Amid the Trump administration's immigration family separation controversy, the Hulu series aired an episode last night dealing with family separation. "It's terrible and uncanny," says Yahlin Chang, who wrote last night's episode. "Someone was saying, 'What do you hope people take away from this episode?' I said, 'That it's really wrong to rip mothers and children apart, rip children away from their mothers.' It's just wrong, wrong, wrong." Chang adds that she "did a ton of research for this scene. I talked to social workers and psychologists and resident experts at the UN about what would really happen (in the event of such a separation). Now, it doesn't seem so uncommon, but at the time that I wrote (the episode) many, many months ago, I was surprised to realize that this scene happens all the time, because mothers and children are often separated either because of war time or because the child is taken away from the mother because it's an unsafe home." ALSO: Chang says: “I do worry about people not wanting to watch because this was a very hard episode to watch."

The Tonight Show host was accused of "normalizing" Donald Trump following his September 2016 interview. "I did not do it to ‘normalize’ him or to say I believe in his political beliefs, or any of that stuff,” Fallon says in a podcast interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m sorry. I don’t want to make anyone angry—I never do and I never will. It’s all in the fun of the show. I made a mistake. I’m sorry if I made anyone mad. And, looking back, I would do it differently.”

The "sad trombone" sound that former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski made last night on Fox news to mock the sob story of a 10-year-old immigrant girl with Down syndrome being separated from her parents looked so bad that even Lewandowski tried to reframe it this morning as an attack on the liberal pundit he was sparring with. As James Poniewozik points out, from Laura Ingraham to Tucker Carlson, Lewandowski's "womp womp" was the latest tactic used on Fox News to delegitimize emotion. "But the sights and sounds of the past few days have been too ghastly to sneer away," he adds. "The Trump administration’s border policy has been in place for weeks. But only in the past week or so have we gotten the images, video and horrifying audio that push a story to the front of the news and keep it there." Poniewozik says that Lewandowski would've done a "womp womp" in reaction to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow channeling the emotion of much of her audience by breaking down in tears to the news of "tender age" facilities. He adds: "'Womp womp' is the sound of someone telling you that this basic decency is questionable, weak, a trick, something to be mastered for the sake of the team. It’s the music of someone trying to give you permission to harden your heart to strangers while still thinking of yourself as a good person." ALSO: Maddow's inarticulacy proved more eloquent than a straight recitation of the facts that she couldn’t bear to face.

"Look what Fake ABC News put out. I guess they had it prepared from the 13 Angry Democrats leading the Witch Hunt!" Trump tweeted hours after ABC News apologized for the Paul Manafort chyron, which was displayed during an ABC News special report for seven seconds. ABC News issued an apology to its viewers and Trump's former campaign manager: "We regret and apologize for the false lower third graphic that aired during our special report. We are investigating how incorrect information was in our system and how and why it was allowed to air. We apologize to our viewers and to Mr. Manafort. There simply is no excuse for this sort of mistake."

The Flash kicks off The CW's fall season on Oct. 9, followed by Black Lightning. Five days later, The CW's relaunched Sunday night starts with Supergirl and the Charmed reboot.

Hearst, whose daughter Lydia Hearst married Hardwick in 2016, linked to the video of the Talking Dead host's ex-girlfriend calling him “my amazing, loving, sweet boyfriend" and praising him for his support when she had to go to the emergency room. Hearst said in her tweet: "Silly me. I thought YouTube was only to look at naughty kitties, waterskiing squirrels, and skateboarding dogs. Then I performed a simple search. It gets especially interesting at 5:40. Social media is a gold mine!" This is the second time that Hearst has defended her son-in-law since Dykstra made her emotional and sexual abuse allegations. Last Saturday, Hearst called Dykstra a "Bunny Boiler."

