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"South Park" took on the current protests of police brutality to show what would happen if the current season's ultra-progressive Colorado town decided it no longer needed cops on Wednesday's episode, "Naughty Ninjas." And in the process, the show made typically provocative points about where people stand in the debate around police, and how any extreme can backfire.

The whole thing started when a "code red" was called at the elementary school, because P.C. Principal wanted a chatty student out of his school. In a barrage of confusion, Officer Barbrady accidentally shot a Latino student. He was then fired from the police.

As the news spread across town, anger toward the police grew. People began taunting the police, breaking minor laws, and protesting — all to the sound of N.W.A's "F--k tha Police."

Attributing the new situation to the advantages of gentrification, Randy Marsh said, “Wow, we’ve only had a Whole Foods for a month and already we don’t need cops." The cops probably didn't even know what "farm-to-table" means, one citizen pointed out.

Meanwhile, the kids found a new game. They took over an abandoned strip mall and began a ninja club. The problem was they began scaring away the homeless people and some townies, too. Apparently, they were being mistaken for young members of ISIS.

In addition to South Park's dangerous new "ISIS group," the homeless found a new place to live: the center of town, which is way too close to Whole Foods. And with no police to stop them, the homeless population grew and grew. Clearly, this didn't sit well with the townsfolk.

They decided to swallow their pride and ask the police back. But the police were enjoying their time off and were still angry about the way they were treated.

"Who was it that said, 'F--k the police?' Was that Ice Cube? Tupac? Oh, right, that was you guys," Sergeant Yates said.

With the police unwilling to help, the citizens went to the one guy who did: Office Barbrady.

They approached him to take out the group of young ISIS members. But back at Stan's house, his dad began putting it all together after he found out that his son was "playing ninjas at Kenny's house." When he realized that he and the others had sent Officer Barbrady to assassinate their children, he tried to stop it. But he was too late. Barbrady got their first and a wayward shot hit its target.

And while he got fired again, the citizens still wanted to take back their town from the homeless people. So they made a deal with the cops. The deal gave the cops something they wanted, and it was a less uncomfortable compromise than having to deal with homeless people.

And all is peaceful again in South Park — for now.

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The film community in New York City was floored on Tuesday when, out of nowhere, actor/artist/viral topic Shia LaBeouf took over one screen at the Angelika Film Center art-house theater and announced that he would be watching all 27 movies he's starred in (in reverse chronological order).

Described as a performance-art piece, titled "All My Movies" (stylized #ALLMYMOVIES), the project allowed anyone, free of charge, to come join LaBeouf in the theater to watch along. As a bonus, there's been live streaming video of LaBeouf watching the movies.

"All My Movies" ends Thursday, and while it had a slow start, people have since been flocking to the Angelika to be a part of it.

When I showed up on Wednesday, a line snaked down a street block to get into the theater with Shia LaBeouf. Here's what I experienced in the two hours I waited:

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It was around 12:30 p.m. when I got to the theater and the line was already stretched down the sidewalk. Rumors of people waiting seven hours to get into the theater with Shia began to travel among folks in line.

Tracking down the manager of the theater to get information about the wait was no help. "I can't comment about any of this," he barked at me. But after 10 minutes in line, a theater employee casually walked the line like a TSA agent repeating the following ...

"You have unlimited time in the theater. Because of that, there is no estimation we can give you of how long you'll be waiting on line. Once people leave, we will let more of you in. When you get in, do not use your phone or take any pictures. Shia will not talk to you — he's in the artist zone."

When presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders became the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1981, he got his own public access TV show, called "Bernie Speaks." Mother Jones found footage from the CCTV at the Center for Media & Democracy, and there's some real TV gold in there.

While he mostly interviewed locals and talked about municipal issues, there is one episode, in December 1987, in which he had his son Levi hold the microphone for him. Levi looks really cold.

Check it out.

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If you just can't wait for the new film in December to start nerding out on Star Wars, you might try to snag a ride in Boeing's new R2-D2 jet.

The special 787 Dreamliner is owned by All Nippon Airways and just made its first stop outside of Japan. Reuters photographer Edgar Su was on hand to snap photos of the jet when it landed in Singapore.

Here's what he saw:

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The original "Toy Story" will celebrate its 20th anniversary this month.

The franchise remains extremely popular — and still inspires fans.

Morgan and Mason McGrew, two brothers from Iowa, are in the midst of directing a live action "Toy Story 3" fan film, which they have been working on since 2011. 

