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When Carole Baskin and her husband, Howard, allowed filmmakers into their wildlife sanctuary Big Cat Rescue five years ago, they thought the docuseries they were shooting would focus on their cause of exposing tiger trade cruelty — not their personal drama. “I just feel so angry that people have totally missed the point,” Carole, 58, …
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The Tiger King, he is not. Dan McKernan was making $100,000 at a tech job in Austin, Texas — until he gave it all up to move over 1,000 miles away and set up a sanctuary for farm animals in Illinois. McKernan, his father and his twin brother, Chris, are the stars of Animal Planet’s …
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Just three weeks after the Netflix docuseries “Tiger King” has swept the nation, its first spin-off show is here — with Fox and TMZ teaming up for “TMZ Investigates: Tiger King — What Really Went Down?” The one-hour special, airing Monday (9 p.m. on Fox), is hosted by TMZ founder Harvey Levin, who dives into …
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You can’t see “The Lion King” on Broadway right now, but you can indulge your inner mullet with “Tiger King: The Musical.” Composer Andrew Lippa (“Big Fish,” “The Addams Family”) and Kristin Chenoweth (“Wicked,” “Glee”) dropped the first song from their new show — a parody of the hit Netflix documentary series about Joe Exotic …
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Netflix’s smash docuseries “Tiger King” included plenty of shocking scenes, including the jaw-dropping moment Joshua Dial witnessed the accidental shooting death of Travis Maldonado, a husband of Joe Exotic. Dial, then the manager of Joe Exotic’s long-shot Oklahoma gubernatorial campaign, said he still relives the trauma from that fateful 2017 day. “I definitely have PTSD. …
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Netflix announced Thursday that a “Tiger King” after-show hosted by Joel McHale will premiere on Sunday. The show’s Jeff Lowe, who took over the Oklahoma exotic animal zoo from Joe Exotic, had recently hinted that a new episode would be coming this week. The teaser for the eighth installment features McHale wearing a cowboy hat …
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Hey, all you cool cats and kittens: If you’re one of the millions of people who can’t get enough of Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin on “Tiger King,” good news — there’s more coming. Fox and TMZ are joining forces for a special with “never-before-seen-footage,” The Hollywood Reporter reports. “TMZ Investigates Tiger King — What …
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It’s not a bonus episode or behind-the-scenes footage: A video of “Tiger King” star Joe Exotic’s full three-way wedding ceremony has long been available on YouTube, but hungry fans have rediscovered it in the wake of the Netflix series reaching smash-hit status. “The wedding of the Century for animal people and supporters of Joe Exotic, John …
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Netflix may not have a cure for the coronavirus, but it has a fix for roommates who screw up your “continue watching” queue. The streaming service this week introduced PIN-protected profiles, as millions of roommates and couples in the US approach their second month of quarantine. Putting a PIN on an account profile can prevent …
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Netflix’s massively popular docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” drew 34.3 million unique viewers in the first 10 days of its release, from March 20-29, according to Nielsen, eclipsing the season 2 numbers for “Stranger Things,” which drew 31.2 million in its first 10 days. “Tiger King” approached the numbers for “Stranger Things 3,” …
When Carole Baskin and her husband, Howard, allowed filmmakers into their wildlife sanctuary Big Cat Rescue five years ago, they thought the docuseries they were shooting would focus on their cause of exposing tiger trade cruelty — not their personal drama. “I just feel so angry that people have totally missed the point,” Carole, 58, …
