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Sean Combs may be awaiting sentencing on federal charges, but according to recent news, his music career isn’t waiting for parole. In a surprising new update in the Diddy case, the rapper is allegedly working on new music from behind bars, and he’s teaming up with none other than Kanye West, aka Ye. Who, by the way, has been a constant supporter of the artist in an industry where most people have turned away from him.

Industry insiders and leaked audio snippets suggest that Diddy and West are already deep into the creative process. One such leak, reportedly recorded via jailhouse call, hints that a track or even an entire joint project could be underway. While it might sound outlandish, jail-recorded music isn’t a first. Tory Lanez did it recently, with his prison album, Peterson. And with celebrities often granted more flexibility, it’s far from impossible.

By day, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins wears out shoe leather at the White House, trying to get the latest details on any number of eyebrow-raising policies coming out of the Trump administration. By night, she holds forth from a shiny Washington studio, far from the fray.

CNN hopes to inject a little of the reporter’s daytime routine into her nighttime one.

Collins is expected to leave her studio perch and host her 9 p.m. program, “The Source,” from the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet’s Washington, D.C., newsroom, a move that could take place as soon as Tuesday evening. The hope is that the change in setting will give viewers a more kinetic presentation that reminds them of Collins’ unique place at the network — it is rare for someone assigned to a busy news beat, in this case that of chief White House correspondent, to also have responsibility...

The already highly-anticipated 2025 Tribeca Festival just got an extra boost of star power. IndieWire can announce that Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, Darren Aronofsky, and Christopher Guest are among the auteurs who will be in attendance for respective film anniversary reunions.

Tribeca staple Scorsese will be on hand to mark the 30th anniversary of “Casino” with a special screening and conversation alongside actor and Tribeca co-founder Robert De Niro. Scorsese will also introduce a special 35mm screening of “Kundun” in honor of the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday.

Cronenberg makes his Tribeca debut for the 50th anniversary of “Shivers,” while Aronofsky returns to the festival for the 25th anniversary screening of “Requiem for a Dream.” Mary Harron’s “American Psycho” will also screen alongside fellow 2000 film “Best in Show.” Director Christopher Guest and ensemble stars Parker Posey, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, and Michael McKean will be part of a post-screening...

The fierce ratings battle continues across the news networks, and CNN may have found themselves a new secret weapon when it comes to viewership, especially in the coveted adults 25-54 demographic. Anderson Cooper has long been the face of CNN, yet he’s not always the top ratings-grabber. For example, last Thursday (March 13), Anderson Cooper 360 finished third for the evening in total viewers, with 707,000. This was behind Erin Burnett OutFront, which led the night for CNN with 714,000 viewers. More surprisingly, perhaps, is the success of the still relatively new NewsNight with Abby Phillip, which finished second for the night in total viewers with 710,000 in the 10 pm Et hour. Phillip began anchoring the round table discussion show in October 2023, and the show continues to shine for CNN. On Thursday, Phillip’s show topped the key demo for CNN with 153,000, ahead of Cooper at 141,000 and The Source with Kaitlan Collins at...

A day after interviewing Republican representative Dan Crenshaw, Kaitlan Collins invited another guest on “The Source” to discuss Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning transgender troops from serving openly in the military.

“I have been at the pinnacle of naval aviation. I’m proof standing here that we’re qualified to serve,” Navy Commander Emily Shilling told Collins. Over her 19-and-a-half years of service, Shilling has completed two tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as a pilot and has seen 60 combat missions. She is also the president of Sparta, an advocacy group for transgender troops.

Shilling was one of the first naval aviators to regain her flight clearance post-transition. She estimated that her transition kept her out of action for “about a month,” a period of time she likened to a minor knee surgery. She also noted that some people who transition never even take down time. Shilling...

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CNN is moving Wolf Blitzer’s show “The Situation Room” to late mornings and expanding “The Lead with Jake Tapper” to two hours, part of a broader refresh of the network’s weekday programming line-up, executives announced on Thursday.

The new schedule affects the domestic CNN channel as well as some programs that are simulcast on CNN International, which is expected to have its own weekday programming refresh in the coming weeks. Additionally, CNN executives say new shows will be announced in the near future.

The new schedule for CNN’s U.S. channel follows below (all times Eastern):

5 a.m.: “5 Things” with Rahel Solomon 6 a.m.: “CNN This Morning” 7 a.m. : “CNN News Central” 10 a.m.: “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer 12 p.m.: “Inside Politics” with Dana Bash 1 p.m.: “CNN News Central” 4 p.m.

