During the 2017 Emmys, host Stephen Colbert brought out former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer to defend the audience size.

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At Sunday night's Emmys, there were historic winners, and one shocking appearance from a former White House staffer. 

The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Stephen Colbert, took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

There were quite a few surprises, starting with the appearance of Sean Spicer, making the ceremony more interesting to watch than usual. "Atlanta," "Big Little Lies," and "The Handmaid's Tale" got some big wins, proving that diversity and great roles for women work, and resonate with people, including Emmy voters. 

From Spicer to Ann Dowd to Donald Glover making history, these are the biggest surprises at the 2017 Emmy Awards:

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Sean Spicer showed up for some reason.

During Stephen Colbert's opening monologue, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer took the stage, shocking everyone in the audience including Melissa McCarthy. 

Laura Dern won outstanding supporting actress in a limited series.

Dern wasn't the favorite to win in the outstanding supporting actress in a limited series category, but she started the "Big Little Lies" winning streak with her win early on in the night. This was Dern's sixth nomination since 1992, and her first win.

Ann Dowd won outstanding supporting actress in a drama for her role on "The Handmaid's Tale."

Dowd literally couldn't believe she won when her name was announced. A lot of people were expecting Chrissy Metz to win the Emmy in this category for her work on "This Is Us," which might be why Dowd was so surprised to win. 

One of the most memorable moments from Sunday night's Emmy Awards came at the end of host Stephen Colbert's opening, when former White House press secretary Sean Spicer emerged, pushing a podium with the White House seal on it — similar to the one he used for press briefings (as well as what Melissa McCarthy used when playing Spicer this past season on "Saturday Night Live").

With the Emmy audience in total shock (did you see "Veep" star Anna Chlumsky's reaction?), Spicer pronounced: "This will be the largest audience to witness the Emmys, period — both in person and around the world," imitating his similar statement at a press briefing about President Donald Trump's inauguration crowd being the largest ever.

Here's how the room reacted when Spicer suddenly appeared:

It turns out, the moment was something Colbert came up with just a few days before the Emmys. The late night host asked aloud in the middle of a show meeting if Spicer might be into the surprise appearance, which led to a producer contacting Spicer's people with the idea, according to CNN.

“They came up with a concept, and I thought it was kinda funny. I said I’d be there,” Spicer told The Hollywood Reporter. 

Spicer was already in Los Angeles, as he went on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" last Wednesday for his first interview since resigning. He quickly flew back to his home near Washington D.C., then returned to Los Angeles just before the Emmys for a secret dress rehearsal. According to CNN, the auditorium where the Emmys take place was almost entirely empty while Spicer practiced his appearance, in the hopes his involvement wouldn't be leaked before the big night. 

It turned out to be a success, with the audience and people watching at home left completely shocked. However, the backlash of Spicer's appearance was quick.

As Spicer began to be flooded by celebrities backstage and at Emmy after-parties, those who felt Spicer pushed out misinformation while working for  Trump took to social media. 

Ben Rhodes, former Barack Obama foreign policy adviser tweeted:

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell:

Kelly Dittmar, assistant professor at Rutgers University:

Tim Miller, former Jeb Bush spokesman:

Sources told CNN that Colbert, who has been one of the loudest critics of Trump, wasn't concerned with the perception that he and the Emmys "normalized" Spicer. 

As the debate raged on Sunday night, Spicer was said to get so much attention at the Governor's Ball following the Emmys that he could hardly sit and eat his food.

When THR asked Spicer if he was concerned at all about any backlash his appearance may cause he said "not so much."

“I was more worried about the logistical reactions,” Spicer said. “I’ve never wheeled a podium before. The one I’m used to is pretty stationary.”

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Sunday night at the Emmy Awards, Netflix again missed out on the biggest prize of the evening. But, according to Mark Mahaney, an analyst at RBC, Netflix is still crushing its streaming competition across the globe with its content.

Hulu's set a record as the first video streaming service to walk away with the Emmy for best drama series for "The Handmaid's Tale," which won four total awards. Though it didn't win the headline prize, Netflix raked in 20 awards, second only to HBO's 29. Hulu won 10.

Mahaney said that Netflix's content is some of the strongest globally and it's giving the company a key advantage over its competitors.

"We continue to believe that Netflix can grow its subscriber base in the U.S. by continuing to improve its content offerings and proving out its value proposition to users – all the while increasing its profitability," Mahaney wrote. Mahaney said that the company's strong content offerings are what is driving the high penetration percentages.

Netflix's content is loved by its customers, with 67% of subscribers saying they are "extremely" or "very" satisfied with Netflix. Subscribers were surveyed by Mahaney and RBC, and a record 36% of those surveyed said that Netflix's content is improving over its already strong position. The group also found that 53% of those surveyed said they had used Netflix in the past year, which was 28 points ahead of Hulu, 36 points higher than HBO Now and 21 points ahead of Amazon.

Even though Netflix doesn't have the hottest show of the year, its customers are still happy with its award-winning content and are not likely to switch to one of its competitors, according to Mahaney.

Netflix is up 0.73% on Monday and has gained 44.03% this year.

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Sunday night at the Emmy Awards, Netflix again missed out on the biggest prize of the evening. But, according to Mark Mahaney, an analyst at RBC, Netflix is still crushing its streaming competition across the globe with its content.

