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Paramount is exploring a sale of the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City. The complex on West 57th street, which spans an entire city block, serves as the headquarters for CBS News, and its studios produce shows like HBO’s Last Week Tonight, various syndicated TV shows, a number of CBS News and CBS Sports programs and other fare. […]

An organization representing the families of those who lost loved ones in the 9/11 terror attacks condemned the PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf League over their newly-announced partnership. The PGA and LIV Golf reached a stunning deal on Tuesday to drop their lawsuits and set up a new commercial venture between them. The agreement states […]

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, has died at age 83. Musician Paul Ricci, a family friend, confirmed that she died Monday. He did not provide additional details. Born in Salvador, Bahia and raised in Rio […]

The membership of SAG-AFTRA has voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike authorization, maximizing the guild’s leverage ahead of negotiations that begin on Wednesday. The guild announced Monday night that 97.91% of the voting members supported the authorization. Turnout was 47.69%. The vote comes as the Writers Guild of America strike enters its sixth week. Many SAG-AFTRA members […]

MSNBC’s Jen Psaki had a grand old time watching footage of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) frantically running up the Capitol steps to vote against a bill, only to learn voting had already closed. Last week, the House and Senate passed a bill that suspends the debt ceiling for two years and imposes stricter work requirements for welfare recipients. Boebert […]

Fox News’ Arthel Neville called out Congressman Pat Fallon (R-TX) for sidestepping her questions on the House Oversight committee’s investigation into President Joe Biden. Neville spoke with Fallon on Sunday as House Oversight Committee leaders prepare to review an internal law enforcement document pertaining to their investigation into Biden and his family. Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) subpoenaed the FBI for access to […]

Barry Newman, who was behind the wheel of a “super-charged” Dodge Challenger in Vanishing Point, a 1971 film featuring several breakneck police chases, and later starred as a defense attorney on the NBC series Petrocelli, has died. He was 92 and died May 11 in a New York hospital, with his death confirmed by social media posts from […]

In a change that shakes up the Sunday show landscape, Chuck Todd is exiting as the moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, with Kristen Welker succeeding him beginning in September. Todd will become chief political analyst for NBC News, working on long-form journalism and producing the Chuck Toddcast and Meet the Press Reports. Todd announced the news at the end of the program Sunday morning. […]

In another blow to indie filmmaking and more jobs lost, the Artists Equity production of Unstoppable has been halted against the backdrop of the writers strike, we hear. Logically, these stopped productions will return when the strike ends, at the latest. The news comes in the wake of picketers forcing Unstoppable to shut down on Wednesday, which was lensing at USC in Los […]

Sean Hannity was booed by the audience during his town hall with former President Donald Trump on Thursday after the Fox News host suggested Trump could tone down his insults in an effort to appeal to moderates. During the event, Hannity said, “People ask me, ‘Why does he have to fight so hard? Why doesn’t he pick his […]

Billy Joel has revealed that his Madison Square Garden residency is coming to a close next year after 10 years. “I’m kind of flabbergasted that it lasted as long as it did. My team tells me that we could continue to sell tickets, but ten years, 150 shows – all right already!” the Grammy-winning singer said in a […]

Former President Donald Trump was recorded in the summer of 2021 acknowledging “he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran,” CNN detailed Wednesday in a bombshell report. The tape has been obtained by federal prosecutors who are investigating Trump’s retention of classified documents. Since the August 2022 raid on his private residence […]

For one night only, the “Sex and the City” universe will be whole again. Variety has learned that Kim Cattrall will reprise her iconic role as Samantha Jones in the Season 2 finale of “And Just Like That,” Max’s revival of HBO’s “Sex and the City.” But she will only appear in one scene. According to sources, Cattrall shot […]

Forty-fifth president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tore into his former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and called her “milktoast” following McEnany’s appearance on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime, Tuesday. “Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’ McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews,” Trump wrote in a Tuesday post on Truth Social, misspelling ‘milquetoast’. “I am 34 points up on […]

After revealing at the Succession Season 4 premiere that she was, indeed, pregnant with her first child, Sarah Snook took the occasion of the show’s finale as an opportunity for a full-circle moment in which she announced the birth of that same child. Sharing a photo to Instagram of herself settled in to watch the finale with a little […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “With Open Eyes,” the series finale of HBO’s “Succession,” now streaming on Max. After four riveting, profane seasons and two best drama Emmys (so far!), “Succession” — the story of the Roy dynasty — came to an end on Sunday night. Creator Jesse Armstrong, who conceived the story of the […]

NBC drama series The Blacklist, now in its 10th and last season, is moving into its final weeks with some changes ahead. Beginning June 1, the show, which currently airs on Sundays at 10 pm, will move to Thursdays. Back-to-back episodes will air that night, June 1, at 8 pm and 9 pm, with subsequent episodes airing weekly […]

Beyoncé’s has added her thoughts on today’s death of Tina Turner, who passed at age 83. “My beloved queen. I love you endlessly,” read Beyoncé’s message, posted on her website. “I’m so grateful for your inspiration, and all the ways you have paved the way. You are strength and resilience. You are the epitome of power and […]

Mark Levin, who hosts Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News, tweeted a link to Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign fundraising page shortly after the Florida governor announced his candidacy on Wednesday. The post did not go over well with supporters of former President Donald Trump, who is also running for the Republican nomination. DeSantis officially announced in a glitch-ridden Twitter […]

Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis’s Twitter Space, in which the Florida governor was set to announce his run for president, suffered repeated technical failures on Wednesday. The Twitter Space eventually shut down after some 20 minutes of technical failures and was relaunched shortly thereafter. David Sacks, the tech investor who hosted the event, said at one point as the […]

The political partnership between Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene entered a new level of strangeness when the Georgia congresswoman reportedly dropped a huge chunk of dough on…the House Speaker’s used chapstick. Politico’s Olivia Beavers reported that House Republicans held a conference on Tuesday morning which consisted of a 15 minute fundraising auction for McCarthy’s chapstick. Greene won the auction, according to Beavers, with […]

Comcast has unveiled Now TV, a new streaming offering for $20 per month that will combine a live TV streaming service, free ad-supported streaming TV channels and a subscription video on-demand service. NOW TV will include more than 40 live channels, including A&E, AMC, Food Network, Great American Family, Hallmark Channel, The History Channel, IFC, […]