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Charles Barkley went viral during CBS’ coverage of March Madness for calling out his co-host, Kenny Smith.

As the sports broadcasters filled out their NCAA Men’s Tournament bracket, Smith picked his alma mater, the University of North Carolina, to take the championship despite its unfavorability.

“Are you serious?” Barkley asked. “Are you serious? Y’all make fun of me for being unbiased.”

Smith fired back and said, “Listen, I don’t lie about being biased.”

“We’re supposed to be unbiased,” Barkley noted with Smith adding, “No, you’re not.”

Barkley then replied, “What are we, Fox News? What are we, Fox News, in here now? This ain’t Fox News. You don’t have to repeat everything the idiots say every day.”

"We're supposed to be unbiased. What are we, Fox News?! What are we Fox News in here now? This ain't Fox News, we don't have to...

Selection Sunday is the final step before the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, and we’ll show you how to stream it here!

The end of the college basketball season has arrived, but that just means it’s tournament time. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament bracket will be set on Selection Sunday with a special on CBS, airing at 6 p.m. Et on Sunday, March 16. You’ll be able to see every team that makes it into the tournament, including the joy of the bubble teams and the consternation of those who are snubbed. Watch the Selection Sunday special with a subscription to Directv Stream.

How to watch 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Selection Sunday When: Sunday, March 16 at 6 p.m. Et TV: CBS, Paramount+ with Showtime Stream: Watch with a five-day free trial of Directv Stream. From anywhere: Watch with a subscription to a Vpn. Everything you need to...

CBS is laying a big bet on Las Vegas for the upcoming Super Bowl.

The week of Super Bowl Lviii will see the network use the famed Fountains of Bellagio as the backdrop of its central broadcast location. CBS will offer weeklong, multiplatform coverage of the Super Bowl in sports, news and entertainment, all leading up to CBS Sports’ presentation of the game on Sunday, Feb. 11.

The location will be home to shows from four CBS divisions across broadcast, cable, and streaming from Monday, Feb. 5 to Sunday, Feb. 11, with four outdoor sets shared across the various shows. The shows originating from Las Vegas are:

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The NFL Today – CBS Sports’ pregame show with host James Brown and analysts Phil Simms, Bill Cowher, Nate Burleson, Boomer Esiason, JJ Watt, and lead NFL insider Jonathan Jones will provide Super Bowl Lviii game analysis, features and interviews.

Super Bowl Live – Host Adam Zucker...

I remember leaving a high holy day service at my temple where a former Muslim was invited to speak in order to harangue and vilify the religion that she abandoned. Her words were self-serving, hateful and disgusting on a visceral level and I wondered why she had been invited to speak to this mixed conservative and liberal Jewish congregation. A lot of us were turned off, and what was meant to be an occasion of remembrance festered into another anti-Muslim hate fest. Her message castigated an entire culture into one myopic vision: Islam is bad. Muslims are bad. The religion celebrates death and their children are brought up to hate.

That day I joined a growing number of Jews who made a conscious decision not to hate, but instead to learn. I don’t think I was even aware of Islam or Muslims until after 9/11, when their world caved in,...

In today’s roundup, a premiere date is set for Kevin Hart’s first Netflix comedy special, and Ramy Youssef’s Hulu series “Ramy” gets a trailer.

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In his Netflix comedy debut, a new original special from Kevin Hart will launch on April 2, titled “Kevin Hart: Irresponsible.” The one-hour stand-up was filmed in front of a sold-out live London audience and touches on his family, travel and a year full of reckless behavior.

Radio host Dl Hughley will bring his brand of comedy and commentary to “The Dl Hughley Show,” premiering on TV One on March 18 at 11/10C p.m. The nighttime talk show will air Monday through Thursday, diving into controversial topics, entertainment news and social media trends.

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Netflix has released the official trailer for season three of “Santa Clarita Diet,” the horror-comedy starring Drew Barrymore as a real estate agent turned bloodthirsty zombie. In the trailer,...

One of the most idiosyncratic and undeniably gifted composers and lyricists to emerge this century, Michael Mott has taken the theatre world by storm with his absolutely spectacular collection of compositions titled Where The Sky Ends The Songs Of Michael Mott and now Mott discusses the finer points of his newest release extensively as part of a fresh multi-part series analyzing his theatre and pop work, old and new. In today's discussion, Mott and I analyze his brand new collection of pop remixes for the Where The Sky Ends standout 'Gone', featuring a spine-tingling track that exclusively premiered on this site earlier this week, 'Gone Adam Zucker French 75 Mix', which is available here. Mott lays out the groundwork of the pop-based roots for the tune, largely inspired by the work of chart-topper Jason Mraz, as well as sheds some light on his desire to create a remix Ep reminiscent of...

