Actualités

Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che lampooned President Trump’s laughable Friday press conference in which he announced he signed a national emergency declaration to fund his pet project border wall with Mexico.

Jost started the segment pointing out just how bizarre Trump’s behavior was during the presser, joking that Trump, “argued that we need a wall to stop the flow of drugs into our country, and to demonstrated how bad the drug problem is, Trump spent twenty minutes doing an impression of a coke addict.

The New York Asian Film Foundation

Announces lineup for

The First New York Asian Film Festival Winter Showcase

Feb 1-3, Feb 8-10, 2019

Co-presented with Sva Theatre

New York, NY –The New York Asian Film Festival launches “Crazy Broke Asians”-themed first Winter Showcase, names Korean actress Han Ji-min as Inaugural Ambassador

For the inaugural edition of the New York Asian Film Festival Winter Showcase we’ve chosen a very timely theme. Everyone’s talking about “Crazy Rich Asians”, but what about the other side of the tracks? The showcase offers an alternate perspective on the continent with films that range from pure entertainment to profound introspection, stories about the 99% and the extraordinary lives of ordinary people, which might be from halfway across the world but are more relevant than ever in our troubled times. A deeply moving epic of despair, raw tales of the streets, crime thrillers, redemptive boxing dramas,...

Sorry, Rachel Maddow: Sean Hannity is No. 1 in cable news again, making 2018 the second year in a row the face of Fox News Channel can make that claim.

Under the “Hannity” host is the “Maddow” host, with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson earning bronze in terms of overall audience averages. Fox also owned the next three slots, with Laura Ingraham’s series, “The Five,” and “Special Report With Bret Baier” staking their claims.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is seventh and Chris Hayes came in ninth. Fox shows “The Story” and “America’s Newsroom” bookended Hayes’ “All In,” making that the Top 10 of 2018.

Also Read: 109 Cable Channels Ranked by 2018 Viewership, From Fox News to Comedy.TV

Below are the Top 35 shows across all of cable news. A lengthier ranker would include Fox Business Network, CNBC and Hln — which first appear with the 46th, 47th and 50th-ranked shows of the year,...

MSNBC shows got a big ratings boost on Tuesday from back-to-back news about former Trump associates Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen.

“Hardball,” “All In,” “11th Hour,” “The Beat” and “Mtp Daily” all boasted their largest audiences ever on Tuesday, the day former Trump campaign chairman Manafort was convicted on eight charges relating to bank and tax fraud, and Cohen, the president’s former personal attorney, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations.

Additionally, “Maddow,” “Deadline” and “The Last Word” all got their second-most total viewers of all time on Tuesday.

Also Read: MSNBC Guest Says Network Hosts Routinely Tell Him They're 'Sick of Our Viewers' (Audio)

Each of these records and near-records exclude political conventions, debates and election nights.

With 3.893 million total viewers, “The Rachel Maddow Show” was the most-watched show on all of cable on Tuesday night, followed by its lead-out “The Last Word,” which was watched by 3.339 million viewers.

President Donald Trump’s really bad Tuesday was one of Rachel Maddow’s best days ever.

MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show was Tuesday’s most-watched cable program. Maddow’s 9 Pm show scored 3.89 million viewers, 881K of them in the 25-54 age bracket. Maddow pounded her 9 Pm cable news competitors in both metrics, including perennial front-runner Hannity on Fox News Channel and CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time.

It was Maddow’s second-highest-rated day ever — behind only her much-lampooned March 16, 2017, program when she scored Trump’s 2005 tax return document — and attracted 4.13 million viewers, with 1.4M of them in the news demo.

This time, Maddow was propelled by the news that Trump’s former attorney/fixer Michael Cohen had turned himself in and pleaded guilty to eight counts of tax and bank fraud and campaign finance violation, while — at nearly same time — a jury found Trump’s former...

Guest stars often find themselves in a challenging position, arriving on a set to shoot just a few scenes and trying to pack a powerful performance into limited screen time. With so many strong dramatic performances on TV today, how do these actors and actresses maximize those moments to pack a punch?

For “This Is Us” guest star Gerald McRaney, who took home the dramatic guest actor Emmy last year and is nominated again this year, the key is in the writing and just trying to “stay out of my own damn way.”

With his Dr. K character appearing in just one episode this season of the NBC family drama (“The Car”), compared to five episodes in the first season, McRaney says, “it can be hard to build a character with just one or two appearances in one or two scenes.” But, he adds, on “This Is Us,” “every scene...

