TV Bits: ‘Mad Men’ Sets Return Date, Plus: ‘Community’, ‘Glee’, ‘Fringe’, ‘Allen Gregory’, ‘Californication’, and More

Posted on Monday, January 9th, 2012 by Angie Han

Today’s TV Bits is a severely mixed bag, as we get updates on two returning shows and a few other shows that are dead or close to it. After the jump:

• NBC confirms that Community will be back in the spring
• AMC sets a return date for Mad Men
• Showtime releases the season premieres of Shameless and Californication online
• Fox cancels Allen Gregory, begins developing new late-night animated block
• Fox’s Fringe seems likely to get cancelled
• Fox decides against Glee spin-off, but devises a plan to keep its biggest stars on the show.

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First Look: Fox’s Animated ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ Television Show

Posted on Monday, October 11th, 2010 by Germain Lussier

Gosh! Now it’ll be super easy for Napoleon Dynamite to get extra chap stick, tame a wild stallion or go off some sweet jumps because it’ll be drawn for him. Fox has picked up a six-episode animated TV version of the 2004 cult film which launched the careers of director Jared Hess and star Jon Heder. All the original cast members will be providing voices for the show which will be produced and written by Hess, his wife Jerusha Hess and Simpsons alum Mike Scully. Simultaneously, Fox also green lit another animated show called Allen Gregory which is created by Jonah Hill and Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul, who wrote Yes Man. Hit the jump for more info on both shows and the uncropped hight res version of the Dynamite art. Read More »

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