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Before they made history playing a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, “Dimension 20” dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan and the intrepid heroes that star on the Dropout tabletop role-playing game TV series sat down with Variety for a game of “Most Likely To.”

While everyone agreed that all six players do their fair share of causing problems, Mulligan admitted there’s one intrepid hero with a particular aptitude for antagonizing the dungeon master:

“As the Dm, I’m pointing at a specific person that is right for me [Thompson],” Mulligan said. “I’ve only been told to ‘eat my fucking dice’ on camera by one person. If ‘antagonize’ is an active verb, I think it’s Siobhan.” Thompson, for her part, agreed wholeheartedly: “Oh yeah, I’m not antagonizing him, I’m actually bullying him.”

Though Thompson may be the most outwardly adversarial, Mulligan and the rest of the...

Madison Square Garden was sold-out and packed with screaming fans on Friday night, but it wasn’t for a Grammy-winning artist or New York sports team: It was a group of “intrepid heroes” who have taken over the world of Dungeons and Dragons.

Dimension 20, a group of D&d players who specialize in monster slaying and absurd improv on the streaming service Dropout, took Msg by storm for their first major live show, “Gauntlet at the Garden.” Led by their dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan, the Dimension 20 crew, made up of Zac Oyama, Emily Axford, Lou Wilson, Brian Murphy, Ally Beardsley and Siobhan Thompson, revisited their popular NYC-inspired Unsleeping City campaign. However, D20 fans were in for a treat as surprise crossover characters from other games popped into the show after being influenced by random dice rolls from the audience. Once considered a niche, nerdy hobby, Dungeons and Dragons has rocketed to mainstream popularity,...

The Unsleeping City will awaken Friday night with a live version of Dropout’s “Dimension 20” at Madison Square Garden. The Dungeons-and-Dragons-actual-play-esque show will feature game master Brennan Lee Mulligan and his cast of “intrepid heroes”: Ally Beardsley, Brian “Murph” Murphy, Emily Axford, Lou Wilson, Siobhan Thompson and Zac Oyama.

As the team preps for the sold-out event, dubbed “Gauntlet at the Garden,” Mulligan breaks down his game plan for their first live show of this scale and how he’s constructed a new storyline within the New York City-set “Unsleeping City” season of “Dimension 20” that will involve the audience.

What’s your prep plan for the show?

Be with my wife and kiddo. I’m going to open up my laptop, go over notes, get my little D&d Beyond campaign open, go over my encounters, make sure all my stat blocks are good.

Brennan Lee Mulligan and his intrepid heroes are headed out west for additional live shows of their tabletop role playing game TV series, “Dimension 20,” following the Dropout brand’s already sold-out upcoming appearance at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in January.

Hosted by comedian and dungeon master Mulligan, “Dimension 20” launched in 2018 as a show from the CollegeHumor (now Dropout) team featuring comedians playing several campaigns of Dungeons & Dragon set across various fictional fantasy worlds.

“Dimension 20: Live” will host one show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on June 1, 2025 one at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on July 20, 2025 and one at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Nov. 1, 2025.

The cast for the West Coast shows include Mulligan and “Dimension 20” players Emily Axford, Ally Beardsley, Brian Murphy, Zac Oyama, Siobhan Thompson and Lou Wilson, the same lineup set for “Gauntlet at...

Exclusive: Jon Hamm, fresh off his two Emmy nominations, has been set to star in and exec-produce scripted podcast series Dungeon Masters, which heralds from QCode and Smile and Twilight producer Temple Hill.

Created, written and directed by journalist and author David Kushner, the series is based on his research and writing about hit game Dungeons & Dragons, inspired by the real-life missing person case which inadvertently made the game (in)famous.

Set in 1979, the series gives listeners a behind-the-curtain look into the world of Dungeons & Dragons, told through the lenses of private investigator William Dear (Hamm), a swashbuckling style tough guy and creator of the game Gary Gygax (Wil Wheaton). The series follows Dear on his quest to find Dallas Egbert, a Michigan State student, who supposedly disappeared in the steam tunnels under his University while enacting a real-life version of D&d.

