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  • Pete Holmes makes his way to Star World Premiere HD with ‘Crashing’

    MUMBAI: Star World Premiere HD, India’s leading English entertainment channel is known for handpicking some of the most award-winning, star-studded and critically acclaimed shows on television today. Taking its entertainment quotient a notch higher, the channel that exclusively airs comedy series – Emmy and Golden Globe winning series Veep, Silicon Valley, Baskets, Better Things among others is all set to add another comedy series in its bucket with the premiere of Crashing. The series will premiere tonight, 27 February at 10pm on Star World Premiere HD and will continue to air every Monday at the same time on the channel.

    Directed by Golden Globe nominee and Emmy award winning director, writer, producer, Judd Apatow, who is popular for his work in Jim Carrey starrers Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty, Katherine Heigl starrer Knocked Up and Mark Ruffalo – Kera Knightley – Adam Levine starrer Begin Again among others, Crashing stars celebrated stand-up comedian, writer and actor – Pete Holmes.

    A semi-autobiographical comedy, ‘Crashing’ follows Holmes’ life when he ends up couch surfing at other comedians’ apartments in New York. The series starts with Pete Holmes in his hometown when he discovers his wife cheating on him. Subsequently, he moves out of the suburbs to double down on trying to make it as a comic in New York City leading to hilarious sequences on the show as was the case in his real life.

    Renowned comedians – T.J. Miller of Silicon Valley fame and Sarah Silverman also appear on the series as guest stars.

  • Comedy Central US launches a stand-up app for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

    Comedy Central US launches a stand-up app for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster Comedy Central has announced the launch of CC: Stand-Up, a free app for iPhone and iPad, available exclusively on the App Store. This video App is a stand-alone extension of the channel that brings comedy fans a new stand-up channel, a tool to discover new comics and a platform for sharing comedic content.

    Comedy Central adds that it has a history with stand-up. The genre has been a part of the brand since its launch in 1991. As home to the largest stand-up library in the world, the brand‘s CC: Stand-Up App features over 700 comedians, giving fans deep access to a constant stream of content. The App‘s tool for discovery, “Six Degrees of Stand-Up”, uses a recommendation algorithm that will enmesh fans into a web of comedic connections to discover new comics.

    For example, after viewing Pete Holmes, Six Degrees generates a web of additional comedians based on similar sensibilities (alternative comedy), topics (animals) and relationships (love of Ryan Gosling).

    With comedy content being the social currency in which young men connect, the App also gives fans the ability to watch curated playlists and share videos via Facebook and Twitter.

    Viacom Entertainment Group executive VP multi-platform strategy, development Erik Flannigan said, “At its simplest, CC: Stand-Up is a digitally distributed, pure stand-up channel, in which fans can immerse themselves for hours with just one touch. Layered onto that is an intuitive on-demand and recommendation platform, which makes the discovery of new comedians something fun to explore. It‘s got the whole ‘lean forward, lean back‘ thing people always talk about, only for real.”

    The CC: Stand-Up App content will be promoted on all the broadcaster‘s brand extensions including the linear channel, cc.com, Comedy Central Certified Clubs, Comedy Central Radio and Comedy Central Live Entertainment.

    Axe Face is the official launch sponsor and has created a “Laugh Your Face Off” featured playlist.