Here's how the legend goes: When the horrific terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 happened, three of the most famous people on the planet — Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando, and Elizabeth Taylor — who were all in New York City at the time because Jackson was performing at Madison Square Garden, jumped in a car (since all flights were grounded) and drove out of the city.

Though there are conflicting reports on if the event ever really took place, one story has it that the three drove as far as Ohio, stopping at fast food joints throughout the ride at the behest of Brando.  

The events were supposed to be brought to the screen in the movie "Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon." The project grabbed even more attention when it was announced that white English actor Joseph Fiennes ("Shakespeare in Love") would be playing Jackson.

The first footage of Fiennes as Jackson (along with Brian Cox as Brando and Stockard Channing as Taylor) has been released, but the film idea has since been repackaged as one part of a UK TV show "Urban Myths." Regardless, it looks pretty hilarious, if very weird and uncomfortable to see Fiennes playing a legendary black singer.

The comedy series looks at "true...ish" stories like the Jackson, Brando, Taylor road trip, as well as Cary Grant's alleged love of LSD, and stories featuring Hitler, novelist Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan.

Watch the trailer below. It premieres on January 19 in the UK, and there is currently no US airdate. 

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Nintendo's new $60 game console, the NES Classic Edition, is an adorable, inexpensive, easy way to play a ton of classic Nintendo games. The entire original "Super Mario Bros." trilogy, the first two "Legend of Zelda" games, and much more — they're all on the console out of the box.

It's quite a system!

But for some folks — namely, hackers— that wasn't enough. By plugging the system into a computer via USB, they started digging in. First, they added a ton more games to the console.

One hacker more than doubled the number of games on the system:

Then, hackers discovered a hilarious message hidden within the system's code. This one's a bit of a deep reference, so bear with us:

"This is the hanafuda captain speaking. Launching emulation in 3...2...1. Many efforts, tears and countless hours have been put into this jewel. So, please keep this place tidied up and don't break everything! Cheers, the hanafuda captain."

Okay, what? 

First and foremost, you should know what a "hanafuda" is. It's a Japanese playing card used for a variety of different games — think of it like a standard playing card used for, say, poker, but these are covered in flowers and used for different card games.

They're common in Japan, and Nintendo's got a long history of making them. Here are some that Nintendo still produces today:

Since Nintendo is a very old Japanese company (founded in the late 1800s), it didn't get its start in video games. Instead, it got started by making hanafuda cards, then toys, then — eventually — video game consoles and games.

So this message is intended for the most hardcore Nintendo fans among the hackers breaking into the NES Classic Edition. More directly, this message is intended to appeal to those fans to "keep this place tidied up." 

Perhaps they should've received that message before forcibly adding dozens of games to the console, eh?

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• Before 1917, the British royal family had no last name at all.
• That year, King George V decreed that the family surname would be Windsor. 
• Today's royals still don't need a last name, but it's technically Mountbatten-Windsor, a blend of the Queen and her husband's surnames.
• Other royals use their family's territorial designation (like Wales or York) as a last name. 

The British Royal family live their lives in the public eye, but there's one thing about them that not a lot of people know: Their last name. 

That's simply because, in general, they don't need a last name. They're so famous that they're easily identifiable without one.

But when members of the royal family need to use a last name — when they're in school or in the military, for example — they actually have a few choices. Here's a breakdown of all their options — and how it got to be this way in the first place. 

Before 1917, royals didn't use last names at all. 

Back then, royalty had only their first names and the name of the house or dynasty they were part of, according to the Royal Family's official website. You've probably heard of some of these dynasty names, like the House of Tudor and the House of York.

In 1917, when King George V had been on the throne for seven years, he decided to change the house name from  Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. He made the switch because of anti-German sentiments brewing at the start of World War I (the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha name was of German origin). "Windsor" came from Windsor Castle, one of the royal family's properties. 

But he wasn't just changing the dynasty name. George V also specified that Windsor was to became the royal family's official surname, too. 

