Lonely Island Launching a Fox Saturday Late-Night Sketch Show, with Lorne Michaels’ Blessing

The Lonely Island launching a Fox Saturday late-night sketch show, with Lorne Michaels’ blessing

Party Over Here, from SNL alums Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, will avoid competing against Saturday Night Live by running from 11 to 11:30 pm. As The Lonely Island explained on Twitter: “One of our stipulations to Fox was that we wouldnt air at the same time as @nbcsnl. This show is over at 11:30. SNL…And we called Lorne first to get his blessing.”

Super Bowl 50 will have the first broad daylight halftime show in many years

The big game kicks off at 3:30 pm PT, but the sun won’t set until 5:35 pm in Santa Clara, California. So producers of this year’s Super Bowl had to find something to replace the dramatic lighting and pyrotechnics that have become synonymous with recent Super Bowl halftime shows. “Something has to replace those elements — I can’t say what — but we knew we had to do something,” says Mark Quenzel, who works for the NFL Network, which produces the pregame and halftime shows. “Have we found the solution? I sure hope so.” PLUS: Coldplay’s Chris Martin dropped the F-bomb during the band’s Super Bowl halftime press conference, and Martin wants to bring the Glastonbury Festival vibe to halftime.

Martin Sheen is shopping a Making a Murderer-style docuseries that aims to exonerate O.J. Simpson

Sheen has teamed with a Dallas detective that aims to exonerate Simpson for the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Sheen plans to also serve as narrator.

Louis C.K. says Horace and Pete is “f*cking expensive,” but he’ll drop the price to $2 for Episode 2

Louis C.K. explained charging $5 in an e-mail to fans, adding that next episode will drop on Saturday. Louis C.K. writes: “So why the dirty f*ckballs did I charge you five dollars for Horace and Pete, where most TV shows you buy online are 3 dollars or less? Well, the dirty unmovable fact is that this show is f*cking expensive.”

Matt Czuchry is on board for the Gilmore Girls revival

The Good Wife star will reprise his role as Logan, Rory’s ex-boyfriend.

O.J. Simpson’s ex-business manager bashes Cuba Gooding Jr.’s performance

“He doesn’t look like O.J. in any way, shape or form, and definitely doesn’t sound like him,” Norman Pardo says of The People v. O.J. star. He adds that he expects Simpson to eventually watch the FX miniseries.

Suburgatory’s Jane Levy joins How I Met Your Mother creators’ CBS pilot

She’ll play an optimist living in NYC in My Time/Your Time from Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.

Oscar-nominated Brooklyn spawning a BBC TV series

Julie Walters will reprise her landlady role in the BBC version of the Saoirse Ronan film.

USA renews Colony for Season 2

USA president Chris McCumber says the Carlton Cuse series’ “performance across all platforms has been impressive, and we can’t wait to see where the story takes us.”

Check out Supergirl’s young Superman

Daniel DiMaggio makes his debut as a young Kal-El on Monday’s episode.

Watch a preview of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s Hulu election special

Hulu offers a 10-minute sneak peek of the special, dropping Monday.