In these divisive political times, it's interesting to know that Americans can come together around a common love of television.

Even as cable-subscription rates rise, TV is still accessible for people with various levels of income. And there are so many choices — and price points — today, including cable, online, and streaming services.

So which shows are most popular across different household incomes? And what shows prove more popular among certain income levels?

Business Insider partnered with Viant, a Time Inc.-owned advertising technology company, which analyzed viewing on smart TVs and cross-referenced that data with the credit-reporting company Experian to find the shows that indexed the highest in these household income levels: less than $50,000, $50,000 to $75,000, $75,000 to $125,000, and more than $125,000.

We then assigned the shows a score according to where they landed among the income levels and ranked them. Some shows seem pretty predictable, such as the massive popularity across the board for CBS's "The Big Bang Theory." Others are surprising, such as Fox's "Lethal Weapon" reboot and NBC's "The Voice."

Here are the top shows on TV according to how much you make. (The full lists by income bracket are at the bottom.)

Note: This list doesn't include news, sports, and non-primetime programming.

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11. "The Voice" (NBC)

NBC's singing competition, "The Voice," is the only reality show to break into the top 11 shows in the income brackets we looked at. Interestingly, it fails to crack the top 10 in all the groups, except for one. Among those who make more than $125,000, it ranked ninth.

9. "Family Guy" (Fox) — TIE

Fox's animated comedy "Family Guy" broke the top 10 for every income level except the highest bracket — those who make more than $125,000. For those who make the most money, it ranked 11th. Overall, it tied with "Empire."

9. "Empire" (Fox) — TIE

Fox's hip-hop family drama "Empire" consistently ranked 10th in all the income brackets except one. It did a bit better with those who make between $75,000 and $125,000, landing in the No. 9 position. Overall, it tied with "Family Guy."

“Game of Thrones” star Iwan Rheon has been cast as the lead in Marvel’s “Inhumans” series for ABC.

Rheon recently starred as the villainous Ramsay Bolton on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

Based on the classic Marvel comic book characters created by by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, “Inhumans” tells the story of a race of super-powered beings who first appeared in Marvel Comics publications in 1965. Inhuman characters appeared last season on ABC drama “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD.” The new series, however, will not be a spinoff of “SHIELD.” It will focus on Black Bolt, the leader of the Inhumans, and his family.

Rheon will play Maximus the Mad, Black Bolt’s younger brother — intelligent, charming and articulate, he comes across as man of the people but secretly covets power.

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For the last 14 years, Jimmy Kimmel has spent 70 hours a week toiling away on his ABC late-night talk show. He rewrites his own monologues and extensively researches guests. But when his contract expires in the fall of 2019, Kimmel has thought about retiring from the perch that turned him into a household name.

“I know I will do the show for another three years,” Kimmel said in this week’s Variety cover story, as he gears up to host the Oscars on Sunday. “It’s possible that will be it. My wife’s pregnant. At a certain point, I’d like to have a little more free time. I have very little free time as it is.”

As the executive producer — and “control freak” — of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Kimmel arrives in his Hollywood studios at 9 a.m., shoots at around 5 p.m., and returns to his computer after dinner. “I think this job is a grind, and best-cast scenario, a marathon,” Kimmel said. “I want to go out on my own terms. If I ever feel like we’re repeating ourselves, I think it’s a good indication that it’s time.”

He added, “I will miss it when I go. Television is changing quickly. I get a lot of offers to do a lot of different things.”

Kimmel, 49, said that when he leaves “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” it won’t be for another late-night vehicle. “If there’s something that excites me creatively, it doesn’t necessarily mean something in show business,” Kimmel said. “I like to draw. I like to make sculptures. I’d like to write a book at some point. Doing the show every day doesn’t leave a lot of time for that.”

The late-night landscape has dramatically changed since Kimmel started, with Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert duking it out in the ratings race. Kimmel will occasionally tune in to the competition. “When I do watch, it’s for pleasure,” he said. “Let’s see what Stephen Colbert is doing; let’s see what Fallon is doing. I’ll do that once every few months — not often.”

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The BBC has announced plans to launch a new TV channel for Scotland, with a budget equivalent to that of BBC4.

Director general Tony Hall said today that the channel would launch in the autumn of 2018.

