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‘Succession’ has gone out with one final bang: The HBO drama won two Writers Guild of America Awards on Sunday night — the most of any series — for best drama series and also for best drama episode. Creator Jesse Armstrong was on hand in New York to accept the award, while several of the show’s writers were also in LA to accept the honor.

This reps the final major awards show where “Succession” (which ended its run last May) was still eligible. Besides best drama, the show also won the episodic drama prize, for the episode “Living+,” written by Georgia Pritchett and Will Arbery.

The WGA Awards recognized the best of 2023’s television and film via its annual event held this year at the Hollywood Palladium for the West Coast edition and at New York’s Edison Ballroom for the East Coast ceremony.

Big winners on the film side included “American Fiction” writer Cord Jefferson,...

Prince Harry’s “uncomfortable” with Meghan Markle’s new lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard. An author says the Duke of Sussex probably isn’t entirely at ease with the Duchess of Sussex’s new business venture. Sure, Harry thinks it’s a “great idea.” But one part he’s not fully on board with is that it’s “commercial.”

Harry’s ‘not too sure about’ Meghan’s lifestyle brand being a ‘commercial enterprise’

According to Tom Quinn, the author of Gilded Youth, a 2023 book about growing up in the British royal family, Harry’s likely “uncomfortable” with the sales part.

“While devoted Harry totally supports Meghan, there’s one aspect he is not too sure about,” The Mirror wrote.

“Harry thinks the new brand is a great idea because it’s Meghan’s idea—he’s still so loved up that she can do no wrong in his eyes,” Quinn told the outlet.

Goodbye February, hello March! Prime Video! This month, the Amazon streamer will add dozens of film titles to its library on the first of the month, including 1989’s “Field of Dreams” and “Bull Durham” for those with spring training fever.

For the rest of the month, Prime Video will premiere several of this year’s most anticipated features, including the new “Road House” remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor on March 21. (The original starring Patrick Swayze will also come to the streamer on March 1). John Cena will play make-believe for real in the long-awaited comedy “Ricky Stanicky” opposite Zac Efron, Andrew Santino, Jermaine Fowler. March also brings the second half “Invincible” Season 2, which returned after more than two years this past November.

From a new comedy special from Tig Notaro to live National Women’s Soccer League matchups and more, find out everything coming to Prime Video in March,...

Amazon announced on Thursday that Hello Again, the newest special from comedian Tig Notaro, will premiere on Prime Video on March 26. Check out a clip above.

Directed by Notaro’s wife, Stephanie Allynne, the special comes on the heels of her HBO hour Tig Notaro: Drawn, which made history as the first fully animated stand-up special in 2021. It’s said to be packed with delightfully awkward misunderstandings, health scares made hilarious, and family moments with her wife and children that are simultaneously sidesplitting and heartwarming.

From the “Make Believe Lounge” to the hallway outside her physical therapist’s office, Notaro finds humor in situations ranging from the everyday to the bizarre, crafting comedy out of hallucinatory text messages, a botched meeting with a Hollywood heavyweight, and a late-night encounter with a mustachioed fireman who has her questioning everything.

Notaro was previously in business with Amazon as the co-creator and star...

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, have yet to reveal if they will attend King Charles’ coronation. The pair’s spokesperson would only confirm that they have received an invite saying: “The duke has recently received email correspondence from His Majesty’s office regarding the coronation. An immediate decision on whether the duke and duchess will attend will not be disclosed by us at this time.”

While we await their decision, royal watchers have been taking bets on whether they will attend and if Meghan will wear a tiara. Well, the latter isn’t happening. Here’s why the Duchess of Sussex will be banned from wearing a sparkly accessory on her head.

Meghan Markle at the High Altar during her wedding to Prince Harry | Jonathan Brady/Afp via Getty Images Commentators believe Meghan really wants to put a ‘sparkly’ tiara on her head

Several commentators have opined that...

Meghan Markle may not have liked being compared to Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop in a 2015 interview. A body language expert says the “mood” seemed to change after an interviewer likened the Duchess of Sussex’s defunct blog, The Tig, to Goop.