Hulu's set a record as the first video streaming service to walk away with the Emmy for best drama series for "The Handmaid's Tale," which won four total awards. Though it didn't win the headline prize, Netflix raked in 20 awards, second only to HBO's 29. Hulu won 10.

Mahaney said that Netflix's content is some of the strongest globally and it's giving the company a key advantage over its competitors.

"We continue to believe that Netflix can grow its subscriber base in the U.S. by continuing to improve its content offerings and proving out its value proposition to users – all the while increasing its profitability," Mahaney wrote. Mahaney said that the company's strong content offerings are what is driving the high penetration percentages.

Netflix's content is loved by its customers, with 67% of subscribers saying they are "extremely" or "very" satisfied with Netflix. Subscribers were surveyed by Mahaney and RBC, and a record 36% of those surveyed said that Netflix's content is improving over its already strong position. The group also found that 53% of those surveyed said they had used Netflix in the past year, which was 28 points ahead of Hulu, 36 points higher than HBO Now and 21 points ahead of Amazon.

Even though Netflix doesn't have the hottest show of the year, its customers are still happy with its award-winning content and are not likely to switch to one of its competitors, according to Mahaney.

Netflix is up 0.73% on Monday and has gained 44.03% this year.

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The most successful actors in Hollywood history have combined talent, versatility, and longevity to appear in hit after hit.  

Tom Hanks, for instance — the 3rd highest-earning actor in the history of the U.S. box office — has all three qualities in spades.

We turned to Box Office Mojo to rank the top 20 actors of all-time by their total career hauls at the U.S. box office.

Most are well-known, like Hanks and Scarlett Johansson, while others, like the "Star Wars" C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels, are not, though their careers speak for themselves.

Check out the actors with the top U.S. box-office grosses of all time:

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20. Stellan Skarsgard — $3.175 billion

Highest grossing film: "The Avengers" ($623.4 million)

19. Bruce Willis — $3.189 billion

Highest grossing film: "The Sixth Sense" ($293.5 million)

18. Will Smith — $3.205 billion

Highest grossing film: "Suicide Squad" ($325.1 million)

Sunday night's 69th annual Emmy Awards was chock-full of historic wins. 

Writers, directors, and actors from a wide range of different backgrounds made history at the Emmys Sunday.

Even the streaming site Hulu made history, much to the chagrin of its streaming competitors.

Here are all of the historic wins from the 2017 Emmy Awards:

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Sterling K. Brown

For his work on "This is Us," Brown is the first African-American man since 1998 to win an Emmy for best actor in a drama series.

The win comes 19 years after "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" actor Andre Braugher's win for "Homicide: Life on the Street."

"Saturday Night Live"

"Saturday Night Live" took home its first Emmy for outstanding variety show in 24 years.

Reed Morano

Morano is the first woman since 1995 to win an Emmy for best director for a drama series.

Morano won her Emmy for her work on "The Handmaid's Tale," which picked up a number of historic wins Sunday night.

"Destiny 2" is one of this year's most-anticipated blockbuster games, and it's finally available on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The game launched on September 9, and millions of people are playing it already.

I'm one of those millions, having spent a few dozen hours traveling from planet to planet in search of slightly better gear.

But just because it's anticipated doesn't mean it's any good. So, uh, is it? Yes and no.

"Destiny 2" is a gorgeous first-person shooter that's clearly been lavished with hundreds of dedicated, top-of-their-class game developers. In terms of the shooting, it might be the best of all time. As evidenced above, it is very pretty.

"Destiny 2" is also an always-online game that intends to blend storytelling with a multiplayer experience that's at odds with any sense of pacing or gravity. 

In addition to all of that, "Destiny 2" is only a first-person shooter insofar as that's your main form of interaction with its world. What the game really is, at its heart, is a "loot game," forever pushing you toward the next dopamine hit. 

"Destiny 2" is excellent. "Destiny 2" is terrible. It's complicated.

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WARNING: Spoilers ahead for "Destiny 2," including story and gameplay.

It probably goes without saying, but I'm going to speak explicitly about "Destiny 2" — this is a review, after all. If you don't want anything spoiled, turn back!

"Destiny 2" is a much better game than the first "Destiny."

The first "Destiny" game was divisive, to say the least.

Like the sequel, the first game had excellent shooting. Devoted fans latched onto so-called "endgame" activities, like elaborate "Raid" missions that can only be completed with a squad of friends and good communication. 

Critics charged that it lacked content, that its world felt empty, and that the story was a mess. 

Both sides of that divide are right, and some of those issues have been fixed in "Destiny 2." Rather, more than enough of those issues have been fixed in "Destiny 2" — enough to make it a far better game than its predecessor. 

The world of "Destiny 2" feels more alive than ever.

Each planet is distinct in look and feel, rife with hidden treasures to find and nests of enemies to savage. Just getting around can be a lot of fun, as "public events" happen near-constantly. These events are quick, and short in scope — stand near this object while fighting waves of enemies, or take down a massively powerful boss enemy, or whatever else. Since they provide a nice reward to whoever participates, you'll often find other people spontaneously joining in with you. 

This is where "Destiny 2" shines.

"Destiny 2" may be the best first-person shooter ever made in terms of shooting.

There are a seemingly infinite number of slightly different guns in "Destiny 2," and they feel shockingly distinct. It's an incredible achievement, and it's no surprise that the studio behind the revolutionary "Halo" game franchise, Bungie Studios, is also behind "Destiny." 

