The comedian who says Saturday Night Live plagiarized his game show sketch from the Canadian show This Hour is 22 Minutes during last weekend’s episode is considering legal action.
Saturday Night Live has been accused of plagiarism after a sketch from this week’s episode was discovered to be more than a little similar to a 5-month-old sketch from the Canadian series, This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Obviously, I have razzed AD: SECOND HELPINGS OF BIBLE quite a bit. But if there’s one thing that’s worth highlighting about show, it’s the diverse cast. Hollywood’s still churning out absurd whitewashed spectacles like Exodus: Gods and Men, and yet AD, a network television miniseries, managed to assemble a more…
Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, stuffed to the gills with ham and pastel candy, I sat down to watch the sequel to the hugely popular 2013 miniseries The Bible. No, not The Road to Salt Lake City. I'm talking, of course, about AD: The Bible Continues.
NBC has chosen The Wiz as it's next live musical EXTRAVAGANZA. You know that feeling when you're excited but also completely terrified? Yeah that.
As we do every year, we recently submitted a FOIA request to the FCC for all the complaints it received from viewers upset by something aired at the Super Bowl. There were 34 of them, ranging from disgust toward the Katy Perry/Missy Elliott halftime show, offense at commercials that featured sex or profanity, and…
And so ends the televised saga of a brave woman who wasn't afraid to stand up and say to the world, Hey fuck this quarantine—mama's getting takeout.
A new, lengthy piece by Gabriel Sherman in this week's New York magazine about the current struggles at NBC news reminds us of one thing: Matt Lauer might be very good at playing himself on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, but he is still a jerk in all the ways many network personalities are.
Somebody light up the sequin-covered Dolly siren: Vulture reports Ms. Parton has just signed a deal with NBC to work on not one but two family-friendly movies based on her "stories, songs, and inspiring life." Details are scarce but I don't need anything more than this to say gimme a date and I'm there.
During a recent Television Critics Association panel, a reporter asked NBC executives why it took so long for them to ax Bill Cosby's in-the-works sitcom when so many women had come forward with sexual assault allegations against him. The answer, coming from entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt, was that, while…
After two and a half years of pretending like they still like each other, Ann Curry and NBC are finally breaking up.
The actual ceremony of the 2015 Golden Globe awards was pretty tame, which we can chock up to no one being anywhere near drunk enough to be misbehave. (For shame!) Luckily, thanks to a combination of idiotic interviewing skills and a desire to milk celebrity culture for all it is worth, the red carpet was full of…
Are you ready to kick off 2015 award season? Yes? No? DOESN'T MATTER because the Globes wait for no one! So pour yourself a salad bowl of gin, fall back into your couch cushions and let your venerable hosts Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Jezebel.com comfort you through this terrible celebrity fever dream. It's time for…
The trailer for the seventh and final season of Parks and Recreation has finally arrived and "everything's changed" in Pawnee. Sort of.
So you were unable to watch Peter Pan Live! but still want to talk about it as if you did. Well, worry not, you goddamn phony, because I've got you covered. Here are five important and highly mockable Peter Pan moments for you to bring up at your next social gathering.
Dim the lights! Cue the orchestra! Pour yourself the biggest glass (or fish tank) of wine possible because it's time for our Peter Pan Live! live thread!
Wednesday evening in New York, as of people protested a block away, NBC broadcast live from Rockefeller Plaza for its annual Christmas special as if all was right in the world.
Peter Pan Live!, NBC's second live musical theater event, premieres Thursday and the show's actors are already defending it against your future hatred. The only excuse for disliking their production, according to Allison Williams and co., will be the viewer's own cynical and hardened heart.
Trouble is brewing yet again at the Today show because the morning talk show scene is basically a high school cafeteria. Rumors have emerged about tension between cohosts Natalie Morales and Tamron Hall—which has apparently gotten so bad that Morales is considering leaving the show.
