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This JFK airport employee’s near-death experience allowed her to finally take flight in her own life.

Natasha Rothwell, star, creator and executive producer of Hulu’s new comedy series “How To Die Alone,” plays Mel, a down-on-her-luck 30-something who never gave herself a real shot at living.

The first official trailer for the comedy series released Tuesday, and you can watch it below:

Though Mel works at an airport, she is too afraid to fly and ultimately too afraid to start living. After a near-death experience crashing an airport cart, Mel realized that it’s up to her to change her own life.

The trailer features her coming into her own while frolicking on the beach, going on dates and stepping out of her comfort zone.

“She’s got that Lizzo, Rihanna thing going on: Lizagna,” one of her airport coworkers adds of her transformation in the trailer.

The eight episode feel-good,...

NBC has named the 2018 class for its Late Night Writers Workshop, an initiative dedicated to discovering and developing late night and sketch comedy writers of diverse backgrounds. Chosen from among more than 1,000 applicants, Alyssa Feller, Jonathan Giles, Michael Hartney, John Mahone, Cameron Smith, Natasha Vaynblat and Bryan Yang will participate in an intensive six-day program this month that will ready them to be staff writers on late-night and sketch-comedy…...

All through April, Logo is presenting the Not to Be Missed List with host Julian Dujarric. In this installment, appreciating the those guilty pleasure movies we can’t live without.

With guest commentators Heidi Hamilton, Regina Decicco, Michael Hartney, Mike Kelton, and Janet Mock

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All through April, Logo is presenting the Not to Be Missed List with host Julian Dujarric. In this installment, appreciating the one season wonders of TV history. In other words, the best shows that only lasted one season.

With guest commentators Heidi Hamilton, Regina Decicco, Michael Hartney, Mike Kelton, and Janet Mock

What TV shows would you put on this list?

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by Brett White

With "Man of Steel" opening today in theaters, all attention is currently fixated on Superman. But there's another character that has been by his side for 75 years, who debuted right alongside him in "Action Comics" #1 way back in 1938, and who is incredibly important to the Superman mythos. That character is Lois Lane, the fearless reporter whose human courage inspires even Earth's powerful alien protector. The legendary character is brought to life in the new film by Amy Adams, who inherited her press pass from Kate Bosworth, Erica Durance, Dana Delaney, Teri Hatcher, Margot Kidder, Phyllis Coates and Noel Neill, among others.

But when you're paired up with a man who can punch mountains, you're bound to get overlooked. We're here to make sure that doesn't happen. Without Lois Lane, there is no Superman. To give the character some much deserved attention, we approached a panel of comic creators,...

In a move many feel is nothing more than an effort use pre-publicity for the Ender's Game movie to drive sales for the comic, DC has commissioned the author of the source novel, Orson Scott Card, to write the new digital comic coming in April, Adventures of Superman. Card, a long-time critic of homosexuality, has called gay marriage "the end of democracy in America", and in 2009 he became a board member of the National Organization for Marriage, a group that campaigns against same-sex marriage. The news has sparked outrage in many circles, and here are just a few reactions. Jono Jarret of Geeks Out: "Superman stands for truth, justice and the American way. Orson Scott Card does not stand for any idea of truth, justice or the American way that I can subscribe to. It's a deeply disappointing and frankly weird choice." Actor and big Supes fan Michael Hartney has...

In perhaps a move that caught them by surprise, DC Comics is facing some backlash from comic fans after they announced science fiction author Orson Scott Card had been commissioned to write a story for their Adventures of Superman series. Card, who is an award-winning and best-selling author of the Ender’s Game series, is also a long-time critic of homosexuality and has written and called gay marriage “the end of democracy in America.” In 2009, he became a board member of National Organization for Marriage (Nom), a group that campaigns against same-sex marriage.

For some, this is an odd move as DC has attempted to include Lgbt characters in its superhero universe over the last half decade.

Card, a Mormon, was called out by Salon‘s Donna Minkowitz as a “disgustingly outspoken homophobe” after an interview in 2000. Said Card during the exchange with Minkowitz, “I find the comparison between civil...