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‘The Voice’: Top 12 Perform Live for America’s Vote

Blake Shelton threw his boot on stage for the final performance of the night.

Season 13 of The Voice went live for the first time tonight, with the top 12 artists singing for America’s vote. Coaches Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, Jennifer Hudson and Miley Cyrus each picked three artists to advance to this round last week. The coaches were on hand to give feedback and help get their artists ready for the high-stakes live performances.

Team Miley’s powerhouse singer Brooke Simpson got the lives started with an emotional performance of “Praying” by Kesha. Simpson talked about her sound in rehearsal, referring to herself as a pop-soul artist. She dedicated the song to America, which was a good move to connect with viewers at home. The song starts low, but she sounded great on those low parts. She hit the notes in her upper register, too, showcasing her range. She got a standing ovation from all four coaches. “You show what this show is about,” Hudson said.

Team Blake’s Red Marlow opted to lean on his bluegrass roots this week with a performance of “The Church On Cumberland Road” by Shenandoah. He dedicated the performance to his father. It was definitely in his wheelhouse, and his performance will likely connect with classic country fans who represent a good portion of The Voice viewers. Levine called is authentic, amazing, powerful and strong. Shelton said it was the first time he really saw Marlow’s performance side.

Team Hudson’s 15-year-old Shi’Ann Jones sang “Vision Of Love” by Mariah Carey and even brought out some Mariah-esque whistle notes for it. She dedicated the song to her coach, saying that Hudson has helped get her out of her shell. She sang the hit well, and her range was impressive. Hudson was the only coach who turned for Jones in the Blind Auditions, so she saw something special. Shelton expressed regret over not turning.

Jon Mero from Team Adam sang “Why I Love You” by Major. Making his coach proud, he emphasized his falsetto in the arrangement. As Levine noted in rehearsal, he successfully made the song his own. “You have just created such a fan base,” Cyrus said, calling it a perfect performance. He got a shoe from Hudson.

Team Miley’s Ashland Craft got her country on with “Delta Dawn” by Tanya Tucker. Cyrus is coming for Shelton’s country title on this show. It was a fun performance that was well within Craft’s wheelhouse. Hudson affirmed that Craft has star potential. “Nothing less than this, honey,” Cyrus said, telling Craft she has set the bar for herself.

Team Adam’s Adam Cunningham was up next, dedicating his performance of “Against All Odds” by Phil Collins to his family. Levine intentionally encouraged Cunningham to sing a song outside of his repertoire, giving him a chance to blend his country sound with his rock sound. Levine’s song choice was great for Cunningham, making him seem like a more versatile artist. He made it his own and stood out. He made a slight vocal mistake at the beginning, but he recovered well, and Levine respected him for pulling through it.

Team Blake’s Chloe Kohanski, who had the highest charting song from the Knockouts in the history of The Voice, sang “Thank You” by Dido. She dedicated the song to her biggest fan, her boyfriend. It sounded a little too close to the original, but it was a strong performance. She definitely stands out on Team Blake, and she has great artistry. Shelton said she had the most well rounded voice he has ever heard on the competition, and Cyrus said she wished she had her on her team.

Team JHud was back up with a performance from Davon Fleming of “Love On Top” Beyoncé, which he dedicated to his city of Baltimore. His voice sounded gorgeous on the song. He has one of the most beautiful tones in the competition, and the song showed it off perfectly. Levine was left speechless, and he ended up throwing his shoe on stage. Hudson had also thrown hers. “You represented your own artistry,” Hudson said, adding that he took it to a whole new level.

Addison Agen, Team Adam’s young indie singer, chose to sing “She Used To Be Mine” by Sara Bareilles. She dedicated the performance to her mom, and Levine encouraged her to add some dynamics to the arrangement. It started very strong and remained consistently impressive throughout. She proved experience beyond her years and tapped into the song’s emotional core, all well delivering an original vocal. “You’re a person who can be an inspiration to so many young woman,” Levine said. T

eam Blake’s Keisha Renee sang “Midnight Train to Georgia,” bringing her many years of professional experience to the performance. Renee is a strong and seasoned country artist who can sing just about anything. Hudson said she’s headed for the top. Shelton was blown away by the performance.

