Josh Gad’s new political sitcom 1600 Penn is heading right where it belongs: the White House! Deadline reports that President Obama will invite cast and crew members from NBC’s upcoming presidential comedy to a special screening at the White House on January 9 (the show officially premieres in its regular timeslot on January 10).

Obama will welcome his ...

Josh Gad’s brand-new NBC comedy 1600 Penn moves into the White House (and your television) on January 10, but before the political fun begins, the Tony nominee allowed a camera crew to document a day in the actor/writer/producer’s life. Touring around the comedy's set in a golf cart, Gad’s antics include feeding fruit to ...

It's officially January, which means that there's a whole month of resolution making (and breaking) and, of course, exciting Broadway events ahead of us! Read on to see what we've picked as the cream of the crop from the week ahead, which includes opening nights for The Other Place and Picnic, a thrilling Jersey Boys return and ...

Josh Gad is coming to a movie theater near you! Open Road Films has scored the distribution rights to the Steve Jobs-centric bio pic jOBS, which stars Ashton Kutcher as the late creative visionary and Gad as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. The film will close out the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, and will aim for an April 2013 ...

Life has been good for The Book of Mormon Tony nominees Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad since they departed the blockbuster Broadway musical. Both stars have new TV shows on NBC: Rannells plays gay dad-to-be Bryan on The New Normal, while Gad is stirring up trouble as the U.S. president's son on 1600 Penn. Fans wondering just how ...

NBC has decided to up the airing of the first episode of 1600 Penn, the White House-set political sitcom co-created by (and starring) former The Book of Mormon star Josh Gad. The series will officially premiere on January 10, but the network will air the pilot on December 17 following ratings powerhouse The Voice.

Set in the White House, 1600 ...

Tony-nominated The Book of Mormon alum Josh Gad will team up with Ryan Dixon to write the script for Triplets, the sequel to the 1988 comedy film Twins. Original stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito will return for the sequel, alongside Eddie Murphy. Ivan Reitman, who helmed the first film, will once again serve as director. Triplets marks Gad’s ...

Disney’s recent buyout of LucasFilm has the entire entertainment industry buzzing now that three new Star Wars movies are in the works. Disney already has a hand in some of Broadway’s splashiest musicals, and with action spectacles like Spider-Man and the upcoming King Kong musical becoming a norm on Broadway, it wouldn't be a huge surprise should ...

Josh Gad just can’t fit in anywhere, can he? The former Book of Mormon star plays yet another daydreaming misfit on NBC’s upcoming political comedy 1600 Penn, which follows a dysfunctional family that just happens to live in the White House. Gad (who co-created the sitcom) will surely pepper in some chaos to the presidential proceedings as the ...

Former The Book of Mormon star Josh Gad is officially moving into the White House this winter. Gad's new NBC comedy 1600 Penn, in which he plays the son of the President of the United States, will being its run on January 10, 2013, according to TVLine.com.

1600 Penn follows a dysfunctional First Family in which the out-of-control ...