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• Hardwick pulled as moderator from the Warner Bros/DC Comic-Con
• Adam Carolla defends Hardwick: “Chris has always been a very thoughtful, sort of just gentle guy… Also, there’s no such thing as being in a relationship, where somebody couldn’t compose something that said ‘I felt threatened.'”

“I have to give everyone a take-home,” she explains. “I’m not on trial for murdering etiquette!” she says in the mockumentary comedy's trailer. Trial & Error: Lady, Killer premieres on July 19.

The "choose your own adventure game" Westworld: The Maze is now available on all Alexa-enabled devices.

Watch as one desperate baker asks for a "cake stapler" on the Netflix reality competition.

The social media has kicked off its "YouTube era" as a new home for hour-long videos -- could original TV shows be next?

The Jerry Seinfeld-hosted series, which debuts on Netflix on July 12, says: "Don’t worry. Our little series isn’t a big production. There’s no backstory, no plotline, no fuss. We like to think short."

Last week, a Hollywood Reporter article stated that "a newer comic just breaking into the L.A. circuit can earn anywhere from $1,250 to $2,500 per week.” But the actual pay to perform even at the top comedy clubs is way below $100 per spot. Even big-name comedians don't earn much from performing in Los Angeles. The money is usually made by going out on the road.

Premiering on Aug. 7 after Bachelor in Paradise, Castaways will send 12 diverse strangers "torn from their ordinary lives" as they are dropped off on various islets in Indonesia. Like Lost, Castaways will flash back to their real lives back home. "Castaways is a revolutionary series testing the human need for companionship under extreme circumstances as each individual learns there are other castaways out there but are unaware of how many, their locations or when they will be rescued," ABC said in announcing the new series.

“America will get a chance to get the Houseguests trending, resulting in power apps or punishments that could crash their game," CBS says of the new twist for Season 30 that will be unveiled on Sunday, July 1. On the June 27 premiere, housemates will compete on three different challenges that CBS promises “will yield a game-changing power — and two unprecedented punishments.”

The radio host and Guy Code alum will star in The Gray Area with Charlamagne Tha God, a series of four hourlong interview specials premiering later this year. Information about guests and format has yet to be revealed.

The nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street will create live-action and animated series plus a new puppet series for Apple. The pact, however, does not include Sesame Street, which has a separate deal with HBO and PBS.

Chris Harrison hinted that The Bachelorette's Grocery Store Joe would likely participate. "I hope they have grocery stores in Paradise!!!" he tweeted.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, new ESPN president James Pitaro "is asserting his leadership of ESPN at a time of internal division at the network, which is caught in the crosshairs of the Trump culture wars and the worsening economics of cable TV." The internal divide has pitted "woke" performers like Jemele Hill against the "Bristol tradition." As one executive notes, ESPN is painted as a liberal network when much of the leadership is actually conservative. "The network itself takes a terrific knock for being some kind of pinko lefty operation,” says one executive, adding that ESPN's Bristol headquarters "is not a bastion of liberalism. And it's laughable that that's the perception." Pitaro's mandate has been to calm the waters of the political divide. Upon taking over earlier this year, Pitaro told employees ESPN is not "a political organization. Of course there will be an intersection between sports and politics. We will cover that fairly. But we are focused on serving the sports fan.” ALSO: A black ESPN executive reportedly called Jemele Hill and Michael Smith's "SC6" SportsCenter "too black."

Sutter, who executive produces Mayans MC for FX and 20th Century Fox subsidiary Fox21, says of Fox News and its coverage of President Trump's child separation policy: "The political decision made by this administration was heinous. But I don’t consider what Fox airs as 'news.' It’s manipulative propaganda, run by oligarchs, delivered by puppets, to control the fearful. What I do with FX and Fox 21 is not influenced by that energy. Yes, we are all owed by the parent company, but contrarily, at FX, other artists and myself are given the freedom to tell stories that address real issues in a truthful way. I guess we just learn to live with the sad irony that our fiction is more truthful than Fox News’ facts."

