Actress Michelle Pfeiffer detailed what she described as harrowing work conditions on the set of the Taylor Sheridan project “The Madison.”
The 68-year-old star <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PzUeBcqPg8">discussed it</a> during an appearance on the Los Angeles Times podcast, “In Conversation,” earlier this week.
“It was all a little bit rushed for everyone, and so there weren’t certain accommodations set up,” Pfeiffer said. “There is no bathroom, even the outhouse is not real. So there’s no AC, there’s no plumbing, there isn’t anything. But it is breathtakingly glorious.”
“We didn’t really have trailers there, because they were shooting 360, so they couldn’t have a bunch of trailers around. So there’s really no place for us to sit,” she went on. “There was no bathroom nearby. There was no food. And in the winter, it was cold. It was like, ‘Could we have a heater?’ And in the summer, it was like, ‘Could I get an umbrella because the sun’s really intense?’”
Pfeiffer stars in the Paramount+ neo-Western drama series “The Madison” along with Kurt Russell, Beau Garrett, Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Amiah Miller, Alaina Pollack, and Ben Schnetzer. The show’s description calls it, “a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River Valley of Central Montana.” The show was filmed in Montana and Texas. 
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She’s not the first professional working on a Sheridan project to speak on the extreme set conditions. Cole Hauser, who worked on Sheridan&#8217;s massively popular “Yellowstone” series in addition to the spinoff project “Dutton Ranch,” had some thoughts about the challenging conditions in the latter.
“Coming down there, it was just a totally different world,” he <a href="https://variety.com/2026/tv/features/dutton-ranch-beth-rip-actors-creating-sexy-chemistry-1236749779/">told</a> Variety earlier this month. 
“The weather was different. We started in July and August, and that was painful. It was 118 degrees, and you’re in all black, sitting on a horse. The trailers aren’t 200 yards away — they’re miles away. So you’re out there in the elements. Getting into that and being able to survive the first couple of months was a feat in itself.”
“The Madison” premiered on March 14 and has generally <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_madison">positive reviews</a>, with Pfeiffer in particular being praised for her performance.

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After a long, painful goodbye, Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” on CBS gasped its final dying breath on Thursday from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City.
As many critics are saying, it’s about time.
President Donald Trump, the main subject of Colbert’s yearslong tirades, <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116616669222083429">said</a> Friday morning, “Colbert is finally finished at CBS. Amazing that he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like a dead person. You could take any person off of the street and they would be better than this total jerk. Thank goodness he’s finally gone!”
&#8220;Stephen Colbert’s firing from CBS was the &#8216;Beginning of the End&#8217; for untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and very poorly rated Late Night Television Hosts,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116618496946919115">added</a>. &#8220;Others, of even less talent, to soon follow. May they all Rest in Peace!&#8221;
During the last episode, Colbert skipped the monologue when he walked out and addressed the audience, saying, “This show…has been a joy for us to do for you. In fact, we call this show the ‘joy machine,’ all right? …We call it the joy machine because to do this many shows, it has to be a machine. But the thing is, if you choose to do it with joy, it doesn&#8217;t hurt as much when your fingers get caught in the gears.” 
The host continued, “On night one of ‘The Colbert Report’ back in the day, I said, ‘Anyone can read the news to you, I promise to feel the news at you.’ And I realized pretty soon in this job that our job over here was different. We were here to feel the news with you. And I don&#8217;t know about you, but I sure have felt it.”
The hyper-partisan late night host brought former Beatles band member Paul McCartney on as his final guest. McCartney gave Colbert a framed, signed photo of The Beatles playing during “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964.
“Wow,” Colbert said, joking that the caption said, “To Stephen, you’re better than The Beatles, Paul McCartney.”
The show ended with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jon Stewart, and Andy Cohen helping Colbert transition through a wormhole portal that opened to swallow the show. McCartney was tasked with cutting power from the control room, then the wormhole turned the Ed Sullivan Theater into a miniature version of itself inside a snow globe. 
And then it was over.
CBS announced last summer that “The Late Show,” which began in 1993, would conclude this year and not be replaced with a traditional late-night format.
“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,” the network said at the time.
Colbert followed the announcement with an expletive-laced monologue in which he blasted President Donald Trump and CBS. During the segment, Colbert referenced Paramount Global, CBS’s parent company, noting that it paid Trump a $16 million settlement after being accused of election interference.
CBS Entertainment CEO George Cheeks later reiterated that the show had been losing “significant” amounts of money, describing the losses as being in the “tens of millions of dollars.”
“At the end of the day, it just wasn’t sustainable to continue,” Cheeks said.
Colbert became more reflective in later interviews, blaming changing audiences rather than his political rants on the show’s demise.
“It’s possible that two things can be true,” Colbert <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colbert-blames-producer-for-turning-late-show-into-left-wing-lecture-hour">told</a> The New York Times during an April interview. “Broadcast can be in trouble. They cannot monetize because of things like YouTube, because of the competition of streaming. They’ve got the books, and I do not have any desire to debate them over what they say their business model is and how it does not work for them anymore. But less than two years before they called to say it’s over, they were very eager for me to be signed for a long time. So, something changed.”
CBS will replace “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” with a new late-night program block led by comedian Byron Allen. It’s described as being politically neutral and appropriate for all ages.
“I tell the comedians we’re shooting ‘I Love Lucy,&#8217;” Allen told The Los Angeles Times in 2025. “Something that’s evergreen. So I don’t want to hear any political humor. Just be funny, family-friendly, and advertiser-friendly.”