CNN unveiled details of changes to its daytime and afternoon lineup Thursday, with Wolf Blitzer moving to mornings to anchor The Situation Room with Pamela Brown, Jake Tapper getting a new time slot, and Kasie Hunt shifting to afternoons.

There is no word on what will happen to Jim Acosta, as Blitzer and Brown’s The Situation Room will take his place in the 10 a.m. Et slot.

Tapper’s show will move to 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Et, with a new show hosted by Hunt, called The Arena, getting the 4 p.m. Et slot.

Audie Cornish will take over CNN This Morning at 6 a.m. Et, and Rahel Solomon will host 5 Things at 5 a.m. Et.

CNN Worldwide CEO Mark Thompson unveiled further plans earlier today to shift the network’s focus to digital, with layoffs of about 200 employees from its workforce but with plans to hire 100 in digital roles.

CNN on Thursday announced additional new White House team members to cover the Donald Trump administration.

As previously reported, Kaitlan Collins will serve as chief White House correspondent while also continuing to anchor her primetime show The Source. She’ll be returning to Washington from New York.

Kristen Holmes has been named senior White House correspondent, having previously been national correspondent, including spending the past two years on the trail covering Trump’s campaign.

Alayna Treene, a reporter covering Trump’s campaign, will serve as a CNN reporter covering the White House.

Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny also will cover the Trump administration, including a focus on the influence and impact of the new administration’s policies.

Others will cover major issues of the new administration. Phil Mattingly, CNN anchor and chief domestic correspondent, will focus on cross-platform coverage of the economy, and correspondent Priscilla Alvarez will report on immigration.

On November 21, De La Soul’s surviving members, Kelvin “Posdnous” Mercer and Vincent “DJ Maseo” Mason, shocked fans by denouncing Marcus J. Moore’s new biography, High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul across their social media accounts. “We’ve been receiving congratulatory messages about a book titled ‘High & Rising,’” read the posts. “However, we want to make it absolutely clear: this is an unauthorized book, and we are not connected to it in any way.” The post went on to say, “If you choose to support this book,...

Kaitlan Collins has been named CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent, but will also continue to anchor The Source.

Calling her new role “unprecedented,” CNN announced Collins will lead the news net’s reporting on President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration across digital, TV and streaming platforms.

She will also continue with her 9pm spot on The Source with Kaitlan Collins, but will relocate from New York to Washington, D.C. for her White House duties. She landed that role last year, making her one of the most important anchors at CNN in the process.

“Kaitlan Collins is the perfect person to lead coverage of the new Trump White House, even as she continues to anchor her key primetime show The Source,” said CNN Chairman and CEO Mark Thompson. “Kaitlan is a political journalist of real depth and tenacity who already boasts an amazing record of scoops and exclusive interviews.

CNN is giving primetime anchor Kaitlan Collins an expanded role at the cable news channel.

Collins will become CNN’s chief White House correspondent, a critical role that will see her lead coverage of the incoming Trump administration. The journalist will continue to anchor the 9 p.m. hour on CNN, though she will relocate from New York to Washington, D.C.

“Kaitlan Collins is the perfect person to lead coverage of the new Trump White House, even as she continues to anchor her key primetime show The Source,” said CNN chairman and CEO Mark Thompson in a statement. “Kaitlan is a political journalist of real depth and tenacity who already boasts an amazing record of scoops and exclusive interviews. I’m excited to see what new heights she scales as she combines this key new posting with her duties as a major CNN anchor.”

Collins was tapped to lead the 9 p.

In an era when traditional media is shrinking, Kaitlan Collins, at least, will have more to do.

CNN gave the anchor of its 9 p.m. hour the title of chief White House correspondent, a maneuver that will have her scrambling for the latest news on the Trump administration even as she tries to maintain a pivotal primetime slot on the Warner Bros. Discovery outlet’s schedule.

“Kaitlan Collins is the perfect person to lead coverage of the new Trump White House, even as she continues to anchor her key primetime show The Source,” said CNN Chairman and CEO Mark Thompson, in a statement. “Kaitlan is a political journalist of real depth and tenacity who already boasts an amazing record of scoops and exclusive interviews. I’m excited to see what new heights she scales as she combines this key new posting with her duties as a major CNN anchor.”

In expanding Collins’ duties,...

Saafir, the celebrated Oakland rapper who became a stalwart figure in the world of early Nineties West Coast hip-hop, died Tuesday, Nov. 19, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. He was 54.

