"Breaking Bad" will go down as one of the greatest TV shows of all time, but it takes quite a commitment to go back and binge five seasons worth of the show. 

But now you don't have to.

French editors Lucas Stoll and Gaylor Morestin have posted on Vimeo "Breaking Bad: The Movie," a two-hour version of the series that they state on their Vimeo page took two years to complete.

"It’s not a fan-film, hitting the highlights of [the] show in a home-made homage, but rather a re-imagining of the underlying concept itself, lending itself to full feature-length treatment," the Vimeo page reads. "An alternative 'Breaking Bad,' to be viewed with fresh eyes."

So sit back and watch this retelling of the "Breaking Bad" saga.

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• The BBC interviewed professor Robert Kelly about the North and South Korea relationship.
• His two children burst into the interview and stole the show.
• The moment became a viral meme.

It was meant to be a serious interview about the impeachment of South Korea's president, Park Geun-hye, and the future of the country's relationship with North Korea.

But it soon descended into chaos when Robert E. Kelly, a professor of political science who Skyped in from the South Korean city of Busan, was interrupted by children in uproarious fashion.

Kelly's daughter waltzed into the room, arms akimbo, while Kelly carried on with the interview. As he apologized to the BBC anchor and tried to signal to his daughter to leave, another one of his children, on a mobile high chair, hopped his or her way into the room.

A few seconds later, a woman rushed into the room and collected them while Kelly carried on with the interview.

The incident happened live on BBC World News on Friday morning — and the memorable moment was originally tweeted by the channel's producer Julia Macfarlane.

"When the kids interrupt you in the middle of live TV... A lovely moment and masterfully handled by our guest this morning on South Korea," she said in a message which has since been deleted.

It was a moment that immedialy became viral. The self-confidence of his daughter entering the room, the impressive skill of his infant child somehow getting into the room despite not being able to walk, and Kelly's mastery of the situation as a whole make for gripping television.

Kelly, though, didn't seem to notice that he had a viral moment on his hands. He seemed confused when a BBC employee asked if he could re-broadcast the clip.

The moment immediately became a meme.

Hopefully, Kelly will feature his kids in interviews more often. They definitely have a future in television.

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It’s official — NBC has picked up a primetime version of  “Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update,” which will have a four-week summer run, beginning Thursday, Aug. 10, at 9 PM

The half-hour telecast will feature “Weekend Update” anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che. Additional “Saturday Night Live” cast members will also make appearances.

“‘SNL’ is having its best season in a quarter of a century — how many shows can say that?! —  so we didn’t want them to take the summer off,” said Robert Greenblatt, Chairman, NBC Entertainment. “We’re thrilled to have Colin Jost and Michael Che continuing their unique brand of news with fresh ‘Weekend Update’ shows in primetime this August.”

So far this season, “Saturday Night Live” originals are averaging a 3.57 rating in adults 18-49 and 11.022 million viewers overall in “live plus seven day” averages from Nielsen Media Research. This makes it the show’s top-rated season at this point in eight years in 18-49 (since 2008-09) and most-watched season in 24 years (since 1992-93).

Versus year-ago averages, “SNL” is up +21% in adult 18-49 rating (3.57 vs. 2.94) and up 2.2 million persons or +26% in total viewers with 11.022 million.

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T.J. Miller says that car-service driver Wilson Deon Thomas' allegations that the "Silicon Valley" star assaulted him were part of a plan to extort him for money.

Miller's attorney filed a motion in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday to drop the driver's assault complaint in part due to a legal argument claiming "unclean hands," which asserts that the person had done something unethical in connection with his complaint, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"From the moment Mr. Miller and his wife stepped into Mr. Thomas' vehicle and he recognized Mr. Miller as a comedian and Hollywood actor, Mr. Thomas started a plan to try and extort money from Mr. Miller, even commenting that Mr. Miller was 'a rich guy,'" Miller's complaint stated.

The motion goes on to allege that the driver "saw nothing but dollar signs."

Last December, Miller was arrested on suspicion of battery after Thomas, who reportedly worked for Uber, alleged that the actor slapped him on his head outside of Miller's Hollywood Hills home. Reportedly, the incident occurred after Miller and Thomas got into an argument over then President-elect Donald Trump.