The story of legendary performer Carol Channing's life is as colorful as the lipstick on her big, bright smile. In Carol Channing Larger Than Life,released on DVD today May 22, director Dori Berinstein, a three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway Producer ShowBusiness, Gotta Dance, along with co-writer Adam Zucker, capture the magic and vivacity of the 90-year-old icon both onstage and off... past and present. Called terrific, charming and seductive, totally captivating and surprising and an endless storehouse of salty showbiz anecdotes, this triumphant and acclaimed 2012 theatrically released film, an Official Selection at the Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs will make its DVD debut this May only from Entertainment One.

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During our recent interview with Ellis Perez, the Director General of the Dominican Republic's film organization DGCine which you can read tomorrow, he mentioned an interesting factoid about Dr. Aside from its being the site of Christopher Columbus' second landing in 1492 and his naming the country Hispanola, its being the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas, its sharing 1/3 of the island with Haiti, and its reign of terror by the dictator Trujillo from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, there was one good act performed by El Jefe. That was his open-door policy which accepted Jewish refugees from Europe, Japanese migration during the 1930s, and exiles from Spain following its civil war. In 1939 Trujillo took in German and Austrian Jewish refugees and gave them a safe haven in Puerto Plata province's town Sosua where many still live or have returned after being educated abroad. Another coincidental connection of the Dr to the Jews is that the current President Leonel Fernandez spent most of his childhood and teenaged years in Washington Heights during its transition from being a German Jewish neighborhood to becoming the Dominican neighborhood it is today.

And speaking of New York, here is a second Jews in the News item which also includes a doc about Sosua!

The New York-based Foundation for Jewish Culture has granted finishing funds to six documentaries.

Finishing funds ranging between $12,000 and $40,000 have recently been granted to six documentaries. The funds are designed to enable the filmmakers to pay licence fees for music and archival footage, complete additional editing and shooting and build audience awareness through outreach and engagement strategies.

The grants fall under the Foundation’s Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film which supports projects expanding understanding of the Jewish experience. 80 projects made applications this year and the final six recipients were selected by a panel including Moma’s Sally Berger, filmmaker Nicole Opper, film critic George Robinson and Daniella Tourgeman from the Jerusalem Cinematheque/ Israel Film Archive.

The fund has supported the completion of over 80 films since 1996 including Waltz With Bashir, Budrus, William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe and The Rape Of Europa.

The winning projects are:

· Sosua: Dare To Dance Together directed and produced by Peter Miller and Renee Silverman, which follows Jewish and Dominican teenagers over the course of the year as they create a musical theatre piece about German Jews finding refuge in the Dominican Republic in the late 1930s.

How To Re-Establish A Vodka Empire directed by Dan Edelstyn, which traces the history of the film-maker’s Jewish grandmother who fled the Bolshevik revolution and settled in strife-torn Belfast.

· Miss World directed by Cecilia Peck (Shut Up And Sing), which is the story of Israeli beauty pageant queen Linor Abargil and her crusade to combat sexual violence against women.

· My Father Evgeni directed and produced by Andrei Zagdansky, follows the filmmaker’s history working with his father for the Kiev Popular Science Film Studios.

· The Return directed and produced by Adam Zucker (Greensboro: Closer To The Truth), which follows four young Polish women who were raised Catholic only to discover that they were born Jewish.

· Watchers Of The Sky directed by Edet Belzberg (Children Underground) which interweaves stories of four visionaries with the journey of lawyer Raphael Lemkin who drafted and pushed through the Un Genocide Convention.

Title: Carol Channing: Larger Than Life Entertainment One Us/ Dramatic Forces Director: Dori Berinstein Screenwriter: Dori Berinstein, Adam Zucker Cast: Carol Channing, Barbara Walters, Debbie Reynolds, Lily Tomlin, Tyne Daly Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 1/16/12 Opens: January 20, 2012 in La; February 3, 2012 in NY If you’re a diehard fan of Broadway, happy to shell out over $100 for a decent seat to any musical today and the equivalent amount discounting inflation way back, you’re the perfect audience for Dori Bernstein’s “Carol Channing: Larger Than Life.” Ms. Channing, now ninety years old and still able to get up on the stage, take some reminiscent steps with adoring younger...