NBC has found a new way to revisit "The Office," as well as take part in the superhero craze.

It just gave a pilot production commitment for DC Comics' and Warner Bros. Television project "Powerless."

Here's the description for the show, which Business Insider acquired from WBTV:

Single-camera workplace comedy set at one of the worst insurance companies in America — with the twist being that it also takes place in the universe of DC Comics. The show is about the reality of working life for a normal, powerless person in a world of superheroes and villains.  

According to Deadline, which broke the news of the show first, the superheroes who will participate in the show haven't been determined yet, but they won't be big names like Batman or Superman.

Ben Queen, who created and executive produced the canceled freshman comedy "A to Z" for NBC last year, will serve as executive producer and writer on "Powerless."

DC Comics already has five dramas — Fox's "Gotham," CBS's "Supergirl,"  and The CW's "Arrow,""The Flash" and "Legends of Tomorrow"– and a sixth in development at TNT, "Titans." It isn't hard to believe that they would want to go into comedy.

Marvel went in a comic direction with big screen movies "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Ant-Man." DC is just doing it on the small screen.

Last fall, NBC tried to make the comic book genre work for them with drama "Constantine," but it never found an audience and was pulled from the schedule.

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ABC Family takes a look at life after college in its new reality series "Next Step Realty NYC."

The show revolves around the executives and staff of real estate brokerage firm (and the show's namesake) Next Step Realty, which specializes in finding homes for new college graduates.

The firm was founded by Blair Brandt, who as a young college graduate working at an upscale Palm Beach, Florida realty brokerage saw inequities in the way that college graduates were treated and charged by New York City brokers.

"My friends are college graduates and are not getting good service," Brandt tells Business Insider. "But, if they did get a lot of service, especially the amenities and the luxury and the concierge feel, I think there would be a certain amount of loyalty that they would have."

As viewers will see from the show, Next Step caters to clients from different cultural backgrounds, budgets, and needs for their home. The one thing they all agreed on was that Next Step would be their broker.

BI asked Brandt to explain the three most important things to consider when choosing a real estate broker. Here's what he said:

1.) What's their reputation like?

"Next Up has grown at a tremendous rate because you go to our Facebook page and look at the reviews, every customer has a positive experience and tells their friends," Brandt said. "We’ve primarily grown through word of mouth. So whenever you think about hiring a broker or a brokerage company, make sure you have strong and multiple recommendations.

2.) Can you agree on the fee?

"I believe in transparency about the broker fee in advance," the realtor said. "For example, we guarantee 20% off other New York City brokerage fees. We do that transparently from the moment they call us to finalizing the lease. There are no surprises."

3.) Are they working for you?

"You want someone willing to show you the market," Brandt said. "We don’t represent listings. We don’t represent landlords. We are customer representatives. We work on behalf of the renters to find them their ideal home. We can show six to 12 apartments in a few hours and give people the piece of mind that they could move forward with the rental. You want to make sure the broker you find is saving you money, saving you time and that they’re going to provide a wide array of options for you."

You'll learn more about the real estate brokerage business from watching Brandt and his colleagues on "Next Step Realty NYC," which premieres Tuesday, August 11 at 9 p.m. on ABC Family.

Watch a teaser for the show below:

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When it comes to streaming media and The Future Of Television, one company dominates the conversation — Netflix. But maybe it shouldn't.

Netflix is a great service, full of terrific films and television shows both licensed and original that we get excited about pretty regularly here — like the recently-released "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp," or the forthcoming Cary Fukunaga-directed "Beasts of No Nation."

In 2015, there are a wide array of on-demand streaming services, some attached to an existing cable or broadcast network (like FX Now), some not (Crackle), but the two biggest outside of Netflix are Hulu and Amazon, with the latter's Prime Instant Video service. 

Hulu and Amazon haven't been as sexy as Netflix, with its sudden, overwhelming influx of buzzy new shows almost every other week this year, but both have been stepping their game up in response. While subscribing to only one of these services will generally leave you with enough to watch for the foreseeable future, there really are enough great things about each service to warrant considering all three.

And Hulu And Amazon have some awesome things that many people are missing out on if they only have Netflix.

Hulu is a great workaround if you don't have a DVR

One of the initial draws of Hulu during the service's early days was the fact that it was a hub for a large number of broadcast shows to put episodes online the day after they aired. This is still the case, and it's almost indispensable if you want to keep up with the fall TV blitz and you don't have a DVR with lots of storage space left on it. 