It will have a budget of £30m and create 80 new journalism jobs.

The BBC said this marks the biggest single investment in broadcast content in Scotland in more than 20 years.

The new channel, BBC Scotland, will broadcast from 7pm every evening and will include an hour-long news programme at 9pm on weekdays.

“We know that viewers in Scotland love BBC television, but we also know that they want us to better reflect their lives and better reflect modern Scotland,” Hall said.

"[This] amounts to the biggest single investment by the BBC in broadcast content in Scotland in over twenty years. This will be a huge boost for BBC Scotland and for the Scottish creative industries. This is an exciting time for BBC Scotland and for the millions of Scots who love TV."

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Bill Maher says his controversial interview with Milo Yiannopoulos set into motion the right-wing journalist's recent downfall, which includes the loss of his book deal and his resignation from Breitbart News.

Last week, Maher came under fire for booking Yiannopoulos on his HBO political talk show, "Real Time." The journalist Jeremy Scahill, a frequent "Real Time" guest and founder of The Intercept, canceled his appearance on the same episode in protest.

"What I think people saw was an emotionally needy Ann Coulter wannabe trying to make a buck off of the left's propensity for outrage," Maher told The New York Times on Tuesday of his interview with Yiannopoulos.

"And by the end of the weekend, by dinnertime Monday, he's dropped as a speaker at CPAC," he continued, referring to the Conservative Political Action Conference. "Then he's dropped by Breitbart, and his book deal falls through. As I say, sunlight is the best disinfectant. You're welcome."

Over the weekend, a 2016 interview with Yiannopoulos resurfaced and sparked new outrage. In it, he made comments appearing to condone sexual relations "between younger boys and older men." The fallout included CPAC revoking his invitation to speak at the conference, the publisher Simon & Schuster pulling out of a planned book deal, and Yiannopoulos resigning as a senior editor at Breitbart.

Though Maher took credit for Yiannopoulos' fall from grace, he told The Times that he didn't intend to ruin his guest — no matter how much he disagrees with Yiannopoulos' opinions.

"I wasn't trying to get him removed from society," the host said. "I'm somebody who, many times, people have tried to make go away. ... It just rubs me the wrong way when somebody says, 'I don't like what this person is saying — he should go away.'"

As for critiques that he went too easy on the controversial guest, Maher said: "It's not my job to hold him accountable to everything he's ever said or done. I had eight minutes with him on the show itself. Sorry I don't have time to go over everything everybody else would want to do. We just had time to sort of start a discussion of the broad view of who he is."

Editor's note: Milo Yiannopoulos has previously written columns published by Business Insider.

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With Oscar ballots due this week, Hollywood is flooding the public with marketing around this year's Oscar nominees.

Just in time, Seth Meyers spoofed the telltale signs of an Oscar-worthy film on Tuesday's "Late Night."

Playing several roles in the sketch portraying the ultimate Oscar film, the host laid out the different ways that one can identify a film that's primed to sweep the awards.

"This winter, see a film that's not afraid to pander to your emotions," goes the voiceover in the sketch, "a film that is shamelessly timed for awards season, 'Oscar Bait.'"

How does one identify Oscar bait? According to the sketch, it generally checks off the following boxes: "racial tension,""latent homosexuality,""a man staring at trains,""a character overcoming a rare disease," and "a lot of crying," among other things.

Watch the "Oscar Bait" sketch below:

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President Donald Trump has declared some of America's most respected news outlets to be "fake news." So on Tuesday's episode of NBC's "Tonight Show," Jimmy Fallon envisioned what Trump would cover if he had his own personal news network.

"It's time for me to take matters into my own abnormally gigantic hands," said Fallon, covered in orange makeup and sporting a Trump wig. "The only way to ensure that the news you're watching is not fake is if I'm the one delivering it, which is why I'm starting the Trump News Network."

What passes muster as real news for Trump? In addition to covering a study that declared golf "totally counts as work," Fallon's Trump says he was absolutely right about there being recent attacks by refugees in Sweden last Friday, a statement that Swedish officials have refuted.

"Sweden is still reeling from Friday's incident that absolutely did happen," Fallon's Trump said. "Details are still unclear, but we're getting word it was definitely and 100% not made up."

