truTV Programming Alert: Upcoming March Highlights

SERIES PREMIERE – RACHEL DRATCH’S LATE NIGHT SNACK – Thursday, March 3 at 11:00pm ET/PT

Welcome to Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack: Tonight’s menu features a smorgasbord of original short-form comedy delicacies: New couple Hope & Randy go condom shopping, Jayma Mays re-imagines Little Red Riding Hood through animation, and find out what really happened inside Apollo 11 with a passive aggressive historical account. This is one snack you don’t want to miss.

Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack is a showcase of never-before-seen short form comedy content that lets the audience do their channel-surfing without ever leaving truTV. This block of bite size programming is presented by Rachel Dratch, and will feature original offerings from some of the biggest and best comedic creators. Connected through stylized interstitials, the 30 minute weekly block features a carousel of premium comedy segments in a variety of styles including documentary, animation, music videos and scripted shorts.

Monday, March 7

Bidder Loser: Joe, Sal, Murr and Q try to dig themselves out of a jam by asking strangers to help them bury bizarre items, then go head-to-head to see who can cling the longest to a stranger’s car. And tonight’s punished Joker makes a room full of enemies at an auction house, thanks to an ill-timed attack of seller’s remorse.

EPISODE SIX – What’s Eating Uncle Jake?: After leading the JV Girls Volleyball team to the State Championship on the back of star Little Debbie, Fairbell must watch from the sidelines when the PTA appoints a new coach. Shoemaker takes assistant coaching a little too far, while Loren schemes for a shady game sponsor (played by guest star T.J. Miller). Abbey seeks to improve Smoot’s literacy with unusual tactics.

Those Who Can’t is truTV’s first foray into full-length scripted comedy. The half-hour comedy follows three trouble-making teachers, played by show creators Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl and Ben Roy of the Denver-based comedy troupe The Grawlix. More inept than the kids they teach, they’re out to beat the system as they struggle to survive each day on their own terms. Joining them is Maria Thayer (Eagleheart) the school librarian with an insuppressible passion for life.

Guest stars this season include Sarah Michelle Gellar (The Crazy Ones), Susie Essman (Curb Your Enthusiasm), T.J. Miller (Silicon Valley), Mary Lynn Rajskub (24), Peter Stormare (Fargo, The Big Lebowski) and Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs).

Joe, Sal, Q and Murr suit up for a championship-sized special to compete bracket style, where they go head-to-head, pitting their favorite moments against each others’ in hopes of winning it all. The competition heats up as 16 classic clips from the show get narrowed down to two in the final round. When the laughs settle and the buzzer sounds, one Joker and his clip will rise above the rest to bring home the championship title… back to their beloved Staten Island.

Magician by trade but a trickster at heart, Michael Carbonaro is back with 13 brand new episodes of his unique hidden-camera comedy series. This season, the unsuspecting public is amazed by his increasingly inventive surprises. Jaws will drop when Michael convinces people that cyborgs walk among us, that a man morphs into a pig, or that humans are delivered by drones. In the first half of season 2, the series averaged more than 1.1 million viewers and ranked as a top ten show in its time period among cable entertainment networks among men 18-34 and adults 18-34.

Hack My Life returns with 10 additional half hour episodes that will provide a comedic spin on the never-ending supply of everyday life hacks. Hosted by Kevin Pereira and Brooke Van Poppelen, the series demonstrates step-by-step how to incorporate eye-popping shortcuts and cheats guaranteed to save today’s busy adults a lot of time, effort and money. From parenting and getting through the workday, to vacations and parties, viewers’ lives will never be the same again. In the upcoming episodes, Kevin and Brooke will explore a whole new world of hacks for the first time when they “game the system”, giving viewers hacks to get the most out of their everyday interactions, including perks at restaurants, bonuses at the car dealership, and safe passage past bouncers at nightclubs. In its first season, Hack My Life ranked among the Top 10 cable entertainment progra ms in its timeslot with men 18-34 and is produced by True Entertainment.