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Today, May 1, 2025, audio industry veteran Chris Corcoran announces the founding of In the Arena Studios, a multimedia podcast content studio centered around distinctive franchise verticals with influential talent. Each original content vertical will be designed to expand into multiple brand and distribution extensions.

In the Arena Studios aims to become a first-class studio destination for premium talent and world-class creatives, designed with an artist-friendly culture and a hitmaking mentality.

The first strategic branded verticals will concentrate on leadership and mindset, initially through the world of sports, both aiming to redefine the athlete and coaching experience in today's world with elite-level talent. Lessons with Geno Auriemma, the all-time winningest Division One basketball coach of the UConn women's team coming off his 12th NCAA Championship-winning season, is designed around leadership through the lens of sports. Coach is a groundbreaking platform brand that shares the human experience through the context of performance and mindset anchored around star athletes,...

The properties of A+E Global Media include the flagship A&e, the History Channel, Lifetime and Vice TV, among others.

The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Television’s joint venture A+E Networks has rebranded to A+E Global Media as part of an effort to better emphasis their multi-platform approach to content distribution.

The refreshed brand identity was unveiled on Wednesday ahead of A+E Global Media’s Upfront presentation, and “reflects the company’s continued commitment to bring its award-winning content to viewers across the ever-changing multiplatform viewing universe around the globe,” a spokesperson said in a statement.

The company will continue to operate a number of domestic linear television networks, including A&e, the History Channel, Lifetime, Lmn, Fyi and Vice TV. At the same time, more of an effort is being made to distribute its catalog of knowledge and reality-based shows through other channels, including a growing slate of free,...

On Friday November 8 2024, PBS broadcasts Firing Line With Margaret Hoover!

Season 8 Episode 19 Episode Summary

On November 8, 2024, PBS will air Season 8, Episode 19 of Firing Line with Margaret Hoover. This highly anticipated episode features renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential biographer Jon Meacham, who will delve into the complexities surrounding Donald Trump’s election victory.

Jon Meacham, celebrated for his insightful analyses of American presidents, brings his extensive knowledge and thoughtful perspective to the discussion. In this episode, Meacham will explore the factors that contributed to Trump’s success in the election, examining the political climate, voter sentiments, and strategic decisions that played pivotal roles.

Margaret Hoover, the host, will engage Meacham in a deep and meaningful conversation, addressing both the immediate and long-term implications of Trump’s victory. Viewers can expect an honest and comprehensive examination of how this election outcome shapes the future of American politics, policy-making, and national unity.

The episode...

Update: Joe Biden got several standing ovations as he presented the National Medals of Arts and Humanities, including a moment when he referenced the presidential race as he talked about the power of women.

“I know the power of women to get things done, and also help the next generation of pioneers, proving a woman can do anything a man can do and then some. That includes being president of the United States of America.”

The remark drew large cheers and a standing ovation from the audience in the East Room, where Biden was joined by First Lady Jill Biden, National Endowment for the Arts chair Maria Rosario Jackson and National Endowment for the Humanities chair Shelly C. Lowe.

Among the recipients present were Steven Spielberg, LeVar Burton, Spike Lee, Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Idina Menzel, Jon Meacham. Aaron Sorkin and Bruce Cohen.

“The power of the arts and matters.

Two former U.S. presidents, one former first lady and noted historians, authors, academics and journalists gathered Saturday at the Academy Museum for a History Talks event that looked at moments of conflict in the nation’s past to bring perspective to the polarization of the present.

The 2010s were “a decade of indignation,” said David Brooks, New York Times political and cultural columnist. “That decade is now giving way – people want something more joyful.”

The event hosted by A+E Networks’ History Channel featured Q&As with President Barack Obama, who engaged playfully with Malcolm Gladwell, and President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush. That pair opened the half-day event with a wide-ranging conversation conducted by their daughter, “Today” co-host Jenna Bush Hager.

Other speakers at included Kevin Costner, Eva Longoria, Kerry Washington, Kate Winslet, Nicole Avant and John Legend. The event drew a large industry crowd,...

Tonight (Sunday June 23 2024), ABC broadcasts an episode of the series This Week With George Stephanopoulos!

Episode Summary This Week’ w/ Martha Raddatz Sen. Elizabeth Warren Exclusive Doris Kearns Goodwin, Frank Luntz & Jon Meacham Bill Nye on extreme weather Reince Priebus, Asma Khalid, Barbara Comstock and Vivian Salama join the roundtableRick Klein, Rachael Bade, Sarah Isgur & Karen Finney join the roundtable What Time is the Episode On?