Multiple QCode podcasts have been...

Dimension 20, Dropout‘s Dungeons & Dragons show, is coming to Madison Square Garden for a night of live Ttrpg adventure.

Dimension 20: Gauntlet at the Garden will bring together the full D20 squad, including dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan and players Emily Axford, Ally Beardsley, Brian Murphy, Zac Oyama, Siobhan Thompson, and Lou Wilson, who’ve been dungeoning and dragoning together since 2018.

The show will be part of the group’s Unsleeping City campaign, which is set in a fictional (as far as we know…) and clandestine sixth borough of New York City that’s powered by magic and populated by supernatural residents. So, of course, it is appropriate that the event–which is Dimension 20‘s first U.S. live show since 2019–is also taking place in NYC.

Dimension 20: Gauntlet at the Garden takes place Jan. 24, 2025. Since the show’s unveiling earlier this month, there’s been...

Fantasy High Junior Year brings back the Bad Kids as they navigate new challenges and rival groups, while questioning their future. Spyre is the extensively built world of Dimension 20, with three seasons of Fantasy High and two spin-offs. Zac Oyama discusses Gorgug's journey, growth as a player, and the development of his character in the new season of Dimension 20.

Fantasy High Junior Year brings Dimension 20 fans back to the world of Spyre for an all-new adventure with the Bad Kids. As they start the new school year, each of the kids begins questioning their future, with Riz desperate to keep the party together as a new rival group, the Rat Grinders, steps onto the scene. After failing to help Casandra, a new mystery is afoot that begins to pull the Bad Kids in, but each has vastly different priorities and expectations of what Junior Year will bring.

It’s not just video games that dominate the digital airwaves on platforms like Twitch — there’s a huge contingent of viewers who yearn for the old days of pen and paper, with tabletop RPGs making a huge splash virtually in the last few years. In fact, once-niche games like Dungeons & Dragons (which turns 50 this year) have taken on new life in the age of livestreaming, and more popular than ever.

Leading the charge are “actual plays,” podcasts or web shows that feature groups of players creating narratives from their imaginations,...

Fantasy High Junior Year returns with the Bad Kids in the midst of a thrilling battle with the Night Yorb, surprising fans. The new season allows the characters to evolve and explore new aspects of themselves, especially as they navigate high school and their future. Viewers can expect to see more of Aguefort Adventuring Academy and the challenges of finding a work-life balance while on epic quests.

Dimension 20 once again returns to Spyre to continue the adventures of the Bad Kids as they try to navigate being teenage heroes. Fantasy High was the season that kicked off the Dimension 20 series, and now they are finally returning to show what happened after the massive cliffhanger set up at the end of Sophomore Year. Fantasy High balances the classic fantasy adventures that Dungeons & Drgaons is famous for with the drama and comedy of high school.

Fantasy High Junior Year features...

Dropout.tv's Dimension 20 may not have the sprawling world of Critical Role, but it does have fascinating new locales with each season from a magical realism take on New York City to a horror-drenched fairytale world. For those new to the actual-play series, the various seasons are divided into two categories The Intrepid Heroes and the Side Quests. An Intrepid Hero season of Dimension 20 has Brennan Lee Mulligan as the Dungeon Master with players Lou Wilson, Ally Beardsley, Emily Axford, Brian Murphy, Zac Oyama, and Siobhan Thompson, lasting about 20 episodes.

To date, there have been six full Intrepid Hero seasons of Dimension 20 with the seventh, Neverafter, currently airing on Dropout.tv. Each of the Intrepid Hero seasons of the show are truly a testament to Brennan Lee Mulligan's ability as a Dm and the table of players that craft such compelling and lovable characters over and over again.

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In today’s TV news roundup, “Mr. Robot” will premiere its final season on Oct. 6, and Lauren Graham joins “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” at NBC.

