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FXX’s It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is revisiting a past controversy in its current fifteenth season. In 2020, Netflix pulled an episode of the long-running comedy titled Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth, which included an interpretation of Lethal Weapon 5. In the episode, show creator and cast member Rob…

Like everyone else in the world on Monday, Megyn Kelly was talking about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's primetime interview with Oprah. Kelly called Markle, who made claims to Oprah about racism at Buckingham Palace, “completely un-self aware.” But given the fact that Kelly’s own comments about blackface got her…

In a 1984 promotional video for the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense, David Byrne appeared as both himself and a variety of interviewers, including men of color. Today, Byrne apologized on Twitter, insisting that “the past can be examined with honesty and accountability.” Byrne, whose 2019 Broadway show Ame…

Editors Note: Prentice Penny is the showrunner, executive producer and frequent director of HBO's Insecure, which recently wrapped its fourth season. Following the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd and protests against racism and police violence that swept the nation and the globe, shows like 30 Rock, The Office…

Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence said today he’ll consider returning the three recently pulled episodes containing blackface to Hulu but only after the offending scenes have been edited out. Lawrence said on a podcast today, "Twitter is like, 'Why did you pull the whole episodes?' Why didn't you just edit those moments…

Hulu has removed an episode of The Golden Girls containing a scene of characters in blackface after a request from the series’ distributor, Disney-ABC Domestic Television, sources tell Deadline. The episode, titled "Mixed Blessings” and which aired in 1988, is the 23rd episode in the third season of the sitcom. In the…

The Office creator Greg Daniels has cut a blackface scene from a 2012 episode, calling the racist trope “unacceptable” even when used as satire. In a statement today, Daniels said, “The Office is about a group of people trying to work together with mutual respect despite the inappropriate actions of their boss and…

David Walliams and Matt Lucas, the creators of the BBC-produced show Little Britain, who are white, have apologized for their prior use of blackface sketches, saying they now “regret” playing characters of other races. The show, which ran for three years on the BBC starting in 2003, was recently rediscovered by…

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam held his blackface-meets-KKK med school yearbook photo press conference on Saturday as Ivy League historians took questions about PBS’s four-hour Reconstruction: America After the Civil War at TCA. A TV critic, asked if Northam's med school yearbook photo and his refusal to resign…

NBC News chief Andy Lack opened a town hall with his staff this afternoon by blasting the on-air remarks Megyn Kelly made on her show Tuesday, in which she defended the use of blackface at Halloween. “I want to address just one” topic before taking questions, Lack told staff, diving into “the Megyn Kelly situation&#8221…

NBC's Megyn Kelly isn’t done dealing with her Today show segment in which she defended of the idea of wearing blackface for Halloween. NBC Nightly News did a segment on it tonight, in which it noted it is not the first time Kelly has come under fire for her remarks about race. The remarks were made hours earlier…

Refresh for updates During a Megyn Kelly Today discussion this morning about offensive Halloween costumes and blackface during trick or treat season – and if the mental alarm bells weren’t already going off, they should have been – the host who once insisted Santa Claus is white dug herself a Halloween social media…