Noah Mac from Team JHud was up next, singing “Speed Of Sound” by Coldplay, coming up with his own original arrangement, which was impressive. He showcased great artistry, dedicating his performance to other singers working to achieve their dreams like he is. It was his strongest performance to date. “You are a star. You are it,” Hudson said.

The last artist of the night was Team Miley’s Janice Freeman, who sang “The Story” by Brandi Carlile. She dedicated the performance to her husband. It was a great song choice that highlighted her strengths and allowed her to deliver a really strong pop-rock vocal. The night started the same way it began: with another standing ovation from all four coaches. Hudson and Shelton threw their shoes. It was the first time Shelton had thrown a boot on stage, so Freeman definitely left an impression on the coaches and viewers alike.

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'Harley Quinn' Animated Series Set for DC Digital Service

The 26-episode half-hour project hails from 'Powerless' trio Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker and Dean Lorey.

DC Entertainment's stand-alone digital service has just picked up its third series.

The Warner Bros. Digital Networks Group-owned platform has handed out a straight-to-series order for a Harley Quinn animated comedy.

The 26-episode half-hour project hails from Powerless trio Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker and Dean Lorey and is based on characters from the DC Comics universe. Harley Quinn was most recently played by Margot Robbie in the Warner Bros. feature Suicide Squad. Robbie will be asked to voice the DC platform animated series, though it's unclear if the in-demand actress will do it.

The project will also feature Poison Ivy and a cast of heroes and villains — old and new — from the DC universe. The animated series follows Harley as she breaks things off with the Joker and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal "queenpin" of Gotham City. The effort is described as an adult animated action-comedy. (Powerless, for its part, was DC Comics' first live-action half-hour comedy.)

Harley Quinn is the third series for DC's digital platform. It joins Greg Berlanti's live-action Titans series as well as the revival of former Cartoon Network animated series Young Justice. The SVOD service will launch in 2018 and arrives as Disney is also prepping its own SVOD service that will feature Marvel and Star Wars movies, among other original content including a live-action Star Wars TV show.

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'Watchmen': Why Damon Lindelof Wanted to Tackle Alan Moore's Graphic Novel

The 'Leftovers' grad is readying a pilot based on the beloved property for HBO.

For Damon Lindelof, Watchmen isn't just a childhood favorite. It's a story that needs to be told today.

"That comic was written in the mid '80s, [but it's] more timely now," Lindelof said Saturday about his forthcoming HBO adaptation during an appearance at Vulture Fest L.A. Indeed, given the current political climate, the Leftovers creator believes the time is ripe to give Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' deconstructionist superhero opus a bigger platform. "These are dangerous times," he said. "And we need dangerous shows."

It's nothing if not a risky proposition. When Watchmen hit the big screen in 2009, the Zack Snyder-directed comic adaptation was polarizing for moviegoers and critics alike — and a financial dud. In its wake, detractors held it up as evidence that the bleak, unconventional superhero comic that calls the very idea of superheroes into question is — as conventional wisdom has long held — an "unfilmable" property.

HBO on Sept. 20 announced that it would be moving forward with a TV take on the graphic novel, ordering Lindelof's spin on Moore's property to pilot as well as opening a writers room and commissioning backup scripts.

And yet Lindelof, whose acclaimed HBO series The Leftovers offered viewers an emotionally raw and haunting vision, rare even in the Peak TV era, clearly disagrees with that sentiment. In fact, with traditional superhero films and TV shows now more prevalent than ever, he feels that Moore and Gibbons' revisionist take on the genre can serve as a vital reminder.

"What we think about superheroes is wrong," Lindelof said. "I love the Marvel movies, we saw Justice League, and I'm all for Wonder Woman and Batman and I grew up on these characters, I love these characters. But we should not trust people who put on masks and say that they are looking out for us. If you hide your face, you are up to no good."

