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Smart, sincere, but never had to be the star: 97.1’s Jamie Samuelsen dies of cancer at age 48

The co-host of 97.1's weekday morning "Jamie & Stoney Show" revealed recently he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2018.

WEtv to honor Tamar Braxton’s request to end future work

Nostalgia on aisle 6: Why ‘Supermarket Sweep’ reruns hit the spot

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Fresh from Oregon, Michigan Radio’s new ‘Stateside’ host relishes Michigan’s ‘realness’

Regis Philbin, television personality and host, dies at 88

Rachel Maddow and Mary Trump make formidable TV combination

Barack Obama to appear on Michelle Obama’s podcast debut

HBO to adapt Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between the World and Me’

Review: Despite raking over familiar fantasy ground, ‘Cursed’ isn’t

Escape to TV: 10 shows to help quell the panic

A whole lot of people are going to find themselves hanging more at home over the next few weeks, er, months, er, who knows. And while you should probably call other friends and relatives to beat down the isolation, the main release for many will be TV, modern man’s constant glowing companion.

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James Murdoch resigns from news publisher News Corp’s board

News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch’s son James is resigning from the family-controlled publisher’s board over content appearing in its newspapers

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Review: ‘Umbrella Academy’ goes back to save the future

Netflix's oddball super-hero family fights an apocalypse in the early '60s

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Fresh from Oregon, Michigan Radio’s new ‘Stateside’ host relishes Michigan’s ‘realness’

We talk with April Baer, the new host of Michigan Radio's "Stateside" program.

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Regis Philbin, television personality and host, dies at 88

Philbin died of natural causes Friday night, just over a month before his 89th birthday

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Barack Obama to appear on Michelle Obama’s podcast debut

The former president is expected to appear on “The Michelle Obama Podcast” on Spotify

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Review: With ‘The Pale Tourist,’ Jim Gaffigan tries comic globalization

Comedian's latest special finds him performing material in front of crowds in Canada and Spain

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HBO to adapt Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between the World and Me’

Coates’ book is structured as an open letter to his adolescent son about what to expect as a Black person living in the U.S.

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To compete with YouTube, Spotify now offers video podcasts

Spotify wants to claw back a share of eyeballs and imagine itself as the destination for all podcast content, including video footage

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Rachel Maddow and Mary Trump make formidable TV combination

Her one-hour interview with Rachel Maddow last Thursday reached 5.2 million people, the biggest audience ever for one of Maddow’s shows

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Review: Despite raking over familiar fantasy ground, ‘Cursed’ isn’t

New Netflix series doesn't reinvent wheel but still manages to roll

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Michelle Obama to host podcast on health, relationships

The former first lady will host “The Michelle Obama Podcast” on Spotify

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Fox’s Carlson denounces ex-writer, ‘self-righteous’ critics

Carlson said Monday that his former writer who posted racist comments online was wrong but criticized “ghouls now beating their chests in triumph”

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‘Mythbusters’ star Grant Imahara dies from brain aneurysm

Along with his “MythBusters” fame, Imahara was known for starring on Netflix’s “White Rabbit Project.”

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Tyra Banks waltzing in as new ‘Dancing With the Stars’ host

The supermodel, actor and businesswoman will replace longtime host Tom Bergeron and take on the role of executive producer

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Timing of Carlson’s vacation familiar to Fox News viewers

His fishing trip is at least the sixth example in a little more than three years of a Fox star’s vacation in close proximity to a controversy.

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Detroit bar owner 'Honest' John Thompson has died Neal Rubin

Nostalgia on aisle 6: Why 'Supermarket Sweep' reruns hit the spot Adam Graham

'Midsummer Pond' is this week's winner of Garden Photo Contest Maureen Feighan

MI Dream Home: Macatawa estate has four-level split and views of Lake Michigan Jocelynn Brown

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Autopsy confirms Naya Rivera’s death was accidental drowning

The examination, performed the day after the 33-year-old’s body was found in a Southern California lake

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Jimmy Fallon, ‘Tonight’ show return to studio, sans audience

“I’m here to show you that there is a light at the end of the tunnel if we keep each other safe,” Fallon said

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Tom Bergeron, Erin Andrews exit ‘Dancing With the Stars’

ABC said that the show is looking to “embark on a new creative direction”

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Tucker Carlson criticizes racist comments of show writer but offers no apology

The Fox News host had harsh words for his detractors whom he accused of reveling in Blake Neff’s departure.

