Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returned on Sunday night and the titular host dove right into the debate of whether or not to open schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Short answer is: we shouldn’t…but unfortunately Donald Trump and his administration are pushing the opening of schools beyond comprehension. Trump has been consistently at odds with medical
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Normally, we have a love-hate relationship with Nat Geo’s Sharkfest. On the one hand, who doesn’t love to watch every single shark-related show they can get their hands on? On the other hand… it’s summer and after watching Sharkfest, it becomes physically impossible to step foot in the ocean. However, this year most beaches are
There were many standout moments from Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace’s one-hour interview with President Donald Trump on Sunday, but one was especially unusual. It came after Wallace asked Trump about his 2020 rival, Joe Biden. “Is Joe Biden senile?” That launched Trump into one of his signature campaign themes, that Biden isn’t entirely
Emily Byrne is a survivor, so enduring a strip search and a nail in her hand on Absentia Season 3 Episode 9 wasn’t a revelation, and neither was her reaction when she heard that Dawkins was at the farmhouse with Flynn. It doesn’t take much incentive to get Emily to fight but threaten her son, and the
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health today confirmed 37 new deaths and 2,770 new cases of COVID-19. To date, the department has identified 153,041 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of LA County, and a total of 4,084 deaths. Of the 37 deaths, 25 people were over the age of 65, nine
KCET picked up eight wins tonight at the Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, including awards for local color, culture and sports programming. KMEX followed with five wins. KVEA’s wins included best news series and live coverage of an unscheduled news event. ABC7 took the honors for best evening newscast. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
Ash Armand, famous for appearing in the Showtime series, “Gigolos,” has been arrested for murder — cops in Vegas say he beat his girlfriend to death. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says Ash called 911 Thursday morning to report his girlfriend was unresponsive in their home, and when police arrived, they found the woman’s
This week a photographer captured an image in the White House briefing room that quickly got the attention of the press corps: Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s file folder, in which she had neatly arranged possible topics as she faced reporters from the lectern. Along with “golf,” “Barack Obama,” “BLM” and a number entries related to
EXCLUSIVE: The WGA has wrapped up successful negotiations on two fronts in the past few weeks, getting UTA to break ranks with the other Big Four agencies by signing the guild’s franchise agreement and hammering out a new three-year film and TV contract with management’s AMPTP. And WGA West president David A. Goodman says all credit
Netflix is usually known for keeping its viewership numbers shrouded in mystery, but in recent years its been sharing more and more data about its most popular series and the methods by which it arrives at those numbers. The streaming service still keeps most of his data close to the chest, of course, but even
Over the last couple of months, the Hollywood studios successfully negotiated new collective bargaining agreements with the major guilds. But hammering out industrywide safety protocols for film and TV production during the coronavirus pandemic is proving to be hard to reach a consensus on. It’s been five weeks since the Hollywood unions and guilds on
Emily Byrne is a superwoman. Or so Absentia Season 3 Episode 2 leads us to believe because who else could get stabbed in the abdomen, lose a significant amount of blood, go through surgery, and in less than 24 hours pull themself out of bed and head out on the latest mission. That’s something out of an
As the NBA and Major League Baseball approach their returns to action this month, the NFL is experiencing turbulence in the final days before training camps are scheduled to open. The league, which has been negotiating with its players’ union over COVID-19 protocols, issued a statement Friday afternoon affirming that it is still aiming for
Hello International Insider friends, and happy Friday. In the week in which Netflix said its coronavirus boom could be over, here are the seven things you need to know about the global film and TV business. If you want to subscribe to get this alert in a timely fashion, sign up here. 1. Scoop: Sky Steps
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Nick Cannon‘s seeking enlightenment following his anti-Semitic comments and subsequent apology … according to Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who says they’re getting to work right away. Rabbi Cooper tells us his first step was sending Cannon a report on Louis Farrakhan — whose teachings Nick has vocally supported — to show