Meghan Markle appeared ‘chatty and animated’ in a 2015 interview about The Tig Gwyneth Paltrow in 2019 and Meghan Markle in 2022 | Manny Carabel/WireImage; Mike Coppola/Getty Images for 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Gala

As a former actor, the Duchess of Sussex gave many interviews in her pre-royal life. Among them a 2015 Yahoo! Style interview about The Tig, playing Suits’ Rachel Zane, and her personal style.

The nearly seven-minute interview featured a friendly Meghan, body language expert Judi James said (via Express). She’s “chatty and animated, with some cute, self-effacing body squeezes, where she pulls her arms into her torso and grins at the audience.”

However,...

Meghan Markle‘s blog, The Tig, may be defunct, but its content lives on. A 2014 blog post about Kate Middleton again debunks Meghan’s claim she knew very little about the royal family before meeting Prince Harry. Also, in an eerie foreshadowing of her future, she said she would choose to be a Princess of Power,” not “Cinderella.”

Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle | Karwai Tang/WireImage Meghan Markle’s claims that she knew little about the royal family continue to be in question

The Tig was where Meghan shared her thoughts about food, travel, fashion, and beauty. The website’s name came from her favorite wine, Tignanello. However, the nickname became more than just an homage to the alcoholic beverage.

She said in a statement published by People Magazine that the title meant much more than that. “In wine circles, it is nicknamed ‘Tig.’ The Tig is my nickname for me getting it.

While promoting “One Mississippi” during an appearance on “The View,” star and co-creator Tig Notaro reflected on losing Louis C.K. as a series executive producer last month, a consequence for the sexually harassing behavior he admitted to following a New York Times investigation quoting five accusers.

“It’s a huge relief,” Notaro told the hosts on December 11, explaining that she learned of C.K.’s alleged behavior soon after she sold the series with him attached. “I started publicly trying to distance myself from him almost two years [ago].”

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On November 10, one day after the Times published their story — giving Notaro the last word — FX Networks and FX Productions cancelled its overall deal with C.K.’s production company, Pig Newton, Inc., meaning he would no longer oversee “Better Things,...

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One Mississippi

Network | Amazon

Created By | Tig Notaro and Diablo Cody

Number Of Episodes | 12

Episode Length | 30 mins.

Premise | Stand-up comic Notaro borrows heavily from her own life for this Southern-fried comedy, which sees “Tig Bovaro” move back to her Mississippi hometown after she faces a life-threatening illness and her mother passes away.

[[tmz:video id="0_x6boht85"]] Tig Notaro knows a lot about Louis C.K. In fact, there's a scene in her Amazon show, "One Mississippi," in which a powerful man masturbates in front of a woman. There are numerous stories that the male character portrays C.K ... and Tig wrote the episode. [[tmz:video id="0_df87eqps"]] Louis C.K. is an Executive Producer on the show but in name only ... he has no real involvement in day-to-day production. Tig has previously said that she had an...

Mia Lidofsky is the creator and executive producer of Strangers, a strikingly profound seven-episode series now in its first season on an intriguing new platform, Facebook Watch. Lidofsky is a former assistant to her series executive producer Jesse Peretz (director of The Chateau and My Idiot Brother and a producer on Girls), and an associate producer of People Places Things and Tig. In 2015, Lidofsky was selected for the AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women, where she created the series pilot. The director and co-director of several episodes of the first season (along with partner/filmmaker Celia Rowlson-Hall, a 25 New […]...

In 2015, comedian Jen Kirkman told a story on her podcast about an unnamed successful comedian whom she called a “known perv,” widely assumed to be Louis C.K. “This guy didn’t rape me, but he made a certain difficult decision to go on tour with him really hard,” she said. “Because I knew if I did, I’d be getting more of the same weird treatment I’d been getting from him.” She has since deleted the podcast, but her quotes can be found here.

The rumors remained largely under the radar until recently, when comedian Tig Notaro called on C.K. to “handle” the allegations against him. Notaro addresses sexual assault on the second season of her show, “One Mississippi,” and insisted C.K. had “never been involved” with the show, despite being listed as an executive producer.

