Stephen Colbert wishes Kate Middleton well but does not walk back any of his jokes (because he shouldn’t)

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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Our thoughts go out to the entire city of Baltimore and especially to those who were directly impacted by today’s bridge collapse. Baltimore’s mayor has asked the news channels to refrain from replaying the accident and collapse on a loop, but no one is going to listen. 

Looks like NBC News might be dropping Ronna McDaniel already. Yesterday, following Morning Joe’s statement urging NBC News to reconsider the hiring, on-air talent including Nicole Wallace, Joy Reid, Jennifer Psaki, and perhaps most devastatingly, Rachel Maddow all made their own cases against McDaniel being hired. And it sounds like it might be working, if this tweet has any merit:

Stephen Colbert wishes Kate Middleton well, and insists that he does not “[make] light of someone else’s tragedy,” without actually apologizing for the jokes he made about her disappearance and the rumors of William’s affair. It’s a fine line to walk — to express sympathy with a public figure who is going through a tragedy, while also acknowledging that it’s his job to make light of public figures. As far as I am concerned, I don’t believe he owes anyone an apology — he was working with the information he had at the time. Furthermore, the Royal Family’s entire purpose in this world is to be people other people talk about. So they were doing their job and he was doing his.

Sounds like Euphoria is being delayed because Sam Levinson wants to move the story out of high school. FOR THE BEST.

They are starting a “Save Blue Bloods” campaign. Y’all. It’s been on for 14 seasons. Let it go.

As an audience member, you best not record The View with your phone because Whoopi Goldberg will pull this whole show over.

X-Men ’97 is Disney+’s biggest animated premiere ever, so it makes just good sense that they fired its creator and showrunner days before the premiere. Great plan!

Colin Jost and Pete Davidson are still planning on doing something with that ferry they bought.

LOL:

#MeToo

Because I was traveling for the past three weeks, I haven’t been able to post updates to this section, so THERE’S A LOT. I’m going to tackle the whole Nickelodeon/Quiet on Set/Drake Bell mess in a later post, because it’s a whole lot. Apologies for the wall of terrible stories ahead.

Sean “Diddy” Combs is in trouble. Yesterday, federal agents searched both his Los Angeles and Miami homes related to “an ongoing investigation.” Combs was sued earlier this year by multiple plaintiffs, alleging sexual abuse and trafficking, and he settled out of court for millions with his longtime ex-girlfriend after she alleged a litany of abuses.

Additionally, a man alleged to be Combs’ “drug mule” was arrested on drug charges when Combs and his crew were stopped by agents yesterday.

And I’m sure in a move that is completely unrelated, Combs has sold off his ownership of Revolt TV.

Brian Beneker is a white guy on the writing staff of SEAL Team, which all checks out so far. He’s suing CBS and Paramount Global, claiming he was passed over for a promotion because he’s a white guy, and he’s being supported by Stephen Miller’s nonprofit America First Legal Foundation because of course he is. As the Deadline piece points out, this is all an exercise in bullshittery as SEAL Team is ending this season, long before this case will ever see the inside of a courtroom. But that’s not the point: the point is to stir up the victimization MAGA base.

Nigel Lythgoe filed documents denying Paula Abdul’s claims of sexual assault, calling her a “well-documented fabulist, with a long history of telling wild stories that are untethered from reality and are primarily designed to attract attention and make Abdul appear to be the victim of dreadful misfortune.” 

Unsurprisingly, Paula Abdul slammed the filings, calling it victim-shaming.

And then mere hours after Lythgoe made his filing, he was sued by a fourth victim for an incident that took place in 2018 (and sounds very similar to other allegations against him).

Grace Jabbari has sued Jonathan Majors for defamation and has “provided vivid details of previously alleged incidents of ‘both verbal and physical abuse’ by the actor.

Sharon Stone claims that legendary producer Robert Evans encouraged her to have sex with Billy Baldwin so as to “improve” their performances in the 1993 film Silver.

According to Stone, Evans’s thinking was, “If I could sleep with Billy, then we would have chemistry onscreen, and if I would just have sex with him then that would save the movie. And the real problem in the movie was me because I was so uptight, and so not like a real actress, who could just fuck him and get things back on track. And the real problem is that I was such a tight-ass,” she recalled.

Sliver was Stone’s follow-up to 1992’s Oscar-nominated Basic Instinct, during which Stone says she had a markedly different experience. “I didn’t have to fuck Michael Douglas,” Stone said. “Michael could come to work and just know how to hit those marks and do that line, and rehearse and show up. Now all of a sudden I’m in the ‘I have to fuck people’ business.”

Billy Baldwin is REAL MAD about this:

Except according to Janice Dickinson, she never said that. “As I recall Sharon never said that to me,’ she told The Daily Mail. ‘I am not sure why Billy Baldwin is bringing this up. I adore them both but that never happened.”

While we’re discussing Stone, Dana Carvey is sorry about the airplane security sketch he had her do on SNL in which he, playing an Indian man in brownface, has her undress at security.

