NEW YORK (AP) — Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News Channel personality who made a rocky transition to softer news at NBC, was fired from her morning show Friday after triggering a furor by suggesting it was OK for white people to wear blackface at Halloween. On Wednesday, Kelly tried her hand at an […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Megyn Kelly was absent from her NBC News morning show on Thursday following this week’s controversy over her comments about blackface, amid indications that her time at the network could be ending after less than two years. An NBC spokeswoman said that “given the circumstances,” the network was airing repeats of […]
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC’s Megyn Kelly swiftly apologized Tuesday for a morning show segment that questioned why dressing up in blackface for a Halloween costume is wrong. Following a social media backlash, Kelly wrote in an email to NBC News colleagues that she realized such behavior is wrong, that the history of blackface in […]
Everyone has some sort of experience with a hospital at some point, and Jocko Sims says, that’s what makes NBC’s brand new drama, New Amsterdam, so relatable, “it’s something that affects everybody.” New Amsterdam, was inspired by Bellevue Hospital in New York, which is the oldest public hospital in the United States. It is also the only […]
Terry Crews has a new job! He was just announced as the host of a new show called America’s Got Talent: The Champions. Variety reports that the America’s Got Talent spin-off will bring back fan favorites and other memorable acts from previous seasons as well as acts from the global Got Talent franchise to compete against each […]
According to Variety, NBC has ordered a Law & Order series from Dick Wolf, this one will be focused on hate crimes. The series is called Law & Order: Hate Crimes and has reportedly received a 13 episode commitment. “As with all of my crime shows, I want to depict what’s really going on in our […]
Season 2 of the hit NBC comedy Trial & Error is back and “wild and crazier” than last season, comedian/actress Sherri Shepard tells EUR/Electronic Urban Report. Shepherd plays the hilarious Anne Flatch, an assistant and head researcher for the defense team who is plagued with all sorts of ailments, weird quirks and health issues; such as facial blindness, dyslexia and alien hand […]
Honey chile listen up, this may be your time to shine! We just learned that NBC’s ‘The Voice — the hottest singing competition on TV — with four of the most successful recording artists (Alicia Keys, Adam Levine, Kelly Clarkson and Blake Shelton) serving as coaches, is hitting the road this summer and wants to audition […]
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News’ internal investigation following Matt Lauer‘s firing says it doesn’t believe there is a culture of sexual harassment at the division and that current management wasn’t aware of Lauer’s behavior until the complaint that doomed him. But the network says more needs to be done to ensure its more than […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who worked as a war correspondent for NBC News said Tom Brokaw groped her, twice tried to forcibly kiss her and made inappropriate overtures attempting to have an affair, according to two reports published Thursday. Linda Vester told Variety and the Washington Post that the misbehavior from the longtime […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Gruesome images of a lynched Emmett Till were seared into the minds of many black Americans in 1955 and helped lead to the modern civil rights movement. But few whites knew of their existence at the time. That reality is at the top of NBC’s two-hour documentary about how images propelled […]
NBC and Roots drummer Questlove have filed a lawsuit against two former employees of the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for alleged racial discrimination and defamation that they want dismissed. Billboard reports that the original lawsuit claimed camera operators Kurt Decker and Michael Cimino, who are white, are responsible for sending a text back in June 2017, “containing […]
