Kanye West says he's running for president. It's not clear if the musician is serious, or if this is a publicity stunt for himself or a project unrelated to the presidency.

West's Saturday night Twitter post instantly went viral, with more than 100,000 retweets within the first hour. West has 29.3 million followers on Twitter.

If West is ...Read more

Hugh Downs, a television pioneer who became one of the medium's most enduring, likable and reassuring presences in a five-decade career that included serving as Jack Paar's late-night announcer-sidekick, and hosting the NBC's "Today" and ABC's newsmagazine "20/20," died Thursday at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.

A family member said the cause of...Read more

Not surprisingly, the 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards is the latest awards show to push its date.

The awards show, presented by Hollywood actors to Hollywood actors, will take place March 14, 2021, beginning at 5 p.m. Pacific time, Executive Producer Kathy Connell announced in a statement Thursday. That pushes it back more than a month from its...Read more

"Justice League" actor Ray Fisher is speaking out about his experiences while working on the 2017 superhero film.

In a Wednesday tweet, Fisher claimed that director Joss Whedon's "on-set treatment of the cast and crew of Justice League was gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable."

He added that Whedon was "enabled, in many ...Read more

Located in a valley at the base of three mountains in northeastern Afghanistan, U.S. Army Combat Outpost Keating was by all standards indefensible. Yet on Oct. 3, 2009, some 50 U.S. soldiers held off hundreds of enemy fighters in a 12-hour firefight that resulted in Bravo Troop 3-61 Cavalry becoming one of the most decorated units in the ...Read more

Every episode of AMC's "Mad Men" will be available to stream again later this month, including an episode featuring a character in blackface.

On Wednesday, Lionsgate released a statement explaining its decision not to pull Season 3's "My Old Kentucky Home" from the "Mad Men" catalog, despite the recent removals of blackface episodes from ...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: Will the phenomenal show "Council of Dads" return this fall?

A: No. NBC has dropped the show after a single season. While it seemed designed to draw the "This Is Us" audience, ratings were reportedly low.

Q: I believe Barbara Stanwyck had a son, Stephen. What happened to him?

A: From what I can ...Read more

The same slate of six late-night talk shows have earned Emmy nominations the last two years. And though the COVID-19 pandemic has upended their formats and presentation, it's a pretty safe bet that voters will return all six series to the Emmys this year. Why change ... until it's time to award the trophy. Then voters would do well to consider ...Read more

2020, dude. 1993 called and wants its cartoons back.

Heh, heh, heh.

Comedy Central is bringing back MTV's iconically crude animated comedy "Beavis and Butt-Head" for an additional two seasons through a sprawling deal with producer Mike Judge.

Judge, who created the Gen X-defining series about a duo of unfiltered teenage couch potatoes, will ...Read more

"Emancipation," Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua's forthcoming film about slavery, has landed at Apple Original Films after a massive bidding war.

Apple bought the project for $105 million, outbidding six other parties, the Los Angeles Times confirmed Wednesday. Deadline first reported the news.

The period drama, based on a script by ...Read more

Several TV episodes and scenes featuring characters in blackface have been pulled from streaming and syndication in recent weeks as Hollywood confronts its racist past and present.

Last week, Tina Fey made headlines by asking NBC to remove episodes of "30 Rock" featuring blackface, and issuing a controversial apology "for pain they have caused....Read more

Fox News anchor Ed Henry has been fired following an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations.

Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott announced Henry's dismissal in an internal memo sent to employees Wednesday.

The memo said the company received a complaint on June 25 from the attorney of a former employee that described "willful...Read more

Carl Reiner, who died Monday at the age of 98, was a humble powerhouse of the lively arts -- actor, screenwriter, producer, director, novelist, playwright, tweeter, double-act comedian, witness to his times.

As a writer-performer on Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour," and the creator and producer of "The Dick Van Dyke Show,"...Read more