Lindelof first read Watchmen when he was 12 — an age he concedes was perhaps too young — and yet he reflected on the experience as an important part of his artistic development. "It just crackled with electricity," he said. "It dealt with a psychological realism in the superhero genre that I have kind of fallen in love with. It was too mature for me, but not, I think, completely and totally inappropriate."

As for making his HBO take something that Moore would be proud of, Lindelof understands the essential futility of trying to satisfy the notoriously prickly writer. "He most certainly doesn't want us to be doing this," he said of the author, who famously stated his intention never to see Snyder's film and generally refuses to be involved with filmed adaptations of his work. "[But] we're trying to find a way to do it that honors him."

Whether Moore approves or not, Lindelof clearly feels an urgency to tell this particular story at this particular time. "For a superhero junkie, I've never done a superhero movie or a superhero TV show," he said. "[But] now is the time."

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Blumhouse Drama 'Run for Your Life' Lands USA/Syfy Pilot Order

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Josh Segarra ('Arrow') and Andrew Jacobs ('Paranormal Activity: Marked Ones') will star. If the supernatural thriller gets picked up to pilot, a network home would be determined at that time.

Jason Blum is expanding his relationship with Syfy and USA Network.

The NBCUniversal-owned cablers, already working on Blum's The Purge TV series, have handed out a pilot order to the supernatural thriller Run for Your Life from the horror master.

The drama takes place on the last night of Dia de Los Muertos (otherwise known as the Day of the Dead) and follows a grieving detective who is thrust into a deadly game to bring someone back from the grave. Josh Segarra (Arrow) leads a cast that also includes Andrew Jacobs (Paranormal Activity: Marked Ones), Carlos Leal (The Last Ship), Danube Hermosillo (Everything, Everything), Angela Alvarado (Kingpin), Jennifer Landon (Animal Kingdom), Kadeem Hardison (K.C. Undercover) and Fernanda Andrade (The Devil Inside Me).

Run for Your Life is based on an idea from Lee Metzger (The Voice) and stems from his overall deal with Universal Television. Chris Cullari and Jennifer Raite (12 Deadly Days) will pen the script and co-executive produce. Patricia Riggen (The 33) will direct and co-exec produce the pilot. Blum, Jeremy Gold, Marci Wiseman and Jessica Rhoades will exec produce for Blumhouse. The project is a co-production between Universal Television and Blumhouse Television.

Run for Your Life marks the latest TV foray for Blum and his Blumhouse banner, which has a microbudget pact with NBCU's Universal Cable Productions. Under the deal, Blumhouse also is readying a TV take on the company's successful Purge franchise for USA and Syfy. The final home for that project, like Run for Your Life, will be determined after the pilot is filmed and network execs match it with the most appropriate network. Blumhouse is best known for its low-cost approach to high-quality films including Get Out, Whiplash and The Purge, among others.

For USA Network, Run for Your Life joins a pilot slate that also includes its Suits spinoff as well as Olive Forever. Syfy's pilot roster includes its upcoming Tremors reboot starring Kevin Bacon and Deadly Class.

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Fox News Establishes Workplace Council to Address Sexual Harassment

The move is part of a settlement agreement with shareholders who believed the company's board and executives failed to prevent sexual harassment and racial discrimination.

Fox News on Monday announced that it has formed an expert committee to address workplace and inclusion matters following a complaint from shareholders that the company's board and executives should have done more to curb sexual harassment and racial discrimination in the workplace.

The network's parent company 21st Century Fox has agreed to update its statement of governance with a commitment to zero tolerance for harassment, discrimination and retaliation. The company also agreed to fund periodic anonymous surveys of employees, consultants and contributors.

