Archive for the 'TV Show Promo' Category

Mindy Kaling’s ditching the downward-spiraling Office for her own show, The Mindy Project, and based on the trailer, we can expect a much smarter, if not much savvier, version of Kelly Kapoor.

Kaling plays a professionally accomplished OB-GYN whose personal life is a hot mess; as her lovelorn character admits in the preview, she’s looking for a man with “the wealth of Mayor Bloomberg, the personality of Jon Stewart, the face of Michael Fassbender… the penis of Michael Fassbender.”

Oh, Mindy, the impossible quest…

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J.J. Abrams — of Alias, Lost, and Fringe fame — is at the helm of Revolution, a new drama set in a post-apocalyptic world 15 years “after the lights went out” — or when a mysterious electromagnetic pulse threw humanity back into the 19th century, without cars, phones, or (gasp!) the Internet. Premieres this fall on NBC.

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Trailer #1 for Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO drama Newsroom was delicious. Now that Trailer #2 has been released, June 24 can’t get here soon enough. With a cantankerous Jeff Daniels in mid-career meltdown and Sam Waterston in a wrangling role eerily similar to his long-running stint on Law & Order, this has all the makings of small-screen resurrection for Sorkin.

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Adventure Time goes live-action to promote the premiere of Season 4, which takes place next Monday, April 2nd, @ 7:30 ET on Cartoon Network.

[epicponyz.]

Straight from Nickelodeon’s upfront to your eyeballs, it’s a brand new supertrailer for the network’s hotly anticipated Avatar sequel, which is now being called simply The Legend of Korra.

But wait, there’s more: After much back-and-forth, the official, for-real-this-time premiere date of episode 1 has been revealed: Saturday, April 14th @ 11 AM ET.

[meorkisyourpants.]

Following yesterday’s animated promo for the return of Community, Joel McHale’s other show, The Soup, debuted an epic trailer for the remainder of Community‘s third season.

The Greendale Seven will return from their hiatus on Thursday, March 15th, in an episode entitled “Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts.”

[fark.]

TV Show Promo of the Day: The first of a three-part, six-minute animated promotion for the return of NBC’s Community is now online.

The promos, collectively entitled “Abed’s Master Key,” tell the story of Abed’s receiving Greendale’s Master Key from Dean Pelton and the misadventures that inevitably ensue.

Community returns next Thursday, March 15th, at 8 PM. 

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Courtesy of EW’s Inside TV, a brand new super trailer for the second season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, featuring never-before-seen scenes — including a sneak peek at some fighting! — set to “Seven Devils” by Florence And The Machine.

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MTV has unveiled the first official super trailer for The Pauly D Project — the Jersey Shore spinoff starring Pauly “Pauly D” Delvecchio.

The show follows Pauly as he establishes himself as a professional DJ through a big-time gig in Las Vegas, a warm-up slot on Britney Spears’ tour, and a record deal with 50 Cent.

A second spinoff featuring JWoww and Snooki is currently filming in New Jersey.

[thr.]

TV Show Promo of the Day: First official trailer for HBO’s Veep — Armando Iannucci’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed political sitcom The Thick of It.

Originally developed by Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz and writer Richard Day, the show stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the lead role alongside Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, Matt Walsh, Andy Buckley, and Reid Scott.

The first episode is set to premiere Sunday, April 22nd.

[popculturebrain / gregrutter.]