“Reading Rainbow” might have had its last episode in 2006, but LeVar Burton hasn’t stopped being a book advocate. The actor and beloved host has spoken out against the unprecedented levels of books banned in schools throughout the country—acting as executive producer do the 2023 documentary “The Right to Read,” and has partnered with the … Read more
Getty Image As the year comes to a close, many networks will run segments looking back on the year that was in 2023, including a remembrance of some of the celebrities that died over the last year. On Friday morning, Fox News ran one such “In Memoriam” segment on its daytime show “Faulkner Focus” in … Read more
Kelly Clarkson is always showing love to younger artists. With over 20 years in the game, Clarkson has become an icon in her own right, but still has admiration for future generations of singers and songwriters. Today (October 31), in a special Halloween episode of her daytime talk show The Kelly Clarkson Show, Clarkson performed … Read more
A Fox News broadcast discussing crime in Seattle has gone viral after a reporter for the conservative outlet was ruthlessly mocked by the city’s residents. While airing the report, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro referred to Seattle as a “progressive hellscape” before bemoaning the fact that locals didn’t believe the city was “spiraling out of … Read more
Fox News Republicans sure don’t like American cities these days. Conservative commentators have been trying to paint the nation’s metropolises as postapocalyptic hellscapes that have relapsed to 1970s conditions. They usually go after New York City, despite it being probably the safest it’s ever been in its 400-year history. On Monday, Fox News took on … Read more
If award shows and news segments have taught us anything, it’s that live television is unpredictable. Audiences may be left in stunned silence by accidental swears, live stream fails (looking at you, Love is Blind finale), or anytime Kanye West is given a mic. But some fails are harder to live down than others, for example, … Read more
Getty Image The Oscars’ In Memoriam segment always leaves off a couple big names, but this year the producers really dropped the ball. They left off a ton of people, including Charlbi Dean, one of the stars of one of the Best Picture nominees, Triangle of Sadness. Another was Paul Sorvino, the beloved actor who … Read more
neon Triangle of Sadness was Charlbi Dean’s breakout performance. It was also sadly her last. Dean died of bacterial sepsis last August at 32 years old. The sepsis was “complicating asplenia,” which is the absence of a spleen, due to “remote blunt force trauma to [her] torso,” a spokesperson for the New York City Office … Read more
At almost every award ceremony, the In Memoriam segment manages to leave out at least one notable person every year. And while that mishap also holds at the 95th Oscars, many see the omission of one of the actors as egregious because she was one of the stars of a best picture nominee. Lenny Kravitz … Read more
Fox News On Monday night, Tucker Carlson aired the first in a series of reports on what his team found after being gifted 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 riot footage. Surprise surprise: He cherry-picked mundane footage that made the violent incident look peaceful, calling the insurrectionists mere “sightseers.” It was cynical, even lazy, and it … Read more
Fox News Not too long ago, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy made the highly controversial decision to give Tucker Carlson access to January 6 footage. Last night, the Fox News personality attempted to use the tapes to downplay the attack on the Capitol building as just a couple of “sightseers.” Who could have seen that … Read more
Four Pat Tillman Foundation scholars served as honorary coin toss captains ahead of the big game on Sunday. Tillman, who played safety for the Arizona Cardinals, left his NFL career behind to enlist in the military in 2002, just months after 9/11. The segment introduced Tillman as a man who died “in the line of … Read more