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5 days ago
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Nathan Fielder Reveals Why Paramount+ Removed ‘Nathan for You' Episode
On HBO and Max, Nathan Fielder is attempting to rid America of all air disasters. But The Rehearsal just made a stop in Paramount-bashing territory. On Sunday's episode of The Rehearsal, Fielder revealed a conversation he had with Paramount after discovery Paramount+ had removed a 2015 episode of his series Nathan for You, which originally aired on Comedy Central, one of Paramount Global's cable channels. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'The Rehearsal' Season 2 Trailer: Nathan Fielder Believes He Has the Answer to Recent Air Disasters Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone Take a Ride on the Wild Side as TV's Cringiest Couple All the Stars Who Attended Kate Berlant's One-Woman Show Opening Night at Pasadena Playhouse In Nathan for You season three's second episode, titled 'Horseback Riding/Man Zone,' after the Vancouver-based jacket company Taiga posted a tribute to Doug Collins, a Holocaust denier, Fielder launches a (real) winter-wear line called Summit Ice. Fielder is from Vancouver; Taiga touts its apparel as 'German-engineered' and 'Canadian-made.' Though like all things Fielder the endeavor began as a low-key goof, Summit Ice is actually a very real brand. It donates all of its profits to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre in Vancouver. Fielder, who is Jewish, says sales since 2015 have raised 'millions of dollars.' On The Rehearsal season two episode two, Fielder calls Summit Ice his 'proudest achievement' and said it reiterates the stated mission of the current season, proving that 'a comedy show could make a difference.' In the case of this current season of this comedy show, Fielder has been using his trademark elaborate setups (and a whole bunch of HBO money) to ostensibly help empower co-pilots to stand up to captains in dangerous in-flight scenarios. Lately, Summit Ice has been raising awareness (and again, money) without the episode of its creation even being available to stream. 'In late 2023, I discovered that the episode of Nathan for You featuring the Summit Ice story mysteriously went missing from the Paramount+ streaming service,' Fielder said on The Rehearsal. So Fielder emailed 'some contacts I had at Paramount.' Striking the correct tone was 'complicated,' he said. 'The tricky thing is, Paramount is currently airing a different series of mine: a scripted drama that hadn't yet been renewed,' Fielder continued, referring to Showtime's (also owned by Paramount) The Curse. It still has not been renewed (or officially canceled). 'How I spoke to them could have career repercussions.' That's not wholly dissimilar to what can happen when a co-pilot takes the controls from their captain, Fielder argues. A bit of a stretch, but it works. 'I remember wanting to convey how urgent this was for me, and yet my email was extremely cordial, using phrases like 'Forever grateful' and 'Happy Holidays,'' Fielder recalled, pulling up the emails. Fielder hired an actor to re-create the scene as he awkwardly hovered over his shoulder. The Fielder Method, as we're occasionally told. Paramount told Fielder the Summit Ice episode had been 'taken down intentionally' due to 'sensitivities,' he read off the emails. The decision originated with Paramount+ in Germany, where executives expressed being 'uncomfortable' with 'anything that touches on antisemitism' in the wake of the Israel/Hamas conflict, the emails stated. It was a local decision that soon went global. 'Before long, the ideology of Paramount+ Germany had spread to the entire globe, eliminating all Jewish content that made them uncomfortable,' Fielder says, adding, 'This is real, by the way.' It is real: Fielder is correct that the Summit Ice episode is not streaming on Paramount+. The decision came 'following a standards review,' a spokesperson for Paramount told The Hollywood Reporter. 'Currently on the Paramount app, there are 50 results for 'nazi,' 10 for 'Hitler' and zero for 'Judaism,'' Fielder said. 'We've been erased.' THR re-created those searches, and Fielder is about right, give or take. The results for 'nazi' though includes some kids shows that are definitely not about nazis, so it's an imperfect system. A search for 'jew' yielded four results. Last night's episode of The Rehearsal goes on to see Fielder visiting a ridiculous re-creation of what he guesses the Paramount Germany offices to look like, as Fielder gives himself a chance to express what he really wanted to say in those hesitant emails. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise 'Yellowstone' and the Sprawling Dutton Family Tree, Explained
