The president woke up this morning in a rage at Saturday Night Live after Alec Baldwin's cold open mocking his emergency declaration speech from Friday. "Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution?" Trump tweeted. "Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!" In a separate, all-caps tweet minutes later, Trump added: "THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" Baldwin tweeted in response to the president: "Trump whines. The parade moves on. #resignalready. Cast member Mikey Day responded to Trump's tweet, joking: "He's on to us."

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• SNL's Trump parody seemed to summarize things Trump actually said
• Don Cheadle wore a Russian hockey jersey with Trump's name for closing credits
• Cheadle was great, energetic and confident, yet SNL squandered his abilities
• Why did it take so long for Cheadle to host SNL?
• John Mulaney to return as SNL host on March 2, less than a year after hosting for the first time

More reports emerged Saturday night that police are investigating whether the Empire star staged his own hate attack, with CNN reporting that Smollett have may have paid two Nigerian brothers to beat him up. Chicago Piluce wouldn't confirm the reports, only saying: “We can confirm that the information received from the individuals questioned by police earlier in the Empire case has in fact shifted the trajectory of the investigation," adding that they hope to interview Smollett again. Meanwhile, TMZ reports a grand jury will hear the Smollett case next week. Smollett responded to the new reports via his attorneys, who said: “One of these purported suspects was Jussie’s personal trainer who he hired to ready him physically for a music video. It is impossible to believe that this person could have played a role in the crime against Jussie or would falsely claim Jussie’s complicity. Jussie and his attorneys anticipate being further updated by the Chicago Police Department on the status of the investigation and will continue to cooperate,” Smollett’s attorneys added. “At the present time, Jussie and his attorneys have no inclination to respond to ‘unnamed’ sources inside of the investigation, but will continue discussions through official channels.” Fox has yet to respond to the new reports. ALSO: Director Ava DuVernay tweets: “Despite the inconsistencies, I can’t blindly believe Chicago PD."

The Bachelor star wrote on his Instagram Stories last week that he had to abruptly leave a charity event in San Diego after "I was grabbed and touched inappropriately." TMZ reports that during his meet and greet a female fan grabbed his crotch and told him "I am going to take your virginity." Colton opted to leave soon after.

“Sadly from investigation I have learned that a past member of my team who had access to my account made these changes.” the MTV reality star explained of her Instagram comments about her mom Dina Lohan's Celebrity Big Brother exit in wake of the CBS reality show's finale.

"This is a show about being raised by my grandma and dad in Queens, living at home and finding purpose," Awkwafina says of her self-titled autobiographical sitcom Awkwafina. "No show tunes, all female writers room, an ode to Queens and the cultural BUFFET of people that helped shape me into the human I am."

The two-time Best Actress nominee will sing "The Place Where Lost Things Go" from Mary Poppins Returns at next Sunday's ceremony. ALSO: Kacey Musgraves to present at the Oscars after winning album of the year at Grammys.

The Tonight Show host was asked by Buzzfeed about his favorite thank-you note. “I got one from David Letterman recently because I sent out avocado toasts for the holidays,” Fallon said. “He sent me a thank you note saying, ‘Thanks for the guacamole, kid.’ Which is not what I sent him at all."

"On Netflix, TV is in an edgy moment," says Lili Loofbourow. "BoJack Horseman has taken the cartoon to dark and painfully honest places. Sex Education makes the awkward obscenity of teen life deeply, uncomfortably explicit. Big Mouth is so overt about the pitfalls of puberty that it’s not clear whether it’s safe for actual teenagers to watch. Russian Doll thematizes existential self-hatred, although it does suggest there may be light at the end of the tunnel if you die often enough first. Life is atomized and hard—hard in ways that we can’t comprehend and aren’t equipped for, and that no conceptual structure can quite contain. If there’s a genre for our time, it’s the dramedy. If there’s a word for it, it’s LOLsob. Against this backdrop of angsty irresolution comes a third season of One Day at a Time, an almost unbelievably traditional sitcom that has stoutly resisted the downcast trend. Gloria Calderón Kellett and Mike Royce’s show is the antithesis of edgy reinvention. It’s the sobLOL of television...It insists (and this might be a light philosophical intervention) that life is hard, but laugh-out-loud joy is essential to being able to deal. It supplies resolutions that aren’t quite ambitious enough to be answers, but it makes up for their shortcomings with fun. Rita Moreno, playing the grandmother Lydia, is a party unto herself and really sells the healing properties of a good time."