It's hard to put into words — the shooting "feels" precise in a way that few first-person shooters do. There's subtlety to movement that has a tremendous impact on each shot you fire. Single-shot revolvers pack a huge punch, but hold few bullets and reload slowly — forcing you to make sure every shot counts. Automatic weapons offer higher ammo counts, but do far less damage and are far more difficult to keep steady. 

And I'm speaking in vastly broad terms — each of the types of gun in "Destiny 2" is distinct unto its class, but within each class there are dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of variants.

If nothing else, "Destiny 2" is an incredible achievement for its best-in-class shooting — from feel to variety.

Hulu had a right to party on Sunday night, with “The Handmaid’s Tale” raking in multiple Emmys including the coveted win for best drama series, a pair for lead and supporting actress, and one for directing.

It was a huge night for Hulu, not only because it became the first streaming service to win best drama, but also because it beat Netflix to the punch. Though Hulu recently committed $2.5 billion for its 2017 programming budget, roughly in line with what HBO spends, it still lags way behind Netflix’s $7 billion (for 2017).

So even though HBO and Netflix had more overall wins, the fact that Hulu triumphed Sunday with a win for best drama was taken by some as a message: a big checkbook doesn’t mean everything in Hollywood.

But if Hulu wants to sustain success against rivals like Netflix, Amazon, and HBO, it can’t rest on its laurels. Production for “The Handmaid’s Tale” starts on Tuesday, September 19, and it’s going to need a lot more besides.

If anyone knows that it’s Amazon.

Amazon's soul searching

Though Amazon had a poor showing at the Emmys this year, it has generally fared well in big categories at awards shows. Its film “Manchester by the Sea” cleaned up at this year’s Oscars. Its shows “Transparent” and “Mozart in the Jungle” have won Golden Globes for best comedy (and Jeffrey Tambor’s performance). And “Transparent,” in particular, felt like it struck a deep cultural resonance when it debuted in 2014, in a way that echoes what “The Handmaid’s Tale” is experiencing now.

But Amazon has recently begun a major overhaul of its programming strategy, with CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly impatient for a “Game of Thrones” style hit. As part of the shift, the tech giant cut two pricey dramas related to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“We’re very interested in getting those top shows — something that is broadly popular and admired,” Amazon Studios boss Roy Price told Variety. “We want to allocate a lot of our attention and resources going forward to that kind of thing.”

Awards are great, but there's a limit to what they can give you.

Hollywood buzz isn't everything

Both Hulu and Amazon still lag behind Netflix in the broad recognition their programming gets from consumers.

A recent poll of US millennials found that 79% thought Netflix had the best original content, while Amazon and Hulu got only 3% and 4% respectively. "Premium channels," such as HBO or Showtime, came in at 14%.

Relatedly, in an RBC survey distributed Monday, 53% of US consumers said they’d used Netflix to watch movies or TV shows in the last year — 21 points ahead of Amazon and 28 points ahead of Hulu.

Here is a chart of RBC’s findings:

Netflix is constantly evolving

Hulu may have embarrassed Netflix at the Emmys, but it’s going to have to do a lot more than that to keep up with Netflix’s dizzying pace of expansion.

Netflix has been making aggressive moves to vertically integrate its company and own all aspects of production and distribution. Instead of farming out the production of its originals to outside studios, Netflix’s content chief Ted Sarandos told Bloomberg a few days ago that it will produce 75% of its new projects moving forward. That is a staggering number considering the first drama original Netflix made in-house was “Stranger Things,” which came out last summer.

In August, news broke that Netflix had lured TV legend Shonda Rhimes away from ABC after 15 years. That same month, Netflix announced its first acquisition, buying indie comic book publisher Millarworld to develop its own intellectual property.

And these moves to make Netflix less reliant on outside companies make sense.

With Facebook and Apple both barreling into originals with a reported $1 billion budget each, not to mention Amazon, YouTube, Hulu, HBO, Disney’s upcoming streaming service, and many more, the market for good shows and talent is going to get even more cutthroat.

Hulu’s Emmy wins for “The Handmaid’s Tale” were a big vote of confidence from the TV industry, and they could be instrumental in helping Hulu land Hollywood talent — like Elisabeth Moss. But Hulu is still in for a grueling battle over the next few years, and it needs that $2.5 billion to help capture and sustain the attention of the general public, turning high-profile buzz into additional subscribers.

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Roku may not have the same buzz as Google, Facebook or even Snap, but when it goes public, it plans to take a page from the books of those companies, creating an ownership structure that will give its CEO and other insiders outsized power. 

Following its planned public offering, 98% of the voting power of Roku's stock will be controlled by executives, directors, employees and other insiders. Just by himself, company founder and CEO Anthony Wood will control 32% of the voting power of Roku's shares. 

The voting power that will be held by Wood and the other insiders after the offering will limit "your ability to influence corporate matters," Roku warned prospective shareholders in a updated regulatory document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday. The company added that insiders "will have significant influence over our management and affairs and over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of Roku or our assets, for the foreseeable future."

The outsized control that will be held by Wood and other insiders is due to Roku creating a dual-class stock structure. After its public offering, Roku will have a set of Class A shares that will trade on the market among regular investors. Certain insiders, meanwhile, will have Class B shares. The only difference between the two is that each vote of a Class B share will be worth 10 votes of the company's Class A shares. That will allow insiders to exercise outsized control over the company even if and when their actual ownership stake declines. 

