Megyn Kelly broke her silence on “Bombshell,” the latest media project to examine the culture of Fox News Channel under the aegis of its founding executive, Roger AIles.
On Friday, Kelly posted a video in which she and other former Fox News staffers screened the film, which stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, and examines the events that transpired leading up to Ailes’ ouster in 2016 after former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson levied allegations of harassment against him. Ailes, who died in 2017, denied the claims. Kelly also held a roundtable discussion to share reactions with former Fox co-workers Juliet Huddy, Rudi Bakhtiar and Julie Zann. Kelly’s husband, Douglas Brunt, also took part in the proceedings.
Here are the five biggest takeaways:
There were a few events in the film that didn’t happen.
Kelly took a moment to discuss some of the liberties the film took with her story.
On Friday, Kelly posted a video in which she and other former Fox News staffers screened the film, which stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, and examines the events that transpired leading up to Ailes’ ouster in 2016 after former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson levied allegations of harassment against him. Ailes, who died in 2017, denied the claims. Kelly also held a roundtable discussion to share reactions with former Fox co-workers Juliet Huddy, Rudi Bakhtiar and Julie Zann. Kelly’s husband, Douglas Brunt, also took part in the proceedings.
Here are the five biggest takeaways:
There were a few events in the film that didn’t happen.
Kelly took a moment to discuss some of the liberties the film took with her story.
- 1/10/2020
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Fox News and its CEO Suzanne Scott have defeated a $120 million lawsuit from an ex-staffer who alleged she was defamed when Scott denied knowledge of Roger Ailes' sexual misconduct in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Laurie Luhn in April sued the company and Scott, alleging that she was sexual abused by Roger Ailes and defamed. Luhn reported the alleged abuse to the U.S. Attorney General's office in 2011 and later settled with Fox News, but says she was "coerced" into agreeing to it.
Scott was named CEO in 2018 after two years of relentless press ...
Laurie Luhn in April sued the company and Scott, alleging that she was sexual abused by Roger Ailes and defamed. Luhn reported the alleged abuse to the U.S. Attorney General's office in 2011 and later settled with Fox News, but says she was "coerced" into agreeing to it.
Scott was named CEO in 2018 after two years of relentless press ...
- 11/8/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
[This story contains spoilers for "2009," episode four of The Loudest Voice on Showtime.]
Episode four of The Loudest Voice begins with one of the show's most explicit scenes to date.
In earlier installments, the Showtime drama about the creation of Fox News hadn't danced around the fact that Roger Ailes (Russell Crowe) reportedly had sexually abusive relationships with his employees, as well as sexually harassed others. But "2009" opens with Laurie Luhn (Annabelle Wallis) on her knees before Ailes, humiliated and teary-eyed. She says she "can't do this anymore." He pushes her to ...
Episode four of The Loudest Voice begins with one of the show's most explicit scenes to date.
In earlier installments, the Showtime drama about the creation of Fox News hadn't danced around the fact that Roger Ailes (Russell Crowe) reportedly had sexually abusive relationships with his employees, as well as sexually harassed others. But "2009" opens with Laurie Luhn (Annabelle Wallis) on her knees before Ailes, humiliated and teary-eyed. She says she "can't do this anymore." He pushes her to ...
- 7/22/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Big Little Lies, Instinct, The Loudest Voice and Stranger Things!
1 | On Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., does it not quite track that Daisy is being so cold to Deke after being apart for more than a year? (Like, if he was never formally a part of the team, why hold it against him for moving on/exploring our world?)
2 | On Big Little Lies, were you slightly disappointed that Meryl Streep...
1 | On Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., does it not quite track that Daisy is being so cold to Deke after being apart for more than a year? (Like, if he was never formally a part of the team, why hold it against him for moving on/exploring our world?)
2 | On Big Little Lies, were you slightly disappointed that Meryl Streep...
- 7/5/2019
- TVLine.com
The Loudest Voice star Annabelle Wallis sat down with The Hollywood Reporter In Studio to discuss her portrayal of former Fox News staffer Laurie Luhn in the Showtime limited series about Fox News founder Roger Ailes, based on the book of the same name by Gabriel Sherman.
"It was so much a story that is in the public consciousness. It's in the forefront of our generation's consciousness," she explained on what attracted her to the project. "It's part of the narrative of the news. It's what's happening in my industry. It's really the source ...
"It was so much a story that is in the public consciousness. It's in the forefront of our generation's consciousness," she explained on what attracted her to the project. "It's part of the narrative of the news. It's what's happening in my industry. It's really the source ...