After being scorned on Twitter, the former Trump campaign manager insisted he was only mocking Democratic operative Zac Petkanas, and not the 10-year-old immigrant girl with Down syndrome that Petkanas was talking about.

The pop icon was part of Tuesday's Late Late Show in London, where she played “Spill Your Guts." ALSO: Tuesday's episode marked Corden's 500th Late Late Show.

The British Billionaire, who has hosted the BBC version of The Apprentice since 2005, was accused of casual racism with a tweet about Senegal’s World Cup soccer team featuring sunglasses and handbags. In response to the outcry, BBC said Sugar apologized for his tweet.

Ritter, who recently starred on Kevin (Probably) Saves The World, will co-star on the superhero drama about a young African-American boy with superhero abilities. Ritter will play a "comic-book-reading scientist" who has a special bond with the boy.

Ben Daniels will succeed Matthew Goode in the role of Antony Armstrong-Jones on Season 3 of the Netflix series.

The siblings visited Jimmy Fallon two weeks after he delivered the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School commencement speech to promote their new book #NeverAgain, described as a manifesto of their movement to change gun laws. They said all proceeds of their book will go to charity and taxes.

New Jersey assemblyman Paul Moriarity wants to create a 10-restaurant trail to honor Bourdain, who grew up in Leonia, New Jersey. The trail would connect 10 New Jersey restaurants that Bourdain visited on a 2015 episode of Parts Unknown.

Michael Gandolfini was celebrating his junior high graduation with his dad in Rome on June 19, 2013 when the elder Gandolfini died of a heart attack in a hotel room. "5 years without your hugs, your laugh, and you smile. I miss you, but today is not about me," Michael wrote on Instagram on Tuesday. "As much as I hate that you’re gone, it in face was your time. And today I celebrate you and your life. I love you dad, miss you." Michael Gandolfini is now a student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He also has gotten into acting, playing a busboy on Ocean's Eight and appearing in at least three episodes of HBO's The Deuce.

The Desperate Housewives alum and executive producer of ABC's Grand Hotel gave birth to baby boy Santiago Enrique Baston on Tuesday in Los Angeles.

The two Latino series are “teaming up to end family separation at the border,” One Day at a Time co-showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett tweeted, urging writer to donate "to directly support legal services for detained separated parents and funding for their release." Vida creator Tanya Saracho used the hashtag #OneVidaataTime and a photo of her "beautiful writers room" to urge other Latino series, Jane the Virgin and ABC's upcoming Grand Hotel, to join in their fight. The border separation controversy has become heated in recent days as TV producers like Modern Family's Steven Levitan and Judd Apatow have called out Fox News' slanted coverage on the immigration debate.

The untitled Reese Witherspoon-produced project inspired by Curtis Sittenfeld’s short story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It is on hold as producers consider how to proceed with a different actress.

CBS' How I Met Your Mother was produced by 20th Century Fox. And co-creator Craig Thomas -- in a comment retweeted by fellow co-creator Carter Bays -- decided to speak out after Corey Lewandowski said "womp womp" on Fox News in response to a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome's separation from her family. "I am a former show-runner of a Fox-produced show," Thomas tweeted. "My son has special needs. I'd like to add my voice to those condemning Fox News for its heartlessness -- I can't imagine ever working for this corporation again in its current form."

Lewandowski, the former Trump campaign manager and CNN political commentator, went viral Tuesday night when he dismissed a story of an immigrant girl with Down syndrome being separated from her family by saying "womp womp." Kelly -- who slammed CNN's hiring of Lewandowski two years ago -- tweeted: "There is no low to which this coward Corey Lewandowski won’t sink. This man should not be afforded a national platform to spew his hate."

Maddow struggled to read a breaking news Associated Press story on the family immigration controversy. "Ugh, I'm sorry," Maddow tweeted after her show. "If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I'm on TV."

