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"America, I love you," declared President Joe Biden tonight in his keynote speech at the first night of the Democratic National Convention as delegates from across the land cheered "We love Joe!" over and over. Even with his constant evocation of Irish poetry over the decades, Biden has never been…

EXCLUSIVE: Amber Ruffin (The Amber Ruffin Show) and Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer) are set for the team captain roles on Have I Got News For You, CNN’s forthcoming American adaptation of the long-running BBC comedy panel series. A British institution produced by Hat Trick Productions…

UPDATE: Donald Trump defended his personal attacks on Kamala Harris, despite some suggestions from allies that he focus on issues of the economy and the border. “I think I am entitled to personal attacks,” Trump told reporters at a press conference at his golf club in Bedminster, NJ. “I don’t have a…

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) have both agreed to an Oct. 1 vice presidential candidates debate hosted by CBS News. Vance also said that he would do another VP faceoff, this one hosted by CNN on Sept. 18. Walz has not yet agreed to that event. Related…

After the COVID-19 pandemic, two strikes in Hollywood and with the impact of streaming and the advent of A.I, the media landscape has continued to shift and consolidate, as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav predicted as recently as the 2024 Allen & Co. Sun Valley Retreat. Zazlav knows whereof…

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Show alum Roy Wood Jr. has been tapped to host Have I Got News For You, CNN’s adaptation of UK’s long-running comedy panel show. Produced by Hat Trick Productions, the company behind the BBC original, for CNN Originals, the ten-episode limited series will premiere Sept. 14 and will…

UPDATED, with CNN comment: Oliver Darcy, who has been the top media reporter for CNN and author of its Reliable Sources newsletter, is departing the network and launching his own newsletter. In an email sent out today, Darcy introduced Status, which will land in inboxes each evening. “Drawing on…

CNN has tapped Jessica Dean to anchor the primetime weekend edition of CNN Newsroom while she will continue to serve as a correspondent covering politics. Dean, who joined the network in 2018, previously was a congressional correspondent and a substitute anchor on the network’s dayside coverage. She…

Joe Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, and this ain't your grandfather's election anymore. If Donald Trump figured his usual petulance was going to put new Democratic ticket-topper Kamala Harris on the backfoot, the 78-year old ex-president might want to think again. In her first big rally as…

The assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the Republican National Convention and President Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race gave major news networks a breaking news bounce in July. Fox News’ average primetime audience was 3.45 million viewers, up a whopping 120% from the same period in…

CNN Originals has ordered a six episode travel series featuring different celebrity hosts, with a launch planned for next year. With the working title My Happy Place, the series will feature the celebrities as “they venture to a personally meaningful place in their lives,” the network said…

“I would think it’s an embarrassment to those news organizations,” said Jon Stewart today at the top of his The Weekly Show podcast. Specifically, he was speaking about NBC and CNN which, he said, “refuse to allow their reporters to come on a podcast (his) to talk about the issues of the…