Oscar winner Russell Crowe is nearly unrecognizable in The Loudest Voice, Showtime’s limited series based on the life of the late, disgraced Roger Ailes. The seven-part drama, which premiered Sunday, chronicles Ailes’ career as the founder of conservative news empire Fox News Channel, from his days as a right-wing media juggernaut, to his eventual fall from grace after a series of sexual harassment allegations.
After opening on Ailes’ lifeless body upon his death in 2017, we journey back to 1995, following his departure from CNBC. Ailes had been terminated following a human resources investigation, and we catch up with him as...
After opening on Ailes’ lifeless body upon his death in 2017, we journey back to 1995, following his departure from CNBC. Ailes had been terminated following a human resources investigation, and we catch up with him as...
- 7/1/2019
- TVLine.com
Former Fox News staffer Laurie Luhn has dropped her $750 million lawsuit against Showtime over her portrayal in the Roger Ailes limited series “The Loudest Voice.”
Filed back in January, the lawsuit said that the 5-part series — based on Vanity Fair special correspondent Gabriel Sherman’s book about the cable news network, “The Loudest Voice in the Room” — misrepresented her as a willing collaborator in Ailes’ sexual harassment of women during her time at the network.
Luhn’s attorney filed a request with the court on Friday to have the court dismiss the suit with prejudice.
Also Read: Ex-Fox News Employee Sues Showtime for $750 Million Over Upcoming Roger Ailes Series
Luhn, who spent two decades at Fox News, said in the suit that she was a victim of Ailes. She said Ailes repeatedly told her, “I own you” and forced her to “purchase black garters and stockings to wear for Ailes,...
Filed back in January, the lawsuit said that the 5-part series — based on Vanity Fair special correspondent Gabriel Sherman’s book about the cable news network, “The Loudest Voice in the Room” — misrepresented her as a willing collaborator in Ailes’ sexual harassment of women during her time at the network.
Luhn’s attorney filed a request with the court on Friday to have the court dismiss the suit with prejudice.
Also Read: Ex-Fox News Employee Sues Showtime for $750 Million Over Upcoming Roger Ailes Series
Luhn, who spent two decades at Fox News, said in the suit that she was a victim of Ailes. She said Ailes repeatedly told her, “I own you” and forced her to “purchase black garters and stockings to wear for Ailes,...
- 6/29/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Laurie Luhn, the former Fox News staffer who made sexual abuse allegations against Roger Ailes, has dropped a $750 million lawsuit against Showtime over the forthcoming miniseries “Loudest Voice.”
Luhn filed suit in January, accusing Showtime, Blumhouse and journalist Gabriel Sherman of violating her right to privacy. The suit alleged that Sherman was “cashing in” on her history of psychosexual torture at Ailes’ hands, and had failed even to notify her that the story would be turned into a series.
Luhn and her attorney, Larry Klayman, filed a notice on Friday dismissing the case.
“The matter has been resolved to the parties’ mutual satisfaction,” Klayman said in a statement.
The network declined to comment.
The seven-episode series is set to debut on Sunday on Showtime. The show is based on Sherman’s 2014 book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” and his subsequent reporting. Following Ailes’ ouster in July 2016, Sherman published a...
Luhn filed suit in January, accusing Showtime, Blumhouse and journalist Gabriel Sherman of violating her right to privacy. The suit alleged that Sherman was “cashing in” on her history of psychosexual torture at Ailes’ hands, and had failed even to notify her that the story would be turned into a series.
Luhn and her attorney, Larry Klayman, filed a notice on Friday dismissing the case.
“The matter has been resolved to the parties’ mutual satisfaction,” Klayman said in a statement.
The network declined to comment.
The seven-episode series is set to debut on Sunday on Showtime. The show is based on Sherman’s 2014 book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” and his subsequent reporting. Following Ailes’ ouster in July 2016, Sherman published a...
- 6/29/2019
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
Credit where credit’s due: The Loudest Voice, Showtime’s seven-part miniseries about the rise and fall of Fox News chairman/alleged chronic sexual harasser Roger Ailes, is dedicated to living up to its name. From the moment that Russell Crowe’s jowly, handsy version of the political consultant-turned-conservative kingmaker shows up in a diner, predicting how his epitaph will read — “right-wing, paranoid, fat” — you have the distinct feeling you are being yelled at. And not just by the Oscar-winning actor, though he does unleash hell via a variety of high-volume bellows,...