Most of the broadcast networks — Fox, NBC, ABC, and The CW (CBS is a bit more selective) still host at least the last five episodes of any given show on Hulu. While it's not as nice as knowing a full season of television will always be there for you when you have the time to get to it (only a select few series, like Fox's  "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," keep every episode on Hulu), a one-month window to check in on and catch up on your favorite shows really isn't all that bad — and better than waiting a year for the season to wrap up and possibly land on Netflix.

Anime

If you're into anime and only subscribe to Netflix, you'll know that the pickings are pretty slim. While Netflix has gotten a bit better at picking up a few of the hottest anime series like "Kill La Kill" or "Attack on Titan," they are just not where they need to be yet.

Hulu, however, is a fantastic resource for anime outside of anime-only services like Crunchyroll. The service gets a great number of buzzy new series updated weekly as soon as they're broadcast in Japan. While the selection of stuff might not be robust enough for the fan who lives and breathes anime, it's plenty for someone who may want to dabble in the classics or catch up with the zeitgeist. 

The only way to catch up with some of the best shows on the air

One of the unfortunate side effects of Netflix being an all-consuming streaming media beast is the fact that it's become a de facto gatekeeper for a show finding an audience online. Shows like "Breaking Bad" and "The Walking Dead" benefit immensely from fans catching up on previous seasons every year, and it's reassuring to know you can catch up on whatever show your friends are all tweeting about whenever you like. 

Trouble is, Netflix doesn't have everything. Lately, Amazon Prime has become a place where you can catch up on lots of under-watched gems, like NBC's "Hannibal," FX's "The Americans," or Cinemax's "Banshee." Hulu, similarly, has recently acquired critically acclaimed series like "You're the Worst" and Comedy Central hits like "Inside Amy Schumer" in addition to Cartoon Network's astonishingly good lineup of original shows like "Adventure Time" and "Steven Universe."

Originals

Of course, streaming libraries of old and in-progress broadcast/cable shows are being emphasized less and less by all three of the biggest streaming services as they enter an era of aggressive expansion. Amazon has been making headway in this category since winning an Emmy for last year's "Transparent," and it looks like that momentum is only building with series like "The Man in the High Castle."

Similarly, Hulu Plus has been on the move with it's biggest, splashiest show yet — the Amy Poelher-produced "Difficult People,"a show we loved. "The Mindy Project" also got picked up by Hulu recently, so this service is clearly beefing up.

Movies

We talk about Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu primarily in terms of their serial offerings, but they all carry lots of movies, and Hulu and Amazon frequently have really great selections every month. While it's a hassle to keep track of all the comings and goings, there are a few constants — like Hulu's library of Criterion Collection films, which makes the service double as a cinephile's dream.

Amazon doesn't offer a robust selection of movies, but it's a little-known secret that the service is often the streaming home for newer art house releases like "A Most Violent Year" and "Slow West," both big festival hits over the last year and utter treats for people looking for something outside of the usual multiplex fare.  

Oh, and I guess free two-day shipping with Amazon Prime is nice, too. 

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Later this month, AMC will premiere a spin-off companion series to its hit series "The Walking Dead."

Called "Fear the Walking Dead," the series will serve as a prequel of sorts. The new show will take place before the start of the zombie apocalypse fans have become familiar with on the original show while showing the experience of the end of the world from a group of fresh eyes.

While we know the companion series will take place at some point before "The Walking Dead," we're not completely clear on the time frame of the spin-off and when it will begin.

When viewers first tuned into "The Walking Dead" in 2010 we were introduced to Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) in a world devoid of any sort of virus or sickness. After a gunshot wound put him in a coma, the next time we see him is an unexplained time later where the world has been transformed into the apocalyptic wasteland with which viewers have become familiar.

Sure, "Fear the Walking Dead" showrunner and executive producer Dave Erickson said at the Television Critics Association's press tour season one will take place over the course of three weeks — a portion of the time when Rick was in his coma — but when exactly will the show start in comparison to "The Walking Dead"? 

We asked Erickson if he could elaborate. 

"Our starting points are similar. The first day of our show is around or about the day that Rick was shot and fell into his coma," "Fear the Walking Dead" showrunner and executive producer Dave Erickson told Tech Insider. 