Miller's filing alleges that Thomas has a history of making up stories and suing for money damages, specifically referring to the driver's previous lawsuit against a former employer for wrongful termination, in which he claimed work restrictions due to an ankle injury.

Miller's attorney asked the court to drop Thomas' complaint and award Miller his full attorneys' fees and costs.

Read the full motion at THR here.

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Innovation in TV design is moving away from the dark and sleek to something a little more home-y.

Samsung announced on Tuesday a new TV that convincingly looks like a picture frame complete with wooden borders.

It can display art in "Art Mode" when it's not used for watching TV, which makes for a nicer look compared to your TV's black rectangle when it's off. 

It's primarily designed to be wall-mounted so it can mimic an actual picture frame hanging on your wall, but it's also compatible with Samsung's Studio Stand, too, which props it high up at about picture-frame height.

The wooden frame is also interchangeable with other designs to match your decor. 

Apart from Samsung's announcement that "The Frame" will be available to buy this Spring, details about its pricing and the tech it uses to reproduce paintings and other forms of art are sparse. Presumably "The Frame" does something different than conventional TVs to make it better at displaying art.

Still, I'm staring at the black rectangle in my living room right now, and Samsung's "The Frame" seems more and more like a good idea.

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If you're in the market for a new TV, you might notice some tout having HDR (High Dynamic Range).

Those TVs are always a little more expensive, even if they're the same size as non-HDR 4K TVs.

Unlike most other tech acronyms, which typically fall under the umbrella of "unnecessary alphabet soup," this one actually does make a big difference. 

There are two ways an HDR-enabled TV improves the viewing experience for the viewer: it offers richer colors, and a higher contrast ratio. Richer colors probably make sense to you, but having a higher contrast ratio is just as important — here's why: 

As we look around, our eyes are constantly readjusting based on how much light is in the room. If there's a lit object in a dark room, our eyes can see the light hitting the object, and the shadow it casts until it's totally black. When a TV has tried to replicate this in the past, there could only be so much contrast between the lightest object on the screen and the darkest.

The same limitation's don't apply to HDR-enabled TVs; they're able to pull more details out of very light and very dark areas, making the image you see look more natural. Imagine buying a TV and never taking the plastic wrapping off the screen. You'd still see a crisp image, but you'd be an extra step removed from it. Below is an image Vizio uses to illustrate the difference on their TVs. 

Notice how the area around the sun is less blown out on the right image? Or how you can see the blue in the sky or water more vividly? It's the improved contrast ratio and richer colors working together to produce a richer image. 

The caveat is that only video or images shot with an HDR-enabled camera will be able to take complete advantage of both of these features. The good news? You've been carrying around such a camera in your pocket for years. Most smartphones support taking HDR-enabled images — even going back to the iPhone 4, which was released in 2010.

Capturing 4K HDR video is a significantly more complicated endeavor, but TV shows and movies that have been shot recently have been shot with screens like this in mind.

Unlike our smartphone, a TV is a long-term purchase. I still use the HDTV I received for Christmas in 2006 on a semi-frequent basis, and it works flawlessly. With that in mind, it's worth spending the extra money to buy a 4K HDR-enabled TV as an investment in the future. Everything you watch over the next decade will look better on a set with these features than they would otherwise, and I'm willing to bet you'll accumulate a lot of screen time during that period.

I'm going to recommend you check out Vizio's just-released 55" SmartCast TV. It has a Chromecast built in, so you can easily stream your favorite content from your phone without having to use a dongle. It's also more budget-friendly than most other HDR-enabled TVs on the market, which is the goal of Vizio's entry-level series. 

A static image like the one above can only highlight so much of the benefit you'll see — literally — when buying a TV that supports HDR. I've been looking at buying a new TV recently, and I can tell you once you see the difference, it's hard to go back.

VIZIO SmartCast E-Series 55" Class Ultra HD HDR Home Theater Display w/ Chromecast built-in, $549.99

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Stephen Colbert on Tuesday's "Late Show" mocked Paul Ryan, who's under attack from both liberals and some conservatives for his defense of the President Donald Trump-endorsed healthcare bill and supposed hypocrisy when to comes to Trump.