That kind of ownership model is unusual, but it's become increasingly common, particularly among technology companies. Google, Facebook and Snap all have dual-class stock structures. But such an ownership model is unusual among electronics makers, particularly ones like Roku that are relatively small, participate in a competitive industry and have never made a profit. 

Roku makes digital set-top boxes that allow users to stream Netflix, Hulu and thousands of other internet video channels. The company also licenses its software for use in smart TVs and traditional pay TV industry set-top boxes, and it sells advertising inside of its interface and some of the videos it streams.

In its updated filing on Monday, the company indicated it hoped to raise as much as $252 million in its public offering. 

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Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said he regretted how he handled his first briefing, during which he made assertions about the size of President Donald Trump's inauguration crowd earlier this year.

During his unofficial first press conference, Spicer did not take questions, instead saying the administration would "hold the press accountable," and contending falsely that the January inauguration was the "largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in-person and around the globe."

In an interview with The New York Times published on Monday, the former press secretary said he regretted berating reporters who pressed him about his assertions about the crowd.

"Of course I do, absolutely," Spicer said.

The interview came just a day after Spicer joked about the crowd size onstage at the Emmy awards, garnering some applause from the audience and criticism for many who pointed out that Spicer still has not acknowledged that his crowd size claims were inaccurate.

The former press secretary has been on an image rehabilitation tour, sitting for interviews with comedians like Jimmy Kimmel, and embarking on the speaker's circuit.

Spicer told the Times that his appearance at the Emmys was an "attempt to poke a little fun at myself and add a little bit of levity to the event."

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Celebrities have a long history of endorsing their favorite booze, from high-end tequila to Campari.

Now it's an app for booze that's drawing the star power, and the celebrities are supporting the app with their own money. 

Hooch, a subscription-based app that gets you one "free" drink every day of the month with a $9.99 monthly subscription fee, is amassing a collection of celebrity backers, with Rosario Dawson becoming the latest investor.

Dawson was among the investors that pitched in on Hooch's $5 million funding round that closed last week, according to a company spokesperson. Other investors in the round FJ Labs, Blue Scorpion Investments, and Revelis Capital. 

Dawson,  who starred Men in Black II and Eagle Eye, joins a list of celebrity investors in Hooch that already includes Shaun White and Russel Simmons.

A drink a day

The Hooch app is basically MoviePass but for drinking. Members sign up and can redeem a drink every day of the month in ten different cities and 450 venues around the globe. 

Dawson was first introduced to the app at a charity event Hooch sponsored for CureBatten.org. Her and actor Scott Eastwood donned Hooch branded Santa hats, got behind the bar and started serving up free drinks on Hooch to everyone there. The next year, after a reintroduction from VC Blue Scorpion, the pair partnered up on the store launch of her fashion brand, Studio One Eighty Nine. Not long after, Blue Scorpion recommended she invest herself. 

If  you've ever bought a drink in a major city you know that the $9.99 membership fee is a steal. So how does Hooch makes money? It's unclear, but it looks like the app is basically acting as a free promo service for bars. Customers are motivated to come in to get their "free" drink and end up staying and raking up tabs. In 2016, CEO Lin Dai told TechCrunch that members spent an average of $30-$40 at Hooch partner venues after getting their first free-ish drink. They also are scoring a lot of valuable data on their members, like what times of day are most popular for drinking in different cities, and purchasing trends of certain beverages. 

Founded in 2014, Hooch has raised a total of $2.7 million so far. Cofounder Aleksey Kernes came up with the idea while working as a doorman for NYC's Hotel Chantelle and watching people react to their free welcome drink. Everyone loves feeling like they are the savviest consumer in the room, scoring "freebies" for their smarts.  

Bar hopping enthusiasts shouldn't get too excited however – after redeeming your one drink of the day you have to wait until the next day to get another drink on Hooch, and you can't just move to another partner bar for your second round. 

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One of America's most popular word-game apps just got a huge injection of new vocabulary.

Words With Friends, the Scrabble-like game developed by Zynga, added more than 50,000 words to its dictionary on Tuesday, including modern-day slang like bestie, turnt, and hangry.

Other words that will now be playable include delish, queso, wordie, bae, and even acronyms such as FOMO — that's "fear of missing out" — and "TFW" — or "that feel when," in internet-speak.

Zynga is calling the massive expansion its "Social Dictionary," and timed its release to the game's eighth anniversary, the company said in a press release.

According to the company, many of the newly added words were ones that users frequently requested through the game's word-lookup function. 

However, it's not the first time the word game has responded to popular demand for particular words. Earlier this year, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon celebrated the addition of the two-letter word "ew" to the Words With Friends dictionary in honor of a recurring segment on the show. And the infamous presidential typo "covfefe" became playable almost immediately after Donald Trump used it in a cryptic tweet this summer.

Words With Friends has been downloaded more than 200 million times since 2009, the company said, making it one of the App Store's 10 most-popular free games of all time.

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In 2018, the best game from 2005 arrives on the PlayStation 4. It's called "Shadow of the Colossus," and it's getting a gorgeous remake on the PlayStation 4.

When the game originally launched on the PlayStation 2 in 2005, it was a revelation for PlayStation 2 owners. 

Though it may look like a standard video game, "Shadow of the Colossus" is anything but — the character you see above is who you play as, and he's got an objective: Take down gigantic monsters.

Monsters like this guy right here:

Unfortunately, saying much more about the mysterious world and creatures of "Shadow of the Colossus" could give away far too much about the game's uniquely emotional story. Instead, let's focus on how you take down these beasts — that's a measure of climbing them, and then literally stabbing them to death.

