The real reason Larry David attacked Elmo
In an assault seen around the world, the ‘Curb’ star took on the ‘Sesame Street’ icon
In an assault seen around the world, the ‘Curb’ star took on the ‘Sesame Street’ icon
When the history books are written (and some of them already have been), the record will show that it took a gentile to make “Seinfeld” a reality. Rick Ludwin, the NBC executive who was the so-called Show About Nothing’s biggest cheerleader at the network, died Sunday of organ failure at a Los Angeles hospital, The…
American mental health entered an unofficial state of crisis on Tuesday when it was announced that the sitcom “The Office” will be leaving the streaming service Netflix. The nine-season NBC mockumentary, based on the British show of the same name, went off the air in 2013. But the comedy, about a paper supply company in…
Moran Atias takes pride in her Jewish roots. The Israeli actress told the Forward that her identity has shaped her career and the way she perceives the world. Born in Haifa to parents of Moroccan ancestry, her Jewish identity, she says, has never been separate from her acting. Atias says this was confirmed early in…
After four spectacularly Jewish and musically delightful seasons, Rachel Bloom’s CW hit “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” ended in April, and with it, our dreams of seeing a loudmouthed Jewish woman sing show-tunes on network television. Or so we believed. NBC has picked up “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” a musical television show about a woman who starts hearing other…
The parents of Dan Markel, the Florida law professor who was allegedly murdered in a hit-for-hire, will be making their first public comments on NBC on Friday. “You don’t repair from that, you really don’t repair from that,” Markel’s mother said in a preview for NBC’s “Dateline” program. “The day was just the most unbearable…
When reporters from the New York Times were calling the executives of NBC about the “culture” of the Today Show, the executives asked Matt Lauer if there was anything they should know. “I am racking my brains, but I can’t think of anything,” Lauer responded, according to a report in Page Six. Less than two…
Matt Lauer, the world-famous host of NBC’s “Today” show, was fired for “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace,” the New York Times reported. The firing was announced live on the air Wednesday morning, and in a memo to staff sent “On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior…
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