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Show That Makes Being Awkward Feel Good
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what's keeping them entertained. Today's special guest is Serena Dai, a senior editor who has written about the easiest way to keep your friends, the art of the restaurateur, and the endless hunt to make meaning of marriage. Serena was surprised by how much she enjoyed The Rehearsal, the comedian Nathan Fielder's latest pseudo-reality series. She's also an avid romance-novel reader, a newly minted Jonas Brothers fan, and a longtime admirer of Kathryn Hahn's work. The Culture Survey: Serena Dai The television show I'm most enjoying right now: I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I could not bear to watch Nathan for You, a beloved show where the comedian Nathan Fielder suggests outlandish plans to help small businesses. Every person I trusted assured me that Fielder was a genius, and I got the sense that I must lack some sort of sophistication for not enjoying it. The entrepreneurs he was trying to 'help' with suggestions such as poop-flavored frozen yogurt were real people; I felt too badly for them to find the show entertaining. So I was surprised to discover that I loved his new series, The Rehearsal—and now, a few episodes into the second season, I finally understand the 'genius' moniker that my buddies have bequeathed him. Similar to Nathan for You, the show pairs Fielder's monotonous tone with outrageous conceits, but this time, the premise is staging 'rehearsals' to help people prepare for difficult moments. Though he's still cringey (and still allegedly misleading real people), he also poses questions about how comedy can effect real-life change, and reveals some insights about his own role in the entertainment industry's worst impulses. His critiques feel organic instead of forced, something that is not easy. By the second episode of the new season, I found myself not only in awe of the lengths he would go for a bit but also laughing out loud at the results. [Related: Nathan Fielder is his own worst enemy.] The upcoming entertainment event I'm most looking forward to: The return of Lena Dunham's work to our TV screens, with her upcoming Netflix show, Too Much. I recently rewatched the first season of Girls, and seeing it in my 30s (long after the heated discourse about Millennials and nepo babies that surrounded the show's debut), I had a deeper appreciation for Dunham's talent for writing sharply drawn characters—ones who, even when they're infuriating, you can't help but love. When she hits, she hits! The new show, which debuts on July 10, stars one of my favorite internet personalities, the comedian Megan Stalter. She has an intensity in her facial expressions that makes me laugh before she even says a word, and I am eager to see how Dunham works with her talents. [Related: Eight perfect episodes of TV] An actor I would watch in anything: Kathryn Hahn. She's funny and moving in so much that she does, but I really fell for her in I Love Dick, an adaptation of the Chris Kraus novel where she excels at playing a woman who wants and wants and wants. My favorite way of wasting time on my phone: This year, I finally did something that I've been thinking about for years: I started pulling up the Kindle app to read a book when I had the instinct to refresh my Instagram feed. I read an essay a long time ago recommending it as a way both to read more books and to make phone time feel less terrible, but I hadn't done it. For years, I still felt that any extended time I spent on my phone meant something bad about me, and frankly, I was also just easily distracted. But I decided I didn't need to read Proust, only stay off social media; as a result, I have probably tripled my intake of romance novels, which are breezy yet still require an attention span longer than 30 seconds. I recently dipped my toe into historical romance and have been loving the Ravenels series, by Lisa Kleypas, which you may also enjoy if you're a fan of Bridgerton. I do still spend plenty of time on Instagram trying to remind myself to not pay too much attention to parenting or fitness influencers, but I promise it's less. Much, much less. An author I will read anything by: Jasmine Guillory. I love romance, I love love, and I love her characters. An online creator whom I'm a fan of: I've been finding small ways to incorporate more Mandarin into my life because I'm trying to speak it more to my toddler, and a friend recommended following her Chinese teacher, Neruda Ling, on Instagram. He blends internet humor with Mandarin lessons, which is exactly what I need after a lifetime of associating the language with textbooks and long