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Daily Archives : May 11, 2016

Jeff Daniels Reprises His ‘Newsroom’ Character to Talk About Donald Trump

Actor Jeff Daniels went “Will McAvoy” during an interview with Bloomberg Politics, summoning the character he played on his HBO series “The Newsroom” for a rant about Donald Trump. Here’s the clip from Bloomberg:

Why Byron Allen’s Racial Discrimination Case Against Comcast Was Dismissed … for Now

A $20 billion discrimination lawsuit filed against Comcast by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Network and the National Association of African-American Owned Media has been dismissed, but the ruling is unlikely to mean the end of the case, Deadline.com reports. “This…

WGN America Goes ‘Underground’ to Examine a Troubled Period in U.S. History

With the pulse-pounding pace of its very first episode, WGN America’s “Underground” transported viewers to the antebellum world of 1857 Georgia, a dangerous and desperate place where slaves on plantations plotted their escapes via the Underground Railroad from their existences…

Chairman of Senate Commerce Committee Demands That Facebook Explain Its Handling of News Articles

Facebook is under scrutiny after a report surfaced suggesting that the social media site has routinely suppressed stories with a conservative political focus. Following the Gizmodo story published this week, The New York Times reports that Sen. John Thune, chairman of…

New Amazon Service Reveals Company’s Plan to Become the Next YouTube

Amazon has its sights set on being the next YouTube, with Tuesday’s launch of its new Amazon Video Direct service “ratcheting up the rivalry with both Google’s YouTube and Netflix,” The New York Post reports. “The new Amazon Video Direct…

ABC Announces New Music Series, ‘Greatest Hits,’ Which Will Feature Hit-Makers of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, Premiering June 30

Press release from ABC, May 11, 2016: ABC announced today a new music series “Greatest Hits.” Each episode will highlight a five-year period celebrating the biggest hits from that time, hosted by Arsenio Hall and Kelsea Ballerini. Each week, iconic…

Star-Studded ‘Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration’ Airing on THIRTEEN’s ‘Great Performances’ in June on PBS

Press release from WNET, May 11, 2016: Joan Baez celebrated her 75th birthday on Saturday, January 27 at New York’s historic Beacon Theatre. The special event honored her legendary 50 plus years in music with an intimate, career-spanning live performance….

WGN America Goes ‘Underground’ to Examine a Troubled Period in U.S. History

With the pulse-pounding pace of its very first episode, WGN America’s “Underground” transported viewers to the antebellum world of 1857 Georgia, a dangerous and desperate place where slaves on plantations plotted their escapes via the Underground Railroad from their existences…