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The final season of USA Network’s “Mr. Robot” will return on Sunday, Oct. 6, a departure from its usual Wednesday time-slot. The 13-episode season will be set during the 2015 Christmas holiday and will continue to follow computer programmer Elliot (Rami Malek) and Mr. Robot (Christian Slater) as they embark into dangerous territory in their mission to target the one percent. Watch the trailer for the fourth and final season below:

Season 2 of Pop TV’s “Hot Date” will premiere Sept. 20. The sketch comedy series follows comedian couple Emily Axford and Brian Murphy as they put on a heightened performance of their love life. The new season will also feature guest appearances by Randall Park, Margaret Cho and Thomas Lennon.

CBS has announced premiere dates for its entire daytime lineup.

Pop TV has set 10 Pm Friday, September 20, for the Season 2 premiere of Hot Date, its sketch-comedy series from Electus and Luke Kelly-Clyne’s Big Breakfast and executive producer Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue Productions.

Inspired by the CollegeHumor digital series, Hot Date stars husband-and-wife comedy duo Emily Axford and Brian K. Murphy as heightened versions of themselves trying to figure out this thing called love. Season 2 will be set in a new city, New Orleans, and focus on the many eccentricities the Big Easy has to offer – from gluttonous, bourbon-induced debauchery, to haunted Airbnb’s and more – while remaining centered on relational comedy. Emily and Murph also are planning a wedding and must attempt to navigate the various stresses that come with taking their relationship to the next level.

Guest stars for the show’s sophomore run will include Randall Park, Margaret Cho and Thomas Lennon.

“Hot Date skewers the...

Rooster Teeth’s Austin, Texas-based convention Rtx has announced this year’s comedy programming.

The lineup features the cast of CollegeHumor’s Dimension 20 (with special guest Griffin McElroy), YouTubers Mamrie Hart and Grace Helbig with their podcast This Might Get Weird, and an exclusive early screening of Stuber, 20th Century Fox’s upcoming comedy starring Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani.

Rtx -- which is in its ninth year -- takes place July 5 to 7. Comedy programming kicks off July 5 with a live version of CollegeHumor’s Dungeons & Dragons series Dimension 20. The series’ first season released on CollegeHumor’s subscription service Dropout last year, and chronicled dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan running a fantasy high school campaign for cast members Emily Axford, Brian Murphy, Ally Beardsley, Zac Oyama, and Siobhan Thompson.

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Led by Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong, “Tuca and Bertie” sports a truly interesting voice cast with some genuine surprises in the mix, including Oscar nominees, Emmy winners, and British TV favorites. The animated adventures of two best bird friends, created by Lisa Hanawalt, takes some sad and dark turns, but the actors prove more than capable of handling the challenges, bringing out the inherent humanity in their animal creations on screen.

The large ensemble plays such a wide range of characters that it’s difficult to identify every single character that every single actor plays (especially since a number of them double up on roles). Beyond the cast members specified below for individual roles, credited cast members include Emily Axford, Shamir Bailey, Kate Berlant, Cole Escola, Jermaine Fowler, Karen Graci, Georgia Hardstark, Karen Kilgariff, Betsy Sodaro, Sheila Vand, Baron Vaughn, and David Wain, with Hanawalt and executive producer Raphael Bob-Waksberg also contributing voices.

Pop has picked up a 10-episode second season of Hot Date, the original sketch comedy series from Electus’ Big Breakfast and executive producer Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue Productions, inspired by the popular CollegeHumor digital series. The renewal was announced Wednesday by Pop president Brad Schwartz at TCA.

Starring husband and wife comedy duo Emily Axford and Brian K. Murphy, Season 2 of Hot Date will be set in a new city, New Orleans, and focus on the many eccentricities “The Big Easy” has to offer – from gluttonous bourbon-induced debauchery, to haunted Airbnb’s and more – while remaining centered on relational comedy. “Emily” and “Murph” are also planning a wedding and must attempt to navigate the various stresses that come with taking their relationship to the next level.

Hot Date is produced by Big Breakfast, an Electus company, with Drew Buckley, Chris Grant, Luke Kelly-Clyne, Sam Reich, Spencer Griffin and Matthew Pollock serving as executive producers.