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The latest ad for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is a send-up of the theme song from the 90s sitcom, &#8220;The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.&#8221;
The hit show, which first aired in 1990, followed Will Smith&#8217;s character as he moved from the dangerous streets of West Philadelphia to live with his well-off aunt and uncle in their Bel-Air mansion. The new ad followed Pratt on a slightly more political journey.
Pratt&#8217;s long-shot campaign to unseat Democratic Mayor Karen Bass has seen a dramatic groundswell of support, thanks in part to a number of AI-generated viral ads and a televised debate, and the former reality star posted his latest effort with the caption, &#8220;Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down &#8230;&#8221;
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&#8220;&#8230;And I had to take a minute to run for mayor, I&#8217;ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air,&#8221; Pratt said, stepping out of the Airstream trailer that has replaced his Palisades home that burned to the ground in early 2025.
&#8220;In West Los Angeles, Palisades, in my backyard is where I spent most of my days,&#8221; Pratt sang. The graffiti on the fence behind him screamed &#8220;THEY LET US BURN!&#8221; in reference to the deadly Palisades fire. &#8220;Feeding hummingbirds, relaxing all cool, avoiding all the bums outside of the school, when a couple politicians that were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood.&#8221;
&#8220;I got in one little fire, my mom got scared, and said, &#8216;You&#8217;re moving in with Harvey Levin in Bel-Air,'&#8221; Pratt continued, name-checking the founder of entertainment site TMZ.
&#8220;I pulled out from my lot about seven or eight, and I yelled to the rubble, &#8216;Yo home, smell ya later,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;I moved to my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as a prince of Bel-Air.&#8221;
The scene finished with Pratt, sitting on the bumper of his trailer as it was parked outside in front of the Hotel Bel-Air, in another dig at TMZ over a recent hit piece about the former star of MTV&#8217;s &#8220;The Hills.&#8221; The piece had criticized Pratt, who has been vocal about the issues he and others have had getting approvals and permits to rebuild in the Palisades, for living in a hotel instead of the trailer he said he was living in.
Pratt pointed out the recent threats against him had made living in the trailer — along with his wife and two young boys — an unacceptable risk. He also reminded everyone that the fire that destroyed his home, in addition to prompting his run for office, was the only reason he wasn&#8217;t still living there.

