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The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott

Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott delivers your weekly dose of pop culture with the Parting Shot. Every week you’ll get celebrity interviews, award show coverage, and the rundown on exactly what to watch, read, and listen to in culture. Consider the Parting Shot your one stop shop for everything pop culture.

From Druski to Bryon Noem: Why Conservatives Are Always the Last Ones in on the Joke

32 mins; March 31, 2026

CBS News’ David Begnaud on Landing Oprah, Barry Diller and Building Do Good Crew

31 mins; March 27, 2026

Is Riz Ahmed’s ‘Bait’ a Not-So-Subtle James Bond Audition? Maybe

17 mins; March 26, 2026

Michael Patrick King on Writing ‘The Comeback’ and Why Lisa Kudrow's Performance Is One of a Kind

29 mins; March 21, 2026

Dan Bucatinsky on The Comeback, Billy's Big Moment, and Why Valerie Cherish Is Actually a Heroine

34 mins; March 19, 2026

Lisa Kudrow on Valerie Cherish, AI and Why ‘The Comeback’ Always Arrives Right on Time

37 mins; March 18, 2026

40 Years of South by Southwest: The Festival That Changed It All

26 mins; March 10, 2026

Why Outlander Hits Different, With Reshma Gopaldas

33 mins; March 06, 2026

The Hulk Hogan Sex Tape That Ended Gawker But Led A.J. Daulerio to Sobriety

38 mins; March 04, 2026

A Musical Retelling of Gwyneth Paltrow's Ski Trial? Now That's Goop Comedy

37 mins; February 26, 2026

Survivor 50's First Boots: Jenna Lewis-Dougherty and Kyle Fraser

24 mins; February 25, 2026

After Lucifer, Tom Ellis Is Keeping His Shirt On in CBS’ CIA

25 mins; February 23, 2026

Gabriel Basso Says The Night Agent Season 3 Changes Everything

23 mins; February 19, 2026

Outlander's Caitriona Balfe Bids Farewell: 'A Quarter of Our Lives'

31 mins; February 18, 2026

Daniel Radcliffe on Tracy Morgan: ‘You Can't Compare Him to Anyone’

27 mins; February 17, 2026

Plus Size Park Hoppers: Fighting Fat-Phobia One Ride at a Time

32 mins; February 13, 2026

Molly Sims: Building YSE Beauty Beyond the Famous Face

33 mins; February 11, 2026

The Parting Shot Trailer

1 min; February 09, 2026

Candiace Dillard Bassett on 'Traitors' Exit and Rob's Shocking Betrayal

13 mins; February 09, 2026

Jack Whitehall Trades Punchlines for Suburban Anxiety in The Burbs

27 mins; February 08, 2026

Harry Melling Transformed: On Pillion and Life After “Harry Potter”

27 mins; February 06, 2026

I’m Not That Colton Anymore: Underwood on Traitors, Truths and Growing Up

31 mins; February 06, 2026

Paul Giamatti Talks Star Trek, John Adams, and That Missing Oscar

35 mins; February 03, 2026

Marc Shaiman: From Midler to Broadway and the Magic of Hairspray

36 mins; January 29, 2026

Beyond the Bravo Drama: RHONJ's Margaret Josephs Builds a Sober Empire

33 mins; January 28, 2026

Catalina Sandino Moreno: From Maria Full of Grace to Netflix’s The Rip

33 mins; January 27, 2026

The Reality of Fiction: Stephen Fishbach on Survivor, Traitors, and his new thriller Escape!