As the author of the American Health Care Act, also known as "Trumpcare," Ryan has been vigilantly defending the bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare." After much opposition from both sides of the political aisle, the Congressional Budget Office delivered another hit. It estimates that 24 million more people will be uninsured under Trumpcare compared to Obamacare.

But Ryan failed to see that as a strike against the plan, insisting that the bill still provides access to affordable health care for many. In his response, he also highlighted the CBO's findings that the plan will provide tax relief and decrease the federal deficit. In one interview, Ryan said the report "exceeded" his expectations.

"Really? Twenty-four million people losing their health care exceeded your expectations?" Colbert responded. "You sound like the most optimistic guy on the Donner Party. 'Oh, everything's great! I expected to eat my grandma miles ago.'"

And as if the attacks on Trumpcare weren't enough, conservative news site Breitbart released audio of Ryan from October 2016. In it, he said he would not defend then-presidential candidate Trump — "not now, not in the future."

"Adding, 'By in the future, of course, I mean between now and the election. After that, I'm going to fold like a Trump casino,'" Colbert joked.

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"Big Little Lies" director Jean-Marc Vallée had never been to California’s stunning central coast when he and the HBO series’ producer and locations manager Gregory Alpert set off on their first scouting trip. Writer-producer David E. Kelley, who adapted the Australia-based novel, selected Monterey as the setting because of its physical beauty, demographic mix, and proximity to Silicon Valley. But it was the coastline’s ruggedness and power that sold Vallée, who was particularly taken with the Bixby Creek Bridge on the Big Sur coast, which makes several appearances on the show. “The ocean there is angry and violent and there was a nice symbol,” Vallée said. “The force of humanity, this infinity.”

“That initial two-day trip, we went just to let Monterey wash over us, to get a feel for it,” said Alpert, who has been securing locations for movies and TV shows for over 20 years. “I had been there before as a tourist but never with the eye of filming there. And Jean-Marc was seeing it all with fresh eyes.” Alpert and his team of eight scouts were responsible for finding the ideal locations, securing permits, and serving as a liaison between the production and city officials. Finding the right house for each of the main characters was Alpert’s biggest challenge, but Vallée helped by giving him a breakdown of each woman’s socioeconomic status as well as her viewpoint.

"Big Little Lies" is full of secrets, but the biggest one might be that a majority of the seven-episode series was filmed in and around Los Angeles, not the Monterey Peninsula area. In fact, only one of the spectacular featured houses is actually on the Monterey Peninsula. Alpert walked Vulture through the show’s main locations, why they were chosen, and how much you’d have to shell out for one.

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Madeline and Ed Mackenzie’s House (Reese Witherspoon and Adam Scott)

Location: Malibu
Cost: $14.8 million

In the first episode, Madeline mentions her wealth does not compare to that of most of the mothers at her daughter’s elementary school. But in reality, it is the most expensive home used on the show: The Mackenzie’s four-bedroom house, located in Malibu, is valued at $14.8 million.

“The people who live up there — they are going to know that one,” Alpert said. “We scoured the entire coastline looking for this house and settled on staying in Southern California because I can count on one hand the houses up in the central coast that are actually on the beach. So this is your standard Malibu beach house, and besides that beautiful view, it also has a beautiful interior, that beautiful island in the kitchen, which Jean-Marc used a lot.” Along with the kitchen, most of the interiors were also shot at the actual house, including the living area and Abigail’s (Kathryn Newton) bedroom.

Celeste and Perry Wright’s House (Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgård)

Location: Monterey Peninsula
Cost: $6 million

“Celeste’s house is the most magical of all of them,” Alpert said. But originally, the Wrights weren’t going to live there — Alpert and his team had selected another house that fell through and sent them scrambling. “The first time I walked through it, I had one of those epiphany moments,” Albert said. “I was so taken by the view. It turned out to be a much better place for that family.”

Leonardo Nam says he wasn't totally prepared for the immense amount of nudity in HBO's "Westworld."

