Emma Thompson plays a long-time late night TV host who has been on the air for 20 years, won every award, and is suddenly finding herself irrelevant in the new world of Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and SnapChat.
She resists all efforts to change her show -- "I know what works, damn it!" -- and is about to get replaced by a younger host. As a last ditch effort she hires a new writer, an Indian-American (Mindy Kaling) who's never written for TV before.
Fireworks, changes, clash of cultures, she becomes a hit again.
I know, unlikely, unbelievable, Hallmark afternoon movie. But it was funny and entertaining and Emma's a very watchable actress. John Lithgow played her husband. Seth Myers played himself trying to hire the new writer away.
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