Pop TV’s new sketch comedy series Hot Date gets steamy on this week’s episode — before a big dose of modern-day reality brings things crashing back down to earth. The series — based on the CollegeHumor series of the same name — stars real-life married couple Emily Axford and Brian K. Murphy and throws a satirical light on dating and relationships today. In our exclusive clip, Emily gets out the shower to find a stream of messages on her phone from Murph asking what kind of burrito she wants. To prove why she wasn’t responding, she sends him a “sexy” topless just-out-the-shower...read more...

Hoping to snag a Hot Date? Look no further.

Pop TV’s Hot Date is the latest web series to successfully make the leap to cable television. Executive-produced by Will Arnett, the sketch comedy — based on the CollegeHumor series of the same name — chronicles the hilarious idiosyncrasies of dating, sex and marriage in 10 episodes premiering Wednesday. (Check out an exclusive sneak peek above.)

The series stars real-life husband-and-wife duo Emily Axford and Brian K. Murphy as heightened versions of themselves, just like on the web series, which has garnered more than 100 million views.

Axford and Murphy will also play multiple other couples,...

Sometimes makeup contouring can go south. This truism is demonstrated in the preview clip for the latest web series to successfully catapult to television, Hot Date. Executive-produced by Will Arnett, this truly hilarious sketch comedy series follows the eponymous CollegeHumor series where the modern dating scene is laid bare, all the social media pitfalls and narcissistic tinges that it brings out in people carving a life together. The series stars married duo Emily Axford and Brian K. Murphy (Murph) who play exaggerated versions of themselves on the webbie. The time is ripe for a skewed comedic look at relationship humor...read more...

Pop TV has ordered three new scripted TV shows: Clique; Hot Date; and Swedish Dicks, Private Investigators.A drama series, Clique stars Aisling Franciosi, Synnove Karlsen, and Louise Brealey. Check out the preview, below.From College Humor, the Hot Date TV series is a sitcom starring Emily Axford and Brian K. Murphy. Watch the preview for it, as well.Swedish Dicks, Private Investigators is also a comedy, featuring an aging stuntman. Peter Stormare, Johan Glans, Keanu Reeves, and Vivian Bang star.Read More…...

TruTV has renewed a pair of programs that both began on the web. The cable TV channel has ordered new episodes of CollegeHumor’s Adam Ruins Everything and has picked up a fifth season of Funny or Die’s streetside talk show Billy on the Street.

Adam Ruins Everything is also adapted from YouTube clips. Host Adam Conover’s comedic rants, which highlight underreported issues that stem from common situations, gained millions of views on CollegeHumor’s YouTube channel before coming to TruTV for a 12-episode run that arrived in 2015. Through its Big Breakfast production studio, CollegeHumor will create 14 more Adam Ruins Everything TV episodes, which will air in “mid-2016.”

Embolden by the success it has seen with Adam Ruins Everything, TruTV has also announced a new project created in partnership with Big Breakfast. It has given a pilot order to No Dumb Questions, in which host Emily Axford will...

Pedestrians of New York City, consider yourself warned.

Billy on the Street has been renewed for Season 5 by truTV, the network announced Thursday at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour.

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The Funny Or Die-produced series— in which comic Billy Eichner hilariously ambushes Manhattanites with pop-culture questions (and gets into hijinks with celebrity guests) — will return in late 2016 with 10 half-hour episodes.

The network has also ordered additional Season 1 episodes of its comedy Adam Ruins Everything, which will return in mid-2016 with 14 additional half-hour installments.

Now that Columbus Short has announced that he’s stepping away from his role on Shonda Rimes' Scandal, rumors are circulating that Eric West could be the one tapped to fill his shoes.

Eric West Replacing Columbus Short?

An insider told Uinterview exclusively that Rimes and company have been quick to replace Short and have selected West for the job. “Note to all,” a memo allegedly read from a Shondaland employee to members of the show’s cast and crew. “Eric West will be replacing Columbus.”

It’s uncertain as to whether West will take over Short’s role of Harrison Wright or if he will be playing an entirely new character in Olivia Pope’s (Kerry Washington) team of gladiators. Currently, the Gladiators only include Pope, Huck, Quinn and Abby.

Columbus Short as Harrison Wright on Scandal

West, 31, most recently starred on the MTV comedy sketch show Hey Girl...