He also patted himself on the back for finding a candidate to replace his former national security adviser, who resigned amid allegations of collusion with Russian officials. After his first pick for a replacement passed on the offer, Trump named H.R. McMaster to the post over the weekend.

"Normally when I'm talking to H.R., it's because one of my female employees is threatening to sue," he said. "But now, H.R. is going to stand for 'huge ratings.'"

There was also a rather awkward weather report from secretary of education Betsy DeVos (played by "Tonight Show" writer Jo Firestone). 

Finally, Fallon capped off the Trump news report by predicting the next big news story using the "100% accurate bad things button." This time around, it chose a Godzilla attack in Finland.

"Can you believe it? And Godzilla of all people," Fallon's Trump said. "We really need to capture Godzilla and send him back to China."

Watch the sketch below:

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Joe Scarborough, the cohost of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," appeared on Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" on Tuesday night and offered a blistering assessment of Donald Trump's presidency.

Scarborough said he was alarmed by some of the people Trump had chosen to surround himself with in his administration, especially Stephen Miller, a senior adviser who said the president's power "will not be questioned."

"I'm sorry — that's a little frightening. Actually that's very frightening. That's scary as hell," Scarborough told Colbert.

Colbert also brought up the fact that Scarborough's cohost, Mika Brzezinski, barred Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway from the show.

"It got to a point where Kellyanne would keep coming out and everything she said was disproven five minutes later," Scarborough said. "And it wasn't disproven by a fact-checker — it was somebody else in the administration who would come out and actually say, 'Well, actually, no, that's not true.'"

Colbert said he had another "quicker way" of framing Conway's quotes.

"She just lied," Colbert said of Conway.

Scarborough urged Republicans in Congress to keep Trump honest, saying that after his presidency the party's politicians would be "judged for the next 50 years on how they respond to the challenges of today."

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Louis C.K. and Netflix have struck a deal for two new stand-up specials.

The first one, titled "2017," was filmed in Washington, D.C., and will debut on the streaming service on April 4. There are no details at this time on the second planned special.

“Louis has been one of the most innovative comedy voices in this new era of stand-up," Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement. "He has also been a thought leader in the business of comedy. We have marveled at his creativity and his ability to invent comedically and commercially, and are thrilled that he is bringing his newest specials to Netflix."

The comedian is best known for FX’s Emmy Award-winning comedy "Louie." Most recently, he executive produced, wrote, directed, and starred on the drama "Horace and Pete," which first debuted independently on his website before Hulu acquired the exclusive streaming rights. His next project, the TBS animated series "The Cops," will premiere next year.

Netflix has been inking deals with big-name comedians for the past year. C.K.'s deal follows the estimated $100 million deal with Jerry Seinfeld for the next season of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" and two original stand-up specials. That followed stand-up deals with Amy Schumer, Chris Rock, and David Chappelle.

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Aubrey Plaza says it's a constant battle to prove that she isn't April Ludgate, her apathetic and deadpan character from cult NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation."

"I don’t want any role to ever define me," Plaza recently told Business Insider. "Being on a television show for seven years was the greatest gift that was ever given to me and I wouldn't change it for second. But I think moving forward, it’s very important to me for people to not associate me so heavily with the characters that I play."

And while she calls it a "challenge" to get Hollywood and her fans to see her apart from that role, for which she became beloved, she's still proud of what she accomplished.

"The character I played on 'Parks and Rec' was such an icon for millennials," the 32-year-old actress said. "There was something about April Ludgate that people really responded to, which I really love and I’m happy about. But I think in regards to getting more work and being seen in different ways, it’s always a challenge to remind people that I can play many different characters and not just one kind. I see that as a fun challenge."

Currently, Plaza appears on the FX series "Legion," a Marvel show based on the obscure title character. 

Played by Dan Stevens, Legion aka David Haller is a mutant with incredible mental powers who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at an early age. Plaza plays his closest friend and fellow mental hospital patient, Lenny, a role that was originally meant to be played by a 50-year-old male.

She took on the role on the condition that it not be rewritten for her. With Plaza playing Lenny, she comes off as a drug-addled lesbian with a penchant for mischief.

"If anything, it’s that much more satisfying when people see me in a film or see me do a different character or in real life and say, 'Oh, she’s not April Ludgate at all. She can be totally different than that,'" Plaza said. "There’s good and bad with everything."

