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ia The New York Times: “This coming year marks the first time in two decades that a large body of copyrighted works will lose their protected status — a shift that will have profound consequences for publishers and literary estates, which stand to lose both money and creative control.”
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Watch highlights from the ninth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-fourth season, hosted by Matt Damon (with musical guests Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus).
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This is possibly the best parody video you’ll watch all year.
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Watch highlights from the seventh episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-fourth season.
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Watch highlights from the sixth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-fourth season.
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Highlights from the third episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-fourth season.
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William Fowler, a distinguished professor of history at Northeastern University in Boston, busts some myths about the voyager, who sailed west for Spain in the hopes of reaching Asia at the end of the 1400s.
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Watch highlights from the premiere of SNL’s forty-fourth season.
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After accepting the Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special, Oscars producer Glenn Weiss courageously made the most of his time onstage to propose marriage to his girlfriend Jan Svendsen in a heartfelt, touching moment.
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The BBC pays a visit to Bend, Oregon, home to the very last Blockbuster Video store. Every other Blockbuster location (even the ones that hung on for a while in Alaska) has closed, in part due to competition from Net-based services like Netflix and kiosks operated by Redbox.
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Highlights from the final episode of SNL’s forty-third season: The cold open: Robert Mueller (Robert De Niro) happens upon Donald Trump’s (Alec Baldwin) dinner with
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Saturday Night Live really pulled out all the stops for last night’s cold open. Ben Stiller returned as Michael Cohen, Scarlett Johansson, Jimmy Fallon, and Martin Short made guest appearances, and Kate McKinnon debuted a new impression of a Trump crony. But that wasn’t all: before the sketch was over, viewers were treated to a surprise cameo from Stormy Daniels herself.
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Mueller interrogates Cohen: Ben Stiller and Robert de Niro reunite for SNL cold open
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Watch highlights from the seventeenth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-third season.
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And don’t miss Kate McKinnon as Betsy DeVos on Weekend Update!
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Jimmy Kimmel ordered a bunch of stuff from trumpstore.com and it turns out, a lot of it isn’t even made in America.
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“In the latter stages of Cerna’s broadcast career, all three local network television affiliates have changed hands to corporate owners devoid of institutional knowledge of the region — with a fixation on profit that eliminates most in-depth journalism, let alone regular, focused community-affairs programming.”
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Highlights from the fifteenth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-third season included two excellent mini-sketches on the Weekend Update segment, plus another Celebrity Family Feud and “This is Us” parody.
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Watch the five best spots that aired during the fifty-second Super Bowl’s commercial breaks.
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Watch highlights from the twelfth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-third season, including Will Ferrell’s return as George W. Bush in the cold open.
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