- 6/26/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
When Laurie Luhn is first introduced in “The Loudest Voice,” Roger Ailes is a dark shadow in the corner of a bar. Diminished in the background of director Kari Skogland’s frame, the ousted MSNBC executive (given considerable range by Oscar-winner Russell Crowe) nevertheless looms like a boogeyman in the black and blue light of their Manhattan meeting spot, soon swaying his way over to Luhn (Annabelle Wallis) and pitching her on a new venture: Fox News. Ailes is building his right-wing news empire and wants to help his former research assistant move toward on-camera roles.
As the two talk, first about her “nice” boyfriend and unwillingness to relocate for work, there are flashes of Luhn standing in what appears to be a hotel hallway. As visibly reticent as she is in the bar, she’s far more uncomfortable in the well-lit corridor, and soon, it’s obvious why: Ailes appears behind her,...
As the two talk, first about her “nice” boyfriend and unwillingness to relocate for work, there are flashes of Luhn standing in what appears to be a hotel hallway. As visibly reticent as she is in the bar, she’s far more uncomfortable in the well-lit corridor, and soon, it’s obvious why: Ailes appears behind her,...
- 6/25/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Russell Crowe is that you?! The Oscar winner is unrecognizable as Fox News founder Roger Ailes in the first trailer for Showtime's The Loudest Voice. The limited series kicks off on Sunday, June 30 and also stars Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson, Sienna Miller as Ailes' wife Elizabeth, Seth MacFarlane as former Fox News PR chief Brian Lewis, Simon McBurney as News Corp leader Rupert Murdoch, Annabelle Wallis as former Fox News booker Laurie Luhn and Aleksa Palladino as Ailes' longtime assistant Judy Laterza. See the trailer below. The Loudest Voice is based on book The Loudest Voice in the Room by Gabriel Sherman. Showtime's official description: "In today's politically charged media...
- 4/16/2019
- E! Online
Russell Crowe’s portrayal of the controversial Fox News chief Roger Ailes will be coming to Showtime on Sunday, June 30, the network has announced.
Showtime has also released an unnerving first look trailer for the miniseries, in which Crowe’s Ailes takes over Fox News and starts bending it to his will.
“Here in America, television news is king,” the character says. “We’re gonna give them a vision of the world the way they want it to be…we’re way past politics, it’s war.”
The trailer more than hints at the sexual harassment allegations which brought about Ailes’ downfall, as the character is seen touching Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, played by Naomi Watts, who looks extremely uncomfortable with his actions.
The series is based on Gabriel Sherman’s bestselling book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” and tells the story of Ailes and his rise and fall at Fox News.
Showtime has also released an unnerving first look trailer for the miniseries, in which Crowe’s Ailes takes over Fox News and starts bending it to his will.
“Here in America, television news is king,” the character says. “We’re gonna give them a vision of the world the way they want it to be…we’re way past politics, it’s war.”
The trailer more than hints at the sexual harassment allegations which brought about Ailes’ downfall, as the character is seen touching Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, played by Naomi Watts, who looks extremely uncomfortable with his actions.
The series is based on Gabriel Sherman’s bestselling book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” and tells the story of Ailes and his rise and fall at Fox News.
- 4/16/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Good Wife alum Josh Charles is set for a recurring role opposite Naomi Watts in The Loudest Voice, Showtime’s upcoming limited series about Fox News founder Roger Ailes, played by Russell Crowe.
A Blumhouse Television and Showtime co-production, The Loudest Voice (fka Secure and Hold: The Last Days of Roger Ailes) is based on Gabriel Sherman’s bestselling book The Loudest Voice in the Room and his extensive reporting for New York magazine about the sordid allegations of sexual harassment that prompted the late Ailes’ ouster at Fox News. Sherman co-wrote the first episode with Spotlight scribe Tom McCarthy, who executive produces with Jason Blum. Production is currently underway in New York City.
Charles will play Casey Close, husband of former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson (Watts) and a well-known sports agent, who tries to comfort his rattled wife and reassure her that her situation at Fox...
A Blumhouse Television and Showtime co-production, The Loudest Voice (fka Secure and Hold: The Last Days of Roger Ailes) is based on Gabriel Sherman’s bestselling book The Loudest Voice in the Room and his extensive reporting for New York magazine about the sordid allegations of sexual harassment that prompted the late Ailes’ ouster at Fox News. Sherman co-wrote the first episode with Spotlight scribe Tom McCarthy, who executive produces with Jason Blum. Production is currently underway in New York City.
Charles will play Casey Close, husband of former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson (Watts) and a well-known sports agent, who tries to comfort his rattled wife and reassure her that her situation at Fox...
- 3/21/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Annabelle Wallis will star alongside Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in The Silencing, a thriller that will now be helmed by The Ardennes director Robin Pront. Production will begin in the spring in Canada, and the news comes as Xyz Films and Endeavor Content team on U.S. sales for the project at the European Film Market in Berlin.