The episode of This Week With George Stephanopoulos will be broadcast on ABC at 10:00 Am at Et/Pt.

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Puck, the innovative new media company focused on putting journalists at the center of its business model, announced the launch of a new podcast hosted by John Heilemann, Puck's Chief Political Columnist and newest partner. The podcast, entitled Impolitic with John Heilemann, is in partnership with leading premium podcast network Audacy Podcasts and will publish new episodes every Tuesday and Friday starting on June 4.

Heilemann's new podcast comes on the heels of the launch last month of his weekly Puck column, also named Impolitic, which anchors a new Sunday edition of the company's political franchise, The Best & The Brightest. The podcast is a retooled, rebranded, and expanded version of Heilemann's previous hit podcast, Hell & High Water, in which the veteran magazine and television journalist and bestselling author interviewed newsmakers from the worlds of politics and culture: from former Attorney General Eric Holder and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki to renowned political strategists,...

Editors note: This is one of those moments when the flow of news seems like an assault on the senses. The Donald trump trial, the student protests, Gaza, the election campaigning — will our trust in the media survive these traumas? Can our pop culture assimilate them? Peter Bart, based on the West Coast, and Ted Johnson, Deadline’s political and media editor in Washington DC, lend their perspectives to these questions.

Ted Johnson: The Trump trial augurs badly for the public paying attention to balanced, in-depth coverage. This is, after all, the first time that a former President has faced a criminal trial and I fear the takeaway will be — well, exhaustion.

With cameras barred, the TV networks are trying to achieve a sort of blanket coverage, with scrolls delivering legal analyses occasionally interrupted by Trump’s bursts of hallway rhetoric. Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner will be...

Bill Maher took some time during his “New Rules” segment on Real Time Friday to offer his takeaways from the Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV docuseries.

“As one of the few people in the public eye who’s gone through life and never had kids, someone’s got to tell me why I’m always having to defend them,” the host said. “I don’t even like them, but I do think it’s every adult’s job to protect them.”

His initial reaction to Investigation Discovery’s five-part docuseries, which details allegations of abuse, sexism, racism and inappropriate behavior involving underage actors on Nickelodeon TV show sets, was, “Omg!”

“Nickelodeon? It wasn’t a studio, it was Neverland Ranch with craft services,” he shared of his portrayal of the Network after watching the series. “It is just scene after scene, clip and clip, of the...

An exasperated Bill Maher, notorious for not having his own children, asked on Friday’s ‘Real Time’ why he is the one who is always left trying to defend them.

In his “New Rules” editorial, Maher trained his guns on the shocking Max documentary Quiet on Set, which detailed what the past young stars went through on the Nick sets. “Omg,” was Maher’s opening salvo.

Maher said that the Nickelodeon depicted “wasn’t a studio – it was Neverland Ranch with craft services.” He said the documentary was “scene after scene of the child stars of their day being exposed to…degradation.” He added, “I was grossed out and I’ve gone camping with John Waters.”

The documentary is the talk of the town in Los Angeles, Maher said, but pointed out that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was derided when he was saying the same things about Disney’s actions.

Real Time With Bill Maher continues Friday, April 19 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/7:00-8:00 p.m. Pt). Allowing Maher to offer his unique perspective on contemporary issues, the show continues with its opening monologue, one-on-one interviews with notable guests, roundtable discussions with panelists, and its signature “New Rules.” The series airs on HBO and is available to stream on Max. This week features a one-on-one interview with Jillian Michaels, fitness, nutrition expert, and host of the podcast “Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels.” This week’s panel discussion includes Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of “The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert ... Read more...

The fallout continues at NBC News over the hiring of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel.

On Monday morning, MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski weighed in on her hiring as a political analyst, saying that they had been “inundated with calls” about the controversial move.

“We learned about the hiring when we read about it in the press on Friday,” Scarborough said to viewers.

“We weren’t asked our opinion of the hiring but if we were, we would have strongly objected to it for several reasons,” he continued, discussing her role in the aftermath of the 2020 Election to pressure election officials.

“To be clear, we believe NBC News should seek out conservative Republican voices to provide balance in their election coverage,” Brzeznski continued. “But it should be conservative Republicans, not a person who used her position of power to be an anti-democracy election denier,...

NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade is considered one of the greatest to ever play the game of basketball, winner of three NBA championships and a gold medal at the Olympic Games. For those accomplishments, he and the rare sports figures on his level earn widespread public adulation.