Nam — who plays Felix Lutz, one of Westworld's technicians who repair damaged hosts in order to return them to the theme park or mark them as unsalvageable and retire them to cold storage — shared many of his scenes with Thandie Newton, who played host Maeve, also the owner of the theme park's brothel. And that meant he had to work with not only a naked Newton in a very early scene in which Maeve was being repaired, but also the nudity of costars and the show's background players.

"I remember thinking the scene was just going to be in a medical-like room, no windows or anything like that," Nam told Business Insider in a recent interview. "Just the other actor, myself, and Thandie. And then I go on to set and everything was glass. And I thought, 'Wow. You can see it all.' You can see into the other rooms, and then I saw the other extras and other bodies that were there."

HBO kept a tight lid on details about "Westworld" during the nearly two years of production on the show's first season. But the public got an early peek into the show when a contract for extras leaked and showed that sex and nudity would play a big role on the show.

Nam said that he had to collect himself pretty quickly after the initial shock of it all.

"I started to think, 'Oh, okay! There's like a hundred, two-hundred extras and they're all naked," he said. "And once you start to understand what it is that the show is doing, you really do put on the hat of a professional on the set. And you just go with that."

Newton, who is an outspoken activist for women's rights and a victim of sexual abuse, welcomed her role's nudity and the thoughtful use of sex on the series.

"Maeve was bit more challenging to me, personally, with the nudity and so on," Newton previously told Business Insider of deciding to take the role. "It was also very important, because ironically, the use of my body has not been my choice in a number of situations."

That would go a long way toward helping Nam get past his original shock.

"Thandie is an absolute professional," Nam said. "Along with that, she is a wonderful and lovely person. That combination really was what made everyone comfortable on set. For me to be acting with her was a blessing. Not only is she in the scene and really present and so giving as an actor, which is gold for me because it makes the experience so rich and so wonderful, but what also helped once the cameras were turned off — we found our own natural rapport and friendship. And she really did take me under her wing.

"What I really enjoyed about this project is that, yes, it does show nudity, but we kind of showed nudity in a new way," Nam continued. "And it really makes us rethink and re-see things such as gender and pleasure along with nudity. It was a new experience."

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President Donald Trump's recently released 2005 tax return may not be the smoking gun of financial insight some had expected, but it does give us a look at just how important NBC's "The Apprentice" was for him.

"The Apprentice," Trump's reality-TV show with the premise of people competing to fill a coveted job at one of his companies, premiered in 2004 on NBC. It was the result of a nearly 16-year relationship between NBC and Trump, and it premiered a year after Jeff Zucker, then the president of NBC, and "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett began discussing TV-show ideas with Trump.

But what does this have to do with Trump's tax return?

CBS News asked accountants to look over the released form and found that it appears Trump paid significantly less taxes in 2004 than he did in 2005. That suggests that he made significantly less money in 2004 — an estimated $60 million, versus $152.7 million in 2005. That would represent a 154.5% increase in income for Trump in one year.

It's also worth noting that in the same year "The Apprentice" premiered, Trump's infamously ailing casino empire filed for bankruptcy protection as a result of being more than $1 billion in debt.

Reports about Trump's hosting salary in the earliest days of the show have ranged from $50,000 to $1 million an episode. Regardless, his 50% ownership of "The Apprentice" would have brought him in a sizable pile of cash over the years, and some of that would be reflected in the tax return, since the show debuted in 2004 to a hit-making average viewership of 21 million people and its second season aired in late 2005 with an average of 16 million viewers.

At the time, Fox News also credited the show with providing Trump additional income from merchandise sales and promotion of Trump properties, as well as helping his book "How to Get Rich" become a best-seller.

One accountant made clear to CBS that there's no way to identify the exact sources of Trump's financial windfall in 2005 from the two-page Form 1040 because it doesn't reveal a breakdown of his income, just the total.

But it's certain that a significant portion of income came from earnings from the NBC reality show and Trump's heightened earning power as a result of it, which helped him in years to follow.

Trump stepped down from his "Apprentice" hosting gig as he began his run for president in 2015. (NBC claimed it fired him.) But he still serves as an executive producer— and presumably still gets a share of profits on the show, which recently finished a season hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Though Trump still has a role on the show, it didn't stop him from lampooning Schwarzenegger for his lower ratings.