Saafir’s family confirmed his death, saying he died around 8:45 Tuesday morning surrounded by loved ones. An exact cause of death was not given, though Saafir (real name Reggie Gibson) reportedly had been struggling with various health issues, including spinal cancer and complications from spinal surgery.

Xzibit, who co-founded the Golden State Project with Saafir and Ras Kass, posted a tribute on social media,...

Hip-hop–it’s the genre where the beats are loud and the chains are heavy. But what most people don’t see behind the flashy lights and designer outfits is the darker side of the industry. And when you talk about fear, power, and controversy, one name looms larger than life—Suge Knight. The man who once controlled the West Coast and founded Death Row Records is still a figure who sends chills down the spine of even the boldest in the game. But why? Why were so many stars so terrified of Suge Knight?

Diddy in an episode of Hawaii Five-0 | Credits: CBS

Even behind bars, his voice still rings loud and clear through the halls of hip-hop’s history. Currently in jail, Knight hasn’t faded into obscurity. In fact, he seems to have found a second wind, dropping bombs in the form of interviews that keep everyone on edge.

With the release of the trailer of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise reminded fans of the legacy of Ethan Hunt. The film is touted to be the final entry in the franchise, although there has been no confirmation of this. With his signature running and death-defying stunts, Hunt is ready to accept the impossible yet again.

The film might also mark the final appearance in the franchise from another actor who has been in every Mission Impossible film. In fact, he is the only one to be in every film apart from Cruise. Ving Rhames seems to have a bigger role as Luther Stickell in the eighth film of the franchise, as hinted in the trailer.

Apart From Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames Is The Only Actor To Appear In All Mission Impossible Films Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames in Mission Impossible 2 | Credits: Paramount

Tom Cruise is the backbone of the Mission Impossible franchise.

On 3 November 2024, the acclaimed music producer Quincy Jones died at 91, leaving behind a full life, a legacy, and multitudes of stories from his time in the public eye. Among those stories are included his riff with fellow musicians and producers like Tupac Shakur and P. Diddy – both of which were greatly publicized at the time.

Quincy Jones (left) with Norman Jewison in 2014 [Photo by Sam Santos licensed under Cc By 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons]

The music icon had had his fair share of controversies and battles in his day. But even while being unapologetically outspoken and headstrong till the end, Jones also knew when to bow out of a fight. His public feuds did not stop with Tupac and Diddy but involved even bigger fish like Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, and 2 former Presidents of the United States – John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump.

Quincy Jones’ Public Feud With Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur performing...

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CNN is kicking off its comprehensive coverage of Election Day two full days before most Americans head to the polls.

On Thursday, the Warner Bros Discovery-owned cable network said its coverage of key U.S. Senate, U.S. House and White House competitions will start on Sunday, November 3 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time with a special programming block called “Countdown to Election Day.” The block will feature special weekend editions of “The Situation Room,” “Erin Burnett Outfront,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” “The Source with Kaitlan Collins, “CNN News Night: State of the Race with Abby Phillips” and “Laura Coates Live.”

“Election Day in America” will offer non-stop coverage of Election Day on Tuesday, November 5 at midnight Eastern Time. Boris Sanchez and Jessica Dean will helm a three-hour early morning block until 3 a.m. Eastern Time, at which point Erica Hill and Kasie Hunt take over hosting duties. Omar Jimenez...

Bye Bye Tiberiasdirector Lina Soualem is among the filmmakers selected for theseventh edition of the expanded Atlas Workshops, the industry platform and talent incubatorfor Arab and African filmmakers of the 2024 Marrakech International Film Festival, for which US director Jeff Nichols will be this year’s mentor.

Soualem is taking part with her first fiction featureAlicante,along with filmmakers include French-Moroccan actor turned director Djanis Bouzyani with his documentaryAnd Still I Riseand Mouloud Ouyahia with the follow-up to his Cannes 2023 Directors’ Fortnight shortThe House is On Fire, Might as Well Get Warmwith his first featureThe Source.

Of the 17 projects in development,...

U.S. director Jeff Nichols – whose “The Bikeriders” recently made a splash at Cannes and Telluride – is set to be the official patron of the upcoming Marrakech International Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops that will see him mentoring selected projects in various stages from the Middle East and North Africa.

Launched in 2018, the Atlas Workshops are an industry initiative to foster and support the emergence of a new generation of Moroccan, Arab, and African filmmakers that provides an environment for exchanges between global professionals and regional talent.

The Marrakech fest’s industry platform this year comprise 17 projects in development and 10 films in production or post-production, hailing from 13 countries. These works have been selected from more than 300 applications received by the workshop from across the African continent and the Arab world.

