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The Shocking Reasons Why Not to Watch The Latest '13 Reasons Why'

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May 23rd, 2018 7:00 AM
Despite multiple criticisms for its glorification of suicide, Netflix’s high school drama 13 Reasons Why returned with a brand-new season on May 18. Considering the first season wrapped up everything that happened in the 2007 Jay Asher young adult book it’s based on, everyone’s first question for the show is where it can possibly go next. Rest assured that even without a looming suicide, the…
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Media Thrilled ‘Very Talented’ Obamas ‘Got Paid!’ With Netflix Deal

May 22nd, 2018 12:23 PM
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows were gleeful over the news that Barack and Michelle Obama had signed a deal with Netflix to create original content for the online streaming service. Hosts happily touted “a lot of people very excited” about the announcement and cheered that the former president and first lady “got paid,” with the agreement rumored to be worth tens of millions of…

Obamas Sign Deal with Netflix to Produce Their Kind of Movies and TV

May 21st, 2018 6:22 PM
Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have signed an extensive contract to create new movies and television shows for Netflix. That agreement potentially includes scripted and unscripted programs, documentaries and feature films. Of course, the Monday announcement came as no surprise to anyone familiar with the connection between the pay-cable channel and the former Democratic…

Fragile Comedian Files Restraining Order Against Trump, Afraid of War

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April 17th, 2018 12:31 PM
How’s this for a career enhancing PR stunt? Stand up comedian Maria Bamford says she’s really unsettled by the Trump Administration’s foreign policy as of late, so much so that she has filed a restraining order against the president himself.

Netflix, Ben Stiller Producing 'Funny and Flirty' Gay Teen Comedy

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April 10th, 2018 2:08 PM
It seems that 2018 is the year for John Hughes-esque teen dramedies to make a come back. This time with the full force of LGBT appeal. Hoping to gain a following with fans of the film, “Love, Simon,” Netflix has announced a new gay teen romantic comedy for it’s streaming service that will appear in June, just in time for the nation’s major Pride festivities.
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Letterman Interview with Jay-Z: 'Trump Reveals 'Ugly Side of America'

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April 6th, 2018 5:30 PM
In Friday’s episode of David Letterman’s Netflix Series, My Next Guest Needs no Introduction, “I Had a Paper Route Too,” Letterman kept with tradition and slipped in a question about President Trump with only fifteen minutes left in the hour-long interview. This week’s guest was rapper Jay-Z, a vocal Trump hater. So when Letterman jokingly asserted, “I’m beginning to lose hope in the Trump…

Oh Good. Netflix to Give Obamas a ‘Global Platform’

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March 9th, 2018 2:10 PM
The Obama administration is blessedly just a memory, but the entertainment industry is banking that progressives will want to revisit those golden years, one TV episode at a time. First it was CBS, “ordering a pilot for Main Justice, a show based on the life of former attorney general Eric Holder.” Alas, it’s not a prison drama. Heck, it won’t even be grounded in reality, since “Holder is also…
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Letterman Says Trump a 'Duck for a President' in Interview with Malala

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March 9th, 2018 12:36 PM
David Letterman’s Netflix series, My Next Guest Needs no Introduction, hosted Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai on Friday’s episode, “You Know, She has a Nobel Peace Prize.” But while Malala discussed the importance of education for women, with less than 12 minutes left in the interview, Letterman uses his opportunity to interview the youngest Nobel Prize laureate to pick fun at…
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All Cops 'Racist A**holes' on Netflix's 'Seven Seconds'

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February 28th, 2018 11:21 AM
Netflix’s Seven Seconds can be summed up by a drunken slur uttered during its fifth episode: “You’re all racist a**holes. Every one of you cops.” And when it comes to this show, that statement is correct. Seven Seconds, released February 23, portrays police officers and the justice system as incredibly racist and apathetic. The show revolves around the hit-and-run death of Brenton Butler, a 15-…
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POTUS Preoccupation: At Least 36 Fall TV Shows Targeted Trump

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January 18th, 2018 9:42 AM

The entertainment world has readied the battlefield for the resistance with scripted and unscripted shows.

Letterman Longs for Obama Presidency on New Netflix Show

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January 12th, 2018 3:48 PM
In an hour long, mind-numbing interview, David Letterman interviews former President Obama for the first episode of his 6-episode Netflix original series, My Next Guest Needs no Introduction. The January 12 debut episode concludes with a heartfelt message from the 70-year-old Letterman to the 44th president: “You are the first president I truly and fully respect.” In the episode, titled “It’s a…
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Obama Tells Letterman: Fox News Viewers ‘Living on a Different Planet’

January 12th, 2018 11:25 AM
After all three Thursday network morning shows gushed over Barack Obama being David Letterman’s first guest on the former late-night host’s new Netflix series, on Friday’s NBC Today, correspondent Willie Geist seized on the former president deriding Fox News viewers during the interview, even while condemning “divisiveness” in the country. 
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Nets Thrilled by Obama on Letterman’s New Netflix Show

January 11th, 2018 1:23 PM
The same networks that refused to cover shocking revelations about the Obama administration derailing efforts to fight drug trafficking by Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, on Thursday, were eager to tout the former president talking about his bad dance moves during an interview with David Letterman for a new Netflix show. In addition, only NBC’s Today mentioned Letterman’s past sex scandals…
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David Letterman Lacks Conservative Guests for His New Netflix Program

January 5th, 2018 5:17 PM
Ever since liberal late-night talk-show personality David Letterman hosted his final episode of Late Night on the CBS network on May 20, 2015, he has made several appearances at other events, including the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as one of the program’s celebrity correspondents.