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Monday’s “Today Show” offers a blend of nostalgia and financial insights, with Christie Brinkley reminiscing about the iconic “Uptown Girl” era and Jim Cramer marking two decades of his market-moving show “Mad Money.” From pop culture to Wall Street, it’s a morning designed to both entertain and inform. Brinkley’s appearance will surely have viewers flashing […]

The Today Show: Christie Brinkley, Jim Cramer...

As the U.S. economy continues to reel from Trump’s tariffs, CNBC’s Jim Cramer offered a pretty concise and accurate explanation for how Americans will suffer because of said tariffs — which sent John Oliver into a small spiral on Sunday night.

In the latest episode of “Last Week Tonight,” the HBO host wasted no time before diving into his main story surrounding the president’s recent economic decisions. And though there were many “incredibly stupid” elements of the tariffs, according to Oliver, Cramer managed to explain “the dumbest” part of the calculations quite well.

In a clip from Cramer’s CNBC show “Mad Money,” the host explained that Lesotho was one of the two most highly tariffed nations on Trump’s list because the U.S. imported roughly $240 million worth of goods from them last year (mostly apparel or diamonds). But, Lesotho can’t afford to buy much from the U.

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Trump’s Tariff Targets

“Liberation Day”: Another week, another Donald Trump bombshell. This time guns were aimed… well, at the entire world (bar a few exceptions including Russia). On Wednesday, the President announced a tariff policy of a baseline 10% on virtually every nation, claiming April 2, 2025, would be remembered as “the day that we began to make America wealthy again,” calling it “Liberation Day.” Those hit included long-time allies in the UK, Europe and Australia, whose Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese responded by saying, “This is not the act of a friend.” Fair to say few countries were happy and stock markets are shellshocked, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing down...

“Speaking as someone who’s not a fan of free trade, I have to be honest here: A 20% across-the-board tariff on almost all imports, that would be horrendous for the economy,” Jim Cramer said on his CNBC show this evening.

Cramer was referring to a Wall Street Journal report that predicted Trump’s promised April 2 tariff package would include “a potential 20% global tariff on virtually all imports.”

The Mad Money host then invoked the ghost of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, widely seen as a major contributing factor to the Great Depression.

“The blanket universal tariff is a disaster for the consumer. Google it,” he said.

Cramer said the train that Trump is trying to lay tracks for already left the station long ago.

“The truth is the jobs that were supposed to be protected by tariffs were automated out of existence a long time ago…We don’t have...

Hollywood is mourning the death of Buffy and Gossip Girl alum Michelle Trachtenberg at the age of 39. The actress was found unresponsive at her Manhattan apartment on Wednesday morning and was pronounced dead by Ems workers. Trachtenberg was in a long-term relationship with producer Jay Cohen.

The EuroTrip actress recently shared a loving message for Cohen on Valentine’s Day, sharing their Halloween pic. It is assumed that the two started dating in 2020, even though they probably met sometime after 2014 when Trachtenberg signed on to Gersh Agency. Cohen is a partner at the agency, which happens to be one of Hollywood’s oldest talent agencies.

Michelle Trachtenberg with her partner Jay Cohen | Credits: @michelletrachtenberg/Ig

Fans are still shocked by Trachtenberg’s sudden death. She began her career in small ad roles before she landed her roles on Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete & Pete and All My Children.

Being a Hollywood icon certainly doesn't make you immune from a critical and box office flop. In 2024 alone, the likes of Joaquin Phoenix and Cate Blanchett were major parts of two of the year's biggest failures in Joker: Folie á Deux and Borderlands, proving that even the finest of performers is always teetering on the edge of a comically poor choice. Back in 2008, one such icon made a movie she'd possibly rather forget, with Diane Keaton starring in Callie Khouri's crime comedy, Mad Money, based on a screenplay by Glenn Gers and loosely inspired by the 2001 British drama Hot Money.

Max is bringing a lot of content in February, with the highlight being HBO’s Original ‘The White Lotus.’ Here’s every movie and TV show coming to the platform next month.

Titles coming to Max in February

February 1

42 (2013)

Accidentally Brave (2023)

Bad Boys (1995)

Bad Boys II (2003)

Brian Banks (2019)

Cabin in the Sky (1949)

Cleats & Convos with Deebo Samuel, Episode 114 (B/R)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Deepwater Horizon (2016)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

Dredd (2012)

Duplicity (2009)

Entertainment (2015)

Experimenter (2015)

Final Destination (2000)

Final Destination 2 (2003)

Final Destination 3 (2006)

Final Destination 5 (2011)

Ivanhoe (1952)

Jackie (2016)

Jezebel (1938)

Jupiter’s Darling (1955)

Just Mercy (2020)

King Solomon’s Mines (1950)

Kitty Foyle (1940)

Kusama: Infinity (2018)

Lady Be Good (1941)

Lassie Come Home (1943)

Life Partners (2014)

Lili (1953)

Little Women (1949)

Love & Basketball (2000)

Mad Money (2008)

Malcolm X (1992)

Mary of Scotland (1936)

Massacre (1934)

Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Mister Roberts (1955)

Mr. Church (2016)

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Neptune’s Daughter (1949)

Noma: My Perfect Storm (2015)

One Way Passage (1932)

Safe in Hell (1931)

Shadow on the Wall (1950)

Skate Kitchen...

