TV Updates Being Beloved Is Buffy’s Curse Famed screenwriter William Goldman said it best – “Sequels Are Whores’ Movies”. Modernised for today’s world, I guess you could paraphrase it, “Reboots Are Whores’ Series”. Too much? Too strong for this early in the day, or to be associated with the recently-murdered Buffy reboot? Not at all. If anything, By Duana • Mar 18, 2026 01:28 pm
Oscars 2026 Teyana Taylor: Best Dressed (Duana) Let’s get something straight right off the top – Teyana Taylor has had an incredible style run in the One Battle After Another awards season, but she’s not yet a staple on the carpet year after year. This is a good thing. Because let us be honest, both the By Duana • Mar 16, 2026 02:30 pm
Oscars 2026 Oscars Razzle And/Or Dazzle Another awards show in the books, and once again, what’s memorable, after a season of looks topping one another week after week, is something unusual. Not always a colour, but often enough, it’s a sheen or sparkle that makes a dress that much more indelible. I also think By Duana • Mar 16, 2026 12:36 pm
Oscars 2026 Hudson Williams and His Inscrutability Make the Rounds Here’s a question: View this post on Instagram A post shared by VIVIANO (@vivianostudio) What do you think goes on in his head? In the infinitely small amount of time that Hudson Williams has been incredibly famous and constantly, daily, hourly photographed, he never once has looked surprised. No By Duana • Mar 16, 2026 10:58 am
Oscars 2026 One Woman’s Battle Won, On Its Own One Battle After Another took almost every Oscar it was predicted to and some of the ones it didn’t. Which is annoying, but if you think of the wins separately from where you wish they went, they’re harder to argue with. Paul Thomas Anderson is objectively talented and By Duana • Mar 16, 2026 09:14 am
Oscars 2026 Timothée Chalamet’s crash-out from grace There weren’t a lot of dramatic narratives last night, right? There were people you wish would have won or the wins you weren’t necessarily rooting for, but no real villain arcs, per se. As PT Anderson pointed out, it was a bunch of great movies, and one of By Duana • Mar 16, 2026 07:38 am
Keri Russell Keri Russell and Michelle Williams are Very Xennial Actor Winners A few facts about Keri Russell: She has been working virtually nonstop since she started on The All New Mickey Mouse Club in 1991. Her performances, especially on long-running series like The Americans and The Diplomat, have been widely praised – in fact, she’s very quietly become one of the By Duana • Mar 02, 2026 01:45 pm
Kristen Bell If She Were A Bell She’d Be Ringing – Kristen kills as host When you’re great at something, it looks easy – which is kind of a double-negative where hosting awards shows is concerned. If it goes bad? You’ll hear about it more than you ever feared. Goes well? People nod and it almost escapes comment… ironic, especially for the newly-named Actor By Duana • Mar 02, 2026 11:21 am
TV Updates How To Fight Trauma With Trauma… From Belfast What do we think about show titles starting with “How To…” these days? On the one hand, there’s a lot of goodwill towards them since How To Get Away With Murder, or How To Train Your Dragon, or How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days, or most prosaically, By Duana • Feb 26, 2026 01:37 pm
James Van Der Beek James Van Der Beek: A Different Kind of Icon There are so many reasons to feel sad about James Van Der Beek passing away at just 48 years old. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you – beloved actor, father of six, icon of a generation, yet was selling memorabilia to stay afloat financially – all just contribute By Duana • Feb 12, 2026 01:28 pm
Name Nerd “Kate” Madden Calls The Shots This story just, it tickles me. For two different reasons, I think: Lainey was amused his morning over the revelation that Nicole Richie's daughter goes by “Kate”, as opposed to her presumed first name, Harlow. “But I guess when you’re a kid you don’t want to By Duana • Jan 15, 2026 01:09 pm
Golden Globes 2026 Tessa Thompson: Globes Best Dressed (Duana) I’m thrilled to be writing this. Mostly. Not mostly. Actually. Because after many many award shows where it’s been pulling teeth to see which of us got to write about the one or two great dresses, this show inexplicably had many. We all had choices! And even within By Duana • Jan 12, 2026 02:47 pm
Golden Globes 2026 Not Your Basic Black She didn’t do anything. We all know that, right? Until Julia Roberts got up at the 90% mark of the show, to giggle and call out Kevin Hart for trying to sneak out of the show, and had the entire room eating out of her hands, applauding her just By Duana • Jan 12, 2026 01:29 pm
Golden Globes 2026 Rogen and Rhea: Forever New Kids Maybe I’m feeling soft because we’ve been away from the awards show game a few months, or maybe, again, everything that’s happening outside makes me look a little softer at everything inside, but I found a lot to like on the TV side of things this Globes By Duana • Jan 12, 2026 11:25 am
Golden Globes 2026 The Globes 'Pitts' Its TV Darling as the one to Beat Anecdotally, the word most often used to describe the Golden Globes before this year’s broadcast was “unserious”. Which is true, of course, but also, I think, kind of gives it a weird amount of weight. That is, for all the Globes’ reputation for, you know, a practice that might By Duana • Jan 12, 2026 09:36 am
Golden Globes 2026 Heated Rivalry Cannot Be Cooled I won’t lie, I had very, very high expectations. After all the excitement and hype of the last month, and the last week, knowing that Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie would appear at the Golden Globes, I anticipated big moments and much celebration. It’s not like it was By Duana • Jan 12, 2026 07:19 am
