From "The President Show" to "Our Cartoon President," the laundry list of TV shows targeting President Trump is getting longer.
Comedy Central premiered "The President Show" last year, with Trump impersonator Anthony Atamanuik sporting a wig and power suit to yuk it up as the executive mansion resident each week.
The animated satire, co-executive produced by "Late Show" host and fierce Trump critic Stephen Colbert, will follow the "Tru-ish misadventures of the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and his merry band of advisors and family members," according to the network.
Colbert has seen his ratings soar over the last year as he's skewered Trump almost nightly on his CBS show.
Earlier this month, Endeavor Content announced it had bought the film and television rights to Michael Wolff's controversial book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," with plans to adapt the White House tell-all into a TV series.
"What really matters is quality entertainment, and if these shows have blatant anti-Trump messages, they can turn people off and cause Trump voters to go elsewhere to look for their entertainment."
Macks, who worked as a top writer for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" for more than two decades, says, "We used to watch late-night news or late-night comedy and shows like these to get our mind off the news of the day."
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/371509-is-television-heading-for-dump-on-trump-overload
Comedy Central premiered "The President Show" last year, with Trump impersonator Anthony Atamanuik sporting a wig and power suit to yuk it up as the executive mansion resident each week.
The animated satire, co-executive produced by "Late Show" host and fierce Trump critic Stephen Colbert, will follow the "Tru-ish misadventures of the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and his merry band of advisors and family members," according to the network.
Colbert has seen his ratings soar over the last year as he's skewered Trump almost nightly on his CBS show.
Earlier this month, Endeavor Content announced it had bought the film and television rights to Michael Wolff's controversial book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," with plans to adapt the White House tell-all into a TV series.
"What really matters is quality entertainment, and if these shows have blatant anti-Trump messages, they can turn people off and cause Trump voters to go elsewhere to look for their entertainment."
Macks, who worked as a top writer for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" for more than two decades, says, "We used to watch late-night news or late-night comedy and shows like these to get our mind off the news of the day."
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/371509-is-television-heading-for-dump-on-trump-overload
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