Sunday mornings in suburban community-college classrooms. Crucially, he also explains curse words and gay slang, something my immigrant mother would never have done in depth. To be honest, I'm not sure if I remember any of the phrases he's taught, and even if I did, I doubt that I would have the guts to deploy them in casual conversation. Mostly, these videos remind me that the language doesn't have to feel inherently stiff like it did when I was growing up, and that Mandarin can, in fact, be a source of joy. A good recommendation I recently received: I can't believe I'm saying this, but have you heard the latest Jonas Brothers single? It's called 'Love Me to Heaven,' and my husband stopped everything in our apartment one busy Saturday to make me listen to it. If you, like me, had kind of written them off as Disney Channel heartthrobs or tabloid fodder or reality-show jokesters, you too might be delighted to hear this pop-rock bop. I want to drive a convertible to the beach with the roof down and blast this song the whole way there. Here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic: The vanishers: secrets of the world's greatest privacy experts The mother who never stopped believing her son was still there The talented Mr. Vance The Week Ahead Karate Kid: Legends, an action movie starring Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio (in theaters Friday) Season 3 of And Just Like That, a sequel to Sex and the City (premieres Thursday on Max) Never Flinch, a crime novel by Stephen King about a killer and a dangerous stalker (out Tuesday) Essay The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk's Deadly Attack By Katherine J. Wu In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk. The bird—a young Cooper's hawk, to be exact—wasn't using the crosswalk, in the sense of treading on the painted white stripes to reach the other side of the road in West Orange, New Jersey. But it was using the crosswalk—more specifically, the pedestrian-crossing signal that people activate to keep traffic out of said crosswalk—to ambush prey. Read the full article. More in Culture The unbearable weight of Mission: Impossible Time for scary movies to make us laugh again. America's Johnson & Johnson problem No one is better at being looked at than Kim Kardashian. What is Alison Bechdel's secret? Catch Up on The largest upward transfer of wealth in American history The decline and fall of Elon Musk The anti-natalist's revenge Photo Album Take a look at these photos of the week, showing a swannery in southern England, tornado damage in Kentucky, a rally race in a Chinese desert, and more. Explore all of our newsletters. When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Atlantic
The Show That Makes Being Awkward Feel Good
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what's keeping them entertained. Today's special guest is Serena Dai, a senior editor who has written about the easiest way to keep your friends, the art of the restaurateur, and the endless hunt to make meaning of marriage. Serena was surprised by how much she enjoyed The Rehearsal, the comedian Nathan Fielder's latest pseudo-reality series. She's also an avid romance-novel reader, a newly minted Jonas Brothers fan, and a longtime admirer of Kathryn Hahn's work. The Culture Survey: Serena Dai The television show I'm most enjoying right now: I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I could not bear to watch Nathan for You, a beloved show where the comedian Nathan Fielder suggests outlandish plans to help small businesses. Every person I trusted assured me that Fielder was a genius, and I got the sense that I must lack some sort of sophistication for not enjoying it. The entrepreneurs he was trying to 'help' with suggestions such as poop-flavored frozen yogurt were real people; I felt too badly for them to find the show entertaining. So I was surprised to discover that I loved his new series, The Rehearsal —and now, a few episodes into the second season, I finally understand the 'genius' moniker that my buddies have bequeathed him. Similar to Nathan for You, the show pairs Fielder's monotonous tone with outrageous conceits, but this time, the premise is staging 'rehearsals' to help people prepare for difficult moments. Though he's still cringey (and still allegedly misleading real people), he also poses questions about how comedy can effect real-life change, and reveals some insights about his own role in the entertainment industry's worst impulses. His critiques feel organic instead of forced, something that is not easy. By the second episode of the new season, I found myself not only in awe of the lengths he would go for a bit but also laughing out loud at the results. [ Related: Nathan Fielder is his