Standout projects on display at the workshops include “El Sett” by prominent Egyptian director Marwan Hamed (“‘The Yacoubian Building”). The film,...

U.S. director Jeff Nichols has been named as the 2024 patron of the Marrakech International Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops, as the talent and project incubator also unveils the projects selected for this year’s edition.

Launched in 2018, the initiative has supported a raft of emerging and more established filmmakers and their projects, hailing from Morocco, the Arab world, and Africa.

Nichols – whose filmography includes 2011 Cannes Critics’ Week winner Take Shelter, Cannes Palme d’Or contenders Mud (2012) and Loving (2016) as well as more recent credit The Bikeriders – is the second announced patron.

The role was created last year, with Martin Scorsese due to kick off the inaugural patronship, but he was forced to cancel his Marrakech trip for personal reasons at the eleventh hour.

Nichols will take part in a number of sessions with selected projects in development and post-production. This year’s cohort of filmmakers will be known as the Class of Jeff Nichols.

Method Man’s star power was evident from the moment listeners heard him on Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), especially the album’s lone solo single, which carried his name. During our recent Zoom call, he tells me in his gravelly baritone that he’s still likely to listen to that project before the rest of his catalog. But it was only the beginning of a legendary career that continues well into his fifties. Albums like 1994’s Tical and 1999’s Blackout (with close friend Redman), as well as New York rap...

Shannen Doherty played Prue Halliwell in the successful series Charmed, which aired between 1998 and 2006. She appeared in the show's first three seasons as the powerful elder sister of the trio, the Charmed Ones.

In Charmed Season 3, Prue's character is killed off, and rumors speculated that Doherty quit the show. But in 2023, Doherty clarified that she was fired from the series due to drama between her and co-star Alyssa Milano. The drama has resurfaced through interviews and Instagram posts to reveal the real reason Prue left the hit TV show in 2001.

Prue Halliwell Sacrificed Herself for Her Sisters in Charmed Season 3

During her time on the show, Dohertys character was very beloved, although some fans had mixed emotions because of how strict her character was at the beginning of the series. However, with the responsibility as the eldest daughter and having to take care of her sisters while being thrust...

With an early career spent lifting up hip-hop voices at The Source magazine, filmmaker Dream Hampton was poised to share glimpses of rap’s formative years. Her documentary It Was All A Dream excavates Hampton’s trove of archival footage from New York and beyond in the early ’90s.

Figures like Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre were just starting to make names for themselves during this era. Through interviews and candid scenes, we see these soon-to-be legends in their rawest form—freestyling, joking around, and dreaming big.

Hampton’s documentary acts as a time capsule, preserving the authentic spirit of a music industry not yet hardened by commercial demands. She knew even then that hip hop deserved chroniclers to celebrate its nuances beyond surface concerns. It Was All A Dream reminds us that with singular artists like Hampton keeping watch, rap’s history remains in good hands.

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Updated: The 2024 Democratic National Convention has reached its last day, Thursday, August 22. Programming began as early as 7 a.m. local time/8 a.m. Et with delegation breakfasts, and blocs of events are broken up into morning, midday and evening sessions. Primetime events take place in the evening starting at 6 p.m. Et.

Et News will air a live coverage special of the final night of the convention on August 22. BET: News Presents: Black America Votes the 2024 DNC will feature journalists Ed Gordon, Jemele Hill and Van Lathan. More details can be found below.

Related: Democratic National Convention Fourth Night: Kamala Harris’ Speech Finishes Week; Lineup Also Includes Gretchen Whitmer, Adam Kinzinger

Other networks providing comprehensive coverage of the DNC include ABC, CNN, CBS Fox News, MSNBC, PBS and more. Detailed outlines of segments and their times on the networks covering the convention can be found below.

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On Monday, August 12, 2024, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert welcomes journalist Kaitlan Collins and actor Walton Goggins. Kaitlan Collins is an American journalist who currently anchors the CNN show The Source at 9 p.m. She previously served as the network’s Chief White House Correspondent and co-anchored CNN This Morning. Walton Goggins is an […]

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This year’s Republican National Convention will take place in Milwaukee, Wi ahead of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, which will be held in Chicago in August. The RNC summit has been overseen by Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley and Chairwoman of the Committee on Arrangements Anne Hathaway for the 2024 Republican National Convention.

Amid Biden and Trump’s second showdown in a presidential election, eyes will be on both the RNC and DNC, which serve as the forums to officially nominate each party’s presidential candidate.