You may be picking up some of those emotional undertones already — the monsters are ugly, but seemingly adorable. And why are you murdering them? That's unclear.

What is clear right now is that the remake of "Shadow of the Colossus" on PlayStation 4 is an outrageously pretty game and, if the original is anything to go by, we're expecting it'll be a pretty great game to play as well. Check out the latest trailer for "Shadow of the Colossus" on PlayStation 4 right here:

The game isn't expected to launch until some point in 2018; when it does, it'll be a PlayStation 4 exclusive.

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Most people remember him as the lovable geek next door, but Jaleel White been in many other shows since "Family Matters" went off the air. We spoke with White, who currently stars in the CBS series "Me, Myself, and I," about what it was like playing Steve Urkel and what he's been up to since the days of TGIF. If you're feeling nostalgic, "Family Matters" will be available to binge on Hulu start September 29, 2017. Following is a transcript of the video.

"Did I do that?"

Hi, I'm Jaleel White. People know how I ended up on that show. It was a guest spot that turned into a 215 episode journey.

"Family Matters" was a show that we shot in front of a live audience. It gave you a very theater feel. You got pumped and jacked like an athlete taking the field.

"Hehehe..."

"Hi Laura, my little sweet potato."

I've lived all of these episodes, so people literally sometimes will quote episodes to me in the streets, and I'm like I can thumb in my head pretty quickly and be like, "Okay, season 4." "No, that's season 3. That's season 5."

"As my grandma once said when she overcooked our noogies, tough noogies!"

What's cool and relevant, though, about "Family Matters" is that I guess we're dropping on Hulu. People still appreciate the work and somehow, in a really weird way, it's being appreciated even more with time. So it seems to be aging like wine right now. Whereas it wasn't aging like wine for a while. It was just there.

"There is no Steve here. I'm Stefan sweet thing."

You're always going to have some similarities with your characters. I mean that's just bound to happen. Steve Urkel was unusually athletic. You know, I was athletic. So that was something that we added to the character that was intrinsically Jaleel.

I would have tried to be an athlete, but I don't have an athlete's body. I'm not 6'8" with a wingspan that, you know, reaches all walls of the room. I would have definitely hovered around the sports community. Maybe even ended up in marketing, or as an agent, or something like that.

I think everybody goes through ups and downs in their life. But the most profound impact on my life was the birth of my daughter. I think I was born to be a father. It helped recalibrate a lot of my life priorities.

My daughter is a YouTube kid. So my parents have tried to foist "Family Matters" on her. And she'll watch it, and she thinks it's funny because I'm talking in a high-pitched voice. But she goes right back to her YouTube.

Being a dad, I barely have time to watch the shows I want to watch. I enjoy more of eclectic stuff. Like the food shows you'll find on Netflix and stuff like that. I'm not so much of a "Bachelor" guy.

I just became a working actor really after "Family Matters." Everything from "Dreamgirls" to "Boston Legal" to NCIS" to "CSI." You name it, I did it all.

My favorite probably out of all of the jobs though that I've worked were "Total Blackout," which is a show that I hosted for SYFY, and my guest appearances on "Psych."

"Now we just have to find the perpetrators who did this evil deed ..."

"And kill them."

"What?"

"And bring them to justice."

"Man, what's wrong with you?"

"Psych" fans are legit fans. They are not fake fans. They love you today. They love you forever. They just have a rabid cult following.

"With my looks and your brains, we're unstoppable."

Sonic was this job that I took when I was in high school that I didn't even want really. I was leaving the set from shooting "Family Matters," and instead of going to play basketball or what not, I was going to a recording studio and doing about 100 episodes of "Sonic."

When I look back on it, I'm very happy. I had no idea it was another legit hit on my resume. So nothing but love for Sonic the Hedgehog from me.

You know, for us to be 20 years removed from what "Family Matters" was, and here I am with another family series on CBS, I just feel honored to be a part of the transition.

And I play Daryl on "Me, Myself, and I."

"You're living in my garage."

"Rent free!"

"So I no longer have a man cave."

"No, you do. There's just another man living in it."

It's a really, really fun and unique half-hour premise. That's why I was drawn to the role. It's not something you would typically see on CBS.

With Darryl, he's very focused, upbeat, positive, and about getting his money and keeping the train on the track. And so I'm looking to bring that to the screen.

And I know that's a part of my personality as well.

It's gonna be good nostalgia for other people. Just with the storytelling in itself. All this 1990s stuff that the show's going to explore. But, for me, it's a look back at a journey to say, "Wow, I'm still here."

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Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale" won the best drama series Emmy award for 2017, making it the first streaming service to reach that prestigious spot. 

With one of Hulu's shows reaching the apex of critical acclaim, it's a good time to take stock of the rest of Hulu's catalog of original material to see which ones you might have missed.

To give you a full picture of how Hulu shows stack up against each other, we turned to Rotten Tomatoes, which pulls in critic (and audience) reviews from around the world. We excluded Hulu originals that had less than four critic reviews.

Here are Hulu's 12 original shows, ordered from worst to best:

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No. 12: "Shut Eye" — 38/100

Critics score: 38

Audience score: 84

Hulu description: "Shut Eye takes a darkly comedic look at the world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. Former magician Charlie Haverford (Jeffrey Donovan) oversees a number of fortune telling parlors on behalf of his violent and domineering Romani kingpin boss, until a blow to the head jars him into a new mindset, making him question everything he has ever believed."