own worst enemy. ] The upcoming entertainment event I'm most looking forward to: The return of Lena Dunham's work to our TV screens, with her upcoming Netflix show, Too Much. I recently rewatched the first season of Girls, and seeing it in my 30s (long after the heated discourse about Millennials and nepo babies that surrounded the show's debut), I had a deeper appreciation for Dunham's talent for writing sharply drawn characters—ones who, even when they're infuriating, you can't help but love. When she hits, she hits! The new show, which debuts on July 10, stars one of my favorite internet personalities, the comedian Megan Stalter. She has an intensity in her facial expressions that makes me laugh before she even says a word, and I am eager to see how Dunham works with her talents. [ Related: Eight perfect episodes of TV ] An actor I would watch in anything: Kathryn Hahn. She's funny and moving in so much that she does, but I really fell for her in I Love Dick, an adaptation of the Chris Kraus novel where she excels at playing a woman who wants and wants and wants. My favorite way of wasting time on my phone: This year, I finally did something that I've been thinking about for years: I started pulling up the Kindle app to read a book when I had the instinct to refresh my Instagram feed. I read an essay a long time ago recommending it as a way both to read more books and to make phone time feel less terrible, but I hadn't done it. For years, I still felt that any extended time I spent on my phone meant something bad about me, and frankly, I was also just easily distracted. But I decided I didn't need to read Proust, only stay off social media; as a result, I have probably tripled my intake of romance novels, which are breezy yet still require an attention span longer than 30 seconds. I recently dipped my toe into historical romance and have been loving the Ravenels series, by Lisa Kleypas, which you may also enjoy if you're a fan of Bridgerton. I do still spend plenty of time on Instagram trying to remind myself to not pay too much attention to parenting or fitness influencers, but I promise it's less. Much, much less. An author I will read anything by: Jasmine Guillory. I love romance, I love love, and I love her characters. An online creator whom I'm a fan of: I've been finding small ways to incorporate more Mandarin into my life because I'm trying to speak it more to my toddler, and a friend recommended following her Chinese teacher, Neruda Ling, on Instagram. He blends internet humor with Mandarin lessons, which is exactly what I need after a lifetime of associating the language with textbooks and long Sunday mornings in suburban community-college classrooms. Crucially, he also explains curse words and gay slang, something my immigrant mother would never have done in depth. To be honest, I'm not sure if I remember any of the phrases he's taught, and even if I did, I doubt that I would have the guts to deploy them in casual conversation. Mostly, these videos remind me that the language doesn't have to feel inherently stiff like it did when I was growing up, and that Mandarin can, in fact, be a source of joy. A good recommendation I recently received: I can't believe I'm saying this, but have you heard the latest Jonas Brothers single? It's called ' Love Me to Heaven,' and my husband stopped everything in our apartment one busy Saturday to make me listen to it. If you, like me, had kind of written them off as Disney Channel heartthrobs or tabloid fodder or reality-show jokesters, you too might be delighted to hear this pop-rock bop. I want to drive a convertible to the beach with the roof down and blast this song the whole way there. Here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic: The Week Ahead Karate Kid: Legends, an action movie starring Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio (in theaters Friday) Season 3 of And Just Like That, a sequel to Sex and the City (premieres Thursday on Max) Never Flinch, a crime novel by Stephen King about a killer and a dangerous stalker (out Tuesday) Essay The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk's Deadly Attack In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk. The bird—a young Cooper's hawk, to be exact—wasn't using the crosswalk, in the sense of treading on the painted white stripes to reach the other side of the road in West Orange, New Jersey. But it was using the crosswalk—more specifically, the pedestrian-crossing signal that people activate to keep traffic out of said crosswalk—to ambush prey. More in Culture Catch Up on The Atlantic Photo Album Take a look at these photos of the week, showing a swannery in southern England, tornado damage in Kentucky, a rally race in a Chinese desert, and more.
