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While the Oscars may not be here just yet, the wait is no longer for those eagerly anticipating the news of whether their favorite films have been scorned or regaled by the Academy. To the surprise of few, one of those nominated is the critically acclaimed adaption of the novel and Broadway production of the name Wicked.

Members of the cast were delightfully surprised. Ariana Grande—who is nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role—expressed her tearful appreciation of the nomination. It will surely be a season of celebration for many of the stars of Wicked, though Michelle Yeoh, who plays Madame Morrible, notes that there is some somberness, as they felt one of the crew had been snubbed by the Academy.

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“The View” hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Anna Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin appeared on the Jan. 21 episode of the ABC daytime talk show to discuss Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration (Whoopi Goldberg is out this week due to a previously planned work commitment). The four women took issue with Trump’s polarizing inauguration speech, in which he said it will now be government policy that there are only two genders (male and female) and declared a “national emergency at the southern border” to return “millions of criminal aliens back to the place where they came from.”

“If he’s sending all the criminals away, where is he going?” Behar asked, acknowledging Trump’s own recent convictions. “And what better way to unify the country than by ripping families apart and punishing anyone who doesn’t fall in line.”

Hostin told her co-hosts that she “decided to protect my peace...

The View co-host Sunny Hostin has slammed MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for visiting Mar-a-Lago over the weekend to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

“The bottom line is America needs a free press that is willing to speak truth to power, right now more than ever. And I think we have to be very clear-eyed when we think about the President-elect and cover the President elect. And I don’t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and be able to cover a story,” Hostin said on the daytime talker on Monday as part of a clip posted by ABC to X, formerly Twitter.

Her comments followed Scarborough and Brzezinski starting their MSNBC program on Monday by disclosing their trip to Florida to meet with Trump, while also acknowledging that his decisive win influenced their decision.

It looks like Sunny Hostin is shaking things up with her career path these days. Her history as a talk show host on The View has been a highlight for her. Additionally, her extensive legal background makes her the perfect candidate to handle political commentary. These days, outlets are touching on all things relating to the upcoming November election. Insightful coverage about former President Donald Trump and VP Kamala Harris is more crucial than ever. So, where does Sunny fit into all of this?

Sunny Hostin’s Career Beyond The View

When she appeared on Lemon Live at 5: Biden & Kamala Meet the Press!, Sunny opened up to Don Lemon about the way she’s been feeling about herself lately. She candidly said, “I don’t feel like I’m 56, and I’m an empty nester!” However, she also described the gratitude she has for growing older since some of...

The Walt Disney Company and cable/satellite provider Directv (including U-verse) have reached a principle agreement that sees the return of Disney’s linear networks restored immediately to the carrier’s 11 million customers, it was announced on Saturday. The deal ends a 13-day standoff between Disney and Directv that began on Sunday, September 1.

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As part of the agreement, Disney’s entertainment, sports and news programming from its comprehensive linear portfolio of networks will continue being carried by Directv but at market-based terms. This includes the ABC Owned Television Stations, the array of ESPN networks, the Disney-branded channels, Freeform, the FX networks and the National Geographic channels.

Reportedly, the deal offers an opportunity that offers multiple genre-specific options — sports, entertainment, kids & family — inclusive of Disney’s linear networks along with Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+.

Disney’s direct-to-consumer streaming services will be included in select Directv packages under a wholesale agreement...

Ahead of the first and (thus far) only 2024 presidential debate tonight, ABC revealed the official rules that Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have agreed on as the only two candidates to qualify under established criteria.

Airing for roughly 90 minutes, starting at 9:00 p.m. Et, “Kamala Harris and Donald Trump – ABC News Presidential Debate,” the special broadcast will air live on ABC and stream live on the 24/7 streaming network ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu, and is available for simulcast across several networks and media outlets, including CBS, NBC and Fox, among others.

The debate is set to take place at the National Constitution Center with “World News Tonight” anchor and managing editor David Muir and “World News Tonight” Sunday anchor and ABC News Live “Prime” anchor Linsey Davis serving as moderators.

ABC will air a primetime pre- and post-debate special, “ABC News Presidential Debate – Race for the White House,...

The ladies of “The View” may often be at each other’s throats, but there is one thing they can all agree on: pay transparency.

On Wednesday, co-host Sunny Hostin recalled how Sherri Shepherd helped her negotiate her salary on the ABC daytime talk show.

Hostin said that when she signed her deal sheet, Shepherd gave her a call. “She was like, ‘Did they give you a car stipend?’ I was like, ‘No.’ ‘Did they give you this?’ I was like, ‘No,'” Hostin said. The television personality then got out her call sheet and Shepherd “basically” went over her salary for the entire time she was there.

“And you also gave me Jenny McCarthy’s salary,” Hostin said.

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Liam Neeson probably won't be appearing on The View in the near future.

The actor appeared on the February 15 installment of the ABC talk show to promote his new movie, Marlowe, and it will definitely go down as one of the most awkward segments in TV history.

"I was in the dressing room drinking a cup of tea, turned the TV up, and I thought, oh, this will be great. They're talking about gun violence in America, and I agree that it's an American problem," Neeson recalled to Rolling Stone.

"I go onstage and join the ladies during the break, and I was congratulating them on this discussion."

