Aaron Sorkin’s horrendous drama Newsroom on HBO will now be hiring Joel Johnstone to play a Mitt Romney staffer, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sorkin’s Newsroom has already featured news anchor Will McAvoy calling the Tea Party the “American Taliban“:
(AFP) Musicians that perform songs deemed vulgar or that “violate ethical standards” will now be punished in Cuba, the state-run Institute of Music said Friday. In communist Cuba, most everything — especially the airwaves — belongs to the government. Aside
“Nobody Walks” follows a sexually voracious intern who turns a family upside down by her mere presence. It’s the kind of erotically overheated story that skimps on nuance and realistic moral boundaries. Is it any wonder the woman behind the
The pay channel Starz has its work cut out for it chasing big-name competitors HBO and Showtime. Those channels made themselves indispensable to TV watchers thanks to content like “The Sopranos,” “Weeds” and “Homeland.” So why would Starz cancel the
On Current TV’s Viewpoint, The host of HBO’s Real Time Bill Maher said Tuesday about Republicans:
HBO is home to not just fine programming like “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire,” but to some of the most liberally charged content on the small screen. Consider “The Newsroom,” “Real Time with Bill Maher” and “Game Change” as exhibits
How old is Lena Dunham again? The star and creator of the hit HBO series “Girls” made waves recently when she starred in a pro-Obama commercial comparing voting for the President to losing one’s virginity. Now, Dunham is Tweeting a
Julianne Moore earned endless kudos for mocking Sarah Palin in the fact-deficient HBO film “Game Change.” Now, Moore is picking up on President Barack Obama’s fact-deficient War on Women meme in a new video dubbed “Yes We Plan.” The clip
Libertarian pundit Julie Borowski sends up the sexism and condescension of the Obama campaign ad “My First Time” starring Lena Dunham, creator of HBO’s “Girls.”
Lena Dunham is the creator of Girls, the HBO series that features the pear-shaped 26-year-old consistently showing off her naked body. She’s also the girl who was featured in the opening of the 2012 Emmys seated naked on a toilet
The release yesterday of an Obama for America ad featuring Lena Dunham discussing her “first time” in a voting booth caused a flare on Twitter yesterday, but for the most part the major media has ignored the ad and the
This afternoon, the Obama campaign released its latest ad from a celebrity. This one was from Lena Dunham, 26-year-old creator of HBO’s raunchy series Girls. It’s an astoundingly tasteless ad comparing voting for the first time to losing your virginity.
Read more here… TRANSCRIPT: Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy. It should be with a guy with beautiful … somebody who really cares about and understands women. A guy
NBC has ordered a new “Dracula” series from writer Cole Haddon and the production team behind “Downton Abbey.” It’s the program’s new showrunner who promises to make the series more than just another trendy vampire project. The new show will
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Danny Strong just landed the best gig in town. The screenwriter has been selected to pen the final two installments of the “Hunger Games” franchise, the kind of assignment any Hollywood writer would envy. Surely winning two Emmys for writing
(AP) `Lorax’ film wins Environmental Media awardBURBANK, Calif.The feature film “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax,” documentary “Chasing Ice” and HBO comedy “Veep” are among the winners of this year’s Environmental Media Association Awards. The organization presented its 22nd annual honors for
Anthony E. Zuiker is responsible for one of modern television’s most durable franchises – “C.S.I.” That’s the kind of clout that should give Zuiker the creative freedom most artists crave. You won’t find his latest project on ABC, CBS, Fox
The more major awards shows honor liberal politics over quality content, the more people will tune out – both from the shows themselves and Hollywood material in general. The four major Emmy Awards given to the HBO film “Game Change”
Last night’s Emmy Awards telecast featured liberal comic Jimmy Kimmel as host and feted the hatched job known as HBO’s “Game Change.” Is it any wonder the telecast’s ratings drooped from 2011’s edition? Early ratings numbers for the 2012 Emmy Awards are
(AP) ‘Homeland’ and ‘Modern Family’ win big at EmmysBy DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterThe post-Emmy champagne surely tasted sweet for the people at “Modern Family” and “Homeland,” but they needed only to look around the Nokia Theatre to see how quickly
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The cartoonish, reality-deficient HBO film “Game Change” cleaned up at the 2012 Emmy Awards telecast tonight. The film, which chronicled the addition of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to the GOP ticket in 2008, earned honors for best directing, writing and
On HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Speaking as “America’s favorite celebrity atheist,”and addressing the controversy of the Democrats taking God out of the platform Maher said “Fox pretended Christianity was under attack to get old people hard.”
