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Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

To: Bari Weiss RE: Good luck, babe! I honestly cannot believe you’ve willingly decided to go into the worst kind of job that exists: management at a dying company. This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs Managing sucks! It sucks even when you like the people you’re managing and it’s a low-stress […]

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Elon Musk is leading a pressure campaign to make Netflix un-woke

Elon Musk says he canceled his Netflix subscription and is telling others to do the same over the presence of transgender characters in series that made their debut (and in some cases ended) years ago. Earlier this week, Musk reshared a post on X attacking Dead End: Paranormal Park, an animated series geared toward kids, […]

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Alien: Earth’s showrunner wanted it to be a dark reflection of our world

In Alien: Earth, a techbro wunderkind controls 20 percent of the world’s continental land mass, and he likes to play God in a secret lab located on a remote island. That’s where the trillionaire has engineered a new pathway to human immortality, and given a group of dying children a second chance at life. But […]

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TV giant Sinclair is putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air

Sinclair Broadcasting will air Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show on its 38 ABC affiliate stations once again, the company announced, after Disney reinstated Kimmel from a suspension earlier this week. Along with fellow broadcast company Nexstar, Sinclair had suspended airing Kimmel’s show under pressure from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, but Sinclair initially chose to replace […]

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Jessica Chastain says she and Apple are ‘not aligned’ on decision to halt The Savant

Just a day after Apple announced that it was pausing the premiere of The Savant, its upcoming show about domestic extremism, star Jessica Chastain says that she disagrees with the decision. In a lengthy statement on Instagram, Chastain said that while the team at Apple TV Plus are “incredible collaborators … we’re not aligned on […]

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Kimmel returns to television to mock FCC Chair Brendan Carr

Jimmy Kimmel made a triumphant return to television (in most, but not all, cities) on Tuesday night, devoting his monologue to his short but shocking removal from the air. The comedian tackled the uproar head-on, directly naming Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission Chair who had instigated Kimmel’s censorship. In a later segment, he took […]

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Apple TV Plus has quietly pulled its new show about domestic extremism

The Savant, the upcoming Apple TV Plus show about law enforcement working to prevent domestic terrorism, was slated to premiere this Friday. But the streamer has quietly pulled the series from its release slate and it’s not clear if or when it will now debut. Based on Andrea Stanley’s 2019 Cosmopolitan article “Is It Possible […]

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Alien: Earth’s beefy tablets were inspired by Sony’s classic Watchman

Though technology has always played an important role in the Alien franchise, FX’s Alien: Earth series is the first chapter to really dig into the inner workings of the tech companies responsible for unleashing xenomorphs onto humanity. To corporations like Weyland-Yutani and its competitors, the show’s aliens present an opportunity to develop products that could […]

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