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Image via Netflix Almost half of couples who watch Netflix together end up doing something completely normal: skipping ahead on shows behind their partner’s back. According to the latest survey results, the occurrence of so-called Netflix cheating (an actual first-world problem that’s unforgivable to some), has increased tremendously since 2013, when the first study was…
Britney Ever After, Lifetime’s Britney Spears biopic that’s predestined to be awful, includes a dramatic reenactment of her breakup with Justin Timberlake in 2002. The melodramatic tone and acting in this scene perfectly satisfy Lifetime’s requirements. In the clip below, Britney enters a room backstage and sees Justin (Nathan Keyes) looking at a piece of…
The trailer for Netflix’s upcoming series Dear White People has struck a chord with white supremacists. Many are now canceling their service and using the Twitter hashtag #NoNetflix to publicize it. On Wednesday, Netflix dropped the first look at the show based on the 2014 movie of the same name. It didn’t take long for…
Melissa McCarthy reprised her guest role as Sean ‘Spicey’ Spicer in Saturday Night Live’s cold open. McCarthy didn’t do much to mix up the bag of tricks she’d drawn from in her first rendition last weekend (literally, the toys are back), continuing to play the White House press secretary as solidly, predictably unstable. You know…
A Tribe Called Quest and Busta Rhymes perform during the 59th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 12. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS) Much of the Grammys skirted around the current politically fraught climate, despite the entertainment world having no shortage of liberal performers. Host James Corden made a tepid joke at the…
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” plans on turning its “Weekend Update” into a weekly series, according to a new report. The spinoff would likely air for 30 minutes in prime time late Thursdays, Politico said Tuesday. Variety reported Sunday that total “SNL” viewership is up 22 percent over a comparable period during the 2015–2016 season.The sketch…
Image: Netflix We now know what the state of Stranger Things will be when it comes back later this year. We know how long the time jump between seasons will be, what new characters are getting added, and the boys’ Halloween costumes. We know a lot, except for what’s going on with Eleven. Entertainment Weekly…
So, President Donald Trump is supposedly upset that a woman played his White House press secretary on “Saturday Night Live” last weekend. Politico is reporting that seeing Sean Spicer depicted by a thunderous Melissa McCarthy bothered the president so much, particularly because he “doesn’t like his people to look weak.” Spicer himself said that he thought…
You Can be ‘Quite a Ridiculous Figure’: Michael Wolff Rips Stelter for Lecturing on ‘Virtues of the Media’ Please enable Javascript to watch. During an at times contentious exchange today on CNN’s Reliable Sources, The Hollywood Reporter columnist Michael Wolff criticized host Brian Stelter over the style and approach Stelter has taken of late on…
A decade ago, the world depicted in Syfy’s drama “The Expanse” may have seemed light-years away, if not the stuff of pure fiction. The first novel in the series the show is based on, “Leviathan Wakes,” was written in 2011, the same year that SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced his intent to send humans to…