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Are Republican presidential candidates “crazy zealot[s],” part of a “terrorist organization” or just deserving of a “knee in the groin?” Just ask Daily Beast columnist Ana Marie Cox, who Tweeted out all of that during the GOP debate.

To celebrate CBS’s The Big Bang Theory’s 200th episode, “The Celebration Experimentation” features Sheldon’s (Jim Parsons) birthday party. No big deal, right? Wrong. His friends convince him that it will be a fun thing, not the disappointing experiences of his childhood. His big surprise present? A visit from Adam West, television’s original Batman.

On Wednesday, between Blackish and Chicago PD, police public relations on network television did not have a banner day.

The controversy over the racial makeup of this Sunday’s Oscars has consumed the attention of the national media. ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows have done 21 stories on the #OscarsSoWhite issue this year, never once even asking whether the results are a scandal. An Economist study of the number of minority awards questioned the very premise of the complaints, stating: “our analysis of film…

The two week hiatus that ABC’s Blackish took from any discernible bias or controversy came to a sudden and violent end on Wednesday night, in an episode titled ‘Hope’.

These are the videos the media don’t want the public to see, because they show abortion for what it is: the violent destruction of an unborn baby. But that is precisely why Americans must watch them. 

Hollywood’s sex scenes on the big screen don’t just affect the viewers. On Monday, Maxim published “13 Actresses Reveal What It’s Really Like to Shoot a Steamy Sex Scene.” In a surprising move for a men’s magazine, Maxim retold female celebrities’ mostly negative stories of how acting out sex scenes affected them in real life – from Jennifer Lawrence to Vanessa Hudgens. 

TV Land’s Younger has introduced a radical male feminist character this season that is pretty much the best you’ll ever see on television!

The real risk of exposing innocent people to dangerous disease by children not vaccinated was presented tonight on NBC’s Chicago Med. In “Intervention,” young Shiloh was brought into the ER by her concerned parents. After a brief exam, the real possibility that the child may have meningitis or even something worse was feared. Her parents, both engineers with an obvious penchant for overusing…

Whoever said liberals wanted conservative politicians out of their bedrooms was clearly wrong. Vicious sex columnist Dan Savage wants "Scalia" screamed right in the middle of kinky sex. Shortly after 79-year-old Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away, ABC/Univision media outlet Fusion published a story with the headline “Should ‘Scalia’ became the new universal BDSM safeword?” For the…

In this week's episode of Wal-Mart, I mean Superstore, we get to one of the issues we've all anticipated since the show's premiere: labor unions. As Cheyenne (Nichole Bloom) goes into labor at work, the chaos is comical but the dialogue is obviously meant to persuade the viewer that it's the store's responsibility to take care of the 17-year-old pregnant girl.

The special 6-episode reboot of The X-Files ended tonight and the title, “My Struggle II,” probably perfectly describes most viewers’ ability to follow the confusing new mythology of the bookend episode.

So, as we have discussed before, Showtime’s Billions does not shy away from the dramatic. Though, at times they may shy away from telling the absolute truth.

The good news is truly good news for Hollywood. Risen, a mainstream movie about the resurrection of Christ, came in third at the box office its first weekend in theaters. The $20-million budget movie made made $11 million last weekend placing it squarely behind “Deadpool,” which pulled in over $50 million its second weekend and “The Witch,” which made $13 million.