Fox Corp. ad sales chief Marianne Gambelli is retiring, and the company has named Fox News vet Jeff Collins as her replacement.
03.01.2024 - 18:03 / deadline.com
Jimmy Failla has been named host of Fox News Saturday Night, the weekly comedy satire series that debuted last year.
Failla, whose new role is effective Jan. 13, has been among the rotating series of hosts on the show. He will continue to host his weekday radio show, Fox Across America, and headlines a standup comedy special, Jimmy Failla: They’re Just Jokes, that debuted on Wednesday on the subscription streaming service Fox Nation.
Fox News Saturday Night airs at 10 p.m. ET, the same time slot that Greg Gutfeld filled until he transitioned to a weeknight show. Gutfeld’s show has been a ratings success for Fox, which moved him up an hour to 10 p.m. ET last year.
Failla also is the author of Cancel Culture Dictionary for Fox News Books, set to be published on Jan. 30, with a special released on Fox Nation two days earlier. Failla, a former cab driver, joined the network as a writer in 2016.
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Fox Corp. ad sales chief Marianne Gambelli is retiring, and the company has named Fox News vet Jeff Collins as her replacement.
Rachel McAdams has made a surprise cameo in the latest episode of Saturday Night Live – watch below.Last night (January 20) featured Jacob Elordi as the host, along with Reneé Rapp as the musical guest. Rapp, who plays Regina George in the new musical movie Mean Girls, was introduced by McAdams, the OG Regina.Reneé Rapp performed her song ‘Not My Fault’ from Mean Girls, which saw Megan The Stallion grace the stage to give another surprise cameo.McAdams then acted in a sketch starring Elordi as an actor giving advice.
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As former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley took the stage at CNN‘s town hall in New Hampshire, her chief rival in the state’s primary took to another interview on Fox News.
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“Entertainment Tonight,” hinting that there are several names in the running.Fey’s name has come up in the conversation several times before, and The Post revealed last year that the “Mean Girls” actress is being courted to take over.Michaels said Fey, 53, is someone he could trust implicitly with the hit NBC sketch show, adding that she’s “brilliant” in everything she does.“She’s a very important person in my life,” he added.The Post has reached out to Fey’s reps for comment.Michaels added that while he may be looking up a future replacement for himself, he’s still very much looking to remain with “SNL” for its 50th anniversary, slated for February 2025.“I will definitely be there for that, and definitely be there until that,” he shared. “And sometime before that, we’ll figure out what we’re gonna do.”The 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” is set to start in the fall, when Michaels will turn 80 years old.
Turnout for the Iowa caucuses was down, and so was viewership. Early numbers show that interest was down considerably from 2020 and, before that, from 2016, with about 4.67 million watching primetime coverage across Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.
MyPillow ads have disappeared from Fox News, as Mike Lindell complains that he’s being silenced but the network says it’s because his company has not paid its bills.
Taylor Swift is a political “asset” for the government.The conspiracy theory about the pop star arose earlier this week, when news anchor Jesse Watters threw the singer’s mainstream prominence into question and went on a rant about whether she could be part of a psychological operation manufactured by the CIA.“Taylor Swift is the biggest star in the world… but have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this,” he said at the start of the five-minute-long segment.He then went on to insinuate that the singer was in cahoots with the government – a scheme which allegedly began when “The Pentagon psyop unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset for combating misinformation online.”Here, he played a brief clip from 2019, which he described as a Pentagon employee pitching NATO on Swift as a potential asset due to her role as a powerful influencer.This was soon disproved by Mediaite, who highlighted that the woman in the video doesn’t work for the Pentagon – she is a research engineer in applied physics at Johns Hopkins University who was giving a presentation at NATO’s International Conference on Cyber Conflict, or CYCON.Is Taylor Swift a Pentagon PsyOp asset? pic.twitter.com/yHp8WywKh8— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) January 10, 2024Now, a spokesperson for The Pentagon has put the bizarre speculation to rest by quoting one of Swift’s most famous songs.Making reference to her iconic ‘1989’, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said (via Politico): “As for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off.”“But that does highlight that we still need Congress to approve our supplemental budget request as Swift-ly as possible so we can be out of the woods with potential fiscal concerns,” they added.In his
The Pentagon is reacting to a conspiracy that Taylor Swift is a “psyop” or has been hired by the government.
“Live coverage here, as it happens,” declared Fox News Martha MacCallum today with an on-screen Breaking News alert. “We are now minutes away from Hunter Biden’s arraignment in a Los Angeles courtroom!”
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Whoopi Goldberg used the January 11 episode of “The View” to slam Fox News for perpetuating a conspiracy theory that claims the U.S. government is using Taylor Swift to control public opinion (via Entertainment Weekly). “There are real issues impacting millions of Americans,” Goldberg said.
Taylor Swift, suggesting that she may be part of a Pentagon covert operation.The moment took place when news anchor Jesse Watters threw the singer’s mainstream prominence into question and went on a rant about if she could be part of a psychological operation manufactured by the CIA.“Taylor Swift is the biggest star in the world… She’s been blanketed across the sports media entertainment atmosphere,” he said at the start of the five-minute-long segment.“I like her music, she’s alright, but I mean have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this,” he added. “Well around four years ago, the Pentagon’s psychological operations unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting.
What in the hell are you people even talking about anymore?!
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor If anyone should be able to engineer a reunion of “Saturday Night Live” alumni, it should be Dan Aykroyd. A member of the show’s first cast of “Not Ready for Prime-Time Players,” Aykroyd was also among the first to jump from “SNL” to Hollywood and continues to tour with a band based on The Blues Brothers group he and John Belushi originated on the NBC mainstay.
Protesters briefly interrupted a Fox News town hall with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who in campaigning in Iowa in the final days before that state’s caucuses.
Scott Wilder has been promoted to executive vice president of productions and operations for Fox News Media.
Anthony Anderson is teaming up with his mother, Doris Bowman aka Mama Doris, in Fox’s latest competition series We Are Family, and he’s excited (and possibly nervous) to hear what she’s got to say.
Fox News will host a town hall featuring former President Donald Trump on January 10, counter-programming to CNN‘s Republican debate from Iowa that same evening.
Fox News dominated the ratings for 2023, but only MSNBC showed slight growth in audience compared to a year earlier.