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• One Day at a Time nails living with anxiety
• Co-creator Gloria Calderón Kellett wonders if Hollywood is ready to accept different kinds of Latinx shows
• How One Day at a Time assembled a "Latinx Supergroup" in Season 3 led by Gloria Estefan

"Let’s face it," says Steve Pond. "The Oscars are not the Golden Globes, which makes it clear it only cares about stars by not having any below-the-line categories; or the Critics’ Choice Awards, an organization of writers so desperate for TV exposure and TV money that they present the writing awards off the air; or BAFTA, which delays its broadcast by two hours so it can edit down or edit out some of its categories; or the Emmys, which has two whole separate shows for most of its 100-plus categories; or the Grammys, which long ago rebranded itself as a music performance show with all but a handful of the biggest awards handed out in a different venue before the show even begins. No, this is the freakin’ Academy Awards, the show that wants to be respected as the gold standard for all awards shows, the undisputed Lord o’ Kudos. And if you want to be afforded that kind of respect, it helps to give that respect to everyone who gets one of your precious trophies...The Oscars want to be held to a higher standard; in fact, they demand it. Friday’s decision (reversing its commercial break plan) was when they realized that they are." ALSO: Why the Oscars should ditch ABC for Netflix.

“Due to new evidence as a result of today’s interrogations, the individuals questioned by police in the Empire case have now been released without charging and detectives have additional investigative work to complete,” Chicago Police tweeted Friday night. The two men, reportedly Nigerian brothers who worked as extras on Empire, had been elevated from "persons of interest" to "potential suspects" earlier Friday.

The network's coverage of the border wall emergency declaration ended 21 minutes before its conclusion on Friday.

"Eastbound & Down, the obnoxiously funny HBO comedy about washed-up baseball player Kenny Powers, debuted on Feb. 15, 2009," says Liam Matthews. "And while it's not quite as widely beloved or influential as other 2009 debuts like Parks and Recreation, Community or Modern Family, it's the one that best captures the bleak energy of that weird year — and now feels more timely than ever, for better and worse."

Oliver's HBO show has influenced everything from Seth Meyers' Late Night "A Closer Look" segments to Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act. "The same goes for the longer explanatory segments on Daily Show alum Samantha Bee’s weekly half-hour TBS series Full Frontal," says Alissa Wilkinson. "And for the pieces that sometimes appeared on Larry Wilmore’s terrific (but now canceled) The Nightly Show. While Last Week Tonight frequently takes a longer, more international angle and pays more attention to stories from around the globe than its primarily America-focused cohort, its structure — jokes, a deep-dive into a story supported with facts and evidence and reporting, and an argument to be made, sometimes with a personal plea — is the same. The key component in all these approaches is that the viewers aren’t just watching the host riff on the news; they’re being presented with additional information, often in far more depth and detail than they’d get from a news article, that helps draw connections between the story or phenomenon and the culture around it. They’re not just watching people deliver monologues or weak parodies or easy potshots at the headlines, à la the current incarnation of Saturday Night Live."

Despite starring on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Kemper is still recognized for her role as Erin on The Office -- especially by young people. "A lot of times it will be twelve-year-old boys and girls who don’t recognize me from Kimmy Schmidt but do recognize me from The Office, and I’m like, 'Wait, you were in the womb when this was on, and you don’t go to a workplace, so how does this show resonate with you?'" she says. "And it occurs to me that it is sort of a schoolyard or family atmosphere, and everyone has personalities like that at their school or in their family. I wasn’t aware of how popular it was until people started recognizing me as Erin, and I’m like, 'That show ended years ago! Why now?' And it’s totally Netflix."

