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Every morning when I wake up, I thank the deities I do not believe in that somehow the Ash Vs. Evil Dead TV series is actually a thing that’s happening, and that it looks so damn good despite it being more than 20 years since Army of Darkness premiered. This brief but excellent new trailer…
If your only source of information were Fox News, what would it teach you about women? If this supercut from the liberal-leaning watchdog group Media Matters for America is anything to go by, nothing good. In this six-minute video, Fox hosts and guests repeatedly belittle, insult, harass, and objectify women — including women Fox anchors…
On July 11, 2000, in one of the more unlikely moments in the history of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Orrin Hatch handed the microphone to Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, to hear his thoughts on art in the age of digital reproduction. Ulrich’s primary concern was a new online service called Napster, which had debuted…
AddThis Button Begin WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — The IRS is getting pressured to begin cracking down on televangelists following a John Oliver segment on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight.” Oliver blasted televangelists this past Sunday for what he called “seed faith,” where they tell donors they will reap the rewards by giving money to them. “They preach something…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EagQVJuM-K0 After last week’s incredible sendoff for Jon Stewart, Comedy Central is letting Trevor Noah charge ass-first into his hosting duties for next month’s return of The Daily Show. Here, Noah saunters onto his new set — Kanye’s Power pumping in the background — and takes a seat at the helm. But not before adjusting the seat’s height, in what mightbe…
Not long after loosing their last projects into the Netflix wilderness and burning them off in what was euphemistically referred to as an “event,” NBC has decided that it can’t live without 30 Rock creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock and Parks And Recreation co-creator Michael Schur. The network has given a straight-to-series order to…
For a lot of people, the Syfy network peaked back when it was still called the Sci-Fi network. That was about a decade ago, when the channel took up a failed, one-season ‘70s project and made it into the smart and elaborately plotted “Battlestar Galactica” we’re more likely to remember now. These days, in some…
Photo Zoe, Elmo and Abby on “Sesame Street.” New episodes will soon appear on HBO. Credit Richard Termine/Sesame Street The letters of the day on “Sesame Street” are H, B and O. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit group behind the children’s television program, has struck a deal with HBO, the premium cable network, that will bring…
Photo: Getty Images In the fallout since the first GOP debate, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has found himself caught between Donald Trump, who has the full backing of Fox’s misogynist audience, and Megyn Kelly, the star anchor whom Ailes has nurtured and sees as the key to reaching younger viewers. For a few days, Ailes didn’t know how to handle…
https://youtu.be/cJz3FXjZ3Sc via ▶ Arby’s to Jon Stewart: Thank You for Being a Friend – YouTube.