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Actress Margaret Cho said she turned down a role in the popular gay hockey drama “Heated Rivalry” because it was filming in Canada and she was afraid of being “detained at the border.”
The 57-year-old comedian and outspoken Trump critic made the comments during a recent appearance on the “I Never Liked You” podcast.
“Last year, I got a pilot script for a show that I really loved, but it shot in Canada. I was, like, so scared because I’m so vocal about hating ICE and hating this administration,” she said. “I was like, I will get detained at the border and I will be put in ICE detention if I go. And I was like struggling over it, and I had to talk to all these people about it, and I was super upset, and I said no. And it was ‘Heated Rivalry.’”
“Like, it kills me,” Cho added. “And it’s all because of Trump.”
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She further stated that she asked showrunners about being involved in season two, which is currently in development. “I asked them, we’ll see,” Cho said.
The stand-up comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-actress-says-its-time-for-a-trans-disney-prince-princess">made headlines</a> in 2023 for advocating for trans characters in Disney projects. Cho said as much after playing an LGBTQ guidance counselor in the made-for-TV Disney+ movie, “Prom Pact.”
“I would love to see them everywhere,” Cho said of “queer characters” in kids&#8217; films. “I would love to see trans characters and different types of people in roles of, like, Disney princess, Disney prince, and Disney everything.”
“I think this would be really important and it’s a move towards the future,” she added. “It’s a move towards who we are. I think it’s really admirable and really exciting.”
“Heated Rivalry,” which became a breakout hit in 2025, follows two closeted hockey players who engage in a romantic relationship. It’s been criticized for featuring graphic sexual content. Despite that, it has been especially popular with heterosexual women.
Former first lady Jill Biden was fully prepared to shell out $35,000 for a chance to appear in an upcoming season of the show after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-paid-how-much-for-a-chance-to-appear-in-gay-hockey-show">bidding on the prize</a> during an LGBT charity auction last month.

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Trump-Hating Actress Rejects Role In Gay Hockey Drama Over Fears Of ICE

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The hosts of “The View” pushed back on actor Billy Bob Thornton’s argument that celebrities should keep quiet about politics. 
They were reacting to comments Thornton made on the &#8220;Howie Mandel Does Stuff&#8221; podcast last week, where the “Landman” star paraphrased comedian Ricky Gervais and said celebrities should, &#8220;Get your little award and f*** off.&#8221;
“I don’t know anything about politics. I have no idea,&#8221; Thornton added. &#8220;And the stuff that I believe about it, I don’t want to force it down somebody else’s throat ’cause I’m not an expert on that.”
Thornton also said trusting celebrities is a mistake.
“The fact that people put so much gravitas [into] this group of people that pretends things,” he added. “Just because you played a doctor doesn’t mean you are a doctor, just because you played a hero doesn’t make you a hero. And the people that listen to you, no matter how much we talk, they don’t know us. It’s such a small circle of people that know you, know you enough to trust you in your opinion.”
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On Monday&#8217;s episode of “The View,” co-host Joy Behar was furious with this concept, saying, &#8220;Imagine bragging about how uninformed you are.&#8221; 
Behar went on to praise celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and Robert De Niro, among the most radical leftist stars around, for always getting political. 
Co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in, saying, &#8220;We are at a crisis point in this country. I think democracy is participatory. I think when you have a platform, that means you have an outsized voice and when you have a platform, I think that you have a responsibility to speak up about what’s going on in this country and my view silence is complicity. We need every single ally to speak out.&#8221;
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin offered a different perspective, saying, &#8220;A, Billy Bob Thornton is one of my favorite actors. I’m never going to say a bad word about him, starting with that. But B, a lot of this table criticized George Clooney when he wrote his Biden op-ed.&#8221;
&#8220;That is a celebrity using his voice, saying what he believes, it can&#8217;t just be when they agree with your position,&#8221; Griffin added.
&#8220;He can say it and I can criticize it, that’s called free speech,&#8221; Behar shot back.
Griffin added that celebrities shouldn’t be “bullied” into speaking out, and that their participation by just posting on social media is more accurately described as “slacktivism.”
The panel continued to argue over whether celebs should voice political opinions, or whether, as Thornton suggested, their influence is often misplaced.