RuPaul’s Drag Race and We’re Here star Shangela has been accused of sexual misconduct by five more people, following the allegations that were settled in civil court last year.

Jimmie Allen’s former manager has dropped her lawsuit against the country singer alleging rape and sexual abuse.

Olivia Coleman: “I’m very aware that if I was ‘Oliver’ Colman, I’d be earning a f–k of a lot more than I am.”

Actress Lola Glaudini alleges Johny Depp was abusive on the set of Blow.

Rebel Wilson is calling Sacha Baron Cohen out for being an asshole and threatening to silence her. According to Wilson, while filming the 2016 film Grimsby, Cohen pressured her to do a nude scene and demanded that she stick her finger up his rectum while his friends laughed and filmed. He denies all of this.

Rebecca Ferguson spoke on a podcast about being screamed at and berated on-set by a co-star and being unsupported, and people think it’s Hugh Grant. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is real mad about it. 

Rachel Leviss has filed a lawsuit against Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix for “eavesdropping, revenge porn, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress,” and alleges that Bravo and Amazon MGM Studios’ Evolution Media encouraged their behavior.

Christian Richard, husband of Selling Sunset star Christine Quinn, was arrested twice for domestic violence and violating a restraining order within 33 hours.

In your “Not Surprising News”: Patricia Arquette had to deal with crew guys saying gross things about her body while filming Lost Highway.

Kate Winslet laments not having intimacy coordinators earlier in her career, while Ewan McGregor and his wife Elizabeth Winstead use them in scenes together.

“It’s still necessary, because it’s also about the crew, and it’s odd to be naked in front of people, it’s odd to be intimate in front of the camera.”

“If you were doing a dance scene, you’d have a choreographer. It’s an important part of the work now, because it’s somebody that the director and actors meet in the middle.”

REASONABLE.

Former NBA player and actor Rashid Byrd has been sentenced to 90 years to life for a string of violent sexual assaults.

Laurence Andries, a TV writer and producer who worked on Blue Bloods and How to Get Away With Murder, has been charged with six felony counts of sexual assault.

Former Survivor cast member, Erik Huffman, has been charged with domestic violence against his wife and co-star Jaime Dugan.

Roman Polanski has another court date in the U.S. that he’ll just not show up for.

Matt Gaetz was subpoenaed by the young woman he’s been accused of having sex with when she was a minor. Uh-oh!

Squid Game‘s O Yeong-Su was given a suspended sentence for sexually assaulting a woman.

Olivia Rodrigo invited healthcare providers to pass out contraception and Plan B pills at her concerts and, as you might imagine, all hell broke loose. Her team had to walk back the invitation, though the providers are undeterred. Good for them.

In an almost comical case of Fragile Male Ego syndrome, Zack Snyder is out here claiming, “Well, actually, if you use Netflix math, more people have seen Rebel Moon than Barbie.” You know, Barbie, the biggest cinematic hit of the year that has to date made almost $1.5 billion. There are many issues with this statement, most notably for me is that he is basing this by comparing streaming numbers to theatrical numbers, all while seeming to forget that Barbie is streaming, too. There is simply no reason to believe more people have seen Rebel Moon, unless you’re a man whose ego needs stroking. This story broke a while ago, so I can’t find the tweet that summarized it best for me which said something along the lines of: Zack Snyder is mad because more people have seen a joke about Zack Snyder in the Barbie movie than have seen Zack Snyder’s movie.

Renewals

Cancellations

  • The Lazarus Project has been canceled at Sky and TNT after two seasons (only one season aired on TNT).

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendars

  • Bluey: The Sign will premiere on Disney+ on April 14.
  • The Interrogation Tapes: A Special Edition of 20/20 premieres on ABC on April 1.
  • WWE: Next Gen debuts on Roku on April 1.
  • The Tiny Chef Show returns on Nickelodeon on April 8.

R.I.P.

Eli Noyes, Oscar-nominated stop-motion animator who worked on Liquid Television and Braingames

Kay Benbow, Controller of BBC preschool channel CBeebies

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Night Court: Abby offers the court for Roz’s wedding in the season finale. 7 p.m., NBC

Extended Family: Julia and Trey ask Jim for premarital counseling. Season finale. 8 p.m., NBC

The Truth vs. Alex Jones: The Sandy Hook parents took Alex Jones and his disgusting lies to court and won. This documentary, with unprecedented access to the Travis County courthouse, follows the proceedings. Premiere. 8 p.m., HBO

Tig Notaro: Hello Again: Tig Notaro returns with a set that tackles awkward situations, health scares, and family moments with her wife and kids. Premiere. Prime Video

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Maya Rudolph, Pete Townshend, a performance from “The Who’s Tommy”
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Cecily Strong, Nicholas Galitzine, Greg Davies, Alex Horne, Kaz Rodriguez
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Carol Burnett, Waxahatchee featuring MJ Lenderman
  • After Midnight: Shane Torres, Kyle Kinane, Amy Miller
  • The Daily Show: Jim Sciutto, host Jordan Klepper

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