The holiday season is here, and it means that you might get to hear more about Tom Cruise’s famous Christmas cake. Well, to be fair, in pop culture, this sweet confection is kind of a legend, and every year, the actor gifts it to a few of his close friends during Christmas.

Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut | image: Warner Bros.

So if you’re still not aware of the iconic cake, then let us enlighten you. Apparently, Tom Cruise’s famous White Chocolate Coconut cake—that looks like snowflakes on a big donut (actually a bundt cake)—is sold at Doan’s Bakery, a family-owned shop in California. And every year, Cruise sends out a bunch of these cakes to celebrities who make their way on his list.

What is Tom Cruise’s Famous Christmas Cake?

People are well aware of Tom Cruise‘s philanthropic works, but what...

10 Best Women-Led Heist Movies To Watch, If You Enjoyed Kareena Kapoor, Kriti Sanon And Tabu’s Crew On Netflix(Photo Credit –IMDb)

Who says women cannot pull off a masterfully planned heist? Rajesh A Krishnan’s directed comedy-drama Crew is proof of that. The film, starring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Kriti Sanon, and Tabu as Jasmine, Divya Rana, and Geeta Sethi, was recently released on Netflix after its successful run in theatres. The story revolves around the crew of the bankrupt Kohinoor Airlines, who struggle to make ends meet. The three crewmates Geeta, Jasmine, and Divya are fed up with their endless hustle and decide to get down to the business of gold smuggling to end their misery.

While the three got richer, their other colleagues suffered as their months of salaries were unpaid. Finally, Geeta, Jasmine, and Divya hatch a plan to rob their boss, chairman of Kohinoor Airlines, Vijay Walia...

Hulu’s list of new releases for May 2024 is missing a certain amount of original series firepower. In the place of a blockbuster like The Handmaid’s Tale or Shōgun, however, is some content diversity.

The first of the month sees the premiere of four-episode British series Shardlake. This mystery drama takes place during the reign of Henry VIII and features none other than Thomas Cromwell (Sean Bean) investigating a murder. Other series of note this month include the Korean drama Uncle Samsik on May 15.

Movies are bit more interesting on Hulu in May. Teen comedy Prom Dates premieres on May 3. That will be followed by the 2023 Adam Drive film Ferrari on May 24. Before all that though is the real heavy hitter. You can watch Austin Butler’s acclaimed performance as The King in Elvis as early as May 1. But get to it quick before the Baz Luhrmann film departs on...

What’s the best destination for spring TV? IndieWire doesn’t have a definitive answer, but as we do every month we’ll help you weigh the options with a breakdown of everything coming to your favorite streaming platforms in May.

The month is a prime time to have Disney+, what with the ongoing and buzzy success of “X-Men 97” and upcoming “Marvel Studios’ Assembled” going behind the scenes of the reboot series. May is of course the month of Star Wars, and the House of Mouse will celebrate with “Star Wars: Tales of the Empire” on May 4. Disney is also home to BBC America’s “Doctor Who,” which returns for a highly-anticipated 14th season with Ncuti Gatwa stepping into the Tardis as the new Doctor (he stepped into the role in December 2023 as part of the series’ beloved Christmas special tradition).

Meanwhile, Hulu will continue airing episodes of FX’s...

The owner of the Kansas City Chiefs is talking about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s relationship.

In a new interview, Clark Hunt weighed in on the 34-year-old “Cruel Summer” singer and the 34-year-old tight end’s romance and addressed rumors that they’re relationship is just marketing stunt for the NFL.

Keep reading to find out more…

“Well, first of all, we’re so happy for Travis Kelce and Taylor in their relationship. I’ve had a chance to meet her at one of the many games that she’s attended this year,” Clark, 58, shared on Mad Money on CNBC.

“She’s just as sweet as she can be. I also got to see her play here [at our Arrowhead Stadium] twice this past summer and what an incredible performer,” Clark gushed. “I mean, just one of the most incredible artists of our time.”

Taylor and Travis started dating over the summer and...

John Oliver is taking on CNBC’s Jim Cramer, again.

Fresh from signing a new three-year deal with HBO, as revealed by Deadline last week, the Last Week Tonight host dinged the Mad Money host in a segment on trains.

Oliver was discussing Hunter Harrison, the train exec responsible for introducing precision scheduled railroading.

“You know a person is pretty awesome if they get a ringing sound effect-laden endorsements on an esteemed show like Big Bucks Word Puke with Captain Money Clown,” he joked.

It is his latest turn roasting former hedge fund manager Cramer. In July 2022, he took on Cramer for not ringing the bell early enough on inflation and early this year he mocked him for his take on crypto.