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Stephen Colbert is deeply troubled by a New York Times report that President Donald Trump's new unofficial adviser is Alex Jones, the host of the right-wing radio show "InfoWars" and a noted conspiracy theorist.

"He's a bit of a hothead, loose cannon, powder keg, dump truck," the host said of Trump on Wednesday's "Late Show.""Which is why it's important for him to be counseled by people who are even-keeled. Unfortunately, he's talking to some jerk named Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist who's apparently taking on a new role as 'occasional information source and validator' for Trump."

To give viewers a sense of what Jones is like, Colbert played a clip of the host that displayed his characteristically aggressive on-air style.

"This is why you don't mix steroids with peyote," Colbert said, mocking Jones' tone. "I don't know how to explain this, but just watching that clip, he somehow got spittle on me."

Viewers might remember Jones was mentioned by another late-night host. Last summer, the radio host helped spread rumors that Hillary Clinton was in poor health. When Clinton, then the presidential nominee, appeared on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Kimmel had her open a pickle jar to prove she wasn't ill. Jones then accused Kimmel of fixing the jar so Clinton could easily remove its lid.

"If you've been living underground for the last few years, you probably listen to Alex Jones," Colbert said. "Donald Trump's phone buddy has gained a reputation for telling it like it isn't."

Colbert then ran a clip of Jones saying that the plastic liner of a juice box made men gay or transgender.

"Yes, juice boxes make men into women," Colbert said. "A couple of sips and suddenly your Capri Sun is your Capri daughter."

Watch Colbert slam Jones:

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Over the past couple months, Seth Meyers has proven that he’s not giving President Donald Trump a break any time soon. Last night in his “A Closer Look” segment, the “Late Night” host criticized Trump for exaggerating the number of illegal immigrants in the US and called his immigration plans “cruel” and “unnecessary.” 

Meyers started the segment with some news from Texas, where two men were shot. They blamed “illegal aliens,” but it turns out they actually shot each other.

Meyers also cites reports that counter claims from Trump's administration, including that immigrants are actually less likely to commit crimes than people born in the US, and that there are more Mexicans leaving the country than there are coming into the country. 

The host also rebuked Trump for "wildly inflating" the number of undocumented immigrants in the US. The president told CNN's Anderson Cooper "it could be 30" million, while official estimates put it at 11 million.

"We do know what the number is. Just because you don't know, doesn't mean no one knows," Meyers said.

To close the segment, Meyers discussed the “disastrous consequences” of Trump's immigration ban, citing reports that visa holders are being denied entry even after the ban was lifted by court order. He called Trump's policies "ineffective," and urged both Republicans and Democrats who disagree with them to "stand up to Trump."

Watch Meyers discuss Trump's immigration plans below:

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It's time to say bye to a bunch of titles from Netflix as the calendar turns to March.

Be sure to binge "Jaws" and its awful sequels one last time before they leave the streaming giant, along with the classic comedy "Animal House." And watch the highly underrated "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey," too.

Here's everything else that's leaving Netflix in March. We've highlighted the titles we think you should watch in bold.

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Leaving March 1

“Jaws”
“Justice League: War”
“Jaws 2”
“Jaws 3”
“Jaws: The Revenge”
“Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox”
“Keeping Up Appearances”
“Monarch of the Glen” (Seasons 1 - 7)
“National Lampoon's Animal House”
“Robin Hood” (Seasons 1 - 3)
“Survivors” (Series 1 - 2)

Leaving March 2

“Black or White”
“Sweetwater”

Leaving March 3

“Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey”
“Misfire”
“Web Junkie”

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• The 2017 Oscar ceremony will air on Sunday, February 26 at 8:30 p.m. EST on ABC.
• ABC will air the red carpet at 7 p.m. EST.
• You'll have to log in with your cable provider to watch it online.
• We're expecting "La La Land" to be the big winner.

The 2017 Oscars ceremony will finally be here on Sunday, February 26. We're expecting "La La Land," which is tied for the most nominations for any movie in history, to sweep. Here's how you can watch that happen.

How and when to watch the Oscars.

The awards ceremony and red carpet will air on ABC, hosted this year by Jimmy Kimmel.

The 89th Academy Awards ceremony itself airs at 8:30 p.m. EST, or 5:30 p.m. PT.