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Kim Kardashian has a theory about how robbers managed to steal about $10 million worth of jewelry from her last October in Paris.

In a new preview from E!'s "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" airing Sunday at 9 p.m., Kim tells her sisters, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, how the robbers may have known when she went upstairs to bed by watching the lights in her rental property.

"What I think happened now, after thinking about it so much, probably a group of guys were following us the entire trip," Kim says in an on-camera interview for the show

The robbers, who were dressed as policemen, broke into Kim's Paris rental, and tied her up. At least one of them had a gun, according to Kim. They made off with Kim's engagement ring from her current husband, rapper Kanye West, and other jewels worth $9.5 million.

Kim said that her social-media use could've contributed to the planning of the crime.

"I was Snapchatting that I was home and that everyone was going out," the reality star said. "So I think they knew that [bodyguard] Pascal was out with Kourtney and I was by myself... They had this window of opportunity and just went for it."

In January, Paris police said they were investigating at least three suspects in the crime.

In the wake of the incident, gossip site MediaTakeout.com claimed that Kim had faked the robbery and filed a fraudulent insurance claim for millions of dollars. Shen then sued the site for libel.

Watch the video from "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."

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It all started on Tuesday evening when MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tweeted that on her show that night she would be revealing President Donald Trump's tax returns.

But before unveiling that she had two pages of Trump's 2005 federal tax return, she opened her show with a lengthy tease that went on for over 10 minutes. Leading to people on Twitter losing their minds during the dragged-out setup.

On Wednesday's "Late Show," host Stephen Colbert pounced on the moment by spoofing Maddow's opening with his own two-and-a-half-minute tease for a joke he claimed Trump had heard: "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

"I hold in my hand something very significant," Colbert said, dressed in Maddow's signature blazer with a backdrop that looked similar to the one her show uses. "It is a joke, a joke that we have confirmed has been heard by Donald Trump. We believe this is the first time any joke dealing with Donald Trump has been released."

Colbert then went into long tangents about chickens and roads and if either relates to Russia.

"But whether or not you're a Trump supporter, whether or not you've heard this joke before, it should give you pause that after all of this buildup I still haven't gotten to the punchline," Colbert said before seemingly getting to the punchline only to go to a commercial break.

Since her Tuesday show, Maddow has had to defend her reveal of the tax form, which showed that Trump earned $150 million in 2005 and paid $38 million in income taxes that year. Many have felt the whole thing was a disappointment.

"My priority is to get the story right and put it into proper context, and explain the weight of it and why it is important," Maddow told the Associated Press. "This is a super interesting first window into his finances, and the question of his finances is a legitimate scandal."

Watch Colbert's Maddow bit below:

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The "Deep State" is a popular conspiracy theory among supporters of President Donald Trump, and even within the White House itself.

Fox News has been talking about it a lot lately, and Samantha Bee has a problem with it. The belief holds that there's a network of powerful government agencies and the military secretly manipulating the government. The idea of a shadowy Deep State has taken hold in the highest levels of Trump's administration, as the Associated Press reports.

On Wednesday night, “Full Frontal” showed a series of clips of people on Fox News talking about the Deep State that ended with Sean Hannity saying, "The Deep State that we talk about, they’re out for blood."

“The Deep State is so deeply buried in its deepy deepness, Sean Hannity had to pull it from the depths of his a--,” Bee said. 

Then the show played a clip from Alex Jones’ show "Infowars," with caller Paul Sperry claiming that Obama is commanding an army of activists at his home two miles away from the White House, and that he could "spark something" like a civil war. 

“God, you guys get so upset every time a black guy moves into the wrong neighborhood,” Bee said, as the poster for the new racially charged horror movie “Get Out” came on the screen behind her.

“The Deep State is like polio,” she said. “It exists, just not in America right now.”

Watch Samantha Bee's segment on the "Deep State" below:

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Seth Meyers mocked the hype and subsequent disappointment some people felt around President Donald Trump's recently released 2005 tax return.

"Rachel Maddow aired an exclusive report on how to stretch out an hour," Meyers joked on Wednesday's episode of NBC's "Late Night.""Who produced that segment? Ryan Seacrest?"