Today, the royal family is still known as the House of Windsor, and in a broad, general sense, Windsor is still the royal last name. 

When Queen Elizabeth II came to power, she made a slight modification. 

In 1947, princess Elizabeth (George V's granddaughter) married Philip Mountbatten, a former Greek and Danish prince who had joined the British Royal Navy. Just a few years later, the young couple were thrust to the very top of the monarchy: Elizabeth's father died, making her Queen Elizabeth II. Mountbatten became Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. 

In 1960, Elizabeth and Philip decided that they wanted to differentiate their particular branch of the royal family tree from all the others. They decreed that their descendants would carry the hyphenated last name Mountbatten-Windsor.

There's one exception, though: Any royal with the title "His Royal Highness Prince" or "Her Royal Highness Princess" doesn't need to use a surname at all. They can use Mountbatten-Windsor if they need to (the Queen's daughter, Princess Anne, used it on her marriage certificate in 1973, for instance) but it's not an obligation. 

But royals don't always use the Mountbatten-Windsor name, though. 

Some members of the royal clan have used their family's territorial designation instead. For example: When Prince William and Prince Harry served in the military, they went by William Wales and Harry Wales — because their father is the Prince of Wales. And The Daily Beast reports that Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice have gone by Eugenie York and Beatrice York, since their father, Prince Andrew, is the Duke of York. 

There are few other last names kicking around, too: Princess Anne's kids simply took their father's last name — Phillips. And the daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Essex, just goes by Windsor, without the Mountbatten. 

As the Royal Family's official website notes: "A proclamation on the Royal Family name [...] does not pass into the law of the land." No one's really forced to use the official surname, and newly crowned kings and queens aren't bound to follow the surname rules set by their predecessors. 

The bottom line: Unsurprisingly, the complicated royal family has a complicated buffet of acceptable surnames. Technically, their last name is Windsor, though direct descendants of the queen can use Mountbatten-Windsor if they ever need it. Some royals use territorial names, but most — including the young Prince George and Princess Charlotte— stick to first names only. 

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The first season of Netflix's new drama "The Crown" — a retelling of Queen Elizabeth II's rise to the throne — cost $100 million to make. That makes it the most expensive TV series of all time. 

But it seems like the investment was worthwhile: The show is adored by critics and just picked up two Golden Globes. 

Part of that monster budget went to dressing the cast in a whopping 7,000 transformative period costumes. Check out how different the actors look in real life compared to their regal on-screen personas:

Claire Foy plays Elizabeth, the princess who ascends to the throne at age 25.

When she accepted her Golden Globe for best actress in a drama, Foy wore a sparkling pink gown and showed off her new, lighter hair color.

Foy actually thanked the real Queen Elizabeth in her acceptance speech. 

"I really, really, really wouldn't be here if it wasn't for some extraordinary women, and I'm going to thank them. One of them is Queen Elizabeth II," he said. "She has been at the center of the world for the past 63 years, and I think the world could do with a few more women at the center of it, if you ask me."

Source: Telegraph

Matt Smith plays Prince Philip, who marries Elizabeth when she's still a princess.

Today, the real Elizabeth and Philip have been married for an incredible 69 years. 

War with Negan is in the cards when AMC's "The Walking Dead" returns in a month.

But for hardcore fans, that's still an unbearable amount of time to wait. So what could fill the void "The Walking Dead" has left behind in our lives and TV schedules?

Business Insider worked with Taykey, an advertising technology company that can pinpoint specific audiences and analyze what's trending for them, to discover which shows dedicated "TWD" fans talk about most when they're not talking about "TWD."

Here are the eight most talked-about shows among "The Walking Dead" fans, according to Taykey:

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8. "Marvel's Agent's of S.H.I.E.L.D." (ABC)

7. "Doctor Who" (BBC America)

6. "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

The NFL has been on an emotional roller coaster this season, with regards to viewership.

