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After being discussed for around a decade, the Community movie is coming much closer to being a reality, according to star Joel McHale. In an interview with Deadline today, in support of his Fox sitcom Animal Control, returning for its second season March 6, McHale first pointed to recent comments by…

EXCLUSIVE: Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!), Chelsea Frei (The Moodys), and Larry Joe Campbell (The Orville) have been set for guest star roles in the forthcoming second season of Fox’s popular workplace comedy Animal Control, starring Joel McHale. Others set to appear in S2 guest roles, as previously…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment has given an early Season 3 pickup to its workplace comedy Animal Control a month before the single-camera series starring Joel McHale is set to premiere its second season on March 6, paired with Family Guy. Animal Control is Fox’s first fully owned live-action comedy…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment Studios (FES) has beefed up its scripted offering with a triple hire. The in-house production unit has signed former Paramount Channel exec Ted Gold, who had a hand in developing Yellowstone, and former Paramount Television Studios SVP Julie Schwachenwald, while…

EXCLUSIVE: Ken Jeong, Sarah Chalke and Krystal Smith have been cast in guest roles on the upcoming Season 2 of Animal Control. Jeong’s role will reunite him with his Community co-star Joel McHale, who leads the Fox workplace comedy. The comedian, who is also a judge on Fox’s The Masked Singer, will…

Fox is looking to March for the return of its scripted slate. The network has unveiled its midseason schedule including the return of The Cleaning Lady, Alert: Missing Persons Unit and Animal Control. The trio of scripted shows are premiering at the beginning of March following the writers and actors…

Fox’s Animal Control is headed to Channel 4 in the UK. Joel McHale’s series that follows a group of local animal control workers whose lives are complicated by the fact that animals are simple, but humans are not, will air on youth channel E4. Canada’s CBC, Australia’s Foxtel and New Zealand’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is boasting a year of solid ratings, led by the launches of several series from Accused and Animal Control to unscripted fare like Special Forces: World's Toughest Test and Next Level Chef. In the last calendar year (from September 19, 2022 to September 24, 2023), the network has…

Fox is closing out the 2022-23 television season with a ratings win in delayed viewing. The network is averaging a 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic season-to-date, according to live+seven-day Nielsen data. That’s compared to NBC’s 0.9, CBS’ 0.7 and ABC’s 0.6. When accounting for delayed…

Fox is preparing to handle more animals. The network has renewed Joel McHale-fronted comedy Animal Control for a second season. The move is a boon for the company's first wholly owned live-action company, which it said was its most-streamed scripted debut of all time. It comes after Call Me Kat…

You may never believe what’s in store for the remainder of Season 1 of Fox’s Animal Control. “There’s a couple of cliffhangers. But I think we discover a German submarine and we take command of it, but all the controls are in German so we don’t even know how to drive it and we’re getting a lot of…

First in a series on status of broadcast network series renewals. Fox just announced Season 2 renewals for two freshman drama series, anthology Accused and missing person drama Alert: Missing Persons Unit, both from Sony Pictures TV and Fox Entertainment. They join previously renewed sophomore drama The Cl…