Maddow spent Tuesday afternoon gleefully promoting that she had Trump's "tax returns" and teased that she would share their contents that evening on her MSNBC show.

In an effort to curb the story, the White House released details from the 2005 form ahead of Maddow's broadcast, which showed that he had paid $38 million in taxes on $150 million in income. That was hardly the smoking gun of financial insight some had expected or hoped for and Maddow didn't have much else to report from the forms.

Meyers joked about what the forms told us about how Trump felt about his kids: "Specifically the part where he claimed Ivanka and Donald Jr. as dependents and tried to write off Eric as a loss." 

That wasn't actually part of the form, but the late-night host did find Trump's actual reporting of more than $100 million in business losses for the year perplexing.

"How do you lose $100 million in 2005?" Meyers said. "Did you buy stock in Heidi Montag?"

Watch the video below:

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CNN political commentator Van Jones believes Oprah Winfrey would be a shoo-in to beat President Donald Trump in 2020.

Jones appeared on Wednesday's episode of Bravo late-night show "Watch What Happens Live" and was asked by a caller who he'd like to see challenge Trump in the next presidential election.

"Oprah Winfrey," Jones answered without skipping a beat.

He went on to name several other potential candidates who he thinks could be contenders, including the US senator from California Kamala Harris; former Newark mayor and current senator from New Jersey Corey Booker; and the young Democratic congressman from Massachusetts Joe Kennedy III. But Jones believes Winfrey has the biggest chance of unseating Trump.

"It takes a superstar to to beat a superstar," Jones said. "And I think if Oprah Winfrey ran, she'd win all 50 states and it would be a wrap."

In December, Winfrey admitted that Trump's win was a revelation for her in terms of the possibility of being able to serve as US president without having previously worked in public service. That led to a lot of speculation that the media maven was thinking about a run.

A new Public Policy Polling survey released this week supports Jones' statements. It reports that if Winfrey ran against Trump in 2020, she'd lead him by 7%.

Watch Jones on "Watch What Happens Live" below:

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Superheroes are dominating both the big and small screens.

Though I've read some comics over the years, starting with my dad's Spider-Man comics, I'm not deeply embedded in the comic-book world. But as a fan of these stories, I watch all of the superhero-related movies and shows, which is getting more difficult these days. 

There are a dozen DC and Marvel series on TV from the CW's Arrowverse which consists of four series to Marvel's ABC and Netflix shows. With the release of "Marvel's Iron Fist" on Netflix Friday, we've assembled a list of the live-action superhero shows you should check out and the ones you may want to skip. We've done a version of this list before, but since then we've seen some shows come and go (RIP "Agent Carter").

Keep reading to see our ranking of the current crop of shows, starting with the worst and working up to the best.

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12. "Marvel's Iron Fist"

We've only seen the first six episodes of the Netflix show so far, but they don't do an impressive job of fitting in with the successes of Marvel's other series on the streaming site.

Reviews for the series have not been kind. Aside from being slightly problematic, the show's first few episodes are largely boring. The other Marvel series have heroes whose struggles are relatable, but Danny Rand (Finn Jones) feels like another rich, orphaned kid whose main struggle is reclaiming and running his company. In reality, his main priority should be defeating a mysterious group called the Hand. Hopefully the rest of the season is better, but it's not off to a great start. On the plus side, Colleen Wing (Jessica Henwick) is a badass and deserves a show with Misty Knight. 

You can read our review of "Iron Fist" here. 

11. "Powerless"

This DC comedy isn't necessarily about a superhero, but they are featured. The NBC series focuses on the normal people who have to deal with the chaos of superheroes and villains in their daily life. It follows employees at Wayne Security (yes, as in Bruce) who make products to help the average human. The boss is Van Wayne, Batman's cousin, of course. The show isn't laugh-out-loud funny, but it's a feel-good comedy if you are looking for something light. 

10. "DC's Legends of Tomorrow"

"DC's Legends of Tomorrow" returned for a second season on the CW. The show really struggled to find its footing from the start, but has managed to find a legitimate mission and a greater number of foes to give the show actual momentum. It's still not the best out there, but it's really fun to watch, and the number of historical and pop culture references in each episode are entertaining. 