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The late-night comedy brigade gathered together during the final days of Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” to participate in their favorite activity: obsessing about President Trump.
Colbert hosted fellow late-night comedy hosts, including Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver, on Monday’s episode as he gears up for the show’s big finale on May 21.
Kimmel, who was briefly suspended last fall after making false comments about the man who assassinated Charlie Kirk, suggested that viewers should watch more late-night television and cancel Paramount+. 
“We have a lot of shows. 30,000 people watching each one, and it adds up,” Kimmel said. “People watch us on YouTube now. People have a lot of different options and they keep coming to us. I will tell you, when I got knocked off the air for a few days, people canceled Disney+. Why aren’t people canceling Paramount+? Because you never had it in the first place?”
He also responded to Colbert’s question about whether any of the other hosts ever expected to be “doing a job that the president of the United States would have strong feelings about.”
“You know what’s even weirder? Doing a job that his wife has strong feelings about,” Kimmel replied, referring to the criticism he received for his tasteless joke about the first lady being an “expectant widow” just days before a man attempted to assassinate Trump. 
Meyers, who has hosted NBC&#8217;s Late Night with Seth Meyers since 2014, said he appreciates having Trump as a fan. “The thing I like, he posts when the show airs, and I want to say I appreciate that he is watching linear television,” Meyers said during the “Late Show” appearance. “If I would make my case for late-night, it’s that leaders of the free world are watching it when it airs.”
CBS announced that “The Late Show” was ending in July 2025, mentioning that it was “purely a financial decision.” However, some have speculated that Colbert’s show was canceled due to the merger between Paramount and Skydance. 
Colbert has been vocally opposed to CBS&#8217;s decision to pull the plug on the show despite reports that the program was losing $40 million annually.
The political commentator went on to blame the format rather than the content of the show.
“It’s possible that two things can be true,” Colbert told NYT. “Broadcast can be in trouble. They cannot monetize because of things like YouTube, because of the competition of streaming. They’ve got the books, and I do not have any desire to debate them over what they say their business model is and how it does not work for them anymore. But less than two years before they called to say it’s over, they were very eager for me to be signed for a long time. So, something changed.”

