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At least six employees have been fired at Miami’s Radio and TV Martí in connection with a controversial broadcast report that claimed philanthropist George Soros was “anti-Semitic.” The Miami Herald reports several employees were let go in the wake of the report, which aired last May. Radio and TV Martí  is a US…

Hurricane Irma was upgraded to a Category 5 storm as it made landfall Friday night on the Camaguey Archipelago of Cuba, packing winds of 160 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center’s public advisory. A turn toward the northwest and Florida is now expected by late Saturday. On the forecast track, the center of…

House Of Lies creator Matthew Carnahan is furious about President Donald Trump's decision to roll back relations with Cuba. Carnahan shot the Showtime series’ fifth-season finale in Havana last year – and plans to return to shoot a new series there entirely – but fears the new restrictions could make it more difficult…

For a couple months after Barack Obama moved toward normalizing relations with Cuba following decades of economic sanctions, a rush of movie and TV productions made its way to the island, from Universal Pictures’ The Fast and Furious franchise to reality TV’s Keeping Up With The Kardashians. But as Cuba and Hollywood…

President Barack Obama mostly keeps a straight face in this comedy clip with the very popular Cuban comedian Panfilo, and, frankly, it’s not hard to see why. Let’s just say humor doesn’t always translate. (No offense to the Havana-based comics fans – we’re pretty sure most of the skits from this season’s Saturday Night…

Hollywood is taking another step toward the normalization of the relations between the U.S. and Cuba. Showtime’s dark comedy series House Of Lies is heading to the Caribbean island to film its fifth-season finale, marking the first time an American scripted series will be shot in the country since the U.S. and Cuba…

With U.S.-Cuba relations resuming after half a century, a drama series set on the island nation is in the works. Stone Village TV said today that it will produce Cuba, about an international real estate mogul who returns with his family to the place of his childhood to restore a hotel in hope of capitalizing on Cuba's…

Conan O’Brien reported on the scene in Central Havana from a romantic rooftop, during his much-ballyhooed trip to Cuba, which debuted last night as a special edition of his TBS late-night show, coincidentally called Conan In Cuba.  “I am realizing Anderson Cooper has a very easy job,” Conan says as heimagines how CNN…

Conan O’Brien’s much ballyhooed trip to Cuba over President’s Day weekend, will debut tomorrow night at 11 PM ET/PT as a special edition of his TBS late night show, coincidentally called Conan In Cuba. Shot over four days in Havana, with 10 staffers, including the host and producer, Conan has said he did not want the…

“President Obama announced that we were going to try and warm up relations a little bit with Cuba and I thought, ‘This is my chance! I want to get in before The View,” Conan O’Brien told Jon Stewart last night of his recent visit to the island nation where Conan shot an episode of his TBS late-night show. Cubans did…

Conan O’Brien is disappointed, maybe, with friendly late-night rival Jon Stewart. O’Brien and producer Jeff Ross made a pit stop Wednesday afternoon at Trattoria Dell’Arte in Manhattan between appearances on Howard Stern and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart to pitch Conan’s upcoming special about his adventures in Havan…

Conan O’Brien talked to his studio audience today about four-day trip to Cuba for an upcoming episode of his TBS late-night show called, appropriately, Conan In Cuba, and that “ridiculous white suit.” “Yesterday, I returned from Cuba, and then today, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi arrived in Cuba. Which…