https://www.scmp.com/rss/521761/feed The latest news and top stories on CBS. A leading entity in the media and broadcasting sector, New York City based CBS is a major American commercial broadcasting company. It operates the CBS national television network, alongside interests in publishing, cable television and television production. Primarily serving audiences and advertisers across the United States and key international markets, CBS is renowned as one of the traditional "Big Three" American television networks. Its overall... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa Ice hockey, a love triangle and the fake-dating trope … Prime Video’s latest show, Off Campus, brings together all the best elements of some of the internet’s favourite romance shows (Heated Rivalry, The Summer I Turned Pretty and Maxton Hall) from the past few years. Adapted from author Elle Kennedy’s book series of the same name, Off Campus follows Briar University’s hockey-hating music major, Hannah Wells (Ella Bright), who strikes up a fake relationship with hockey captain Garrett Graham... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3354247/meet-antonio-cipriano-who-plays-garretts-best-friend-logan-prime-videos-campus?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3354247/meet-antonio-cipriano-who-plays-garretts-best-friend-logan-prime-videos-campus?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 May 2026 22:00:12 +0000 Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan Following high-level mediation efforts in Islamabad over the weekend, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held face-to-face talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Monday. The diplomatic surge comes as US President Donald Trump convened his senior national security team to evaluate a fresh Iranian peace proposal, delivered via Pakistan, aimed at ending the months-long Middle East crisis and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The White House confirmed the proposal called... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3351617/trump-weighs-irans-red-lines-tehrans-top-diplomat-engages-russias-putin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3351617/trump-weighs-irans-red-lines-tehrans-top-diplomat-engages-russias-putin?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:18:25 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert, a critic of the Trump administration, says he was barred from airing an interview with a Democrat seeking a US Senate seat in Texas by network lawyers concerned the appearance would violate federal fairness rules. Speaking on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday night, Colbert said the lawyers informed his team that state congressman James Talarico could not appear on the broadcast and his name shouldn’t be mentioned. “He was supposed to be here, but... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343857/trump-critic-colbert-says-cbs-blocked-interview-democratic-candidate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343857/trump-critic-colbert-says-cbs-blocked-interview-democratic-candidate?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:59:33 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Just before Christmas, US President Donald Trump has unleashed a fresh blast of vitriol at late-night comedy talk shows, saying comedian Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic train wreck” who should be “put to sleep”. Colbert’s The Late Show is scheduled to end in May 2026, a decision his fans say smacks of censorship. In a late-night social media post, Trump said that Colbert “has actually gotten worse” since being “terminated by CBS, but left out to dry”. “Stephen is running on hatred and fumes – A... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337669/trump-says-comedian-colbert-should-be-put-sleep?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337669/trump-says-comedian-colbert-should-be-put-sleep?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:16:24 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A news segment about the Trump administration’s immigration policy that was abruptly pulled from 60 Minutes was mistakenly aired on a television app after the last-minute decision not to air it touched off a public debate about journalistic independence. The segment featured interviews with migrants who were sent to a notorious El Salvador prison called the Terrorism Confinement Centre, or CECOT, under US President Donald Trump’s aggressive crackdown on immigration. The story was pulled from... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337552/60-minutes-story-trump-immigration-crackdown-accidentally-airs-canadian-app?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337552/60-minutes-story-trump-immigration-crackdown-accidentally-airs-canadian-app?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:53:04 +0000 Reuters Reuters CBS News pulled a 60 Minutes report on El Salvador’s CECOT prison just hours before its ‍scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it would air at a future time. “The broadcast line-up for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated,” the programme posted on social media. “Our report ‘Inside CECOT’ will air in a future broadcast,” the programme posted on social media three hours before it was slated to air. A CBS News spokesperson said in ⁠an email that the segment “needed additional reporting”.... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337379/did-cbs-postpone-60-minutes-report-el-salvador-prison-political-reasons?