Acclaimed sports journalist Robert Lipsyte once wrote of the former NBC Sports host, “No one has ever walked so gracefully the line between journalist and shill as Costas.” To put it bluntly, Costas helped make the NFL as big as it is today, despite his reservations in a recent ESPN report, says Deadspin's Dom Cosentino. "Fans of the NFL and the reporters who cover it (ahem) all have varying degrees of cognitive dissonance about the sport of football," says Cosentino. "But NBC isn’t some independent entity watching or chronicling the NFL from a passionate perch or dispassionate distance. It pays billions of dollars to provide a platform that showcases the league. It then sells ads against those broadcasts to make billions of dollars for itself. Costas’s intermittent on-air critiques of the NFL were instantly undone every time he threw it back to Al (Michaels) and Cris (Collinsworth) for the start of the second half. And it ain’t like Costas is giving back the gobs of money he made helping the NFL sling its product."

The Disney+ Marvel series has tapped Rick and Morty writer Michael Waldron to pen the series, which is expected to star Tom Hiddleston in the title role.

The Friends co-stars were on a plane to Cabo to celebrate Aniston's 50th birthday when their private plane had to make a dramatic emergency landing at Southern California's Ontario International Airport on Friday.

"It shows LGBTQ relationships as complex, rich, and explored with a lot of integrity and depth," he says of this week's episode.

Season 3 of the Nic Pizzolatto HBO drama "has learned lessons not only from its own direct predecessors, but from the ne plus ultra of small-town murder mystery television: Twin Peaks," says Sean T. Collins. "And it’s learned the right lessons, too."

The Amazon comedy-drama, which likely ends its two-season run on Sunday, and the recently canceled Starz sci-fi thriller Counterpart deserve another chance because they are so critically beloved, says Tim Goodman. "In many ways, Counterpart is a cautionary tale that Amazon should heed with Patriot," says Goodman. "Beyond ratings — which are not the driver at subscription services anyway but are, reality check, still monitored by the people in the building — critically acclaimed series are smart investments, even if they're essentially loss-leaders."

The true-crime network TV movie genre peeked in 1993 when NBC, ABC and CBS all made Amy Fisher movies, featuring big-name stars such as Alyssa Milano and Drew Barrymore playing the "Long Island Lolita." "By the turn of the ’90s, cable television had become commonplace, and Court TV, CNN, and their kin could cover titillating criminality with unprecedented persistence," says Kenny Herzog. "The collective appetite for picking the bones of unbelievable felonies and follies had made itself plain. If development executives were to stay relevant, they’d need a crime so captivating that no round-the-clock news cycle could contain it—even if some of the details were embellished or the point of view skewed. And in the spring of 1992, they found their subject" in Fisher, who shot and nearly killed the wife (Mary Jo Buttafuoco) of the much-older man (Joey Buttafuoco) she was having an affair with.

The Fleabag star is in demand as a writer and an actress. Yet, as New York Times profiler Amanda Hess writes, "Another secretly brilliant move: disappearing into a writing project just as her face was hitting Hollywood billboards."

"I, too, am disappointed that our own refuses to truly see us, largely I assume, b/c we are as unapologetically trans & queer as we are black," she tweeted. "Respectability politics won't save us. We good, though, writing another season centering ourselves like no series has done before."

CBS' and other networks' NFL deals expire in 2022, but the network is already working to make sure it keeps NFL rights beyond that. CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus said this week the network will “do what is necessary” to keep its relationship with the NFL beyond 2022.

Ugly Delicious' David Chang, F*ck, That’s Delicious' Action Bronson, Mysterious Islands' Kellee Edwards and United Shades Of America's W. Kamau Bell are poised to fill the void left by Anthony Bourdain.