The red carpet will air at 7 p.m. EST, or 4 p.m. PT.

ABC is offering the red carpet program online without needing to sign in with a cable provider. But the ceremony itself will have limited availability.

The ceremony will stream live online at ABC.com and the ABC app  for verified viewers in ABC’s eight owned station markets. Those are New York (WABC), Los Angeles (KABC), Chicago (WLS), San Francisco (KGO), Houston (KTRK), Fresno (KFSN), Philadelphia (WPVI), and Raleigh-Durham (WTVD).

If you're a DirecTV subscriber, you can access the live stream if you're in any of the following Hearst station markets: Albuquerque – Santa Fe (KOAT), Boston (WCVB and WMUR), Fort Smith/Fayetteville/Springdale/Rogers (KHBS), Jackson, MS (WAPT), Kansas City (KMBC), Milwaukee (WISN), Monterey-Salinas (KSBW-DT2), Oklahoma City (KOCO), Omaha (KETV), Pittsburgh (WTAE), Portland-Auburn (WMTW), Savannah (WJCL), West Palm Beach-Ft Pierce (WPBF).

On Monday, the full show will be available on demand to all verified viewers, and ABC will be posting highlights from the show shortly after they air.

If you're not in the United States, The Hollywood Reporter has a good rundown of how to watch the ceremony in your country.

Who we're expecting to win.

"La La Land" is the one to watch here. It has 14 nominations, tied for the most in history with "All About Eve" and "Titanic." Our colleague Jason Guerrasio at Business Insider expects it to win best picture, best director, best actress, and other major awards.

"Arrival" and "Moonlight" also made a strong showing with eight nominations each, and they should take a few prizes home as well.

You can read our full Oscar predictions here and see all of the nominees here.

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On Thursday's "Late Show," Stephen Colbert took a swipe at President Donald Trump's rolling back of former President Barack Obama's guidelines allowing transgender students to use school bathrooms according to their gender identity.

Before even taking the stage, CBS's late-night show opened with an animated segment in which bathroom signs were given a chance to register their own complaints about Trump's decision.

In it, the male and female signs join together on one sign, exchange clothes, and then give the president their middle fingers.

It was certainly a bold way to open the show.

But Colbert also had a few things to say on the issue during his monologue.

"We should have seen this coming, because if there's one thing Trump is famous for, it's telling people where to pee," Colbert said, referencing unverified claims that Russian spies filmed Trump having prostitutes urinate in front of him in a Moscow hotel room.

The show then showed a clip of the then-presidential candidate during an April 2016 town hall in which he said that transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner could use any bathroom she chooses in Trump Tower.

"Which is good," Colbert said, "because I'm guessing a lot of trans people would like to take a dump in Trump's lobby."

Jenner, who's a Republican and supported Trump for president, also spoke out on the bathroom issue on Thursday, calling the decision to roll back Obama's guidelines a "disaster" and challenging Trump to "call me."

In response to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's comment on Thursday that Trump sees the bathroom rules not as a civil rights issue, but one of states' rights, Colbert said, "Grow a pair."

The host also responded to the New York Times report that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos initially pushed back on the idea of rolling back the guidelines, citing potential dangers for transgender students. But when faced with either supporting the president or resigning from her job, she relented.

"So Betsy DeVos knew it would harm children and did it anyway to save her job," Colbert said. "How does she sleep at night? I'll let the states decide."

Watch Colbert slam Trump's decision to roll back transgender school bathroom rights below:

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• BBC America's docuseries "Planet Earth II" just premiered in the US.
• The "Mountains" episode features four wild snow leopards on camera for the first time ever. 
• Producer Justin Anderson told INSIDER how his team got the footage.

Scientists say there are as few as 3,500 snow leopards left in the wild — and they're notoriously difficult to catch on camera. For one, most of them live in steep, mountainous terrain that's difficult to access. They're also elusive, solitary creatures who spend most of their lives wandering on their own. 

But the filmmaking crew for BBC America's new docuseries "Planet Earth II" managed to capture the creatures up close — so close they brushed against the camera — and even got four leopards on film at once. The footage is the first of its kind in history, the network says.

INSIDER spoke with episode producer Justin Anderson to find out how the crew got so close to such private creatures.