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One Mississippi is not documentary. One Mississippi isn’t even strict autobiography: Though the lives of Tig Notaro and Tig Bovaro share some significant overlaps, the show purposely puts space between art and artist. These are not representations of events as they happened. They’re reflections, reinterpretations, and…

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What's next for One Mississippi? Recently, creator and star Tig Notaro spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the future of the Amazon TV show.Based on the life of Notaro, the comedy-drama follows Tig as she moves back to her childhood hometown to deal with the death of her mother and her own struggling health. The cast also includes John Rothman, Noah Harpster, and Stephanie Allynne.Read More…...

Tig Notaro and Louis C.K. aren’t speaking.

“I have not spoken to Louis in probably going on two years now. I will never hear from Louis C.K. again,” Notaro told The Hollywood Reporter.

But that doesn’t mean everything is quiet. Far from it.

The History

Rumors of sexual misconduct have been haunting C.K. for years, and they’re gaining traction in the public discourse. The popular stand-up comic, television producer, and filmmaker has been asked to respond to allegations that he has exposed himself and masturbated in front of unwilling participants. He’s refused to engage with the rumors, but the discussion persists because of, in part, Notaro’s statements and her show, “One Mississippi.”

Read More:‘One Mississippi’ Review: Season 2 Tells 3 Beautiful Love Stories with One Profound Point

Notaro has said there was “an incident” before “One Mississippi” went into production that kept C.K. from ever contributing to the series.

One of the trickiest aspects of dark comedy is that you can’t analyze (or experience) any of the parts and get much out of it. There aren’t any zingers, guffaws, or wild snippets that are in any real sense “comedic” when removed from the whole. You can’t zoom in. You can only try increasingly to pull back and see the whole picture. Dark comedic drama only magnifies this. Worse still, anyone aiming at such a genre has to have a viewpoint that is going to aim at any objective by slyly sneaking around the outskirts of possibility, hoping to sneak up behind their mark.

Tig Notaro‘s One Mississippi is such an odd approach to the very format of television that it becomes hard to describe without qualifying every statement you might make about it. It isn’t just that we’re riding along as she navigates oddball characters,...

“One Mississippi” is more than the sum of its parts, because it loves each and every part of itself so very much.

Tig Notaro’s semi-autobiographical Amazon series has a laid-back Southern pacing that sucks you in, like the warm waters of the river it’s named after; the episode arcs are deliberate, clear, and eloquent, much like the radio show Tig’s character hosts and the real-life Tig contributed to (“This American Life”); but most of all, the six-episode sequel season is beautiful in its intentions and construction — a loving ode to a life made better by acknowledging the past to improve upon the future.

Read More:Tig Notaro Says Louis C.K. Should ‘Handle’ the Sexual Misconduct Rumors Surrounding Him

Season 2 picks up with Tig settled into her new life in Mississippi. She’s still living with her step-father, Bill (played with endearing attention to detail by John Rothman), and brother,...

As Tig Notaro’s Amazon series One Mississippi settles into its second season, fish out of water Tig (Notaro) is starting to get comfortable in her new home in Biloxi, Mississippi. If only the people there were comfortable with her. The trailer for the show’s new season shows Tig being accosted by well-meaning…

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"What happened to fearlessness?" Today, Amazon released a new trailer for season two of One Mississippi.Based on the life of comedian Tig Notaro, the comedy-drama follows Tig as she moves back to her childhood hometown to deal with the death of her mother and her own struggling health. The cast also includes John Rothman, Noah Harpster, and Stephanie Allynne.Read More…...

Amazon has released the official Season 2 trailer for Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi. Season 2 picks up with Tig, her stepfather Bill (John Rothman) and her brother Remy (Noah Harpster) living together in the family’s Biloxi, Mississippi home, with each ready for a new beginning. Tig resumes her radio career in Biloxi with producer Kate (Stephanie Allynne), but Tig’s outspoken point of view proves a bit controversial for the local market. “We love your soul,” a man tells…...

Onstage, Tig Notaro is cool as a cucumber, willing to wait for the laughs and relishing silence. Her dry delivery and offbeat perspective stand in stark contrast to today’s popular neurotic, high-energy stand-up. That same quiet confidence permeates “One Mississippi,” Notaro’s autobiographical Amazon series about returning to her hometown after the death of her mother, which released a teaser for its second season today.

