Exclusive: 3 Arts veteran Josh Lieberman is leaving the management and production company to join Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Also joining Brillstein is Allie Veneris of Authentic Talent & Literary Management.
“We’re excited to continue our focused expansion with the addition of Josh and Allie,” said Jon Liebman and Cynthia Pett, Brillstein’s co-ceo’s. “They have great clients, great taste, and great futures ahead.”
Lieberman was at 3 Arts for almost two decades, having started at the company — now majority owned by Lionsgate — in June 2004 as an assistant.
The list of his clients, dominated by multi-hyphenates in the comedy space, include Dave Attell, Atsuko Okatsuka, Karan Soni, Moshe Kasher, Katherine Ryan, Vanessa Gonzalez, Noah Garfinkel, Brent Morin, David Nihill, Jiaoying Summers, Sara Weinshenk, Jessi Cruickshank, Sarah Burns, Marc Evan Jackson as well as WWE’s Sami Zayn.
For Veneris, this marks a return to Brillstein where she was a college intern in the early 2010s.
“We’re excited to continue our focused expansion with the addition of Josh and Allie,” said Jon Liebman and Cynthia Pett, Brillstein’s co-ceo’s. “They have great clients, great taste, and great futures ahead.”
Lieberman was at 3 Arts for almost two decades, having started at the company — now majority owned by Lionsgate — in June 2004 as an assistant.
The list of his clients, dominated by multi-hyphenates in the comedy space, include Dave Attell, Atsuko Okatsuka, Karan Soni, Moshe Kasher, Katherine Ryan, Vanessa Gonzalez, Noah Garfinkel, Brent Morin, David Nihill, Jiaoying Summers, Sara Weinshenk, Jessi Cruickshank, Sarah Burns, Marc Evan Jackson as well as WWE’s Sami Zayn.
For Veneris, this marks a return to Brillstein where she was a college intern in the early 2010s.
- 1/10/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Because not everything is a horrible vortex of terribleness, “The Good Place” Season 2 is now available on Netflix. With a whole new season on the streaming platform, it’s another chance for potential and existing fans alike to dig through the NBC comedy’s most recent set of episodes.
But aside from what’s now available to be parsed, Gif’d, and otherwise enjoyed from the series, there’s another resource that’s steadily become a must-listen companion piece to the show itself. “The Good Place Podcast,” now released twice weekly, is a collection of interviews with integral members of the show’s universe, dissecting the show on an episode-by-episode basis.
Each central cast member has made at least one appearance, and some of the show’s main writers (including creator Michael Schur) have made return trips behind the mic. But it’s a bevy of expert crafts specialists from across the casting,...
But aside from what’s now available to be parsed, Gif’d, and otherwise enjoyed from the series, there’s another resource that’s steadily become a must-listen companion piece to the show itself. “The Good Place Podcast,” now released twice weekly, is a collection of interviews with integral members of the show’s universe, dissecting the show on an episode-by-episode basis.
Each central cast member has made at least one appearance, and some of the show’s main writers (including creator Michael Schur) have made return trips behind the mic. But it’s a bevy of expert crafts specialists from across the casting,...
- 8/28/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “New Girl” Season 7, Episode 4 “Where the Road Goes.”]
“New Girl” has spent its final season covering a lot of ground. The three-year time jump in the premiere pushed several stories forward, which includes the ongoing relationship between Nick (Jake Johnson) and Jess (Zooey Deschanel), a child for Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Cece (Hannah Simone), and one on the way for Winston (Lamorne Morris) and Aly (Nasim Pedrad). Because of this fast-forwarding, the show has also been filling in the blanks of what happened during those three years.
On Tuesday’s episode, “Where the Road Goes,” the gang braves the rain and travels in a motorcade to a cemetery for a service for Winston’s beloved cat Furguson. It’s not a funeral but a memorial, performed according to Jewish tradition, to honor his passing a year before. Because apparently, Furguson was one of the Chosen People.
IndieWire spoke to showrunner...
“New Girl” has spent its final season covering a lot of ground. The three-year time jump in the premiere pushed several stories forward, which includes the ongoing relationship between Nick (Jake Johnson) and Jess (Zooey Deschanel), a child for Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Cece (Hannah Simone), and one on the way for Winston (Lamorne Morris) and Aly (Nasim Pedrad). Because of this fast-forwarding, the show has also been filling in the blanks of what happened during those three years.
On Tuesday’s episode, “Where the Road Goes,” the gang braves the rain and travels in a motorcade to a cemetery for a service for Winston’s beloved cat Furguson. It’s not a funeral but a memorial, performed according to Jewish tradition, to honor his passing a year before. Because apparently, Furguson was one of the Chosen People.
IndieWire spoke to showrunner...
- 5/2/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
(Spoiler alert: Please do not read ahead unless you’ve seen Tuesday’s episode of “New Girl”)
Ok, the only thing sadder than “Where the Road Goes” — the most recent installment of the final season of Liz Meriwether’s “New Girl” — is the fact that one writer on the Fox comedy has been planning that plot for years.
Seriously, showrunner Brett Baer told TheWrap in a recent interview that the man who penned the script for Tuesday’s episode, which centers around a one-year memorial service thrown by Jess (Zooey Deschanel) for Winston’s (Lamorne Morris) beloved cat Furguson, was lobbying to kill off the kitty for a long time.
“Well it was an easy decision to make, mostly because I think the author, Noah Garfinkel, had been pitching that idea for four years and finally, just to shut him up, we agreed to do it,” co-showrunner Brett Baer said, laughing. “Well he just keeps going like, ‘We gotta do that episode, right?’ And we’re like ‘Shut up. No.’ So finally we go, ‘Alright, give Noah one.”
