Legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and front man for the Who Roger Daltrey has a solo North American tour on June 10. So he stopped by Bill Maher‘s Real Time on Friday to do some reminiscing on his long career and what comes next. After thanking Daltrey “for all the entertainment over
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What’s up, Doc? Weigel Broadcasting Co. has announced the launch of an all-new national television network, MeTV Toons, dedicated exclusively to classic animation from Hollywood-era shorts to made-for-television favorites. The new MeTV Toons collaboration between Warner Bros. Discovery and Weigel – the company behind the MeTV Network – will welcome dozens of the world’s classic cartoons,
When did Columbia become Kanye State? Bill Maher asked that question at the top of Friday’s Real Time on HBO, setting the tone for a show that focused on the national campus unrest and what’s behind it. Maher attempted to answer that himself in his “New Rules” editorial, saying in a message to protesters blocking
Regrets, she has a few. But then again, it’s not the end for Ellen DeGeneres. Returning to the stage Wednesday night at Largo in Los Angeles, the former host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show was not afraid to address her clouded departure from her long-running show. A sold-out crowd of about 200 fans was supportive
SPOILER ALERT: Do Not Read If You Haven’t Seen Tonight’s Show Season 16 of MTV reality series RuPaul’s Drag Race is over, and America’s Next Drag Superstar has been crowned. This edition of RuPaul’s Drag Race featured 14 queens from across the country battling it out for the win. Contestants besides the final three included
When you have William Shatner, aka Captain James T. Kirk, on your show, you get to ask the Star Trek questions you’ve always wanted answered. That’s what Bill Maher managed to do on Friday’s Real Time, as he probed one of pop culture’s most interesting moments — the interracial kiss between Captain Kirk and Lt.
O.J. Simpson was on everyone’s mind today after his death, and Conan O’Brien took the opportunity to salute his late friend, comic Norm Macdonald, who continued doing Simpson jokes even after being warned by NBC higher-ups to knock it off. Sitting Thursday with CNN’s Jake Tapper to promote his new show, Conan O’Brien Must Go,
Tonight, live from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, singer Kelsea Ballerini hosts the CMT Music Awards for the fourth consecutive year. “I couldn’t be more excited to be back for my fourth year with my CMT family to host this year’s CMT Music Awards in Austin, Texas,” Ballerini said in a statement. “Hosting an
It was a scatter-shot Real Time from Bill Maher on Friday night. During the course of his conversations, the blame game fell on just about everyone, from politicians to tech titans to those staging St. Patrick’s Day parades. The night started with tech reporter Kara Swisher, host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher, co-host
Once again, life has imitated art. A billboard in Los Angeles has been vandalized in an homage to Curb Your Enthusiasm. The billboard, located at Centinela Ave. and Santa Monica Blvd., depicts an advertisement for Susie Essman‘s Caftan. On the show, the Susie character started her own business and used a billboard to advertise it.
On the one side, you have an atheist and avowed bachelor. On the other, a psychologist who thinks family and faith are the keys to progress from our current problems. Those polar opposites made for some intense sparring on Friday’s Real Time, as Bill Maher faced off aganst a fiesty Dr. Phil McGraw, author of
Deadline is launching Deadline Discourse, a new video series aimed at spurring thoughtful dialogue around pressing issues facing the entertainment industry. The series kicks off with a panel that couldn’t be timelier, coinciding with Black History Month. This sneak peek at a discussion soon to be released in its entirety, zeroes in on the critical
The WWE and Fanatics Events have set details for “WWE World at WrestleMania,” a five-day interactive fan experience taking place from Thursday, April 4 through Monday, April 8 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. Tickets will go on sale this Thursday, February 22 at 2 p.m. ET, ranging between $30 and $300. WWE World
The Sundance Film Festival 2024, beloved by independent film enthusiasts, opens the film festival circuit with a bustling calendar of parties, thought-provoking panels, and red-carpet premieres. Celebrating its 40th milestone, the lineup boasts diversity across various categories, featuring 53 short films, 35 documentary features, and 83 feature films. Among the buzzworthy titles premiering are My
Count Jo Koy as one person who thinks his Golden Globes hosting wasn’t a complete disaster. “I think I did well given the circumstances,” he said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. Koy had just 10 days to prepare. He told the Times his writers weren’t picked until eight days before the show;