Read More‘One Mississippi’ Review: Tig Notaro’s Inspired Amazon Comedy is Fearless and Funny In Equal Doses

It’s been five years since Notaro’s brutally honest and heartbreakingly funny stand-up special, “Live,” skyrocketed the comedian to a new level of notoriety. Recorded just one week after Notaro learned she had breast cancer, which was the same year her mother died, the totally improvised half-hour set became instant comedy legend. Not only that, it ushered in a shift towards darker, more personal stand-up across the industry.

John Rothman of One Mississippi talks to Awards Daily TV about the Amazon pilot process, where Bonkers the cat went, and why there’s no other Bill on TV. No...

Sheryl Lee Ralph (Instant Mom) and Carly Jibson (The Guest Book) have joined the second season cast of Amazon comedy series One Mississippi in recurring roles. Created by Tig Notaro and Diablo Cody, One Mississippi follows Tig's return to her hometown in Mississippi when her mother passes away unexpectedly. As she copes with the tragedy and deals with events from her past, the series becomes a poignant and surprisingly humorous exploration of family. Ralph will play…...

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions has hired Emmy-nominated Betsy Koch as a producer. In her new job, Koch will focus on television and film projects with an emphasis on finding new and emerging talent. Two-time Emmy nominee Koch moves to Gary Sanchez Prods after six years at Funny Or Die where she produced videos such as Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, and executive produced HBO comedy specials for Sarah Silverman, Jerrod Carmichael, and Tig…...

Film historian B. Ruby Rich credits the 1992 Sundance Film Festival as the cradle of New Queer Cinema, and a quick survey of this year’s festival lineup confirms that Lgbt films stand an excellent chance of attracting audiences. Lesbian filmmaker Dee Rees’ “Mudbound” is one of the most talked about films of the year, trans director Yance Ford’s deeply personal “Strong Island” has been years in the making, and we may have the British “Brokeback Mountain” (but better) with Francis Lee’s “God’s Own Country.”

Perusing the slate of queer films, filmmakers, and performers at Sundance this year, 2017 is set to be the best year queer cinema has seen in a long time. Here’s 10 reasons why:

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Dee Rees is About to Become the Most Successful Black Lesbian Director in Hollywood

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10. “Angie Tribeca” (TBS)

Can Rashida Jones and her department of hysterical cops get some love this year? Nancy and Steve Carell’s new TBS comedy skewering the police procedural, “Naked Gun”-style, produced two full seasons, 20 total episodes, and a countless total of cumulative laughs. Absurd humor of such high regard is virtually impossible to do well without becoming repetitive, and “Angie Tribeca” proved itself sustainable in one year by pumping out two perfect seasons. 2016 should be looked at as a banner year for the program, even if it continues to top itself in seasons to come.

9. “Search Party” (TBS)

With episode titles inspired by Nancy Drew mysteries, “Search Party” is a noir-ish nod to the classic plucky sleuthstress, but with an irreverent millennial sensibility. The mesmerizing Alia Shawkat plays Dory, an underemployed post-grad who finds her purpose when she begins to investigate the disappearance of college acquaintance Chantal. With...

It’s totally got to be called Two Mississippi, amiright?

Amazon announced on Monday that One Mississippi, its critically acclaimed comedy starring and co-created (with Diablo Cody) by Tig Notaro, has been picked up for a second season — about two months after its entire freshman run debuted on the streaming service.

RelatedCable/Streaming Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Cancelled? What’s On the Bubble?

“Making a show as comic and tragic as One Mississippi is a risk. Pulling it off with such intelligence and nuance is rare,” Amazon Studios Hed of Comedy and Drama Joe Lewis said in a statement.

Amazon Studios has greenlit a second season of critically praised comedy One Mississippi for premiere in 2017. Created by Tig Notaro and Diablo Cody, One Mississippi follows Tig’s return to her hometown in Mississippi when her mother passes away unexpectedly. As she copes with the tragedy and deals with events from her past, the series becomes a poignant and surprisingly humorous exploration of family. The second season is scheduled to premiere in 2017 exclusively on…...