“Saturday Night Live” will finally be, well, live in all time zones.

Starting on April 15, the show will air live simultaneously across the country for the first time in its history, coinciding with the East Coast airing, Variety has learned. This schedule change impacts the final four episodes of the current season.

The episodes will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon on April 15, followed by Chris Pine on May 6, Melissa McCarthy on May 13, and Dwayne Johnson for the season-ender on May 20. McCarthy’s portrayal of White House press secretary Sean Spicer has been one of the highlights of the season, driving the show to ratings heights.

“‘SNL’ — enjoying its most popular season in two decades — is part of the national conversation, and we thought it would be a great idea to broadcast to the west and mountain time zones live at the same time it’s being seen in the east and central time zones,” said NBC entertainment chair Bob Greenblatt. “That way, everyone is in on the joke at the same time.”

Each episode will air live at 11:30pm ET; 10:30pm Central; 9:30pm Mountain; and 8:30pm PT. (“SNL” will be repeated at 11:30pm in the Mountain and Pacific time zones.)

The show has been on a ratings roll since President Trump’s upset victory in the Nov. 8 presidential election, fueled by Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of the commander-in-chief. Overall, “SNL” viewership for the season to date is up 19% in adults 18-49 (3.5 vs. 2.9 rating) and up 22% in total viewers (10.6 million vs. 8.7 million) over the comparable period in the 2015-16 season.

NBC also recently announced plans to extend the run of the show into the summer. “Weekend Update” hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che will also get a limited run in primetime in August when NBC airs four half-hour broadcasts of the faux-news showcase.

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Matthew Perry once beat up Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but the "Friends" star said he's "not proud" of it.

The incident occurred when Perry was in 5th grade and Trudeau was a few years younger than him.

"I have a story about him that I’m not proud of,” said Perry, who is half Canadian, on Wednesday's episode of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

"My friend Chris Murray, who was also in the fifth grade, reminded me that we actually beat up Justin Trudeau. We both beat him up."

Perry said that he and Murray did it out of "pure jealousy," because Trudeau "was excelling in a sport" that neither of the older boys did.

“His dad was the prime minister,” Perry said before pointing out that Trudeau had no security at the time and agreeing with the host that no one would get away with bullying President Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump.

“I don’t think that’s the reason we beat him up," Perry continued. "I think he was the only kid in school we could beat up. I’m not bragging about it. It was terrible. I was a stupid kid. I didn’t want to beat him up. In fact, I think at one point I tried to turn it into love play.”

After Perry and Kimmel agreed on Trudeau's good looks, the actor explained why he believes the fight could have propelled Trudeau to his current position.

"I think it was instrumental in him going to such great heights and becoming the prime minister," Perry said. "I think he said, ‘I’m going to rise above this, and I’m going to become prime minister.'"

Watch the video below:

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LONDON — Tom Hardy's dark drama "Taboo" helped the BBC's online video service, iPlayer, break records in February.

iPlayer generated 9.9 million daily requests last month, the highest in its 10-year history, thanks in no small way to Hardy's tale of a haunted 19th-century man who returns to London from Africa to claim his father's shipping empire. Taboo also airs on FX in the US.

It was not the only drama on the list. In fact, iPlayer's top 20 shows were all dramas last month as hunger for scripted content continues among British viewers.

Here were the top five shows on iPlayer in a record-breaking month for the video player, ranked in ascending order by number of requests.

5. "EastEnders"— 1.2 million

4. "Roots"— 1.4 million

3. "Apple Tree Yard"— 1.7 million

Arguably, Netflix's fourth Marvel series, "Iron Fist," was the streaming company's most highly anticipated of the franchise. Under great scrutiny from critics and fans, the series definitely falls short of great promises made by both Netflix and Marvel.

"Iron Fist" follows Danny Rand (Finn Jones), who returns to New York City after having gone missing for 15 years. Believed dead after a plane accident that claimed his wealthy parents' lives, Danny actually survived and was rescued by a mystical sect of monks. Schooled in kung fu and entrusted with the power of the invincible iron fist, Danny is back to reclaim his family company. But he has to choose between his familial obligations and his duties as the Iron Fist when a dangerous threat arrives.

