Currently airing its first season on Adult Swim is the police procedural parody NTSF:SD:SUV:: from the comedic mind of Paul Scheer (The League). The series pokes fun at cop shows the same way Children’s Hospital spoofs medical dramas, and the two series play as hilarious companion pieces together airing each week back-to-back on Adult Swim. NTSF:SD:SUV:: takes its inspiration from shows like 24, CSI: Miami, NCIS, and Law & Order: SVU, and stars Scheer as Trent Hauser, an ass-kicking super-agent modeled after 24’s Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland).

In addition to Scheer, who created and penned most of the series, NTSF:SD:SUV:: features an incredible cast of actors including Rebecca Romijn (X-Men), Rob Riggle (The Other Guys), Martin Starr (Party Down), June Diane Raphael (Going The Distance), and veteran actress Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Mrs. Columbo). The show has also had some impressive guest stars this season including J.K. Simmons (The Closer, Spider-Man), John Cho (Star Trek), Ed Helms (The Hangover), Adam Scott (Parks & Recreation), Tony Hale (Arrested Development), Mark Hamill (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), Gabrielle Union (Life), Wilmer Valderrama (Larry Crowne), and the great Jeff Goldblum (Independence Day, Jurassic Park).

Opening in theaters on July 1^st is back-to-back Oscar winner Tom Hanks’ (Philadelphia, Forest Gump) second crack at directing, after ‘1996s That Thing You Do, with the new comedy Larry Crowne. The film is a reunion for the actor/writer/director in many ways as it reunites him for a second time with his Charlie Wilson’s War co-star Julia Roberts, as well as writer Nia Vardalos who co-wrote the script with Hanks after first working with him on her hit film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which he produced. The film also includes a very eclectic cast of actors including Cedric the Entertainer (Be Cool), Tarahi P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Undercovers), Wilmer Valderrama (That ‘70s Show), Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), Rita Wilson (Volunteers), and Star Trek living legend George Takei (the original Sulu).

In the film, Hanks plays the title character of Larry Crowne, a sweet, divorced, hard working retire Navy veteran who ends up loosing his beloved job at a big-box store because he did not attend college. Never discouraged, Larry takes the advice of his kind but eccentric neighbors (Cedric and the Entertainer, and Henson) and heads back to college enrolling into a local community college. Needing a cheaper mode of transportation, Larry trades in his gas-guzzling mini-van for an economic motor scooter. Upon arrival at school, Larry quickly makes friends with Talia (Mbath-Raw), a beautiful but eccentric young college coed who takes Larry under her wing and invites him to be part of her scooter gang, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend (Valderrama). Eventually Larry falls for one of his teachers, Mercedes, played by Roberts. Mercedes is fed up with her life, her job, and especially her loser of a husband (Cranston). The transformation that Talia puts Larry through to make him “cooler” begins to work as Mercedes begins to return Larry’s affections for her. In the end, Larry learns to overcome his fear of the unknown and embarks on the journey of life finding both friendship and love along the way.

Synopsis: Until he was downsized, affable, amiable Larry Crowne (Hanks) was a superstar team leader at the big-box company where he's worked since his time in the Navy. Underwater on his mortgage and unclear on what to do with his suddenly free days, Larry heads to his local college to start over. There he becomes part of a colorful community of outcasts, also-rans and the overlooked all trying to find a better future for themselves...often moving around town in a herd of scooters. In his public-speaking class, Larry develops an unexpected crush on his teacher Mercedes Tainot (Roberts), who has lost as much passion for teaching as she has for her husband. The simple guy who has every reason to think his life has stalled will come to learn an unexpected lesson: when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might discover your reason to live.

Though he did step behind the camera for episodes of the HBO miniseries 'Band of Brothers' and 'From the Earth to the Moon', Tom Hanks has not directed a feature since 1996's That Thing You Do!  That film, chronicling the meteoric rise and fall of a 1960's one-hit wonder, is effortlessly fun and endearing.  From the looks of this first trailer, Hanks' second feature as director, this summer's Larry Crowne, will be in the same vein.  Check out the trailer right here to see Tom Hanks as a man who, after being unceremoniously fired from his longtime job, enrolls in community college and promptly falls for a professor, played by Julia Roberts. 

Synopsis: James (Ryan O’Nan) returns from Iraq to face a new battle, reintegrating into his small-town life in Texas. His wife (America Ferrera), his mother (Melissa Leo), and his friend (Jason Ritter) provide support, but they can’t fully understand the pain and suffering he feels since his tour of duty ended. Lonely, James reconnects with an army buddy (Wilmer Valderrama), who provides him with compassion and camaraderie during his battle to process his experiences in Iraq. But their reunion also exposes the different ways that war affects people, at least on the surface.This moving, taut story of redemption and reconstruction extends beyond a post-traumatic-stress-disorder narrative. O’Nan is heartbreaking as he explores the depths of his internal struggle; Ferrera fearlessly tackles her role of a young wife in turmoil. The Dry Land is about one man’s fight within his own terrain—his country, home, and mind—and his journey to rebuild what he’s lost.