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(Adds Reuters source, statement from Comcast, analyst comment) Nov 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Comcast Corp, the biggest U.S. cable TV provider, is hindering competition in cable advertising sales, a source told Reuters. The department’s Antitrust Division has sent documents known as civil investigative demands to…
“Late Night” host Seth Meyers was on fire Tuesday night when he lit up Donald Trump for spending the weekend lying to justify his racism and Islamophobia. Trump swears that he saw Muslims in New Jersey celebrating on 9/11, a claim that Meyers says has been universally debunked. “But even when he was confronted about…
Hollywood recycles plots and story lines all the time. The same actors and actresses and directors are put in movies over and over. And the same sets are used to film completely different movies. It’s an incestuous industry. Sometimes when you’re watching a movie and you can’t quite put your finger down on why a…
52 years ago today, Doctor Who aired for the very first time—and two years ago, it took over the world as it broadcast “The Day of the Doctor,” the show’s 50th anniversary special. But the celebration was, according to Steven Moffat, nearly a total disaster: and somehow almost didn’t star The Doctor at all. It…
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Heroes and villains join forces to become DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, beginning January 21 on The CW! SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/TheCWSubscribe About DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter must assemble a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat to the planet…and to time itself. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is coming…
We got the briefest of glimpses for Legends of Tomorrow earlier this year, when Oliver and Barry teamed up to recruit a team of time-travelling superheroes and villains. But now we’ve got our first offical look at the series, and it’s looking amazing. http://io9.com/arrow-and-flas… There’s a mix of old and new footage in…
The week before Thanksgiving saw some of the most overtly xenophobic, militaristic and fact-free media proclamations since the weeks in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Glen Greenwald appeared on CNN over the weekend to call out the cable news network for its role leading the beat of war drums. “Reliable…
Photo Claire Danes in Sunday’s episode of “Homeland.” Showtime chose to broadcast it despite the terrorist strike in Paris. Credit Stephan Rabold/Showtime Must the show go on? After Friday’s terrorist massacre in Paris, as often happens after violent tragedies, a few shows didn’t. CBS announced that it would replace scheduled Monday episodes of “Supergirl” (whose…
Like a kid taking his basketball home because you weren’t going to let him play anyway, Kurt Sutter has cancelled his medieval mess of a show, The Bastard Executioner, due to low viewership. Rather than release a barrage of tweets to that effect, Sutter made the announcement by taking out an ad in The Hollywood…