TV

Ramy Youssef is just trying to do the thing that entertains him

7:00am May 29, 2025

Ramy Youssef stays busy, creating shows like Ramy and #1 Happy Family USA, and starring in Poor Things and Mountainhead. He spoke with Rachel Martin about mortality and his gripe with Santa Claus.

Opinion: Cheers to a life well lived

8:00am May 24, 2025

Character actor George Wendt was known to a generation as Norm, the beleaguered, lovable everyman on the sitcom Cheers. He died this week at the age of 76.

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Businesses, shoppers brace for higher prices if tariffs on Mexico and Canada imports start Saturday

11:48am January 31, 2025

President Trump renewed his threat to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada as early as this weekend. The move could raise prices on everything from gasoline to guacamole.

‘The West Wing’ was my inspiration. 25 years on I got to meet President Bartlet

5:00am August 26, 2024

When NPR was offered the chance to interview Martin Sheen and Melissa Fitzgerald about The West Wing, I dashed through the newsroom with an energy to rival the show's iconic walk and talks.

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In an episode of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee called "Larry Eats A Pancake," Jerry Seinfeld has coffee with Larry David.

Jerry Seinfeld and the fraught history of comedians and 'political correctness'

6:21am May 04, 2024

by Leah Donnella

Jerry Seinfeld has the become the latest in a string of public figures to blame "political correctness" for the death of comedy (among other societal ills). But what does the term actually refer to?

Arts

Bass Reeves deserves better — 'Lawmen' doesn't do justice to the Black U.S. marshal

5:23pm November 05, 2023

by Eric Deggans

As a Black TV critic who loves Westerns, Eric Deggans really wanted to like this show. But he found the first four episodes were focused on being a Modern Western Epic, at the expense of Reeves' story

The Price Is Right celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1991, but Barker was just getting started. Clockwise from top: Rod Roddy, Janice Pennington, Holly Hallstrom, Barker, Dian Parkinson and Kathleen Bradley.

Longtime 'Price Is Right' host Bob Barker dies at 99

5:24pm August 26, 2023

by Amy Blaszyk

For 35 years, Barker was a familiar presence in the living rooms of everyone from little old ladies, to kids home sick from school. He used his fame to promote another great passion: animal rights.

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U.S. actors, from left, Don Dacus, Annie Golden, Treat Williams, Beverly d'Angelo, director Milos Forman, and Cheryl Barnes arrive for the presentation of Hair during the 32nd Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France May 10, 1979.

Arts

Actor Treat Williams, star of 'Hair' and 'Everwood', is killed in a motorcycle crash

2:25am June 13, 2023

by The Associated Press

Actor Treat Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series Everwood and the movie Hair, died Monday after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police said. He was 71.

Arts

And the winner is: MTV Movie & TV Awards relies on old clips as it names its winners

1:45am May 08, 2023

by The Associated Press

Scream VI won for best movie and The Last of Us was crowned best TV show at a host-less, pre-taped and muted MTV Movie and TV Awards on Sunday night.

Police and media surround the area where Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf were shot in front of the Motilal Nehru medical college in, Prayagraj, India, Saturday, April 15, 2023.

World News

A former Indian politician and his brother were shot dead live on TV

10:14am April 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

A former Indian lawmaker convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges was shot dead along with his brother in a dramatic attack that was caught live on TV in northern India.