“As athletes, we get tags on us — called heroes. We’re looked at as heroes, by a lot of people in the world,” Wade notes. “And I’m not saying that that’s not right for what we do, but when you talk about real heroes, we’re talking about the Arlos of the world.”

Arlo Washington in ‘The Barber of Little Rock’

The Arlo he’s referring to is Arlo Washington, the man at the center of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary The Barber of Little Rock, directed by John Hoffman and Christine Turner. Washington became a successful barber and later founded a...

Los Angeles-based, Emmy® Award-winning Asylum Entertainment Group(Asylum), today announced the hire of seasoned audio pioneer Chris Corcoran to run its leading audio-forward division Audity. Corcoran, a Founding Partner of Cadence13, joins Audity as General Manager and Chief Content Officer to spearhead the company’s ambitious strategy and elevate its creative vision. He will report directly to Jodi Flynn, President of Asylum Entertainment Group.

Most recently, Corcoran served as the Chief Content Officer for Cadence13, the award-winning podcast company he helped launch. As one of the original architects of Cadence13, he defined and led the creative vision and evolution while also overseeing talent relations and content development, including the Peabody-nominated C13Originals documentary studio and theC13Features podcast movie studio. While there, he led the launch of original franchises including Gone South, Gangster Capitalism, It Was Said, Root of Evil and The Sunshine Place, introduced some of the most influential voices...

Exclusive: Chris Corcoran, who as Chief Content Officer of podcast company Cadence13 was responsible for series including Gangster Capitalism and Root of Evil, is moving to Audity.

Corcoran, a founding partner and General Manager of Audacy’s Cadence13, will run the audio division of Steve Michaels’ Endeavor-backed Asylum Entertainment Group.

The division was launched in 2019 and has been responsible for series including Kim Kardashian’s The System and Hillsong: A Megachurch Shattered.

Corcoran, who is Gm and Chief Content Officer of Audity, will report to Jodi Flynn, President of Asylum Entertainment Group.

Chris Corcoran

Cadence13, which also has the C13Originals documentary studio and the C13Features podcast movie studio, is also behind series such as Gone South, It Was Said and The Sunshine Place and has worked with the likes of Jon Meacham, Emma Chamberlain, JJ Redick, Glennon Doyle and Adrian Wojnarowski.

“Chris epitomizes the entrepreneurial drive, creative instincts and...

Presidential historian Jon Meacham chose his words very purposefully on “Morning Joe” the morning after Donald Trump’s fourth indictment, saying what Trump attempted – and is being indicted for – was plainly a coup d’etat.

“You have this whole cast of characters who’ve been indicted now in Fulton County who were attempting – and I use this word very, very advisably, I’m not just popping off here – this was a coup d’etat. This was an attempt to seize power that was not legitimately granted by the electoral processes of the Constitution of the United States. Full stop. That’s what it was.”

On Monday night, Trump and 18 others were indicted in Georgia for a number of charges ranging from racketeering to forgery to soliciting public law officers to violate their oaths. The defendants “knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,...

A common theme in U.S. network coverage of King Charles’ coronation was, why are Americans so fasciated by this?

Starting around 5 a.m. Et, the better question might as well have been, why are they up watching this?

As the king started their procession down the streets of London, commentator after commentator weighed in. On MSNBC, historian Jon Meacham quoted Shakespeare’s Henry V and said of the pageantry unfolding, “It is this marvelous cocktail, if you will, of the human, the divine, the democratic, the monarchial, the English and to some extent American.”

Others mentioned the colonial history of the U.S. and the special relationship between the two countries.

Perhaps the most succinct explanation came from Fox News’ Benjamin Hall, recently returned after recovering from severe injuries while covering the war in Ukraine, who said, “You’ve got pomp and circumstance, you’ve got a bit of...

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President Biden hosted French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House for the first state dinner of his presidency.

With France’s love of cinema and the arts, it should come as no surprise that the guest list, which the White House released early Thursday evening, is dominated by people with ties to the entertainment industry, from top executives and directors to actors and agents.

Among the media moguls in attendance were top CEOs, including NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell, Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav, Walt Disney Co. exec Dana Walden, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, CAA managing director Bryan Lourd and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Actors and other talent from in front of the camera were also in ample supply on the guest list, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Late Show host Stephen Colbert, Jennifer Garner and Good Morning America‘s Robin Roberts, John Legend,...

Stephen Colbert, Jennifer Garner, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are among the celebrity names expected at tonight’s White House State Dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron.