"Robert has said for him, the coma, Rick was probably out four to five weeks," he continued. "If you count the days of season one of our show, we’re probably around week three [by the end of the season]. So ... the discovery will continue. Our characters will be up to speed, and they will know that the world has changed and the apocalypse has come, but there’s still going to be a lot of real estate to explore."

"Put it this way, when Rick gets to Atlanta [in 'The Walking Dead'], and he catches up and he finds Shane, and Lori and Carl, they got a camp set up already. They know what the walkers are, they know how to defend themselves, and they’ve already created a sort of a system in their own sort of strange dysfunctional family," said Erickson. "That’s something we will continue to explore as we go into season two [on 'Fear']. We will not quite be caught up."

"Fear the Walking Dead" premieres on AMC August 23 at 9 p.m.

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When Sharon Stone found herself in a recurring role on NBC's '"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," she felt "humiliated."

The Oscar-nominated actress described the career low in a new interview with Harper's Bazaar, which has been making headlines for the 57-year-old actress' nude photo shoot in the magazine.

Fifteen years after being nominated for an Oscar for her role in "Casino," Stone found herself playing Assistant District Attorney Jo Marlowe on "SVU's" 11th season in 2010. In addition to dealing with the less glamorous side of procedural television compared to movies, she was having a hard time remembering her lines, the probable remains of surviving a brain aneurysm in 2001.

"That was humiliating," Stone told the magazine. "Having worked with the finest people in the industry, I was like, 'Wow, I'm really at the back of the line here. I'm wearing L'eggs panty hose, and in makeup they start out by putting this white primer on my face. I'm like, 'This is so bad. What did I do to deserve this?'"

Instead of continuing to feel horrible about where her career had ended up, Stone decided she needed to humble herself and deal with the reality that she would have to work her way back up the Hollywood ladder.

She said, "I thought, 'You know what? I got thrown off the bullet train, and now I'm going to have to crawl up a hill of broken glass, get back on the train that's going a million miles an hour, and work my way from the cattle car up. That's just the way it is, so I'd better get humble and shut the f--k up and do the job. Because if I can't do this job, I'm certainly not going to be able to do anything else.' "

Stone found herself back in the movies with a string of independent titles and she's now signed on to play the vice president on TNT's buzzy upcoming spy drama,"Agent X."

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

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Tracy Morgan is making a return to his former stomping grounds, "Saturday Night Live."

The actor and comedian will host the October 17 episode, NBC announced via press release on Monday.

 The comic also took to Twitter to express his happiness.

 Morgan was badly injured in a 2014 accident after a Wal-Mart truck hit the comedian's limo. Comic James “Jimmy Mack” McNair was killed as a result.

Just a week ago, The National Transportation Safety Board backed Morgan and said the deadly highway crash was the fault of the sleep-deprived Wal-Mart truck driver, according to Deadline.

In May, Wal-Mart and Morgan reached an agreement to settle the actor's civil lawsuit against the retail store chain. The terms of the proposed settlement were not disclosed.  

This will be Tracy Morgan's first performance on TV since the accident and his second time as "SNL's" host. Morgan spent seven seasons on the NBC sketch show and was Emmy-nominated for his role on the award-winning comedy series “30 Rock.”

In June, Morgan appeared on NBC's "Today" to speak about the deadly accident for the first time.

Additionally, pop singer Miley Cyrus will kick off the season in her third time as host on Oct. 3.

Then, comedienne and actress Amy Schumer has been tapped to host for the first time on October 10.

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Sure, Josh Ostrovsky aka The Fat Jew is having a terrible few months. He has been accused of being a plagiarist by fellow comedians and others on the internet. And, reports have tied that outrage to the comedian losing a TV deal and a marketing campaign.

But, the parties involved told Business Insider the outrage has nothing to do with their decisions to end their professional relationships with the Instagram famous comedian.

Things got bad for Ostrovsky after The Hollywood Reporter broke the news last week that he had signed with entertainment agency CAA "for representation in all areas."

That set off a wave of accusations from Ostrovsky's internet and comedy colleagues claiming that he had been plagiarizing his jokes for years.

The outrage grew so loud that THR decided to update its story with an open letter comedian Davon Magwood wrote about Ostrovsky earlier this month. In the letter, Magwood accused Ostrovsky of posting his joke without attribution. In fact, Ostrovsky is known for "aggregating" jokes and sharing them on his Instagram account without credit. Ostrovsky later gave Magwood his credit.

