Ellen DeGeneres Speaks Out Passionately Against Mississippi’s New Anti-Gay Law

Norman Weiss April 7, 2016, 5:53 am

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Ellen DeGeneres speaks out passionately against Mississippi’s new anti-gay law

“Now, I’m not a political person, I’m really not,” Ellen, who grew up nearby in Louisana, said Wednesday in a lengthy monologue. “But this is not politics this is human rights. And I mean, when I see something wrong, I have to talk about it. It’s the same thing that I do when I see men wearing Spandex in line at Starbucks. It’s wrong and I need to discuss it.”

The Americans’ game-changer proves its superiority over other dramas

“More than anything,” says Daniel D’Addario, “this development proves that The Americans is playing a different, and a more delightfully unpredictable, game than those other popular TV dramas that use death as a dull tease.” PLUS: The Americans executed to perfection last night’s shocker, producers really had no choice in the matter, this was always part of the plan, what it was like to experience that episode, last night’s episode was packed with great moments, and producers aimed for realism.

Don’t expect American Crime Story’s Hurricane Katrina to be an indictment of President George W. Bush

Season 2 will focus on a small group of mostly fictional characters while broading its defintion of “crime.” From what FX president John Landgraf says, however, it’s unlikely to be political. “I never heard anybody suggest that the Bush administration was responsible for the breaking of the levees,” he says of Season 2, which recently assembled its writer’s room. “To me, it’s not a political administration or certainly not a federal party that can be held accountable for that.”

Saved by the Bell’s “Mr. Belding” is getting his own university exhbit

The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga will house the Dennis Haskins Exhibit, featuring the TV principal’s artifacts, scripts and memorabilia from his time at Bayside High.

Stephen Colbert had to use bleeps and blurs to help David Duchovny promote his new book

The book’s title: Bucky F*cking Dent: A Novel.

Singer-songwriter Tom Waits returns to acting for Hulu vigilante drama Citizen

The project from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is a fresh take on the hero origin story.

Was Louis CK’s Horace and Pete even television?

“Because,” says Ian Crouch, the web-released drama “was free from the infrastructure of television, there was a feeling that just about anything could happen… The independence of the production, and the novelty of its mode of distribution, strains the (TV) category to its outer limits.”