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Updated Feb. 25, 2015 4:02 p.m. ET Google Inc. nurtured YouTube into a cultural phenomenon, attracting more than one billion users each month. Still, YouTube hasn’t become a profitable business. The online-video unit posted revenue of about $4 billion in 2014, up from $3 billion a year earlier, according to two people familiar with its financials,…
Kiefer Sutherland stars as a low-level White House cabinet member forced to step in to become president after a major attack. There’s something very ominous about Designated Survivor, the new ABC series that has arguably the most intriguing premise in a pilot this season — a very low-level cabinet member becomes president because, as the…
How To Be Werner Herzog What A Six-Hour MasterClass™ Can (And Can’t) Teach You About Making Movies I have found that when I tell people I love Werner Herzog, the sentiment is easy to misinterpret. It can sound like banal garden-variety hipster fandom of a public eccentric. It has become hard not to view Werner as a…
It’s been a rough year, and the 2016 Emmys had everything we needed: surprises, laughs, and an incredible hosting job from Jimmy Kimmel. But what makes a really great awards show is what happens between awards and acceptance speeches, and Sunday’s broadcast was one of the most amusing and character-driven programs in years. From sandwiches…
Alanis Morissette’s 1995 song “Ironic” was a massive hit, making the top five in Australia, Canada, the U.S., and Norway. It would go on to be nominated for two Grammys and its video featuring Morissette singing in a large automobile would be nominated for six MTV video music awards. But the song has drawn more than a…
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TV man Jimmy Fallon had impacted molar Donald Trump on his program Thursday night, where Fallon proceeded to act like this whole thing is a fucking joke. The gentle, baby-soft interview included a little bit of joshing about Trump’s “bromance” with Vladimir Putin, then culminated with him playfully ruffling Trump’s hair. Of course you did,…
In a post published Monday, Radar Online wrote that it has identified an A-list actor who pretends to be a “family-man” while simultaneously presiding over a Hollywood pedophile sex ring. The actor, who is not named in the report, allegedly raped teen idol Corey Haim (who died of a drug overdose in 2010), and his…
Alan Yang and Aziz Ansari.ABC As Jimmy Kimmel noted in his opening speech at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards, this year marks the most inclusive ceremony ever, with a wide variety of nonwhite creators and performers nominated throughout the night. Among those nominees were Master of None co-creators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, who…
Image: Adam Clark Estes Fifty years is an enormous milestone, especially when you’re talking about the relatively short history of television shows. So why on Earth and Vulcan did CBS and Paramount fail to capitalize on Star Trek’s 50th anniversary? Do you know how the two mammoth companies acknowledged this beloved, decades-spanning, money-generating franchise? Late…