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Asian American girls saw pivotal icon in ‘Baby-Sitters Club’

In a short documentary, a handful of Asian American writers and illustrators effuse about how influential the character was for that time

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ABC revives ‘The Wonder Years’ with Black family at the center

“Empire” co-creator Lee Daniels is executive producing the project, alongside Fred Savage, the star of the original series

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Network: Shepard Smith joins CNBC for weeknight news program

CNBC announced Wednesday that Smith will anchor a one-hour weeknight newscast at 7 p.m. Eastern, the time slot he held for many years at Fox

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Fox’s Carlson criticized for saying Democrats hate America

Carlson says leaders of the Democratic party should be disqualified from running the country because they “despise” it

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Forget Baby Yoda. ‘Hamilton’ is Disney+’s best new weapon in the streaming wars

The filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway smash drove a surge in downloads of the streaming service Disney+ during the July 4 weekend

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Review: ‘Stateless’ offers odd perspective on the tragic plight of refugees

This is a six-part series about the abuses inherent in Australia’s system of dealing with refugees. And it certainly reflects abuses and frustrations with similar refugee camps and systems around the world

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Museum: ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ car with Confederate flag to stay

The Volo Auto Museum about 50 miles northwest of Chicago says the famed “General Lee” from the first season of the TV show isn’t going anywhere

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These TV shows recently removed blackface episodes. Here’s what you need to know

The Times has compiled a list of streaming TV shows that have recently edited or removed episodes featuring blackface, along with synopses of the racist imagery and stereotypes contained therein

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Hugh Downs, genial presence on TV news and game shows, dies

Hugh Downs, a genial and near-constant presence on television on news, game and talk shows, has died at age 99

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Fox News fires Ed Henry after sexual misconduct allegation

Fox News on Wednesday fired daytime news anchor Ed Henry after an investigation of sexual misconduct in the workplace

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Detroit native on playing a ‘Hamilton’ villain

The Interlochen alum plays James Reynolds in the phenom 'Hamilton,' streaming Friday on Disney+

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Hot news cycle leads CNN to best ratings in 40 years

An extraordinary stretch of news has led CNN to its biggest audience for any three-month period in the network’s 40-year history

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‘Hanna’ review: Teen assassins have problems, too

Can't a genetically engineered teenage assassin catch a break? Not in Season 2 of the Amazon series

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WDFN switches to Black Information Network

1130 AM WDFN The Fan aired speeches late Monday; websites report new network set to launch on 15 stations

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Daytime Emmys: ‘The Young and the Restless’ wins best drama

Alex Trebek won best game show host for the second straight year and “Jeopardy!” claimed game show honors

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Mike Henry to stop voicing Black character on ‘Family Guy’

The 54-year-old voice actor, who is a white man, has voiced the character since the series’ debut in 1999

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Review: HBO’s ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’ shines as tale of two obsessions

Six-part documentary debuts on Sunday

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‘Gone with the Wind’ returns to HBO Max

On HBO Max, the movie now opens with an introduction by African American Turner Classic Movies’ host Jacqueline Stewart

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‘Big Mouth,’ ‘Central Park’ to recast Jenny Slate’s and Kristen Bell’s biracial characters

In a statement posted to Instagram, Slate explained her original reasoning for signing on to voice the character was “an example of white privilege”

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Sherry Margolis announces retirement from Fox 2

Margolis, who came to Fox 2 as a reporter and anchor in September 1984, told The Detroit News she had planned to retire at the end of 2020

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Fey asks to pull ‘30 Rock’ episodes that featured blackface

The series aired on NBC from 2006 to 2013, but episodes are still being shown in TV syndication and on streaming services

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Forgotten Harvest telethon to help families in need

The telethon is a virtual fundraising event and will include celebrities and athletes who hail from Michigan, such as Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, comedians Jay Leno and Lily Tomlin, actress Kristen Bell and Judge Greg Mathis

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Golden Globes set Feb. 28 for pandemic–delayed ceremony

The ceremony will be held Feb. 28, 2021, in Beverly Hills with previously announced hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

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Review: HBO re-imagines a scruffier ‘Perry Mason’

Matthew Rhys stars as the famous character in this premium cable origin story

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