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OnlyFans creators are big mad at “Euphoria” for making sex work look seedy and gross. 
Several prominent “content creators,” including former “Boy Meets World” actress Maitland Ward and popular OnlyFans personality Sydney Leathers have publicly slammed Sydney Sweeney for her character Cassie’s storyline on the HBO series. 
In this season, Cassie creates an OnlyFans to help fund her upcoming wedding. She acts out strange fetishes, including dressing as a dog on a leash and a baby in a diaper, plus sends one fan her underwear. These antics have the real OnlyFans creators seeing red.
“There’s just a lot that’s ridiculous and cartoonish about it,” Leathers <a href="https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/sydney-sweeney-euphoria-onlyfans-hbo-sex-worker-nude-1236741946/">told</a> Variety in an interview published Sunday. “There’s so much that they have her doing that is not even allowed on OnlyFans, and that alone is infuriating: the age-play stuff where she’s dressed as a baby in a diaper, for example. Credit card processors have very strict rules that you have to abide by, and the rules are getting stricter all the time.”
Ward also expressed her frustration over OnlyFans creators being portrayed in a negative way. 
“In the climate we’re in, that they dressed her up as a baby to make pornographic OnlyFans content was beyond troubling and again serves to perpetuate stereotypes that sex workers have no moral compass and that they will do anything for money,” she told the outlet. “And there’s always this untrue stigma that somehow sex work is synonymous with sex trafficking and abuse. And they just said, let’s make a joke of it. That is so funny. I’m not laughing.”
Showrunner Sam Levinson <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/euphoria-season-3-premiere-feature-sam-levinson-interview-1236561251/">told</a> The Hollywood Reporter back in April that the story arc was never meant to be flattering. 
“[Cassie] has got her dog house and her little dog ears and the nose, and that has its own humor, but what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it,” he said at the time. “What we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity that we’re able to tie into it so that we’re not too inside of her fantasy or illusion — the gag is to jump out, to break the wall.”
“Some of these scenes we only lit with these ring lights that she would use. When you’re inside, it’s a beautiful, glowing front light, but then you jump out of it and it’s just a pool of light and everything surrounding it is dark. It’s just gnarly and jarring,” Levinson continued. “We wanted to capture what she’s trying to show the audience and be inside of it, but then also pull back wider and see how depressing it is.”
In the latest episode, which aired on Sunday, Sweeney’s character weighs in on politics and appears to lean Right. During a fictional press tour, Cassie tells an online talk show host, &#8220;If a man today were to say that he wants a girlfriend who can cook or clean, he might as well be screaming the N-word.&#8221;
Someone off camera replies, &#8220;You sound like a Democrat,&#8221; which makes Cassie laugh and say, “I’m not retarded.”
At another point, Cassie says, &#8220;I just feel like American men have been treated like second-class citizens … In the past, men used to be hunters, gatherers, and protectors. Now, they’re being forced to walk around on their tippy toes. It’s not natural.&#8221; 
Her manager, Maddy, offers her take on the situation. “You know what’s funny?” she asks Cassie. “The angrier these idiots get, the more money you make.”
Many commenters pointed out how Cassie’s storyline mimics what people really think about Sweeney’s personal politics, which she refuses to confirm. They believe she’s secretly conservative, especially following the viral <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sydney-sweeney-says-trumps-support-was-surreal-during-viral-jeans-ad-controversy">American Eagle jeans ad controversy</a>.

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A nostalgic, feel-good series is heading to Fox for the 2027-28 television season.
It was just announced that “Highway to Heaven,” a remake of the classic 1980s show starring Michael Landon, is currently in the works. The series follows a “probationary” angel who must perform good deeds on Earth to earn his wings.
“I’m excited by the challenge of putting a contemporary lens on this classic tale,” showrunner Jason Katims (“Parenthood,” “Friday Night Lights”) said in a statement, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/highway-to-heaven-remake-fox-2027-28-1236588427/">per</a> The Hollywood Reporter. “The idea of telling a very grounded, human story about an angel feels immediately emotional to me — and fun. I love going outside my comfort zone to tell a tale about someone trying to do better as an angel than he did as a man.”
Amblin and Michael Landon Productions are also involved in making the series. The original star of “Highway to Heaven” died in 1991 after battling pancreatic cancer. Landon is also known for his role on “Little House on the Prairie,” which is getting its own reboot released on Netflix in July 2026.
“Highway to Heaven has always been about connection, compassion and the idea that small acts can have big ripple effects and make a lasting difference,” Cindy Landon, Michael Landon’s widow and an executive producer of the new series, said in a statement. “I’m proud to help carry Michael’s legacy forward with partners like Fox and Amblin, who understand the heart of this series and are bringing it to a new generation at just the right moment.”
Cindy also shared the news on Instagram, writing, “‘Highway to Heaven&#8217; was always more than a television show — it was about humanity, compassion, hope, and the power of touching people’s lives through storytelling. Michael poured his heart and soul into these stories, and I know this new chapter would mean so much to him. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone involved for believing in the heart of this series and having the vision to bring it to life once again.”
Landon <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-12-ca-35087-story.html">told</a> the Los Angeles Times in 1988 that “Highway to Heaven” was something he &#8220;had to get out of my system.&#8221;
Brandon Tartikoff, then-president of entertainment at NBC, told the outlet that Landon did the show to “give the audience a good cry.&#8221;
“You&#8217;re going to laugh or cry, one or the other — you&#8217;re not just going to watch a car chase,” Landon said of the original series. “I do the kind of shows that I like to sit down and watch with my family.”

