How Would “The West Wing” Handle Donald Trump?

Before the dark drama of House of Cards and the political satire of Veep , there was The West Wing , the beloved NBC White House drama that aired 154 episodes over seven seasons, beginning in 1999. For the past six months, Song Exploder host Hrishikesh Hirway and West Wing actor Joshua Malina have been reliving The West Wing in podcast form, usually one episode per week.

Pence wins debate, CNN poll says

Tim Kaine and Mike Pence were on the debate stage Tuesday but their clash really centered on two other people: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. So who won the matchup between the two vice presidential candidates? According to a CNN/ORC poll, 48 percent say Pence and 42 percent say Kaine.

‘Hamilton’ creator Lin-Manuel Miranda urges people to vote

"I think a lot of people fought and died for the right to vote, and so I think our country is healthy when we turn out in large numbers," Miranda said on the red carpet at the New York Film Festival on Saturday. Miranda doesn't accept the premise that some people will abstain from voting because they can't connect with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Tigerlily Foundation President and Breast Cancer Advocate, Maimah…

Tigerlily Foundation's President and Founder, Maimah Karmo was featured on the September 17th episode of Oprah Winfrey Network's "Were are They Now." The feature highlighted Maimah's and Tigerlily Foundation's progress since her first appearance in 2008.

Come Watch the West Wing Debate Episode With Us

This week's presidential debate! It was a something, right? Since presidential debate season is upon us , this time around we're taking a slight detour from films: For our next Political Theater segment, we'll watch a " Game On ," the debate episode of The West Wing . "Game On" finds President Bartlet running against the George W. Bush-esque Governor Ritchie, and the episode contains, for my money, everything I love to hate-and hate to love-about The West Wing : blithe partisanship, broad-brush treatments of complicated public policies, optimistic institution porn, characters delightfully pranking each other.

Around the remote: Chuck Barney’s picks for Sept. 25-Oct. 1

DON'T MISS: The presidential debate - They've been throwing long-distance verbal jabs at one another for months. On Monday the candidates - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump - finally come face to face on the same stage at New York's Hofstra University in the first of three scheduled debates.

HCTV Program Schedule for Sept. 26 – Oct. 2, 2016

Two interviews with U. S. World War II veterans, from the series taped by HCTV at Laurel Lake Retirement Community, will be shown on HCTV this week: Joseph Zapytowski of the U. S. Army and Edmund Lutz of the U. S. Marine Corps. Hudson Rotary Club presents Katie Schilling, director of Student Development at Kent State University, and exchange student Jasiek Dolkowski, who tells a bit about his home community in Poland.

TV this week: Clinton, Trump square off in first debate

DON'T MISS: The Presidential Debate - They've been throwing long-distance verbal jabs at one another for months. On Monday the candidates - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump - finally come face-to-face on the same stage at New York's Hofstra University in the first of three scheduled debates.

Emmy host Jimmy Kimmel elects to sting Trump, but not Hillary

Actually the Emmy host blamed Trump-pal Mark Burnett, the creator and executive producer of "The Celebrity Apprentice" and "Survivor." "That guy right there," the Emmy host said during his monologue Sunday night, singling out the British-born producer who also produces "The Voice."

Kerry Washington Gets Real About Donald Trump & Maternity Leave

Kerry Washington has spent enough time as Washington, D.C., fixer-in-chief Olivia Pope to know political spin when she sees it. When the always-articulate Scandal star stopped by Real Time with Bill Maher last night to talk about all things election , she did not hesitate to call out Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his bullying, questionable maternity leave policy, and slight-of-hand attempts to appear more female-friendly than he actually is.

Update from Hillary Clintona s doctor: Democrat is a fit to servea

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves after leaving an apartment building in New York. Hillary Clinton's doctor says she is recovering from her pneumonia and remains “healthy and fit to serve as President of the United States.” The statement was part of medical information Clinton's campaign released Wednesday after her pneumonia diagnosis last week.

Hillary Clinton’s health an issue after she stumbles away from 9/11 memorial ceremony

Hillary Clinton's stumbles as she left Sunday's 9/11 memorial ceremony put her health at the forefront of a presidential campaign in which the two major party nominees are among the oldest ever and have disclosed a limited amount of information about their medical history. The Democratic presidential nominee "felt overheated" and left the ground zero ceremony after about 90 minutes, her campaign said.

In 1608, this man took charge at a Virginia colony

Here, the arrival of the maids as wives for the settlers at Jamestown in 1619 is shown in this engraving from the collection of the Library of Congress. "To have and To Hold" the novel, was based on this incident in the story of the first permanent English settlement in America, which began at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

‘Atlanta’

Donald Glover as Earn Marks in "Atlanta," a mesmerizing tale of a young man adrift in a hardscrabble Georgia suburb. FX's "Atlanta" - magnificently conceived by and starring Donald Glover - doesn't begin so much as it simply happens, opening with a confrontation in a convenience-store parking lot and immediately shifting to morning light, where Glover, as Earnest "Earn" Marks, wakes from a dream next to Van , the mother of his baby daughter, Lottie.

Martin Sheen on Trump: ‘Empty-Headed Moron’

Actor Martin Sheen called Donald Trump an "empty-headed moron" during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that was posted online Tuesday. Sheen, who for seven years played President Jed Bartlet in the television series "The West Wing," was discussing his upcoming movie "The Vessel" when the question-and-answer interview turned to politics.