Triumph of the unhip: 'NCIS' tops TV, streaming rankings

It already saw off Donald Trump, now K-pop is threatening to cause the collapse of North Korea. Or so fears that nation’s leader Kim Jong-un, as South Korean pop music gains popularity in the country.Kim has called South Korean entertainment smuggled into North Korea via China a “vicious cancer”, according to the New York Times.

Hidden Empire Film Group’s comedy/horror romp The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 scared up a $1.064M opening weekend (per screen average of $2,533) with writer-director Deon Taylor and his team huddling right now over where and how much to expand the run — but expand it they will. Taylor’s thrilled with the $$ although he and others in the indie space acknowledged Sunday that ongoing distancing restrictions in key New York and LA is a major bummer.

told Chris Cuomo. “Really, that’s the only calculation he makes ever.”Discussing a potential scenario in which an investigation targeted Trump’s children, Cuomo asked whether that would “change his disposition.”“Would he take one for his kids?” Cuomo asked.“No, he wouldn’t,” replied Mary Trump, the author of the tell-all Donald Trump biography published last year that delivered a scathing portrait of the then-president.

The ladies of The View had a little something to say about Donald Trump’s appearance at a rally in North Carolina on June 5. The former president appeared like he may have been wearing his trousers backwards, and the fabric was completely wrinkled. During the June 7 episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg asked Joy Behar if she was as “disturbed” by the look as much of the public was over the weekend.

Before it was essentially canceled on Wednesday, Netflix’s “Jupiter’s Legacy” debuted as the top original streaming series on Nielsen’s Top 10 Streaming programs.On the overall list for the week of May 3-May 9, which includes both original and acquired TV series and movies, the superhero epic from Mark Millar landed at No. 4 with 696 million minutes viewed.

new report on Wednesday, the New York Times said the Biden administration disclosed that the Trump Justice Department seized the phone records of four reporters — Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau and Michael S. Schmidt — for four months in 2017.

one clip, from Sports Illustrated’s Max Goodman, the banner is snatched up by security, resulting in cheers. According to the New York Post, two men were escorted from the stadium after that, with one of them in handcuffs.

Ethan Shanfeld “Holy mother of DVD extras! The private footage of a TV billionaire is going to belong to an actual billionaire!” In the wake of Amazon’s $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM, Stephen Colbert urged Jeff Bezos to release outtakes from Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice.”“Someday soon, Bezos may release the most racist thing in the MGM catalog, other than ‘Gone With the Wind,'” Colbert joked last night on “The Late Show.”For years, allegations have surfaced about Trump’s inappropriate

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorWarnerMedia’s HBO Max was hit with scattered technical issues on Tuesday, with users reporting problems with streaming video.According to DownDetector, problems with HBO Max began to spike at 4:45 p.m.

Donald Trump, although Hannity has said that “I never claimed to be a journalist.”Andrew Cuomo is also under investigation by a state legislative committee over allegations that his administration arranged for members of his family, including Chris Cuomo, to get special access to COVID-19 tests last year at a time when they were generally unavailable to the general public.———Associated Press correspondent Marina Villeneuve in Albany, New York, and researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York

“Stowaway,” a Netflix sci-fi and drama movie starring Toni Collette, took Nielsen’s top spot for all films on streaming during the week of April 19, toppling the Melissa McCarthy comedy “Thunder Force” that had held the No. 1 slot for several weeks.“Stowaway” was viewed for 359 million minutes during the week of April 19-25 after debuting on Netflix on April 22, according to the latest streaming figures from Nielsen.

NEW YORK -- Chrissie Hynde wouldn't make her own mark in music until a few years later, but her memories of how 1971's daily soundtrack was tied to the times remain vivid.“Music said something,” the Pretenders' leader and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member says at the start of “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” an eight-part documentary series that premieres Friday on the Apple TV+ streaming service.Hynde had just dropped out of Kent State University in Ohio, where a year earlier

Jimmy Kimmel is fairly convinced that Donald Trump will escape any real legal consequences from the new criminal investigation into the Trump organization.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticContinuing the week of networks’ upfront presentations, ViacomCBS released sneak peeks of four new shows to their advertisers and public consumers Wednesday.Although it’s too soon to really assess the shows themselves, that isn’t stopping this critic from weighing in on their potential, based upon these first looks.Here are those thoughts, in rough descending order:“FBI: International”If any further proof was needed that Dick Wolf is in the absolute elite tier of

The New York Attorney General’s office has expanded its investigation of the Trump Organization to a probe of criminal conduct.

New York prosecutors have revealed that their investigation into the Trump Organization has changed.

NEW YORK -- AT&T said Monday it will combine its massive WarnerMedia media assets, which includes HBO and CNN, with Discovery Inc. to create a new media heavyweight in a $43 billion deal.The deal, which isn't slated to close until next year, will create new publicly traded company that will enter a streaming arena that has been flooded in the past two years with new players including those owned by AT&T and Discovery, which operate HBO Max and Discovery+, respectively.

Nicki Minaj's iconic 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty has been released on streaming services, marking the first time the New York rapper's unforgettable breakout has been commercially available.