The event also is heavy in studio heads and moguls, including Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, NBCUniversal’s Jeff Shell, Walt Disney’s Dana Walden and Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, along with Jeffrey Katzenberg and CAA’s Bryan Lourd. Also on the guest list is Charles Rivkin, the MPA chairman and former U.S. ambassador to France, and Sarandos’ wife, producer Nicole Avant, the former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.

Other media names include Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, Olivier Knox, Jon Meacham, and other notable non-government, non-politics guests include Apple’s Tim Cook, Anna Wintour and her guest Baz Luhrmann, developer Jeff Worthe, designer Christian Louboutin and Laurene Powell Jobs.

John Batiste, Colbert’s former bandleader, is...

Exclusive: The attempt by Atlanta Braves slugger Henry Aaron to break Babe Ruth’s hallowed record of 714 career home runs, and the armed guard from the Atlanta police department assigned to keep him safe 24/7 amidst racist hate mail and death threats, will be turned into a feature film.

715! is the working title of a film that will be written by Oscar-winning Precious scribe Geoffrey Fletcher. It will be produced by Mike Tollin and his Mandalay Sports Media, and Richard Saperstein through Bluestone, which will finance.

Tollin’s producing credits include the Chicago Bulls miniseries The Last Dance, as well as the films Coach Carter and Radio, and Saperstein’s credits include Se7en, John Q and Hancock. Tollin also wrote and directed Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream, the Oscar-nominated and Peabody-winning 1995 documentary that created the relationship with Aaron, his wife Billye and his estate, which makes this film possible.

They...

Mika Brzezinski had been about as close to Jewel, the folk singer known for her hit “Who Will Save Your Soul” as Coca-Cola is to mayonnaise. But the two recently struck a connection that will have the musician appearing on one of the most distinctive broadcasts of Brzezinski’s long-running MSNBC program, “Morning Joe.”

On Wednesday, November 9, the day after the 2022 midterm elections, Kilcher will appear with Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist while they spend their program’s four hours analyzing the results and what they could mean for both Republicans and Democrats. Mike Barnicle and Jen Psaki will also appear, along with analysts ranging from Katty Kay to Jon Meacham. But Kilcher represents something a little different. Yes. she has expressed political views in the past, but she’s not the sort of politics aficionado who regularly visits the program.

Brzezinski met Kilcher through a specialist in dialetical behavior therapy,...

Bill Maher thinks Joe Biden is currently doing a good job. But he also warned against fan fiction as history, perhaps offering a contradiction that only he understands.

Maher started off the Real Time night strong with a one-on-one featuring country singer Trace Adkins, who is also starring in the new Fox TV series Monarch with Susan Sarandon. Adkins sat down and said that Maher occasionally told a funny joke. Maher pounced. “We’re indoors, you can take the hat off,” he said, following up with “Oh, is that shit on your shoes?”

But it was all in good fun. Adkins is well-known as a conservative, allowing that he stays away from political discussions with the ultra-liberal Sarandon to keep the peace. “We did our work and stayed away from everything else,” Adkins said, which Maher saw as a formula the rest of America should adopt.

Maher couldn’t resist...

David McCullough, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian whose biographies gave character and compelling narratives to figures and moments that make up the fabric of the American experience, has died. He was 89.

His publisher, Simon & Schuster, said that McCullough died on Sunday at his home in Hingman, Ma, surrounded by his five children.

Two of McCullough’s most famous works, presidential biographies of Harry Truman in 1992 and John Adams in 2001, not only won Pulitzer Prizes but were turned into TV miniseries. His gift for storytelling translated into that of a narrator of documentaries like Ken Burns’ Civil War.

McCullough received the National Book Award for The Path Between the Seas, about the building of the Panama Canal, and Mornings on Horseback, a biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Other best sellers included The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, Brave Companions, 1776, The Greater Journey, The Wright Brothers, and The American Spirit. He also...

Nikki Rodriguez has been cast as the lead in the upcoming drama series “My Life With the Walter Boys,” Netflix has announced.

Based on the popular Wattpad book by Ali Novak, “My Life With the Walter Boys,” the series stars Rodriguez as Jackie Howard, a 15-year old girl who loses her family in a tragic accident. She moves to Colorado to live with her mother’s old friend, who has 10 children of her own. Sarah Rafferty and Marc Blucas will play Jackie’s new guardians, veterinarian Dr. Katherine Walter and her husband rancher husband George. Noah Lalonde, Ashby Gentry, Connor Stanhope, Johnny Link and Corey Fogelmanis play Jackie’s new adoptive brothers. Zoë Soul and Jaylan Evans round out the main cast of the series, while Dean Petriw, Lennix James, Alix West Lefler, Alisha Newton, Ashley Tavares, Moheb Jindran, Ellie O’Brien, Mya Lowe and Gabrielle Jacinto will play recurring roles.