Oliver also reminded viewers of the dark tone of the Ringo Starr-narrated “sadistic” kids TV series Thomas The Tank Engine a few times during the episode.

“The...

Pop culture holidays are a fun way for fans to celebrate films they love, like Star Wars Day, but unlike paying homage to that galaxy far, far away with a clever pun about the Force, there are movies that actually take place on May the 4th. Sometimes, a character will reference a date with a line of dialogue, and their film will become synonymous with a specific day, like October 3rd in Mean Girls, or April 14th in Titanic. Other times, eagle-eyed fans will have to find a piece of paraphernalia in the background of a scene that tells them exactly what date it is in a character's life.

From scouring newspaper clippings and scanning background televisions to paying close attention to character dialogue, finding the key piece of evidence that indicates what date a film takes place on is a fun challenge. Even if their storylines and characters seem completely different from one another,...

Katie Holmes was replaced by Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes in 2008's The Dark Knight. Rachel Dawes was created for Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, first appearing in Batman Begins as the childhood friend and love interest of Bruce Wayne. Rachel was very important to Nolan's Batman universe, due to her association with Bruce as well as Harvey Dent as they worked to stop the Joker and the rest of Gotham's organized crime network. Though seemingly as close to a perfect trilogy as one can get, Nolan's Batman trilogy is not without the odd continuity problem, in this instance taking the form of recasting an integral character.

Initially portrayed by Katie Holmes opposite Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. Batman, the actress did not reprise her role in 2008's The Dark Knight. Instead, Maggie Gyllenhaal took over the part, and the character was killed off by the end of the film.

Max Meyers has at least one firm rule about his new CNBC program, and it might surprise some of the business-news outlet’s die-hards. “I told everyone, ‘No earnings,’” says Meyers, a veteran producer at the NBCUniversal-backed cable network. “I don’t want to hear that.”

No net income on CNBC? Such a dictate would be anathema on “Squawk Box,” the morning-news program that Meyers previously ran, but it might just stick on “Last Call,” a new 7 p.m. effort from CNBC executives that aims to keep business-news aficionados hanging out with the network until later in the evening. Over the past week, anchor Brian Sullivan, who is moving from a 5 a.m. roost on “Worldwide Exchange” to anchor the new evening show, has held forth on everything from Tesla to Salesforce during rehearsals, ready to give late-breaking news to CNBC’s market faithful.

If Costco earnings were to...

Hey, "The Tonight Show With Host Jimmy Fallon" fans. Tonight, February 8, 2023, NBC will be giving you another brand new installment of The Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon. So, we're on here to give you guys a brief preview of who you can expect to see show up in tonight's episode. You guys are going to see an actress, a filmmaker and a comedian tonight. The first description reveals that 52 year old American rapper, actress and singer Queen Latifah is going to arrive to talk with Jimmy at some point. Queen Latifah has been involved in productions like: CBS' The Equalizer TV show, Scream: The TV Series, Fox's Star TV show, The Rap Game TV show, Brotherly Love, The Queen Latifah Show, Steel Magnolias, Beauty Shop movie, Bringing Down The House, The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air TV show, 22 Jump Street movie, Hot In Cleveland, 30 Rock TV show, Entourage TV show,...

In a bright, wide-open studio at Fox News’ Manhattan headquarters, where cable-news programs often stick to tried-and-true formats, Dagen McDowell and Sean Duffy are trying something a little unexpected: an experiment.

Larry Kudlow just wrapped his after-market Fox Business program, and the duo are taking advantage of the empty facility to rehearse banter for their new show, “Bottom Line,” slated to debut Monday evening at 6 p.m. Sure, they strike familiar chords, with a segment that examines how President Joe Biden’s White House has grappled with continued revelations of classified documents being found in his offices that eventually segues into a discussion of his son, Hunter Biden. But McDowell, a longtime correspondent, and Duffy, the former Republican Congressman from Wisconsin. are also trying to create new music.

“We definitely think about the world in the same way,” says McDowell, during a recent interview.

Their new “Bottom Line” tests a...

With its list of new releases for January 2022, Amazon Prime Video is keeping things pretty simple. The streaming giant is rolling out a couple of original films, one big TV effort, and a whole host of library content, then calling it a day. And really, that’s all you need!

The two Amazon original films this month are of the family friendly variety. The Tender Bar, based on a memoir of the same name and directed by George Clooney, premieres on Jan. 7. This is followed on Jan. 14 by Hotel Transylvania: Transformania. This is the fourth installment in the animated Hotel Transylvania series, hammering home the fact that if you bring Adam Sandler and Genndy Tartakovsky aboard you project, things are gonna go pretty smoothly.

The one Amazon original TV series this month is As We See It. This project comes from Friday Night Lights head writer Jason Katims and is...

Jim Cramer has signed a new deal with CNBC that includes continuing Mad Money w/Jim Cramer and Squawk on the Street as well as the creation of a new subscription product, CNBC Investor Club.