A derivative complaint filed concurrently with the settlement notice Monday claims Fox News was aware of the toxic environment as early as 2004, when Bill O'Reilly personally paid millions to settle a sexual harassment complaint from Andrea Mackris. Other settlements came in the years that followed, and the floodgates opened in 2016 when anchor Gretchen Carlson sued Roger Ailes and triggered an investigation by outside counsel.

"The investigation was not directed to the entire culture of Fox News and did not expose all of the historic instances of sexual harassment at Fox News," states the complaint. "The company suffered from serial revelations over the year that followed."

The lead plaintiff, City of Monroe Employees' Retirement System, has held company stock since January 2014. Following the Ailes lawsuit, the shareholder served a demand to inspect 21st Century Fox's books and records.

According to the complaint, company leadership wasted at least $75 million in severance payments by not terminating Ailes and O'Reilly for cause and put its $14 billion bid for British Sky Broadcasting Group at risk by failing to address the systemic issues sooner.

The resulting settlement — which is pending court approval — was more than a year in the making, and the terms were agreed upon after three separate days of mediation this summer.

Fox makes clear in a joint stipulation filing that admits no liability, nor confirms the validity of any of the allegations, but found it better to avoid the costs and disruption of further litigation.

The proposed deal includes an insurance payout to Fox of $90 million, less court awarded attorneys' fees. While the payment is connected to costs the company has accrued related to settling harassment and discrimination matters, it's not a dollar-for-dollar reimbursement. (For the 2017 fiscal year, the company reported $50 million in related costs.)

“We are pleased to have resolved this matter with 21CF in a constructive way that will drive meaningful benefits for shareholders of 21CF and Fox News employees,” plaintiffs' attorney Max Berger said Monday in a joint statement. “The establishment of a majority independent council with the participation of senior HR executives from the company is a positive result that reflects a shared commitment from both sides to strengthen the workplace at Fox News.”

The company is also launching the Fox News Workplace Professionalism and Inclusion Council, which will oversee the company's progress toward meetings its commitment.

“The Workplace Council gives our management team access to a brain trust of experts with deep and diverse experiences in workplace issues,” said Jack Abernethy, co-president of Fox News Channel, in the same statement. “We look forward to benefiting from their collective guidance.”

That brain trust includes Barbara Jones, a former New York federal judge; Brande Stellings, a corporate board consultant who focuses on advancing women to leadership roles; Virgil Smith, a former vice president of talent acquisition and diversity for the Gannett Company; and Sylvia Ann Hewlett, an economist and founder of the Center for Talent Innovation. Newly minted 21CF global human resources chief Thomas Gaissmaier and Fox News HR head Kevin Lord will also serve on the council.

Full details of the new program are below, along with more information about other related 21st Century and Fox News initiatives.

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Why 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Delivered That Big 'Seinfeld' Finale Sendup

The HBO comedy pulled off a surprise montage of seven of Larry David's memorable foes and friends from seasons past.

[Warning: This story contains spoilers from Sunday's episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, "Never Wait for Seconds!"]

On the most recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, viewers were treated to a montage of Larry David's greatest hits. And, in keeping with the theme of the HBO comedy's long-awaited ninth season, the surprises were a well-kept secret until the seven fan-favorites from years past reappeared on Sunday.

A season-long arc of Curb has been the death sentence that has been following around the TV character Larry David. After insulting Iran's Ayatollah in the premiere, while promoting his planned Salman Rushdie-based Fatwa: The Musical! on live TV, Larry got his very own fatwa handed down by one offended Ayatollah. On Sunday, Larry managed to win over a mysterious Muslim gentlemen (played by Navid Negahban) who turned out to be stalking him to carry out the death order. First, Larry defended the man when he cut the brunch line when going for seconds. Next, his former friends and foes vouched for his character. Finally, Larry emerged from a panel of Islamic scholars as a free man.

The parade of fan-favorites included "Car Pool Lane's" Monina (Kym Whitley); Krazee-Eyez Killa (Chris Williams); "The Ski Lift's" Lisa (Mo Collins) and Rachel (Iris Bahr); Denise Handicapped (Anita Barone); "Kamikaze Bingo's" Yoshi (Greg Watanabe); and Michael J. Fox, from the memorable season eight finale.

