There is a new Phil Hendrie lens at Squidoo. If you aren’t familiar with Squidoo, its a new site where you can create a site for any topic you want to share. Here is the Link, go and vote for Phil and start your own lens if you have something to share.

Here is episode 1 of our newest feature on PhilHendrieNews.com. Life Imitates Phil is a web show based on the radio segment of the same name where crazy ideas and stories from the Phil Hendrie Radio Show end up becoming real news stories.
Episode 1 stars Phil Hendrie, Rosie, and Sheryl Crow.

You can view the video here, or you can also download a higher quality version in the Archive Section of NewPhilHendrieShow.com (remember you must be logged in to see the download link).

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Phil Hendrie has confirmed that he just finished shooting his small part in the new Will Ferrell film Semi-Pro.

You can read about the film over at Phil’s favorite site

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Phil Hendrie has spoke several times about starting a new radio show in the near future. He has now confirmed that the new show will be on the Talk Radio Network and will be starting soon. TRN is the same network that has Rusty Humphries, any long time Hendrie fan gets that joke. Check back for more details as they become available.

April 23rd and 24th saw two new podcasts over at the official site. Make sure to keep your eye on the site, Phil Hendrie usually updates in spurts.

Milwaukee Lions vs. Seattle Cougars April 10, 2007

Go to the podcast section. While you are there make sure to check out the Free clip of the week. Its a classic clip with Phil Hendrie and Loyd Bonafide called “Leave it to Beaver Cleaver”. Hilarious stuff.

The Hollywood Reporter has an interesting article about Phil Hendrie’s pilot “Giants of Radio”. It sounds like the show has a great chance of being picked up.

Here is the article:

Jordan Black, star of CBS’ pilot presentation “Giants of Radio,” has inked a joint talent holding deal with CBS and the pilot’s producer, 20th Century Fox TV.

It’s unusual for networks and studios to sign actors on their pilots in talent deals, but “Giants” is not your ordinary pilot.

In the summer, writer-director Jason Winer — hot off the well-regarded 2006 Fox/20th TV comedy pilot “The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and His Little Friend,” which he co-wrote and starred in — pitched to 20th TV a comedy set behind the scenes of a radio syndication network. The studio liked the pitch and bought it for $150,000. But instead of writing a script, Winer called up some of his friends from the improv circuit — Black, Missi Pyle, Joel McHale, Jackie Tohn and Danny Pudi — and used the money to shoot a full-length single-camera partially scripted pilot with all actors working for nominal fees.

Winer also reached out through his agents at ICM to comedian Phil Hendrie, a popular Los Angeles radio personality, whom he had admired for years.

“I’d always been a huge talk radio junkie,” Winer said. “Despite the fact that we have huge proliferation of new-media platforms, radio is bigger than ever, but the landscape has changed, with the stations now owned by big corporations.”

Winer said he felt improv was perfect for a show set in the world of radio.

“I thought that gave us the perfect chance to make radio feel more real onscreen than previously done because radio is an improv medium,” he said.

The fictional syndication network in the center of the show produces three shows, a “Loveline”-style radio show, hosted by two sisters, played by Pyle and Tohn; a right-wing talk show hosted by Hendrie’s character; and a sports show hosted by Winer and Black’s characters.

While it was shot on a shoestring budget, “Giants,” executive produced by Winer and Guy Walks Into a Bar’s Matthew Weinberg, Todd Komarnicki and Jon Berg, was made to look and feel like a real pilot.

“My goal was to change the process and to prove that you can do something of quality outside of the system,” Winer said.

20th TV’s comedy executives loved the footage and shopped it to the networks as a not-for-broadcast presentation. With several broadcast nets interested — including ABC — CBS picked the project up for consideration with its other pilots, developed through the regular channels.

Because of the way “Giants” came to be, CBS and 20th TV had no deals in place with the actors like they would normally have. They have since signed up Winer and Hendrie.

Pyle is on Fox’s midseason series “The Wedding Bells,” and McHale is on NBC’s “The IT Crowd” comedy pilot, and it is not clear if they will become available for “Giants.”

Since there reportedly was a strong interest in Black from ABC, CBS and 20th TV stepped up to ink a talent holding deal with the actor, locking him for “Giants” if it goes to series or for another project if “Giants” doesn’t make the cut.

Black is starring on another series, Comedy Central’s “Halfway Home,” but because the show is on basic cable, it is understood that he would be able to do it alongside “Giants” as long as “Giants’ ” shooting schedule doesn’t interfere with “Home’s” schedule.

Black, who recently co-starred in “For Your Consideration” and recurred on Fox’s “Free Ride,” is repped by UTA, manager Pam Thomas and attorney George Davis.

Here is the link to the actual article.

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The backstage pass has just paid off big time. Phil Hendrie has added hundreds of mp3s and show descriptions to his subscription site.

Here is what was added to the site.

Mp3’s:
154 shows, 461 hours (oct ‘99 - may ‘00)

streaming:
41 shows, 119 hours (oct ‘99 + may ‘00)

plus complete hour by hour show descriptions for oct ‘99 - may ‘00.

Here is a video clip of Phil Hendrie in the Three Strikes pilot. Three Strikes is a Comedy pilot produced by Jon Stewart for Comedy Central.

Here is a video clip of Phil Hendrie’s 2004 Dumbass of the Year Awards.