Former President Bill Clinton will explore the highest office in the land for The History Channel this Memorial Day.

On Wednesday, the network announced its newest documentary series, “The American Presidency with Bill Clinton,” premieres May 30. Clinton is the host and an executive producer of the series, which spans six one-hour episodes.

The series “explores the history of the American presidency and the struggle for a more perfect union,” according to the network. It will feature commentary from experts including Pulitzer Prize-winners Jon Meacham and Annette Gordon Reed, as well as Dr. Douglas Brinkley, Dr. Edna Medford Green, Dr. H.W. Brands and George Takei.

Each episode is meant to dive into a different aspect of American history, including race, extremism, the struggle for rights, presidential vision, global power and economic might.

Not only will the series take a look at presidential decisions that moved the country forward, it will also...

The nation’s biggest TV-news outlets have made it increasingly easy for top officials in the White House to have a presence in your house.

If White House press secretary Jen Psaki joins MSNBC as expected, she will be the second Biden official to land at the NBCUniversal-owned network in the space of less than a year. She will join Symone Sanders, a former campaign adviser to President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, at MSNBC, where she is taking on a weekend show that will also have a streaming presence.

Psaki declined to discuss her negotiations with MSNBC Friday during a White House press briefing, but two people familiar with the matter say she has been weighing potential roles with both CNN and MSNBC and should surface at the latter by autumn.

She isn’t alone in her interest in TV news. Mick Mulvaney, the former Trump administration aide,...

All of the news networks carried events marking the anniversary of January 6th, albeit with differences in tone and tenor, but by the time of the opinion-heavy primetime hours, there were wildly different characterizations of the significance of attack on the Capitol.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes opened his how at 8 Pm Et saying that “today we saw on full display the battle over the meaning of this date,” talking of Donald Trump’s “failed coup” as the probably the most infamous event since 9/11.

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson said it was “really just only a riot — maybe just barely,” while he again gave a platform to a theory that the events were a “false flag” operation. He even had on as a guest Sen. Ted Cruz (R-tx), who rather sheepishly said it was “sloppy and it was frankly dumb” to refer to the January 6th riot as a “violent terrorist attack” earlier this week.

Lin-Manuel Miranda introduced a Hamilton cast performance of Dear Theodosia as part of the congressional events marking the first anniversary of the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

“We should never take our rights and liberties for granted, but we must remain committed to finding a way forward together,” said Miranda, appearing virtually, along with members of the cast.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cited lyrics from the song: We’ll make it right for you. If we lay a strong enough foundation, we will pass it on to you, and we will give the world to you.

The performance was followed by a discussion with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham, both of whom put the January 6th attack and the current political divisions in context with other moments of American history.

Their words were a bit of a warning. Goodwin said that “in my lifetime,...

Updated, with additional coverage details: The first anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will be marked by continuous coverage across the broadcast and cable news networks, as reporters and anchors recount the events of that day while sharing plenty of consternation over what has happened since.

The political polarization that has gripped Washington, and much of the country, will be evident by who is expected to participate in commemoration events. Few Republicans are expected, with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Senate and House Democratic leaders slated to speak at a ceremony Thursday morning.

Former President Donald Trump, whose false claims that the election was stolen from him led his supporters to storm the Capitol, nixed plans to hold a press conference at Mar-a-Lago that would have been a kind of counterprogramming to the D.C. events. While there were reports that Trump’s...

Brian Williams didn’t go gentle into that good night.

In a noticeable break from the journalistic demeanor he has projected for nearly three decades at NBC News and MSNBC, the veteran anchor used the final minutes of his tenure on MSNBC’s “11th Hour” to warn viewers of the frailty of American democracy and urged them to keep it safe — if they could.

“My biggest worry is for my country. I’m not a liberal or a conservative. I’m an institutionalist,” he told viewers as the clock neared midnight on the east coast and his five-year term on the show came to a close. “I believe in this place and in my love of country. I yield to no one, but the darkness at the edge of town has spread to the main roads and highways and neighborhoods. It’s now at the local bar and the bowling alley,...

Exclusive: Pultizer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham is working on a sports spin-off of his audio series It Was Said.

Jon Meacham’s podcast studio Shining City Audio and joint venture partner C13 Originals, a division of Audacy’s Cadence13, are launching It Was Said: Sports, narrated by legendary NBA coach Doc Rivers.