39 mins; January 26, 2026

Oscars 2026: The Sinners Sweep, the Wicked Erasure, and the Rise of Kate Hudson

53 mins; January 22, 2026

Jay Shetty on Relationships, Real People, and 'Messy Love'

21 mins; January 21, 2026

Mandy Mango on Balancing Scrubs and Sequins After Drag Race

12 mins; January 20, 2026

Jennette McCurdy on the Creative Shift From Memoir to Her New Novel

27 mins; January 20, 2026

Traitors Turmoil: Michael Rapaport’s Low Blow & Tiffany Mitchell’s Vulnerable Truth

22 mins; January 19, 2026

Vanderpump’s Newest Heartbreaker? Shayne Davis on Hinge & Staying Sober

33 mins; January 19, 2026

Tyler James Williams on Directing and the Success of ‘Abbott Elementary’

25 mins; January 13, 2026

DD Fuego Fired Up! RuPaul's Drag Race Season 18 Exit Interview

14 mins; January 10, 2026

Porsha Williams & Ian Terry: Why Being a Faithful on Traitors is "Criminally" Hard

20 mins; January 08, 2026

Dacre Montgomery on ‘Dead Man’s Wire’ and Life After ‘Stranger Things’

22 mins; December 26, 2025

The Spy Who Hacked Me: Simu Liu and Melissa Barrera on The Copenhagen Test

34 mins; December 23, 2025

Fire, Ash, and the Method Guest: Stephen Lang

32 mins; December 21, 2025

Ghosts’ Asher Grodman and His Award Worthy Legs

61 hours 33 mins; December 18, 2025

Paul Feig’s Genre-Expanding Take on ‘The Housemaid’

17 mins; December 16, 2025

James L. Brooks, Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Mackey on ‘Ella McCay’

55 mins; December 12, 2025

Wagner Moura on ‘The Secret Agent,’ Oscars and His Return to Brazilian Film

26 mins; December 11, 2025

Stop the Insanity! From Fame to Uber Eats: Susan Powter’s Unfiltered Journey

33 mins; December 10, 2025

Young, Dumb and Full of Christ: The Faith Behind ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ with Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor and Glenn Close

43 mins; December 09, 2025

Erika Alexander and Kim Coles on Why Living Single Was Never Just a ‘Black Show’

40 mins; December 03, 2025

Surviving Mormonism: How RHOSLC’s Heather Gay is Leading the Conversation

28 mins; November 26, 2025

Kal Penn Wants to Know Why History Keeps Repeating in New Podcast

35 mins; November 26, 2025

Gaten Matarazzo on Grief, Gratitude and Saying Goodbye to ‘Stranger Things’

24 mins; November 19, 2025

Jinkx Monsoon & BenDeLaCreme on Holiday Hilarity, Broadway, and Building a Drag Empire

31 mins; November 12, 2025

Ed Helms Talks of the 'Human Ineptitude’ That Inspires ‘SNAFU’ Podcast

28 mins; November 12, 2025

From ‘Reba’ to ‘Happy's Place’: Melissa Peterman on Her 'Second Chance'

31 mins; November 07, 2025

Glenn Close Was 'Very Impressed' With Kim Kardashian on 'All's Fair'

26 mins; November 05, 2025

Michael Chernus on 'Devil in Disguise' and Honoring Victims' Stories

36 mins; October 31, 2025

Padma Lakshmi on ‘Padma's All American’ and What Defines America

24 mins; October 29, 2025

Marion Cotillard on 'Disappearing' Into Her ‘Morning Show’ Role

21 mins; October 23, 2025

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Is a Nuclear Call to Action

27 mins; October 22, 2025

Patricia Arquette on the 'Chilling' Psychology of the Murdaugh Marriage

26 mins; October 22, 2025

Nicholas Sparks, M. Night Shyamalan and Their Unlikely Collaboration

28 mins; October 16, 2025

Jason Clarke on Playing Alex Murdaugh: 'I'm Not Going to Play a Bad Guy'

29 mins; October 15, 2025

Tonatiuh on the Timely Power of Kiss of the Spider Woman

28 mins; October 09, 2025

Keira Knightley on 'The Woman in Cabin 10' and the Untouchable Yacht

24 mins; October 09, 2025

From Sweet Dee to 'High Potential': The Evolution of Kaitlin Olson

25 mins; October 07, 2025

You Gotta Be You (And a Little Messy) with Brandon Kyle Goodman

34 mins; October 03, 2025

Elvira on Her Legacy, Her Halloween Cookbook, and Sweet Revenge

25 mins; October 01, 2025

Beyond Grey's: Jesse Williams Bets on Himself With His New ‘Hotel Costiera’