Panic laced the first chunk of the season, as the NFL saw primetime viewership crater by double-digits, relative to last year. The league blamed the presidential election, but also admitted that it could do more to improve its product. One of the big factors mentioned by commissioner Roger Goodell was how full of advertisements the games had become.

When the election finally finished, ratings recovered a lot of the ground they'd lost — though they have still been down slightly. So now that the sky isn't falling, it's a good time to look back at ads, and see the problem Goodell was talking about.

“We want to take as much what we call dead time, non-action, out of the game, so that we can make the game more exciting,” Goodell said in November, according to The New York Times.

"In a world where Netflix has no commercials and consumers are used to 15 seconds of pre-roll, is there a better way to do commercials with our broadcast partners?” NFL exec Brian Rolapp asked rhetorically, in an interview around the same time with Broadcasting & Cable. He pointed out that running 70 per game might be a turn off.

Does the NFL actually run 70 ads per game? Yes! But it hasn't always been that way.

Here's a recent chart put together by UBS that shows how the commercials per game in the NFL has changed since 2008:

The number of commercials per game has been steadily rising, even as people are, as Rolapp pointed out, becoming more accustomed to streaming services that offer either no ads (like Netflix and Amazon) or comparatively light ads (like Hulu).

If the NFL doesn't want to alienate the next generation, it might be wise for the league to rethink its dense ad load. The good news is it seems that NFL execs are at least acknowledging it could be a problem.

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It's official: Woody Harrelson will be part of the Disney "Star Wars" universe.

StarWars.com confirmed Wednesday a report from earlier this month that Harrelson has signed on to be part of the upcoming young Han Solo movie.

The yet-to-be-titled movie, which will star Alden Ehrenreich as the young Solo, will be the latest movie that will take place outside of the main "Star Wars" saga. It's a standalone entry in the vein of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," which focused on the mission prior to "A New Hope" to capture plans for the Death Star.

Harrelson is reported to be playing a mentor of Solo's in the new film.

The movie will also star Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian. "Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke will also be in the movie, which is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ("The LEGO Movie").

The young Han Solo movie will be released in 2018.    

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Actor and comedian Nick Offerman has more than a little in common with Ron Swanson, the legendary outdoorsman and boss he played on the classic sitcom "Parks and Recreation" for seven seasons. 

First, like his character, Offerman is a master craftsman: He operates a woodshop out of Los Angeles, and recently wrote a book about his experiences there. Second, he's a rugged individualist who's expressed concern over the impact of modern technology on the notion of human self-reliance.

Offerman was at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with greeting card company American Greetings, where they unveiled "the thinnest, most powerful messaging device yet" which, spoiler alert, turned out to be a greeting card.

I had the chance to spend a few minutes with Offerman at CES to talk about greeting cards and the skill of showing people that you care. Plus, as a novice and a new homeowner, I had some questions about woodworking as my fianceé and I undertake our first few projects.

Here are the highlights from our conversation.

On greeting cards and being a luddite:

• On the importance of maintaining interpersonal relationships: "It's the downside of consumerization," Offerman says, that it "encourages us to isolate from other people." Social media may connect you with people in far-off locales, but "we're not seeing our neighbor."
• On why you should always send a birthday card: "My life is full of so many decisions," Offerman says, in both his career and personal life. Some of those decisions are more stressful than others, but sending a greeting card is a "decision that says 'I love you,'" Offerman says. It's an active act that shows a willingness to engage, rather than just passively sending a text or Facebook message.
• On the struggle between convenience and self-reliance: "I tenaciously cling to my luddite side," Offerman says, but as a Hollywood figure, he's repeatedly exposed to the latest and greatest tech trends, and it can be hard to resist. "I have to remain ever vigilant," he says.