Cramer also will provide articles and videos each day on CNBC’s digital offerings. The new agreement also will include the creation of conferences with Cramer, tapping into the lucrative events business.

The subscription product will be a venture between CNBC and Cramer Digital in which members will get his “unparalleled knowledge and analysis of portfolio management and investing and give behind-the-scenes access to Cramer and his team,” the network said in announcing the deal. Cramer will work with Margaret de Luna, who was former president and COO of The Street, which Cramer founded. De Luna is general manager and senior vice president of CNBC’s direct-to-consumer business.

Mark Hoffman, the chairman of CNBC, said...

AT&T continues to take a licking heading into the weekend with mogul Barry Diller describing plans to unload WarnerMedia as “a great escape” and calling its three-year dalliance with showbiz the telco giant’s latest bungle in a string of bad deals.

Never one to mince words, the founder of sprawling digital powerhouse Iac and former head of Fox and Paramount said, “It’s the power of monopoly. I mean, Ma Bell should have been dead and buried by now. I mean, they go into cable, only a few years later to say ‘oh my god we made a mistake’ and sell it. They go into Direct [DirecTV], and go into Time Warner with an idea, but certainly not fully fledged, and then they go about basically, I think, hurting Time Warner assets.”

AT&T acquired John Malone’s cable operator Tci in 1999, later selling the business to Charter and Comcast.

Heist movies are thrilling and filled with crime and drama. The elaborate game plan to rob a bank or steal valuable goods that are all the more fun to watch because they seem almost impossible. Some movies are on the simpler side, like Mad Money, where a group of women steals old money from the Federal Reserve where they work.

Related: Inside Man: 5 Reasons Why It's The Best Heist Movie (& 5 Why Its Heat)

Other movies up the ante in creating heist plans that wouldn't necessarily work in real life. Who would be able to get their hands on a machine that could dig underground to create an earthquake? While heist movies are a riveting and fun watch, not all storylines can translate to real-life scenarios.

Rick Santelli, the veteran CNBC correspondent, recently got into an on-air spat with one of his longtime colleagues. Whether he will be given leeway to spar in similar fashion with new co-workers elsewhere in the company is something executives at NBCUniversal ought to work quickly to decide.

During an early-December panel on the business-news network’s “Squawk Box,” Santelli began to yell at Andrew Ross Sorkin, who pressed him on comments he had made about coronavirus restrictions at restaurants. Sorkin pushed his colleague to exercise greater caution about suggesting viewers should be able to crowd into restaurants the way they do into retail outlets.

“Who is this? Who is this?” asked Santelli, even though Sorkin has been a co-host of the program for almost a decade. As Sorkin prodded Santelli to reconsider what he said, the correspondent went into an on-air huff. “I disagree. I disagree! I disagree!” said Santelli,...

NBCUniversal tried to harness two Fox News anchors in the recent past and failed. Now the company no doubt hopes the third time’s the charm.

The company’s CNBC on Wednesday evening launched former Fox News daytime anchor Shepard Smith in a new 7 p.m. news hour that, as Smith himself described it, aims to give viewers “journalists and experts, not opinions and pundits.” The business-news network clearly has some ambition for the new program. It hired a well-known producer, Molly Kordares, from “CBS Evening News,” lured Sally Ramirez, a top news executive from a major-market CBS affiliate in Houston, and assigned one of its veterans, Sandy Cannold, to oversee the project.

Several Fox News personalities who have left that outlet have gained new recognition for their newsgathering or anchoring skills, including Major Garrett and Catherine Herridge at CBS News and Alisyn Camerota at CNN. But NBC News has...

CNBC’s Jim Cramer apologized for calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “Crazy Nancy” to her face during an interview earlier on Tuesday.

“I made a very stupid comment,” Cramer said during Tuesday night’s “Mad Money.” “It was a tongue-in-cheek attempt to make a point about the harsh tone of the negotiations in Washington, but it fell completely flat, and I apologize for that. As I said immediately after the comment, I want to make it clear that I have an incredible amount of respect for both the speaker and, of course, the office she holds.”

The comment in question took place during a “Squawk on the Street” interview about the new round of coronavirus stimulus legislation being negotiated over in Congress.

“I mean, what deal can we have, Crazy Nancy?” Cramer said, referencing the moniker the president frequently uses for Pelosi. The CNBC host then quickly added, “I’m sorry.

CNBC’s Jim Cramer again apologized for a remark he made to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an interview with her on Tuesday, when he referred to her as “crazy Nancy” before he quickly explained what he meant.

“I made a very stupid comment,” Cramer said on Mad Money. “It was a tongue-in-cheek attempt to make a point about the harsh tone about the negotiations in Washington but it fell completely flat and I apologize for that.”

“As I said immediately after the comment, I want to make it clear that I have an incredible amount of respect for both the Speaker and of course the office she holds,” Cramer said.

Earlier in the day, in an interview with Pelosi, Cramer was talking about the ongoing negotiations over a Covid-19 relief bill.

“What deal can we have crazy Nancy,” he said, before stopping himself and saying, “I’m sorry. That was the president.