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337379/did-cbs-postpone-60-minutes-report-el-salvador-prison-political-reasons?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:38:22 +0000 Reuters,Agence France-Presse Reuters,Agence France-Presse The BBC said on Tuesday it would fight a US$10 billion lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump against the British broadcaster over a documentary that edited his 2021 speech ahead of the US Capitol riot. “As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case,” a BBC spokesperson said in a statement, adding the company would not be making “further comment on ongoing legal proceedings”. Trump’s lawsuit alleges the BBC defamed him and violated a Florida law that bars deceptive and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336553/trump-sue-uks-bbc-over-panorama-edit-2021-capitol-speech-tuesday?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336553/trump-sue-uks-bbc-over-panorama-edit-2021-capitol-speech-tuesday?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:04:19 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump solidified his takeover of Washington’s John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts on Sunday by hosting its flagship awards programme, mixing politics with a celebration of stars from music and film. This year’s Kennedy Centre Honours, widely seen as the top US recognition for lifetime achievement in the performing arts, feted actor Sylvester Stallone, disco singer Gloria Gaynor, country musician George Strait, Phantom of the Opera star Michael Crawford and rock... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335544/trump-says-he-hosting-kennedy-centre-honours-recognising-sylvester-stallone-and-kiss?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335544/trump-says-he-hosting-kennedy-centre-honours-recognising-sylvester-stallone-and-kiss?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:54:56 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press David Attenborough has broken Dick Van Dyke’s record for oldest Daytime Emmy winner, taking the trophy for daytime personality, non-daily as host of Netflix’s Secret Lives of Orangutans. Attenborough, who is 99, was not on hand to collect his award on Friday. The British broadcaster’s career as a writer, host and narrator spans eight decades. Van Dyke was 98 when he won as guest performer in a daytime drama series for Days of Our Lives in 2024. He is the oldest actor to win a Daytime... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329495/british-naturalist-david-attenborough-becomes-oldest-emmy-winner-99?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329495/british-naturalist-david-attenborough-becomes-oldest-emmy-winner-99?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:00:13 +0000 Reuters Reuters At least 30 news organisations declined to sign a new Pentagon access policy for journalists, warning of the potential for less comprehensive coverage of the world’s most powerful military ahead of a Tuesday deadline to accept new restrictions. The policy requires journalists to acknowledge new rules on press access, including that they could be branded security risks and have their Pentagon press badges revoked if they ask department employees to disclose classified and some types of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329041/major-us-news-outlets-reject-new-pentagon-press-access-policy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329041/major-us-news-outlets-reject-new-pentagon-press-access-policy?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:00:16 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo It must have been quite an intellectual or spiritual comedown going from “the end of history” to “the decline of Western civilisation”. For a political writer who first made his name by claiming the final historical triumph of Western liberal democracy and free-market capitalism over all other economic and political systems, the decline of his own society – à la Oswald Spengler, who wrote The Decline of the West – seems to have occupied Francis Fukuyama greatly of late. I write this not in... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3328325/how-fukuyama-goes-end-history-end-west?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3328325/how-fukuyama-goes-end-history-end-west?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:30:08 +0000 Agencies Agencies Disney said Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return to its ABC network line-up on Tuesday, six days after it suspended the talk-show host following threats by the Federal Communications Commission chairman over comments the host had made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In announcing the decision to bring Kimmel back to the airwaves, ABC’s parent company said it had suspended production of the show “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country”. The Disney... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326447/hundreds-stars-sign-letter-defending-free-speech-after-jimmy-kimmels-suspension?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326447/hundreds-stars-sign-letter-defending-free-speech-after-jimmy-kimmels-suspension?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:40:29 +0000 Agencies Agencies After ABC suspended comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show following a threat from the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), congressional Democrats have denounced the Trump administration’s threats against political critics and unveiled a bill that would bolster free speech protections against government officials. While the bill is unlikely to gain traction in a Republican-controlled Congress, Democrats harshly criticised the Trump administration for pressuring ABC towards the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326049/democrats-introduce-bill-protect-free-speech-following-kimmel-suspension?