It comes after Meacham launched the studio, as revealed by Deadline, in April.

The series will feature some of the most important and inspirational sports speeches throughout history from the likes of Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, and Hank Aaron.

Helped by guests including Michael Strahan, Urban Meyer, and Al Michaels, it will feature Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Buck’s “For America” poem following the 9/11 attacks, Ali’s speech in protest of the Vietnam War on April 28, 1967, King’s Commencement Speech on June 16, 2017 championing women’s rights, Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow’s September 27, 2008 “The Promise” speech,...

Netflix and CD Projekt Red have unveiled the schedule for WitcherCon, the first-ever virtual event dedicated to The Witcher universe.

Hosted by Julia Hardy, the event will consist of two live streams that will both contain exclusive short-form content and production insights. Available on both Twitch and YouTube, the events will stream on July 9 at 1 p.m. Et and July 10 at 9 p.m. Et.

The full schedule is as follows:

The Witcher Season 2: Deck of Destiny

Panel Guests: Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan, Mimî M Khayisa, Paul Bullion

The cast and showrunner of Netflix’s “The Witcher” will draw cards from a deck of fan questions that will determine the path of the panel and the immediate fate of the guests. The session promises surprise reveals and backstage insights about filming the second season.

CD Projekt Red’s Memories from the Path: Stories Behind The Witcher Games...

Exclusive: Jon Meacham, the Pultizer Prize-winning historian, is expanding his relationship with Cadence13 with the launch of his own podcast studio.

Meacham has launched Shining City Audio to produce a slate of audio documentaries and series centered around history with the originals arm of the Audacy-owned company.

It comes on the back of Meacham’s shows, including It Was Said and Hope, Through History.

The co-venture has also set its initial slate of shows, which features two new series written and narrated by Meacham including Fate of Fact, a limited-run series launching on April 28. The show examines the question of how and why so many conservative Americans have become prone to disinformation and anti-democratic narratives. Meacham is also launching a daily podcast focused on this day in history.

The slate will also include History is Us, a documentary podcast franchise written and narrated by author Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

In today’s TV news roundup, Hulu set a premiere date for “Solar Opposites” Season 2, and Animal Planet announced “Puppy Bowl Xvii.”

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Hulu’s adult animated comedy series “Solar Opposites” will return for a second season on March 26. The series follows four aliens, Korvo (Justin Roiland), Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone), Terry (Thomas Middleditch) and Jesse (Mary Mack), who escape their exploding homes to start a new life in suburban America. The upcoming season will see the pack on a mission to protect the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve, consume them and terraform the Earth. The series comes from “Rick & Morty” creator Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan. Watch the announcement below.

“Puppy Bowl Xvii” will launch its three-hour special event on Animal Planet and Discovery Plus on Feb. 7. Hosted by “Puppy Bowl” veteran Dan Schachner, it will feature 70 puppies from 22 shelters across nine Northeastern states.

So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.

Dierks Bentley and his family were vacationing in Colorado when the pandemic began and Tennessee schools went remote, so they spent several weeks after that getting outdoors on mountain trails and riding their bikes. In the midst of it, Bentley was helping promote the debut album by Hot Country Knights, a faux Nineties country group...

President-elect Joe Biden, in his first remarks since declared the victor in the 2020 election, pledged to bring unity to the country after a polarizing and brutally fought campaign.

“I am humbled by the trust and confidence you placed in me,” Biden said to a crowd of supporters in Wilmington, De. “I pledge to be a president who does not seek to to divide, but unify, who doesn’t see red states or blue states, who only sees the United States.”

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As he spoke, supporters in a parking lot of the Chase Center cheered and honked their horns from their cars, spaced apart in the name of social distancing.

“It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again,” Biden said.

He addressed supporters of his opponent Donald Trump.

“I understand your disappointment tonight,...

With only three weeks before a particularly consequential Election Day, political movies — both documentaries and docudramas — are flooding the market in an effort to keep voters engaged and enraged.

Most prominent are Aaron Sorkin’s star-studded “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Alex Gibney’s pandemic response expose “Totally Under Control” and Liz Garbus-Lisa Cortés’ “All In: The Fight for Democracy.”

But that’s just the tip of the political iceberg of movies taking advantage of the heightened political climate this month. There’s also “The Soul of America,” directed by Kd Davison and based on Jon Meacham’s 2018 book “The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels.” The film explores historical challenges such as the women’s suffrage movement, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, and the struggle to pass Civil Rights legislation. HBO is airing on Oct. 27.

