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Saturday Night Live closed out its 44th season with a finale hosted by Paul Rudd with musical guest DJ Khaled. The show, which featured appearances by Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro, averaged a 4.0 rating Live+Same Day household rating in the metered markets, and a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local people meters.

That was down a bit in the metered-market households and up a notch among 18-49 in the local people meters.from last week’s episode with host Emma Thompson and musical guest Jonas Brothers, which tied a demo low.

The finale, which also featured Lil Wayne, Big Sean, Meek Mill, J Balvin, Jeremih, Lil Baby, John Legend and Sza, was down from SNL‘s 2018 season closer with host Tina Fey and musical guest Nicki Minaj.

Last Night’s Saturday Night Live ranks as the #1 show of the night on the Big 4 networks in metered-market

After a nearly four-hour show (including voting time), Duncan Laurence snagged the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands with the song ‘’Arcade,” written and composed by Duncan Laurence, Joel Sjöö and Wouter Hardy.

Laurence won a total of 492 points from the expert juries and televoters in a contest that was touch and go from the beginning, with North Macedonia a surprise frontrunner until the collective votes were tallied. Italy finished in second place with 465 votes and Russia came in third with 369 votes. It was the fifth win for the Netherlands in Eurovision history. The last time the Netherlands won was in 1975, marking a 44-year stretch between wins.

“In the past few years many well known artists represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest. I’m not well-known, but that’s also a good thing; The Netherlands has a lot of young and talented musicians,” the 24 year-old singer-songwriter said when he was first selected to represent his country in Eurovision. “My participation proves that nothing is impossible. You can suddenly get the opportunity to represent your country on an international stage. I’m very proud to represent my country… I will give it my all.”

Following his win, Laurence told the crowd gathered at Tel Aviv Expo, “This is to dreaming big, this is to music first, always, thank you!”

The mood during the show was festive throughout, with attendees including such music industry insiders as S-Curve records president Steve Greenberg and Doron Medalie, co-writer of “Toy,” the song recorded by 2018 Eurovision winner Netta Narzilai. Medalie was standing on his feet and dancing the entire stretch of the show, most notably during the performance of Spain’s contestant, Miki Nunez, who sang the poppy Catalan track “La Venda.” While the Expo started emptying out around the three-hour mark at around 1 a.m. Tel Aviv time, those remaining continued to wave flags of the respective delegations.

With Madonna’s guest performance meting out “a message of peace,” others in the music industry echoed the Queen of Pop’s commitment to playing in Israel, a country endlessly a target of boycotts and media attention focused on politics and the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Ari Ingel, director of Creative Community for Peace (Ccfp), an entertainment industry non-profit organization dedicated to promoting music and the arts as a bridge to peace and artistic freedom, spoke of how “a shared love of music and the arts has the ability to bring us together when so many people are trying to sow division.”

Ccfp brought 15 delegates to Israel for Eurovision week. The mission of the trip is not only to counter the rampant anti-Israel Boycott Divest Sanctions (Bds) movement but to encourage the uncensored exchange of creative ideas within the musical and artistic space.

“Banding together as an artistic community in the region is more essential than ever,” said Ingel of the Eurovision show.

Jeremy Hulsh, founder and managing director of Oleh! Records, Israel’s music export and development office, was “rooting for Israel,” but saw a lot of “great talent” in all the Eurovision contestants. He did however note the particular importance of fostering musical talent in Israel.

“In Israel, there’s an astonishing amount of talent in the pop music realm,” said Hulsh. “Having Eurovision in Tel Aviv provides a plum opportunity to showcase this talent–not only in the actual Eurovision show but also in the Eurovision village and in clubs and bars all around the city this week. Israel is home to a vibrant, robust, creative community of artists, and it’s time the world knows this.”

The final season of “Game of Thrones” might be bringing in a record number of viewers, but now more than a million of them are calling for a do-over of the last episodes.

As of Saturday, more than a million people have signed a Change.org petition for the hit HBO series to remake its final season, calling series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss “woefully incompetent writers when they have no source material (i.e. the books) to fall back on.”

Dylan D., the petition author, explained Saturday that he started the movement out of disappointment and frustration, and that he’s not expecting HBO to react to the massive call for change.