The team used remote cameras to get close-ups without scaring the leopards. 

In the original "Planet Earth," released in 2006, crews were able to get footage of a lone snow leopard — but only by camping out a mile away and using a high-powered camera lens. 

For the series reboot, the crews had access to newer, high-tech "camera traps" that can be left in place for long periods of time and operated remotely. Here's what they look like:

The crew spent a total of 16 weeks on location in Ladakh, India, hiking into the Himalayas and placing the cameras as high as 16,400 feet. (The extreme altitude gave Anderson a case of "acute mountain sickness"— he had to retreat to the hotel and spend a few days breathing with an oxygen canister to recover.) Then they left the cameras in place for months at a time. 

Local guides helped them them place the cameras in just the right spots. 

You can't just stick a camera in a random spot on a mountain and hope a snow leopard walks by. Anderson and his crew needed to identify areas of high leopard traffic and place their cameras strategically. So they hired locals who knew how to track the cats and spot the places where they marked their territory. 

"We knew of [the guides] from others who had visited the same location, both camera crews and scientists," Anderson said. "Our camera man on snow leopards also spent time in Ladakh as a child and knew some of the best contacts from his time there."

The guides led the crew high into the mountains and assisted with perfect placement of the cameras.

"It was a huge team effort, a remote location with lots of challenges," he said. "Four snow leopards together is unheard of. I'm not sure anyone will film that again, but you never know!"

Catch a glimpse of the incredible footage right here:

The "Mountains" episode of "Planet Earth II" airs February 25 at 9 pm on BBC America.

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Bill Maher's comments defending a sexual relationship between a teacher and her male student have come back to haunt the "Real Time" host.

The comments are especially controversial after Maher defended his HBO show's booking of right-wing journalist Milo Yiannopoulos last week, then later claimed the credit for the man's downfall this week after a video surfaced of Yiannopoulos making comments appearing to condone sexual relations "between younger boys and older men."

The fallout over Yiannopoulos' comments included the Conservative Political Action Conference revoking his invitation to speak this week, the publisher Simon & Schuster pulling out of a planned book deal, and Yiannopoulos resigning as a senior editor at Breitbart News.

Maher has been criticized on social media for hypocrisy because of his previous comments about sex with minors.

Maher's statements originated during a 1998 segment on Maher's former show, "Politically Incorrect," on Comedy Central. In it, Maher defends the sexual relationship between Mary Kay Letourneau, a Seattle high school teacher, and her student, Vili Fualaau.

The relationship made national headlines, because the student was 12 years old when the relationship began and the teacher became pregnant with his child. After serving time in prison, Letourneau and Fualaau married in 2005.

In the segment, Maher said Letourneau was in prison "because she's in love."

He also said, ‘‘I admit that it’s unorthodox. She’s 35, the boy is 14. He was younger when they started. But she is pregnant again. That was the story this week. This is the second child by this boy. They are keeping the mother in jail, because she won’t conform to what society feels should be the perfect American family.’’

Maher also responded to one of his panelists who referred to what Letourneau did as "rape."

"How can a woman rape a man?" Maher said.

This isn't the only occurrence in which Maher defended adults who had sexual relationships with male minors. In a 2007 interview in Playboy magazine, he also defended another teacher who had a sexual relationship with her male student, in addition to Michael Jackson's alleged sexual relationships with young boys.

"I think it’s a little offbeat, but you know, I believe in the double standard. If a 28-year-old male teacher is screwing a 13-year-old girl, that’s a crime. But with Debra Lafave [another teacher who had a sexual relationship with her student] screwing her 14-year-old boy student, the crime is that we didn’t get it on videotape. Was he being taken advantage of? I wish I had been taken advantage of like that. What a memory she gave him. I would think he’s a champion among his friends. Are you kidding? Even with Michael Jackson."

When asked for a statement on Maher's 1998 comments, HBO told Business Insider, "Bill was not on HBO at that time."

"Real Time" debuted on HBO in 2003. When pressed further on the 2007 Playboy interview, HBO told us, "It makes sense to us that all comments should come from Bill."

Representatives for Maher didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Editor's note: Milo Yiannopoulos has previously written columns published by Business Insider.

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Tracy Morgan will make his return to stand-up comedy a Netflix affair.

