Station Groups Reviewing Vetting Processes For Sponsored Content After John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ Segment

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Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterA new series about the relationship between Hollywood fixer Sidney Korshak and the late MCA media titan Lew Wasserman is stirring up some present-day back lot drama, multiple insiders tell Variety.The issue at hand with the recently announced project “The Last Mogul,” which has attached Jonah Hill to star as Korshak and Oscar winning screenwriter William Monahan to adapt, is what sources called a misrepresentation of support from Wasserman’s power-player grandson

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.

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

Courtney Stodden‘s boyfriend put a ring on it! The 26-year-old blonde beauty, who identifies as non-binary, was photographed enjoying a Memorial Day weekend pool party with their longterm love Chris Sheng, 41, on May 28. Hours after the photo was snapped Chris popped the question and two days later, on May 30, Courtney lit up social media with the happy news of their engagement.

Early last month, Governor Gavin Newsom assured Californians that masks were soon going away for fully-vaccinated residents. Asked by a reporter if there would be a mask mandate after June 15, the usually-loquacious Newsom said quickly, “No.” He then enumerated a few rare circumstances where masks would still be needed.

@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.

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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.

ABC4 Utah’s Surae Chinn, who serves as the station’s chief medical correspondent and also anchors several of its sponsored content bits.

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.

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

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories.