Alison Brie News

NBC's comedy COMMUNITY pays tribute to the long-running 'Law and Order' franchise on the April 26th episode as actors Michael K. Williams and Leslie Hendrix make guest-star appearances.

Gilbert Films announced today that their next theatrical film project, YOU ARE HERE, will start production in May 2012 in North Carolina. The film, written and to be directed by Matthew Weiner (creator of Emmy and Golden Globe winning series MAD MEN, writer/executive producer of THE SOPRANOS) will star Owen Wilson (MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, WEDDING CRASHERS) and Zach Galifianakis (THE HANGOVER, DUE DATE).

COMMUNITY stars Joel McHale and Jim Rash are featured in a hilarious new promo for the NBC comedy series which returns on Thursday March 15 at 8:00 pm/ET with all new episodes.

Greendale Community College's most famous study group will have a new member beginning in 2013 (and it's not Beetlejuice) as COMEDY CENTRAL has reached a multi-year deal with Sony Picture Television to license the critically-acclaimed comedy series 'Community,' it was announced today by David Bernath, Executive Vice President, Program Strategy & Multiplatform Programming/Dean of Students for COMEDY CENTRAL and [Sony Pictures Television]. The all-comedy channel will launch the series with three seasons beginning in the fall of 2013.

COMMUNITY stars Joel McHale and Jim Rash are featured in a hilarious new promo for the NBC comedy series which returns on Thursday March 15 at 8:00 pm/ET with all new episodes.

The cast of NBC's comedy COMMUNITY is getting animated in new short form programming that is set to debut Wednesday, March 7 on the free, ad-supported Hulu; the Hulu Plus subscription service and NBC.com, with new shorts appearing on consecutive days.

The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) and Universal Pictures today announced that The Five-Year Engagement will open the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by American Express. Director/writer/producer Nicholas Stoller and writer/star Jason Segel of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reteam for the comedy, which also stars Emily Blunt, Rhys Ifans, Chris Pratt and Alison Brie. The premiere will take place on Wednesday, April 18, and the Festival will run through April 29.

The Paley Center for Media today announced the full lineup of special guest panelists for the upcoming PaleyFest: The William S. Paley Television Festival.

THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT is coming to theaters on April 27, 2012 from Universal Pictures. The comedy is directed by Nicholas Stoller and written by Stoller and Jason Segal. The cast includes Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Alison Brie, Rhys Ifans, Chris Pratt, Kevin Hart, Dakota Johnson, Mindy Kaling, Mimi Kennedy, David Paymer, Jacki Weaver, Brian Posehn, Jim Poddick, Randall Park, Lauren Weedman, Michael Ensign, Clement von Franckenstein, David Mooney, Ron Lynch, Gordon Michaels, Aaron Lustig, Corey Fischer, Andrew Burlinson and Tracee Chimo.

BBC AMERICA JANUARY HIGHLIGHTS, JAMIE'S AMERICAN ROAD TRIP - US PREMIERE

BBC America announces January Highlights including 'Jamie's American Road Trip,' 'Absolutely Fabulous 20th Anniversary Special,' and 'The Fades'. Also on tap are season three of 'Mistresses,' a new 'Nerdist' special and Madonna on 'The Graham Norton Show.'

On Thursday night's episode of NBC's COMMUNITY entitled 'Regional Holiday Music', the Greendale Glee Club is unexpectedly sidelined, so the school's effervescent choir director Cory Radison (Taran Killam, 'Saturday Night Live') sets about recruiting the study group members to fill in.

In tonight's episode of NBC's COMMUNITY entitled, 'Documentary Filmmaking: Redux' - When the school board asks Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) to make a new commercial for the school, he enlists the study group to star in his production. As he gets swept away with the project, more of the student body is pulled into the fray, including Magnitude (Luke Youngblood), Fat Neil (Charley Koontz), Garrett (Erik Charles Nielsen), Leonard (Richard Erdman), Star-Burns (Dino Stamatopoulos) and even Greendale alum and genuine celebrity, Luis Guzman ('How to Make it in America'). Meanwhile, Abed (Danny Pudi) films all the activities for a documentary.

The Adrienne Shelly Foundation (ASF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the memory of adored writer, director and actor Adrienne Shelly, is hosting its 4th annual celebrity eBay auction, which kicked-off on the 5th anniversary of Shelly's passing, November 1, and will run through November 10.

In tonight's episode of NBC's COMMUNITY titled, 'Advanced Gay', Pierce (Chevy Chase) learns that he and his Hawthorne wipes have become extremely popular and he decides to throw a big party... until his overbearing father, Cornelius Hawthorne (Larry Cedar, 'Deadwood,') shows up and puts the kibosh on the plans. Meanwhile, Troy (Donald Glover) finds himself being courted by Vice Dean Laybourne (John Goodman) and his secretive Air Conditioning Repair Annex, as well as Greendale's resident janitor, Jerry (Jerry Minor, 'Lucky Louie').

On an upcoming episode of NBC's COMMUNITY entitled 'Troy's Rude Housewarming Guests', Jeff and Pierce insult their way into Troy's apartment.

When Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) decide to share an apartment, they host a party for the group, which takes on an altered reality as several scenarios play out. Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, Gilllian Jacobs, Alison Brie and Yvette Nicole Brown also star.

Talk show listings for Friday, October 7

Today the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced additional presenters for the 2011 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards. Similar to last year, the awards will be presented by pairings of showrunners with talent from the shows they produce.

Talk show listings for Thursday, April 14.