CNBC’s Jim Cramer apologized Tuesday after critics derided his use of the epithet “Crazy Nancy” during an interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a relatively rare example of the business-news outlet’s on-air personnel getting mixed up in news-cycle politics.

Cramer was questioning Pelosi about negotiations for new coronavirus relief, and appeared to use the “Crazy Nancy” phrase in describing the White House position. But he quickly realized he had blundered. “I’m sorry. I — that was the president. I have such reverence for the office, I would never use that term,” Cramer said, immediately after using it. “But you just did,” Pelosi responded. Cramer then continued on with the interview.

Detractors on Twitter called him to account, prompting him to address the issue. “When you criticize the president by mentioning what he calls the Speaker of the House, you should not be criticized for mentioning the terrible name he calls her,...

CNBC’s Jim Cramer continued to backpedal Tuesday after he referred to Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “crazy Nancy” during an interview on his show, Mad Money. That is the term President Donald Trump often uses to mock and belittle Pelosi both during rallies and on social media.

“I challenge anyone to listen to the interview and think I wasn’t imitating what the president says and how repulsive I find it … I said that three times. I apologized for the implication twice. Who put out the quote without the context? what organization?” he wrote in a tweet.

On his show, Cramer made the ...

CNBC’s Jim Cramer continued to backpedal Tuesday after he referred to Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “crazy Nancy” during an interview on his show, Mad Money. That is the term President Donald Trump often uses to mock and belittle Pelosi both during rallies and on social media.

“I challenge anyone to listen to the interview and think I wasn’t imitating what the president says and how repulsive I find it … I said that three times. I apologized for the implication twice. Who put out the quote without the context? what organization?” he wrote in a tweet.

On his show, Cramer made the ...

Hulu is out with its list of everything new coming to the streaming service in the month of September — and everything that’s leaving.

Highlights in the new category include Season 2 of “Pen15,” which stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle as their middle school selves, out Sept. 18. Another highlight is the series premiere of “Woke,” inspired by the life and work of American cartoonist Keith Knight. That’s out Sept. 9.

Leaving at the end of the month are movies like “50 First Dates,” “A Mighty Wind,” and “Best in Show.”

See the full list below.

Sept. 1

Mike Tyson Mysteries: Complete Season 4 (Adult Swim)

Jeopardy!: Episode Refresh (ABC)

50 First Dates (2004)

Absolute Power (1997)

Aeon Flux (2005)

American Dragons (1998)

An American Haunting (2006)

Any Given Sunday (1999)

Anywhere but Here (1999)

Back to School (1986)

Bad Girls from Mars (1991)

The Bank Job (2008)

Because I Said So (2007)

The Birdcage (1997)

Broken Lizard’s Club Dread (2004)

Call Me (1988)

Carrington (1995)

The Cold Light Of Day...

As one of the weirder “back to school” seasons in living memory rolls out, Hulu is heading back to school in its own way for September 2020.

The biggest Hulu original arriving to the streaming services stream this month is season 2 of coming-of-age comedy Pen15…which of course stars two adults who have already come of age playing their middle school selves.

Speaking of middle school, perhaps the biggest non-original addition to the Hulu library this month is the arrival of all The Twilight Saga movies on September 1. That should prove to be a real nostalgia trip for interested parties. Other library titles of note include Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, The Terminator, and 2019’s Judy on September 25.

Bookending Hulu’s originals this month is another intriguing comedy, Woke. This series will star Lamorne Morris as a Black cartoonist who gets an unexpected wakeup call.

Here is everything else...

With the streaming wars really starting to heat up now thanks to all the new services that have sprung up over the past few months, it’s more important than ever for the major players to continue delivering truckloads of new content to keep subscribers happy. And thankfully, Hulu intends on doing just that.

Earlier today, the platform announced their September line-up and it’s an exciting mix of films and TV shows covering iconic classics, underrated gems, overlooked projects and true fan favorites. In fact, it’s looking like a particularly strong month compared to what we’ve seen from the streaming site over the summer so far and below, you can check out the entire list of what’s headed to Hulu in the coming weeks.

Released September 1

Mike Tyson Mysteries: Complete Season 4 (Adult Swim)

Jeopardy!: Episode Refresh (ABC)

50 First Dates (2004)

Absolute Power (1997)

Aeon Flux (2005)

American Dragons...

After reaching an all-time high of $236 on Monday and $241.76 on Wednesday, Spotify’s stock closed even higher on Thursday — at $267.48 per share — boosted by an upgrade from Goldman Sachs, which raised its price target from $205 to $280.

The company singled out its recent podcast acquisitions and new advertising technology that has increased its revenue and subscribers, although its most recent numbers — 130 million paid subscribers and 286 million total global users — were announced in its last quarterly earnings call at the end of April.