A rep for HBO did not respond to a request for comment.

“I love this story, and I, like most of you,

HBO used the minutes before the Game of Thrones series finale to run a few trailers for upcoming projects in order to remind people that HBO airs other shows than Game of Thrones, practically begging you to not cancel your subscription just yet.

The trailer for His Dark Materials looked interesting

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Macy learned an important lesson on Sunday’s season finale of Charmed: Just because you can remake the world as you see fit, that doesn’t necessarily mean you should.

For example, reviving Galvin might have seemed like a good idea in the moment, but undoing his sacrifice caused all of the people he saved to die suddenly. “I was at peace with dying,” he said. “I wanted to save those people.” (Ok, Buffy!) But rather than realizing the error of her ways, Macy basically acted like that gif of the dog in the burning house, insisting that everything was fine.

Rest In Peace, Daenerys Stormborn Of House Targaryen, Heir To The Iron Throne, Queen Of The Andals And The First Men, Protector Of The Seven Kingdoms, Mother Of Dragons, Khaleesi Of The Great Grass Sea, The Unburnt, Breaker Of Chains

First Episode | Season 1, Episode 1, “Winter Is Coming”

Final Episode | Season 8, Episode 6

High Points | Surviving Khal Drogo’s funeral pyre, which also brought about the birth of her dragons; buying the Unsullied and then freeing them (and having Drogon barbecue the highly annoying Kraznys); freeing the slaves of Yunkai; liberating the slaves of Meereen; bedding Daario Naharis; riding Drogon to safety

Lex Luthor made his long-awaited (and long-dreaded) return to Supergirl on Sunday’s finale, during which he enacted his master plan to destroy Superman — which, let’s be real, has been his only real goal all along.

At the height of his madness, even Lex’s most devoted accomplices couldn’t get on board with his desire to “turn Argo City into a blazing inferno” over his petty feud with the Man of Steel. (“I’ve already poisoned his tea,” Lillian told Lena. “If he’d stop running his mouth long enough to take a sip, he’d be dead by now.

Aaron Paul navigates a strange, “rotting” world in the very first teaser for Season 3 of HBO’s Westworld.

In the first, jarringly unfamiliar footage from the new season (premiering in… 2020), Paul’s character delivers a rather maudlin narration, while Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage” plays in the background and we get glimpses of a world outside the park.

At the very end, just as Paul’s character talks of needing to find “something, someone real,” who does he lay eyes upon but Evan Rachel Wood’s weary Dolores, heh.

The Breaking Bad alum is a series regular for Season 3, though

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “Killing Eve” Season 2, Episode 7, “Wide Awake”]

In the week after “Game of Thrones” took a beating for giving one character an abrupt and perplexing villainous turn, “Killing Eve” takes another step in its season-long arc to lure MI6 agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) to the dark side. This subtle and seductive journey has been a gradual descent into depravity that shows just how much work and psychology goes into breaking bad.

In Sunday’s episode, tech mogul Aaron Peel (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) has become intrigued by Villanelle (Jodie Comer) — who’s working undercover for MI6 as disaffected rich American “Billie” — and invites her to Rome with him as he attends a tech conference. With Villanelle in place and equipped with a tiny surveillance microphone, Eve and Hugo (Edward Bluemel) station themselves in a nearby hotel to eavesdrop and learn what weapon Aaron is selling and to whom.

What once was Eve’s safe,

Maybe you're super excited for the Game of Thrones series finale. Maybe you're not excited about it anymore! Either way, chances are you're going to tune in to find out exactly how it all ends in Westeros. Will Daenerys Targaryen actually ascend to the Iron Throne? Will Jon Snow stand by her side? ...

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It's the end of an era.

After eight seasons, Game of Thrones is leaving behind an undeniable legacy as one of the most influential shows on television. It was a game-changer for HBO, which had dabbled in genre television before 2011 but had never reached the kind of mainstream

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We’re in the home stretch, folks. Now that Season 16 of The Voice has at last separated the Talon Cardons from the Maelyn Jarmons, the Jacob Maxwells from the Dexter Robertses — and eliminated Adam Levine’s entire team — it’s all down to Monday’s final performances by the Top 4 (NBC, 8/7c) and the reveal of the winner on Tuesday (9/8c). Which vocalist is likeliest to walk away with the title? Let’s evaluate their chances…

Maelyn Jarmon (Team John Legend) | Since not once over the course of the season did this 26-year-old New Yorker hit a bum note, it

News Team: Assemble.

