In the seven episodes of his Showtime series Who is America? Sacha Baron Cohen played a series of characters thrown into meeting real people, and served up some of the year's finest laughs, even as he charged into dealing with chilling alt-right subjects who were all too quick to demonstrate their racism, homophobia…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a strong response from buyers, Aaron Sorkin’s starry drama The Trial Of The Chicago 7 is now being fast-tracked for an early summer start after pre-production was put on pause last December. Rocket Science was selling the $30M-budgeted drama at the EFM in Berlin last week and closed significant…

First it was Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America? late last year, and now Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman is going after Showtime for $750 million and an injunction to shut down the premium cabler's upcoming Roger Ailes series starring Russell Crowe as the now deceased Fox News Channel boss. Representing ex-FNC…

“Alte kakers rule!” said The Kominsky Method‘s Michael Douglas after winning the 2019 Golden Globe Award for best actor in a TV musical or comedy, a double-duty reference to both his role as the aging acting coach Sandy Kominsky and to his 102-year-old Kirk Douglas, name-checked in the tonight’s first acceptance…

Showtime brass had been hopeful about a second installment of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? "I'm dying to bring it back," the network’s CEO David Nevins said in August. But Baron Cohen, who earned a Golden Globe nominations for the six characters he played in the gotcha series, does not think a second season is…

After honing the difficult craft of creating laughs with characters embedded in situations where only he is in a comedy in Da Ali G Show, Borat and Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen turned his skill toward exposing highbrow politicians and hard line conservatives with a coterie of new characters in Who Is America? For his…

Golden Globe nominee Sacha Baron Cohen was all smiles at Showtime's holiday party on Sunset Boulevard last night. But the Who Is America? creator can't be cheered about Roy Moore's contention today in his $95 million defamation suit that he was "fraudulently induced" to appear on the satire series earlier this…

Sacha Baron Cohen has been nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series Musical or Comedy for the coterie of characters he played in the satirical interview series Who Is America? While some will read into this that his inclusion in the series and not limited series category means that…

UPDATE with video Tonight was the perfect night for Sacha Baron Cohen to bring back the popular character of Borat. On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Borat decided to participate in this year’s midterm elections by canvassing for Donald Trump and the GOP in Los Angeles. Before he started to go door-to-door to spread the good…

Aaron Sorkin is attached to direct and Sacha Baron Cohen is in early talks to star in The Trial of the Chicago 7, a long-in-the-works feature film from Amblin Entertainment, Deadline has confirmed. The movie is based on the 1969 federal conspiracy trial stemming from the cops-vs-protesters riots at the 1968 Democratic…

Showtime has fired back — legally speaking — at Judge Roy Moore’s lawsuit over his appearance its Sacha Baron Cohen series Who Is America? The premium cabler filed a motion today for a change of venue from U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to the Southern District of New York, which covers Manhattan. In its…

This will be worth keeping an eye on. Roy Moore, the former Senate hopeful from Alabama who lost his race while embroiled in a pedophile scandal, has sued Sacha Baron Cohen and Showtime for an uncool $95 million over his appearance — along with a claimed “pedophile detector” — on the premium cabler’s series Who Is Amer…