25 mins; October 01, 2025

A Day in the Park with Disney YouTuber David Vaughn

30 mins; September 26, 2025

The Disney Food Blog's AJ Wolfe on Her New Book, 'Disney Adults'

33 mins; September 26, 2025

‘Still Bobbi’: Inside Bobbi Brown’s Impatient Yet Inevitable Second Act

31 mins; September 24, 2025

Parvati Shallow: Surviving the Game, The Traitors, and Writing Her Own Story

26 mins; September 19, 2025

Robin Wright on the Delicious Clash of 'Alpha Females' in The Girlfriend

23 mins; September 17, 2025

Thank You For Being A Friend: 40 Years of The Golden Girls with writer Stan Zimmerman

33 mins; September 13, 2025

End Credits: Jake Cohen on His New Cookbook, "Dinner Party Animal"

25 mins; September 12, 2025

Who's the Next Victim? Only Murders in the Building’s Michael Cyril Creighton Joins to Chat All About It

23 mins; September 10, 2025

End Credits: Michael Strassner on Creating the Indie Comedy ‘The Baltimorons’

34 mins; September 05, 2025

Domhnall Gleeson Feels the Legacy of ‘The Office’ on ‘The Paper’

24 mins; September 03, 2025

End Credits: Taylor Swift's Engagement and the Cracker Barrel Logo War with Sirius XM’s John Hill

23 mins; August 28, 2025

Grace Van Patten on Reclaiming Amanda Knox's True Story for Hulu

19 mins; August 27, 2025

The End Credits for the Week: Luxury, Lies, and Louis Vuitton (with Kackie)

33 mins; August 22, 2025

Emmy Nominee Michael Urie Spills on 'Shrinking', 'Oh, Mary!', and ‘Ugly Betty’

26 mins; August 21, 2025

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch's War of Wit in 'The Roses'

19 mins; August 20, 2025

BONUS: ‘The Roses’ Director Jay Roach on Directing Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch

27 mins; August 20, 2025

Jeff Hiller on His 'Somebody Somewhere' Emmy Surprise

30 mins; August 19, 2025

End Credits: The Man Behind the Weapons Movie Meme: Clayton Farris

33 mins; August 15, 2025

End Credits: Superman Joins ICE? Making Sense of The Week with Gianmarco Soresi

28 mins; August 08, 2025

Will The Gilded Age's "Clock Twink" Finally "Get Into Some Trouble"? Ben Ahlers Weighs In.

26 mins; August 06, 2025

What Manny Jacinto Learned From Lindsay Lohan & Jamie Lee Curtis on 'Freakier Friday'

19 mins; August 06, 2025

Inside the King of the Hill Revival with the Showrunner & Cast

29 mins; August 04, 2025

A Conversation with Marc Maron on Panic, Politics, and Podcasting

27 mins; August 01, 2025

End Credits: Zach Noe Towers Joins for Celebrity Romance Rumors, Scandals & Bad Decisions

33 mins; August 01, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs Could Ruin Your Makeup Bag: A Chat with the Lipstick Lesbians

57 mins; July 30, 2025

End Credits: Hot Takes & Higher Standards with Franchesca Ramsey

39 mins; July 25, 2025

For Sterling K. Brown, Hulu’s ‘Washington Black’ is About Finding Black Joy

20 mins; July 17, 2025

End Credits: Snack Talk and Hot Topics with Mamrie Hart

39 mins; July 17, 2025

‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Reboot: A Summer Must-See

33 mins; July 16, 2025

There’s No Stopping Jean Smart: ‘It's Very Hard to Say No’

30 mins; July 10, 2025

End Credits: A Wild Week of Insane Headlines with KCRW's Sam Sanders

46 mins; July 03, 2025

End Credits: Anna Roisman Joins to Breakdown This Week in Pop Culture, Politics and News

35 mins; June 27, 2025

How Allison Williams Struck the Right ‘Tone’ in ‘M3GAN 2’

26 mins; June 25, 2025

Revry’s Royal Revolution: Tenderoni on ‘King of Drag’

30 mins; June 20, 2025

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