Here’s what the networks and streamers have planned for the 2024 Republican National Convention:

When is the 2024 Republican National Convention?

The RNC this year will take place from July 15-18.

How can I watch the 2024 Republican National Convention? Is it streaming?

Several networks are offering coverage.

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Amazon Prime Video has set the launch date and unveiled art for Mélanie Laurent’s upcoming heist romance “Freedom” (“Libre”) starring Lucas Bravo (“Emily in Paris”).

The movie, which will launch exclusively on Prime Video on Nov. 1 across more than 240 countries, reteams the streamer and the acclaimed actor-turned-filmmaker following “The Mad Women’s Ball” which world premiered at Toronto Film Festival in 2019.

Based on a true story of a renowned French gangster of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, “Freedom” stars Bravo as Bruno Sulak, a highly charming criminal à la Arsène Lupin who orchestrated daring heists without firing a single shot. The film also charts Sulak’s cat-and-mouse game with George Moréas (Yvan Attal), a tenacious police commissioner, as well as his numerous escapes from prison and relationship with lover Annie, who is played by newcomer Léa Luce Busato.

Thomas Dubois, head of French originals at Amazon Studios, said working...

Philadelphia radio station Wurd has cut ties with a host who revealed President Joe Biden‘s team provided her pre-approved questions before a recent interview.

Wurd president and CEO Sara M. Lomax announced that the station “mutually agreed to part ways” with Andrea Lawful-Sanders in a statement on Sunday after Lomax admitted that the “questions were sent to me for approval.”

Lomax noted that the interview “was arranged and negotiated independently” by Lawful-Sanders “without knowledge, consultation or collaboration with Wurd management.” Using the campaign’s pre-approved questions “violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our listeners,” said Lomax.

“Wurd Radio remains an independent voice that our audience can trust will hold elected officials accountable,” she said. “As Pennsylvania’s only independent Black-owned talk radio station, Wurd Radio has cultivated that trust with our audience over our 20-year history. This is something we take very seriously. Agreeing...

Early in the documentary It Was All a Dream, the veteran music journalist and filmmaker dream hampton (stylized in lowercase as an homage to the scholar bell hooks), moseys around the offices of The Source magazine, filming her colleagues. The hip hop periodical was, in its early days, a wellspring for understanding the nascent genre. “I learned to be a fan and a critic of some of the greatest artists of a generation,” hampton says in a voiceover that accompanies brief scenes of debate among writers and interviews with editors. The Detroit native moved to New York in 1990 to study film at NYU and a few months later, she joined The Source’s staff.

Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, It Was All a Dream chronicles hampton’s early years in New York. The Surviving R. Kelly (2019) executive producer culls footage from her personal archives (shot between 1993 and 1995) and sets...

This article contains spoilers for Inside Out 2.

Inside Out 2 explored how an adolescent Riley would deal with new emotions during puberty. Screenwriter Meg LeFauve confirmed Riley has teenage crushes but it was best not to focus on them as the central plot of the movie.

The overwhelming reception for Inside Out 2 confirms it's a necessary sequel to the 2015 original. The emotions that have so far appeared tease potential sequels and the debut of more newcomers like Love, Contempt, and Regret (among many others). The film's pacing reveals screenwriter Meg LeFauve's brevity in handling the plot, which largely focused on Riley's struggle to belong in a group of almost-grown-ups. LeFauve told IndieWire that they decided to focus on this arc and veered away from Riley's crushes. She said that would only divert from the message of the film and sidetrack the story.

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Jimmy Kimmel opened Wednesday night’s (June 19) episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! by honoring Juneteenth before focusing on recent comments from author and Variety editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh about Donald Trump‘s cognitive decline. Setoodeh is set to release a new book in August, which is all about Trump’s reality television background, specifically his time as host of The Apprentice on NBC. In researching the book, Setoodeh conducted six interviews with the former president since May 2021. On Tuesday (June 18), Setoodeh appeared on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins and was asked about what Trump was like during these interviews. The journalist described Trump as “meandering and confusing,” adding, “there were some cognitive questions about where he was and what he was thinking, and he would—from time to time—become confused.” Kimmel focused on this, starting with Setoodeh’s claims that Trump couldn’t remember who he was, despite...

The AMC Networks July 2024 schedule has been announced. It includes the fourth season debut of the thrilling dystopian series Snowpiercer, starring Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly and Grammy and Tony Award-winner Daveed Diggs. The series is available exclusively on AMC and AMC+.