Status: Current

No. 11: "Dimension 404" — 67/100

Critics score: 67

Audience score: 55

Hulu description: "In the darkest depths of cyberspace, there is another world. A lost dimension, home to wonders unseen, terrors unspeakable, and stories unlike any ever told. Dimension 404 is a science fiction anthology that explores the wonders - and terrors - of our digital age."

Status: Pending

No. 10: "The Hotwives of Orlando" — 78/100

Critics score: 78

Audience score: 100

Hulu description: "A parody of one of the most popular franchises in reality television, “The Hotwives of Orlando,” takes you inside the uber-exclusive and glamorous world of six hot housewives livin’ large in Central Florida's sexiest city, Orlando."

Status: Ended

• Alamo Drafthouse is one of the most successful independent theater chains in the US with its mixture of fun programming and tasty food and drinks.
• CEO Tim League is navigating the company's first major controversy following the rehiring of a movie blogger who was accused of sexual assault last year.
• League now sets forth with the biggest challenge of the company's 20-year existence: proving Alamo Drafthouse is not just a "boys' club" and rebuilding trust.

Tim League casually sipped a beer on the outdoor patio of a bar in Toronto, as the hustle of this year's Toronto International Film Festival rushed past him. Before joining the fray, the owner of one of the most successful independent movie chains in the US, Alamo Drafthouse, was happy to have a moment to reflect.

"I feel really blessed that this is my job," League told Business Insider. "I'm here working at the Toronto International Film Festival, and I saw three really good movies yesterday."

Forty-eight hours later, League's festival only got better when the distribution company he cofounded, Neon, beat out Netflix to nab the biggest title at TIFF, "I, Tonya," for $5 million. The darkly comedic look at the rise and fall of the US figure skater Tonya Harding (played by Margot Robbie) is expected to be Neon's first Oscar contender when it opens in theaters later this year.

But things drastically changed for League the following day, when the site Pajiba ran a story revealing that the Drafthouse CEO had rehired a blogger named Devin Faraci, the former editor-in-chief of the Drafthouse-owned Birth.Movies.Death movie site who resigned after being accused of sexual assault last year. Faraci came back as a copy editor, and he wrote film blurbs for this year's guide to the company's annual genre film festival, Fantastic Fest (which kicks off Thursday in Austin, Texas).

Social media and the film world instantly went into an uproar, particularly because news that Faraci rejoined the company came just 11 months after he stepped down. The result led a Fantastic Fest programmer to resign, Faraci to resign for a second time, and League to make numerous public apologies.

For a company that has built a reputation on being young, hip, and fun — three things all of the major multiplexes in the world wish they were — the controversies Drafthouse is most familiar with usually come from a unique idea devised by League or by the creative directors at one of the 29 Alamo Drafthouse theaters across the country.

A recent example was over the summer, when Alamo Drafthouse held all-women screenings of "Wonder Woman." The negative reaction by some men on social media blindsided League, who recalled carrying out an all-women screening for the first "Sex and the City" movie in 2008 in Austin with zero objections. The "Wonder Woman" version resulted in three lawsuits (two are still ongoing). And when League got word that a man showed up to one of the screenings at the Drafthouse in Brooklyn, New York, he almost cleared out another screen in the theater and had the gentleman sit and watch "Wonder Woman" there all by himself. But the idea never came to fruition.

"That's where sometimes I have to check myself," League said.

But that's all fun and games to League, and it plays well with Drafthouse customers. The Faraci controversy, however, put League and his company in the unfamiliar place of being on the wrong side of an issue for its audience.

Building the fandom

Alamo Drafthouse started out in Austin 20 years ago, when League and his wife, Karrie, renovated an old building into a second-run theater. It stood out for the weird and unusual movies that played there, but what made it addictive was that the theater provided its customers with the option to eat and drink alcohol at their seats while watching the movies. As the company evolved and become a chain, so did the specialties of the menu and drinks (which often are themed to movies playing at that particular time at the Alamo). And with the evolution of online ticketing, and no need for ticket windows, Alamo Drafthouse lobbies are now bars. All of this has made the feeling of visiting an Alamo Drafthouse more than just seeing a movie. It's an all-night experience. And most multiplexes and independent theaters have been playing catch-up for the past two decades, trying to capture some of Alamo Drafthouse's cool factor.

League said all he's doing was returning to the model of the 1940s and 1950s, before the multiplex was created, when individual theaters had to focus on marketing to their cities or towns to get patrons in the door.

"A lot of what we do is not that innovative," he said. "It really goes back to older traditions of establishing that bond with your core audience."

I have seen that love for all things Drafthouse firsthand, and it's quite impressive.

My first taste was in Austin in 2013. Alamo Drafthouse likes to do road shows across the US in the summer. Past events have included an outdoor screening of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in Wyoming by the movie's epic Devils Tower location and a screening of "Jaws" on a floating screen in a body of water, with viewers watching on inner tubes.

The road show I attended was for "Snowpiercer," Bong Joon-ho's postapocalyptic thriller set on a train. For the event, we all loaded onto a train and traveled to an open field about an hour away to screen the movie. League was there, as was Bong, and even the director Nicolas Winding Refn hopped on the train at the last minute. But there were also 100 or so dedicated Alamo Drafthouse patrons who attended the event. After the movie, we all got back on the train and partied all the way back to the station, each car themed like the dystopian movie.

