Peacock is stacking up the cast of MacGruber, the eight-episode action comedy series based on Will Forte’s recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live and its 2010 cult movie offshoot.

Dec. 15 (UPI) --Will Forte said the Peacock series MacGruber, premiering Thursday, began as a sequel to the 2010 movie. Creators Forte, Jorma Taccone and John Solomon began to generate sequel ideas ...

We’ve got a friggin’ premiere date — MacGruber! On Monday, Peacock revealed a six-minute-plus teaser for the upcoming series adaptation of 2010 movie “MacGruber” (itself, of course, an adaptation of ...

Exactly 10 years ago today, on May 21, 2010, a raunchy action comedy inauspiciously premiered in theaters. It was called MacGruber, and it was based on a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch with a ...

Fair warning: MacGruber is shameless about its lack of nuance. It falls victim to many other Saturday Night Live sketches-to-spinoffs where it feels like it just keeps hammering you with a recurring ...

When MacGruber was introduced to the world in a series of Saturday Night Live sketches, the joke was its brevity. Over the course of about a minute, Will Forte’s MacGruber would embarrass himself, ...

Following last summer's announcement that the 2010 comedy MacGruber would be getting a television series on Peacock, the first new casting additions have been announced and they are pretty exciting.

NBCUniversal’s streaming platform Peacock continues to build up its original comedy slate with a straight-to-series series order to MacGruber, starring, co-written and executive produced by Will Forte ...

Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — ...

MacGruber is finally getting his very own TV show. Peacock announced today that MacGruber, one of the earliest hyped possible series for the service, has gotten an official greenlight. Will Forte will ...

What’s the opposite of an upper-decker left in the tank of your toilet? How about the surprise release of a MacGruber sequel series in December? Probably? Peacock revealed on Monday that next month ...

A decade after “MacGruber” opened in theaters and proceeded to tank at the box office, Will Forte’s beloved comedy character returns in an all new TV series that continues the story of the world’s ...