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LISTEN: CNN’s Rick Sanchez Calls Jon Stewart a Bigot, Gets Fired

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Late Night, Talk Shows, Cable, Daily Show, The, Gossip, News,

UPDATE: You can see Stewart’s response here.

One day after calling Daily Show host Jon Stewart “a bigot” on a radio program, CNN’s Rick Sanchez received some (not so) surprising words of his own: “You’re fired.”

The Cuban-American anchor, who has been the subject of Stewart’s jokes before, made that accusation about the Comedy Central personality while speaking on SiriusXM’s Stand Up! With Peter Dominick yesterday morning.

So which group(s) does Rick think Jon is bigoted against? “Anybody who’s different than you are, anybody who’s not form your frame of reference; anybody who doesn’t look and sound exactly like the people that you sound [like] and grew up with. The people that you put on your show, who always reflects somebody who’s, ‘I’m bringing in to sit around me,’ you know, who’s very different from me. I’m sorry, but I just don’t buy this thing that the only people out there who are prejudiced … are the right. There’s people that are prejudiced on both sides.”

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Larry King Calls it Quits

Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Prime Time, Talk Shows, Announcements, News,

Longtime nightly CNN television host Larry King has announced his departure from his 25 year-old show, Larry King Live.

‘I’m ending my nightly show this fall but continuing at CNN,’’ King posted on his Twitter account.

The show, despite its long run, has declined in ratings lately. King plans to step down this fall and says that the network didn’t pressure him to leave. In fact, he planned on leaving during the week that his show hit 25 years, when he interviewed LeBron James, Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and President Obama.

“With this chapter closing I’m looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring, but for now it’s time to hang up my nightly suspenders,” he wrote in a statement on his blog.

Although CNN has said that they wouldn’t necessarily fill the time slot with a similar show, King has said Ryan Seacrest would be the best replacement.

(FYI - You can also follow TV Envy on Twitter.)

TV Talk: Reunion for Pavelka and Girardi, CNN Job for Spitzer

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Bravo, Cable, Ratings,

-Expect Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi to talk about their recent split on the July 5 episode of The Bachelorette. According to reports, many people thought an angry Jake would strike his ex at one point.

-According to a source, Lindsay Lohan really wasn’t eight hours late to a photo shoot like Bravo’s Double Exposure claimed. She was actually ten hours late.

-A prostitution scandal won’t keep Eliot Spitzer down. New York’s former governor has just been given a new co-hosting gig on CNN. The program will start this fall.

-Want to see gay couple Cam & Mitchell finally kiss on Modern Family? Join the 13,500+ fans on Facebook and maybe you’ll get your wish next season.

-Tuesday’s Deadliest Catch episode earned the program its largest audience to date. The hour was the first of several to address Captain Phil Harris’ health.

Stars Unite for Gulf Spill Telethon

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Specials, Cable,

Once again, celebrities will be uniting for a good cause—and they weren’t asked by George Clooney to do so.

On Monday, CNN will broadcast a Larry King Live special focused on the BP oil spill. The telethon - Disaster in the Gulf: How You Can Help - will allow viewers to contribute to one of three different charities (The Nature Conservancy, United Way, or the National Wildlife Federation). Donations raised will “go to aid in rebuilding the Gulf Coast.”

Those helping King with the two-hour event include Ryan Seacrest, Chelsea Handler, Sting, Tim McGraw, Kathy Griffin, Alyssa Milano, Deepak Chopra, Pete Wentz, Ted Danson, Robert Redford, Harry Connick Jr., Jenny McCarthy and Philippe Cousteau.

The special will air from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern.

Christiane Amanpour Signs Off at CNN

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: ABC, Cable, Video,

After nearly three decades - 30 years! - with CNN, Christiane Amanpour said farewell to the cable channel last week. The network’s chief international correspondent and anchor of Amanpour left her longtime home to become the new anchor of ABC’s This Week.