A year later, I saw the Drafthouse fandom at its most insane when I attended Fantastic Fest (the 10th anniversary of the festival, no less). The event was located at Alamo Drafthouse's crown jewel in Austin, its South Lamar theater, which houses nine screens, two bars, an arcade, and seven karaoke rooms. But the attendance at the festival was even more incredible. Every night the crowds waiting to see movies were so big they would spill from the lobby to outside the venue. It was a mix of locals and fanboys. Some of them had even traveled from other countries to be a part of it.

The loyal Alamo Drafthouse fandom is an impressive sight in an era when interest in the moviegoing experience has diminished greatly. And League, who is a modern-day P.T. Barnum for all things Alamo, is certainly aware of it. With the internet and social-media reaction king, the CEO believes being a tastemaker and understanding patron needs are vital to his business.

"Yelp, Facebook, the customer experience is job number one," League said. "You can't ignore data streams or any trends."

But despite League's efforts, Alamo Drafthouse is swirling in a bad trend.

The 'boys' club' stigma

Last September, Faraci tweeted about Donald Trump's now-infamous leaked comments from an "Access Hollywood" taping. In those comments, Trump had bragged that his celebrity allowed him to grope women. A woman replied to Faraci on Twitter, however, and accused him of having grabbed her genitals at a bar in the past. The public accusations, which Faraci did not deny, ultimately led to his resignation last year.

After Pajiba broke the news last Tuesday of Faraci’s rehiring, League took to Facebook that evening. He confirmed that he brought Faraci back into the company as a copywriter and to write film blurbs — and he said he hoped people would understand the decision to give Faraci a second chance.

"I understand there's some discomfort with the idea that Devin is once again employed by the Alamo Drafthouse," League wrote in the post. "However, I am very much an advocate for granting people second chances, and I believe that Devin deserves one. He continues to confront his issues and to better himself with the help of his friends and family. I am proud to consider myself a part of this process."

Here's the entire statement:

League's explanation didn't go over well. The post was flooded with hundreds of comments, many disappointed in the CEO's doubling down on the rehiring. On Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter published a story indicating that another woman had emailed League shortly after Faraci's 2016 resignation to accuse Faraci of sexually harassing her. An email exchange with the woman didn't put League in a good light. In an email back to the woman, League asked her to keep their conversation between them.

Also on Wednesday, Todd Brown resigned as Fantastic Fest's international programmer. He posted his own thoughts on Facebook, in which he said he was "embarrassed and ashamed" to have worked at Drafthouse.

"Rehabilitation is a noble and worthwhile pursuit, to be sure, but it is also one that requires the involvement of a community," Brown wrote. "Forgiveness is fantastic but forgiveness is the sole purview of the person who has been wronged. Tim, bluntly, does not get to forgive Devin for Devin's alleged — and undisputed — sexual assault. Only the victim gets to do that. And where was she in this? Where was the concern for any victim of sexual violence and the message this would send to them? While I do not believe there was any malice in the decision to bring Faraci back there was, however, a clear, undeniable and arguably even callous disregard for the impact of this decision on anyone not named Devin Faraci."

Here's Brown's full statement:

Brown touched on an element that had many in an uproar, that League chose to rehire Faraci without consulting his employees or Faraci's accusers. At TIFF, he had just told Business Insider that one his major learnings in the 20 years of Alamo Drafthouse had been how important employee feedback was in improving the company.

"In the early years we would think, 'We're a good company — our employees like working here because it’s a cool company,' but we never measured anything," League said. "Now we realize, 'Oh my god, why don't we just increase our communication with our staff to say how can this be a good place to work?' That's certainly changed for us."

On Wednesday evening, League sent an industry-wide memo to his company announcing that he had accepted Faraci's resignation. League also posted another statement on Facebook.

"Over the past few days, I've realized that decisions I have made over these past months have been problematic," League wrote. "I am concerned about what these choices may say about me and the values of this company to employees, customers and the community at large. I'm humbled and deeply sorry.”

But that didn't stop Fox Searchlight from pulling Oscar-favorite "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" from this year's Fantastic Fest.

Searching for redemption

The controversy comes at a time when the independent theater community is already suffering a black eye from sexual-harassment claims. In August, two top employees of the Los Angeles art-house staple Cinefamily stepped down after allegations of sexual harassment surfaced. The theater has since suspended all activity.

It's very unlikely that Alamo Drafthouse will be closing up shop over its controversy, but the two instances are similar in that they shine a light on the male-controlled theater-chain industry. For Drafthouse, however, it goes a step further. Steeped in the male-heavy genre world, what drives the fandom of Drafthouse, its festival, website, and merchandise company Mondo are the voices (and social-media reach) of the predominantly male bloggers and fans who attend events and frequent the theaters. Take Fantastic Fest. It's incredible to see how male-heavy it is. I've never been to an event where the line to the men's room is twice as long as the women's.

"Anyone who has ever suggested that Fantastic Fest and the Drafthouse is just the geek friendly equivalent of the classic Old Boys Club, you have just been proven correct," Brown wrote at the end of his Facebook post. "We have just seen that Club in action. There it is, the Club utterly ignoring the victim while it creates a protective ring around the perpetrator. Telling every woman who has ever been harassed or assaulted that the predatory males around them will be protected if they are a part of the Club. Telling every woman that the Sad Man whose life is a shambles because of his own actions deserves help and support in putting himself back together while she deserves … nothing."