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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel claimed Thursday that President Donald Trump’s criticism of him is an attempt to distract from what he called the “Trump-Epstein files” and the “illegal war he started” in Iran. 
He can’t imagine it just might have something to do with the tasteless joke he told about Trump’s wife, Melania, having “a glow like an expectant widow,” delivered days before an attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner.
Kimmel dismissed the backlash during his monologue, once again turning his focus on the president. 
“If incompetently presiding over not just one of but the lowest ratings in history is why I should be fired, we should both be out of a job,” Kimmel said, referencing reports of the president having low approval ratings.
“Isn’t there a war dragging on?” the comedian continued, lamenting that the president was speaking about any other topics. “Imagine if FDR had taken to the airwaves during the Battle of the Bulge to complain about a Little Orphan Annie comic strip he didn’t like? Trump has three wars going on right now: Iranians, Ukrainians, and comedians.”
The back-and-forth between Kimmel and conservatives has intensified since the assassination attempt last weekend. Critics have suggested that similar remarks targeting a Democratic president and first lady would have drawn significantly stronger backlash. 
First lady Melania Trump did not mince words in a scathing X post she shared Monday morning.
“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,” she wrote. “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.”
“A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand,” the first lady added. “How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.”
Kimmel has not issued an apology for the comments, and ABC has not announced any disciplinary action.

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“The Apprentice” could be making a return to television with a different Trump sitting in the boss’s chair, according to a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/amazon-discusses-apprentice-rebootwith-don-jr-as-a-potential-host-fe09e885">report</a> from The Wall Street Journal, 
The outlet spoke with an industry insider who said not only was there talk of a reboot, but also that the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., was being floated as a potential host. 
Amazon responded by saying that nothing is currently in development. “Since our acquisition of MGM, we have had preliminary internal discussions about what’s next for &#8216;The Apprentice&#8217; as a property. The show is not in active development, and any reporting on details of the show or names of potential hosts would be purely speculative,” the company said in a statement, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/amazon-potential-apprentice-reboot-trump-1236580630/">per</a> The Hollywood Reporter.
Trump famously hosted the popular reality show for 14 seasons on NBC, from 2004 to 2015. “The Apprentice” documented contestants competing for a job to become his apprentice. 
Amazon co-owns rights to the series along with Trump Productions. The media giant has been streaming reruns, which remain popular. The show is also in syndication.
“The Apprentice,” starring Trump, who also served as executive producer, was a major hit. It inspired spinoffs like &#8220;Celebrity Apprentice&#8221; starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Martha Stewart, but none of those were nearly as popular. 
Trump recently posted on Truth Social about the rating for the show’s first season. “Last Season of my Apprentice Juggernaut!” Trump wrote alongside the April 2004 article titled “&#8217;The Apprentice’ Scores Ratings Top for the Season.”
Amazon partnered with the Trump family on entertainment projects before. Earlier this year, Amazon released the documentary “Melania,” which offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the life of the first lady. Critics predicted that it would be a major flop, but it performed shockingly well at the box office considering its genre. The film brought in $7 million on its opening weekend, a huge increase from the projected $2-5 million that was expected.
“Melania” currently has one of the largest disparities between critics’ and audience scores on the site, with reviewers giving the film a 10% rating and moviegoers giving it a 99% rating. About 75% of the audience was women aged 55 and older.

