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It was easy as ABC in the Friday night ratings wars, as the Alphabet network was the big winner in demos on the evening. The Shark Tank team once again were kings of the Friday night demo ratings, coming in with an 0.7 to edge out Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown, which came in with an 0.6. Sharks Mark Cuban, Kevin…

Award-winning India TV journalist Nidhi Razdan revealed Friday that she was duped into believing she had been hired by Harvard University. Razdan was a news anchor at top station NDTV for 21 years, but said in June she was leaving to take a job as an associate journalism professor at Harvard. But on Friday, she told…

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar fired back on Friday night at CNN, claiming its report that he resigned because of the Jan. 6 Capitol takeover was wrong. "Contrary to the @CNN chyron, I am still here serving the American people at HHS," Azar tweeted after the CNN report. "I believe it is my duty to help…

Ice-T reports that rapper/producer Dr. Dre is “home, safe and looking good” after a FaceTiming session on Friday. Earlier this month, Dr. Dre was hospitalized in intensive care with a brain aneurysm at Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. But the 55-year-old Dre is now on the road to recovery. He suffered the…

Kellyanne Conway denounced the storming of the Capitol and said she had insisted to President Trump for months that he'd lost the election, but otherwise found little common ground with Bill Maher over the legacy of the last four years. "How do you look back now … anything go wrong?" the host of HBO's Real Time With…

On Friday afternoon, as the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors met behind closed doors to discuss new, stricter shutdown orders; as Mayor Eric Garcetti and California Governor Governor Gavin Newsom appeared together to try and jumpstart the region’s lagging vaccination efforts; one key reason for the urgency of those…

Ralph Macchio isn’t about to switch his hockey loyalty from his beloved New York Islanders. But when he saw new Washington Capitals coach Peter Laviolette pay tribute to the show by bestowing some bandanas in the post-game locker room after a win, Macchio gave the coach a shout-out. Macchio, of course, is Daniel…

The big tease was on today for Law & Order: SVU, as star Mariska Hargitay and former costar Chris Meloni provided more selfie evidence about his highly anticipated return to the series. Meloni struck first on Instagram, posting a black and white shot of him and Hargitay with the caption, “We are a little bit closer.&#8221…

James Murdoch, the renegade son of Murdoch family dynasty who broke with the empire last summer, has publicly denounced "media property owners" whose election denialism helped lead to the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol last week that resulted in five death. “The sacking of the Capitol is proof positive that what…

EXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content Nordic, the Norway-based division of Anonymous Content, is developing a limited series based on the high-profile trial of Laila Bertheussen, the partner of Norwegian ex-Minister of Justice Tor Mikkel Wara, and the events and circumstances that led to it. Bertheussen today was found guilty…

HBO has tapped Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov (Closeness, Beanpole) to direct the pilot episode of HBO’s upcoming drama series The Last of Us, the adaptation of the PlayStation video game, from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin, game creator Neil Druckmann and Game of Thrones exec producer Carolyn Strauss. Written by…

EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing more of Trig in the upcoming season of Showtime’s The Chi. Luke James, who recurred as the character in Season 3, has been promoted to series regular for the fourth season of the Lena Waithe-created drama series. Jame’s Victor "Trig" Taylor is Jake's (Michael V. Epps) estranged older brother…