The even built an exact replica of Andy's bedroom in "Toy Story 3." (Via The Pixarist on Tumblr).

Take a look for yourself at all the little details they got right in bringing one of Pixar's greatest creations to life.

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In "Toy Story 3," the door of Andy's room is covered in stickers, posters, and a dartboard. The combination "really gives off the teenager-vibe," the McGrew brothers said.

The McGrews were able to find a nearly identical dartboard "for only $5 at a thrift shop."

In the movie, Andy's room looks just about as messy as any incoming college student.

Besides bleach blonde hair, surfers are known for their ripped arms and toned abs. And now, you don't even need to live by a beach to get that surfer bod.

A new fitness craze has hit the country, and even caught the attention of investor Mark Cuban: stationary surfing.

Apparently, a 45-minute class on these plastic "surf boards" — which are unstable, thus activating your core — can burn between 500 and 900 calories, and promise to build lean muscle and burn fat. 

We went to Surfset NYC to check it out.

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Netflix has a new critical darling on its hands, thanks to comedian Aziz Ansari.

Ansari's sitcom "Master of None" was released on Netflix last Friday, and has quickly built buzz from critics and viewers alike.

"Master of None" stars Ansari as a 30-year-old trying to find his way in New York City.

Like other sitcoms from comedians like Louis CK's "Louie" and Marc Maron's "Maron," Ansari's show is a fictionalized account of his own journey to try to make it.

And as Exstreamist's Rob Toledo pointed out, "Master of None" seems to be the most loved new TV show this fall, according to ratings aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

The show has scored an impressive 100% "fresh" rating from critics, meaning that all 50 critics polled by Rotten Tomatoes said it was "yes" on a binary yes-no scale.

It also grabbed an average rating of 8.8 out of 10 from critics, and 4.6 out of 5 from users.

There is still time for this to shift as fall goes on, but right now it seems that Netflix has another monster hit on its hands.

Here are the other top new shows, based on Rotten Tomatoes data:

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Sandi Ball, the 26-year-old nail guru better known as "cutepolish," just released a super addictive video game.

"Cutepolish" is a veritable YouTube celebrity. In only five years, she's gotten over two million subscribers, and another 16 million followers across her other social media platforms. However, none of her fans had seen her face until last year.

Sandi told INSIDER that she worked with kids, and wanted to keep her work life and YouTube life separate. However, she explained that her subscribers kept begging her to reveal herself in the comments, which is why she finally appeared on camera once she hit two million subscribers.

With her identity revealed and her YouTube channel booming, Ball decided to expand her brand through another passion: video games. She released her very own nail-themed game, "Polish Blast," a few weeks ago for iOS and Android, and it already has over 65,000 downloads.

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ABC reportedly won't allow two men to dance as a couple together on "Dancing with the Stars."

An openly gay singer, Who Is Fancy (yes, that is what he calls himself), is set to perform his new song, "Boys Like You," with Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor on the reality competition show's November 23 episode. The song is about a man falling in love with another man, so the singer's choreographer wanted to have two men dancing with each other in the performance. But TMZ reported that ABC wasn't having it.

According to the site's sources, a "DWTS" producer responded to the choreographer's request via email: "Apologies all but this is a definitive no from the network."  

ABC reportedly said it would allow "near dancing," such as the performance earlier this week in which pro dancers Alek Skarlatos and Carlos PenaVega basically toss each other around to Queen's "We Will Rock You."

Show representatives declined to comment for this story. One of TMZ's sources said, "Creative conversations are ongoing about the dance number."

This isn't the first time that an ABC show has been embroiled in controversy over a diversity issue. For years, the network had been pressured to have a minority or gay man lead "The Bachelor." Ironically, its first minority bachelor, Juan Pablo Galavis, who's Latino, would say that a gay man could never be the Bachelor.

It would seem that ABC's nonfiction shows haven't caught up to its scripted series. A gay couple is part of the central story on "Modern Family," for example. But it did take "Modern Family" one season for its gay couple, Cam (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), to kiss, after pressure from viewers and critics.

But "Quantico," the FBI-themed series that premiered this season, has portrayed two men kissing already.

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"Master of None," Netflix's latest original comedy, currently has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, a rare feat.

The show's boldest, and maybe best, episode to date is called "Indians on TV."

In the episode, Dev (star and creator Aziz Ansari) finds himself experiencing racism in Hollywood. First, Dev is asked to do a stereotypical Indian accent during an audition. He refuses, which Ansari has also done in real life.

Then, after auditioning for a different role for a sitcom, he finds out that no network executive wants to see more than one Indian person on TV at a time.