Not only is it the last series in the Netflix-Marvel deal leading up to the superhero mash-up series, "The Defenders," but the martial-arts focus of "Iron Fist" has drawn attention among some who believe the title character should have been played by an Asian actor. The show's star, Finn Jones, even temporarily left Twitter after a conflict with one such critic who accused the actor of hypocrisy after he tweeted his support of Riz Ahmed's comments about the importance of diverse representation in entertainment.

To be clear, the source material for "Iron Fist" has always portrayed the character as a white male — one who was adopted by a secret order of Asian monks, but white all the same.

It's one thing (and pretty egregious, in my opinion) to cast a white actor in a role meant for a person of color, but it's another thing to blame a production for simply sticking to the script. Yes, it's progressive to cast people of color in roles originally written for white actors, but I don't think Marvel and Netflix should be held on charges of whitewashing for casting Jones and following the comic book that debuted in the 1970s. Even if appropriation of Asian culture was involved in the original work, Marvel and Netflix shouldn't be held primarily responsible for righting that wrong now.

But there are other crimes that Netflix and Marvel should be tried for in the execution of "Iron Fist," for which I believe they're directly responsible.

First, it doesn't live up to the quality of storytelling found in "Daredevil,""Jessica Jones," and "Luke Cage." Plainly stated, "Iron Fist" is boring.

For the first six episodes shown to critics, the show takes up a lot of time with Danny trying to legally prove his identity and claim his 51% of his family's company against pretty outrageous challenges from the children of his father's business partner, Harold and Joy Meachum (played by David Wenham and Jessica Stroup, respectively). There's a twist that supposedly ups the villain ante but it really falls limp compared to Jessica Jones' (Krysten Ritter) frightening bouts with Kilgrave (David Tennant) or Daredevil's (Charlie Cox) bloody and complicated feud with Punisher (Jon Bernthal).

Second, Marvel's greatest crime arrived when its TV head Jeph Loeb dubbed "Iron Fist" its first real martial-arts action show.

"Don’t make any mistake about it, this is Marvel’s foray into martial-arts films,"Loeb told Collider last year of "Iron Fist,""and when he opens up a can of whoop-ass, people are going to be super-super excited by what’s happening.”

The fight scenes in "Iron Fist" are really tired. And that's just in comparison to the other three Netflix-Marvel shows. "Iron Fist" comes nowhere close to the thrilling fighting on AMC's "Into the Badlands," which really sets the standard for TV series featuring martial arts.

But let's keep "Iron Fist's" fight scenes in the context of the Marvel TV universe: Compare the franchise's hallway fight scenes, executed best on both seasons of "Daredevil," to a similar scene in "Iron Fist," which features Danny fighting off hired goons attacking Joy Meachum and culminates in the tight constraints of an elevator. You'll understand what I'm talking about it.

Finally, when a show and a character are named after a great weapon, you'd expect to be blown away when it's finally unleashed. Not only is the special-effects golden glow around Danny's hand when he powers up subpar, but the fist is primarily used best for creating doors where ones don't exist and has very little impact on Danny's fight scenes. It does have some sort of specific purpose against its intended enemy, so maybe that's the moment when the weapon gets to really shine.

There are aspects of the show that do glow in a good way. Jones' physical presence and unkempt, bohemian style are perfect for non-fighting Danny, who was also trained in meditation and harnessing his chi. He's set apart from his slick former friends-turned-capitalist foes. Also, Jessica Henwick as Colleen, the principled and badass master of a struggling karate dojo, community leader, and potential love interest for Danny is a standout new character. I'm told she's in production on "The Defenders" right now, which is a smart move. And finally, Carrie-Ann Moss and Rosario Dawson reprise their roles as corporate attorney Jeryn Hogarth and tough-as-nails nurse Claire Temple, respectively, both finding a way to pop in their scenes, despite the show's flat writing.

Marvel and Netflix may feel like "Iron Fist" is under attack right now, but wait until the fans get to see it for themselves on Friday, March 17.

Watch the trailer for "Iron Fist" below:

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