Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Johnny Carson

Daily Show's retro strategy may stick

Stewart's return gave the show its biggest ratings in years. What does that mean for the other nights and hosts?

Salon

Feud: Capote vs. the Swans reveals scandalous world of high society

Discover the glamorous world of New York's high society in Feud: Capote vs. the Swans. Get to know the actors and their real-life counterparts in this capt...

Top News

The 'Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’ Cast Compared to Their Real-Life Counterparts

Meet the glamorous socialites of 1970s NYC.

Marie Claire

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

What's the real story behind Feud: Capote vs. the Swans?

Season two of Ryan Murphy's Feud is all about the dark tales behind Truman Capote's friendship with the Swans

Evening Standard

The Story Behind Why Drew Carey Kept His Military Haircut For So Many Years

There's a reason for Drew Carey's haircut that goes beyond the comedian just liking the look!

Cinemablend

The Most Expensive Divorces in Hollywood History

Whew.

Marie Claire

32 Talk Show Sidekicks (And How Each Was Used)

Talk shows are as old as TV and sidekicks have been an important ingredient since the beginning, here are the 32 best sidekicks and what they brought to the table.

Cinemablend

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Shecky Greene, Las Vegas comedy star from Chicago, dies at 97

A gifted onstage improviser, Greene was revered by his peers and live audiences as one of the greatest stand-up acts of his generation.

Chicago Sun-Times

32 Celebrities Who Played Themselves On The Simpsons

The Simpsons has featured hundreds of guest stars over the years, and here are 32 of the biggest names who voiced animated versions of themselves.

Cinemablend

30+ Famous Celebrities Who Tried To Make A Talk Show Happen

Even the most experienced performers can stumble in the talk show arena, as you'll see with this crop of failed celebrity programs.

Cinemablend

An all-time great: how Michael Parkinson changed British television

He pioneered new formats, could get almost any guest in the world and conducted the best interviews ever. Parky was one of the finest broadcasters of any era

The Guardian - UK

Former WNBC Meteorologist Frank Field Dies at Age 100

Weatherman taught the Heimlich maneuver, appeared with Johnny Carson

Broadcasting & Cable

Watch a fresh-faced Aerosmith's play Dream On on US TV in 1974

Aerosmith's Midnight Special version of Dream On has been floating around the web for years: now there's an official version

Louder

‘Cheers’ bar sells for $675,000 at auction of TV treasures

Buyers also nab Batman and Robin’s costumes, Archie and Edith’s chairs and Johnny Carson’s talk-show set.

Chicago Sun-Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

WEKU

Want Johnny Carson's desk? A trove of TV memorabilia is up for auction

Hollywood memorabilia collector James Comisar is relinquishing a trove of items — from scripts to costumes and even fake mustaches — that have taken decades to amass.

The Independent UK

James Corden’s stale, gimmicky Late Late Show finale was a fitting end for TV’s quintessential late-night host

It’s easy to judge ‘The Late Late Show’ for being frivolous TV fluff, writes Louis Chilton. But with the British star’s talk show having come to a close after eight years on air, its impact on pop culture is undeniable

The Independent UK

James Corden’s talk show was cringey, stale and gimmicky – he was tailor-made for late-night TV

It’s easy to judge ‘The Late Late Show’ for being frivolous TV fluff, writes Louis Chilton. But as the British star’s talk show comes to an end after eight years, there’s no denying its success as an internet-era juggernaut

The Guardian - UK

Jack Nicholson’s 20 best performances – ranked!

As the legendary actor turns 86 on Saturday, we rate decades of his most celebrated roles – from grinning wrong ’uns to lovable rakes and crazed murderers

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Los Angeles Times

‘The Midnight Special’ — having changed music on TV — brings classic clips to YouTube

Through the first few decades of television, the last piece of music late-night viewers heard was “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a station signed off.

Chicago Tribune

Author Bill Zehme, whose subjects included Sinatra, Hugh Hefner, Leno and Andy Kaufman, is dead at 64

CHICAGO — Name a star or celebrity of the last 40 years and it’s likely that person was the subject of Bill Zehme’s keen mind and artful writing, in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vanity Fair and Esquire, and in bestselling books in collaboration with Jay Leno and Regis…

Chicago Sun-Times

Bill Zehme, master of the celebrity profile, journalism’s ‘bastard stepchild,’ dies at 64

Chicago author Bill Zehme had a genius for writing celebrity profiles and making friends. He wrote biographies of Frank Sinatra, Andy Kaufman and Jay Leno.

Inverse

'Late Night with the Devil' Review: David Dastmalchian Injects New Life into Found-Footage Horror

The demonic horror movie is a brilliant new take on the mockumentary.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kelly Monteith, US comedian who gained popularity in the UK, dead at 80

Monteith was a St. Louis native who built enough of an audience to appear in the 1970s on the “Tonight” show with Johnny Carson.

Inverse

How do Christmas cakes last for years? Inside the “perfect storm” of preservation

How can fruitcakes last more than a lifetime while remaining (sort of) edible? And has the fruitcake always been such a contentious and condemned holiday treat?

Chicago Sun-Times

Here’s some baseball trivia with some help from readers

In a tribute to David Letterman, we take the time this week to focus on reader suggestions

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.