The footage includes an interview with the...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham explains in his documentary “The Soul of America” that the Trump era we’re living through does have parallels in American history, from Japanese internment camps, politicians who proposed building metal walls to keep out immigrants and even a claim that Joseph McCarthy would’ve loved Twitter.

Meacham’s book from 2018 “The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels” was adapted into a documentary film directed by Kd Davison to give a visual history to Meacham’s words. And HBO will debut the documentary on Tuesday, October 27 at 9:00 Et/Pt, ahead of election night 2020.

“The Soul of America” goes back to moments in history including World War II and Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, the women’s rights and civil rights movements in the 1960s and much more to understand how Americans have continually battled against forces of hatred, oppression and division to improve the way of American life.

(Updated, with comment from Trump campaign source & Nyt statement) A New York Times reporter said she was kicked out of Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Michigan, after posting on social media about the crowds and the lack of masks among the thousands of attendees.

Kathy Gray wrote on social media that the Trump campaign “tracked me down from the picks I tweeted and escorted me out.”

Trump rally in freeland attracts thousands . Maybe 10% have masks.

— Kathy Gray (@michpoligal) September 10, 2020

Crammed in crowd in the rain for trump rally in michigan. Not many masks pic.twitter.com/5DZ6JBVNK8

— Kathy Gray (@michpoligal) September 10, 2020

Air force one just landed

— Kathy Gray (@michpoligal) September 10, 2020

And so it begins pic.twitter.com/fuLY4oasjP

— Kathy Gray (@michpoligal) September 10, 2020

I’ve just been kicked out of the trump rally.

— Kathy Gray (@michpoligal) September 10, 2020

First for me: Trump campaign tracked me down from pics i tweeted and escorted me out.

Updated with Thursday details: The 2020 Democratic National Convention wraps four days of virtual party meetings, events and speeches Thursday night, when Joe Biden will formally accept the party’s presidential nomination in primetime.

The coronavirus pandemic scuttled plans for the usually in-person conventions for both Dems and Republicans (the latter have their convention next week); the election is November 3. In its place on the Dems’ side were a week of morning and afternoon meetings followed by a primetime block from 9-11 p.m. Et each night that features marquee speeches and musical performances including from Billie Eilish, John Legend and Jennifer Hudson.

Harris and former President Barack Obama fueled Wednesday night’s program, with Harris accepting the VP nomination to make history as the first woman of color to do so.

Joe Biden delivers the most important speech of his political career tonight on the finale of the Democratic Convention, but he’ll also have a bit of counter-programming by President Donald Trump.

In the hour before Biden delivers his acceptance speech, Trump is scheduled to be interviewed by Sean Hannity on Fox News’ Hannity, several hours after the president trekked to Biden’s childhood hometown of Scranton, Pa to give a speech.

The highlight of the Democratic Convention, to start at 9 Pm Et, will be Biden’s acceptance speech, and the campaign has given a hint of its tone with the theme of the evening, America’s Promise.

Also scheduled to give remarks are Biden’s children, Ashley and Hunter. The latter has been a low-key presence during the campaign, but was a target of Republicans during the Democrats’ impeachment hearings.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the star of Veep, will serve as moderator of the evening,...

Room 104 and Togetherness creators Mark and Jay Duplass have set their latest HBO project – a documentary series about a 1970s auto scam centered around a mysterious entrepreneur.

The Lady and the Dale is one of a number of new documentaries unveiled by WarnerMedia’s premium cable network.

The film, which is directed by Nick Cammilleri (Slide) and Zackary Drucker (Transparent), tells the story of Elizabeth Carmichael, who rose to prominence when she released a fuel-efficient three-wheeled vehicle during the 1970s gas crisis.

However, the problem was that there were questions marks whether Carmichael and the car were real. Liz Carmichael was born Jerry Dean Michael, a criminal wanted for grand theft, fraud and involvement in the Colombian drug ring. The story involves investigative journalists and hit men with employees insisting that Carmichael, one of the first public figures to be outed as transgender, worked non-stop on the revolutionary car,...

Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired the North American theatrical and select home entertainment rights for Barbara Kopple’s documentary Desert One. Greenwich will release Desert One on a to-be-determined date followed by a broadcast on History.

The docu from the two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker, which debuted at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, revisits April 1980 when the military participated in a rescue operation known as Operation Eagle Claw, whee they rescued 52 U.S. citizens who were taken hostage by Iranian revolutionaries in Tehran. Desert One features interviews with President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, ABC Nightline journalist Ted Koppel, former hostages, journalists and Iranian student revolutionaries who orchestrated the takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran. Animations will present never before heard satellite phone recordings of President Carter talking to his generals as the mission unfolds as it will take viewers deep into the historic operation.

