick and Morty teaser doesn’t feature any actual footage from the upcoming season of the show, it does...
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The Playlist | 8/24/2018 | Charles Barfield
If you’re not watching “Barry,” I can only assume that it’s because of the sheer amount of good series out there during this era of Peak TV has made it so the Bill Hader series somehow flew under...
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The Federalist | 8/8/2018 | Tony Daniel
Not that long ago, I taught scriptwriting for a number of years. Like aura-reading psychics and Chinese hacking software, writing teachers begin to sense patterns after being hit over the head with...
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The Playlist | 7/12/2018 | Gregory Ellwood
To think we questioned in our Emmys nominations predictions piece whether there would be any real surprises this year. Not only did the Television Academy provide a ton of them, but a significant...
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IndieWire | 6/22/2018 | Staff
When Bill Hader first moved to Los Angeles after graduating college, he was going west to pursue his dream of becoming a serious filmmaker, not a comedian. But like so many in their twenties who...
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Deadline | 6/15/2018 | Matt Grobar
One of the most disruptive directors working today, Atlanta helmer Hiro Murai has brought specificity of vision to the Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning series, resulting in an experience unlike any...
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Variety | 6/13/2018 | Danielle Turchiano
Bill Hader’s HBO series “Barry” is technically a half-hour comedy, but since his character is a hitman who decides he wants to become an actor, it does get very violent.
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Variety | 6/10/2018 | Joe Otterson
Bill Hader and Alec Berg were intent on not letting their HBO comedy series “Barry” fall into the trap of hitman cliches from movies and TV. “There are probably more hitmen in movies and TV than...
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Deadline | 5/23/2018 | Patrick Hipes
The Producers Guild of America’s annual Produced By Conference next month in Los Angeles has rounded out its list of participants including adding Barry co-creators Bill Hader and Alec Berg for a...
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Collider | 5/13/2018 | Adam Chitwood
Spoilers for the Barry Season 1 finale follow below. HBO’s excellent new series Barry has concluded its first season, and things certainly did not go as planned.
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Collider | 5/12/2018 | Christina Radish
From Alec Berg and Bill Hader, who serve as co-creators, executive producers, directors and writers, the eight-episode, half-hour HBO dark comedy series Barry follows a depressed hit man (Hader, in...
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Remote Controlled: ‘Barry’ Star Henry Winkler on Getting Laughs From Playing a ‘Desperate’ CharacterVariety | 5/7/2018 | Ariana Brockington
Welcome to “Remote Controlled,” a podcast from Variety featuring the best and brightest in television, both in front of and behind the camera. Winkler, who also juggles starring in NBC’s “Better...
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