On woodworking:

• Offerman's advice for woodworking novices: "Any woodworking project, alone or with a mate, requires patience. That's your most important tool." Understand going in that you're going to make mistakes, he says, and "you'll be so much happier." And when the project is all done and finished, "give yourself the win," even if it's not perfect.
• The tools every novice should have, according to Offerman: A set of screwdrivers, a socket set, Allen wrenches, a cordless drill — "it's kind of 50 tools in one" — a claw hammer (the kind with the bit to remove nails on the end), and a coarse-cut hand saw. If you're more serious about building a lot of stuff, you should invest in power tools like a standing jigsaw or a chop saw: "Using them is a great pleasure."
• The best way to learn: Offerman is a big fan of "This Old House," the long-running PBS show on home improvement, and its spinoff "Ask This Old House." As he points out, you can view lots and lots of reruns online or via the PBS app for free. Plus, there's always YouTube. "It's crazy these days" how many videos are available to teach you this stuff.
• The importance of having a "friend" who's handier than you: Ideally, you have a parent, aunt, or other relative who's super handy. If not, it's important go to your local hardware store or lumberyard and make friends with the operators (ideally by buying something). When you're working on a project, "your plan will have flaws," Offerman says. "The right friend will correct your flaws." 

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PASADENA, California – Months before Fox's upcoming "24" spin-off show cast Corey Hawkins as its star, the network made it clear it was looking for a nonwhite lead actor.

The producers said that decision wasn't something that was handed down to them from the network, but more about trying to distance the new main character, Eric Carter, from Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer from the original series.

"Jack Bauer casts a very long shadow," "24: Legacy" executive producer Howard Gordon told Business Insider during the Television Critics Association press tour on Wednesday.

"You kind of have to reverse-engineer," he continued. "Jack is a man with a  17-year-old daughter. Corey is a man in his mid-20s. So we really sort of created him with the broadest possible strokes with things that distinguished him from Bauer."

With a "real-time" countdown similar to "24," the spin-off follows agent Eric Carter (Hawkins) who returns from abroad only to realize danger has followed him back. While trying to stave off the people hunting him down, Eric has to stop the biggest terrorist attack on US soil.

The producers acknowledged that the question of race and bringing diversity to the thriller series has been an ongoing discussion since the news that they were casting for a minority star broke in January of last year.

"It wasn’t just that his background is different," Gordon added. "It enabled a whole new spectrum of stories that also felt real and very American."

Hawkins, who played Dr. Dre in the film "Straight Outta Compton," and veteran actor Jimmy Smits, who will play the show's president, were proud to be able to bring their characters to the screen and said the show backs that up with a diverse and talented writing team.

"As far as diversity in the writers' room goes, we had very long conversations to make sure our voices were in the writers' room," Hawkins told Business Insider. "And we do have black writers in our writers' room. I’m very proud of that. We have women writers, strong writers. But the point is that we have great writers. We made a point to go after writers who understood the voice. At the same time, we wanted writers who knew how to write for this genre."

"24: Legacy" premieres Monday, February 5 on Fox.

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A new season of cult TV comedy, "Arrested Development," is close to becoming a reality now that the cast has agreed to their salaries.

"I think we’re really close to pulling it off finally,” executive producer Brian Grazer told TheWrap on Wednesday. “All of the actors have agreed to do it and I think they’ve agreed to their compensation structure. That’s been the hardest–it’s all hard… But it should be happening soon.”

Nearly two years ago, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said the streaming video service was dedicated to producing a fifth season. At the time, he said that the contract negotiations proved to be "a complicated process." With that apparently out of the way now, the probability of a new season is better than ever.

"Arrested Development" had previously aired on Fox from 2003 to 2005 for three seasons. The fourth season of the comedy debuted on Netflix in 2013.

The series' ensemble cast includes Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Portia de Rossi, Jeffrey Tambor, Tony Hale, Will Arnett, David Cross, and Alia Shawkat.

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Samantha Bee had a chance to make a lot of potty-mouthed jokes and some choice puns on her show "Full Frontal" Wednesday thanks to unverifiable allegations about President-elect Donald Trump that have spilled into public view.

