During his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers took several digs at Donald Trump, who was seated in the audience.
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Seth Meyers mocks Trump, Biden at press dinner
“South Riding,” a three-parter beginning Sunday night on public television’s “Masterpiece,” is a nice, soothing stop at the methadone-and-biscuits clinic for you Anglophiles coming off the week’s royal wedding binge. What a ride it’s been, eh, old chaps and chapettes? In addition to the wedding mania, we’ve had “Downton Abbey,” a new “Upstairs Downstairs” and an Oscar for “The King’s Speech” — truly an embarrassment of riches.
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Stuever: Review of ‘South Riding’ on PBS’s ‘Masterpiece’
In his speech on the federal budget Wednesday, President Obama addressed the Republican plan to reduce the deficit, saying it would result in a “fundamentally different America.” (April 13)
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Obama: GOP budget ‘pessimistic’
How did our national debt get so big, and what will President Obama say about it in his speech tonight?
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The Fast Fix- Dealing with the debt
In the afterglow of “Downton Abbey” and “The King’s Speech,” it would seem like a fortuitous moment to blow the dust off “Upstairs Downstairs,” the beloved British drama about 20th-century Belgravian uppercrusties and their loyal servants — a show that became a PBS “Masterpiece” juggernaut for some 70 episodes and proved deeply satisfying to Viewers Like You until it went off the air in 1977.
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TV review: ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ returns to PBS, but the house doesn’t feel like home
Representative Gabrielle Giffords has started to walk with assistance and her speech has improved to where she can tell doctors what she wants.
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Doctors Detail Giffords’s Progress
A stutterers’ support group practices a technique similar in some ways to the methods used to cure King George VI in “The King’s Speech.”
This year’s Academy Awards saw British film The King’s Speech pick up four Oscars for best picture, best actor, best director and best original screenplay.
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VIDEO: British triumph at Oscars 2011
British film The King’s Speech is crowned best picture at the Oscars and wins three awards including best actor for Colin Firth.
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King’s Speech crowned at Oscars
IN LOS ANGELES “The King’s Speech,” a stirring British costume drama about King George VI’s struggle with a speech impediment and the challenges of leadership at the dawn of mass media, won Best Picture and three other prizes Sunday night at the Academy Awards.
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‘King’s Speech’ as film wins Best Picture Oscar
The King’s Speech is to be released in the US in a swearing-free version which will open it up to younger audiences, its director Tom Hooper confirms.
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New US rating for King’s Speech
Helen Bonham Carter is up for an Oscar for her role as the Queen Mother in The King’s Speech but said she doesn’t mind if he doesn’t win.
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VIDEO: Bonham Carter ‘treated like royalty’
The final countdown to the Oscars has begun, with The King’s Speech and The Social Network going head to head for the coveted best picture prize.
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King’s Speech seeks Oscars crown
The producers of “The King’s Speech” are among the best bets for an Oscar, but remain largely unknown in Hollywood.
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‘King’s Speech’ Producers Await Seats at Table
During this year’s Oscars in Los Angeles, a film other than ‘The King’s Speech’ with English ties is vying for one of Hollywood’s top honours.
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VIDEO: Banksy gets Oscars recognition
TV review: ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ returns to PBS, but the house doesn’t feel like home
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