Other highlights during the month include new episodes of AMC’s Orphan Black: Echoes, starring Krysten Ritter and Keeley Hawes, and Sundance Now supernatural drama Domino Day: Lone Witch, starring BAFTA-nominated Siena Kelly.

July marks the return of Acorn TV’s popular Signora Volpe, starring Emilia Fox, the premiere of the second season of Hidive’s hit anime franchise Oshi no Ko, and the debut of BBC America’s new landmark nature series Planet Earth: Mammals, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

Film highlights include Shudder’s climate horror film Humane, from Caitlin Cronenberg in her feature directorial debut starring Peter Gallagher, Jay Baruchel, and Emily Hampshire, and post-apocalyptic action horror Arcadian,...

If you’ve never heard the name Deb Antney before, it may be time to start questioning your hip-hop fandom. Antney is a legendary producer in the business, and has worked with acts like French Montana, Nicki Minaj and others. Now she’s on the hunt for the next megastar female rapper, and in the new reality series “Deb’s House” — premiering on Allblk and We tv on Friday, June 14 at 10 p.m. Et — contestants vying for her favor will actually move into her sprawling mansion! You can see the show with a 7-Day Free Trial of Philo.

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dream hampton has been holding hip-hop to task for the misogyny it perpetuates since she was a college student writing for seminal rap magazine The Source in the early 1990s. She is perhaps most widely known as an executive producer of the 2019 documentary series Surviving R. Kelly, which chronicled the former star’s long history of child sexual abuse that he was soon after federally pursued and imprisoned for.

Her latest documentary, It Was All a Dream, premiering at Tribeca Film Festival on June 9, captures her prodding rap stars and fans about their lives,...

When dream hampton lived around the corner from the Notorious B.I.G in Brooklyn, when Gang Starr’s Guru would cut her hair, when she found herself in the epicenter of hip-hop’s modern genesis, she was a film student at New York University who just couldn’t afford to live in their Manhattan dorms. Yet, from there, the 19-year-old would become one of the foremothers of feminist critique in the genre as she split her time between leading an activist group that helped temper New York’s racist broken-windows policing,...

When he won the Un Certain Regard jury’s joint Best Actor prize for Harka in 2022, Adam Bessa wasn’t onstage to accept it. He’d figured he didn’t stand a chance, so he’d gone fishing in Marseille instead and was struggling with a seabass when the call came. He laughs. “‘You have to come back,’ they said. I was like, ‘Nah. I’m in the middle of nowhere right now, I can’t.’ So, I made a little video instead.”

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This year, Bessa is back in Cannes with Critics’ Week opener Ghost Trail by Jonathan Millet. “It’s the story of a Syrian intellectual who was jailed during the civil war in Syria and now he’s chasing the man who tortured him. It’s based on a true story, about these guys who escaped from prison and tried to create a secret militia, a secret spy group.

Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN after 16 years on the news network. Her latest role was as one of the anchors of CNN This Morning, which has been cancelled.

The show debuted in November of 2022, hosted by Harlow, Don Lemon, and Kaitlan Collins (above). Lemon was fired from CNN in May 2023, and Collins left to host The Source. CNN tried rotating anchors for a while and ultimately chose Phil Mattingly as Harlow's permanent co-anchor.

CNN This Morning was cancelled in February of this year and was replaced by CNN News Central. Per Vanity Fair, Harlow was given another role with the network but decided to leave instead.

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Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) said he would vote for President Joe Biden “in a heartbeat” if he were to face former President Donald Trump in a rematch this year.

As one of Trump’s most vocal conservative critics, Kinzinger’s decision underscored his commitment to principles that transcend party lines, even as he remains a member of the Republican Party despite Trump’s influence.

Kinzinger had previously expressed support for former Gov. Chris Christie (R-New Jersey) in the Republican primary and commended him for his honesty and commitment to truth. However, as Christie has suspended his campaign, Kinzinger’s allegiance has shifted.

In an appearance on The Source, Kinzinger was asked about his plans for the future.

Kinzinger responded, “Nothing.” He continued, “Look, I think it’s highly likely that it’s gonna be Biden against Trump. And in that case, there is no question who I would support.

Updated: Fox News’ Ron DeSantis-Gavin Newsom debate drew 5.46 million million viewers — 4.75 million in its live telecast and 706,000 for a rebroadcast — giving a ratings bump to Sean Hannity in the time slot.

The Thursday 90-minute debate — billed as a Red State vs. Blue State showdown — easily beat the competition on MSNBC and CNN.

