On Wednesday’s Late Night, Seth Meyers traced a clear throughline from the way President Donald Trump and his administration ignored repeated warnings about a dangerous pandemic to their recent promotion of unproven drugs to treat the coronavirus. Meyers opened his recurring segment, “A Closer Look,” by delving into Trump’s repeated …
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer reiterated her appeal for more help fighting the coronavirus pandemic in her state and dismissed the political games she’s had to play with the Trump administration on The Daily Social Distancing Show Wednesday. Whitmer notably called into the show wearing a shirt that read “That Woman …
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War: What is it good for? A mediocre theme park, say it again! In this week’s Westworld (“The Winter Line”), we return to the WWII-themed Warworld — and both the robotic Maeve Millay and narrative specialist Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman) mock it for being, well, a little corny. It’s hard …
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Idris Elba revealed that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. He broke the news via Twitter on Monday. “This morning I got some test results back for coronavirus and it came back positive — and it sucks,” he said in the clip, his wife Sabrina Dhowre behind him. Elba …
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With Major League Baseball, like all major sports, delaying its 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic, PBS is allowing fans to share in America’s pastime by making Ken Burns’ 1994 documentary series Baseball available to stream for free. “This is a difficult time for all of us,” Burns said …
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My upcoming book, The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s (available March 24th), tells the entire saga of the groundbreaking workplace comedy, from its origin as an under-the-radar BBC show helmed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to the beloved NBC incarnation that ran for …
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A review of The Good Place series finale, “Whenever You’re Ready,” coming up just as soon as I find out Carrie Coon was never nominated for an Emmy for The Leftovers… We’re born. We live. We die. These are absolutes, for all of us. We have absolutely no control over …
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Forget the horror films of 2019 — was there anything scarier than that first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer, featuring a disturbingly toothy rendition of the video game hero? It created such an outcry that the film was bumped to February 2020; thankfully, you’ve got a lot of other choices re: …
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The acclaimed animated Star Wars series, The Clone Wars, unveiled a dramatic new trailer for its long-awaited final season, which is set to premiere February 21st on Disney+. The Clone Wars, which first debuted in 2008, is set in the years between Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode …
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Meek Mill stars as Blax, the leader of a group of Baltimore, Maryland dirt bike riders known as the Midnight Clique, in Charm City Kings. The Angel Manuel Soto-directed film will debut at Sundance Film Festival on January 27th before hitting theaters in April. In the film’s new trailer, main …
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