"When Armando Iannucci created it, part of the idea was giving a peek behind the curtain of what politics are really like, saying this is what politicians are really like in private," says showrunner David Mandel. "None of that seems true anymore. There's no sense of that. We know exactly what (Trump's) like. Nothing's private. And so much of the humor was always like, Selina Meyers is the worst person that should ever be president and this is the stupidest staff you've ever seen. No longer true either. I guess if you were making Veep today from scratch as opposed to Season 7, I don't quite know what you would be saying. So that's sort of some of the problem we're dealing with in Season 7 and thinking about Veep, like these people were kind of terrible, but you learn to love them and you root for them."

Those who've worked with Hardwick couldn't speak about his alleged sexual abuse of ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra, but they tell The Wrap that her other criticisms of him ring true. “Nobody’s surprised. Everyone can think back to incidents with Chris that line up with something in that story,” said one anonymous former Nerdist employee. “You don’t see anybody saying ‘That’s not the Chris Hardwick I know,’ because that is the Chris Hardwick most people know.” A producer who worked with Hardwick added: “She’s not writing about a complete stranger there, I could recognize him through the details. He’s an alcoholic who replaced his alcoholism with workaholism, and that may have led to just as bad a side effect for people. He wasn’t going out and getting drunk and insulting people, but he was concentrating on the work and building up his empire,  not concentrating on how that affected people.” ALSO: The takedown of Hardwick shows that #MeToo has gone too far.

"Season after season," says Willa Paskin, "The Bachelor has gotten away with proffering a harem of women to one man by framing it as a quest for true love—even though dozens of seasons in, we all know true love is hardly ever found. The show obscures its icky premise with mood (romantic tropical locations, the soulless model homes that pass for fancy on reality TV), promises (host Chris Harrison’s assurances that love is truly in the air), emotions (the good-faith efforts of the participants—or at least the production team coaching and editing them—to state and restate their commitment to being there for 'the right reasons,' while feeling all their feelings on camera), and, of course, drama. But The Proposal, unlike The Bachelor, does not take place over a period of weeks. It has no ambiance, no emotional connections. It has a premise, not promises. And it has no dramatic throughline. The Proposal trying to manufacture romance is like a chef trying to make a meal out of half a Rice Krispies Treat."

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• The Proposal's first couple is still engaged
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Drescher previously discussed a potential reboot last December. But with her CBS sitcom turning 25 in November, Drescher says she and her co-creator/ex-husband Peter Marc Jacob have been discussing some sort of comeback. She adds: "We're working on a very big project. It's going to be very exciting for the fans, but I'm not at liberty to announce it yet. But it's gonna be big."

They're the latest stars to join the drama series from Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams about a 1950s road trip through Jim Crow America.

"To the best of my recollection there has never been a TV series fronted by a predominantly black cast that makes romance — one romance in particular — its primary focus," says Melanie McFarland of the new OWN series inspired by the real-life romance of creators Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil. "To clarify, I’m talking about romance in all of its intoxication, pain, giddiness and lunacy, as the center of two lives. Not as a catalyst for soap opera conflict, or an element of a character portrait.  Not as a secondary occurrence to the action that happens where they work or a side story to what they do. Nope, simple garden variety, crazy stupid love, the kind that knocks a person’s senses out of their head and lasts. That’s the heart of OWN drama’s Love Is ___, debuting Tuesday at 10 p.m. And if the idea of a show that’s about messy love between two regular people makes you to react with some version of 'ugh,' this show is not for you." ALSO: There's so much to love about this series that it's easy to forgive the cheesy dialogue.

Ingraham came under scrutiny again for her comments comparing immigrant detention facilities for children to "summer camps." In response to the backlash, Fox News said in a statement: “Laura Ingraham’s very personal, on-the-ground commitment to the plight of impoverished and abandoned children—specifically in Guatemala— speaks for itself. So too does her strong belief in a commonsense, legal immigration system, which will continue to be a focus of her show. Fox News will never tolerate or give in to attempts to silence diverse viewpoints by agenda-driven intimidation efforts.”