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326049/democrats-introduce-bill-protect-free-speech-following-kimmel-suspension?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:03:59 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Television’s biggest stars hit the red carpet on Sunday under a bright September sun for the Emmys, the first of many awards shows that will offer style trends on the road to the Oscars. Here are some of the top looks seen at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Selena Gomez, who stars in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, arrived on the arm of her fiancé, music producer Benny Blanco, wearing a floor-length red sleeveless Louis Vuitton column gown with a slit and a sweeping train. Sydney... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/celebrity-style/article/3325535/emmys-2025-red-carpet-selena-gomez-lv-blackpinks-lisa-lever-couture?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/celebrity-style/article/3325535/emmys-2025-red-carpet-selena-gomez-lv-blackpinks-lisa-lever-couture?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:40:54 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa Over a decade after making his acting debut on Nickelodeon’s iCarly in 2012, actor Pierson Fodé is reuniting with the show’s lead actress Miranda Cosgrove in new Netflix romcom The Wrong Paris, which releases today. The film follows Cosgrove’s character, a single woman who signs up for a dating show thinking it’s filmed in Paris, France, only to discover that the show takes place in Paris, Texas. Fodé stars opposite Cosgrove as the show’s bachelor and her love interest. In July, Fodé shared... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3325330/meet-pierson-fode-netflix-romcom-wrong-paris?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3325330/meet-pierson-fode-netflix-romcom-wrong-paris?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:00:19 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa Whether they’re guilt-watching or full-blown fans, viewers have been unable to tear their eyes away from The Summer I Turned Pretty – partly because of the drama around the love triangle, but also thanks to its engaging characters. American actress Kristen Connolly landed the recurring role of Lucinda Jewel on the beloved Prime Video series' ongoing third and final instalment. Adapted from Jenny Han’s trilogy of novels, The Summer I Turned Pretty follows Isabel “Belly” Conklin, who navigates a... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3323062/meet-kristen-connolly-aka-lucinda-jewel-summer-i-turned-pretty?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3323062/meet-kristen-connolly-aka-lucinda-jewel-summer-i-turned-pretty?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:00:12 +0000 Cherry Liu Cherry Liu Patrick Brammall, 49, has been cast as Anne Hathaway’s new love interest in the highly anticipated film, The Devil Wears Prada 2, replacing Adrian Grenier’s character from the original 2006 film. On August 5, Brammall was spotted filming an intimate and romantic scene with 42-year-old Anne Hathaway on the streets of Brooklyn, New York. Hathaway, who is reprising her role as Andrea “Andy” Sachs, was seen wearing a shimmering blue dress, while Bramall was in a tailored navy suit with a light blue... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3321211/meet-patrick-brammall-actor-playing-andys-love-interest-devil-wears-prada-2?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/celebrities/article/3321211/meet-patrick-brammall-actor-playing-andys-love-interest-devil-wears-prada-2?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:00:12 +0000 Reuters Reuters Late-night television had been fighting for its survival even before The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was cancelled this week. The announced end of one of the most popular broadcast late-night shows, days after host Stephen Colbert accused the network owner of bribing President Donald Trump to approve a merger, drew cries of political foul play from liberal politicians, artists and entertainers. “Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent and the most popular late-night host, slams the deal.... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3318863/why-stephen-colbert-latest-casualty-late-night-tvs-changing-economics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3318863/why-stephen-colbert-latest-casualty-late-night-tvs-changing-economics?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:00:10 +0000 dpa dpa US President Donald Trump has celebrated the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, calling its long-running host talentless, days after Colbert criticised his corporate owners for striking a legal deal with Trump. “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” Trump wrote on social media on Friday. “His talent was even less than his ratings,” he said of Colbert, who is known for his biting humour and nightly criticism of the president. US broadcaster CBS announced on Thursday that The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3318824/trump-celebrates-surprise-axing-stephen-colberts-late-show?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3318824/trump-celebrates-surprise-axing-stephen-colberts-late-show?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:59:54 +0000