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SNL Tears into Nancy Grace’s Marijuana Scaremongering
HLN’s Nancy Grace has long been ripe for a Saturday Night Live mockery, and with her crusade against marijuana last week, the sketch comedy show tore into her tonight. Grace (played by Noël Wells)...
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HLN Rebranding to Become ‘First TV Network for the Social Media Generation’
CNN sister network HLN is undergoing an evolution of sorts with the goal of becoming the “first TV network for the social media generation.” HLN issued a press release Monday announcing the shift...
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How Fox, CNN, and MSNBC Are Celebrating Black History Month
Friday marked the halfway point in Black History Month, the shortest of all history months. We began the month by examining how black people were represented on cable news for a single day in the life...
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I Can Haz Rebranding: HLN Previews New Social Media-Heavy Programming
Who’s ready for some social media-focused game shows? Following an announcement last week that it was rebranding to become the “first TV network for the social media generation,” HLN previewed several...
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Frank Taaffe Denies Racist Remarks to Nancy Grace; Audio Says Otherwise
Defender of white men who shoot unarmed black teenagers and frequent HLN guest Frank Taaffe is in danger of losing that very gig now that there’s audio of him calling Oprah Winfrey the n-word. But when...
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Wait, What? Nancy Grace Takes Over as HLN Morning Show Host
So this was probably an April Fools’ joke, right? Yes. Thankfully, it was. HLN began the April 1st madness by announcing the “BOMBSHELL” that Nancy Grace would take over as the network’s Morning...
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Gilbert Gottfried Jokes About Pounding the ‘Hot Pieces of Ass’ on HLN Panel
If you invite a comedian like Gilbert Gottfried onto your cable news show, you need to understand what you’ve gotten yourself into. Dr. Drew had Gottfried on his panel Tuesday night and made the...
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HLN Contributor’s Name Attached to Hoax Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against...
HLN contributor and Dr. Drew On Call co-host Samantha Schacher has seemingly filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel. UPDATE — 11:48 a.m.: An HLN...
View ArticleKISS’ Gene Simmons Thinks CNN’s Just ‘Given Up’ and Fox ‘Won’
KISS frontman Gene Simmons has always been somewhat politically outspoken, and today on Twitter he opined on the downfall of CNN and said that in the cable news wars, it appears that Fox News has won....
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The 12 Worst Shows on Cable News
Last week we made a few cable news PR flacks happy and listed what we consider the 12 best shows on cable news. And now comes the time to dispose of that good will. Without further ado, here are the 12...
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Glenn Beck Almost Took Over HLN
CNN recently considered replacing the programming of its sister channel, HLN, with content from Glenn Beck‘s TheBlaze, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The talks between the two parties fell...
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The 12 Worst Shows on Cable News
Note: This post has been republished from an earlier date. Earlier today we made a few cable news PR flacks happy and listed what we consider the 12 best shows on cable news. And now comes the time to...
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HLN’s Robin Meade Hits All the Right Notes in Vegas Concert
CNN President Jeff Zucker recently proclaimed: “There’s nobody better in morning TV than Robin Meade.” Turns out her talents extend from on-camera to the stage as well. If you’ve tuned to HLN over the...
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HLN Will Begin Running Movies in Primetime, Starting with Glory
HLN announced today they will start a primetime feature called News and a Movie this month, where they will air an entire movie in primetime. But unlike CNN’s documentary shows or films, this new cable...
View ArticleHate Yourself? Watch 10 Years Worth of Nancy Grace Going Bonkers
Nancy Grace has been an HLN host for 10 whole years now, and the network is celebrating(?) by airing a one-hour special dedicated to her career. As part of that special, the network has put together a...
View ArticleWATCH: Perez Hilton Defends Twitter Accusations Against Kris Jenner
In his first TV interview since Friday night’s ABC News exclusive sit-down with Bruce Jenner, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton spoke to HLN about the tweet he posted that drew an emphatic “fuck you”...
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The New Dr. Drew on Vaccines, Weed and How He’s Not So Different from Dr. Oz
As a primetime host on CNN’s smaller sister network HLN, which declared last year its intentions to become the “first TV network for the social media generation,” Dr. Drew Pinsky has never quite...
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Ben Shapiro and Transgender Reporter Get Heated on HLN: ‘You’re a Little Man!’
What happens when you sit Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro next to transgender reporter Zoey Tur for an HLN debate about Caitlyn Jenner and her ESPYs Courage Award? As you can imagine, the conversation turned...
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Dr. Drew Threatens to Shut Show Down Over #BlackLivesMatter Heckler
HLN host Dr. Drew angrily threatened to shut down his show and air test patterns Thursday night after a heckler started shouting over one of his guests who trashed the Black Lives Matter movement. Dr....
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Troll Derails HLN Segment on Edward Snowden, Defends Edward Scissorhands Instead
An “Edward Snowden defender” invited on HLN’s The Daily Share turned out to actually be a massive troll, who opted instead to defend Edward Scissorhands. Jon Hendren started out subtle. “He’s a hero....
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