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If you’re a comedy fan, or if you’ve listened to any NPR show in the last four years, you know Tig Notaro. For the uninitiated, the comedian rocketed to fame when she turned her lowest point in life into comedy gold. In 2012, Tig Notaro had a pretty shitty year. Her mother passed away, she ended a relationship, and she was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer. Mere days after her diagnosis, Tig delivered an instantly iconic comedy routine where she mined her personal miserie; spoke frankly about the unbelievable circumstances she’d found herself in; and somehow transformed all that profound pain into poignant hilarity.

Notaro’s brilliance and signature laidback charm have launched her into stardom with albums, HBO specials, cameos on Inside Amy Schumer and Transparent, the Netflix documentary Tig, and now her very own Amazon show. In One Mississippi, Notaro channels her dark,...

We need to talk about Bill.

Played with fine distinction by John Rothman, Bill is the long-standing step-father to Tig (Tig Notaro) and Remy (Noah Harpster), two grown children who are generally struggling to maintain healthy relationships and, more recently, are reeling from the unexpected death of their mother (and Bill’s wife). A humorless man who appears robotic much of the time, Bill focuses on the practicalities of death rather than the emotional consequences.

He worries Tig will sue him over her mother’s belongings if they remain in his home too long. He worries about Tig’s health — as she had a cancer scare not too long ago that resulted in a double mastectomy — but only in practical steps like doctors’ visits and probiotic shakes. He says things like, “No one understands death” when trying to identify with his kids’ emotional turmoil. He’s curt, quiet and clearly on the spectrum.

You may have heard about Tig Notaro's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year. In the spring of 2012, the stand-up comic found herself suffering from life-threatening bacterial infection that wreaked havoc on her G.I. tract. Hospitalization was required; shortly after that, her mother unexpectedly passed away and a long-term relationship disintegrated. Then, several months later, she found herself diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, which meant a double masectomy and a period of long chemo treatments loomed on the horizon. By the time Notaro took the stage at Largo, L.

Amazon is taking on tragedy with comedy. This week, the streaming platform released a new behind-the-scenes preview for their upcoming series One Mississippi.Based on the life of Tig Notaro, the dark comedy “follows Tig as she returns to her childhood home to deal with the unexpected death of her beloved mother. Struggling with her own health and relationship challenges, she decides to reconnect with her roots to heal and move forward.”Read More…...

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All it took was one documentary and an uproarious, gutting stand-up set to make me a fan of Tig Notaro. Before I was assigned to cover the comedian’s material last year – Tig, a tender, genius little doc and Boyish Girl Interrupted, her standup – I hadn’t know much of anything about her. Turns out that I was a fan without really knowing it, thanks to tiny, memorable turns in movies like In A World…, but I had no idea of her tragic backstory, and how well it informed her current sense of humor, which she weaponizes with an angry-yet-honest precision in both the doc and stand-up.

Where that precision has evaporated to in her new autobiographical series One Mississippi, I’m not sure. In it she stars as herself, returning home to support her family as her mother faces euthanasia, and she...

Tig Notaro has made personal cataclysm and tragedy into comedic modern art, reproducing and reimagining her own struggles and misery like Warhol soup cans. Back in 2012, Notaro was fighting breast cancer and an unrelated colon disorder, while also going through a breakup and mourning the loss of her mother. This annus horriblis spawned an instantly legendary stand-up set at the Los Angeles club Largo, a career-changing comedy routine, countless podcast stories and was featured in the backdrop of multiple documentaries and the foreground of the acclaimed Sundance doc Tig. Each recounting of the story has been reflected

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Comedy doesn't have to be autobiographical, but it can help a lot. Whether in sitcom plots or stand-up routines, specificity makes everything better, and it's hard to get more specific than drawing details the writers know by heart because they've lived them. Many of TV's greatest comedies were heavily based on the experiences of their creators and/or stars, from The Dick Van Dyke Show — where Carl Reiner would famously begin each Monday by asking his writers to recount what they did with their spouses and kids over the weekend — to Roseanne, Seinfeld (and, thus, Curb Your Enthusiasm), Everybody Loves Raymond, and recent shows like black-ish. Peak TV also seems to have brought with it Peak Autobiographical Dramedy, with comedians playing a version of themselves that's thinly-disguised at best, having adventures that feel therapeutic as much as comic. Even with Louie — the creative high point, to date, of this particular...

