Remembering when Fox News mistakenly called Trump 'David' and everyone was confused

Dave McNary Film ReporterFormer Fox News reporter and current KTLA-TV anchor Courtney Friel has set up a biopic with Zero Gravity Management, Variety has learned exclusively.Zero Gravity has optioned the rights to Friel’s memoir “Tonight At 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News” for its Inspire division.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTucker Carlson’s top-rated Fox News Channel hour has hit record ratings highs in recent months amid the rising tide for news networks as the presidential election draws near. Record ratings usually means record revenue for ad-supported TV shows.But “Tucker Carlson Tonight” has never been more difficult to monetize for the news network amid today’s polarized political environment.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson “We begin tonight, this is now officially a Fox News alert, Night 2 of the worst infomercial ever made,” said Sean Hannity kicking off his show Tuesday by kicking sand in the face of the Democrats and their virtual Convention.“Informercials are a lot more interesting” added the Primetime cable newser host after a perky handoff from lead-in Tucker Carlson for what was another night of a token backdrop for more partisan bombardmentOnce again silently split screening the

United Kingdom on Sept. 17, Fox News Media said Tuesday.

Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Hosts Knock Trump for Contributing 'Not Once, but Twice' to Previous Kamala Harris Campaigns (Video)Wallace wasn’t the only television host to counter the argument Wednesday, either. “Morning Joe” Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough laughed at Trump’s ad and asked, “That’s all they’ve got?”Wallace took his assessment further on Fox News, telling Sandra Smith, “I think she is a reasonably safe choice.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorJust minutes after Kamala Harris was announced as Joe Biden’s running mate, President Donald Trump took a few shots at her during a press conference, calling her “disrespectful…horrible…extraordinarily nasty.”A few hours later, Tucker Carlson was himself a bit disrespectful, repeatedly mispronouncing Harris’s first name on his top-rated Fox News show. Carlson said “Ka-MAL-a,” stressing the second syllable.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Corp. is joining the parade of big U.S.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi has blased the executive orders signed Saturday by President Donald Trump, claiming Democrats tried to reach a compromise with the Republicans on various stimulus measures, including extending a federal unemployment bump.The Trump executive orders extend the enhanced unemployment benefits that expired at the end of July, albeit slicing it to $400 and giving states the option not to increase to that full amount; create a “payroll tax

Tuesday marked the 25th anniversary of Maria Bartiromo becoming the first reporter to broadcast from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and Fox News and Fox Business Network carried her virtual NYSE bell-ringing in simulcast.She explained, at the time, there were “a handful of people who didn’t want me there, but the truth is, is the majority of people were so supportive and so wonderful to me.”Bartiromo, who worked for CNBC at the time, explained to her Fox News colleagues that there is

tweeted Thursday morning, “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA.

The Plus, Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help’, by the very smart and witty @greggutfeld, is on sale now. It is great, Canceling Cancel Culture.

considered a terror threat by the FBI.“While discussing the double standard of big tech censorship, I mentioned the conspiracy group QAnon, which I don’t support or believe in.

penned an op-ed for USA Today, ripping the governor for his bantering appearances on brother Chris Cuomo’s CNN program and “New York tough” messaging.“At first, we didn’t blame anyone for their deaths,” she wrote of her in-laws. “This is a pandemic, and the virus is particularly dangerous for the elderly.

Former Fox Business producer Jennifer Eckhart and co-plaintiff Cathy Areu filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging sexual misconduct against Fox News talent years after similar accusations led to the demise of the late CEO Roger Ailes. Eckhart has accused former White House correspondent and anchor Ed Henry of rape.

Ted Johnson A day after she and a frequent Fox News guest filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the network and some of its major personalities, former Fox Business associate producer Jennifer Eckhart appeared on CBS This Morning to talk about her claims, including that she was “paralyzed with fear” while working at the network and that she believed that news anchor Ed Henry “had the power to destroy me.”Fox News has pushed back against some of the claims she makes in her lawsuit (read it

I’ve likely written too many stories over the past few months using a creative motif that references our current state of affairs to that of the darkest timeline or an alternate world where the sun is shining and popcorn is still popping. But, to be honest, it’s the starkest means to demonstrate how far we are into uncharted waters.

Chris Wallace, was no different. During the interview, Trump spoke proudly of passing a "very hard" cognitive test and challenging Democratic nominee Joe Biden to take the same, and Wallace responded by saying that he himself took the test and had a very different read on it. "It's not the hardest test," Wallace said.

former Fox News correspondent Ed Henry of raping her while they both worked at the network. The lawsuit, which was filed Monday, claims Henry «performed sadistic acts on her without her consent that left her injured, bruised and battered with bloody wrists» after placing handcuffs on her.  A second plaintiff in the lawsuit, frequent Fox News guest Cathy Areu, also accused Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Howard Kurtz of harassment.

Donald Trump said a lot of wild stuff in his sit-down with Fox News’ Chris Wallace over the weekend.

so many others in the world of politics, “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah had some very kind words for Chris Wallace of Fox News, who grilled Donald Trump over the weekend in an interview that’s been the talk of the country since it aired.“President Trump sat down for an interview with Chris Wallace, the only reporter at Fox News who isn’t trying to become the next press secretary,” Noah said to open his monologue. “And you can tell that he isn’t because this was no softball interview.