CBS News plans to hurl a new anchor squad into TV’s morning-news wars Monday when a different trio – Gayle King, Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil – takes the helm at “CBS This Morning.” The A.M. effort that has won critical plaudits by focusing on harder news topics, like international affairs and business, and has given CBS new momentum in a daypart dominated by ABC’s “Good Morning America” and NBC’s “Today” that it struggled in the past to conquer. But the show has ceded ground in recent months.

That doesn’t mean CBS is going

After hitting the zombie jackpot with The Walking Dead, AMC is going back to the supernatural horror well once again with the creepy-crawly NOS4A2 — and to its credit, the series does boast a breakout performance from newcomer Ashleigh Cummings. It’s just too bad that nothing else about the show lives up to that performance. Instead, any flickering glimmer of quality gets smothered by a drab visual palette, sluggish plotting and a crushingly dour tone.

NOS4A2 — debuting Sunday, June 2 at 9/8c; I’ve seen the first three episodes — is unfocused from the start, straining to tell two very different stories.

From the beginning, Game of Thrones was all about sex and dragons… and it’s almost outta dragons.

So what better way to celebrate the fantasy tale’s imminent ending — the series finale airs tonight on HBO (9/8c) — by focusing on the sexier side of things, aka some of the most memorable love scenes from the eight-season run?

In the gallery below, you’ll find all of the hottest hits. Some, like Jon and Ygritte’s cave encounter, are romantic. Some, like Tyrion and Shae’s sweet declarations, make us ache. Others, like Oberyn and Ellaria’s brothel takeover, are outrageous.

The Mother of Dragons is saying goodbye.

After portraying Daenerys Targaryen on “Game of Thrones” for the better part of the past decade, Emilia Clarke penned a heartfelt farewell ahead of the series finale.

“Finding the words to write this post has left me overwhelmed with how much I want to say but how small words feel in comparison to what this show and Dany have meant to me,” Clarke wrote on Instagram hours before the show’s final episode airs on HBO. “The mother of dragons chapter has taken up the whole of my adult life.”

Clarke had only

A major new international sales outfit is coming to market. Dutch Film Works (Dfw), one of the largest movie distributors in the Benelux region, is moving into film and TV sales. Dfw general manager Angela Pruijssers will spearhead the sales effort alongside Charlotte Henskens, who will join from Amsterdam-based Fortissimo Films, where she is director of sales, in June.

The new operation launches out of the gate with Fatt Prods. “My Best Friend Anne Frank” and “Penoza the Movie,” a feature based on Nl Film’s popular Dutch series of the same name, which was remade as “Red Widow” for ABC in the U.

Winter has come and gone at HBO, as Game of Thrones is mere hours away from ending its eight-season run.

Ahead of the drama’s series finale (9/8c), stars Emilia Clarke and John Bradley took to social media to express their gratitude to the show’s devoted fans.

“Finding the words to write this post has left me overwhelmed with how much I want to say but how small words feel in comparison to what this show and Dany have meant to me,” Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, wrote in an Instagram post.

Clarke effused that Thrones has “shaped me as a woman,

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow‘s Caity Lotz is here to revisit some of Season 4’s most memorable moments — including one of the CW series’ very best… and quite possibly the very weirdest.

During Lotz’s recent visit to TVLine’s New York office, we invited the Legends front woman to flip through some photos of Season 4 episodes, starting with the team’s trip to Woodstock, including a stop in Bollywood, and ending with a tease about the finale (titled “Hey, World!” and airing Monday at 8/7c on The CW).

Which episode gave the cast a bit of cabin fever?

Who will survive the finale of “Game of Thrones”? Some savvy watchers of the HBO series might have a clue heading into Sunday night’s episode after a detailed description of the final installment reportedly leaked online.

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A spokesperson said HBO had no comment.

While no footage or photos surfaced on social media, a text description of the show’s finale has been making rounds on the world wide web.

The highly anticipated eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones” has repeatedly been the target of major leaks, most of which have been accurate. A