Still, the boost is remarkable, considering that the stock was priced at $118 million in March. The company has been on a podcast acquisition binge in recent months, inking deals with Warner Bros. and DC for exclusive scripted podcasts and landing the popular “Joe Rogan Experience” — which is No. 2 on Apple podcasts — via a multi-year licensing deal reported to be for $100 million and one with Kim Kardashian West for one on criminal-justice reform.

A half-decade after passing the Daily Show baton to Trevor Noah, Jon Stewart is reflecting on what he deems to be the biggest failure of his 16-year run as host.

Speaking to the New York Times, Stewart says his incendiary 2009 interview with CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer about the 2008 financial crisis created an unfortunate “evisceration expectation” among viewers. “That’s the part of it that I probably most regret,” he bemoans. “Those moments when you had a tendency, even subconsciously, to feel like, ‘’We have to live up to the evisceration expectation.’’ We tried not to give something more spice than it deserved,...

Exclusive: Saturday Night Live alum Finesse Mitchell is set as a series regular opposite Jason Biggs, Maggie Lawson and Tisha Campbell in Fox’s new multi-cam family comedy Outmatched.

Written and executive produced by La to Vegas creator Lon Zimmet, Outmatched is about a blue-collar couple, Mike and Cay, played by Biggs and Lawson, in South Jersey trying to get by and raise four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses.

Mitchell will play Irwin, Mike’s best friend and co-worker in construction. Irwin is Rita’s (Campbell) husband, but it’s clear she wears the pants and makes the decisions in the family. He’s a former jock. He’s a laid back and confident guy’s guy. More handsome than he is smart. People are drawn to him. He’s one of those hot guys who assumes everyone is getting a free cookie with their coffee,...

Comedy Central is stepping on the gas in its digital-entertainment drive with the launch of its first YouTube channel for originals.

The Viacom-owned brand is touting the new Comedy Central Originals YouTube channel as a “one-stop shop for the very best digital original comedy.” The channel (available at this link) launched Wednesday (March 6) and will feature a slate of new and returning series, stand-up and social content, and is set to release about five new pieces of weekly, said Jen Danielson, Comedy Central’s senior VP of digital.

Comedy Central already has a primary YouTube channel, which has included original shows like short-form mockumentary series “Mini-Mocks” and commercial parody series “As Seen on Cc.” But overall, it’s largely tied to the TV channel. Jen Danielson, Comedy Central’s senior VP of digital, said it became clear there was an opportunity for a separate destination to feature its digital-only content and talent.

Callie Khouri shifted the attention off herself Tuesday night and on to the assault and hospitalization of “Empire” star Jussie Smollett in Chicago earlier that day.

Khouri, the Oscar-winning writer of “Thelma & Louise” and the creator of the series “Nashville,” made her remarks at the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood during her induction into the Final Draft Hall of Fame. She emphasized the role that writers play in troubled times.

“I decided to talk about our responsibility as storytellers,” she said. “We have to help each other understand how connected we are. We are seeing things in 2019 that would not look out of place in 1939 and that’s a failure of our society, so we have to keep telling our stories.”

Khouri admitted that it’s still a challenge to make herself write. “I would be most qualified to write about how to avoid writing because that’s what I’m best at,...

Final Draft announced the honorees for the screenwriting software’s 14th annual Final Draft Awards Tuesday.

Academy Award winning screenwriter Callie Khouri (“Thelma & Louise”) will receive the Hall of Fame Award for her prolific contribution to the art of screenwriting and devotion to writers and the writing community. Khouri also penned the scripts for “Something to Talk About” and “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.” The latter marked her directorial debut. She also helmed the 2008 Diane Keaton/Queen Latifah crime comedy “Mad Money” and is the creator and executive producer of the critically acclaimed series “Nashville.”

“Callie Khouri has left an indelible mark on both film and television with her writing,” said Final Draft president Scott McMenamin. “Her unique voice and dedication to making our industry a better environment for all writers make her the perfect candidate for this award.”

Previous recipients of the Final Draft Hall of Fame honor include Aaron Sorkin,...

Saturday Night Live alum Finesse Mitchell is set as a series regular opposite Eden Sher in the Sue Heck spinoff, a half-hour single-camera comedy that received a pilot production commitment at ABC, Deadline has confirmed. The p[roject hails from The Middle creators/executive producers Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline and studio Warner Bros. TV.

Written by Heisler and Heline, the Untitled Sue Heck Spinoff follows the twentysomething adventures of eternal optimist Sue Heck (Sher) as she leaves the small town of Orson to navigate the ups and downs of a career and young adulthood in the big city of Chicago, where she takes a new job at a hotel.

Mitchell will play Hudson, a bartender with a big heart who works at the hotel. He joins fellow series regulars Brock Ciarlelli and Kimberley Crossman.

Heisler and Heline executive produce vie Blackie and Blondie Productions, which produces in association with Warner Bros. TV.

Saturday Night Live alum Finesse Mitchell will take the stage in his first stand-up special Finesse Mitchell: The Spirit Told Me To Tell You, premiering Friday, October 19 at 10 Pm Et/Pt on Showtime.