Co-creator Chris Kelly says this week's episode was included in the show's original pitch.

The Shondaland honcho found the The Doctor to be the perfect replacement for her Buffy the Vampire Slayer obsession. What is her favorite Doctor Who era? "Probably Russell Davies, because he started it all, and because of David Tennant," she says of the current series. "The introduction of David Tennant as 10 is one of the best written introductions of a character ever. And The Girl in the Fireplace, by Stephen Moffat is, to this day, one of my favorite things. There's just a lot of great episodes that evolved and came about while Davies was there."

YouTube channel ScreenPrism explains how Benedict Cumberbatch's BBC character evolves to learn the benefits of empathy and compassion.

The CBS reality show will continue ditching the opening player credits due to time constraints, so it has released the opening credits online via Entertainment Weekly.

Not only does the legal drama inspired by the Innocence Project treat the law flimsily, it also doesn't understand journalism, says Daniel Fienberg. He adds: "Nothing in Proven Innocent is helped by a main character who the show wants to treat as wildly empathetic, when the way she comes across is as so wildly empathetic that she has the ability to understand the plight of the unjustly accused and make everything about herself. She references her case with very little prompting, she irrationally makes decisions about clients based on her own case and any time she visits a prison or a courtroom, it triggers a flashback (that Rachelle Lefevre's high school equivalent looks older than Rachelle Lefevre is just an odd distraction). It's not in any way Lefevre's fault that Madeline is an egomaniacal sociopath whom the show views as a crusading hero. When Madeline says, 'I don't want to make this story about me,' the show seems to believe her. I do not." ALSO: Proven Innocent is a clunky mess with woke intentions.

The Netflix superhero series, based on the Gerard Way comic book, "seems to be a mashup of so many other ideas and projects, notably X-Men," says Tim Goodman. "Umbrella Academy borrows something else from Marvel comic adaptations and Netflix dramas in particular — a belief that there's no urgency in the dramatic equation because there are 10 hours to tell a story," he says. "It's a false assumption, because the Peak TV era has an endless number of compelling options that are more alluring than waiting for a writers room to get its sh*t together." He adds: "It probably doesn't help that the writing is superficial and the acting suboptimal, or that the whole thing relies on an ostensible quirkiness and viewers' innate sense that they've seen echoes of this many other places. The series is annoyingly inert, in short, and derivative in the process."

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• Ellen Page is one of the most original screen actresses, yet she seems especially deflated on The Umbrella Academy
• The whole apocalypse storyline of Umbrella Academy is just awful
• The Umbrella Academy lacks the batsh*t whimsy of the original comic
• The problem is that the show itself doesn’t seem to understand its greatest strengths
• The Umbrella Academy is actually a lot of fun, with an A Series of Unfortunate Events vibe
• The Umbrella Academy struggles to rise above the clichés
• It succeeds by leaning into absurdity and showcasing stunning performances
• How that amazing simultaneous dance sequence was pulled off
• Costume designer Christopher Hargadon dressed the cast in vintage, custom-designed suits and a lot of leather
• Umbrella Academy comic writer Gerard Way wasn't involved with the soundtrack

The DC Universe series is "refreshingly self-aware," says Alan Sepinwall, "both in the hilarious meta narration by Alan Tudyk as the team’s archenemy Mr. Nobody ... and in its more fundamental understanding that if you make a show about these characters, you’d best come weird or not come at all. Its highs aren’t as high, but it’s more consistently satisfying." He adds that Doom Patrol seems to understand "that the best — and, not coincidentally, weirdest and funniest — of its CW counterparts, Legends of Tomorrow, figured out a few years back: There is a fundamental absurdity to these stories, and you can (and should) embrace that while still treating your characters and their emotions as real and worth caring about....Superhero weirdness for its own sake can have its limits, as we’ve seen with Legion. But so many modern comic-book adaptations default to sober and joyless that the eccentricities of Doom Patrol (and, on disappointingly rare occasions, Umbrella Academy) couldn’t feel more refreshing."

