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Kenny McCormick has died and respawned countless times, but Donald Trump may still be the most canonically baffling character in all of South Park.

In response to recent criticisms claiming that South Park never pokes fun at the left, which is almost too dumb to dignify with a response, a viral social post pointed out that there have been four different iterations of Trump, each rendered in a totally different animation style. And technically, there have been five if you count the “synthetic media” deepfake that appeared at the very end of last week’s episode.

So let’s take a minute to run through these assorted Trump clones, starting with…

Businessman Trump (Season Five)

A more straightforward caricature of Trump can be seen briefly in Season Five’s “The Entity,” when Mr. Garrison pitches his highly-suggestive gyroscopic airline alternative to a panel of super-rich guys. A pre-Apprentice Trump is seated in the front row,...

Flight 149: Hostage of War is the title of a new Sky feature documentary that recounts “one of the most extraordinary — and until recently, officially denied — chapters of the Gulf War,” the Comcast-owned company said Friday in unveiling a trailer for the original film that will debut in the U.K. and Ireland in June.

“On Aug. 2, 1990, just after Saddam [Hussein]’s forces storm Kuwait, a civilian flight unwittingly touches down in the middle of the war zone,” reads a synopsis for the doc. “The passengers and crew find themselves trapped, held as hostages by Saddam Hussein, becoming pawns in a rapidly escalating international crisis that will reshape the Middle East.”

Calling the doc “an unflinching exploration of a geopolitical scandal,” Sky also highlighted the stakes. “For over three decades, the British government denied any prior knowledge of the invasion before the plane’s ill-fated landing. Now, new information...

Exclusive: Lena Góra has joined the cast of the four-hour TNT miniseries Debriefing The President as the co-lead opposite Joel Kinnaman. She has taken on the role of Polly Stevens, the female lead on the project currently shooting in Cairo, sources tell Deadline.

Polly is a colleague of Kinnaman’s real-life CIA analyst John Nixon, whose book of the same name inspired the series. Rhona Mitra was originally attached to play Polly, but has since departed the series for unknown reasons.

Debriefing the President is a limited series that tells the story of CIA analyst John Nixon (Kinnaman), who became the first American to positively identify and interrogate Saddam Hussein following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The series delves into Nixon’s personal journey as he grapples with the complexities of his mission (2003-2006). Through his interactions with Saddam, Nixon gains a deeper understanding of the Iraqi dictator, the potential consequences of the invasion,...

Exclusive: Rhona Mitra has landed the female lead opposite Joel Kinnaman in Debriefing the President (wt), the four-hour miniseries recently greenlighted at TNT, which comes as part of the network’s renewed focus on premium event programming.

Mitra plays Polly Stevens, a colleague of Kinnaman’s real-life CIA analyst John Nixon (Kinnaman), whose book of the same name inspired the series. The show marks a return to TNT for the actress following two seasons as Dr. Rachel Scott in its action drama The Last Ship.

Delving into the 2003 interrogation of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, Debriefing the President explores a CIA analyst’s relentless search for truth, the complexities of justice on the global stage, and the deeply personal father-son connections woven into a turbulent period of history. Kinnaman’s Nixon is the first American official to positively identify and interrogate Saddam Hussein following his capture. The miniseries follows his...

The much-anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has finally been released, and it is already making quite a stir in the gaming community. The game offers fast-paced and chaotic cooperative gameplay that will leave players hungry for more. With this installment, Call of Duty is finally getting back to its roots by presenting players with a fun and immersive campaign mission, enhancing the gameplay experience.

Players are enjoying the latest addition to the Call of Duty series, especially its campaign. | Image Credit: Treyarch

However, there is one mission in the campaign that stands out from the rest and has the whole community laughing and discussing this classic node. The mission in discussion is called ‘Search the Bunker’ which requires players to find the entrance to the bunker and search every corner of it for information about Pantheon.

Players Find Golden Treasure in Black Ops 6 Players are finding various easter eggs in the campaign mission.

After taking a $9.1 billion write-down on its linear networks business, in part due to the company’s loss of NBA rights, Warner Bros. Discovery is ramping up its investment in programming for TNT.

The cable network has greenlit “Debriefing the President” (working title), a four-hour miniseries about CIA analyst John Nixon’s 2003 interrogation of Saddam Hussein, in which he learned about the potential consequences of the invasion, the humanitarian horrors and geopolitical turbulences that would follow Saddam’s deposing.

