Conan O’Brien returned to TheTonight Showlast night, reflecting with host Jimmy Fallon about his time on NBC’s late-night shows. The comedian hosted Late Night for 16 seasons from 1993 to 2009, before briefly helming The Tonight Show from 2009 to 2010, when he was fired. “It’s weird to come back,” …
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Drake Bell reflected on the response to Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV during an Emmys event in Los Angeles yesterday, saying that he feels like he’s “in the fire right now.” “Having to tell this sensitive of a story, something I held inside for so many …
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When The Last of Us debuted early in 2023, I began my rave review by saying, “Among the many compliments I can give HBO’s The Last of Us is that it eventually made me forget that it’s based on a video game.” Some gamers took this as both a backhanded …
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In the opening seconds of HBO‘s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s bestselling novel The Sympathizer, the pay cable giant’s familiar logo is transformed so that, instead of evoking a television set turning on, it becomes part of a reel of 8mm film. The miniseries, about a North Vietnamese double agent …
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John Cena offered the tiniest glimmer of insight into the long-running feud between Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson that shook the Fast and Furious franchise. During an interview on the Armchair Expert podcast, host Dax Shepard asked Cena about joining the long-running franchise on its ninth installment and …
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More than 800 Black women — including Lashana Lynch and Sheila Atim — and non-binary actors signed an open letter in support of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who has been the target of online racial abuse following the announcement of her casting as Juliet in a London West End production of Romeo …
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Ryan Gosling doesn’t need anything but his cowboy hat and the long, open road in the promotional clip for his upcoming Saturday Night Live gig. The actor will host this weekend’s episode with musical guest Chris Stapleton — though Gosling, a huge Stapleton fan, was admittedly a little nervous to …
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After the moon drifted across the surface of the sun on Monday, its shadow crossing the United States, Mexico and Canada, Jon Stewart took to late night television to point out how certain members of the media and politicians had used the solar eclipse to pontificate on immigration and the …
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When MTV put The Challenge on their airwaves back in 1998, the idea was to assemble a group of former Real World and Road Rules cast members and pit them against each other for a cash prize. Nobody could have predicted the show would be going strong over a quarter …
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Larry David marked the last day of shooting on Curb Your Enthusiasm in the most Larry David way possible — by awkwardly not responding as his coworkers lavished him with praise and quietly slinking away amidst an outpouring of emotion. Following Sunday night’s series finale, Max shared a behind-the-scenes video …
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