The pic, with a Nicholl Fellowship-winning script by Micah Ranum, follows a reformed hunter (Coster-Waldau) who becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Cybill Lui of Anova Pictures is producing, Wilding Pictures’ Matt Code is co-producing, and Xyz Films is executive producing. Xyz is also repping global sales at Efm.
Coster-Waldau boarded the project at Cannes this year, when Taboo helmer Anders Engstom was aboard to direct; we hear a...
The pic, with a Nicholl Fellowship-winning script by Micah Ranum, follows a reformed hunter (Coster-Waldau) who becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Cybill Lui of Anova Pictures is producing, Wilding Pictures’ Matt Code is co-producing, and Xyz Films is executive producing. Xyz is also repping global sales at Efm.
Coster-Waldau boarded the project at Cannes this year, when Taboo helmer Anders Engstom was aboard to direct; we hear a...
- 2/6/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
A former Fox News staffer, Laurie Luhn, whose allegations of being victimized by one-time Fox News Channel chief Roger Ailes were instrumental in his ouster from the network, has filed suit over her portrayal in an upcoming Showtime miniseries about the influential media executive. She is seeking more than $750 million in damages.
In a suit filed in the Superior Court of the State of Los Angeles, Luhn, a former booker and producer at the 21st Century Fox-owned cable-news outlet, alleges Showtime, series producer Blumhouse and author Gabriel Sherman, upon whose Ailes biography the series is based, are using her likeness to market and promote the series without her permission.
Showtime declined to comment. Ailes, who died in May, 2017, at the age of 77, denied a series of allegations of sexual harassment that were leveled at him starting in 2016.
Showtime’s series based on “The Loudest Voice in the Room” is expected to be eght episodes,...
In a suit filed in the Superior Court of the State of Los Angeles, Luhn, a former booker and producer at the 21st Century Fox-owned cable-news outlet, alleges Showtime, series producer Blumhouse and author Gabriel Sherman, upon whose Ailes biography the series is based, are using her likeness to market and promote the series without her permission.
Showtime declined to comment. Ailes, who died in May, 2017, at the age of 77, denied a series of allegations of sexual harassment that were leveled at him starting in 2016.
Showtime’s series based on “The Loudest Voice in the Room” is expected to be eght episodes,...
- 1/9/2019
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Seth MacFarlane, who not long ago criticized Fox News for its “fringe” practices, will now be involved in Showtime’s limited series about the network’s late founder, Roger Ailes.
The Orville star has been cast in The Loudest Voice in the Room, along with Golden Globe nominee Sienna Miller (The Girl), Simon McBurney (The Borgias) and Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders).
Based on Gabriel Sherman’s bestselling book of the same name, The Loudest Voice in the Room will, according to the official description, focus “primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party’s de facto leader,...
The Orville star has been cast in The Loudest Voice in the Room, along with Golden Globe nominee Sienna Miller (The Girl), Simon McBurney (The Borgias) and Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders).
Based on Gabriel Sherman’s bestselling book of the same name, The Loudest Voice in the Room will, according to the official description, focus “primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party’s de facto leader,...
- 10/12/2018
- TVLine.com
As Fox continues to undergo dramatic changes, one of its highest-profile creators is joining a project about the life of one from its past.
Showtime announced a group of additions to the cast of its upcoming Roger Ailes series, including Seth MacFarlane and Sienna Miller. MacFarlane has signed on to play Brian Lewis, the former public relations head at Fox News who was fired from his position in 2013. Miller is confirmed as Beth Ailes, wife to former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, who’ll be played in this new series by Russell Crowe.
It’s an interesting move for MacFarlane, who currently serves as the creator and executive producer of two different Fox shows, “Family Guy” and “The Orville.” Aside from “The Orville,” MacFarlane’s last on-screen role was as British racecar driver Max Chilblain in last year’s Steven Soderbergh film “Logan Lucky.”
The series has also found its Rupert Murdoch in Simon McBurney,...
Showtime announced a group of additions to the cast of its upcoming Roger Ailes series, including Seth MacFarlane and Sienna Miller. MacFarlane has signed on to play Brian Lewis, the former public relations head at Fox News who was fired from his position in 2013. Miller is confirmed as Beth Ailes, wife to former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, who’ll be played in this new series by Russell Crowe.
It’s an interesting move for MacFarlane, who currently serves as the creator and executive producer of two different Fox shows, “Family Guy” and “The Orville.” Aside from “The Orville,” MacFarlane’s last on-screen role was as British racecar driver Max Chilblain in last year’s Steven Soderbergh film “Logan Lucky.”
