2 Local TV Stations Duped by John Oliver Promise Reviews of Sponsored Content

On this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver decided to have some “summer fun” with his main segment.

Kate Hudson's brother, Oliver Hudson, delighted fans with a sweet update on his famous family when he shared a heartwarming post on Instagram.The Nashville actor paid tribute to his wife, Erin Bartlett, who he shares his three gorgeous children with - and his social media followers loved it. MORE: Goldie Hawn's grandson steals the show in new family video with famous dad Oliver posted several snapshots of the model, along with a cheeky wedding photo too.

Serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) has released a breezy new single, ‘You Don’t Own Me / Canopy’.The first half of the track, as its title implies, is a cover of Leslie Gore’s 1963 single ‘You Don’t Own Me’. Wise’s rift on it retains the original version’s gloomy, downbeat vibe, but spins it through a web of sharp, minimalist beats and summery vocal harmonies.On the second half of the track, Wise dips into the melancholic, lovelorn moodiness he’s best known for.

Chris Willman Music WriterIf you ever yearned to hear concerts by your favorite artists one night and listen to their TED talks the next, then Park City Song Summit may be your kind of music festival. That’s even though the Utah gathering is avoiding that particular F-word, “festival,” in emphasizing that its inaugural edition — set for Sept.

On Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight”, John Oliver brought to light the little-known story of the Chinese survivors of the Titanic tragedy.

video above.“Look, I know this story has barely skimmed the surface of this subject,” Oliver concluded Sunday’s show. “But I hope that it’s at least introduced some of you to a bit of the history involved here.”“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” is produced for HBO by Avalon and Sixteen String Jack Productions; executive produced by John Oliver, Tim Carvell, Liz Stanton, Jon Thoday and James Taylor; directed by Paul Pennolino and Christopher Werner.

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver reminded viewers at home that though America is returning to a state of normalcy, much of life abroad is at peril due to limited access to vaccines and abysmal government response.

7-minute rant about cereal. In it, the host specifically called out Cheerios for having a boring Twitter account.

@cheerios, we will donate $25k to the charity of your choice. All you have to do is tweet a simple “Fuck you.” And we’ll double it if you target a random, non-famous user.

There is a crisis in the cereal world but John Oliver is on top of it.

Oliver Stark presents on stage with Ryan Guzman at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards on Thursday night (May 27) at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

HBO show Last Week Tonight, Oliver set up a trap in which he paid local stations to advertise ‘Oliver’s Venus Veil’ to highlight how easy it is to advertise fake items on television.Austin-based KVUE-TV, Denver’s KMGH-TV and KTVX-TV in Utah all ran the adverts, with the former two now launching investigations following the mishap.“Right now, it’s far too easy to make a ridiculous product that makes outlandish claims and get it onto local TV.

Last week on Monday Night Raw, the unexpected main event spotlight on Kofi Kingston, with The New Day member winning against both his old nemesis Randy Orton and WWE Champion Bobby Lashley in the same night, came as a pleasant surprise for the WWE Universe. This week's WWE Raw saw Bobby and his The Hurt Business partner MVP playing spoilsports by interfering in Kofi and Drew McIntyre's thrilling WWE Championship No.

Two major station groups said that they were reviewing their processes for airing sponsored content following a segment that aired on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with in which the show paid to get an interview on the air featuring a spokesperson for a fake “sexual wellness blanket.”

Sponsored content on local news is a problem, and John Oliver has proven why.

Venusinventions.com which features this amazing graphic, that presumably is supposed to illustrate the blanket’s, uh, alleged sexual healing properties. John Oliver then pointed out that many news stations “swap figures between their newsroom and their sponsored content shows,” just like ABC4 Utah’s Surae Chinn, who serves as the station’s chief medical correspondent and also anchors several of its sponsored content bits.

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver began his show by lamenting the current state of Republican politics in the country.

A 10-year-old Israeli girl issued a response to John Oliver after a segment on HBO's "Last Week Tonight" was highly critical of Israel and its role in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The little girl, whose name is Renana and lives on the Israeli side of the Gaza border, spoke in a video shared by the Israeli media outlet Walla on Twitter Wednesday.