FX renews ‘Louie,’ orders sci-fi comedy pilot

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by James Hibberd | August 3, 2010 at 9:08 am | View Comments

FX has renewed the Louis C.K. comedy "Louie" for a second season.

Plus the network has ordered a comedy pilot from the makers of "Reno 911" that's set in space. Titled "U.S.S. Alabama," the show is from Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant and will be part-scripted and part-improvised, just like "Reno 911."

At TCA, the network's entertainment president John Landgraf said he hopes to expand FX's original series to "six or seven or eight" comedies and about a dozen shows overall.


Landgraf also said that, for actors, in recent years it has become more prestigious to land a cable show.

"It's become a status symbol for an actor to have a cable show," Landgraf said. "A lot of being a movie star is being in a latex costume in front of a green screen wearing guide-wires and learning to do karate."

Finishing up the session, Landgraf noted, "I haven't said anything Tweet-worthy," then announced: Peter Rice told me I could deny that Steve McPherson is becoming a judge on 'American Idol.'"