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Roger Ebert was unquestionably the most celebrated voice in film criticism, even though some films that found their way onto his "most hated" list have achieved acclaim as cult classics. The Devil's Rain, released in 1975 and featuring a cast that included Ernest Borgnine, William Shatner, and John Travolta in one of his earliest roles, was one of many that Ebert harbored disdain for. The Devil's Rain boasts a remarkable cast in front of the camera and also had a notable figure operating behind it, as Anton Lavey, founder of The Church of Satan, served as a technical advisor.

The Devil's Rain, while being bombastic and somewhat ham-fisted in its presentation, is almost prophetic regarding the events that would occur in the decade following its release. The era of Satanic panic and the ritual abuse conspiracy theories were a staple of talk shows and supermarket tabloids. All through Middle America, the...

Election Day is here, and the major news networks are prepared for a long night — and potentially a long week.

With over 50 million people early voting in the 2024 Presidential Election, Tuesday night will offer plenty of results to thumb through even if an ultimate winner isn’t called until later in the week, and most of the news networks will kick off their election night coverage at 6 p.m. Et, with CNN even starting at 12 a.m. Et while NBC News begins at 5 p.m. Et.

MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki will return to the Big Board — and will even be livestreamed on Peacock and other social platforms — while Fox News will see Bill Hemmer steering the “Bill”-board.

Most networks have scheduled eight hours of election night programming from 6 p.m. Et to 2 a.m. Et, with a result for the presidential showdown between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump not expected immediately.

The Republican National Convention opened Monday afternoon, with a boosted security presence following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

That has given the proceedings a different tenor of coverage, with Trump expected to appear on the floor Monday night to a rousing reception of delegates and supporters.

Before the Trump rally shooting, correspondents already were looking to a convention that would be more than just a coronation of the Republican nominee, as he has yet to announce his vice presidential running mate. The former president has signaled that will come today.

Now, with the assassination attempt and concerns over the escalation of political violence, media focus will be on the speakers and the extent to which they display messages of unity versus red meat rhetoric.

“The reality is, this whole convention now is going to be really colored by what happened the other, and just the images of him pumping first and saying,...

CNN is under fire for normalizing Donald Trump — an accusation that the network faced in 2016, when it gave him wall-to-wall coverage and multiple on-air appearances.

On May 9, the former “Apprentice” star was found liable for sexual abuse and battery in Manhattan civil court via the lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll. The verdict arrived a little over a month after Trump, who also served as President of the United States from 2017 to 2021, also was charged with 34 felony counts related to hush money payments made to an adult film star.

Much of the attention of media commentators on Twitter after the verdict was directed at CNN, which has undergone a sustained change since the Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Today, May 10, just a day after the ruling, the network will host a primetime Town Hall event with Trump hosted by Kaitlan Collins. He will be the first GOP challenger to President Joe Biden...

President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 9 p.m. Et/ 6 p.m. Pt. The speech comes as Biden — and the nation — face a host of generational crises including a burgeoning war in Ukraine, an ever-shifting pandemic and the overarching threat of climate change. It will mark Biden’s second address to a joint session of Congress.

A broad swath of outlets will be carrying the speech as well as offering analysis and reaction. See below for a breakdown of the expected coverage. You can also watch the President’s speech via the video embedded below.

ABC’s David Muir will lead the network’s coverage from Washington, D.C., with ABC News’ political team, including Linsey Davis, Cecilia Vega, Jonathan Karl, Martha Raddatz, Pierre Thomas, Chris Christie and Donna Brazile. Correspondents will also report during on ABC News Live.

This is it, America – Election Day 2020. With President Donald Trump, his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and so many others declaring this “the most important election of our lifetimes,” it’s time for the final votes to be cast and tallied. Deadline will provide live coverage all day – and, likely, night – long, and here is a rundown of how to watch as the historic day unfolds.

You can keep abreast of called states with the Electoral Map on our homepage, and watch our poll closing times to get a sense of where things stand at any given moment. There promises to be no shortage of drama, along with the potential for a 2016-esque GOP surprise or a 2018-like blue wave. But prognosticators gonna prognosticate, while Americans await their new president.

If you haven’t voted yet, please do. Then follow all the action of the strangest election in the strangest year.

The final debate of the 2020 presidential election cycle is tonight in Nashville, with the second nationally televised meeting between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden set to begin at 9 p.m. Et/6 p.m. Pt at Belmont University.

NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker will moderate the debate, which will be simulcast across a total of 16 broadcast and cable networks and available on several streaming services and digital platforms. You can also watch the livestream on Deadline (courtesy of PBS NewsHour) here:

Like the first debate on September 28 in Cleveland — which drew 73.1 million viewers across the networks, the third-highest total ever — tonight’s debate will be 90 minutes without commercial interruption, with the subject matter (chosen by Welker) across six 15-minute segments to include fighting Covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.

The Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the proceedings, has tweaked...

There’s a little TV event taking place tonight that you might have heard about. President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden will square off in their first debate of the 2020 election season. Deadline is offering the C-span livestream above, but there are numerous other ways to watch.

Moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the 90-minute tussle starts at 9 p.m. Et from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland. The Fox News Sunday host already has laid out what tonight’s topics will be, in no particular order: the Trump and Biden records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities and the integrity of the election.

All the major broadcast and cable news networks and their radio and online outlets will carry the feed, while it will be shown on online platforms ranging from Roku to Twitter.

Here’s a...

CNN’s town hall with Joe Biden on Thursday will be a drive-in experience.

The network said that the event will take place in the parking lot of Pnc Field in Moosic, where a stage has been set up and spots for thirty five cars, spaced out to follow social distancing guidelines.

The event is being held just outside Scranton, Pa, Biden’s hometown. About 100 people are expected to be in attendance.

“In these extraordinary times, we’re taking these extraordinary measures to try to bring the presidential campaign to the people, which has obviously been very difficult because campaigning is difficult, if not near impossible,” said Mark Preston, CNN’s vice president of political and special events programming and a senior political analyst.

The event, which starts at 8 Pm Et, will be Biden’s first town hall since accepting the Democratic nomination. President Donald Trump participated in an ABC News town hall on Tuesday,...

CNN is planning a town-hall event with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden tonight that is so complex and ornate viewers may mistake it for something entirely different.

“It’s going to be like ‘American Graffiti,” says Mark Preston, CNN’s vice president of political and special event programming, in an interview.

So-called “town halls” have grown in popularity among the nation’s TV-news outlets in recent years, part of a bid to inject the voices of average citizens into big news cycles. The advent of the coronavirus pandemic makes the logistics of such things more difficult. No candidate can really get too close to a questioner, after all, and who wants to sit in an enclosed space for a long period of time? CNN has struck upon an interesting alternative: When the AT&T-owned cable-news outlet begins broadcasting its event Thursday evening at 8 p.m. from Pnc Field in Moosic,...