US television

Hank Azaria apologises ‘to every Indian person’ for voicing Apu in The Simpsons
Azaria, who is white, voiced the role of the Indian American shopkeeper from show’s inception in 1989 but stood down last year
Richard Luscombe
13, Apr, 2021 @4:29 PM

Trevor Noah: ‘If the police weren’t so quick to draw any weapon then maybe people wouldn’t die’
Late-night hosts react to the killing of another unarmed black man, Daunte Wright, and check in on the Matt Gaetz scandal
Adrian Horton
13, Apr, 2021 @3:49 PM

‘It was just so fascinating’: behind a film exploring America’s small towns
The HBO documentary Our Towns, based on a magazine project and book, visits six US towns for a portrait of local resilience and regeneration before the pandemic
Adrian Horton
13, Apr, 2021 @7:15 AM

Saturday Night Live: Carey Mulligan and Kid Cudi address show’s highs and lows
The actor known for serious roles struggled to raise laughs while the rapper pushed his art in sensitive directions
Charles Bramesco
11, Apr, 2021 @1:20 PM

Colbert on Matt Gaetz: the allegations are ‘almost too Florida, even for him’
Late-night hosts discuss the the Florida congressman, Mike Pence’s book deal and the wave of anti-trans bills
Adrian Horton
09, Apr, 2021 @3:55 PM

Trevor Noah to Mitch McConnell: ‘The monster you created is coming after you’
Late-night hosts reacted to the Senate minority leader’s hypocrisy over corporate opposition to Georgia’s voting restrictions
Adrian Horton
08, Apr, 2021 @3:02 PM

Trevor Noah on vaccine passports: ‘For Fox News, everything is a crisis’
Late-night hosts discussed the culture war over vaccine passports and Mitch McConnell’s hypocrisy over corporate speech
Adrian Horton
07, Apr, 2021 @3:18 PM

G Gordon Liddy obituary
Instigator of the 1972 Watergate office burglary that led to Richard Nixon’s downfall, he went on to become a rightwing shock jock
Michael Carlson
07, Apr, 2021 @1:33 PM

‘Sometimes, it’s shocking’: Raoul Peck on his bold new colonialism series
The Oscar-nominated film-maker behind I Am Not Your Negro returns with Exterminate All the Brutes, a dense HBO docuseries about a horrifying history
Lisa Wong Macabasco
07, Apr, 2021 @6:19 AM

Stephen Colbert: 'How dumb is Matt Gaetz?'
Late-night hosts dig into the sex scandal engulfing longtime Trump ally and the corporate wars over Georgia’s voter restriction law
Adrian Horton
06, Apr, 2021 @3:50 PM

How will Law and Order reflect the reckoning with police portrayals?
In a new iteration of the hugely successful TV franchise, detective Elliot Stabler returned, the vigilante cop who, though chastened, remains the hero
Adrian Horton
05, Apr, 2021 @8:10 PM

Saturday Night Live: Daniel Kaluuya as ‘what the royal family was afraid the baby would look like’
Host was good on British racism – but why didn’t Colin Jost play Matt Gaetz as he admitted they could be twins? SNL seems lost
Zach Vasquez
04, Apr, 2021 @12:11 PM
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