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NBC’s Meet The Press With Chuck Todd clocked its biggest overall audience in more than eight years – 4.55 million viewers – on Sunday for its interview with Kellyanne Conway. On the show, President Donald Trump’s counselor defended Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s delivery of “alternative facts” about the size of the…

The same day ABC News announced it had landed President Donald Trump’s first sit-down since being sworn in, the network’s late-night star Jimmy Kimmel discussed Trump’s unhappiness with press reports about the size of his inaugural crowd and his press secretary’s announcement of what Kellyanne Conway called…

HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher clocked its biggest premiere crowd ever in its 15th season kickoff, which coincided with Donald Trump’s inauguration. Friday night’s kickoff, hours after Trump was sworn in, snagged 1.9 million viewers at 10 PM which is 71% higher than last January’s premiere. Across the night, Maher’s…

Nearly 31 million people watched President Donald Trump’s inauguration on TV on January 20, 2017, Nielsen reports. The official Nielsen tally of 30.635 million for the former Celebrity Apprentice star’s oath-taking ceremonies falls far short of the last time a screen star was sworn in as leader of the free world; Ronal…

Fox News Channel clobbered the competition, cable and broadcast, on Donald Trump's inauguration day, clocking nearly 11.8M viewers from noon to 12:30 PM ET during Trump's swearing in and Inaugural Address, as well as 8.4M viewers from 10 AM to 6 PM ET when most of the action occurred, and 7M total viewers in primetime…

About 15.3M viewers watched Donald Trump’s inauguration daytime activities via Big 3 broadcast networks, ABC and CBS and NBC. NBC News led the pack, with an average of 5.8 million total viewers from 10 AM to 5:45 PM ET on January 20.  ABC logged 4.9M viewers and CBS averaged 4.6M. NBC also led in the 25-54 age bracket…

UPDATED with video: “Like Lincoln huffing paint thinner, this stirring orator invoked an inspiring picture of the country he now leads,” Late Show host Stephen Colbert said hours after President Donald Trump delivered his Inaugural Address. Among Trump’s zippier turns of phrase: America's infrastructure has fall into d…

UPDATED with video: President Donald Trump’s post-truth world has to change the way the press does its job, Joy Reid told The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah. “Journalists are accustomed to, when the president says something…you just report it. But now, something Donald Trump tweets is not a headline you can just translate…

Finally, a completely honest late-night comic. Jimmy Kimmel tonight revealed how happy he is to have a Donald Trump presidency to mine for comedy after eight years of the Obamas: “Let me tell you something, I have not had it easy” Kimmel said on his Inauguration Day edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live.  “For the last eight…

At least 200 people were arrested today in Washington D.C. during a large scale protest of the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Several demonstrations happened in Washington, with some turning riotous, resulting in a limousine being set on fire blocks away from the inaugural events. Approximately a mile from…

Updated Saturday with video Bill Maher celebrated his birthday – and the 15th season premiere of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher – with an opening salvo against his old nemesis and new president: “What does every kid want for his birthday?,” the comedian asked in his first monologue since the Oval Office changeover…

President Donald Trump boasted of  “unbelievable, perhaps record-setting turnout” in his walk-up to today’s inauguration. Photos of the event taken from the Washington Monument suggest the crowd size was more in keeping with the early estimate by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Activities, which…