"If I do a show with two Indian guys on the poster, everyone's gonna think it's an Indian show. It wouldn't be as relatable to a large, mainstream audience," Dev is told.

But Ansari uses the episode as a platform to fire back at this notion, featuring a prominent Indian cast and, as Dev, replying "Yeah, but you'd never say that about a show with two white people. Every show has two white people. People don't watch 'True Detective' and go 'oh, there's that white detective show!'"

After the first season debuted, Ansari wrote an essay for the New York Times addressing this same issue, and calling out Hollywood for only casting straight white actors even though 40% of the population are minorities. 

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The video streaming site Hulu is in talks to sell a portion of itself to Time Warner that would value the company in the range of $5 billion to $6 billion, The Wall Street Journal's Shalini Ramachandran and Amol Sharma reported Thursday.

The deal would make Time Warner an equal stakeholder as its current owners— Disney, Comcast, and Fox — and give each a 25% stake of Hulu, the report said.

Time Warner's deal would include both cash and licensing rights, possibly allowing Hulu to stream programs owned by Time Warner's network of channels, including TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, and HBO.

Hulu has been adding a lot of new content on its site lately. Just recently, it signed a $160 million deal for the rights to Seinfeld, while it made content deals with FX and AMC as well. It's also expanded into producing original series like "Difficult People."

This isn't the first time Hulu was involved in a rumored sale. In 2013, DirecTV was rumored to be acquiring the company, while Apple was also reported to be interested in bidding for Hulu's online streaming TV service in 2011.

By adding on another content provider like Time Warner on its ownership team, Hulu will be better positioned to compete against Netflix in the online video streaming space. Netflix shares closed down 3.5% Thursday, and about another 1% in afterhours.

But Hulu still lags far behind Netflix in its number of subscribers. Hulu Plus is reported to have about 9 million subscribers, while Netflix has more than 42 million in the US.

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Jennifer Lawrence doesn't like to waste money, but when it comes to flying, she will indulge on a private jet.

In a candid new interview with Vogue, Lawrence revealed that having to deal with particularly difficult people at the airport makes her hate flying commercial. 

"I always want to — it’s cheaper, it’s easier — but there can be 300 perfectly lovely people at the gate and one crazy person who ruins it for everyone, so flying private is great because I don’t have to worry,” she explained. But in true Lawrence fashion, she makes fun of her own habit and asked, “Is that relatable enough for you?”

In the interview, Lawrence also opened up about her relationship with director David O. Russell, with whom she has collaborated on three different films, one of which landed her an Oscar (Silver Linings Playbook). 

“He has given me a life, creatively, that I would have never known, what it feels like to really act, to be scared out of your mind on set and have no idea what’s going on," she said. "There are things that I’ve learned about myself that would have taken 20 years that he taught me in five.”

She also explained that she wants to get back to indie films after wrapping the "Hunger Games" and "X-Men" franchises, though having to make decisions on projects isn't always easy. 

“I knew that coming out of 'Hunger Games' it was a bad move to do a big blockbuster,” she said. “I want to get back to my roots, back to indies, where I started. And then I read 'Passengers' [with Chris Pratt],  and I loved it. This is my first time saying yes now that I am completely free of franchises."

And naturally, she casually let slip that she's become friends with Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, who live two doors down from her. "They’re awesome. I go over there uninvited," she said. "They’re probably getting pretty sick of me.”

You can read the complete interview at Vogue. 

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At Netflix's most recent 'hack day' – an office day where the product development staff “get away from everyday work, to have fun, experiment, collaborate, and be creative” – four engineers decided to hack their way into an old 1950s Philco Predicta TV set.

The team was successfully able to get the TV to stream Netflix shows and movies, according to The Next Web, and the result is a mashup of both old and new technology that's pretty cool.

Even more impressive is that after the engineers tinkered around a bit, they were also able to figure out a way to make the knobs act as a mechanism for scrolling through shows.

Of course, this isn’t the first time Netflix’s hack day has produced some creative ideas. In March, engineers were able to stream Netflix on an original Nintendo NES game console, which resulted in some funny outcomes, including getting to see what "House of Cards" looked like in a 2-bit format.

Last year, Netflix employees combined the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset with the Netflix experience in a project they called Oculix, which allowed the wearer to use head motions and their gaze as a mouse to browse Netflix titles. This actually led to an official Netflix and Oculus virtual reality app that launched recently for Samsung's Gear VR headset.

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Apple has announced that it will shut down Beats Music, the streaming service it acquired as part of the purchase of Beats in May 2014.

