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His new series has been greeted as a glorious comeback after an ignominious exit from the BBC. But Jeremy Clarkson’s show The Grand Tour has brought with it the familiar whiff of controversy thanks to a tasteless joke about ebola. The resemblance of a racetrack in his Amazon Prime series to a magnified image of the virus led Clarkson to dub it the Eboladrome. And the remark brought an immediate backlash from viewers startled by the former Top Gear star’s apparent insensitivity over a disease that killed 30,000 in West Africa two years ago.

Popular musician and actor Nick Cannon, 36, has slammed failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and controversial abortion provider Planned Parenthood for inflicting "real genocide" on the black community through abortion. In an interview with "The Breakfast Club" on New York's Power 105.1 FM on Thursday, Cannon made it clear that he was no fan of the pro-abortion movement in America or Clinton when co-host Charlemagne Tha God joked that he caused Clinton to lose the election by encouraging people not to vote. "[He's] one of the reasons Donald Trump is in the White House," Charlemagne said of Cannon...

The Robertson family, a clan who originally made their fortune in a business making duck calls and other hunting-related products, has been a reality television staple since 2012, when their series Duck Dynasty began airing on A&E. After 11 seasons, the Robertsons are calling it quits, according to a video announcement the family made after this week's season premiere. "This will be our final season," Jase Robertson said. "After five years we've decided as a family for this to be the final chapter of the 'Duck Dynasty' series." Si Robertson added: "May God bless each and every one of...

The greatest Thanksgiving tradition of them all returns! MST3K Turkey Day 2016 will happen once again. Well, well, well. Another Thanksgiving is almost here, and for the fourth year in a row, we're lucky enough to have a Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon to go with the food coma. That's right, it's the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon 2016! After a Turkey Day drought from 1997-2012, MST3K Turkey Day returned in 2013, and now appears to be as inevitable as watching the Detroit Lions lose on Thanksgiving Day (calm down, Lions fans, this is meant as a good-natured rib, I root...

I have been watching OANN as a cord cutter for three weeks and its positive attitude and its willingness to air news even Fox won't air has convinced me that cord cutters need help (I know I do) locating quality, non-cable sources of programming. I plan on a separate vanity about One America News Network, but I think cord cutting is a concept that needs to reach a tipping point. Thoughts?

The Long Island home that served as the inspiration for the book “The Amityville Horror” and the subsequent films of the same name is being bought. […] Before gaining fame with the release of the original movie in 1979, the house was where 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his parents and four younger siblings in 1974. …

Joe Friday and Bill Gannon give a speech to some teenagers about their wishes to start a new country.

“The Real O’Neals” draws fewer viewers on Tuesday nights during prime time than any other show on ABC. Here’s the proof. •8:00 “The Middle” draws 6.16 million viewers •8:30 “American Housewife” draws 5.24 million •9:00 “Fresh Off the Boat” draws 4.26 million •9:30 “The Real O’Neals” draws 3.56 million •10:00 “David Blaine: Beyond Magic” draws 5.13 million In other words, 700,000 viewers who watched “Fresh Off the Boat” either turned off the TV or turned to another channel when the “O’Neals” came on. Yet when the “O’Neals” went off the air, more than 1.5 million viewers turned on ABC. The...

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Her doe eyes filled with fear as Jack Nicholson chops his way through a door remains one of Hollywood horror movies' most iconic scenes, but this star is a heartbreakingly long way from her glory days. Shelley Duvall's struggles with mental illness has been revealed for the first time in a new interview with Dr. Phil. In a sneak peek of an upcoming show released Wednesday, the Eighties actress is almost unrecognizable.

As the game show turns 50, the 73-year-old, Canada-born host — who has spent 30 years grilling contestants about everything from radioactive isotopes to the War of 1812 — answers THR's questions. A version of this story first appeared in the May 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. What's your health regimen like? I was counting up my various surgeries the other day and I think it's close to 20 now — different parts of my body — and people often ask, they say, "You appear to be in good shape, do you work out?" I say, "No." "Do...

Yoko Ono responds to Trump being elected Yoko Ono has responded to Trump being elected with her new hit single "Dying Animal Asking For Sweet Sweet Release From This World"

Perhaps panic over the NFL’s evaporating television audience was premature. On the first post-election Sunday, the league’s ratings surged thanks to two marquee match ups. According to NBC, Seahawks-Patriots drew the network its biggest Week 10 Sunday Night Football audience in five years. Meanwhile in Fox’s late-afternoon window, the Cowboys’ 35-30 win over the Steelers was the NFL’s highest-rated individual game this year. However it’s indisputable that NFL viewership lagged over the season’s first half. Entering Week 9, industry experts peg total NFL consumption down about 14 percent. In a memo sent from the NFL office in early October, the...

US actress Lindsay Lohan, who has been busy visiting refugee camps in Tukey, asked US President-elect Donald Trump on Twitter Sunday to join her on a trip to Syria and Turkey to see the plight of refugees first hand. “@realDonaldTrump please let me help you. #theworldisbiggerthan5 come to Istanbul and Syria with me. You can see it first hand,” she tweeted, using a slogan often said by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “The world is bigger than five” means the world is bigger than the big five powers: US, UK, France, China and Russia. Lohan’s manager Scott Carlsen told The...

J.K. Rowling’s latest fantasy blockbuster explores a clandestine world of stylish, secretive creatures who live undetected among an oblivious, mistrustful majority in New York City, and have their own cool underground bars. That’s right: “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them” is a gay-liberation epic. It might be the gayest superhero movie since “X-Men: First Class.” “First Class” hit theaters in 2011, a time when the gay-marriage debate was feverish, whereas today gay rights seemingly aren’t much in jeopardy.

NFL Live Thread Week 11 Thursday, Nov. 17 8:25 p.m. ET Saints at Panthers Sunday, Nov. 20 1 p.m. ET Steelers at Browns 1 p.m. ET Ravens at Cowboys 1 p.m. ET Jaguars at Lions 1 p.m. ET Titans at Colts 1 p.m. ET Bills at Bengals 1 p.m. ET Buccaneers at Chiefs 1 p.m. ET Bears at Giants 1 p.m. ET Cardinals at Vikings 4:05 p.m. ET Dolphins at Rams 4:25 p.m. ET Patriots at 49ers 4:25 p.m. ET Eagles at Seahawks 8:30 p.m. ET Packers at Redskins Monday, Nov. 21 8:30 p.m. ET Texans at Raiders Bye week:...

Monday on “CBS This Morning,” Comedy Central “Daily Show,” host Trevor Noah said President-elect Donald Trump’s victory was a result his voters’ putting sexism and racism “above everything else.”

"Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven complained on Sunday that Hollywood had stopped making "challenging" movies featuring provocative sex as it clamored to cash in on mainstream audiences. The Dutch filmmaker, famous for a slew of films that shocked audiences with their sex and violence, said studios chasing ratings were now mainly interested in the lucrative "PG-13" market. "If you say it has to be PG-13, there are a lot of things you cannot do. You cannot be provocative, you cannot be controversial, you cannot be sexual, erotic, in a direct way," he told AFP.

Yeezus for president? The outspoken rapper talked about his plans to run for president in 2020 during a recent interview with BBC radio host Annie Mac. “When I talk about the idea of being president, I’m not saying I have any political views,” he told Mac. “I don’t have views on politics, I just have a view on humanity, on people, on the (the) truth. If there is anything that I can do with my time to somehow make a difference while I’m still alive, I’m all for it.” Much to the delight of his fans — and shock to...