The series has also found its Rupert Murdoch in Simon McBurney,...
- 10/12/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Showtime is filling out the cast list for its upcoming limited series on former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, adding Seth MacFarlane, Sienna Miller, Simon McBurney and Annabelle Wallis.
The project is based on New York Magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman’s best-selling book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” which details Ailes’ rise to power and how he built Fox News into a cable news behemoth. The series will also address the sexual harassment accusations and monetary settlements that brought his Fox News reign to an end. Ailes’ tenure at the network ended in July 2016 in disgrace following a lawsuit filed by Gretchen Carlson, who accused Ailes of sexual harassment. More women followed Carlson with similar accusations against Ailes. He died in May 2017 at the age of 77.
McBurney will play legendary media titan Rupert Murdoch, who initially hired Ailes to build what would become Fox News.
Also Read: Naomi Watts...
The project is based on New York Magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman’s best-selling book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” which details Ailes’ rise to power and how he built Fox News into a cable news behemoth. The series will also address the sexual harassment accusations and monetary settlements that brought his Fox News reign to an end. Ailes’ tenure at the network ended in July 2016 in disgrace following a lawsuit filed by Gretchen Carlson, who accused Ailes of sexual harassment. More women followed Carlson with similar accusations against Ailes. He died in May 2017 at the age of 77.
McBurney will play legendary media titan Rupert Murdoch, who initially hired Ailes to build what would become Fox News.
Also Read: Naomi Watts...
- 10/12/2018
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Seth MacFarlane is taking a detour into a career in PR.
The multi-hyphenate has signed on to play former Fox News PR executive Brian Lewis in the limited series about the life of Roger Ailes, the late Fox News founder and CEO. Known for his pugnacious nature, Lewis was a top Ailes confidant until the two had a bad falling out and Lewis left the network under a cloud in July 2013.
Sienna Miller has also joined the project in the role of Ailes’ wife, former NBC News producer Elizabeth Ailes.
Simon McBurney is on board to play Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul and leader of the 21st Century Fox and News Corp. empire. Annabelle Wallis is set to play Laurie Luhn, a former Fox News booker who had a long and difficult relationship with Ailes.
Russell Crowe is set for the lead role as the TV producer-turned-political strategist-turned cable news titan.
The multi-hyphenate has signed on to play former Fox News PR executive Brian Lewis in the limited series about the life of Roger Ailes, the late Fox News founder and CEO. Known for his pugnacious nature, Lewis was a top Ailes confidant until the two had a bad falling out and Lewis left the network under a cloud in July 2013.
Sienna Miller has also joined the project in the role of Ailes’ wife, former NBC News producer Elizabeth Ailes.
Simon McBurney is on board to play Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul and leader of the 21st Century Fox and News Corp. empire. Annabelle Wallis is set to play Laurie Luhn, a former Fox News booker who had a long and difficult relationship with Ailes.
Russell Crowe is set for the lead role as the TV producer-turned-political strategist-turned cable news titan.
- 10/12/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Seth MacFarlane (The Orville), Sienna Miller (Live by Night), Simon McBurney (The Theory of Everything) and Annabelle Wallis(Peaky Blinders) are set to star opposite Russell Crowe and Naomi Watts in Showtime’s upcoming eight-episode limited series about Fox News founder Roger Ailes, played by Crowe.
All four will play key figures in the Ailes real-life saga: MacFarlane will portray Ailes’ former confidant Brian Lewis, McBurney will play Fox head Rupert Murdoch, Miller is Ailes’ ex-wife Beth, while Wallis is former Fox News exec Laurie Luhn.
This is a rare drama acting gig for MacFarlane who stars on his latest series, Fox’s The Orville, and voices characters on some of his animated series, most notably Family Guy. It took weeks of trying to make the deal for the Showtime limited series work around his busy schedule on The Orville, which he also showruns, writes for and directs. In June,...
All four will play key figures in the Ailes real-life saga: MacFarlane will portray Ailes’ former confidant Brian Lewis, McBurney will play Fox head Rupert Murdoch, Miller is Ailes’ ex-wife Beth, while Wallis is former Fox News exec Laurie Luhn.
This is a rare drama acting gig for MacFarlane who stars on his latest series, Fox’s The Orville, and voices characters on some of his animated series, most notably Family Guy. It took weeks of trying to make the deal for the Showtime limited series work around his busy schedule on The Orville, which he also showruns, writes for and directs. In June,...
- 10/12/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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