Among Ostrovsky's many detractors is actor and comedian Patton Oswalt, who posted and retweeted several tweets directed to the comedian.

 The outrage further seemed to endanger Ostrovsky's career when Splitsider.com reported that the comedian's Comedy Central project is now dead, which BI confirmed with the network.

 Yet, an individual with knowledge of the project told BI that the script deal never progressed to pilot stage and had actually been killed several months ago and had nothing to do with the accusations of plagiarism against Ostrovsky.

But, it doesn't stop there. DeathandTaxes.com reports that online food delivery service Seamless, which has used Ostrovsky in its marketing, has no further plans to work with him.

On the other hand, a Seamless rep told BI that "the campaign was coming to a close (the end of this month) as was always the case." So, the advertisements were coming down September 1 regardless of the controversy swirling around Ostrovsky.

The Fat Jew's other projects seem to be moving forward at this point. His modeling contract with One Management Agency is still on, BI has confirmed. He recently launched a new wine, White Girl Rosé, and his upcoming first book, Money Pizza Respect, with Grand Central Publishing, is still available for pre-order.

CAA didn't immediately respond to BI's request for comments.

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The WWE is bringing Jon Stewart back to television.

Just a couple weeks after signing off from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," Stewart will be hosting WWE's annual event, SummerSlam, according to a USA Today report, which Business Insider confirmed with WWE.

Stewart will be on-hand for the four-hour event being held at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on WWE Network.

The upcoming hosting gig continues Stewart's relationship with the wrestling organization, which began earlier this year when he began a "feud" with WWE heavyweight champion Seth Rollins. The feud went from online to "The Daily Show" and then an episode of USA Network's "Monday Night Raw" in March.

Stewart taped his final "Daily Show" on Thursday, August 6. About 3.5 million people tuned into the show live, second only to Stewart's interview with President Barack Obama on the October 29, 2008 episode.

According to USA Today, Stewart joins a big schedule for the day. That will include a title match between Rollins and U.S. champ John Cena, a toe-to-toe between Brock Lesnar and the Undertaker, and "Arrow" star Stephen Amell will participate in a tag-team match with Adrian Neville vs. Stardust and Wade Barrett.

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Josh Groban's "voice of an angel" and Donald Trump's off-the-wall tweets came together on Monday night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

The ABC late-night talk show aired a sketch in which Groban was making an album featuring his operatic singing and Donald Trump's hilarious, unique, and off-the-wall Twitter musings.

"To make great songs, you have to have great lyrics," host Jimmy Kimmel told the audience. "If you want to be taken seriously as an artist, strong lyrics are a must."

Groban then appears behind a piano and reminds us that he has "the voice of an angel." The Trump tweets featured in the sketch go from the presidential candidate's observations of human nature to his early political tweets about President Barack Obama's birth certificate, and more.

"Donald Trump's tweets will make you laugh. They'll make you cry. But, mostly they'll make you cry," Groban says mid-sketch.

Watch the sketch below:

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After 19 seasons of "The Bachelor," 11 seasons of "The Bachelorette," and only five couples who have actually gotten married, there are a lot of ABC reality stars who are still looking for love.

ABC decided to take some of those rejected contestants and fly them to a remote tropical resort and let the drama unfold on "Bachelor in Paradise."

"Bachelor in Paradise" is in its second season, and each week the ratings have gone up. There are now 5.2 million people watching complete and utter chaos unfold on the show — it's so full of drama that ABC has actually given "Bachelor in Paradise" two prime-time air dates per week: two hours on Sunday evening and an additional hour followed by an hour-long discussion hosted by "Bachelor" host Chris Harrison on Monday.

So what's ABC's hit drama recipe?

A lot of booze, attractive people, and constant plot twists.

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Chris Harrison, who hosts "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette," is also the host of "Bachelor in Paradise."

At the beginning of the season, a dozen single people arrive at a resort in Mexico. There are twice as many single women as there are men.

Immediately, couples begin to form. The guys mostly get snatched up, but a bunch of the women are left loveless. Some of the couples aren't very strong, like contestants Ashley I. and Jared.

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"Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice and husband Joe Giudice's vacation home will be up for auction on Tuesday and could go for as little as $100, the Ocean County Sheriff's Office told Business Insider.

According to the couple's bankruptcy filings, they owed $550,266 on the Jersey Shore house, which is located at 49 Sylvia Lane in Stafford, New Jersey.

