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As the British nation mourns the loss of Queen Elizabeth II and prepares for the transition to new leadership under King Charles III, family drama continues to plague the royal family.  Piers Morgan, host of "Piers Morgan Uncensored," joined "Fox & Friends" Friday to discuss the royal "rift" between the royal family and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.  Morgan specifically highlighted the tension between Prince Harry and Prince William.The two brothers have hardly interacted following Prince Harry stepping down as a senior member of the royal family.  "So there is a huge rift between these boys," Morgan said. "It would have broken Diana's heart." The ongoing feud between brothers Prince Harry and Prince William boiled to the surface as Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle announced they would be stepping down from their duties as 'senior Royals.' (P van Katwijk/ Naomi Baker - The FA) Morgan described King Charles III as being "incredibly hurt" by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's handling of family conflicts.

Lawrence Jones is becoming a co-host of Fox News’s Fox & Friends, joining Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade on the couch on weekday mornings.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director James Van Der Beek has became the talk of Fox News after posting a viral rant on TikTok in which he slammed the Democratic National Committe (DNC) for not planning to host a debate between Joe Biden and his Democratic opponents once he his bid for presidential re-election in 2024 is announced (via The Daily Beast). The DNC’s decision has been condemned by both media figures such as Joe Rogan and some of Biden’s Democratic challengers, including Robert F. Kennedy and Marianne Williamson. Fox News’ Steve Doocy, who co-anchors the network’s morning show “Fox & Friends,” praised Van Der Beek for “ripping into” the DNC, saying, “I watched this video and I was like, this guy deserves to be sitting on a panel analyzing everything that’s going on right now.”

Saturday Night Live went with the week’s biggest media stories for its cold open: the revelations from Dominion Voting Systems bombshell filing in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Watch a clip below.

Katie Reul editor On the heels of a close victory at Super Bowl LVII, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is once again taking over global television screens as this week’s host of “Saturday Night Live.” The episode opened with a mock “Fox & Friends” segment, featuring Mikey Day as Steve Doocy, Heidi Gardner as Ainsley Earhardt and Bowen Yang as Brian Kilmeade. The sketch comes amid a cascade of embarrassing revelations around Fox News and its major stars in recent days as the litigation grinds on in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems after the 2020 election. As Earhardt, Gardner says of the network’s founder Rupert Murdoch: “Rupert Murdoch would never murder anyone. They sent him away for life. Look how sad he looks.” An image of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh then appears on the screen as Earhardt realizes her mistake.

Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Lou Dobbs are among the current and former Fox News personalities facing depositions in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network.

Fox Nation will premiere The Shell Collector on Sept. 1, a debut that the Fox News Media subscription streaming service says will be its first in-house movie production.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIf you were expecting this week’s “Saturday Night Live” to kick off with a sketch parodying the Will Smith/Chris Rock slap at the Oscars, you may have been disappointed by the cold open. The slap was indeed mentioned, but it was just one of several topics brought up as the show once again turned to a Fox News parody to lead the episode.This week, it was another go at “Fox and Friends,” featuring hosts Steve Doocy (played by Alex Moffat), Ainsley Earhardt (Heidi Gardner) and Brian Kilmeade (Mikey Day). The hosts welcomed Clarence Thomas (Kenan Thompson) and wife Ginni Thomas (Kate McKinnon) — whose support of the January 6 attempted coup has become a lightning rod for scandal.

Joe Biden is back to his old self.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOn Thursday evening, Fox News hopes to bring new light to the holiday season after a large Christmas tree placed outside the company’s New York headquarters was set ablaze Wednesday morning.“Fox & Friends” weekday hosts Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt will be joined by meteorologist Janice Dean, weekend “Fox & Friends” hosts Pete Hegseth and Rachel Campos-Duffy and early morning hosts Todd Piro and Carley Shimkus as Fox News lights a new tree during the first segment on its late-afternoon panel show “The Five.” Lawrence Jones and Abby Horancek will lead the event.

Madeline Eskins, an ICU nurse in Houston, Texas, lost consciousness during rapper Travis Scott’s performance at the 2021 Astroworld Festival in Houston Friday night. She described the deadly event as "uncontrollable" on "Fox & Friends" Monday.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for the mixed messages it has sent viewers about getting vaccinated against coronavirus. Steve Doocy might promote getting vaccinated on “Fox & Friends,” but primetime host Laura Ingraham has suggested U.S.

Meghan McCain is disappointed with the Republican party, to say the least. The View‘s conservative co-host started a conversation about GOP Rep. Liz Cheney‘s potential removal from House leadership on the May 5 episode and ended up shouting as she questioned her own place in the party. “They’re shivving her for refusing to debase herself for Cheeto Jesus,” McCain said. “I don’t know what’s going on.”

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorLara Trump, the Trump family member whose representation of her famous father-in-law helped her gain traction in conservative circles, has joined Fox News Channel as a contributor.“I sort of feel like I’ve been an unofficial member of the team for so long,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning. “You guys know, it was kind of a joke over the past five years, I would come there so often that the security guards were like ‘Maybe we should just give you a key.'”Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, acknowledged she was mulling a run for the U.S.

The reshuffling of network TV correspondents continues. Following new White House correspondents at NBC News and CNN, Fox News Channel says that Peter Doocy will join its White House team as a correspondent, after covering Joe Biden's presidential campaign for much of the past year.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News Channel said Peter Doocy, a Washington-based correspondent at the cable-news network, would move to the White House beat, working alongside Kristin Fisher and filling a spot left vacant by John Roberts’ coming move to the anchor desk.Doocy, whose father, Steve Doocy, is the co-anchor of the network’s “Fox & Friends” morning program, spent the 2020 election cycle covering President-elect Joe Biden, on occasion eliciting criticism from the man slated to take the reins of the Oval Office next week.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's "ineptitude" and "gross mismanagement" are on full display after reports the state gave away billions in fraudulent coronavirus unemployment benefits, a Southern California restaurant owner told "Fox & Friends." Bank of America said California likely paid at least $2 billion in fraudulent benefits since March, having reached "unprecedented levels" compared to other states.

Wynonna Judd is opening up about a breakdown she experienced earlier this year that's propelled her on a path toward healing. The 56-year-old country music icon appeared on "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday morning, where she touched on her life on her Tennessee farm, where she's spent the last nine months, as well as her decadeslong battle with anxiety.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAnother media outlet is getting ready to vie for fans of sentimental stories in the industry’s massive holiday-programming wars.Fox Nation, the streaming-video hub that is part of Fox News Media, will launch its first holiday movie, “Christmas in the Rockies,” later this week, part of a new holiday salvo that is expected to include two other projects, “Christmas on the Range” and “Christmas on the Coast.” “Rockies” will be available on Fox Nation starting Thursday, November 26 and will be exclusive until November 2021.

Georgia Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock is getting slammed for comments he made in a 2011 sermon in which he said no one can serve "God and the military." Fox News contributor Johnny "Joey" Jones, a retired Marine bomb technician who is from the Peach State, told "Fox & Friends" Thursday that Georgians don't agree with the Democrat's comments or his policies as he faces off Jan.

Georgia’s manual recount of all presidential ballots will be a “big lift,” requiring election officials to work overtime, Georgia's GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told “Fox & Friends” on Thursday, adding that the goal is to conclude the undertaking by next week. “Certification by the office of secretary of state is November 20. That's our goal,” Raffensperger said.