• ‘SNL’ sets Season 45 finale with third ‘At Home’ virtual episode

    ‘SNL’ sets Season 45 finale with third ‘At Home’ virtual episode

    “Saturday Night Live” will wrap its truncated, coronavirus-addled 45th season this weekend, NBC has confirmed. This will mark the show’s third “At Home”-themed edition. The inaugural “SNL at Home” in early April averaged 6.7 million total viewers and a 1.46 rating, placing second for the season behind Eddie Murphy’s Dec. 21 hosting turn (which drew just …
  • NY probe of NBC News began with Matt Lauer’s firing in 2017, source says

    NY probe of NBC News began with Matt Lauer’s firing in 2017, source says

    State officials are investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and related cover-ups at NBC News — and have interviewed potential witnesses including Megyn Kelly, The Post has learned. The probe began around the time that “Today” show co-host Matt Lauer was fired in 2017 and is being conducted by the Civil Rights Bureau of the state …
  • NBCUniversal cuts executive pay after Andy Lack’s surprise ouster

    NBCUniversal cuts executive pay after Andy Lack’s surprise ouster

    NBCUniversal is slashing salaries because of the coronavirus, a day after the broadcasting giant’s surprise ouster of NBC News chairman Andy Lack. In response to the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, NBCU is cutting the pay of its senior management by 20 percent and rolling back pay increases for employees making more than $100,000, …
  • Noah Oppenheim’s passing-over at NBC News shocks insiders

    Noah Oppenheim’s passing-over at NBC News shocks insiders

    News insiders across town were stunned to learn Monday that NBC exec Noah Oppenheim is being passed over for the top job at NBC News. Division president Oppenheim had been “anointed” by Andy Lack as his successor. But after Lack stepped down as its chairman on Monday as part of a massive corporate restructuring, Oppenheim …
  • NBC News chairman Andy Lack steps down in corporate shakeup

    NBC News chairman Andy Lack steps down in corporate shakeup

    NBCUniversal’s new boss announced a surprise shakeup at the broadcasting giant that will include the ouster of NBC News chairman Andy Lack. Jeff Shell, whose succeeded Steve Burke as chief executive at the beginning of the year, on Monday announced the departure of Lack, who came under fire in Ronan Farrow’s book “Catch and Kill”, …
  • Christopher Meloni to return to ‘Law and Order: SVU’

    Christopher Meloni to return to ‘Law and Order: SVU’

    Christopher Meloni, known for his role as Elliot Stabler, will return to Dick Wolf’s Law and Order SVU for its 22nd season, according to showrunner Warren Leight. Leight confirmed on the SVU podcast on Wednesday that Stabler will at the least appear in the season opener. “It’s pretty clear that Elliot will be in the …
  • ‘Parks and Recreation’ stars say coronavirus was ‘only circumstance’ for reunion

    ‘Parks and Recreation’ stars say coronavirus was ‘only circumstance’ for reunion

    It seems like the long-awaited reunion promised to Leslie Knope in the series finale of “Parks and Recreation” — “It will happen, someday,” her husband, played by Adam Scott, says — has finally arrived. It just took a global pandemic to make it happen, according to a report in Variety. “This is essentially the only …
  • ‘Council of Dads’ star Sarah Wayne Callies is not a ‘cool mom’

    ‘Council of Dads’ star Sarah Wayne Callies is not a ‘cool mom’

    Sarah Wayne Callies might star on TV’s “Council of Dads” — but her kids aren’t impressed.. “Do my kids think I’m a cool mom? I think the answer is — hell no,” the 42-year-old former “The Walking Dead” star tells The Post. “Council of Dads” is an NBC drama following a family of five who …
  • Comcast’s profit drops as coronavirus hits NBCUniversal division

    Comcast’s profit drops as coronavirus hits NBCUniversal division

    Cable giant Comcast reported nearly a 40 percent dip in first-quarter profit Thursday as the economic fallout from the coronavirus hit NBCUniversal’s theme parks and film divisions. Comcast shares fell  over 5 percent in early-market trading after the company said during its earnings call that it would lose about $500 million if theme parks remained …
  • Why Jim O’Heir was ‘nervous’ about the ‘Parks and Recreation’ reunion

    Why Jim O’Heir was ‘nervous’ about the ‘Parks and Recreation’ reunion

    Jim O’Heir, who played clueless, good-natured bumbler Jerry Gergich on “Parks and Recreation,” says he slipped right back into character for Thursday night’s episode — which reunites the cast for the first time since the beloved NBC sitcom ended its seven-season run in 2015. “Absolutely, but I was nervous about it,” says O’Heir. “The way …