“This is our final broadcast, and I want to say what a privilege it has been to be at CNN for the past 27 years,” Amanpour said on Friday. “To have had the opportunity to report the news to you all over the world, from all over the world. I have tried to be your eyes and ears in pursuit of the truth and the stories that beg to be told. That’s been my mission in the field and here in the studio. My team and I would like to say ‘Thank You,’ and we’d like to leave you with some moments we’ll never forget.”

The clip above gives you an idea of what we can expect when Amanpour makes her Sunday morning debut this August.

TV Talk: Steve Carell’s Office Exit, Michael C. Hall’s Dexter Return

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, Sci-Fi/Horror, Cable, HBO, NBC, Showtime, Entourage, The Office, Gossip, News,

-Could The Office survive without Steve Carell? The comedian recently told the BBC that the upcoming season will “probably be” his last year.

-Dexter fans can breathe a sigh of relief. A “fully recovered” Michael C. Hall is expected to return to work this summer after battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

-HBO has new date for you to mark on your calendar. Entourage and Hung will both premiere on June 27, two weeks after True Blood‘s debut.

-Could Matt LeBlanc use some Friends? Both Thomas Haden Church and Claire Forlani have dropped out of Episodes, LeBlanc’s new Showtime comedy. Church blames scheduling conflicts; Forlani’s reason is unknown.

-Love is in the air on CNN. Anchors John Roberts and Kyra Phillips were recently engaged. Roberts proposed last weekend during a game of golf.

CNN covers iPad and Kindle book publisher deals

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Corporate News, Handhelds,

A quick clip from CNN as they go over the upcoming launch of the iPad, and the fact that Apple has just made deals with publishers Perseus and Workman to distribute books on the iPad. They also look at the pressure that Amazon is feeling as it pertains to the Kindle, as publishers want Amazon to mimic the Apple agreement method of selling eBooks.

You can pre-order an iPad now.

VIDEO: Sarah Silverman Talks Depression, Pants-Wetting on HLN

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Comedy, Talk Shows, Cable, Video,

Funny girl Sarah Silverman sat down with Joy Behar recently, opening up about her teen depression and a rather traumatic pants-wetting episode she suffered at the age of 6.

Ever-charming and always funny, Silverman was, of course, appearing on the show to promote her Comedy Central series - but you don’t have to watch her show to enjoy the above clip.

Oh, Glee! An Interview with Jane Lynch

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Comedy, Music, Prime Time, FOX, Gossip, Video,

Jane Lynch, who plays acid-tongued coach Sue Sylvester on Glee, recently sat down with CNN to talk music, television and Broadway. Sylvester is currently appearing in the off-Broadway production Ephron’s Love Loss And What I Wore in New York.

“I think that Glee speaks to the underdog in all of us,” she said at one point. “These are a bunch of kids who, in spite of getting slushies thrown in their faces…they show up every day, dutifully, at Glee club, to sing their hearts out.”

“A song is never sung for no reason,” Lynch smiled. “She has no filter. And it just comes right out,” she said of her character Sue Sylvester, always a highlight of the episodes in which she appears.

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VIDEO: Martha Stewart Calls Sarah Palin Boring and Dangerous

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Television, Videos,

Although she was in attendance at a charity function, Martha Stewart wasn’t feeling charitable in her opinion about Sarah Palin.

When asked by CNN last week about her thoughts on the former Alaskan governor, the domestic diva was her usual blunt self. “She’s very boring to me. Very boring. And a very…to me…uh, kind of a dangerous person. I mean, she’s dangerous.” So aside from her potential connection to the end of the world in 2012, how exactly is Palin dangerous? “She speaks! She’s so confused. And anyone like that in government is a real problem.”

So would Martha - who lost over a billion dollars after her legal scandal - accept any money to hear Palin speak? “I wouldn’t watch her if she paid me,” Stewart claimed.

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