Engadget reports that people who were still using the Beats Music streaming service noticed an updated support page informing them that the service would shut down on November 30.

There's no need for Apple to operate two music-streaming services, so it makes sense for the company to force customers of Beats Music onto Apple Music.

Apple used elements of Beats Music to help build its new music-streaming service. The Beats Music onboarding process used several bubbles with musicians in it, for example, and this was carried over to Apple Music.

But it's also possible that Apple had its eye on Beats and Beats Music for a different reason: record producer Jimmy Iovine. The experienced producer is a popular name in the music industry, and one anonymous source with knowledge of the acquisition told Bloomberg that Apple bought the company just so it could bring Iovine's industry experience and contacts on board.

Here, via Engadget, is the full message about the closing of Beats Music:

Move your playlists and preferences to Apple Music, coming soon to Sonos.

Beats Music is ending all service on November 30, but don't worry — Apple Music is coming soon to Sonos. By moving your Beats Music account to Apple Music, you'll be able to keep your playlists and preferences and listen on Sonos as soon as it is available. Keep an eye out for your invitation with all of the details.

To get ready, be sure to sign up for Apple Music now-free for the first three months-on your iOS device, Android, Mac, or PC. All of your music picks and playlists will be moved from Beats Music to Apple Music, and you'll be able to browse more than 30 million songs, listen to worldwide radio with Beats 1, and more.

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For a long time now, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has told anyone who will listen that Hulu is a bigger threat to traditional TV than Netflix.

Why? Because with Hulu people can watch shows the day after they air, making it a “cord-cutter’s dream” and “much more disruptive” to traditional TV, according to Hastings.

This is just plain wrong for two reasons (and Hastings almost certainly knows this).

The most obvious is that the legacy TV giants own Hulu. On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Hulu was in talks to sell a piece of itself to Time Warner in a deal that would value the company between $5 and $6 billion. If this deal goes through, it would make Time Warner an equal stakeholder to Hulu’s current owners, and would mean that Disney, Comcast, Fox, and newcomer Time Warner would each own 25% of Hulu.

Since they own Hulu, its rise wouldn't be be a threat unless what came with it was the destruction of their general business model. Basically Hulu has to, eventually, make up for whatever revenue it takes away from its owners.

Which brings us to the second reason why Hastings is wrong. He implies that Hulu is more likely to poach traditional cable’s customers because its business model is closer to theirs. This makes sense. Getting a new episode of your favorite shows every week, right after they air, is essentially what happens right now with most cable packages (that include on-demand functionality). But because Hulu is making a product similar to cable, it is actually preserving the mode of doing business to a large extent.

Netflix, on the other hand, is blowing it up.

Netflix releases an entire season of its original shows at once, and Netflix has no ads ever (Hulu does have a new “ad-free” option, but even that isn’t completely ad free). The reason why Netflix is more disruptive to the industry than Hulu is because it threatens to actually change user behavior.

Netflix customers get used to getting an entire season at once, and seeing zero ads. And it’s annoying for them when traditional TV makes them watch ads and wait a week for new episodes. There is already evidence that the influence of Netflix might be starting to force cable networks to cut back on the amount of ads they are showing.

This is what is really scary for the traditional cable industry — that Netflix will turn their own subscribers against them, and force them to make radical concessions to stop people from cutting the cord.

Reed Hastings undoubtedly knows this. And when he says Hulu is a bigger threat to the established players in the industry than Netflix, it is almost assuredly smoke and mirrors. It’s a performance. He knows better than anyone that Netflix is trying to dismantle the linear TV model piece by piece.

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J.J. Abrams said no new trailers for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" would be aired before the film's release, but as promised, new footage did air in a TV spot last night during ABC's #TGIT night of Shonda Rhimes' dramas (Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder).

The 60-second commercial featured some familiar scenes, including footage from the recent Japanese trailer, but new clips show what appears to be Finn's TIE Fighter escaping from a hangar bay and Finn fighting a stormtrooper with Luke Skywalker's old lightsaber. 

Han Solo gets more screentime and is shown handing Rey a blaster saying, "You might need this." Later, Solo and Chewbacca are also shown in the midst of a battle. 

Also in a new clip, Rey and BB-8 descend into a command room where they find General (no more Princess) Leia, Solo, C-3PO, and an assortment of others gathered in a meeting. 