Donald E. Wildmon, whose American Family Association led boycotts over sexuality and gay themes in American TV shows and in the arts, died on Dec. 28 in Tupelo, Miss. He was 85. The cause was Lewy body dementia, according to a statement posted by the American Family Association. Wildmon-led groups ran full-page advertisements denouncing the 1990s police
Angelenos hoping to open presents by a roaring fire on a chilly Christmas morning this year are out of luck. The weather’s cold enough, but local air quality officials on Christmas Eve put in place a no-burn order for the non-desert portions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, andall of Orange County. Luckily,
John Stamos has shared “one of the last” pictures of him and his fellow Fuller House castmates with the late Bob Saget. In it, Saget and Stamos are seen smiling with costars Dave Coulier, Andrea Barber, Jodie Sweetin, and Candace Cameron Bure in front of the Tanner family home in San Francisco. “One of the
Herman Rush, a veteran television producer best known for licensing Till Death Us Do Part, the UK sitcom that Norman Lear turned into All in the Family, died Dec. 12 at 94 of natural causes in Los Angeles, according to several news reports. Rush began his career in 1951, working in sales for Official Film. He
Taylor Swift: ‘The Eras Tour concert film has become the highest-grossing concert film of all time, earning an impressive $178 million domestically since its debut on Thursday, October 12. Among the list of the top-grossing concert films at the domestic box office are the recently rereleased Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, Talking Heads concert film
Charles Officer, known as one of the leaders in Black Canadian independent film, has died. He was 49 and succumbed at his home in Toronto Friday from complications from a heart attack. Officer had been battling what’s been described as a lengthy illness that was not specified. He had a lung transplant in December 2022.
A grand Hollywood tradition will kick off at 6 PM on Sunday, as the 91st Hollywood Christmas Parade winds through the streets of the movie capital. Sunday’s parade will be cohosted by actors Erik Estrada and Dean Cain, joined by Montel Williams, Laura McKenzie, and Elizabeth Stanton. Pre-parade entertainment will include the Village People, pop-opera
It was the Thanksgiving show for Bill Maher‘s Real Time, typically his last show of the fall season before a hiatus. But because of the Writers Guild strikes, the show will go on into December. That’s reason enough to be thankful. But Maher had an added reason for grace on Friday’s show – he had
Six months in, the strikes are over. Ten days out, the holidays begin. As for the movies—unfortunately, the most exciting part of the year is already behind us. It’s disconcerting to realize that there is no unavoidably dazzling, must-see, pop cultural event film on the schedule for the rest of 2023. Certainly, some fine pictures,
Oil and water. Oscar and Felix. Entering tonight’s Real Time, you’d expect Sen. Ted Cruz and Bill Maher to fit into that “don’t mix” category. You’d be wrong, for the most part. Although they sparred at times, the two political opposites found that they were often on the same page. Cruz is out supporting his
They hated each other. Now they love each other. That’s the story Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone copped to this evening during an interview on The Graham Norton Show. The two action stars were often sniping at each other in the press, to the point where Stallone said that “even our DNA hated each other.”
George R.R. Martin may not be cranking out the novels, but his blog is thriving. In a recent entry, the Game of Thrones mastermind commented on a Vanity Fair roundup of what that publication deemed “25 Perfect TV Episodes from the Last 25 Years.” Martin was on the list for his self-penned GoT episode, Blackwater.
Who want to be a billionaire? The Mega Millions lottery drawing failed to produce a winning ticket on Friday, raising the stakes to around $1.55 billion and climbing for Tuesday’s drawing. There have been no Mega Millions jackpot winner since April, inflating its grand prize. If you win, you have a $757.2 million cash option
It was a magnificent movie weekend. Barbie, Oppenheimer, Sound of Freedom. All hits, a blow-out! So what else have you got? The question sounds obnoxious, like its near-cousin, the always infuriating: “What have you done for me lately?” But it’s an honest query, and an important one for a strike-bound, streaming-bent, pandemic-emergent industry that is
What was it W. B. Yeats wrote, that line Joan Didion lifted and twisted in her essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” about West Coast chaos in 1967? Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. That’s how it felt on Thursday, a few minutes before lunch with some seasoned film executive-friends at the Academy Museum (Salad Niçoise