ALSO:

• Doom Patrol is a welcome combination of old-school effects and a barrage of baroque CGI weirdness
• It succeeds by taking everything seriously -- except superheroes themselves
• Doom Patrol may be too offbeat to stand out
• It's a vast improvement over Titans, favoring irreverence and fun over grungy edginess
• Why Doom Patrol considers itself "Misfit Justice League"

The Jordan Peele-produced, Joshua Rofé-directed four-hour Amazon film "isn’t a particularly well-structured documentary," says Judy Berman. "Rofé seems to have had trouble deciding whether he wanted to split up episodes thematically or move in chronological order throughout the series. As a result, Lorena sometimes repeats itself. A finale that keeps jumping around in time (from 1995 to ’90 to ’98 and so on) feels especially disjointed. The show never manages to make any novel points about the mid-’90s news media, either. And like most true-crime tales in this serialization-crazy post-Serial era, it could easily have been a two-hour movie rather than an episodic narrative of twice that length. Yet the series justifies its existence, even in an era filled reexaminations of tabloid stories from years past. By zooming out to capture what didn’t make it into the original headlines, and everything that has come to pass since the public eye turned away from the Bobbitts, Lorena manages to paint a more complete picture. There is #MeToo resonance here, though that’s hardly unique among sad stories about men and women from any period. What’s more vital is Rofé’s confident rejection of the he-said-she-said false equivalences of, say, the recent 20/20 special 'The Bobbitts: Love Hurts'—and the derisive humor such glib entertainments continue to wring out of real pain."

ALSO:

• Lorena weaves deftly thorough issues of racism and domestic violence
• It's an expertly crafted piece of work
• Lorena can't cut through the tabloid noise: It's too often sidetracked by the sheer spectacle of "the incident"
• It remains jarring and horrifying to see Lorena Bobbitt's trial and public humiliation play out, both in the past and reflective present
• Lorena takes aim at the blossoming 24-hour cable news cycle and Howard Stern for trivializing her abuse

“The Academy has heard the feedback from its membership regarding the Oscar presentation of four awards – Cinematography, Film Editing, Live Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling,” the Academy’s board of governors said in a statement. “All Academy Awards will be presented without edits, in our traditional format. We look forward to Oscar Sunday, February 24.” According to Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr., "all of the branches had agreed to the rotating system that the Academy said it would institute, but when it came time to actually slight four important groups who have much to do with cinematic excellence, it became clear that the push back and internal rancor wasn’t worth the prospect of cutting 45 minutes out of the Oscarcast and bringing it down to three hours." He added that in past Oscar ceremonies, the Academy measured the time it took to get to the stage, and found that 26 minutes were wasted on that aspect of the ceremony. "Would it not be worth exploring putting all the nominees onstage, and then announcing the winner?" asks Fleming." It would provide a sharing moment of respect and even those who don’t win can congratulate the winner, who can give a quick speech and the whole lot whisked off stage as the Oscars heads into a commercial." ALSO: ABC is sellling Oscar ads for a $2.8 million each.

Jeong, one of the stars of Crazy Rich Asians, is reuniting with Kevin Kwan on the multicamera comedy pilot about the son of a Chinese tech billionaire who creates controversy in his family by marrying an American woman. Jeong will play the Chinese tech billionaire. Jeong's casting comes off his Valentine's Day Netflix special, You Complete Me, Ho, which was directed by Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu.

Rock is also joining the potential series as an executive producer.

“It was not my decision at all,” Gorder tells People of not returning for the second season of the TLC revival. “I had a previous series already scheduled for the same time that we were going to shoot Trading Spaces. So the only thing that happened was just a schedule conflict.” Gorder says her Bravo series is a “top secret” project that will premiere in 2019.