"Alright, let's just get this over with." Amazon has announced their new series One Mississippi will debut in September.Based on the life of Tig Notaro, the dark comedy "follows Tig as she returns to her childhood home to deal with the unexpected death of her beloved mother. Struggling with her own health and relationship challenges, she decides to reconnect with her roots to heal and move forward."Read More…...

To say that it’s been an eventful few years for Tig Notaro would be an understatement. The comedian and actress very publicly battled cancer, recounted everything she went through in a now legendary standup performance at Largo, as well as in the 2015 documentary “Tig” which tells how she faced the disease head on and came […]

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Trailblazing comedian Tig Notaro is bringing her distinctive brand of humor to a new Amazon original series called “One Mississippi.” Executive produced by Notaro and Louis C.K., the show is a partially autobiographical story based on Notaro’s life after the death of her mother.

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Amazon bills the show as a new series about “family and coming home.” Here’s the official synopsis: A dark comedy, loosely inspired by Tig Notaro’s life, “One Mississippi” follows Tig as she navigates a complex re-entry into her childhood hometown in Mississippi, to deal with the unexpected death of her much loved mother. Reeling from her own recently declining health, Tig struggles to find her footing with the loss of the one person who actually understood her.

“My stepfather Bill is not the warmest guy,” Notaro’s...

Amazon's upcoming Tig Notaro show One Mississippi — a semi-autobiographical comedy series — doesn't center on the fact that she is openly gay. And to hear the stand-up comedian and the show's executive producers tell it, that isn't even addressed on the show. Inspired by her own life, One Mississippi centers on Tig as she leaves Los Angeles and returns to her hometown in Mississippi upon her mother’s untimely death. What begins as Tig reconciling her mother’s affairs becomes a poignant and surprising exploration of family, childhood and life after grief. Notaro, Kate Robin, M. Blair Breard, Louis

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Back in 2012, the year Tig Notaro's "life fell apart" (her mom died, Tig herself nearly died of an infection and she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer), the comedian took the stage at L.A.'s Largo theater and shared details about all of the above with a room full of strangers. The memorable stand-up set, which became known as her "Hello, I Have Cancer" set, was soon one of the most talked about moments in comedy. "It was just basically that decision, 'If I'm going to do the show, I'm going to be honest about everything,...

Back in 2012, the year Tig Notaro's "life fell apart" (her mom died, Tig herself nearly died of an infection and she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer), the comedian took the stage at L.A.'s Largo theater and shared details about all of the above with a room full of strangers. The memorable stand-up set, which became known as her "Hello, I Have Cancer" set, was soon one of the most talked about moments in comedy. "It was just basically that decision, 'If I'm going to do the show, I'm going to be honest about everything,...

Heroes Reborn alumna Rya Kihlstedt has booked a recurring role opposite Tig Notaro in Amazon’s new dark comedy series One Mississippi. Loosely inspired by Notaro's (Boyish Girl Interrupted) life, One Mississippi follows Tig as she deals with the complex reentry into her childhood hometown of Bay Saint Lucille, Mississippi. Kihlstedt will play Caroline, Tig’s mom, beautiful, wealthy, well-bred and well-educated Southern lady. Caroline is vibrant and no-nonsense and, in…...

This is definitely the time of year when film critic types (I’m sure you know who I mean) spend an inordinate amount of time leading up to awards season—and it all leads up to awards season, don’t it?—compiling lists and trying to convince anyone who will listen that it was a shitty year at the movies for anyone who liked something other than what they saw and liked. And ‘tis the season, or at least ‘thas (?) been in the recent past, for that most beloved of academic parlor games, bemoaning the death of cinema, which, if the sackcloth-and-ashes-clad among us are to be believed, is an increasingly detached and irrelevant art form in the process of being smothered under the wet, steaming blanket of American blockbuster-it is. And it’s going all malnourished from the siphoning off of all the talent back to TV, which, as everyone knows,...

