Spotify has announced they will start applying advisory labels to their content whenever the coronavirus pandemic is discussed. This comes as the streaming service continues to face public outcry over Covid-19 misinformation aired on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek released a public statement defending the platform’s need to balance the creative freedom of their content creators with user safety. […]
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Howard Hesseman, a prolific character actor who became a beloved TV mainstay through his roles on sitcoms “WKRP in Cincinnati” and “Head of the Class,” died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles of complications from colon surgery he had undergone last summer. He was 81 years old. Hesseman’s death was confirmed to Variety by his longtime […]
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Stephen Hayes, the conservative writer who quit Fox News in protest of its coverage during the Trump era, is joining NBC News as a contributor and political analyst. Hayes, who co-founded and serves as CEO of The Dispatch, will make his first on-air appearance this Sunday on Meet the Press. “I’ve known and worked with Steve Hayes on […]
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“Nanny” was the big winner at the Sunday 2022 Film Festival Awards, announced in a virtual awards ceremony Friday. This year’s Best of the Fest announcement caps off the second year in a row in which the festival was forced to go virtual amid the pandemic, along with Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” which […]
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Former Fox News mainstay Gretchen Carlson, who left the network under the cloud of sexual harassment lawsuit in 2016, accused her former TV home of spreading “fake news” on CNN Thursday. Carlson joined Fox in 2006, and was cohost of Fox & Friends for years before launching The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson in 2013. In 2016, she accused network co-founder and […]
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Jussie Smollett, who was convicted last month for lying to police about a racist, homophobic attack that authorities said he staged, will return to court for sentencing March 10, a judge said Thursday. Cook County Judge James Linn set the sentencing date in Chicago for the former Empire actor, who told the judge he was in New York, during […]
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NBC’s Celebrating Betty White: America’s Golden Girl will honor the life of the legendary actress with the help of President Joe Biden and other celebrity guests including Drew Barrymore, Cher, Anthony Mackie, and Tracy Morgan, among others. The special will air on Jan. 31 at 10 p.m. Viewers can also expect to see Valerie Bertinelli, Bryan Cranston, Ted Danson, Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy […]
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Meghan McCain pulled no punches in lambasting her father’s former running mate Sarah Palin as “stupid” and “feckless,” after Palin was spotted eating at a New York City restaurant two days after testing positive for Covid-19. Palin’s positive Covid-19 test became public knowledge as she is in New York City for a defamation suit she has filed against […]
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The Producers Guild of America announced its nominations for the motion picture and television categories for the upcoming 33rd PGA Awards, and it was a good day for the streamers (once again). Netflix ruled the film side with three films landing in the field of 10 nominees: “Don’t Look Up” from Adam McKay, “The Power of the […]
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YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative political commentator Dan Bongino after he was previously suspended for violating the platform’s COVID misinformation policy. Both of Bongino’s main channel and second channel for his show have been removed, and he will not be allowed to create new accounts. The host had on the video platform earlier this […]
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Emmy winner Claire Danes is set to star opposite Jesse Eisenberg and Lizzy Caplan in FX’s Fleishman is in Trouble, a limited series adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s bestselling debut novel of the same name, which will stream on Hulu Created by Brodesser-Akner, the story is centered on recently separated forty-something Toby Fleishman (Eisenberg) who dives into the brave new […]
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Spotify will remove Neil Young’s music from its platform, per his request, following his objections to Joe Rogan’s statements about the Covid-19 vaccine on his Spotify-hosted show. The music is expected to be removed later Wednesday. A rep for Spotify said in a statement to Variety: “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify […]
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Peter Robbins, who voiced Charlie Brown in the classic Peanuts specials of the 1960s, has died. He was 65. His family told Fox 5 San Diego on Tuesday that the actor died by suicide last week. Born in Los Angeles on Aug. 10, 1956, Robbins got his start as a child performer and, beginning at age 9, brought to […]
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Let’s get after it: Even as CNN puts much of its energy into launching a new streaming-video hub, it’s also trying to figure out how to replace Chris Cuomo in its pivotal 9 p.m. time slot. Some staffers at the WarnerMedia network believe CNN has been holding the equivalent of on-air tryouts in recent weeks, turning over the 9 […]
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As the media world knows by now, President Joe Biden called Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy “a stupid son of a bitch” on Monday in response to the reporter’s question about inflation. “Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?” Doocy asked as he was being ushered out of the East Room after a […]
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Cheryl Hines is weighing in after her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., invoked the Holocaust and Nazi Germany in a recent speech about vaccine mandates. During a Washington, D.C., anti-vax rally on Sunday, Kennedy suggested that the situation is worse today for those in the U.S. who oppose vaccine mandates than it was for Anne Frank, […]
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Dylan McDermott is becoming a full-time member of the Dick Wolf universe. The Emmy-nominated actor, who has been recurring on NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime, has been tapped as the lead of another Dick Wolf series, CBS’ FBI: Most Wanted. McDermott will succeed Julian McMahon, who is exiting FBI: Most Wanted after almost three seasons. McMahon’s last episode of Jess […]
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President Joe Biden called Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch.” Wrapping up a photo op in front of the media on Monday, several reporters shouted questions at Biden, including Doocy. Inflation has featured prominently in discussions about the U.S. economy ahead of November’s elections. Last month, it hit a 40-year high. Later, Doocy […]
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The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg slammed Real Time host Bill Maher over his comments about the coronavirus. “I don’t want to live in your paranoid world anymore. Your masked paranoid world, you know, you go out. It’s silly now, you know, you mask, you have to have a card. You have to have a booster. They scan your head,” he said on HBO’s Real Time. “Like you’re a cashier and I’m a bunch […]
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Music icon Bob Dylan has sold his back catalog of recorded music to Sony Music Entertainment, the imprint he’s been a part of for six decades. As part of the deal, SME also has rights to Dylan’s future releases. The deal includes all of Dylan’s work from 1962-2020. “Columbia Records has had a special relationship […]
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Albarn claimed Swift “doesn’t write her own songs” after the Los Angeles Times interviewer noted Swift was a talented songwriter. When the interviewer mentioned Swift also co-writes, Albarn responded, “That doesn’t count. I know what co-writing is. Co-writing is very different to writing. I’m not hating on anybody, I’m just saying there’s a big difference […]
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Louie Anderson, the big-hearted everyman who rose to fame as a stand-up comic, then channeled the spirit of his late mother for his Emmy-winning turn as Christine Baskets on the FX series Baskets, has died. He was 68. Anderson died Friday in a Las Vegas hospital of complications from cancer, his longtime publicist Glenn Schwartz told The Hollywood Reporter. […]
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Singer Meat Loaf, whose “Bat Out of Hell” album is among the best-selling and most enduring rock albums of the 1970s, died on Jan. 20 at the age of 74. A consummate performer, he also appeared as an actor in the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” as well as “Crazy Alabama,” “Fight Club” and […]
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Kathy Griffin says that when she asked for a pay raise ahead of CNN’s 2016 New Year’s Eve show, CNN president Jeff Zucker denied it and then fired her — before eventually rehiring her following a 20 percent cut in her pay. In a feature published by The New York Times, Griffin opened up about her attempt at pay negotiation, […]
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The New York Attorney General’s office has released roughly six hours of video of former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo testifying about the extent to which he advised his brother, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, while he faced numerous sexual harassment allegations last year. Cuomo sat down for a deposition on July 15, 2021, in which he spoke at length […]
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