Dr. Anthony Fauci — director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — spoke with Trevor Noah about the various misconceptions surrounding the coronavirus and the path forward on The Daily Home Distancing Show Thursday. The interview started with Fauci describing how COVID-19 is different from every other …
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Several TV shows have begun donating medical supplies, cleaning goods and food pallets to local hospitals amid the coronavirus pandemic. Fox’s The Resident and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, its spinoff Station 19, and The Good Doctor are among the medical series that are contributing goods to hospitals. As CNN reports, The …
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When Philip Roth published The Plot Against America in 2004 — an alternate history where pilot Charles Lindbergh is elected president in 1940 on an antiwar and barely veiled anti-Semitic platform — George W. Bush was nearing re-election and NBC was debuting the second season of The Apprentice, a game …
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John Oliver tore into President Donald Trump‘s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, criticizing his “callous indifference to human life” on Last Week Tonight Sunday. Oliver focused on the slew of bad information about the outbreak coming from the administration, with The Independent noting that at one …
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Hillary Clinton said she hoped President Donald Trump would stop calling the coronavirus outbreak a hoax during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Wednesday. The former Democratic presidential candidate said she wasn’t surprised by how the Trump administration was handling the outbreak, adding: “This is something that …
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Bill Murray joyously returns to Groundhog Day in a new commercial that premiered online Sunday ahead of its broadcast during Super Bowl LIV, a game which happens to fall on Groundhog Day 2020. The minute-long spot marks Murray’s first-ever nationally televised commercial. In the Jeep ad, Murray’s Phil is once …
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Former Broad City star Ilana Glazer returned to Comedy Central Tuesday to talk about her politically charged stand-up tour and comedy special on The Daily Show. The comedian first discussed the fairly dire title of her new Amazon Prime stand-up special, The Planet Is Burning. “It is my lens in …
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Patti Smith performed a spare and tender cover of Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” on The Tonight Show Thursday. Smith opened the performance with a short poem, in which she enumerated the chaos engulfing the world, while still ending on a hopeful note: “Yet I still keep thinking that/Something …
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The last time we saw Sabrina Spellman, she was sitting with friends Harvey, Roz and Theo at their local haunt in Greendale. She made a startling proposal to them: “Let’s go to hell and get my boyfriend back!” In the first look at Season 3 of Netflix‘s Chilling Adventures of …
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GLAAD has announced the nominees for the 31st GLAAD Media Awards, honoring LGBTQ representation in film, television, news and entertainment in 2019. Netflix received the most nominations of any network with 15 nominees, followed by HBO with eight and ABC, CBS and NBC each with four. New streaming services Apple+ …
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