Directed by Devon Shepard and shot at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, the hour-long special will feature Mitchell taking on everything from L.A. life and staying out of the club to juggling the non-stop demands of marriage, fatherhood and “adult-ing.” You can watch a first-look clip below.

Mitchell became known during a three-year run on Saturday Night Live, creating hilarious characters like “Starrkeisha” and impersonating actor Morgan Freeman and rapper 50 Cent. His other TV credits include Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns, Mad Families (opposite Charlie Sheen and Tiffany Haddish), Roadies on Showtime, Media and A.N.T. Farm. His feature film work includes Who’s Your Caddy, The Comebacks, Mad Money and Barely Lethal,...

Former The Quad star Peyton Alex Smith has signed on a series regular in the CW’s upcoming Legacies, the next chapter of The Vampire Diaries/The Originals trilogy from executive producer/writer Julie Plec.

Legacies tells the story of the next generation of supernatural beings at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted, where 17-year-old Hope Mikaelson, played by Danielle Rose Russell, and others come of age in the most unconventional way possible, nurtured to be their best selves…in spite of their worst impulses…all under the watchful eye of headmaster Alaric Saltzman (Matthew Davis).

Smith plays Rafael, a dangerously charismatic and newly-triggered werewolf. With a combination of a pure and loyal heart mixed with a lifetime of abuse and anger, Rafael wants to be a good person but lives in a constant struggle with the emotional demons that have plagued him through a difficult childhood.

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Larry Kudlow, who serves as the head of President Donald Trump’s National Economic Counsel, was admitted to Walter Reed Medical Center after suffering a heart attack, the President said Monday on Twitter.

Kudlow is President Trump’s top economic adviser and has been a TV pundit, host and financial analyst. He co-hosted a show, “Kudlow and Cramer” with now “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer back in 2002.

Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center.

– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2018

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The U.S. Department of Justice is still building its case against At&T’s $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner, but some analysts believe the mega-merger will go through anyway.

In a lawsuit attempting to block the At&T-Time Warner deal, the DoJ has argued the vertical merger would be detrimental to consumers. The government says a combined At&T-Time Warner could use its newfound leverage to raise licensing fees, charging more for its channels, which would in turn raise costs for viewers.

But Btig analyst Rich Greenfield doesn’t think the DoJ has done enough at this point to back up that claim.

“The government has so far failed to show that vertical integration, even with must-have content, has historically led to higher prices for programming,” Greenfield wrote in a note to investors. “While predicting the outcome of a complex trial, particularly with a judge who has limited anti-trust case history, is challenging at-best, so far it appears the government has struggled to prove its theories of harm.”

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Greenfield is not alone in his optimism for a go-ahead outcome. Before the trial started, CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer opined At&T would likely win the case and that its stock was a “Buy.”

However, the market itself doesn’t seem as confident as Cramer does. Shares of At&T are down about 5 percent from the stock’s closing price the trading day before its trial began on March 19. As for Time Warner, well, its stock is up all of 6 cents since just before the opening gavel.

Here are snapshots of the past month of trading for both public companies:

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Meanwhile, John Bergmayer, senior counsel for telecommunications and internet law public interest advocacy group Public Knowledge, argues that the DoJ has actually made a pretty strong case.

“They have presented good evidence that there has been a violation of the Clayton Act,” Bergmayer told TheWrap, referring to the 1914 antitrust amendment that focuses on price discrimination, price fixing and unfair business practices.

“And I think [the DoJ’s star witness, economist and Berkeley professor] Carl Shapiro presented a strong case and held up to some tough questioning.”

On Wednesday, Shapiro testified that if the proposed combination of At&T-Time Warner is approved, consumers could be paying an extra $571 million annually by 2021. At&T-Time Warner’s witness disagreed but, Bergmayer told TheWrap, “At&T’s counter-evidence, by contrast, isn’t persuasive, and it often just promises that the company wouldn’t do the things it has every economic incentive to do.”

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Right now both sides appear to be hitting the notes they need to hit, according to Georgetown economics and law professor Steven Salop.

“It’s very hard to know who’s winning. It’s not like a football game,” Salop told TheWrap. “A lot is going to rest on how the judge interprets and uses in his analysis the At&T-Time Warner arbitration provision.”

The arbitration provision essentially says that At&T won’t black out Time Warner channels during negotiations with carriers, and it requires the combined company to enlist an arbiter to use fair market value to determine prices for things like licensing fees.

But in an article cowritten with Public Knowledge CEO Gene Kimmelman this month, Salop said he doesn’t think the arbitration is enough. Among the many issues Salop and Kimmelman identify is that the agreement doesn’t include HBO, nor does it include any new Time Warner networks.

At this point, how the trial shakes out all comes down to Richard Leon of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a judge who is not an antitrust expert. In other words, your guess is as good as ours (or Greenfield’s, or Cramer’s, or Shapiro’s, or Bergmayer’s, or Salop’s, or…)

At&T and Time Warner did not respond to TheWrap’s requests for comment on this story. A rep for the U.S. Department of Justice did respond, though just to say, “Per Judge Leon’s instructions to the parties, we aren’t commenting on the case.”