BuzzFeed recently published a dossier that had made the rounds among journalists and goverment officials, which contains unverifiable claims about Trump's activity in Russia, including the claim that Russian spies' hidden cameras recorded Trump in a Moscow hotel room with prostitutes who urinated on a bed.

While the explosive but unproven allegations created some awkward moments for cable news describing the lewd activity, Samantha Bee referred to them as "comedy Christmas."

"The only verifiable thing about this report is how much joy it gave me," Bee said.

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After years of waiting, Nintendo finally has a new video game console on the way. It's called the Nintendo Switch.

Here, look at it!

It's a hybrid console — you can play it at home on your living room television (left), or you can take it on the go (right). Here's what we know about the console thus far:

• It's called Nintendo Switch.
• It's scheduled to launch in March 2017.
• Nintendo has a gaggle of games starring its most prominent creations in the works.

There is, of course, much more to the Switch than that, but Nintendo isn't offering explicit details just yet. Nintendo has an event scheduled for January 12 — that's tonight!— where we expect to learn much more about Switch. Like what? Like the price of the system, the actual day it's planned to launch, and what games will launch alongside the Switch. 

But you wanna know right now, don't you? Sure you do. We've rounded up the most credible rumors about Switch, from the price of the console to the games you can expect to find when it hits store shelves this March.

Alex Perry contributed to an earlier version of this story.

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It should be less expensive at launch than Nintendo's latest console, the Wii U.

The Wii U launched in 2012 with two models: a $300 base edition and a $350 deluxe edition that came with more storage. That was way too much for a console that was seriously underpowered compared with the competition from Microsoft and Sony.

It sounds like the Nintendo Switch won't repeat that mistake.

Laura Kate Dale of Let's Play Video Games has been the most reliable reporter when it comes to verifying Switch rumors, and her sources say Switch is launching with a $250 base model and a $300 deluxe bundle that comes with more storage space and an included game.

That would put the Switch's price right in line with the base models of Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

But it sounds like the Switch isn't as powerful as the aging competition.

The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 launched in 2013 at $500 and $400, respectively. Expensive consoles, no doubt, but that's with good reason: These are devices that were built to last for several years. Even still, new versions of both consoles either already exist (Xbox One S and the PlayStation 4 Pro) or are in the works (Microsoft's Project Scorpio).

In the case of the Switch, it sounds like Nintendo's aiming for affordability over horsepower. Without getting too technical, sources tell Eurogamer that the hardware inside the Switch is less powerful than the Xbox One, to say nothing of the PS4. (The PS4 is slightly more powerful than the Xbox One.)

That's good and bad. It means Nintendo can keep the console affordable for consumers, but it constrains what developers are capable of doing with the system. It also means you're unlikely to see multiplatform games on the Switch — stuff like "Call of Duty" or "Grand Theft Auto," for instance.

The home version of Switch is reportedly more capable than the mobile version.

Unsurprisingly, the same report from Eurogamer says Nintendo Switch will be more capable when plugged in at home than in mobile form.

There's a simple reason for that: power. As in electricity.

Mobile gaming platforms — the original Game Boy straight through to the Nintendo 3DS and your iPhone, too — are limited tremendously by their reliance on batteries. Spend an afternoon playing "Minecraft" on your iPhone and see what happens to your phone's battery.

As a result, the companies that make mobile hardware — Apple, Nintendo, Sony, etc. — intentionally build to balance horsepower with power usage. You could make a super powerful phone, for instance, but the battery required to power it would be massive. So instead of doing that, they sacrifice horsepower for battery constraints. That constraint is removed, though, when you're plugged in to a "limitless" power supply.

All of which is to say: When you dock the Nintendo Switch at home, it can "turn on" horsepower that it otherwise doesn't use — to save battery life when you're on the go. It's up to game developers to choose how to use that extra horsepower, of course.