Check out the full TV spot below:

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When the Golden Globes nominations are announced on December 10, don’t be shocked if Ridley Scott’s sci-fi hit “The Martian” is called out in the Best Comedy/Musical category.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the eligibility committee of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which votes on Globes winners, decided to keep “The Martian” and fellow 20th Century Fox film "Joy" in the comedy category, where the studio hoped to land them (though the paper does report “The Martian” made it into the category by one vote).

The Golden Globes, which will air on NBC on January 10, have always been known for their puzzling decisions.

In the Comedy/Musical category alone, films that could be considered “dramedies” by the slimmest margin have found themselves part of the lot. Recently, that’s included “Nebraska,” about an aging father and estranged son’s journey to claim a million-dollar prize, and “My Week with Marilyn,” which starred Michelle Williams as the legendary star.

And it seems the Globes like to throw “Joy” director David O. Russell in the category. His previous two films, “Silver Linings Playbook” and “American Hustle” (which won the Globe in 2013), have been placed there.

“Joy” looks at a family over the course of four generations and particularly focuses on the daughter (Jennifer Lawrence) who builds a wealthy business from the ground up. If it’s like Russell’s previous films, there will be some laughs, but it certainly can’t be categorized as a comedy.

But even for the Globes, putting a sci-fi movie in the category is a far stretch.

Though "The Martian" star Matt Damon, who plays an astronaut stranded on Mars, has some funny moments as he talks to cameras set up throughout his base with a sarcastic tone about his situation and often complains that disco is the only music he has, again, you don’t think comedy when you think “The Martian.”

In awards season, what gives a film the best chance of winning is what dictates how a studio enters it for consideration. This comes up often when a studio behind an awards-worthy movie with an ensemble cast must decide which actors will vie for the Best Lead categories and which will try for Best Supporting (it will be interesting to see how Open Road Films does this for “Spotlight,” the journalist drama with Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel McAdams, among many others).

But the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's category flexibility isn't appreciated by some in the comedy world.

Judd Apatow, who will certainly be in contention for a Best Comedy/Musical Globe nomination with his film “Trainwreck,” tweeted this recently.

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Aziz Ansari's new series, "Master of None," found its home at Netflix for several reasons.

The former "Parks and Recreation" actor and cocreator/star of "Master of None" participated in a Reddit AMA session on Thursday. During the AMA, Ansari explained why the streaming-video service was the perfect place for the series, which critics have rated the best new show of fall.

Cocreated with Alan Yang, "Master of None" follows Dev (Ansari), a commercial actor looking to make the leap to TV and film. Along the way, viewers meet Dev's eclectic group of friends, his parents (played by Ansari's real mother and father), and the women he dates.

Here's why "Master of None" landed with Netflix (in Ansari's words).

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Creative freedom: "We pitched only to premium spots cause we didn't want to deal with content issues. [For example, the show opens with Ansari's Dev and another character talking about sexual fluids.] On Netflix, we never had one issue with content. Also, no need to edit to commercials."

Viewers can have it all: "Also, I love how everyone has gotten to just see all the episodes, rather than wait 9 weeks until someone can see an episode I really am proud of like Mornings."

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Unconditional love: "Most importantly though, Netflix really believed in us and told us they wanted to go straight to series and do 10 episodes. No pilot/development process. It was a great experience."

ABC's Diane Sawyer spent a day with Jennifer Lawrence, a fellow Kentuckian, trekking around New York City, eating barbecue, shooting arrows, and getting to know the Oscar-winning actress.

During the interview, Lawrence opened up about struggling to contain her energy as a young kid — she was voted most talkative in school two years in a row — and how she discovered acting. Her brothers even nicknamed her "Nitro." 

“I didn’t know that I was an actor,” she said. "I just knew that I was weird and different and I knew that I was smart, but the evidence just didn't agree. I would think something and then feel it and now I know what that is and now I can channel that at work.” 

After a visit to New York when she was 14, a photographer approached her and her mother in Union Square. He called later to let her know that modeling agencies were interested, and it was then that Lawrence decided that she also wanted to act. 

Lawrence also discussed her recent friendship with Amy Schumer. Though the two only met each other a few months ago, they are currently writing a screenplay together, along with Schumer's sister. 

“We both have a kind of protection over each other,” Lawrence said. “She’s older than me so she has the natural kind of protectiveness that comes with just being older than somebody. I’ve been famous longer than she has so I feel a certain protectiveness in that sense and we both are incredibly blunt and opinionated.”

She also spoke about her essay on the Hollywood pay gap and how women are judged more for negotiating.

"It’s just something that is intrinsic and I would love to see change," she said.

You can watch the "Nightline" interview here: 

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