One of the brothers arrested day was busted for a 2011 stabbing, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. He struck a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to aggravated harassment for that attack.

Why does Disney+'s High School Musical TV series have so many colons in its title? "The reason the series title is essentially three subheads combined into one, it seems, is because in the universe of the series the characters are trying to put on High School Musical: The Musical as their big theater production," explains Nick Romano.

The Just Shoot Me and Hot in Cleveland alum will play the mother of Richard Lovely, the disgruntled author of a best-selling children’s book series who "doesn’t hate children, but rather just everything about them."

GoT fan site Watchers on the Wall found some "surprising returns" with its supposed episode cast list for the Season 8 premiere. ALSO: Lena Headey and Maisie Williams to appear in a music video together.

Watch the HBO show's "Date Announcement" trailer.

Alex Gibney's The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley premieres March 18.

Brosnahan will more than triple her salary for Season 3 and is expected to receive a piece of the Amazon series' backend, according to Deadline. Tony Shalhoub is also getting a raise, while Alex Borstein is closing a deal on a new contract. As Deadline's Nellie Andreeva reports: "No one would comment but I hear that Brosnahan will more than triple her previous salary, making about $300,000 an episode in the upcoming third season. She was lesser known than her co-stars at the outset, and I hear she had to audition for the role, which has since made her a household name (and an SNL host). In addition to her salary, I hear Brosnahan is poised to get a piece of the series’ backend among other things."

The Chicago Police Department is still saying there's "no evidence" the attack on Smollett was a hoax while announcing that two Nigerian brothers, who reportedly worked on Empire, have been elevated from "persons of interest" to "potential suspects." “Detectives have probable cause that they may have been involved in an alleged crime and we are working to corroborate the allegations and investigative timeline as our investigation continues,” Chicago P.D. spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement. Guglielmi also said in a statement: "While we haven’t found any video documenting the alleged attack, there is also no evidence to say that this is a hoax. The alleged victim is being cooperative at this time and continues to be treated as the victim, not a suspect. The investigation continues.” UPDATE: Brothers Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, who are former Empire extras, have been arrested for battery.

The official Lord of the Rings series Twitter account shared a link this morning to an interactive map described as "Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky."

The second season of the science docuseries was scheduled to premiere on March 3. But since a sexual misconduct investigation into Tyson hasn't been completed, Fox will instead air Family Guy repeats in its timeslot.

The toy company behind Barbie, Hot Wheels, Masters of the Universe and Monster High announced it is developing TV shows based on its brands and franchises. But Mattel wouldn't disclose any specific titles.

The Hulu series is spending all day Friday at the National Mall with a massive shoot.

“It would be wonderful if he would evolve and grow and share in a funny and interesting way — but he’s not,” the Crashing star, whose HBO comedy recently tackled comedy in the #MeToo era, said on Busy Tonight. Holmes added: “Like it or not, he’s a symbol of something now. And if that symbol chooses to work with the feedback he’s receiving, a lot of people that love and respect him can evolve alongside him. And that’s a powerful opportunity. And I’m hopeful that he’ll still do it."

The Oswald Cobblepot actor will recur on Season 2 of the Netflix series, playing a character named Will. According to Deadline, "Will deals with unsavory sorts as part of his job, but is himself a thoughtful, personable, and highly intelligent guy who marches to the beat of his own drummer. That is, until he gets trapped in a bad situation."

The ABC medical drama fell to its lowest numbers in both the demo and in total viewers.

Juicy Stories was to tell the story of the rise of Juicy Couture founders Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor. The proposed series, from Michael Patrick King and Amy B. Harris, was an attempt by E! to expand its fashion coverage to scripted series.

The Walking Dead director and makeup guru Greg Nicotero is making an anthology series based on the 1982 horror classic for the Shudder horror streaming service.

Watch The Late Late Show introduce the "JamCordVanDam method." ALSO: Kenny G re-creates his Kim-Kanye Valentine's Day performance on The Late Late Show.