But if the judgment tour felt familiar to the Seinfeld series finale, executive producer Jeff Schaffer says the intention was very different. That series-ender, which Schaffer worked on as an executive producer with creator David, also saw its starring foursome being judged based on all the guest characters they had wronged along the Seinfeld journey. But, they were doomed by the revisit.

"We figured people would make some sort of connection between the Seinfeld finale and this montage, but the reality is that they are very different," Schaffer tells The Hollywood Reporter. "This one was about proving that Larry had a point. Which, I think, is the heart of Curb." Below, Schaffer expands on that comparison, reveals how they corralled all the cameos for the episode and teases the final two shows of the season — which are set to deliver even more unexpected guest-stars.

How did you go about picking the list of fan-favorite characters that return in this episode?

There may be some correlation with my list of must-watch episodes. (Laughs.) We had nine seasons of donnybrooks to pull from for that montage, but some of them were obvious: We had to have Krazee-Eyez Killa, Monina, Michael J. Fox. There were a few others we tried that didn’t work because of scheduling. We actually shot a scene with Susie Greene (Susie Essman) and our mysterious Muslim gentleman, but in the end we couldn’t knock Navid Negahban — who was so good — off his line that Larry was a good man. Larry has done a lot of questionable, some might even say objectionable, things over the last nine seasons, but it was important here for Navid to always see Larry’s side of the fight. Larry is not just a psycho, he has a point. When he’s entering a confrontation, he’s doing it because he believes an injustice is being perpetrated. And, of course, he’s very happy with Larry that he didn’t follow the tenets of Jewish orthodoxy as well.

Did scheduling all of these guest-stars make filming this episode more of a challenge?

We had a list of potential actors and callback scenes and we would try and schedule them throughout the course of shooting, sprinkle them in here and there. Michael J. Fox was going to be in town, so we kept him in town a little bit longer, and his scene was actually shot in a separate corner of Larry’s house. We would sneak them in and get one or two a week, and Larry was there for all of the scenes. When Larry isn’t in the scene, which is very rare, he’s behind the camera with me. It’s fun for him to get to watch. He has a blast when he can just sit back and shout out lines.

How did Michael J. Fox react when you pitched him the cameo scene?

He was totally game to do it and was so funny. The whole idea of having another soda was his — that’s 100 percent Michael J. Fox. It really was the perfect way to end that montage, with Michael J. Fox admitting that it wasn’t just Parkinson’s in their season eight finale fight (watch below) — he was pretty pissed. We hit a lot of the fan-favorites, and they also worked well with proving that Larry may not be as horrible of a person that people think.

Was bringing back Chris Williams as Krazee-Eyez Killa a personal favorite for you?

I called Chris [Williams] and explained what we were doing and he was so excited. He had all these really funny ideas, including one where Krazee-Eyez has converted to Judaism because of Larry. He wanted to do a whole rap with a blinged-out yarmulke. I got to listen to him do it and it was hilarious. But if Krazee-Eyez were Jewish, our Iranian investigator wouldn’t have liked that very much, and knowing that we were going to have Iris Bahr [from "Ski Lift"], we had to scrap Krazee-Eyez’s conversion.

How did the Seinfeld finale influence this idea? That series ender saw a similar trip down memory lane, only in that instance, Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine were determined to be terrible people.

We weren’t thinking about the Seinfeld finale when we came up with this. We knew that we needed a way to turn Larry from having a death sentence to not having a death sentence and we thought that saving someone from a buffet line would work. It was very funny to turn Navid's character from potential hitman to advocate. We knew we had to do some digging and we thought it would be a great way to show some fan-favorite blasts from the pasts. There are a lot of times the audience is watching Larry and thinking, “You know what, maybe he’s right.” Comedy-wise, we always try to have situations that have two sides to it, because it’s both more complicated and funnier when two people both think their way is the right way. It’s brutal in politics, but it’s good for TV comedy. We never thought about how this was going to be like, or be different, from the Seinfeld finale, we just knew we needed it for this reason. Let people make whatever connections they want.