Fox News also won the night, averaging 3.87 million viewers, compared to 1.34 million for MSNBC and 513,000 for CNN.

For comparison, the most recent Republican primary debate drew 7.51 million viewers across NBC, streaming and digital. The Fox News event was organized by Hannity, and instead focused on comparisons between California and Florida on major issues like crime, immigration and education.

In the 9 p.m. Et time slot, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight averaged 1.2 million viewers and CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins garnered 515,000. In the 25-54 demo, the Fox News debate drew 742,000, compared to 123,000 for MSNBC and 103,000 for CNN.

Fox News topped November ratings among cable news networks, but the numbers were down across almost all categories versus the same period in 2022, when midterm election news dominated coverage.

MSNBC showed a slight gain in total day viewers versus November 2022, but otherwise networks saw declines.

In primetime, Fox News averaged 1.73 million viewers, down 29% versus November 2022. MSNBC averaged 1.136 million, down 5%, and CNN posted 540,000, off by 28%. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 199,000, down 44%, compared to CNN with 122,000, off by 36%, and MSNBC with 109,000, down 26%.

In total day, Fox News averaged 1.18 million viewers, down 25%, compared to MSNBC with 778,000, up 3%, and CNN with 474,000, down 15%. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 143,000, down 37%, compared to 93,000 for CNN, down 13%, and 81,000 for MSNBC, off by 13%.

The Five was the top cable weekday news show, averaging 2.87 million viewers, followed by Jesse Watters Primetime with 2.57 million, Hannity with 2.26 million, Special Report with 2.18 million and The Ingraham Angle with 2.15 million.

Dark Sky Films offers a new take on a new but common fear in Travis Greene's new film based on a script written by Jonathan Buchanan, 8 Found Dead. Ahead of the Sept. 8 release on VOD, the official trailer has surfaced online offering a new horror adventure that capitalizes on the fear of strangers and spaces brought about by the gig market. We never really know who's driving an Uber or, in this case, who is hosting an Airbnb.

Barbarian became one of the most acclaimed horror films of the year, presenting a story filled with dark and unexpected turns, but began with a haunting first chapter centered around an Airbnb rental. Surprisingly, the movie took a different turn, but it seems like what the audience didn't get to see in Barbarian could be the main plot of 8 Found Dead. The story centers on two couples of friends...

Author Raquel Cepeda once said, "The role of hip-hop journalists is to document hip-hop with integrity." Fifty years ago, that esteemed role did not yet exist, for the culture was too young and too niche to find its way into literary archives and journalistic coverage. But seeing how far hip-hop has come, times have changed, and so have the rules for those documenting it - namely, us women.

The role of women hip-hop journalists, unfortunately by today's standards, is not just to report on the culture earnestly. Thanks to sexism, patriarchy, and misogyny, we don't get that luxury. Our skills and knowledge are always under a microscope in this "boys' club," as we've oftentimes been seen as the ill-informed who stumbled our way into this space and not as the revered who helped build, refine, and make it better; as those who've made it safer to tell ours and others' stories.

Update: As the news cycle focus continued to be on Donald Trump’s latest indictment, MSNBC notched another win in primetime.

The network averaged 1.99 million viewers on Tuesday evening, with All In with Chris Hayes and The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell winning their time periods. Fox News averaged 1.92 million and CNN posted 779,000.

The network also notched wins with the first hour of Deadline: White House at 4 p.m., The Beat with Ari Melber at 6 p.m. and The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle at 11 p.m., along with Way Too Early at 5 a.m. and MSNBC Reports in the afternoon hours. The top show of the day was Fox News’s The Five, which averaged 2.71 million viewers.

In the 25-54 demo in primetime, Fox News topped with 247,000, followed by MSNBC with 225,000 and CNN with 162,000.

The ratings are from Nielsen via MSNBC and Fox News.

MSNBC won total viewers despite...

Jesse Watters’ debut as the permanent occupant of Fox News’ 8 p.m. hour gave the network a boost in the timeslot, versus the series of replacement hosts who have filled the time period since the cancellation of Tucker Carlson’s show.

Jesse Watters Primetime averaged 2.47 million viewers during the hour. That compares to the 1.66 million that Fox News Tonight averaged in June.

Still, Watters’ audience was less than the 3.1 million viewers that Carlson averaged in the time period last July. The network is obviously aiming for Watters’ audience to grow, as Carlson’s did after he replaced Bill O’Reilly in 2017.

Watters on Monday beat cable news rivals, including an MSNBC Joe Scarborough special, which averaged 1.29 million, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, which averaged 686,000.