Michelle Obama had a tearful farewell as First Lady on Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show" Wednesday, and some of her biggest fans got to say goodbye in person.

Obama surprised people who were recorded saying parting words to her for the show, and a few nearly stumbled over from the shock.

"This was not what I was expecting," one woman said as Michelle appeared. She started tearing up. "I was eating pizza bites yesterday in my bed, and now I’m meeting the First Lady."

Several guests thanked the departing First Lady for being a role model, including a dad who said she inspired his daughter to try kale.

Obama herself got emotional when she said goodbye on Fallon's show.

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Independent film producer Roger Corman is known the world over for being one of the most successful producers ever in the movie business, thanks to his ability to create popular low-budget films since the 1950s.

Whether working on cult B-horror movies like “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and “Teenage Cave Man” or helping future iconic directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese get their start, Corman has always had a knack for making movies that are relevant to the times we live in while also turning a profit.

At 90 years old, Corman hasn’t slowed down. His latest, “Death Race 2050” (released on Blu-ray January 17), is a sequel to the 1975 cult classic he produced, “Death Race 2000,” which starred David Carradine and a then-unknown Sylvester Stallone. Like the original, “2050” is a political satire that’s also an action race-car movie in a dystopian future where the winner is the driver who runs over the most people.

We asked Corman to give four tips to filmmakers on how to succeed in the movie business. Here’s what he told us:

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1. Make a sly statement in your movie.

“‘Death Race 2050’ above all is an action car-racing futuristic picture with some black humor connected with it,” Corman said. “That's what I hope the audience will come to see it. But there are some thoughts behind it. I always try when possible to put some theme of my own into the picture. Always in the subtext. The audience will come to see a car-racing black-humor action film, but there's some social commentary, which is something science fiction is very good at doing. For instance, the United States of America is now the United Corporations of America. The president is now the chairman. Make statements at how society is going.”

2. Understand making movies is a business.

“Somebody who is working on a basis of pure art is forgetting the fact that it costs a lot of money to make a motion picture,” he said. “You must be aware of what is going on in the world and what is going on in the business of motion pictures. You must recognize certain genres, certain pictures that have records of winning and losing, and you must think about that in your planning right from the beginning. Yet at the same time you must be aware that just repeating what has been successful in the past doesn't work. Even from a business standpoint you must have something original, you must include the creativity. It's good business to include creativity into your business planning.” 

3. Don’t be complacent.

“‘Death Race’ started out as a futuristic car-racing picture in which drivers knocked each other off the road,” Corman said. “Car-racing pictures have always done well yet at the same time I feel I must bring something original, I can't make the same car-racing picture over and over. Cars knocking each other off the road brought an element of originality, but then I thought it needed something even more outrageous and that brought in the killing of the pedestrians. Nobody had ever made a car-racing picture where the drivers got points for killing pedestrians, so it followed some of my thinking in that I was working in a genre of car-racing pictures but I was bringing something new to a successful genre.”

PASADENA, California – Sorry, "Atlanta" fans: The Golden Globe-winning FX comedy isn't returning until 2018.

The announcement was made during the Television Critics Association press tour on Thursday. According to FX, the show's second season will be delayed due to Glover's production schedule on the upcoming "Star Wars" standalone Han Solo movie. Glover is set to play young Lando Calrissian in the film set for a 2018 release.

As a result, "Atlanta," which was originally set to return this year, will debut for season two in 2018.

Additionally, the network told reporters that it had just closed an overall production deal with Glover. Under the deal, he will develop television series for FX Networks, other networks, and streaming services, in addition to serving as executive producer, writer, director, and star of "Atlanta."

"'Atlanta' was just the beginning, the breakout comedy of the year and a series revered as much for its originality as its honest look at the experience of being aspiring, young, and black in that legendary city," FX's Original Programming President Nick Grad said in a statement. "We’re proud to partner with Donald in an overall deal that will allow him to continue turning his creative vision into incredible television.”