When you were plotting the season, at what point did you come up with this idea, and did you ever consider this as being the season finale?

This episode, and all the things that happen in this episode, was never going to be the finale of the season because we knew where we were headed. You don’t quite know where we are headed, but this was a necessary step to get there. We had to get Larry’s fatwa rescinded to get to where we need to go for shows nine and 10. When you see the last episode, you’ll know why this one wasn’t the finale.

So Larry is officially a free man?

Yes.

Why did it feel right to have Larry’s feelings about second helpings and line-cutting end up saving him in the end?

Larry getting a death sentence was the biggest thing in his life, so we wanted to make sure that it got corrected by a tiny little Curb thing. Larry had his big Atticus Finch moment at the buffet, defending a stranger from a horde of angry brunchgoers. It’s really one of his noblest moments. Navid was probably going to finish his potatoes and kill Larry, and now he has real admiration for Larry instead. The funny thing is when we were writing and shooting this scene, I told Larry I didn’t agree with his point — I don’t think that you should be able to cut for seconds. Larry did not agree with me, but then, we were shooting a later episode and having lunch and I was sitting with Larry and he ate his lunch and he said, “That was so good, I’m going to go back and get seconds.” I asked if he was going to cut the line and he said he guessed he would. But when he came back, he didn’t have any food. He said, “I couldn’t cut the line. I couldn’t do it.” At that moment, TV Larry and Real Larry diverged. And by the way, this was with our crew. So everyone in the line has already shot the buffet scene, and he still couldn’t do it. It’s a complicated issue!

Bridget (Lauren Graham) also left Larry at brunch. Is their relationship over?

Larry and Bridget had a big fight — it was a go-home argument. But you’ll see in the next episode that they are still together. This is not the way they go down. And by the way, Elizabeth Perkins gets an unbelievable amount of respect for how many times she ate so much ketchup. It’s one thing to write and shoot all the ketchup jokes — it’s a completely different thing to be the person eating all of that ketchup take after take. I loved that Larry starts off that first brunch by apologizing for the other episode and saying, “That’s not a true representation of who I am.” When, we all know that’s exactly who he is. And then he’s trying his hardest to be good and when she starts pouring the ketchup, he just goes after it like a dog after a bone and can’t stop digging.

In the beginning of the season, people were rooting for Larry and Cheryl (Cheryl Hines), who is now dating Ted Danson (playing himself), to get back together. Do you think at this point people are liking Larry and Bridget together?

I think fans of the show, including Larry and myself, love the dynamic between Larry and Cheryl. And that’s not going away. There’s actually some very funny stuff between Larry and Cheryl next episode.

At this point, can you confirm Bridget’s son is just an asshole, as Larry says, and that he doesn't have Asperger's syndrome?

Larry has been harboring a lot of suspicions about Bridget’s son and when he comes right out and asks her, she’s pretty squirrely with the answers. Larry was already pretty sure — I think now he’s very sure. He just doesn’t quite know how to tell that to her: “I really like you, and I really think you’re lying about your kid.”

This episode closes the fatwa-threat door and brings everything back to the beginning of the season, with Larry working on the musical. Do these final two episodes tell one story, or is the finale the big hurrah?

The last episodes are going to tie together all of the threads that we set up from show one and on. All of the things we set up in the earlier episodes will come into play in the last two.

You said the finale is the most ambitious thing you’ve ever tried — and that it worked. In what ways did you take a risk?

It was the most ambitious from a production standpoint, and from a logistics and scheduling standpoint. There were a million ways that it could have never, ever happened. And very few ways that it actually could have happened. But it happened. We won’t be leaving Los Angeles for it and you will see some great and unexpected guest-stars in episodes nine and 10.

