Business Insider reports that the television industry is “having its worst year ever.” Ratings have plummeted, and so have subscribers to bundled cable television — which is the Golden Cash Cow of Hollywood. Since 2010, cable providers have lost 5
(AP) Pacquiao says he is borrowing to give typhoon aidBy OLIVER TEVESAssociated PressMANILA, PhilippinesDespite returning like a hero from beating Brandon Rios over the weekend, Manny Pacquiao said Tuesday he has no money to keep his promise to help typhoon
HBO is getting political–again–with two new shows bursting with left-of-center possibilities. The pay channel announced today a new weekly series in the Daily Show mold hosted by John Oliver. The British comic kept Jon Stewart’s seat warm on the Comedy
HBO’s “Real Time” Host Bill Maher with “New Rules” …
Ann Coulter on HBO’s “Real Time” with Bill Maher…
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher with Piers Morgan on CNN…
Appearing on Piers Morgan’s CNN program on Tuesday night, HBO’s Bill Maher explained that while President Obama did indeed lie to the American people about keeping their insurance, he had to do so in order to help the dumb Americans.
Bill Maher did his darndest to spin away President Barack Obama’s proven lie that citizens could keep their existing health care under ObamaCare. The HBO host appeared on the low-rated Piers Morgan Live Tuesday night, and he attempted the liberal line
Bill Maher Michael Moore, Al Sharpton, and Valerie Plame commiserated the Obamacare rollout on HBO’s “Real Time”
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Comedian Bill Maher tells GOP jokes no one on the right could get away with against a liberal. Maher hits the “right” targets, so it doesn’t matter how low he goes. The Thought Police sit on their hands and wait
When San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers allowed ESPN to ask him questions from fans, the organization provided one that attacked his large family. Rivers met his wife Tiffany in junior high school, and they married after his freshman year
By DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterNEW YORKThe duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler proved such a success at hosting the Golden Globes in January that they’ve been signed up for the same job for the next two years. NBC, the
On his HBO show “Real Time” Bill Maher went after both Michele Bachmann and Antonin Scalia for their religious beliefs
HBO host Bill Maher is no stranger to inserting himself into contentious debates, but this time the target of his latest harangue is fighting back. Maher teamed with PETA to decry cruel cat experiments being conducted on the campus of
It’s the second script in as many weeks for Wikileaks. Last week, the organization dropped what it alleges to be the script of an HBO-funded film on Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, one the leaking organization claims received aid from the
on HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher on Ted Cruz and Miley Cyrus
Since the days of Charlie Chaplin, Hollywood has portrayed business leaders as greedy, evil and selfish. So when television shows start to tell a different story, the Moving Picture Institute takes notice. Our first annual Liberty on TV awards honor television shows that
Sunday night’s Emmy Awards contained a few major shockers. But none was bigger than Jeff Daniels winning Best Actor for his performance in Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom over Kevin Spacey in House of Cards (Netflix), Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad (AMC),
Michael Douglas got into the spirit of Liberace’s private life while accepting his Emmy for the HBO film Behind the Candelabra Sunday night. Douglas played the flamboyant, and closeted, entertainer in the HBO biopic, and when he won the Emmy for
Hannibal sounded like a very bad idea when the show was first announced, especially after the disappointing feature film Hannibal Rising in 2006. It seemed like Thomas Harris’ cannibal character would never be properly cracked again without the expertise and
By LYNN ELBERAP Television WriterLOS ANGELESWhen Netflix’s “House of Cards” vies with cable series “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men” for best drama honors at the Emmy Awards, it will be a milestone in the coming-of-age of online entertainment. The political
The Hollywood Reporter revealed today that HBO will be making a film about the 9/11 attack in Benghazi based upon the book Under Fire. HBO has a very checkered history when it comes to films that touch on politics which
HBO has worked long and hard to burnish its reputation as one of television’s most liberal outposts. The premium cable channel is responsible for biased documentaries (Reagan), hard-left original fare (Real Time with Bill Maher, The Newsroom) and two of
Via… oh yeah, via Breitbart News, actually, and via John Nolte. Disney has ended its deal with Jerry Bruckheimer which, I guess, puts the delayed Pirates 5 film in even more doubt than it had previously been. I’m reluctant to
Writers are taught to avoid cliches in their art, but Oscar-nominated scribe Aaron Sorkin simply can’t help himself. Sorkin’s HBO drama The Newsroom packs plenty of overt, and obvious, anti-conservative cliches in an average episode. Sunday’s season finale stuffed as
HBO host Bill Maher scolded America’s foreign policy for excessively bombing “Muslim” counties, then proceeded to list the majority-Buddhist nations of Korea, Vietnam, and Laos as examples of America’s aggression.
Tom Hanks has increasingly strayed from his apolitical public persona, but it hasn’t hurt his appeal with the movie going public. Yet. Hanks came in first place as the country’s “best-liked movie star” according to a new poll by Public
Jay Roach, the director of mainstream comedies as well as the politically charged Recount and Game Change, insists audiences can sense when a historical film is full of it. Even left of center sites like Entertainment Weekly and Slant Magazine
Actress Sharon Stone insists being nude on screen is an important way to ensure realistic storytelling. Lena Dunham of Girls fame says it’s far more important than that. Dunham told Marie Claire UK how much she values being naked on
(AP) BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–In a drive to add subscribers, Netflix has expanded on a movie licensing deal with The Weinstein Co. that will add more films to its Internet video service beginning in 2016. The multi-year agreement announced Tuesday builds
The September issue of Vogue magazine, billed as The Fall Fashion Blockbuster, features a lengthy profile of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis. Davis gained nationwide notoriety after she filibustered for 12 hours in an attempt to block the passage of an omnibus anti-abortion
ABC is going to air an eight-hour miniseries that documents the history of homosexual political activism, written by a well-known gay activist. Dustin Lance Black, the writer and director of The Journey of Jared Price (2000) a same-sex romance, and Something
Jane Fonda is out promoting her recurring role on HBO’s The Newsroom, the pay giant’s weekly progressive rant on the news of (yester)day. Fonda, who has a cameo playing Nancy Reagan in the new political drama Lee Daniels’ The Butler,
The Newsroom is Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show about a group of staffers on an MSNBC-like cable show. The concept of the show is that it takes place in the real world but not in real time. Current episodes deal with
Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is suddenly getting questions from the press she likely never expected to hear. The star of Red 2 was doing promotion for that film when a reporter asked a question inspired by comments made by her husband,
In response to 10 Secrets to Seduce a Politician? Et tu, Jane Pratt?: That’s truly terrible. It’s terrible personally because most of us had some kind of early hero. I don’t know who mine would be. I guess this would
Bill Maher on HBO’s “Real Time” jokingly suggests Hollywood power players like Steven Spielberg, Tyler Perry, and Oprah Winfrey “should be taking over” red states like Wyoming, Montana, and Oklahoma to make them “liberal utopias.”
Rapper Jay Z appearing on HBO’s “Real Time” with Bill Maher says that the black community wants upward economic mobility rather than a stronger police presence. In a conversation with former Congressman Barney Frank about police tactics such as stop-and-frisk,