About 1.1 million viewers tuned into the show's premiere episode last September. On Sunday, "Atlanta" was honored by the Hollywood Foreign Press with Golden Globe awards for best actor for Glover and best comedy. Business Insider named the comedy its top TV show of 2016.

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The ABC sitcom "Black-ish" came out with one of the more explicit commentaries of any scripted show on the election of Donald Trump with its episode Wednesday night, "Lemon." And critics are piling on praise for it.

The Emmy-nominated show, which has previously addressed Black Lives Matter and police violence, used the character Dre's workplace to talk about the presidential election. All of Dre's coworkers except for one voted for Hillary Clinton. When pressed for an explanation, that Trump voter, Lucy, comes off as reasonable:

“I’m not some crazy right-wing nut you guys. I voted for Obama, twice. I even got my Republican parents to vote for him. He felt different. I believed he was gonna change stuff. But it’s eight years later. My dad’s still out of work. My hometown’s about to go under. And Hillary comes out saying she’s basically going to keep everything the same. I’m sorry, but that doesn’t work for me and my family.”

Dre doesn't speak much until another coworker asks him why he "doesn't care" about what's happening to the country, which causes him to launch into a monologue about the disappointment of black Americans and why he loves the US that's impressively delivered by actor Anthony Anderson:

“I love this country even though at times it doesn’t love me back. For my whole life my parents, my grandparents, me, for most black people, this system has never worked for us. But we still play ball, tried to do our best to live by the rules even though we knew they would never work out in our favor, had to live in neighborhoods that you wouldn’t drive through, send our kids to schools with books so beat up you couldn’t read them, work jobs that you wouldn’t consider in your nightmares.

"Black people wake up every day believing our lives are gonna change even though everything around us says it’s not. Truth be told, you ask most black people and they tell you no matter who won the election, they don’t expect the hood to get better. But they still voted because that’s what you’re supposed to do.

"You think I’m not sad that Hillary didn’t win? That I’m not terrified about what Trump’s about to do? I’m used to things not going my way. I’m sorry that you’re not and it’s blowing your mind, so excuse me if I get a little offended because I didn’t see all of this outrage when everything was happening to all of my people since we were stuffed on boats in chains. I love this country as much — if not more — than you do. And don’t you ever forget that.”

Anderson's Andre walks out of the conference room on the show, but he adds a hopeful note in a voiceover:

“I’ve been lucky enough to raise four beautiful children in a world that showed them Jay Z and Beyoncé as king and queen, a black family in the White House, and a woman run and almost win the presidency of the United States. So if you ask me if I love America, the answer is yes. Warts and all. Can it be better? I hope so. And I hope that we as a people have it in us to come together and make lemonade out of our lemons.”

A lot of viewers and critics were quick to call it a phenomenal episode for the show, and a moment that sums up many Americans' feelings after the election.

You can watch the scene above and watch the whole episode via ABC here.

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Nintendo's got a brand new video game console. Well, Nintendo almost has a brand new video game console — the Nintendo Switch (as it's called) is getting a big unveil on Thursday night.

Are you excited? If you're into Nintendo, you should probably be pretty pumped. A brand new console! These things don't happen very often.

That said, outside of a single video showcasing the console, Nintendo's said next to nothing about the Switch. Here's a quick rundown:

• It's named Nintendo Switch.
• It's a home console (as seen above), and it's also a portable console.
• It's set to launch in March.
• There's a "Legend of Zelda" game in the works, as well as a new "Super Mario" game.

That's pretty much it! That leaves a lot of unanswered questions. What games will launch alongside the console? How much does it cost? When, exactly, can we buy one of these things? How capable is it compared with the competition from Sony and Microsoft?

All of these questions — and more, we expect — are due to be answered on Thursday evening. Nintendo's holding a press conference where it promises to detail the Switch. But Nintendo is a Japanese company, and that means a big reveal in Tokyo.

What do we do?! Simple: There's a stream!

