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Even before President Biden signed a bill into law making Juneteenth a federal holiday, networks and streamers were setting special programming for the holiday commemorating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. More specifically, Juneteenth marks the enforcement of the Emancipation…

On Monday’s edition of The Late Late Show with James Corden, former U.S. president Barack Obama sat down in the hot seat and fielded some tough questions, both from Corden and his co-head writer, Ian Karmel. In a clip from the episode, which airs at 12:37 a.m. on CBS, Karmel tells Obama about a dating conundrum he’s…

Damon Weaver, the youngest person to interview a sitting president thanks to his 10-minute interview with President Barack Obama at the White House at age 11, has died. His sister told media outlets that he died from “natural causes,” but wasn’t specific. The 2009 interview with Obama happened in the White House…

James Corden has done Carpool Karaoke with his wife Michelle, but now it's time for President Barack Obama to make an appearance on The Late Late Show. Obama will make his debut on the CBS late-night show on Monday May 17, where he will talk with the Brit host over Zoom. Can The Prom star get a tune out of the former…

Refresh for updates Hollywood and the Beltway praised the “guilty, guilty, guilty” murder and manslaughter verdicts against former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd today: “Relieved—and emotional in ways I didn't expect,” Oprah said on Instagram. “I cried tears of joy as each verdict was…

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama appear in a new campaign introduced by the Ad Council encouraging Americans to get vaccinated. The spots also feature former first ladies Rosalynn Carter, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama as part of the campaign called It’s Up To You. But Donald…

Teamed with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground, Netflix has acquired North American and other territorial rights to Worth, the Sara Colangelo-directed adaptation of the Kenneth Feinberg memoir What Is Life Worth. Feinberg, who is played by Michael Keaton in the film, was appointed Special Master of the…

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground Productions has set its latest slate of film and TV projects for Netflix. The streamer is developing two TV series and four feature films as part of the slate. On the TV side, Reverie and Extant creator Mickey Fisher is adapting Firekeeper’s D…

"Mr. Lewis, the goal of his life was to encourage people to speak up and that's exactly what Pete is doing now," says The Way I See It director Dawn Porter of the similarities between former Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza and the late great civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis. "Having been a fly on…

"Forget money, I'm focused on dignity and loyalty." Those were the disturbing words spoken the other day by my favorite agent who, alas, is facing the prospect of going out of business. Fortunately, the agent in question is French and fictional; she works for ASK and is portrayed in Call My Agent!, the hit show that…

As he has so many times over the past decade and more, Barack Obama spoke directly to the chaos that enveloped Capitol Hill today and how it was an inevitable outcome of Donald Trump's time in the White House. “History will rightly remember today’s violence at the Capitol, incited by a sitting president who has…

SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details of some of the best new TV series of last year.  "The one charm of the past is that it is the past," Oscar Wilde once said. Few have had the linguistic dexterity of the Dorian Gray scribe, but even the divinely witty Wilde may be hard pressed to find anything charming about…