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Entertainment - Monday, April 27, 2026
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Entertainment headlines for Monday, April 27, 2026
Entertainment headlines for 2026-04-27 focused on 3 major developments: 1) George Clooney Defends Jimmy Kimmel After Trump’s ‘Heated’ Criticisms: ‘Jokes Are Jokes’ (Variety) 2) Trump’s Latest Attack On Jimmy Kimmel: FCC Commissioner Weighs In, Jane Fonda’s Group Urges ABC To Not “Obey In Advance” — Update (Deadline) 3) Nedra Talley Ross, Last Surviving Member of the Ronettes, Dies at 80 (NYT Arts) Across these stories, coverage emphasized high-impact updates, policy shifts, and events with broad audience relevance. Together they provide a representative view of the day in entertainment news before diving into each full report.
Why it matters: This snapshot shows where entertainment attention concentrated on 2026-04-27, highlighting the themes, entities, and geographies that dominated publisher coverage. Because ranking blends freshness, engagement, and source diversity, it helps separate signal from noise. Use it as a quick daily briefing and then open the top stories for fuller context.
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George Clooney Defends Jimmy Kimmel After Trump’s ‘Heated’ Criticisms: ‘Jokes Are Jokes’
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Trump’s Latest Attack On Jimmy Kimmel: FCC Commissioner Weighs In, Jane Fonda’s Group Urges ABC To Not “Obey In Advance” — Update
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Nedra Talley Ross, Last Surviving Member of the Ronettes, Dies at 80
Sources: #3 NYT Arts
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#1 Score 80George Clooney Defends Jimmy Kimmel After Trump’s ‘Heated’ Criticisms: ‘Jokes Are Jokes’George Clooney is speaking out in defense of Jimmy Kimmel after Donald Trump’s latest attempt to pressure ABC to fire the late-night host. The president blasted Kimmel’s “despicable call to violence” on Monday, referring to a joke about Melania having the glow of an “expectant widow.” The comment was made during a skit on “Jimmy […]
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#2 Score 75Trump’s Latest Attack On Jimmy Kimmel: FCC Commissioner Weighs In, Jane Fonda’s Group Urges ABC To Not “Obey In Advance” — UpdateA Democratic FCC commissioner warned that the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “should not become a pretext for censoring speech,” after President Donald Trump again called for ABC to fire the late-night host over a joke he made last week in his monologue. First Lady Melania Trump also urged the network to “take […]
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#3 Score 75Nedra Talley Ross, Last Surviving Member of the Ronettes, Dies at 80With towering hairdos and perfect harmonies, she and her cousins Ronnie and Estelle brought a fresh edge to the girl-group sound in hits like “Be My Baby.”
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#4 Score 68Laura Lekkos To Adapt Bestseller ‘Expiration Dates’ For Emma Roberts & Amazon MGM StudiosEXCLUSIVE: Laura Lekkos has come aboard to adapt Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestseller Expiration Dates, which is in development at Amazon MGM Studios with Emma Roberts set to star. Deadline first told you about the project. The novel follows a woman who receives paper slips from the universe with the date her relationship will expire. When […]
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#5 Score 68How Camper Became the Go-To R&B Producer for Victoria Monét, Kehlani and Jill ScottOver the past year, Camper has quietly been steering the sound of contemporary R&B. The producer, whose real name is Darhyl Camper Jr., has sat behind the boards for tracks from Justin Bieber, Coco Jones, Mary J. Blige, Ty Dolla $ign and Victoria Monét, among many others. So when it came time for him to […]
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#6 Score 65Luis Puenzo, Director of Oscar-Winning Argentine Film, Dies at 80“The Official Story,” set during Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, won the country its first Academy Award for best foreign language film, in 1986.
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#7 Score 61Laurie Metcalf Talks Scott Rudin, Roseanne Barr And Falling Out With Steppenwolf In New Yorker ProfileLaurie Metcalf, currently starring in the hit Broadway revival Death of a Salesman co-starring Nathan Lane, speaks emotionally about the show’s producer (and her frequent collaborator) Scott Rudin in a lengthy New Yorker profile out today. “It’s so touchy,” she tells writer Michael Schulman, who notes in the profile that Metcalf teared up when speaking […]
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#8 Score 58Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Will Be 38.5% Owned by Middle Eastern Funds Following Close: FilingParamount Skydance said the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery will be 49.5% owned by foreign investors, with about 38.5% of the equity in the new company held by a trio of Middle Eastern funds. In a filing Monday with the FCC, Paramount said Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will have a 15.1% equity stake; the United […]
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#9 Score 57CBS News London Bureau Chief Claire Day To Depart; Network Plans Foreign Editor RoleClaire Day, a 23-year veteran of CBS News who has served as London bureau chief since May, is leaving the network. The move comes as the network is planning a new leadership structure for its international coverage, with the introduction of a foreign editor role, CBS News president and executive editor Tom Cibrowski wrote in […]
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#10 Score 57‘Michael’ Fans Danced in the Aisles, Critics Be DamnedThe biopic of the pop singer crushed box-office records on its opening weekend as admirers moonwalked to a movie that critics have savaged.