“The Newsroom’s” idea of a Republican is a man gleefully describing the Tea Party movement as the “American Taliban.” That sums up HBO’s far-left series, which unleashed its final new episode of the year last night. In the installment, anchor
The self-described “Most Trusted Name in News” needs a ratings life line. So CNN, a network completely in denial about its growing liberal bias, is reaching out to another network for help – one with a track record of liberal
HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher: “The grown-up answer to our massive national problems is “Identify them scientifically and prioritize.” The Republican answer is “There isn’t a problem, and anyone who tells you different is a liar who hates America.
Ever wonder why the vast majority of politically charged entertainment content favors left of center arguments? Wonder no more. Between Jan. 1, 2011, and July 20, 2012, employees at the seven major media conglomerates — Comcast, Disney, News Corp., Time
On his show HBO’s Real Time, Bill Maher claimed there is a racist message within a pro Romney Republican National Committee ad.
Bill Maher is in a bragging mood these days. The liberal comedian, whose HBO series “Real Time with Bill Maher” returns with fresh episodes tonight, tells Politico he won’t apologize for his hard-hitting jokes. He doesn’t have to serve up
On HuffPost Live, HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher on President Obama’s drug policy: “This is one area where Obama has been such a dismal failure and a liar.”
The pro-Obama super PAC known as HBO aired its latest advertisement Sunday in an hour-long spot called “The Newsroom: Season 1, Episode 8.” The ad tackles the Weinergate scandal as part of a parable about the decline of journalistic standards,
Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom” on HBO mocked Andrew Breitbart, Big Government, and the Anthony Weiner story as tabloid journalism.
It’s Thursday, and that means USA Network’s two best currently running series have new episodes: “Burn Notice” and “Suits.” Here are some thoughts on the shows, which you can watch beginning at 9 p.m. EST tonight. Halfway through its sixth season, “Burn
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama, “The Newsroom,” has been resoundingly criticized not only by conservatives for peddling false memes about the Tea Party and against American exceptionalism, but also by liberal publications like The New Yorker, which called the show “insufferable.”
A man reported to have the world’s largest penis was flagged for additional screening as a potential security threat by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials in the San Francisco International Airport earlier this month. Jonah Falcon, the subject of an
HBO’s much maligned new series “The Newsroom” may have received the all-clear for a second season, but it won’t have many of the writers who helped craft the initial 10 episodes. The Hollywood Reporter: According to HBO, the Aaron Sorkin
The central political topic of the fourth episode of HBO’s “The Newsroom” by Aaron Sorkin? Gun control. “I’ll Try to Fix You” begins in Jeff Daniels’ anchorman character Will McAvoy’s office with Wade, an Assistant US Attorney, informing McAvoy (who
Comedian George Lopez Saturday night during his HBO special: Mitt Romney “ain’t going to get” the Latino vote because he’s “a f–king Latino and he won’t admit it.”
George Lopez went political on his live HBO special “It’s Not Me, It’s You” last night. He joked that Mitt Romney was a closeted Latino since his father was born in Mexico but saved his harshest words for famed Arizona
Like The West Wing, The Newsroom is penned by liberal activist and TV producer Aaron Sorkin. Who is writing it? According to Sorkin’s writing team, the George Soros-funded, extremist website Think Progress is doing the heavy lifting for team Sorkin.