Cash Only will follow the celebrity chef and Huang's World star as he focuses on race, identity and multiculturalism through the kitchen staff. "While not all Americans understand and welcome immigration, a lot of the anger towards immigrants could be resolved if it wasn’t presented as a zero sum game where dominant culture loses every time an immigrant is granted entry," says Huang. "I hope we can provide much needed perspective on this issue by examining the world through the eyes of the globally marginalized. Immigrants everywhere are same same but different.”

Bruce Hartman wants to create quality family programming with his Oaxis project (a combination of oasis and axis).

Watch the unintentional humor of stitching stock footage together.

The community college football docuseries returns for Season 3 on July 20.

The Jane the Virgin star has decided to use the CBS TV Studios money she was given to campaign for Emmy consideration to fund a college scholarship for an undocumented high school student. Instead of using the money to pay for swag and glamorous dresses to impress Emmy voters, Rodriguez partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles to find the perfect recipient: a young woman headed to Princeton University. "FYC is a bizarre dance," Rodriguez says of the increasingly expensive For Your Consideration Emmy campaigns. "Whatever you do requires an insane amount of money." She adds: "Our show has always jumped at any opportunity to help me do something for the Latinx community. So I asked my showrunner, Jennie (Snyder Urman), if we could do something different with the money this year."

The Big Sick husband-and-wife team's new series, based on true stories about immigrants from Epic magazine, "will go beyond the headlines to look at the funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring and surprising stories of immigrants in America, when they’re more relevant now than ever."

Levitan tweeted that he is so upset by Fox News' "23-hour-a-day support of the NRA, conspiracy theories and Trump’s lies" that after Modern Family is done he'll be "setting up shop elsewhere" and leaving 20th Century Fox, his studio of two decades. In a statement to Deadline, Levitan clarified his comments, saying: “I have great respect and admiration for Dana Walden, Gary Newman, Peter Rice and everyone at 20th Century Fox TV studio who have all treated me so well for almost two decades. For now, I will take some time to see where these people land, and at that point I will make a decision about my future.” ALSO: Seth MacFarlane donates $2.5 million to NPR in response to Tucker Carlson's attack on the media.

Kaling tweeted a photo this morning of her reading a script from the FXX series.

After Klepper's audience booed at his cancelation announcment, he responded in character: "Turn that boo upside down. We will fight because they're trying to take us down. Comedy Central came to me and said they didn't like the 'things that I say,' 'the face that I have,' 'the person that I have become,' so we all know who's to blame here. Not me. It's them. They are the ones conspiring against me."

The crime thriller that airs internationally on AXN and on Amazon in the U.S. has been picked up for a second season. No word on whether Season 2 will also air on Amazon.

The Voice kicks off Season 15 on Sept 24, This Is Us returns Sept. 25, The Good Place will have a one-hour Season 3 premiere on Sept. 27, while Will & Grace returns a day later on Thursday, Oct. 4.

Monday's pre-taped ceremony was up 21% from last year, when it aired on a Sunday in early May with host Adam DeVine.

“I’m truly sorry for making inconsiderate comments several years ago and apologize to anyone I hurt,” Melton said in a statement after his old tweets were recently revealed. “What I posted and said was immature, offensive and inappropriate. I am ashamed of how I acted and there is no excuse for that behavior. I’m striving to do better and will use this experience to grow, helping others to understand how these types of statements are completely unacceptable.”

The departures of Merrin Dungey, Melina Kanakaredes and Moran Atias come as the Fox medical drama adds Jane Leeves and makes Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Glenn Morshower series regulars for Season 2.

On Father's Day, the ESPN host tweeted about the "heaviness of giving a eulogy for a son who never had a chance to breathe."

Subscribers to YouTube TV can add 14 Starz and Starz Encore streaming channels for $9 a month.