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Late night host Stephen Colbert insists that he’s only an insufferable partisan hack because a producer told him to be one.
The host of “The Late Show,” which will be airing its final episode next month after years of losing money and falling ratings, said as much during a recently published <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/business/media/stephen-colbert-late-night-show.html">interview</a> with The New York Times. Colbert said that he was &#8220;discouraged by the network from being topical&#8221; when he first joined as host.
“It was my instinct to be less topical, because I didn’t want to have to engage with what I saw was an increasingly contentious public discourse,” Colbert told the outlet. “And I thought, ‘Aren’t there other ways to have fun with the audience?’”
The comedian gained notoriety hosting the Comedy Central news satire show “The Colbert Report” from 2005 until 2014. He took over hosting “The Late Show” in 2015 following David Letterman’s departure.  
Colbert said the 2016 party conventions were a turning point for him to return to his political background in his new gig, with the outlet claiming that ratings &#8220;soared&#8221; after he started outright Trump bashing.
“Clint Eastwood in ‘Unforgiven,’ or is it some other movie? He buried his guns. And I’m like, you know, I buried those damn guns. I was talking to Paul Dinello — he’s one of my oldest friends and one of my producers here — and he’s like, ‘You’re having fun, and people love to see that.’ And I said, ‘But that means I got to go dig up the guns.’ And he says, ‘Buddy, that’s the part the audience wants to see.’”
Colbert has been vocally opposed to CBS <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-trump-late-night-host-stephen-colbert-reveals-date-of-final-show?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Anti-Trump+Late-Night+Host+Stephen+Colbert+Reveals+Date+Of+Final+Show">deciding to pull the plug</a> on the show, which they say was “purely a financial decision.” One report stated that the program was losing $40 million annually.
The political commentator went on to blame the format rather than the content of the show.
“It’s possible that two things can be true,” Colbert told NYT. “Broadcast can be in trouble. They cannot monetize because of things like YouTube, because of the competition of streaming. They’ve got the books, and I do not have any desire to debate them over what they say their business model is and how it does not work for them anymore. But less than two years before they called to say it’s over, they were very eager for me to be signed for a long time. So, something changed.”
The last episode of “The Late Show” will air on May 21.

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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel decided that instead of apologizing for his ill-timed, tasteless, and absolutely unfunny “joke” about the first lady looking forward to being a widow, he was going to double down.
The comedian said as much during his monologue Monday night after being trashed by everyone for days, including Melania Trump herself.
&#8220;I said, &#8216;Our first lady Melania&#8217;s here, look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.&#8217; Which, obviously, was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they&#8217;re together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he&#8217;s almost 80 and she&#8217;s younger than I am. It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination,&#8221; Kimmel, an avid Trump critic, insisted.
“There was no big reaction to it until this morning, when I faced yet another Twitter vomit storm and calls to fire me from our first lady,” the host added.
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Critics pointed out how if it were Democrats in power, a “joke” like that about the president’s death mere days before an assassination attempt would be treated like a national crisis.
Melania did not mince words in a scathing X post she shared Monday morning.
“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,” she wrote. “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.”
“A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand,” the first lady added. “How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.”
Kimmel’s fake roast aired two days before California educator Cole Allen, 31, rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton armed with multiple weapons. He managed to strike an officer in his bulletproof vest before being detained and transported to a medical facility.
President Trump and other high-ranking officials were evacuated safely from the event, and there were no fatalities.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also blasted Kimmel for his “expectant widow” comments and called on ABC to reprimand the outspoken host.
&#8220;Who in their right mind says a wife would be &#8216;glowing&#8217; over the potential murder of her beloved husband?!” Leavitt said.
&#8220;And having experienced what I did with the First Lady on Saturday night, I can tell you that she was anything but that. This kind of rhetoric about the president, the first lady, and his supporters is completely deranged, and it&#8217;s unbelievable that the American people are consuming it night after night after night,&#8221; she added.
Kimmel’s show was briefly suspended in September after erroneous statements he made about the man who assassinated Charlie Kirk. He issued a statement afterwards, but did not apologize.

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