Aaron Sorkin knows a lot of people hate-watch his show The Newsroom, but he wants to change hearts and minds for Season Two. Sort of.
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the legendary designer duo whose billion-dollar fashion empire has been embroiled in a $1.3-billion tax evasion case, were sentenced to almost two years in prison today — but they probably won't serve any jail time in what would no doubt be one of the stranger times behind bars in celebrity history.
Last night Jimmy Kimmel released a pretty hilarious viral video on his Game Night special. It makes no sense and that's kind of the point. But it is funny. The type of funny that have some saying Kimmel deserves to steal away Jon Stewart's Emmy this year.
Last night John Oliver, pointing out that he was an immigrant himself, took on the Senate's attempt to pass an immigration reform bill. But he knows that the bill, with its sad looking Schoolhouse Rock face, will have a pretty hard time becoming a law.
After a couple very early teasers reintroduced us to our beloved idiotic newsmen and didn't do much of anything else, now feast your eyes on the first full trailer for Anchorman: The Legend Continues — with, you know, footage from the actual movie, all full of Ron Burgundy and his gang as fish out of water in their new decade: the 80s.
The Today show plaza—long the place of concerts, hosts doing silly things, awkward chats—may be getting some sort of makeover. In his New York Times report about the show replacing its longtime director, Brian Stelter quotes an unnamed executive as saying "We’re rethinking the plaza experience."
Don't expect Star Wars: Episode VII to have the Lucas touch. According to a new interview, the original Star Wars auteur isn't even talking to the young Hollywood Padawan about his re-branding of the empire. Which is kind of sad, but maybe a good idea.
Johnny Depp knows that the racial politics of the Lone Ranger character Tonto are dicey, in general, especially when played by a white person like him, in particular. So to get out in front of such concerns, he's told Brian Hiatt in his Rolling Stone cover story that in director Gore Verbinski's reboot of the 1950s TV staple, Tonto is "no joke." Hence the makeup.
Though Netflix may have emerged as the frontrunner when it comes to original streaming content, what with the successes of House of Cards and Arrested Development, don't expect Amazon to be following in its footsteps entirely. You won't be able to binge watch their new series Alpha House.
On last night's Daily Show, John Oliver nearly fell into temptation. You see, Palin returned to Fox, and he almost didn't know where to start, but then he realized something: "We can respond to her obvious trolling with a series of insulting jokes," he said, "or we can just f--king ignore her."
He, of all people, may actually be the person to figure this thing out. Franco is asking for $500,000 on Indiegogo to help fund three films based on his collection of short stories, Palo Alto. And while that may make you groan — we certainly did — he's offsetting some of the displeasure of, you know, giving a rich celebrity more money for a passion project by telling donors that all the profits from the sale of the films will go to charity. It's hard to hate on him for that.
Photos of billionaire art collector Charles Saatchi with his hand around the throat of his wife, the celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, have prompted tabloid fodder, police involvement, and comment from politicians in England, as what appears to be a horrifying case of domestic abuse went very very public.
Now that we know the mystery of Bob Benson, and that Megan Draper will officially not die, how is Mad Men going to finish off its penultimate season? Well, there's still the big problem with Don. Oh, and Peggy might strike out on her own.
First we had that iconic shot from The Great Gatsby with Leo DiCaprio revealing his face. Now, in the fantastic first look at Martin Scorsese's eagerly anticipated tale of financial industry ridiculous and corruption, Leo's toasting us on a yacht. And there is so much more than that.
As we let you know earlier, Kanye West's highly anticipated Yeezus, has been released to the Internet.
With the Mad Men season winding down we had been wondering about the fate of the show's characters, especially with people pointing out gruesome connections between the closet of Megan Draper and Manson murder victim Sharon Tate. But feel free to cross death off your list of conspiracy theories, according to show creator Matthew Weiner.
With Amy Adams' incarnation of Lois Lane in Man of Steel we finally get an attempt to characterize our heroine as a modern shit-talking, hard-drinking, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. The early glimpses of Lois are not perfect, but they show us why more-than-ever we need a female superhero.
Despite Kanye's best attempts to keep his album Yeezus mostly under wraps, the album is now bouncing around the Internet's file servers.
The thing about HBO's The Newsroom is that it centers on news events of the recent past, rewriting history so Will McAvoy and his ACN primetime team emerge heroes. But late Thursday night, star Emily Mortimer revealed that Aaron Sorkin can not only rewrite the past — he can, apparently, predict the future.
After& Man of Steel turned out to be such a disappointment, America could use a good old-fashioned summer movie that is actually good. And, well, here's something to get even more excited about: Neill Blomkamp's Elysium looks better than ever in its new trailer.
For the first night since starting his tenure as temporary Daily Show anchor, John Oliver moved away from the topic of the NSA scandal to address gay rights across the world. There was old news.
We expect some big revelations from Shane Salerno's Salinger documentary. A new trailer for the film doesn't quite tell us what those are, but with a focus on topics like the mystery of why Salinger stopped publishing, his time in World War II, and his private relationships, it does portend big things.
Her characters in this week's This Is the End and The Bling Ring are not exactly what we've come to expect from the Harry Potter star. But Emma Watson is impossible to pin down — now 23, she's growing up by going back to her fantasy roots, with a new project billed as a female Game of Thrones.