Also Read: 'New Girl': Schmidt and Cece's Life Has Become 'the 3rd Act of a Darren Aronofsky Film' (Exclusive Video)
“No, I think more importantly than all of that, we knew obviously that [Furguson] was a fan favorite and we loved working with him and really he made such a strong contribution to the show and to Winston’s storyline,” Baer added. “He was so important to Winston, we wanted to do an important episode for Furguson. And I think in a cool way, even in his absence, and this is all spoiler alert s—, but in his absence, I think it gave us an opportunity to really invest in the Furguson storyline with the magnitude that it had for the character and for us as writers.”
Baer said the somber episode — which is of course still hilarious, because it’s “New Girl” — also gave them the chance to showcase other fan favorites, who aren’t series regulars, in the show’s final year.
“Being able to bring in all those characters to drop by for the memorial service gave us the opportunity to get Damon [Wayans Jr, who plays Coach] back into the show and the Lapd-So-la-Te-Do singing group,” Baer said. “Those were all things we wanted to get back in. So this was a unique way to tell Furguson’s story and not even have him there.”
Also Read: 'New Girl': Here's Why Schmidt and Cece Named Their Daughter After Ruth Bader Ginsburg
And if you’re hoping to see even more beloved guest stars drop by before the series wraps, you are in luck, cause Baer said that yet another reunion is still to come.
“It was something we’d been looking for in the course of the season to come up with an episode or two that would force us — not force us — that would allow us to bring in a multitude of characters that you had seen over the course of the show. So we have that episode. There’s, in episode seven, something similar, which I won’t get into because we didn’t send that one out yet. Another one of the character’s dies. I’ll just tell you that! [laughs]”
The final season of “New Girl” airs Tuesdays at 9:30/8:30 c on Fox.
Read original story One ‘New Girl’ Writer Has Been Lobbying to Do That Furguson Episode for 4 Years At TheWrap...
Ok, the only thing sadder than “Where the Road Goes” — the most recent installment of the final season of Liz Meriwether’s “New Girl” — is the fact that one writer on the Fox comedy has been planning that plot for years.
Seriously, showrunner Brett Baer told TheWrap in a recent interview that the man who penned the script for Tuesday’s episode, which centers around a one-year memorial service thrown by Jess (Zooey Deschanel) for Winston’s (Lamorne Morris) beloved cat Furguson, was lobbying to kill off the kitty for a long time.
“Well it was an easy decision to make, mostly because I think the author, Noah Garfinkel, had been pitching that idea for four years and finally, just to shut him up, we agreed to do it,” co-showrunner Brett Baer said, laughing. “Well he just keeps going like, ‘We gotta do that episode, right?’ And we’re like ‘Shut up. No.’ So finally we go, ‘Alright, give Noah one.”
Also Read: 'New Girl': Schmidt and Cece's Life Has Become 'the 3rd Act of a Darren Aronofsky Film' (Exclusive Video)
“No, I think more importantly than all of that, we knew obviously that [Furguson] was a fan favorite and we loved working with him and really he made such a strong contribution to the show and to Winston’s storyline,” Baer added. “He was so important to Winston, we wanted to do an important episode for Furguson. And I think in a cool way, even in his absence, and this is all spoiler alert s—, but in his absence, I think it gave us an opportunity to really invest in the Furguson storyline with the magnitude that it had for the character and for us as writers.”
Baer said the somber episode — which is of course still hilarious, because it’s “New Girl” — also gave them the chance to showcase other fan favorites, who aren’t series regulars, in the show’s final year.
“Being able to bring in all those characters to drop by for the memorial service gave us the opportunity to get Damon [Wayans Jr, who plays Coach] back into the show and the Lapd-So-la-Te-Do singing group,” Baer said. “Those were all things we wanted to get back in. So this was a unique way to tell Furguson’s story and not even have him there.”
Also Read: 'New Girl': Here's Why Schmidt and Cece Named Their Daughter After Ruth Bader Ginsburg
And if you’re hoping to see even more beloved guest stars drop by before the series wraps, you are in luck, cause Baer said that yet another reunion is still to come.
“It was something we’d been looking for in the course of the season to come up with an episode or two that would force us — not force us — that would allow us to bring in a multitude of characters that you had seen over the course of the show. So we have that episode. There’s, in episode seven, something similar, which I won’t get into because we didn’t send that one out yet. Another one of the character’s dies. I’ll just tell you that! [laughs]”
The final season of “New Girl” airs Tuesdays at 9:30/8:30 c on Fox.
Read original story One ‘New Girl’ Writer Has Been Lobbying to Do That Furguson Episode for 4 Years At TheWrap...
- 5/2/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Jordan Rock is coming to Comedy Central. Deadline reports the Love star has joined the network's new pilot Drunk Girl, High Guy.From Sarah Walker, the comedy "follows the adventures of two best friends and work wife/work husband in New York City — a girl who is almost always drunk, and a guy (Rock) who is almost always high." The project is based on a column Walker writers for Funny or Die with New Girl writer Noah Garfinkel.Read More…...
- 10/1/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
If you've ever been curious about some of the work that goes into big talk shows, go to a taping. Comedians Joe Mande and Noah Garfinkel told late night host Pete Holmes last week that they thought it would be fun to dress up and go to a Fox News taping. Only one caveat: they got stoned beforehand, and ingesting weed cookies before going to see Huckabee might just be one of the strangest and most hilarious things anyone has done or ever will do.
- 12/2/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
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