The series is produced by Ar Content and Big Dreams Entertainment for TNT. Alexander Rodnyansky, Joel Kinnaman, Stuart Manashil, Michael Kupisk, Peter Gerwe, Shelley Browning, and Leslie Greif serve as EPs, while Cristi Bostanescu and Eric Tomosunas serve as producers and Krzysztof Skonieczny directs.

TNT has also acquired “The Librarians: The Next Chapter,” a sequel to supernatural adventure series “The Librarians.” The project was initially set to lead The CW’s 2024-25 fall season.

Exclusive: TNT has greenlighted four-hour miniseries Debriefing the President (working title), about the 2003 interrogation of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, to air in 2025. This marks the cable network’s first original scripted order since the 2022 Warner Bros.-Discovery merger. The news comes two weeks after Wbd took a $9.1 billion write-down on its cable assets and a week after the company announced that Kathleen Finch will be retiring as chairman and CEO of U.S. Networks, with Channing Dungey, Warner Bros. Television Group Chairman and CEO, adding the linear networks to her purview.

TNT has no current original scripted shows after all remaining ones at the time of the merger have been canceled. The plan to bring back original scripted programming to the network had been put in motion by Finch, including the greenlight for Debriefing the President, which comes from independent production companies Ar Content and Big Dreams Entertainment.

Jessica Alba stars in the action thriller Trigger Warning, released on Netflix, exploring her character's quest for the truth about her father's death. Trigger Warning shares similarities with Alba's past family-friendly adventure film P.U.N.K.S, involving a tech invention and criminal dealings. Both Alba's characters in the films showcase similar skills, hinting at a possible connection between the characters.

Starring in a movie whose tagline reads Vengeance Becomes Her, Jessica Alba is the latest in a long line of stars who have headlined a film made exclusively for a streaming platform. Released on June 21, Trigger Warning is an action thriller that shows Albas character, Parker, returning home after hearing about her fathers death. The story circulating among the townspeople is that her father was suddenly forgetful while in the mine shaft located on their property and had an unfortunate accident resulting in an explosion. After some drinking,...

Winner of Best Feature Film in last years Red Sea International Film Festival and one of the 20 Best West-Central Asian Films of 2022 in our list in Asian Movie Pulse, “Hanging Gardens” continues its effort to be included in the nominations for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, as Iraq's official selection.

Film Review: Hanging Gardens (2022) by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji

As Panos Kotzathanasis wrote about the film last year, Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji creates a film that retains an excellent balance between a coming-of-age movie and a commentary about life in present Iraq, all the while entertaining his audience through both humor and drama. Evidently, the concept of the two young ‘pimps' of a sex doll is what sets the story apart through its uniqueness, but this is just the top of the iceberg of a rather layered narrative that “hides” many of its comments inside its details.

Iraqi director Ahmed Yassin Al-Daradji — who in 2022 won the Red Sea Film Festival’s top prize with “Hanging Gardens” — will next direct black comedy ”Madness and Honey Days,” in which an audacious theatre director offends Saddam Hussein on stage and winds up in a psychiatric hospital to avoid a punishment of tongue-cutting followed by the death sentence.

Segueing from “Hanging Gardens,” Iraq’s international Oscar contender, in which a 12-year-old boy finds a discarded American sex doll amid the Baghdad trash and then becomes caught in military crossfire, Al-Daradji is continuing to work with tropes that stem from the absurdities and atrocities of his home country’s recent past.

Speaking on the sidelines of this year’s Red Sea Fest, the director recalled how the story for “Madness and Honey Days” came to him.

“When I was in Baghdad not long ago, I remembered one of my aunts who lost...

Tollywood’s hit comedy film director Anil Ravipudi is all set for his on-screen debut as ‘Chairman’ in a stand-up comedy show on the Ott platform aha.

‘Chairman’ Ravipudi will preside over the rib-tickling proceedings of the ‘Comedy Stock Exchange’, which is set to start streaming in November. The show is being produced by Sol Productions.

Commenting on his debut on Ott and the show, Ravipudi said: “I am excited about this rib-tickling ride and hope that viewers accept this show with open arms and embrace my debut into Ott.”

‘Comedy Stock Exchange’ is lining up celebrated comedy figures who make their way to the stage, light up the crowd and serve up plenty of laughs to the audience.

With the show just around the corner, the show’s trailer released recently held out the promise that it will tickle people’s funny bone. It will feature comedy stars such as Venu,...