Studiocanal has acquired UK and Ireland rights for Ali Abbasi’s Cannes Palme d’Or contender The Apprentice.
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Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Jimmy Kimmel Live! is a mainstay of ABC’s schedule, its late-night anchor and frequent Emmy nominee. Joining me for a conversation for Deadline’s Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted event were executive producer/co-head writer Molly McNearney, co-head writer/supervising producer Danny Ricker and supervising producer/writer Gary Greenberg.
McNearney, who also is married to the host, talked about the challenges of turning out a nightly late-night talk show and keeping it fresh after all these years.
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“I think the biggest challenge is probably just having coming up with original content every single night, and it’s weird because late-night can feel like it’s the same.” she said. “The day can feel repetitive because the formula of the day stays the same. The deadlines. You read the news stories in the morning. You put in the joke deadlines, pitch the bits, have rehearsal at the same time, get the scripts in. That can feel repetitive, but the stories we’re covering are very different every day. They have started to feel like the same in the last few years. I think we can all say there’s a big orange elephant in the room that we have been reporting on night after night, and I think finding new ways to do that has luckily been fairly easy because we have so much material to work with every day.”
That would be a reference to Donald Trump, often a target of host Kimmel, and one he doesn’t pretend to take a stand on — which Greenberg described as unavoidable.
“I mean it’s become a huge thing. If you watch the first decade of our show, we barely talked about politics and when we did it was usually like, ‘Oh look, George Bush had
Studiocanal has acquired UK and Ireland rights for Ali Abbasi’s Cannes Palme d’Or contender The Apprentice.
UPDATE: Michael Cohen took the stand for the second day in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial, and recounted an Oval Office meeting with the then-president in April 2018.
Ed Meza @edmezavar Zurich and Berlin-based distrib DCM has nabbed Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice” ahead of its May 20 world premiere in Cannes, where its screening in competition. Written by Gabriel Sherman, “The Apprentice” follows Donald Trump’s real estate career in New York during the 1970s and ’80s and his relationships with lawyer Roy Cohen (Jeremy Strong), wife Ivana (Maria Bakalova) and father Fred Trump (Martin Donovan).
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump‘s former attorney and fixer who has since turned into one of his chief antagonists, took the stand today in the former president’s hush money trial.
watched the raid to on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound while crowded tightly together in the Situation Room, the sequestered complex in the White House basement. Official White House photographer Pete Souza captured the iconic moment, but it only happened because of technical difficulties.
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Following a highly successful collaboration on Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, Sebastian Stan and Lily James are set to reteam on Let the Evil Go West, a psychological horror thriller from director Christian Tafdrup (Speak No Evil).
Joe Biden sat for an interview with a mainstream, national news outlet, — a not-too-common occurrence. And while the clear intent in his chat with CNN‘s Erin Burnett was to show a contrast with Donald Trump on the economy, the headline was what the president said about Israel.
opening monologue on Wednesday night. “April showers bring may flowers,” Fallon began.
What in the David Eason nonsense is this?!
As Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom for another day of his hush money trial, another team of his lawyers will be arguing before the Supreme Court in a case that is of utmost consequence to his fate.
Melania Trump is celebrating Mother’s Day with a special gift. The former First Lady has launched a necklace themed for the occasion, which was listed on sale this past Sunday.Melania and Donald Trump attend a birthday bash in Mar-a-LagoBarron Trump makes rare appearance with his parents over EasterMelania Trump wows at fundraiser; ‘Ready to be First Lady’A post shared by Melania Trump (@melaniatrump)The necklace model is called “Her Love & Gratitude,” and is priced at $245 dollars. The jewelry is customizable, with shoppers able to add in details like their initials, or significant dates.
Before Donald Trump‘s hush money trial continues this morning, the judge in the case will consider whether the former president has violated a partial gag order.
Jon Stewart led Monday’s episode of The Daily Show with Donald Trump’s hush money trial and dinged news networks for how they cover it.
On April 13, Donald Trump was in tiny Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, population 3,800, in Lehigh Valley, rallying white MAGA voters with a range of racist tropes, personal grievances and invented historical narratives featuring Gettysburg, Confederate Army leader Robert E. Lee, Lincoln and himself.
Jimmy Kimmel is getting candid about his Oscars future!
Jordan Moreau A man set himself on fire outside the courthouse where the jurors are being chosen for former president Donald Trump‘s hush money criminal trial. CNN‘s chief legal analyst Laura Coates and MSNBC national correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian both witnessed the self-immolation and spoke about the incident live on air. “I just have to tell you, I have been a student of history for a long time.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Stephen Colbert stood up for Jimmy Kimmel following Donald Trump‘s latest social media outburst over the Oscars, where host Kimmel dissed Trump live on stage by reading the former president’s criticism of the ceremony and saying: “Thank you for watching, I’m surprised you’re still — isn’t it past your jail time?” In an April 17 post on Truth Social, Trump slammed “stupid Jimmy Kimmel” and called him a “horrendous” host. Trump also blamed Kimmel for the show’s “big ratings drop.” “You keep my friend Jimmy Kimmel’s name out of your weird little wet mouth, OK?” Colbert fired back during “The Late Show.” “I’m mad.
Donald Trump has been mocked for confusing presenter Jimmy Kimmel with Al Pacino.Earlier this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the chat show host took a brand-new jab at the former president by jokingly describing the alleged hush money paid to adult star Stormy Daniels as a “legal expense”.Trump quickly took to social media to fire back at Kimmel, but in the process of doing so, managed to confuse the Oscars host with acting legend Al Pacino in an error-filled rant.“Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night, right before he stumbled through announcing the biggest award of all, ‘Picture of the Year’,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.He continued: “It was a CLASSIC CHOKE, one of the biggest ever in show business, and to top it off, he forgot to say the famous and mandatory line, ‘AND THE WINNER IS’. Instead he stammered around as he opened the envelope.
Jimmy Kimmel “might” be hosting the 2025 Oscars after Donald Trump said he was “a fool” and the “worst host ever” at this year’s ceremony. Kimmel, 56, kicked off his ABC talk show by revealing he received nearly a hundred messages after he appeared to have once again agitated “our Kentucky fried former president.” In a lengthy Truth Social media post made by the former president, Trump, 77, claimed that Kimmel “still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards.”Kimmel said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that his ratings had, in fact, been pretty high. “I don’t know.