USA Today
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
When is 'The Rehearsal' Season 2 finale? Date, time, where to watch and stream
When is 'The Rehearsal' Season 2 finale? Date, time, where to watch and stream Show Caption Hide Caption Nathan Fielder slams Paramount+ for cutting antisemitism episode Nathan Fielder didn't hold back on 'The Rehearsal,' using his HBO platform to call out Paramount+ for removing a controversial episode of 'Nathan for You'. unbranded - Entertainment The Season 2 finale of "The Rehearsal" is here. In Season 2, comedian Nathan Fielder pointed attention towards what he says is a worrisome cause of airplane crashes: A lack of communication between co-pilots and pilots due to taboos in the airline industry and for fear that speaking up could end their careers. Fielder, 42, stars in the comedy series, while also serving as writer, director and executive producer. The comedian also created and starred in "Nathan For You," another comedic docuseries that follows Fielder as he tries to help small businesses create a profit using satirical, out-of-this-world methods and marketing techniques. The six-episode season kicked off on April 20, nearly three years after the premiere of Season 1. Here's what to know about the finale, including how to watch. When does the Season 2 finale come out? How to watch "The Rehearsal" Season 2 finale, "My Controls,' will air on Sunday, May 26, at 10:30 p.m. ET on HBO and its streaming platform Max, which will soon return to the name HBO Max. Both Seasons 1 and 2 of "The Rehearsal" are available for streaming on Max. Julia is a trending reporter for USA TODAY. Connect with her on LinkedIn, X, Instagram and TikTok: @juliamariegz, or email her at jgomez@
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Peacock's 'Office' Follow-Up Gets First Look and Title: ‘The Paper'
The next series in the Office world officially has a title — and a premiere date. The show, in which the documentary crew from The Office lands on a new subject, is called The Paper. It follows the publisher (Domhnall Gleeson) and staff of a historic but struggling newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. More from The Hollywood Reporter Inside the NBCUniversal Upfront: A Caustic Seth MacFarlane, an Aerial Ad Chief and ... John Tesh NBC Planning 100th Anniversary TV Special in 2026 'Lupin' Returning for Season 4 The series, from former Office showrunner Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, is set to premiere in September. Peacock also released the first image from the series, which also shows Oscar Nuñez, who will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez from the earlier series. Nuñez, Gleeson and co-star Sabrina Impacciatore appeared on stage Monday at NBCUniversal's upfront presentation to advertisers, and Nuñez related that he talked with Daniels that post-The Office, he imagined Oscar moving to a more cosmopolitan environment. 'Greg heard me and moved Oscar to Toledo, Ohio, which has three times the population of Scranton,' Nuñez said. 'So it's nice to be heard.' Daniels told The Hollywood Reporter during an interview for an Office oral history that The Paper will employ much of the same crew that worked on the former series and that he's excited to work on another mockumentary. 'It's about this struggling Midwestern newspaper that's much reduced from its glory days. A lot of the story lines are about how this guy, Domhnall Gleeson's character, is trying to restore this paper, and he just doesn't have the budget for hiring reporters, and he has to use all the staff that work there on a volunteer basis to be reporters. They're completely untrained and don't know what they're doing,' Daniels said. 'It's a fruitful premise. There's a tremendous history for local papers. The villain here is the internet and the ability to look at everybody's news for free, and all the ad revenue going to Google.' The Paper also stars Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Alex Edelman, Ramona Young and Tim Key. Duane Shepard Sr., Allan Havey, Nate Jackson, Mo Welch, Nancy Lenehan, Molly Ephraim and Tracy Letts will have guest roles. Ikumelo, Edelman, Rahill and Welch are also writers on the series. Universal Television produces the series. Daniels and Koman (Nathan for You) executive produce with The Office creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, Howard Klein, Ben Silverman and Banijay Americas. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise 'Yellowstone' and the Sprawling Dutton Family Tree, Explained
