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The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a decision that led to the release of Bill Cosby last year. Pennsylvania prosecutors had sought a review of a state Supreme Court decision that overturned Cosby’s conviction on sexual assault charges. He was released in June. The high court on Monday declined to review the…

"It's not like this is a project I've been thinking about for a long time, this is a subject I've been thinking about for a long time," says We Need To Talk About Cosby director W. Kamau Bell of the former sex offender once known as America's Dad and his complicated legacy. "For me, whether it exists as a four-episode…

The primary simultaneous imbalance and blessing of W. Kamau Bell's We Need To Talk About Cosby is that even with a running time of four-hours, it's clear by the end there's still a lot more to say about the ex-convicted sex offender who was once America's Dad. Which is sort of the point of the United Shades of America…

"The idea being if I'm to really learn the lessons of Bill Cosby then this is a part of that," W. Kamau Bell says of the trenchant We Need to Talk About Cosby. "This is about being smart, being aware, caring about your community," adds the director of the four-episode docuseries, which is set to premiere at the Sundanc…

Showtime has unveiled a new trailer for We Need To Talk About Cosby, the buzzed-about, four-part docuseries directed by Emmy winner W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell), which will screen at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, ahead of its network premiere on January 30 at 10 p.m…

Just more than a month before the Super Bowl kicks off in the Southland, the NFL and NBC are already doing an end zone victory dance. Capped by the strong ratings of the Las Vegas Raiders' wafer-thin 35-32 win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, Sunday Night Football has again topped primetime for its latest…

The ongoing pandemic can’t stall the fountainhead of cinematic creative bursting from the Sundance Film Festival’s 2022 lineup, which was unveiled Thursday. Sundance festival director Tabitha Jackson told Deadline that the upcoming lineup of 82 features for the virtual and in-person Park City event is “doubling down…

Bill Cosby could be back in court soon fighting over the overturning this past summer of his 2018 rape conviction as Pennsylvania prosecutors appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. Lashing out against the so-called "#metoo mob" in response and tongue lashing the "pathetic last-ditch effort" by the…

UPDATED with full interview and transcript: In her first major TV interview since the overturning of the ruling against Bill Cosby, accuser Andrea Constand told NBC News she considers him a “sexually violent predator” with “zero remorse.” The decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to overturn Cosby’s conviction…

Phylicia Rashad has landed her third consecutive Emmy nom for This Is Us. The TV Academy’s recognition of the actress comes on the heels of controversy over her comments, surrounding Bill Cosby’s release from prison. This year (as in 2019 and 2020), Rashad is nommed in the category of Drama Guest Actress. On NBC’s…

Eight of Bill Cosby’s sexual assault accusers are speaking out, telling NBC News that they felt thrown “under the bus” by a legal system that released the comedian from prison last week. “I was so stunned I couldn’t even think straight,” accuser Victoria Valentino says in the exclusive group interview with NBC News' Ka…

If anyone thought a now-free Bill Cosby was going to lay low for a bit after having his rape conviction and sentence suddenly overturned last week, think again. The much-accused actor once known as "America's Dad" chose America's Independence Day to prove them wrong. In a somewhat confusing, scattered statement today…