F. Murray Abraham has this year garnered his second Emmy nomination as Best Drama Guest Actor for portraying the shadowy CIA black ops specialist Dar Adal on Showtime’s “Homeland.” Abraham, who is also the recipient of an Oscar for his chilling turn as composer Antonio Salieri in “Amadeus” (1984), was previously nominated for “Homeland” in 2015, falling short to Reg E. Cathey (“House of Cards”).

See 2018 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 70th Emmy Awards

During this season of “Homeland,” Abraham appeared in one episode, titled “All In.” The episode finds that Adal has been imprisoned over the last six months and is largely disconnected from the outside world’s explosive foreign and domestic affairs.

He is approached by U.S. Senator Sam Paley (Dylan Baker) about why Adal’s old friend Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), now serving as national security advisor to the increasingly unpopular President Elizabeth...

Now that the 2018 Emmy nominations have been unveiled, TV academy members have one month to watch episodes submitted by all of the nominees before final voting takes place August 13-27. Since guest performers must declare their episodes on the initial nominations ballot, we already know the submissions for Best Drama Guest Actor nominees F. Murray Abraham (“Homeland”), Cameron Britton (“Mindhunter”), Matthew Goode (“The Crown”), Ron Cephas Jones (“This Is Us”), Gerald McRaney (“This Is Us”) and Jimmi Simpson (“Westworld”).

Which of these nominees has the strongest episode? You be the judge! Below, we list the Emmy ballot descriptions and provide links for where you can watch all of the Drama Guest Actor episode submissions online.

SEE2018 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 70th Emmy Awards

F. Murray Abraham (“Homeland”) as Dar Adal

Episode title: “All In”

Emmy ballot description: Saul’s team arrives in Russia under diplomatic cover.

Former Fox News executive Bill Shine’s White House appointment by President Trump has drawn ire across social media. Many Twitter users have been quick to point out that he resigned as co-president of Fox News in 2017 due to his close relationship with Roger Ailes and accusations that he attempted to cover up Ailes’ alleged sexual harassment allegations.

Gretchen Carlson, who filed the first sexual harassment lawsuit almost exactly two years ago, pointed out the irony in a tweet, saying: “This …. on the 2 year anniversary eve of filing my harassment lawsuit; giving women a voice, letting them know you can be believed, launching a national movement to stand up and speak up and say enough is enough. Life… works in mysterious ways. #BeFierce”

This …. on the 2 year anniversary eve of filing my harassment lawsuit; giving women a voice, letting them know you can be believed, launching a national movement to...

Over his remarkable career on the small screen, Beau Bridges has garnered 16 Emmy Award nominations, including three wins. This year, with his recurring role on “Homeland,” Bridges is well-positioned to add a 17th nomination to his awards resume, this time in Best Guest Drama Actor.

Bridges, portraying Vice President Ralph Warner, appeared in four episodes of the Showtime series this season: “Andante”; “Clarity”; “All In”; and the season finale, “Paean to the People.” Warner, who is on unsteady terms with his boss, the increasingly unpopular President Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel), finds himself lobbied by Senator Sam Paley (Dylan Baker), an opponent of Keane’s, to help invoke the 25th Amendment to remove her from office. Warner indeed relieves a flabbergasted Keane of her duties but their antipathy, and Warner’s alliance with Paley, prove short-lived.

See 2018 Emmy Awards nominations: Complicated process made simple

Of Bridges’ performance in “Clarity,” Brian Tallerico of Vulture wrote,...

The hot war in a politically and culturally polarized nation comes to a climax tonight with the season finale of “Homeland.”

The Showtime drama has stayed close to home for the most part in its seventh season. Claire Danes’ intrepid ex-CIA officer Carrie Mathison has been waging an increasingly desperate battle against fake news, political provocateurs, wily Russians, disillusioned FBI traitors, and ideologues and opportunists on Capitol Hill.

Mandy Patinkin’s Saul Berenson has gone from a federal prison at the start of the season to an office in the West Wing as the National Security Advisor to the embattled President Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel).

The fourth episode of the season, “Like Bad at Things,” eerily reflected the national debate on gun violence as a standoff between the FBI and a red-state family harboring right-wing firebrand Brett O’Keefe (Jake Weber) erupted into a massacre fueled by stockpiles of automatic weapons.

Ricky Martin announced his 2018 return to Las Vegas on social media with a photo that bares all.

On Jan. 4, the singer shared a steamy pic of what appears to be him walking out of the shower with no clothes on, only a towel covering his goods (check out those tan lines!). “A moment in Vegas… We are back to Vegas! Get your tickets Now,” Martin captioned the post that garnered over half a million likes in less than 24 hours.

Fans immediately stormed the singer’s page with comments gushing over his body and planning their trips to Sin City. “I...