Larry did promise to deliver Lin Manuel-Miranda to the Islamic scholars in exchange for his fatwa being lifted. Will we be seeing the Hamilton star?

Everyone in the world loves Lin Manuel-Miranda. He’s even got fans in Tehran. They basically said the only way the musical Fatwa can go forward is if Larry can get Lin Manuel-Miranda — which seems like a reason to tune in next week, doesn’t it?

What is a behind-the-scenes secret about this episode that you can share?

The Mufti scene was the first Curb scene that was totally scripted. We wanted the scholars to argue about the social contract, Curb-style, and it’s a tough ask to have actors be well-versed in the complete Curb story bible as well as Sharia law. We knew exactly what we wanted, so we wrote it. And Usman Ally’s appearance at the end, I love how in the last frame you see Larry’s teeth, like the flash of a snarl. It’s so animalistic and violent the way they are fighting over that tip. The tip fight, when we were writing it, was actually way earlier in the show. When Larry went to Pemberton Academy, he had gotten a flat tire and a maintenance guy offered to fix it and they got into a fight as the admissions people watched through the window. But we didn’t need another reason for Larry to fail that meeting, considering he already failed in all the ways a man can fail in an interview. Then we realized that, of course, that tip fight should be at the very end. Also, the way this show started with Larry telling two lovebirds, “You’re allowed to be happy, just not in front of me,” is Larry distilled down to his purest essence. That might very well be on his tombstone.

What did you think of the episode? Tell THR in the comments below and keep up with Live Feed for weekly chats with Schaffer as Curb airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.

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Seth Meyers to Host 2018 Golden Globe Awards

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The 'Late Night' personality jumps in quite late in the game, as a host-less Globes was becoming a real possibility.

Seth Meyers is stepping out from behind the desk. NBC's Late Night host and resident Donald Trump antagonist is close to a deal to emcee the Golden Globes.

It's a first for the 43-year-old comedian, and it comes little more than a month before the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is set to hand out its kudos to stars of film and television on Jan. 7. There had been rumblings that NBC and the HFPA were going to go host-less in 2018, like it had up until 2009, but promoting a show with no personality attached in the current TV landscape is daunting.

Meyers follows NBC neighbor Jimmy Fallon, who hosted the Globes in 2017 to somewhat middling reviews after a 2016 appearance by Ricky Gervais and the celebrated three-year run of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Host of Late Night since 2014, Meyers gained considerable heat this year with his continued devotion to political coverage and criticism of the Trump administration — even as lead-in Fallon has bucked the current events trend that has lifted fellow late-night hosts such as Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. Meyers is a draw among younger viewers, regularly ranking No. 1 in his late — or, perhaps, early — 12:35 a.m. time slot. Season-to-date, Late Night has averaged a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49 and 1.5 million viewers.

Meyers' awards hosting résumé is relatively modest. He emceed the 2014 Emmys and, quite infamously, the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner. His ruthless skewering of Trump, then just a reality star, has been credited by some as a motivating factor for the mogul to eventually run for office.

The Golden Globes gig is not without its share of pressure. In addition to the fact that it is among the higher-rated awards shows, with last year's telecast pulling 20 million viewers and a 5.6 rating among adults 18-49, the ceremony sets the tone for the rest of awards season.

What's also of note is that 2018 is the last Golden Globes contracted to air on NBC via the current deal with the HFPA and executive producers Dick Clark Productions. There has been no official news on a potential renewal, and other networks are clearly keen on the show, given its unique ability to pull a live audience. So few non-sports events have that capability anymore. The Academy Awards, TV's biggest awards telecast, are set to air on ABC through 2028. And the Emmys, which rotate annually among the Big Four, pull a fraction of the Globes audience.

Earlier Monday, NBC announced that it will air a 75th anniversary special for the Golden Globes. It is slated for Wednesday, Dec. 13, with Will & Grace stars Debra Messing and Will McCormack set to host.

The 2018 Golden Globes will again air live from the Beverly Hilton.

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