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The Tony Awards will move forward with an unscripted, televised broadcast on CBS, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Ariana DeBose is still expected to helm the ceremony in some capacity, according to sources. The Tony Awards Management Committee asked the WGA for a waiver last week, and received a denial. The committee appealed to the Writers Guild once again Monday for a way to […]

Daytime Emmy and Creative Arts & Lifestyle award ceremonies are the latest casualties of the WGA strike. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences just announced that the organization is postponing the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards, scheduled for June 16 on CBS, as well as the Creative Arts & Lifestyle ceremony, scheduled for June 17, pending a […]

A former aide to former Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani says he told her the ex-New York City mayor and then-president Donald Trump were offering to sell presidential pardons for $2 million apiece, according to court documents. The bombshell allegation was levied in a complaint filed against Mr Giuliani by Noelle Dunphy, a New York-based public relations professional who is […]

Andrew Weissman, who was part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government and obstructed justice, ripped the Durham report on Monday. Special Counsel John Durham released his findings into the federal probe that looked into possible ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government. The report says the scope of the investigation was […]

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo tore into President Joe Biden’s administration for refusing to tackle the border crisis on Monday and accused both major political parties of allowing it to continue for their own gain. “You heard all the politics about how there was going to be an invasion and now there’s literally almost no one here, and for you, […]

Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed without hesitation, equivocation, or evidence, that Joe Biden took bribes from foreign entities while he was vice president. For good measure, he also baselessly claimed the FBI “caught” Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign in the act of taking campaign contributions from other countries. Both acts Watters described would be violations of U.S. law. On Monday, Special […]

This year’s Tonys won’t be televised on June 11 after the Writers Guild of America denied a request for a strike waiver from the show’s producers. The Tonys management committee will meet on Monday to decide next steps. A source confirmed earlier today that the waiver request was filed with the WGA earlier this week. […]

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace gave credit to her colleague Rachel Maddow for bringing attention to a Trump event featuring two anti-Semites who have since been booted from the speaking roster. Eric Trump and his wife Lara Trump, were set to speak alongside Hitler-promoting anti-Semites Scott McKay and Charlie Ward at a “ReAwaken America” event hosted at Mar-a-Lago this weekend. Maddow spent a chunk of time on her May […]

NBC’s full scripted originals picture will not come into focus until after next week’s upfront presentations to Madison Avenue ad buyers. The network on Friday unveiled its fall schedule and announced that it has renewed George Lopez’s father-daughter rookie comedy Lopez vs. Lopez for a second season. But missing from the schedule was news on the network’s three […]

The threat of artificial intelligence taking over human roles has gone from non-starter to pressing concern in a lot of tech and tech-adjacent fields within the past few months, but Marissa Mayer is making it clear that, at least at her startup, humans will have a place for the foreseeable future. In an interview with The […]

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (R) tore into the pro-Trump audience at CNN’s town hall event with the former president and leading 2024 GOP presidential candidate on Wednesday night. Sununu is considering challenging Donald Trump for the nomination and he spoke with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki for a lengthy interview which will air on Sunday. Psaki, President Joe Biden’s former press secretary, previewed part of […]

Elon Musk officially announced Linda Yaccarino, formerly NBCUniversal’s top advertising sales exec, will take the helm as Twitter’s new CEO. “I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk tweeted Friday. “@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology. Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this […]

Linda Yaccarino, a hard-charging veteran of TV’s ad-sales wars, is in talks to become the next chief executive of Twitter, according to a person familiar with the matter. Yaccarino, who spent a good chunk of her career at WarnerMedia’s TV operations before joining NBCUniversal last decade, supervises the Comcast-owned company’s ad-sales efforts across the globe, with Peacock and NBC […]

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) lit into former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump on Thursday, while reacting to Trump’s CNN town hall the night before. Christie was on the Hugh Hewitt radio show and was asked about the town hall, which quickly became a lightning rod of controversy and was denounced by CNN’s own Oliver Darcy as a “spectacle of lies.” […]

The Writers Guild of America East took down the FBI today. Pickets from the striking scribes and supporting unions halted production on FBI: Most Wanted for a couple of hours Thursday. Close to finishing filming on its current fourth season, the Dick Wolf EP’d crime drama was the latest NYC series to be targeted by the guild’s Rapid Response […]

Fox & Friends‘ Steve Doocy took Rep. James Comer (R-KY) to task for not producing any facts to backup claims that nine members of the Biden family took payouts as part of an international influence peddling scheme. Doocy’s takedown came a day after Republicans with the House Oversight Committee held a press conference to discuss Biden bank records, but […]

CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump beat the cable news competition, as expected, with an average of 3.12 million viewers, according to early Nielsen numbers. Fox News averaged 1.41 million viewers in the 8 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. ET time frame, while MSNBC posted 1.37 million. In the 25-54 demo, CNN averaged 703,028, while MSNBC posted 154,991 and Fox News averaged 125,266. […]

Fox News was hit on Wednesday with another defamation lawsuit, this one from a woman who said the network promoted lies about her that generated serious threats to her safety and harmed her career prospects. The suit was filed on behalf of Nina Jankowicz, the former executive director of a short-lived Department of Homeland Security […]

CNN hosted former President Donald Trump for the first time in years on Wednesday night for a town hall ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The network had already received flak for the move, which came after Trump tried to remain in power after losing the 2020 election. He infamously claimed the election was rigged against him […]

Netflix’s first upfront presentation to advertisers will be a virtual event. The streamer sent notes to attendees this evening to inform them of the last-minute shift. It is the first 2023 upfront event to pivot to a remote format. Netflix in January announced its plan to crash the broadcast upfront week with an in-person presentation […]

Long rumored but never confirmed, a new app that combines Disney+ and Hulu content is finally on the horizon. Disney CEO Bob Iger made the announcement during the company’s second-quarter earnings call and suggested the new app would be on the market by the end of 2023. “I’m pleased to announce that we will soon […]

Kaitlan Collins spent Wednesday night going toe to toe on live TV with a former U.S. President who refused to acknowledge her fact-checking of his many conspiracy theories and untruths, then berated her and talked over her. An attending crowd hooted and cheered. And that just may be a warm up. Collins, the CNN up-and-comer who has gone […]

Donald Trump opened his town hall on CNN Wednesday night by reiterating his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged.” The former president sat down Wednesday evening for a conversation moderated by Kaitlan Collins broadcast live from New Hampshire, fielding questions from Republicans and undeclared voters in the state. At the start of the evening, Collins and Trump […]

In a leadership shakeup, Sister Global CEO Stacey Snider is stepping down from her role at the media company. It’s a surprise move given Snider’s high profile, her extensive relationships throughout the entertainment industry and the fact that she was prolific in getting projects off the ground during her nearly four years (many of them overlapping with the pandemic). […]