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Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorAfter sparking a fight with Donald Trump last week, Bill Maher used his New Rules this week to take on someone even more powerful: Jesus.Riffing off of Ryan Reynolds’ recent apology for getting married at a former slave plantation, the Real Time pointed out that the hero of the New Testament wasn’t always on the right side of the slavery debate, either.In multiple passages of the Bible — Colossians 3:22, Ephesians 6:5 and Peter 2:18, according to Maher — Christ encourages slaves to “submit to your masters.” No one is perfect, Maher reminded, especially in America where, “We’re all six degrees from genocidal assh*les.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: The Talk executive producer and showrunner John Redmann, one of the CBS’ daytime talker’s original auspices, is leaving after 10 seasons. There is no immediate replacement.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticR. Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell has been charged in New York with threatening to shoot up a Manhattan screening room that was showing the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorNFL Sunday Ticket, for more than 25 years a major driver of subscriptions to DirecTV, is now being offered by AT&T for streaming by non-subscribers.The availability is a first for the package on a broad national scale, but it applies only for viewers in certain ZIP codes in 29 U.S. markets, mostly corresponding with where NFL teams are based.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorGovernor Gavin Newsom on Monday delivered some happy news to Californians, reported 7,934 new coronavirus infections on Friday. While that number is significantly lower than the 11,645 reported on Wednesday, it’s in line with the 7,085 new cases reported on That’s a lot less than the 11,645 reported on Wednesday.

Ted Johnson The Simpsons got out a response to a Trump adviser’s swipe at Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s new running mate.Jenna Ellis, senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign, tweeted on Wednesday, “Kamala sounds like Marge Simpson.” Harris had been making her first appearance with Biden since he selected her as running mate.In the new post by the show, Marge Simpson says, “I usually don’t get into politics, but the president’s senior adviser Jenna Ellis just said Kamala Harris sounds like me? Lisa said she doesn’t mean it as a compliment. If that is so, as an ordinary suburban housewife, I am starting to feel a little disrespected.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThe 2020 Billboard Music Awards, postponed in April due to the coronavirus pandemic, has set a new date. It’s now set to air live at 8 pm ET Wednesday, October 14 on NBC.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS’ Big Brother topped primetime Thursday, scoring a 1.0 ratings in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.06 million viewers on a night that also saw the season finales of CBS’ game show Don’t and the CW competition series Killer Camp.Big Brother, which offered up the season’s first eviction last night, saw its rating dip a tenth from its Wednesday airing, but it was steady with its Season 22 premiere result last week.ABC’s fresh episodes of its game show trio gave the network the nightly win in both ratings and viewers, paced by Holey Moley (0.6, 3.35M), up a tenth, and the freshman-season finale of Don’t (0.5, 2.49M) and To Tell the Truth (0.6, 3.04M), both even with last week.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorGood afternoon, and welcome to the latest edition of International Insider. Jake Kanter here.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing Editor“This is the greatest public health crisis in a century,” said Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield bluntly on Thursday.In fact, Redfield sees the coming flu season in Dickensian terms.“It’s dependent on how the American people choose to respond. It’s really the worst of times or the best of times, depending on the American public,” he said, paraphrasing the opening of Charles Dickens’s classic A Tale of Two Cities.The current pandemic, paired with the oncoming flu season, could create the “worst fall, from a public health perspective, we’ve ever had,” said the CDC director in an interview with WebMD.

Ted Johnson Donald Trump got a bit of an unexpected question from a reporter at his press conference, who asked him if he regretted “all the lying you have done to the American people.”The reporter was S.V. Date, White House correspondent for HuffPost, who also was serving as the print pool reporter on Thursday.Date originally asked, “Mr.

Ted Johnson Joe Biden and his new running mate Kamala Harris are calling for mask mandates across the country, arguing that state requirements will help save lives.At an event in Wilmington, DE, Biden said that “every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months at a minimum.” He called on state governors to mandate wearing masks, pointing to estimates that it will save 40,000 lives.“There is overwhelming evidence that the mask and the type of mask you wear increases exponentially the prospect that you, if you are a carrier and don’t even know it, that you will not infect anyone when you cough, sing, sneeze, shout,” he said.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe summer has been without the Marvel Cinematic Universe in theaters, but on TV, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been holding it down when it comes to the comic book world. On Wednesday, however, the drama said goodbye after seven seasons delivering its two-part series finale.

Matthew Carey When humans first landed on the moon in July 1969, among the tens of millions of people watching was a rapt 10-year-old in England, future filmmaker Robert Stone.“It was like four o’clock in the morning,” Stone recalls. “My mother woke me up, sat me down in front of the TV, and we watched…It was kind of in the sweet spot of life where it left really an indelible impression upon me.”Five decades later Stone immersed himself anew in NASA’s historic lunar mission to write and direct the documentary Chasing the Moon for the PBS series American Experience.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEagle Pictures, one of Italy’s leading film distribution and production houses, has acquired fellow distributor M2 Pictures for around €8.5M ($10M), the company has confirmed to us.The deal will see M2’s 99 movies head to Eagle as the company looks to grow its library and bolster its position in the local market. Titles include The Cave, the 2019 Hellboy, Escape Plan 2, Hotel Mumbai, London Has Fallen, John Wick, Step Up All In and The Cabin In The Woods.With the pact, which was completed in late July, Eagle’s library swells to around 1,450 movies.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s doubleheader Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series finale.“Cool.”That’s the last word spoken tonight in the very last episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorAmazon has donated £1.5M ($2M) to two emergency relief funds aimed at supporting workers in film, TV, and theatre through the coronavirus crisis. The pledges are the first in a $6M commitment to help stricken production communities across Europe recover from an unprecedented pause in work.Amazon will donate £1M to a new COVID-19 Response Fund established by the UK’s Film And TV Charity.

Ted Johnson Kamala Harris debuted as Joe Biden’s historic choice as his running mate by mixing personal biography and connection with piercing attacks on Donald Trump and Mike Pence.“Let me tell you, as somebody who has presented my fair share of arguments in court, the case against Donald Trump and Mike Pence is open and shut,” Harris said in an appearance with Biden at a high school in Wilmington, DE.The socially distanced nature of the event was evident not just in the lack of a crowd to cheer at various applause lines, but at the caution that the candidates and their spouses used in getting too close to each other.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorDallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says the NFL team will welcome fans into AT&T Stadium when the regular season begins next month.“The Dallas Cowboys plan on playing all our football games, and we plan on playing ’em in front of our fans,” he said at a press conference Wednesday marking the opening of training camp. In terms of the stadium setup, “We’ve got some adjustments to make.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCases among young adults have increased steeply in the past 6 weeks and that age group is “now driving infections in L.A. County,” according to Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterWith Kelly Clarkson sitting in as a judge for a recovering Simon Cowell, America’s Got Talent was up a tenth from last week’s anniversary special, delivering a 0.8 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 6.67 million viewers Tuesday night in primetime. This marks the most-watched episode for the reality talent competition since July 15.NBC’s World of Dance (0.6, 3.89M) slipped a tenth in the demo to a season low but delivered its best audience since June 30.