2018 looks like it will be Melissa McCarthy’s biggest year ever. Her comedy series “Nobodies” is returning for Season 2 this Thursday, March 29th, at 10pmET on the Paramount Network (formerly Spike TV). “Nobodies” Season 1 aired on TV Land. She co-produces the show with her husband Ben Falcone and occasionally guest stars as an over-the-top, bossy version of herself (she’s, literally, one of the nicest people in the world).
McCarthy then heads back to school for the Warner Bros. college comedy “Life of the Party”, out May 11. Gillian Jacobs (“Community”, “Don’t Think Twice”) gave me a few details about the film back in 2016, “I play one of the students at the college. We just had a really great time. An amazing cast. I just feel lucky that I got a chance to be in the movie.”
Later in the summer, on August 17, comes McCarthy’s next movie, “The Happytime Murders”, from STX. The premise is certainly unique: “When the puppet cast of an ’80s children’s TV show begins to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.” McCarthy plays a human detective, with the Jim Henson Company providing the puppetry for the puppet characters.
And then, with a limited start October 19, is “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Fox Searchlight is positioning McCarthy as a legitimate Best Actress awards season contender with her performance as celebrity biographer Lee Israel in this crime/biopic dramedy. And my take on the film’s first trailer: this could be McCarthy’s Role of a Lifetime.