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Exclusive: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, A+E Networks’ History and podcast company Cadence13 have teamed up for a five-part audio docuseries.

Meacham, who has written books including The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross and The Soul of America, is writing and narrating Hope, Through History.

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The series will explore five defining moments in time when America’s leaders and citizens were forced to confront crises of historic magnitude, offering a portrait of the events and an overview of how they impacted the economy and culture, and how the country came together.

It will look at the 1918 Flu Pandemic,...

Joe Biden appeared on the latest Jimmy Kimmel’s Quarantine Monologue, Kimmel’s web series substitute as his show has been sidelined because of the coronavirus, and the topic turned to whether President Donald Trump will try to postpone the 2020 election because of the crisis.

“Is it possible that Trump could postpone the presidential election?” Kimmel asked, repeating a scenario that many Democrats fear may happen if the pandemic stretches into the fall.

“No, he doesn’t have the authority to do that,” Biden said. “It is possible they may start...

The long day of impeachment trial coverage ended with a brief moment of suspense — just how will Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-tn) vote on whether to call witnesses and extend the proceedings. At just after 11 p.m. Et, he answered: No.

That raises the likelihood that Democrats will come up short in their efforts to convince enough Republicans to compel witnesses in a vote on Friday, and that the trial will come to a close with a final decision on President Donald Trump’s acquittal or removal later in the day.

On cable news channels, commentators treated Alexander’s announcement as the beginning of the end of proceedings.

“It’s a cover up,” reporter Carl Bernstein said on CNN. “That is what the Senate has now done. They have covered up what the President of the United States has done in his grievous actions when they had the ability to find out more.

History Channel announced Saturday that its six-part miniseries on George Washington will debut on President’s Day weekend.

It will air over three nights beginning Sunday, Feb. 16, and continuing on Feb. 17 and 18. The miniseries is narrated by Jeff Daniels and is executive produced by author Doris Kearns Goodwin. Watch the video above.

“Washington” will feature a mix of dramatic retellings, with Nicholas Rowe playing Washington, as well as interviews with former President Bill Clinton, Colin Powell and historians Joseph J. Ellis, Annette Gordon-Reed, Jon Meacham, Alan Taylor and others.

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“Our audience thrives on gaining knowledge about legendary leaders who have made an impact to the fabric of our society and History continues to invest in premium content to tell these gripping stories,” Eli Lehrer, executive vice president and general manager, History, said.

History has set a Presidents’ Day Weekend rollout for Washington, a three-night docudrama executive-produced by renowned historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The cabler also has announced premieres for docus about Auschwitz and the African American experience during the Revolutionary War.

Narrated by Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom), Washington will air in nightly two-hour installments on Sunday, Feb. 16, Monday, Feb. 17 and Tuesday, Feb. 18, all at 8/7c. The event will explore the arc of the first president’s journey and weave together dramatic live-action sequences, excerpts from Washington’s letters, and insights from a roster of experts, including President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Colin Powell,...

Following a big year that saw him co-authoring a book and performing for a giant crowd during the NFL Draft, Tim McGraw will swing back into action in 2020 with a new headlining summer tour.

Dubbed the Here on Earth Tour, McGraw’s new trek will get underway July 10th in Syracuse, New York, with stops including Holmdel, New Jersey; Dallas, Texas; and San Diego, California, for 30 dates in total. Midland and Ingrid Andress will serve as support throughout the entire tour. Also included in the itinerary are a pair of...

In today’s TV news roundup, Comedy Central has renewed “This Week at the Comedy Cellar” and HBO released the premiere date for Season 18 of “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

Dates

Season 18 of “Real Time with Bill Maher” will premiere Jan. 17, HBO announced. The upcoming season starts off with a bang as it leads with Nancy Pelosi as the first episode’s primary guest, Andrew Yang will appear as the mid-show guest, and Joe Walsh, Kara Swisher and Jon Meacham will speak as Maher’s roundtable guests. Directed by Paul Casey, “Real Time with Bill Maher” is executive produced by Maher, Sheila Griffiths, Marc Gurvitz, Dean Johnsen, Billy Martin. Chris Kelly serves as co-executive producer.

Renewals

Comedy Central has renewed “This Week at the Comedy Cellar” for a third season. The six-episode season, which will return Feb. 21, will highlight some of the best stand-up talent from the stage of the...