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EXCLUSIVE: A feature documentary about legendary media figure Dan Rather is in the works. Original Productions, the Fremantle-owned producer of shows such as Deadliest Catch, has teamed up with Knock Down The House producer Wavelength, Anchor Entertainment and The Kennedy/Marshall Company on the project. The doc…

Jimmy Fallon condemned the acts of violence in Washington D.C. on Wednesday when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. “Today was not patriotism, today was terrorism,” the Tonight Show host said during his somber opening. Fallon referred to the attacks on the U.S. Capitol Building by MAGA fanatics that interrupted the…

After images surfaced seemingly showing President Trump signing a blank piece of paper for a hospital photo op Dan Rather tweeted, “Nothing says ‘I work hard’ to America more than signing blank sheets of paper.” CBS’s John Dickerson compared Trump’s Walter Reed exit through giant gold doors to Willy Wonka’s entrance…

“This issue is not about one incident,” declared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said today on the House floor in a searing response to being accosted and insulted with profanity by Republican Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida this week. “It is cultural," the Democrat for New York’s 14th congressional district added, garnering…

Dan Rather says he has so far been spending the coronavirus crisis “in lockdown” in his Manhattan apartment for almost three weeks, taking time to exercise, read, and even time to himself.  At 7 PM each night, he goes out on his balcony and bangs on a steel pot to participate in the city’s collective cheer for health…

Veteran newsman Dan Rather will stage an autobiographical two-night stand Off Broadway next month called Stories Of A Lifetime, recording the show for audiobook publisher Audible. Set for Tuesday, February 18 and Wednesday, February 19 at Manhattan’s Minetta Lane Theatre, the Stories of a Lifetime limited engagement…

UPDATED with video: President Donald Trump’s No-Wall-No-DACA-Deal position is a time-honored American tradition, Full Frontal explained to DACA immigrants during Wednesday night’s Apology Race segment. “When racists lose something, they get to build a monument” in this country, correspondent Ashley Nicole Black…

EXCLUSIVE: Seth Rogen is attached to play iconic CBS newsman Walter Cronkite in Newsflash, a Ben Jacoby-scripted drama that Stronger director David Gordon Green will direct next year. The film takes place on November 22, 1963, the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Texas. It was that day that television…

Dan Rather, who has covered every president since Dwight Eisenhower, told Conan O’Brien Monday night that Donald Trump’s presidency is unprecedented and dangerous. “People are obsessed with the president,” Conan marveled. “A lot of people don't know, from one day to next, what he's going to do, what he's going to say.&#8221…

Dan Rather is among those taking issue with President Donald Trump’s address this week to the Boy Scout Jamboree. Rather took to Facebook to blast “a man who can’t control himself to act in a manner befitting the setting.” CNN was the only cable news network to carry live coverage of the address, in which Trump told…

Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Sen. Kamala Harris all appeared via a pre-taped video at the Women in Film Crystal Awards to introduce various  award winners last night, but it was Clinton’s swipe at current leadership that garnered the most oohs, ahhs and applause. In keeping with what appeared to be the theme of…

Refresh for updates Alec Baldwin says the country is lost, his brother Stephen has a different take, Chris Rock offers a time-change reminder (era-change, actually), and Scott Baio is proud to be among the “deplorables.” Celebrities, pundits and politicians began processing their reactions to President Donald Trump’s…