Theoretically, the house could sell for $100 because that is the minimum first bid set by the Ocean County Sheriff's Office. Bids will then be accepted in $1,000 increments until the property is sold to the highest bidder. All proceeds will go to paying off what the Giudices owe the banks.

According to a listing on Realtor.com, the 1,350 square foot, one story house has five bedrooms and two full bathrooms.

The couple's main home located at 6 Indian Lane, Towaco, New Jersey was for sale, though the couple took it off the market earlier this year.

Currently, Teresa is serving a 13-month prison sentence (reduced from 15 months) for bank fraud. When she is released in February, Joe will begin serving a 41-month sentence.

Watch Teresa give a tour of the Jersey Shore house below:

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The first promo of “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” is now online.

With Kanye West’s song “Power” playing in the background, we watch Noah in slow motion approach “The Daily Show” desk and as he beings to sit, text appears on screen: “Same Chair … Different Ass.”

We then see Noah adjust his seat to his preferred level followed by a wide smile.

This is our introduction to Noah as he takes over Jon Stewart as host of “The Daily Show” beginning September 28.

Watch the full promo here:

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Stephen Colbert turned very serious on Tuesday's "Howard Stern Show"when he began to discuss the place crash that killed his father and brother and left his mother broken.

The late-night host was only 10 years old when his father, James, and his two older brothers, Peter, 18, and Paul, 15, were killed in the Eastern Airlines Flight 212 crash on September 11, 1974. It crushed him and his entire family.

"It's built into me the way like, the marble is built into the shape of a statue," He told Stern. "It's kind of, at a certain age, what I was made of."

The loss was especially hurtful to his mother, Lorna, so Stephen, the youngest of her 11 children, would tell her jokes to cheer her up. In fact, he said that's what formed his comedy career.

"I think there's no doubt that I do what I do because I wanted to make her happy. No doubt," Colbert revealed.

CBS's next "Late Show" host also spoke of the plane tragedy in an interview with GQ magazine released this week. He explained how his feelings have evolved to the point where he could still hate that the crash ever happened, but also be grateful that it did because it brought him to comedy.

The realization came to him on the street when he was 35 years old and contemplating something "Lord of the Rings" writer J.R.R. Tolkien wrote: "What punishments of God are not gifts?"

"[It] stopped me dead. I went, ‘Oh, I'm grateful. Oh, I feel terrible.’ I felt so guilty to be grateful. But I knew it was true," he remembered.

“It's not the same thing as wanting it to have happened,” he said. “But you can't change everything about the world. You certainly can't change things that have already happened."

Colbert spoke with Oprah Winfrey about the accident on "Oprah's Next Chapter" back in 2012:

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Donald Trump wants everyone to know that he quit NBC and wasn't fired as some reports claim. In fact, the currently leading Republican presidential candidate said that the network's big guns tried to convince him not to run.

"The primary tension I had was that they wanted me to do 'The Apprentice,' and they were very angry that I didn't do it," Trump told The Hollywood Reporter. "And that was more important than 'Miss Universe' by far, because 'The Apprentice' has higher numbers. I read a story two weeks ago from somebody that didn't understand, where they said 'NBC cut ties with Trump.' They didn't cut ties with me, I cut ties with them out of respect. But they were very upset."

According to the real estate mogul, NBC's head honchos approached him two months before he announced his intent to run for U.S. president and made remarks about Mexican immigrants that would lead to NBC cutting ties with him in late-June.

Trump recalled in the THR interview: "The top people from [NBCUniversal's parent company] Comcast, [NBCUniversal CEO] Steve Burke and [NBC reality chief] Paul Telegdy came up to see me two months before I announced I was running, and they wanted me to do another two seasons of 'The Apprentice.'  [Executive producer] Mark Burnett would call me constantly. I love Mark, special guy, and he said, 'Donald, you're turning down a primetime renewal. Do you know what you're doing?' I said, 'Mark, I want to [run for president].'"

Recently, NBC said that it would continue not to work with Trump for the foreseeable future and is currently looking for his replacement for "The Apprentice."

An NBCU representative had no comment on Trump's claims.

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Bill Cosby can't count Donald Trump as one of his supporters.

"I've never been a fan," Trump answered when asked by The Hollywood Reporter about the sexual assault allegations against Cosby.

