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Resurfaced footage of the 1994 King Charles assassination attempt displays similarities with President Donald Trump’s response to the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.

When shots were fired at Trump’s republican rally on July 13th last year, the then-former president hit the ground, and his Secret Service agents swarmed over to the stage to protect him.

Thomas Matthew Crooks Tried To Kill President Trump

With the help of his entourage, he stood up and triumphantly pumped his fist in the air. He had been shot in the ear by twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.

He fired at Trump from the roof of a nearby building. While he missed the mark he aimed for, he managed to kill an audience member. He also seriously injured two other people. The Secret Service agents killed the gunman.

King Charles knows how Trump must have felt. However, when the former Prince of Wales was shot at,...

Looks like Sandra’s movement to unionize Cloud 9 is gaining even more momentum: Superstore has promoted Kaliko Kauahi, who plays the scene-stealing sales associate, to series regular for Season 5, our sister site Deadline reports. Kauahi has recurred on the NBC comedy since the first season.

In the show’s Season 4 ender, Sandra rallied her colleagues to unionize, and then got engaged to her secret boyfriend Jerry. Creator Justin Spitzer is hopeful that rival Carol will not thwart a wedding, telling TVLine in a post-mortem Q&A, “I don’t know how she can stand in the way, though she...

Greg Kinnear joined the cast of “Good People,” the Amazon comedy pilot from Lee Daniels and Whitney Cummings.

“Good People” stars Lisa Kudrow and Cummings, who will also direct and co-write. Per Amazon, the half-hour comedy follows three generations of women working in the Ombudsman’s office of a college and navigating “the current cultural climate, the concept of feminism across different generations, and the struggle to reconcile socially constructed ideas with current ethical views regarding complex issues such as sex, race, class and gender.”

Kinnear will play Dr. Paul Keating, described as “the incredibly charismatic and charming philosophy professor at Sacramento University. He’s Indiana Jones meets Joan Didion. He causes problems for Lynn Steele (Kudrow) and Hazel Miller (Cummings) because of his unorthodox methods of teaching and refusal to acquiesce to ‘PC’ rules.”

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Kudrow will play Lynn Steele,...

Greg Kinnear is set as the male lead opposite Lisa Kudrow in Good People, Amazon’s half-hour comedy pilot from Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and 2 Broke Girls co-creator Cummings, who also stars, Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios.

Written by Daniels and Cummings, Good People revolves around three generations of women working in the ombudsman’s office of a college that navigates the current cultural climate, the concept of feminism across different generations and the struggle to reconcile socially constructed ideas with current ethical views regarding complex issues such as sex, race, class and gender.

The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning Kinnear will play Dr. Paul Keating, the incredibly charismatic and charming philosophy professor at Sacramento University. He’s Indiana Jones-meets-Joan Didion. He causes problems for Lynn Steele (Kudrow) and Hazel Miller (Cummings) because of his unorthodox methods of teaching and refusal to acquiesce to “PC” rules.

Kudrow, Cummings and Daniels executive produce.

Bob McMullan, a former Labor minister in the Paul Keating Government, is replacing Alaric McAusland as Ausfilm.s chair despite not being a member of Ausfilm and being based in London.

That said, as a former arts minister, he has a very good understanding of the commercial and cultural value of film and television production and, as a former minister of trade, he is familiar with the challenges of succeeding in international markets. After many years in politics he also has formidable contacts.

McMullan recently retired from politics and now works as. executive director to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, representing Australia, Korea, New Zealand and Egypt.

He is also an Adjunct Professor for the Crawford School of Public Policy in the Australian National University.

He takes up the new role on July 1.

The news was announced overnight during Ausfilm Week London, which is designed to develop co-production...

The ABC’s latest political satire, At Home With Julia, wraps today. The series, which invites Australians into The Lodge and life of Prime Minister Gillard (Amanda Bishop) and her partner Tim Mathieson (Phil Lloyd) is set to air on ABC1 on Wednesday 7 September, 9.30pm.

The 4×30 minute series finds the Prime Minister and Mathieson struggling with alone time as they get harrassed by Bob Katter, live in fear of terrorist attacks and receive unsolicited advice from Paul Keating.

In a statement, Executive Producer/co-writer Rick Kalowski said, “We can’t believe the quality of the cast we got. Or how little we were able to pay them.”

With a cast of sketch and stage comedians, the production is set to spoof Kevin Rudd (Paul McCarthy), Paul Keating and Tony Jones (both played by Jonathon Biggins), Wayne Swan (Alan Dukes) Tony Abbott (Nicholas Cassim), Bob Katter (Drew Forsythe), and Rob Oakeshott...

There's just something about Labor prime ministers and dramatisations of their lives.

We've had The Dismissal detailing the dramatic final days of the Whitlam Government before the controversial sacking by the governor-general, and there was the musical extravaganza on the life and times of our Opera-loving former Pm Paul Keating, titled Keating!

Not surprisingly, we now have the story of his political nemesis and predecessor, Bob Hawke, which aired on Ten last night.

Hawke details the former Labor Prime Minister's rise to power in the trade union movement, to joining the Labor Party just three years before winning the...  More >>...

Hawke

Nearly thirty years ago George Miller and Phil Noyce co-wrote and partly directed the acclaimed mini-series "The Dismissal", a drama about the most infamous day in Australian politics when left-wing Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was forced out of power. Since then there's been little in the way of films or TV about Australian politics, though that changes shortly with the TV movie "Hawke".

The biopic runs from 1977-1991 covering the life and career of Bob Hawke (Richard Roxburgh) from his boozy, womanising days as the trade unions president, his nine years of service as Prime Minister, his extramarital affair with his biographer Blanche d'Alpuget, and the leadership challenge that saw treasurer Paul Keating take over as Pm.

The TV movie will first be broadcast on Channel Ten in Australia on July 18th and a trailer for it was recently released which can be watched below:

Brothers and Sisters...