Netflix announced on Friday that it will debut Morgan's first stand-up special since the 2014 traffic accident that nearly took his life. Titled "Staying Alive," the special was filmed at the Count Basie Theatre in New Jersey and will debut on the streaming service on Tuesday, May 16.

Here's Netflix's description of the special:

"Tracy Morgan’s 'Staying Alive' finds the comedy icon exploring his fresh take on life, career and mortality in the wake of surviving a devastating near-fatal traffic collision in 2014. From coping with a traumatic brain injury and learning to walk again to 'falling for' his physical therapist and deciding that maybe getting older isn’t such a bad thing, Morgan is back in true form and tackles the most trying time of his life with grace, strength and the jaw-droppingly hilarious point of view fans have grown to love."

Morgan got his start in 1996 on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." He also starred as the unpredictable Tracy Jordan for seven seasons on NBC comedy "30 Rock," which was inspired by "SNL." He has been nominated for two Emmys, one for "30 Rock" and another for hosting and guest-starring on "SNL" in 2016.

Currently, he can be seen in the movie "Fist Fight," and will next star in the Richard Pryor biopic "Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?" as celebrated comedian Redd Foxx. He'll also play the lead on an upcoming comedy series for TBS.

Netflix has been inking deals with big-name comedians for the past year. Morgan's special follows this week's news of a two-special deal with Louis C.K., and follows the estimated $100 million deal with Jerry Seinfeld for the next season of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" and two original stand-up specials. Amy Schumer, Chris Rock, and David Chappelle also have specials heading to Netflix.

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Today, actors have become very proud of going back and forth between roles in movies and television.

But that hasn't always been the case.

For most of Hollywood's history, there has been a pretty deep divide between television actors and movie stars. There was no shame in getting one's start in TV. But once one made the leap to movies, most never looked back.

As Oscar-winner and star of FX's"The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,"Cuba Gooding, Jr. told Business Insider, "When I started in the business, you did television and then when you got lucky you got a prestige project of a film."

Many of today's biggest movie stars followed that same career path, so we decided to take a look at the early careers of several recent Oscar nominees – from Casey Affleck to Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone – for their earliest TV gigs.

Here's a look at the small screen roles that started their Hollywood journey:

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Ruth Negga first made waves on the Irish drama, "Love Is the Drug," in 2004.

"Loving" actress Ruth Negga has been mistaken for British. Actually, her mother is Irish and her father is Ethiopian. Negga was raised in Ireland and later moved to Britain. Her first big role was on the celebrated Irish drama, "Love Is the Drug." In 2005, the series about finding and losing love won Ireland's top TV award for drama.

Casey Affleck was in the 1990 miniseries "The Kennedys of Massachusetts."

Before the "Manchester by the Sea" actor was known for being part of the Hollywood Affleck dynasty, Casey Affleck played the role of young Robert Kennedy in the ABC miniseries about the family that's closest to American royalty, "The Kennedys of Massachusetts."

Watch Affleck as Bobby Kennedy in the clip below:

Saoirse Ronan was on a few episodes of "The Clinic" in 2003.

Although Saoirse Ronan was born in New York City, the Oscar nominee for "Brooklyn" and "Atonement" moved with her parents to Ireland at age three. Six years later, Ronan appeared on a few episodes of one of the country's most popular dramas, "The Clinic," in 2003.

Watch her in a scene from "The Clinic" below:

Neil Fingleton, who played the colossal warrior Mag the Mighty on “Game of Thrones,” died from heart failure on Saturday. He was 36.

Fingleton was the U.K.’s tallest man at seven feet, seven inches in height. In addition to “Thrones,” Fingleton appeared in “Doctor Who,” Avengers: Age of Ultron,” and “X-Men: First Class.”

His death was announced Sunday by Tall Person Club’s Facebook page.

“Sadly it has come to our attention that Neil Fingleton Britain’s Tallest man passed away on Saturday,” the statement reads. “Neil became Britain’s Tallest man in 2007 passing the height of Chris Greener. Neil started off in basketball in the USA before becoming an actor and starring in the X-Men First Class and also recently in the Game of Thrones. Our thoughts and condolences go out to his family.”

Before joining the entertainment industry, Fingleton was a professional basketball player having been drafted by the NBA and also played for the University of North Carolina.

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