"And then our segment starts and it's just all this Bs with Joy [Behar] and Liam Neeson and having a crush, and I've known Whoopi [Goldberg] for years and Joy a little bit, but I just wasn't impressed."

Neeson's appearance on the show...

Updated with video: In his first TV sit-down since officially throwing his hat into the ring via video, Dem White House hopeful Joe Biden walked out to The View panelist table in most awkward way possible, carefully shaking hands with some of the show’s female panelists while leaving space between them, giving Anna Navarro a quick kiss the cheek, and embracing only Meghan McCain, who everyone knows is a close personal friend.

He quickly sat down at the table and they immediately cut to commercial.

In the lead up to Thursday’s announcement, Biden faced backlash when several women accused him of making them uncomfortable with inappropriate touching and space invading. He responded by video, noting “social norms are changing and vowing to be “more mindful” going forward.

On Friday, he told The View panel, “Here’s the deal. I have to be much more aware of the private space of men and women,...

Whoopi Goldberg did not waste a minute getting to her response to Jeanine Pirro’s claims over yesterday’s high-volume appearance on The View, about which Pirro said she was ejected from the building “like a dog.”

“Things got hot on the air, which you expect. That happens a lot,” Goldberg said. “I want to clear up what happened afterwards, because she talked about it on Fox News and Fox & Friends this morning, but she seemed to leave out some key points….a lot of pertinent stuff” Goldberg said, noting there were plenty of witnesses.

Pirro had arrived at the show upset upon learning Anna Navarro would be filling in for Joy Behar, Goldberg said, reiterating what Deadline reported yesterday.

Things got hot during her second book-plugging segment, which Den Mom Whoopi seemed to cut short, though today she insisted it ran as long as scheduled.

After which, Goldberg said,...

The View hosts took on a killer look for Friday's spooky Halloween show! Whoopi Goldberg, Paula Faris, Joy Behar, Raven-Symone and Michelle Collins all dressed up for a "Villainous View Halloween," taking on their favorite villains from various Disney movies as guests—including Molly Sims as Cinderella and Anna Navarro as Snow White—played their friendlier counterparts. Goldberg opted for a Cruella Deville ensemble, complete with a fur coat, red accessories and the infamous black and white striped hair. Behar also looked pretty incredible as the Evil Queen from Snow White, topped off with a crown and a perfected evil sneer. Raven-Symone channeled her inner-Meryl Streep as The...

Many people took to theaters and the web on Christmas to take in the hotbed Sony movie “The Interview.”

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Reviews are out, and Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren let loose her inner movie critic in a scatting Twitter rant on Christmas.

Watched part of The Interview – Sony should be ashamed #WorstMovie

— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) December 25, 2014

All that money on a movie and that is the best Sony can do? — Greta Van Susteren (@greta) December 25, 2014

Sony owes me 20 minutes of my life back (time I...

With shooting underway on writer/director Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy, Universal’s reboot of its Jason Bourne franchise with Jeremy Renner in the role of a new CIA operative, Universal Pictures began work on a new espionage franchise based on a different series of Robert Ludlum books. Deadline reported that Universal hired veteran writer and producer Irwin Winkler and writing partner Jose Ruisanchez to adapt Ludlum’s The Sigma Protocol, the story of innocent bystander Ben Hartman and U.S. Dept. of Justice Agent Anna Navarro caught in an international conspiracy plot; the last book written entirely by Ludlum and published after his death.

With shooting underway on writer/director Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy, Universal’s reboot of its Jason Bourne franchise with Jeremy Renner in the role of a new CIA operative, Universal Pictures began work on a new espionage franchise based on a different series of Robert Ludlum books. Deadline reported that Universal hired veteran writer and producer Irwin Winkler and writing partner Jose Ruisanchez to adapt Ludlum’s The Sigma Protocol, the story of innocent bystander Ben Hartman and U.S. Dept. of Justice Agent Anna Navarro caught in an international conspiracy plot; the last book written entirely by Ludlum and published after his death.

With shooting underway on writer/director Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy, Universal’s reboot of its Jason Bourne franchise with Jeremy Renner in the role of a new CIA operative, Universal Pictures began work on a new espionage franchise based on a different series of Robert Ludlum books. Deadline reported that Universal hired veteran writer and producer Irwin Winkler and writing partner Jose Ruisanchez to adapt Ludlum’s The Sigma Protocol, the story of innocent bystander Ben Hartman and U.S. Dept. of Justice Agent Anna Navarro caught in an international conspiracy plot; the last book written entirely by Ludlum and published after his death.

Back in October, it was reported that Universal was moving forward on The Janson Directive, an adaptation of a thriller by Bourne author Robert Ludlum. That project is, by all accounts, still moving forward with the studio, but they’ve also made movement on one of their several planned Ludlum adaptations in the meantime.

As Deadline tells us, Rocky director Irwin Winkler and Jose Ruisanchez will pen a film version of The Sigma Protocol, which the former will also produce, alongside Jeffrey Weiner and Ben Smith of Captivate Entertainment. The story they’re adapting follows “a man who, while vacationing in Switzerland, runs into an old friend,” watching “as the guy turns homicidal and guns down six people.” After getting “plunged into a conspiracy and [running] for his life,” he finds that a female federal agent may be his “only hope of survival from a ruthless assassin.”

Winkler said the following...