God save the Queen's portrait. A man was arrested in England today for defacing a recent portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, which was on display in Westminster Abbey, in what is apparently a Father's Day-related attempt to ask for her help.
Here's another reason to be mad at Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane's show Family Guy decided to campaign for the Emmys by spoofing Girls and making light of one of that show's most controversial scenes in order to make a point about Family Guy's outsider status.
And on his third day as temporary anchor, John Oliver was unequivocally funny.
Neil LaBute is not known as a particularly nice playwright — his vitriol is like a reflex. So when a critic wrote a callous review of his latest Reasons to Be Happy, LaBute jumped straight into the online comments section to chastise him.
At the end of Jenna Sauers' Village Voice cover story on Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Questlove once again basically confirms that The Roots will be following Jimmy Fallon to The Tonight Show in early 2014, by explaining that his next task is writing a theme song for the show.
Getting cast as the young Hillary Clinton in the pre-Election Day 2016 biopic Rodham should be the role of a lifetime for Hollywood's young A-listers, but portraying any version of a likely presidential candidate might just be too daunting a task.
You don't have to finish Anna Karenina to make your summer reading worthwhile.
The first look at the upcoming movie Diana has everything you might expect from a Diana biopic. There will be beautiful gowns. There will be tabloids. There will be humanitarianism. And Watts's look is pretty spot-on, as long as you ignore the uncanny resemblance to the Newsweek editor.
Did Oliver ruin a potentially great bit — some good new-fashioned Siri-meets-NSA American humor — by making yet another British joke? Because his second night substituting as host for Jon Stewart had a lot of the same "I'm British" schtick as the first one.
If the latest Star Wars: Episode VII rumor is true, J.J. Abrams might capitalize on the Y.A. movie moment with a story that focuses on two hot young things.
In case the first one wasn't long enough for you, the second installment of Peter Jackson's unnecessarily stretched-out Hobbit trilogy is due out in December, and the trailer for The Desolation of Smaug is out today.
Designer Roberto Cavalli's Facebook page posted a sketch of a dress for Beyoncé's tour featuring a hyperreal but totally unrealistic illustration of the singer, that morphs her into a stick-thin, seemingly boneless Barbie. It's, well, creepy.
Well, the embargo broke on Man of Steel reviews late last night, and the response to Zack Snyder's hotly anticipated reboot of the Superman franchise is decidedly... mixed. This version is heavy on the action and heavy on the seriousness, which some critics say drags it down. Other have declared it a triumph. But like it or not, there will be a sequel.
John Oliver officially started his summer gig subbing in as host for Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night, and right up front, on Night No. 1, he wanted everybody involved to admit that it was "weird." And then he admitted that he could do without the huge frickin' NSA news.
The Primetime Emmy Awards (hosted by Neil Patrick Harris) aren't until September, and there's more than a month to go until nominations are announced. But the voting begins tonight.
Tonight is the first night of Jon Stewart's movie-making hiatus, which means it will be John Oliver's first shot at The Daily Show's anchor desk. And he's lucked out: He couldn't have picked a better news cycle for his brand of humor that is at its best when calling out American hypocrisy in his made-for-BBC accent.
Monsters University has us worried. Late Sunday evening reviews for the Pixar sequel, which comes out on June 21, began trickling out and they range from mixed to bad. The world may well survive a not-so-great follow-up to Monsters Inc. But we don't think our sense of nostalgia could bear similar treatment of the impending Finding Nemo sequel.
If you're looking forward to spending the summer of 2013 re-living major recent events of 2012, here's the new trailer that aired before last night's Game of Thrones finale, with a glimpse of the news on The Newsroom in season two.
The Tonys opened with a Shia LaBeouf joke, a Mike Tyson cameo, and a magic trick, in a big-enough-for-Radio City opening number led by host Neil Patrick Harris.
It's Tony time on Sunday, meaning the theater community will gather to honor a bunch of shows that most of America probably didn't see. Here's who we think is going to win.
Summer's here, which means its time for a new Woody Allen movie, and we now have the first trailer Blue Jasmine, which looks like a return to form of sorts for the director, or at least a return to America — and a dark turn to his tale.
If you happen to have a soft spot for musical theater—or if you haven't gotten to New York this year—one of the best things about the Tonys (which are on Sunday!) is the chance to see live performances, albeit on CBS, from the nominated shows. Here are some songs you really should get to know.
In the wee hours of Friday morning, ESPN either parodied the genre or sounded its death knell as Tom Haberstroh published an "oral history" of Tony Parker's game-winning shot in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, which happened to go in mere hours before — and the story of which concerned exactly 0.1 seconds of basketball history.
So, you might not have known this, but last night (or rather early this morning) was the premiere of The Greatest Event In Television History on Adult Swim, a frame-by-frame recreation of the season four opening credits of the Robert Wagner show Hart to Hart, only starring Parks and Recreation's Amy Poehler and Adam Scott. It's complicated. Allow us to explain.
Jon Stewart just wanted to say goodbye to his viewers before he took off for the summer to make a movie. But his replacement, correspondent John Oliver, just had to get involved.
Jonah Lehrer is back to making everyone angry at him now that The New York Times's Julie Bosman has uncovered A Book About Love, the proposal for Lehrer's comeback effort in which, it appears, he will use the scandal that made him a journalistic pariah to make an argument about... love.
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