In the adults 25-54 demo, Watters averaged 161,000 viewers, compared to 139,000 for MSNBC’s Scarborough and 120,000 for CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360.

Watters’ move was among a series...

After Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Monday night on CNN that white nationalism is not racist and that “most white people” in the military actually are white nationalists, the hosts of “The View” were stunned on Tuesday morning.

For host Sunny Hostin, Tuberville’s words make him nothing more than “an example” of his state’s “very, very low education rate.”

Tuberville’s comments came as part of the first episode of Kaitlan Collins’ new CNN primetime show “The Source,” when she pushed him on comments he made in May on a radio show where he refused to condemn white nationalists. When she asked him outright whether white nationalists shouldn’t be serving in the military, Tuberville said, “If people think that a white nationalist is a racist, I agree with that, I agree they shouldn’t.”

When Collins gave Tuberville the definition of a white nationalist, informing that all white nationalists are racists,...

Kaitlan Collins’ new CNN series now has a name: The New York-based program will officially be titled The Source and will premiere Monday, July 10, at 9/8c, our sister site Variety first reported.

The series will be built around the up-and-coming anchor who has leapt from White House correspondent to morning co-anchor to primetime personality, all in just a few years’ time. The Source will dive deep into Collins’ reporting experience and connections, expanding upon her work in Washington, D.C. According to publicity materials, it will “bring fresh reporting that adds new perspective to the biggest stories of the day.

Kaitlan Collins will officially launch as the network’s 9 p.m. Et host on Monday with a one-hour program named The Source.

Collins already has been anchoring CNN Primetime, the show that has filled the time period since Chris Cuomo was fired in December, 2021. Collins, the former chief White House correspondent and later co-host of CNN This Morning, was announced as the permanent host in May. The network kept those plans in place after the departure of Chris Licht as chairman and CEO. A leadership team is filling his position in the interim.

The show’s time slot is one of the most competitive in cable news, with Hannity on Fox News and The Rachel Maddow Show and Alex Wagner Tonight on MSNBC. CNN Primetime averaged 548,000 viewers in the most recent quarter, according to Nielsen.

CNN said that on The Source, Collins “will expose uncovered angles and challenge conventional wisdom...

CNN may have cleared its schedule of “Reliable Sources,” but it is making lots of room for “The Source.”

The new program, which will be based in New York and is slated to debut Monday, July 10, at 9 p.m. eastern, is a new hour built around up-and-coming anchor Kaitlan Collins, who has, in the space of just a few years, vaulted from White House correspondent to morning co-anchor to primetime personality. Collins has been leading CNN’s 9 p.m. hour over the past few weeks, but under a catch-all rubric of “CNN Primetime,” which also encompassed town-hall specials and deep-dive interviews with newsmakers led by others.

CNN announced the new program Tuesday night during its Fourth of July coverage and musical celebration, which typically attract a broader audience than its usual weekday schedule.

The name may raise eyebrows among CNN aficionados: The show’s title is similar to one assigned...

Many of us were stunned and filled with emotions when we learned that our beloved Daddy Yankee had announced his retirement. Tidal's Senior Director of Latin Global, Jesús Triviño, refers to him as "the unquestioned Goat of reggaeton" and even penned a piece about Daddy Yankee and his role in bringing the genre to the mainstream. Triviño doesn't take this retirement lightly. In fact, in many ways, it's a full circle moment for him. He's interviewed the Puerto Rican artists probably more times than he can count. And it's because of journalists like him that Yankee started receiving English-language press relatively early in his rise to fame.

While Yankee's career technically started in the mid-'90s, it was in 2004 that he began to gain recognition on a global scale and all thanks to his megahit song "Gasolina," off of his "Barrio Fino" album produced by Luny Tunes. But it...

John Reiss is moving from his role as executive producer of Meet the Press to NBC News Now’s seasonal, single-topic show Meet the Press Reports, and he will be succeeded at the Sunday broadcast by David P. Gelles, who is returning to the network after nearly a decade at CNN.

Reiss has been EP of Meet the Press for the past eight years, and will shift to the streaming series that he and Chuck Todd, the moderator of Meet the Press and NBC News political director, launched in 2020. The series will enter its fifth season this fall, with each season running six to eight episodes.

Gelles, who joins the network on Sept. 1, most recently worked for CNN+, where he led the creation of four shows, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, The Newscast with Wolf Blitzer, The Source with Kasie Hunt, and Jake Tapper’s Book Club.

Gelles previously was...