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HQ Trivia, a game show app that broadcasts live quizzes daily and offers players thousands of dollars in prize money, has tapped a new head of programming and strategic partnerships, Brandon Teitel, to spearhead brand integration.

For more than a decade, Teitel served as a senior producer at CNBC on finance-themed shows like Mad Money and The Big Idea, hosted by Jim Cramer and Donny Deutsch, respectively. Most recently, he served as VP of brand strategy at Postmates. During his tenure, he partnered the courier app with the likes of ABC, NBCUniversal, and T-Mobile. Teitel first announced his hire on Tuesday via Twitter.

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The Dark Knight is one of the greatest comic book movies of all time, ranked among the popcorn cinema elite in fan polls as one of the best movies ever. The penultimate chapter of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy saw Christian Bale's Batman go up against the Joker, portrayed with haunting villainy by the late Heath Ledger, who won a posthumous Oscar for the role. Ledger's commitment to the character is the stuff of legend. But there were plenty of other cool facts behind the scenes, as well.

Katie Holmes skipped the sequel to make a terrible comedy.

Memento filmmaker Christopher Nolan rescued the World's Greatest Detective from the train wreck of glossy camp that was Joel Schumacher's Batman and Robin with 2005's Batman Begins, a serious minded reboot adored by fans and critics. Katie Holmes co-starred as Bruce Wayne love interest Rachel Dawes, but the Dawson's Creek...

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy (Conservancy) hosted its fifth annual Brooklyn Black Tie Ball and After Party last Thursday.

Jon Hamm Attends Brooklyn Black Tie Ball

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The event was hosted by Jon Hamm, and featured a musical performance by Norah Jones.

Guests included host of CNBC’s Mad Money Jim Cramer, Mayor of New York City Bill De Blasio, NBA star Mike Dunleavy, star of Vogue’s feature documentary The First Monday in May Sylvana Durrett, actress Ana Gasteyer (People of Earth, The Good Wife, Saturday Night Live), Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen, President of Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation Eric Landau, actress Michelle Monaghan (The Path, Mission: Impossible series), actor Matthew Rhys (The Americans) and actress Keri Russell (The Americans), NYC Commissioner of Parks and Recreation Mitchell Silver, Founder and CEO of Rag & Bone Marcus Wainwright, and Executive Director of the Brooklyn Bridge...

Nobody is more virile than a blind man in a bad movie. From Army Ranger Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in “Scent of a Woman” to Virgil Adamson in “At First Sight,” these characters are cartoons of masculinity, using their dicks like antennae as they help guide the sighted people in their lives towards some kind of personal growth. While blind women are often rendered as pretty, pitiable things in desperate need of assistance (a trope that Charlie Chaplin inadvertently helped cement in “City Lights,” and that Lars von Trier very deliberately weaponized in “Dancer in the Dark”), their male counterparts are seen as horny, feral animals who compensate for their sightlessness with bat-like sonar and a bloodhound’s sense of smell.

And so we end up with movies like Michael Mailer’s divertingly banal “Blind,” in which Alec Baldwin plays a vision-impaired (but hyper-sexual) writer who can tell from halfway...

The Polish Embassy and CNBC’s Jim Cramer have kissed and made up after the Mad Money host tweeted a my-bad message for a recent colorful crack. We acknowledge and appreciate your apology https://t.co/l5XFWckAKJ — Embassy of Poland Us (@PolishEmbassyUS) May 24, 2017 The Polish Embassy to the United States gave Cramer a refresher course in WWII this week after learning that, on May 11, he had remarked: "Macy's is like the Polish Army in WWII — it tried to field…...

CNBC’s Jim Cramer is known for his voluble stock advocacy, but the “Mad Money” host also made a key contribution to contemporary Wall Street lexicon, as he’s the one who coined “Fang” as a term for the stocks of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet. And those Fang stocks had quite a bite in 2015, when they averaged a robust 83 percent increase — during a year when the S&P 500 actually finished down less than 1 percent. Netflix, which jumped 134 percent in 2015, was the top performing stock in the entire S&P 500. The four Fang companies couldn’t...

Everyone has to forge their own path to Hollywood’s highest honors, but “Jackie” screenwriter Noah Oppenheim charted a particularly eccentric course. A Harvard grad, he got his start in media by co-creating “Mad Money with Jim Cramer” and producing “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” After a stint supervising the 7am hour of “The Today Show,” Oppenheim ditched television for books, co-authoring a series of secular devotional readers designed to “arouse curiosity” and “refresh knowledge.” And then he pivoted again, adapting screenplays for mega-budget Ya movies like “Allegiant” and “The Maze Runner.”

With that resumé, a piercing and deeply felt story of an American icon at the height of her grief isn’t the obvious next step. Then again, maybe a fraught, complex, and ineffably humanizing portrait of Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of her husband’s assassination — a portrait designed to liberate the former First Lady from the petrified...