"I had one bad experience with him," the real estate mogul continued. "I was on 'Letterman,' and he was following me on the show. He said, 'Oh, I want to buy you a suit.' It was nice, he bought me a suit. And then he was on [NBC's 'Today' show], and my name was mentioned, and he went absolutely crazy. And I said, 'What the hell was that all about?'"

It's possible Trump is referring to Cosby's 2011 appearance on "Today" when then-host Meredith Vieira asked the comedian how he felt about the real estate mogul's potential 2012 presidential run.

“Oh, please with Donald Trump. Take him home with you,"Cosby told Vieira.

He then said of Trump's reticence to announce a presidential run: "He's full of it ... You run or shut up ... The only thing he's running is his mouth."

And there has been no love lost for Trump over the last few years.

"I was never a fan," Trump added to THR. "His humor was always, like, slow and stupid to me. I never saw it. And then he's obviously got this stuff. What amazes me is he was so quiet and then you see these depositions. What was he doing? Was he drunk? You see he admitted all this stuff on top of everything else. I think he's weird. And I never found his humor good at all. Just sit in a chair, talk very slowly? And I say to myself, 'What's this all about?'

A representative for Cosby didn't respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

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Donald Trump isn't supportive of Brian Williams' latest career choices.

NBC's former "Nightly News" anchor will soon be reporting for work at MSNBC. After being placed on suspension for lying on-air about some of his experiences at NBC, Williams be serving as the cable news channel's breaking news and special reports anchor.

"I wasn't a fan of Brian Williams," Trump answered when The Hollywood Reporter asked if he'd appear with Williams on MSNBC.

Trump had a fallout with Fox News' Megyn Kelly over questions she asked him during the first primary debate and has since said he won't appear with her. But, the leading Republican presidential candidate never quite answered THR's question as to whether or not he'd appear with Williams. 

"First of all, I think he made a terrible mistake," Trump continued. "He handled the situation horribly, and he should have left with dignity and shouldn't have gone back to work for the same company. For him to go from the parent to the poor sister [network] — and that's not even the poor sister, that's the poor baby."

Clearly not in Williams' camp, Trump does have some (backhanded) compliments for the newsman.

"He has never treated me well, so I'm not a fan," he reiterated to the Hollywood trade magazine. "How is he going to do? I think he'll do fine. MSNBC is lucky to have him. But if I were in Brian's shoes, I would never have gone back. I'm sure he doesn't need the money."

Watch a video from the THR interview below:

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People just aren’t watching traditional TV the way they used to, and the television industry is starting to feel the effects.

Analysts at the investment research and management firm Bernstein sent a note to clients on Thursday that said they’re downgrading media companies like Disney and Time Warner, which own TV networks like ESPN and CNN, respectively, because they are “structurally impaired.”

“We believe the U.S. television industry is entering a period of prolonged structural decline, caused by a migration of viewers from ad-supported platforms to non-ad-supported, or less-ad-supported platforms,” Todd Junger, the lead analyst on the report, wrote.

In other words, consumers are moving away from traditional TV and instead watching on-demand services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and even YouTube.

Indeed, services such as these are seeing massive growth, while traditional pay TV providers like Comcast, Dish, and Time Warner Cable are losing subscribers.

Consider this chart from the investment banking firm Pacific Crest Securities, showing the decline in total subscribers to pay TV companies over the last three years compared with the massive growth of Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu:

About 100 million households in the US still pay for TV, but that number isn't growing.

Pacific Crest Securities estimates that the top eight pay TV providers lost 463,000 subscribers in during the second quarter of this year compared with 141,000 during the same period last year.

Traditional TV networks are feeling this pinch on two fronts, because they make money both from advertising as well as from fees that pay TV providers like Comcast and Time Warner Cable pay the networks to carry their channels.

Advertising is down — there are fewer viewers to reach and more places for companies to advertise than ever.

And to make matters worse, investors are worried that subscribers to pay TV will continue to decline — more people will cut the cord, and new households won’t sign up for cable, as options for watching TV without a cable or satellite subscription improve and proliferate. That means that the fees networks get paid, once a steady stream of revenue for the industry, will decline.

“...we believe TV advertising is undeniably in secular decline [and] affiliate fees are now also being put at increased risk,” Junger writes.

Earlier this month investors punished companies that own TV networks, like Time Warner, Disney, Viacom, Discovery, and CBS over fears that competition from streaming services will continue to take away from the time people spend watching traditional TV. 

“We understand, and in fact agree, with the market's decision to fast-forward to the inevitable
conclusion and start valuing these businesses as if they are declining assets.”