Amazon’s going to keep doing God‘s work — at least for another season.

The streaming video service has renewed Hand of God.

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News of the Ron Perlman-led series’ Season 2 pickup comes the same day that Amazon renewed The Man in the High Castle and Red Oaks and ordered several new series, including the ’60s-era drama Good Girls Revolt and a comedy starring writer/comic Tig Notaro.

A full list of new series, with descriptions, is below:

Good Girls Revolt | Set in 1969 and...

Amazon released its new batch of pilots today, most of which are unremarkable. The far-and-away standout among them is Tig Notaro's autobiographical One Mississippi, which you can watch right now for free. Bring tissues; you will cry. You will cry a lot. But you will also see a beautiful show that's thoughtful and gentle and special.One Mississippi is classified as a comedy, but so is Transparent, and Mississippi is even more emotionally raw than its Amazon predecessor. (The two shows go well together. In an ancient broadcast model, they'd be good lead-ins and lead-outs for one another.) There's plenty of humor in it, but the show doesn't seem particularly motivated by laughter. The pilot finds an ailing Tig — recovering from a double-mastectomy and severely weakened by an intestinal disease — returning home to take her mother off life support. Tig's flanked by her stilted stepfather (John Rothman) and...

November 4, 2015 Host, Nominees and Creative Recognition Awards Announced for 31st Ida Awards

We are thrilled to announce that Grammy-nominated comedian Tig Notaro will host the 2015 Ida Documentary Awards ceremony. The subject of Tig, the Netflix Original documentary chronicling her life after it famously fell apart, Notaro has recently teamed up with Diablo Cody, Nicole Holofcener and Louis Ck on a semi-autobiographical pilot for Amazon. The comedian and writer also stars in her first HBO stand-up special, Boyish Girl Interrupted, which is out now. 

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Surprise! Tig Notaro is married.

The comedian quietly wed partner Stephanie Allynne over the weekend, she revealed on Twitter.

"I'm getting married today," Notaro, 44, tweeted Saturday. "My only fear is that instead of 'I do' I'll say 'I do do.'"

The jokes didn't stop there: "Everyone at my wedding reception danced like I was watching," she tweeted Sunday.

I'm getting married today. My only fear is that instead of "I do" I'll say "I do do".

— Tig Notaro (@TigNotaro) October 24, 2015

Everyone at my wedding reception danced like I was watching.

— Tig Notaro (@TigNotaro) October 25, 2015

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Amazon has released first looks at its line-up for its next pilot preview season, which includes shows starring Max Martini (The Unit), Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck), Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect), Mary Lynn Rajskub (24), Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Tig Notaro and others.

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As Amazon does, the pilots will premiere sometime this fall, then get a green light (or not) based on viewer feedback. Synopses/photos follow:

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John Rothman (The Devil Wears Prada) has booked a regular role in Amazon’s untitled Tig Notaro comedy pilot, from Amazon Studios and FX Studios. In the autobiographical comedy, Notaro is abruptly summoned home to Pass Christian, Miss., to take her ailing mother off life support and finds herself reconnecting with her dysfunctional Gulf Coast family and the loss of the one person who held everything together. Rothman will play Bill, Tig’s stepfather. a stoic businessman…...

Tig Notaro’s push towards comedic ubiquity continues this summer with her new HBO special Boyish Girl Interrupted, which aims to mark a new leg in the comedian’s whirlwind tour, the inspiration for which was sparked by a maelstrom of misfortune beginning in 2012. Documented and detailed in the Netflix film Tig, Notaro faced her mother’s death, a rare digestive track disease, and ultimately breast cancer, all of which inspired her to mine her life’s woes for belly laughs.

The resulting set — commonly associated with adjectives like “legendary” in the media — catapulted Notaro to a fame she wasn’t prepared for, but one she’s begun to wholly embrace. Which is a good thing for anyone paying attention, because as with Tig, Boyish Girl Interrupted further cements her as one of the great comedians currently working. The comedy special, which airs this Saturday, August 22 on HBO, doesn’t...