In her latest interview about her bestselling book, Mary Trump told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday that she has heard her uncle, Donald Trump, use racial and anti-semitic slurs. After Maddow asked her whether she had heard Trump use the language, she responded, “Oh yeah, of course I did. And I don’t think that should
Dan Cohen, president of global distribution for ViacomCBS, said the company is apt to do more deals like its PVOD/streaming one for the next SpongeBob SquarePants movie and a broad pact with NBCUniversal’s Peacock. Speaking Thursday at an online conference hosted by the Digital Entertainment Group, Cohen said premium video on demand “is a really intriguing
Does anyone else need some Soma after watching the end of Brave New World? When Season 1 of Peacock’s new dystopian series came to a close, it kind of felt like the world had ended, but the story doesn’t necessarily have to stop there. The mounting tension in New London came to a head in the Season 1
Scener, a Seattle-based startup that enables social viewing, has teamed with Comic-Con to become the exclusive co-viewing partner for its upcoming online event. The company will host two tracks of library films and anime during Comic-Con@Home, which runs July 22 to 26, with a capacity of up to 1 million simultaneous viewers, featuring live community
WHAT in the HELL did the experts DO?! We’re 11 seasons into this Lifetime docuseries, so we aren’t new at this, but after the events of Married at First Sight Season 11 Episode 1 , the show has chosen it’s most potentially drama-inducing cast to date. It’s hard to believe anymore that there is a real
The Bold Type actress Aisha Dee took to Instagram to give her thoughtful, yet unfiltered take on the lack of diversity on the Freeform show. Even though Freeform is known for being inclusive with their programming, Dee called out blind spots that the show has failed to recognize when it came to hiring people of
This wasn’t the way Peacock planned on taking flight. The NBCUniversal streamer that had its big launch today thought that they would have a deep library of the likes of 30 Rock, Cheers, Downton Abbey and eventually exclusively The Office, plus a plethora of new programming and the Summer Olympics to propel the latest addition
Exclusive Grant Imahara complained of migraines in the days before doctors discovered his brain aneurysm, and emergency surgery, sadly, couldn’t save him … TMZ has learned. Sources close to the “MythBusters” host’s family tell us … he’d been experiencing painful headaches for a few days before Saturday night, when he was having dinner with his
UPDATE: In her interview with ABC News, Mary Trump defended one of the headline-grabbing claims in her new book, that her uncle Donald Trump hired a friend to take the SAT as way to improve his chances of getting into the University of Pennsylvania. In a portion of the interview shown on Good Morning America
In what would be the biggest get yet for the WGA in its yearlong standoff with the top agencies, the scribes’ union appears close tonight to an agreement with UTA. We hear that at a captains meeting Tuesday evening, WGA West president David Goodman revealed to members that the union were finalizing a deal with
“If someone had told me that my life would have been like this, early enough where I could have gotten out, I would have got out,” the late Gary Coleman says in an interview toward the end of HBO’s Showbiz Kids. The Diff’rent Strokes actor is just one of many former child stars who appear
The cause of Naya Rivera’s death is an accidental drowning, the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office has found. In the report released today, the Office confirmed the body found yesterday in Lake Piru near Los Angeles is that of the Glee actress. The identification was made by dental records. The report also indicates that there
Stars have turned to social media to pay tribute to Glee’s Naya Rivera, whose body was recovered Monday, five days after the actress was reported missing. During a press conference Monday, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said, “we are confident the body we found is that of” the actress. The department searched the area in
The border between Canada and the U.S. looks set to remain closed to all non-essential travel until at least August 21, Canadian network CTV is reporting. Talks have been ongoing between the two countries, with the current closure set to expire on July 21. Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump had a call yesterday to discuss
Hillary Clinton was the guest Monday on The Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah, and the former Secretary of State and presidential candidate talked about Donald Trump, Roger Stone, voter suppression and the one thing one everyone’s mind — what she’s been up to in isolation. After discussing the 100th anniversary of American women