There is, of course, a downside: The presentation doesn't start until 11 p.m. ET. 

If you're in Tokyo, that's not a problem at all — due to the time difference, the event in Tokyo actually takes place at 1 p.m. local time on Friday, January 13. Since our office is based in New York City, we're staying up late and covering the event live. 

Here's a quick rundown of what time the event will be streamed in your time zone:

• London: 4 a.m., Friday, January 12
• NYC: 11 p.m., Thursday, January 12
• Chicago: 10 p.m., Thursday, January 12
• LA: 8 p.m., Thursday, January 12
• Tokyo: 1 p.m., Friday, January 13
• Sydney: 3 p.m., Friday, January 13

You might be wondering where you can watch the stream at this point. You've got at least two options: Nintendo's YouTube channel is one option, as is Nintendo's Twitch channel. 

We've got the presentation embedded right here:

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Nicole Kidman is the latest A-list star to weigh in on Donald Trump becoming the next president of the United States — but she has a more surprising take than most of her counterparts in Hollywood.

In an interview for BBC2's Victoria Derbyshire, Kidman, who has dual citizenship in Australia and the US, was asked what she thought of Trump becoming the next president.

"I just say, [Trump’s] now elected, and we as a country need to support whoever’s the president because that’s what the country’s based on,” she said.

This is a stark contrast to many in Hollywood who have spent the last year voicing their dislike for the president-elect.

But Kidman added that she's more focused on particular issues than politics.

“I’m very, very committed to women’s issues, in terms of I do a lot of fundraising for U.N. Women and I do a lot of traveling for them,” Kidman said. “I also do an enormous amount of fundraising for breast and ovarian cancer, because that’s something that’s affected my family deeply. So they’re my issues that I’m very attached to.” 

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PASADENA, California — FX Networks President John Landgraf addressed Apple's announcement that it will be producing original television shows during the Television Critics Association press tour on Thursday.

Earlier on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is taking meetings with Hollywood studios with the intention of producing original TV shows, including scripted programming, and movies by the end of 2017.

Its first original series is "Carpool Karaoke," a half-hour interview series based on James Corden's hit segment from CBS's "The Late Late Show."

Landgraf, who has been raising red flags about the continually growing amount of TV shows, aka "peak TV," was surprisingly accepting of Apple's announcement. In the past, he's objected to the influx of programming from the tech industry, specifically Netflix. FX research shows that there were 454 scripted TV shows in 2016, a new record.

"There’s extraordinary amounts of resource and capital in Silicon Valley and they’re beginning to flow through Netflix and Amazon, and now others in the programming business, and that is creating an acceleration of this increased programming," Landgraf said of Apple's announcement.

"We welcome those competitors," he continued. "Ultimately, what we’ve tried to do is identify it, label it, but we haven’t tried to use it as an excuse for a lack of performance. You can’t deny it’s happening. How good does a show have to be to be good enough for you to care about, to be relevant in this environment? The bar gets higher every year."

But Landgraf said that he continues to worry about the new wave of TV shows and companies creating them. He compared that to the problem of "fake news" in which facts are treated as subjective. Landgraf refers to the growing amount of companies producing TV as "fragmentation."

"There’s a lot of good that comes from fragmentation," he explained. "We see new and diverse voices. And young, talented people who have never had an opportunity are getting an opportunity and great television is coming from that. We’re trying to be a part of that as much as possible. I think my worry of where we’re going as a culture is that I don’t like the fact that everyone has their own news and I hope that we don’t get to the point where everyone has their own individual television show.

"We want to make good commercial shows," he continued. "We want to be able to be a part of the conversation in America. I worry when you have 500 shows, 600 shows, 700 scripted shows. By the way, if you take all the shows, I still worry about where we’re going through the democratization of the internet. I can see the fragmentation created by the web."

Landgraf also said he's "going out on a limb" and sticking to his prediction that 2018 will be the final year of peak TV and the number of scripted shows will decrease after that.

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