A report in the Wall Street Journal on Monday cited Nielsen data that showed a decline in prime-time ratings for 21 the top 30 most-watched cable networks this summer. Networks like MTV, TNT, Disney Channel, and Bravo saw double digit declines last month compared with July last year.

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AMC released the first three minutes of its "Walking Dead" spinoff, "Fear the Walking Dead," ahead of its premiere on Sunday.

The clip introduces us to Nick (Frank Dillane), a 19-year-old drug addict, who quickly learns that the world is changing rapidly and even your closest of lovers could be the one to bring death to your doorstep. What he'll discover in these short minutes will change his life forever.

"Fear the Walking Dead" takes part in the same world as "The Walking Dead," but in the early days of the zombie apocalypse.

From "The Walking Dead" creator Robert Kirkman and showrunner Dave Erickson, the show revolves around the "outbreak" of some disease that's making the citizens of a small town into cannibals. 

Watch the first three minutes below:

 "Fear the Walking Dead" premieres Sunday, August 23 at 9 p.m. on AMC.

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Damon Lindelof, a co-creator of "Lost" and HBO's "Leftovers," is a big fan of "Game of Thrones" and thinks that people who threaten to quit the show are being ridiculous.

That's just part of what he told Entertainment Weekly when the magazine's reporter asked the producer what he thought of Season 5's daring plot decisions.

"You only need to demonstrate excellence once a season for me to view the entire season as excellent, or the entire show as excellent," Lindelof said of his admiration for the series. "And 'Game of Thrones' is able to do it at any one time."

Lindelof read the first three books of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire," which "Game of Thrones" is based on, before the show aired and decided to stop there.

"I was like, 'I would love to get to a place in this show where I am genuinely surprised,'" he said.

That being said, Lindelof points out that there is one part of modern fandoms that he dislikes – especially when it comes to "Game of Thrones" surprises: Those who threaten to quit watching just because they disagree with a story choice.

Read what he had to say about those types of fans below:

But when you are in the zeitgeist, and when you are loved, there’s this part of it—people threaten to stop watching, people say “it’s not as good as it used to be,” people say, “If you kill this character, I will stop watching the show.” One of the things that people fell in love with about Thrones was its willingness to kill anyone—but you can’t kill Jon Snow, you know? You can kill anyone—but you can’t kill Tyrion. And you can’t kill Dany. As long as you don’t kill those three. And it’s like: “But I thought you loved the show because we killed Ned Stark! He was the un-killable character!” So we have to be willing to do that. 

… And I see people pushing against Thrones where it’s like, literally from week to week, someone will say, “This is the most excellent show, this season is firing on all cylinders, it’s never been better.” And then because of one story move—Stannis burns his daughter—suddenly [the reaction is] like, “I cannot watch this show anymore. I’m quitting you, Game of Thrones.” And I’m thinking: “No, you’re not. Don’t be an ass.” That’s like my 8-year-old saying, “We’re not best friends anymore.”

Currently, the biggest movement among fans are those who are holding out hope that Jon Snow will return for Season 6 -- dead or alive.

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While Trevor Noah is gearing up for his "Daily Show" hosting gig, eyes are still on Jon Stewart. And people want his voice back in politics.

Stewart hasn't spoken much about what he has planned for his post-"Daily Show" career, other than that he'll be hosting WWE's "SummerSlam" on Sunday.

But earlier this week, a Change.org petition was created that asks the Commission on Presidential Debates "consider and provide the opportunity to Mr. Stewart to host one of the three major presidential debates directly preceding the 2016 election."

Change.org said in a blog post that the petition became the fastest-growing on the site. On Wednesday morning, it had 6,000 signatures. By Friday morning, it had almost reached its goal of 150,000 signatures.

"Jon Stewart is more than qualified to tackle the moderating job," the petitioner, New Jersey resident Mariel Waters, wrote. "Mr. Stewart has interviewed 15 heads of state, 22 members of the United States Cabinet, 32 members of the United States Senate, 7 members of the United States House of Representatives, and scores of other political leaders from this country and around the world."

In an interview with the radio station New Jersey 101.5, Waters credited the petition idea to a couple of less popular petitions from 2012 that called on Stewart to host a debate.

"With Jon retiring from 'The Daily Show' and a presidential election a little over a year away, I though this would be a great opportunity to get the ball rolling again on this great idea," Waters said.

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