League now sets forth with perhaps the biggest challenge of his 20 years in the business: proving that Alamo Drafthouse can go beyond the beer-drinking, hard-partying, good-ol'-time-for-bros persona that has made it a powerhouse in the industry.

League, who declined numerous requests for a follow-up interview with Business Insider following the controversy, wrote in his statement regarding Faraci's permanent resignation from Alamo Drafthouse that he had begun setting up meetings with employees at all his theaters to hear their thoughts on his controversial decision.

"Transparency, consistency, and credibility are crucial at this point to restore his reputation and that of Alamo Drafthouse," Dr. Nir Kossovsky, the CEO of the risk-management company Steel City Re, told Business Insider.

Though League always seems to place Alamo Drafthouse in a progressive position — unintentionally with the "Wonder Woman" screenings and intentionally with providing gender-neutral restrooms at his theaters last year — he's also known in the industry for being extremely loyal, and that seems to be what backfired here.

Sources tell Business Insider that League was simply looking out for a friend but had since regretted that decision and was driven to make amends. In the past week, League has reached out to Faraci's accusers to apologize and is starting the long road back to gaining the trust of not just the Alamo Drafthouse patrons but his staff.

At TIFF, when talking about the evolution of the company over the past 20 years, and the responsibility that comes with building a brand, League on numerous times mentioned the importance of making sure not just that customers are having a great time but that the people working for him are as well. This controversy is surely a sobering reminder to League that he still needs to work on the latter.

"We are a real company now," League said. "Still a little rough around the edges."

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An unauthorized "Stranger Things" pop-up bar in Chicago's Logan Square has drawn crowds since it opened last month, but Netflix is now asking the bar to shut down after its designated six-week run.

The company's request to the pop-up bar's creators came in the form of a cease-and-desist letter filled with "Stranger Things" puns, including a light-hearted threat to unleash the Demogorgon, the show's supernatural villain, if they don't comply:

"Danny and Doug,

My walkie talkie is busted so I had to write this note instead. I heard you launched a Stranger Things pop-up bar at your Logan Square location. Look, I don’t want you to think I’m a total wastoid, and I love how much you guys love the show. (Just wait until you see Season 2!) But unless I’m living in the Upside Down, I don’t think we did a deal with you for this pop-up. You’re obviously creative types, so I’m sure you can appreciate that it’s important to us to have a say in how our fans encounter the worlds we build.

We’re not going to go full Dr. Brenner on you, but we ask that you please (1) not extend the pop-up beyond its 6 week run ending in September, and (2) reach out to us for permission if you plan to do something like this again. Let me know as soon as possible that you agree to these requests.

We love our fans more than anything, but you should know the Demogorgon is not always as forgiving. So please don’t make us call your mom."

Jared Saul, the manager of the Emporium Arcade bar where the pop-up is taking place, took the letter in stride. He told DNA Info via email, "It’s been so much fun for us & for fans of Stranger Things & has even introduced the show to new fans here in Chicago who weren’t aware of the show before visiting the pop-up."

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The second season of Netflix's "Stranger Things" premieres on October 27.

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Darren Aronofsky's "Mother!" has alienated viewers and won over some critics, but Jennifer Lawrence, the film's star, has an explanation of the divisive movie that she wants viewers to hear before going into it. 

Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly that Aronofsky, her partner, told her about the "allegory" behind "Mother!" before he wrote the script, and she thinks audiences should know what to look for while watching it. 

"It was the most unique sounding movie I’d ever heard, and incredibly brave," Lawrence said. "I feel like there’s different schools of thought on this movie. Some think: don’t tell anyone anything, let them figure it out on their own. I feel like it’s better to know and understand the metaphor and allegories because then you know what you are looking at. I’ve been spilling the themes and metaphors all over town!”

She went on to unpack the film's environmental and religious themes, which dictated how the cast approached its filming on set.

"The movie was called 'Day Six' [on set]: it could be about the creation and the end of the universe," she said. "You have the creation of man and women and then the corruption of man and woman and then overpopulation and creation of religion and so on and so forth. ... So what he's saying is this is the entire world, This is our one earth. This is all our sink. So stop bouncing on it!"

"Mother!" earned Lawrence her career-worst opening last week, and it received an "F" grade from CinemaScore, a company that polls audience reaction to opening weekend movies.

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Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft's Xbox group and the company's overall video game initiatives, was promoted today to the title of Executive Vice President of Gaming, Business Insider has learned.

The new title comes with a big responsibility bump. Spencer will now report directly to CEO Satya Nadella, as a member of his executive leadership team.

The change follows a reorganization ordered by Nadella in July of this year. That reorganization was intended to streamline the company's operations to focus more on selling specific "customer solutions," with video games identified as a core area of interest.

Prior to the promotion, Spencer reported to Terry Myerson, the Executive VP of the Windows and Devices Group (WDG). We're hearing that even after this change, Spencer's gaming team will still work closely with WDG, relying on the group's HR, sales, and marketing teams. 

Spencer has been with Microsoft since 1988, starting as an intern. He assumed control of the Xbox division soon after Nadella became CEO in 2014. 

The promotion isn't the only big change at Microsoft this week. The company is shifting its Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) team, helmed by longtime executive Brad Anderson, from its cloud and enterprise (C&E) division into WDG. That should make it easier for the team to build security features straight into Windows 10 and Surface devices.

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