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
TV Updates Madonna joins The Studio Though The Studio mopped up pretty much every major award for a comedy series during the 2025-26 awards season, I don’t think this show is actually THAT popular. Like it’s not Ted Lasso, an Apple TV+ series we can say with confidence “everyone” watched. Ted Lasso had a By Sarah • Mar 17, 2026 10:03 am
TV Updates Beef has a more subtle flavor this time Beef is back, baby! And no, this has nothing to do with the McDonald’s CEO eating a burger weird, but with the Netflix anthology series Beef, created by Lee Sung Jin. Season one saw Ali Wong and Steven Yeun as rivals sworn in a blood feud after a road By Sarah • Mar 06, 2026 10:36 am
TV Updates Lanterns is a man buffet Among the questions stemming from the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger is what will happen with DC Studios, which only just rebooted under Peter Safran and James Gunn last year. They have several projects in the pipeline, including this summer’s Supergirl, October’s Clayface, about the Batman villain, as well By Sarah • Mar 05, 2026 10:31 am
Shoes Sarah Pidgeon’s shoe surprise After stressing and judging all last year during production, can we now acknowledge that Sarah Pidgeon and Paul Anthony Kelly are doing great jobs on Love Story as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr.? Because they are. Do they always look 100% like the people they are playing? By Sarah • Mar 03, 2026 11:01 am
TV Updates Nicole and Jamie Lee sister dressing Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis are co-starring in Scarpetta, Prime Video’s series adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s popular “Kay Scarpetta” mystery novels. Kidman stars as forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta, and Curtis plays her older sister, Dorothy. On paper, I was not sold on this sister casting at By Sarah • Mar 03, 2026 09:56 am
TV Updates Comedy comebacks Jury Duty was an unexpected delight in 2023, a comedy about one of the nicest people alive dealing with one of the weirdest groups of people centered on a small claims trial. What’s amazing about Jury Duty is that it holds up, even knowing the trick—the whole trial By Sarah • Feb 27, 2026 03:45 pm
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
TV Updates Gen Z P&P Is Here We just got done fighting about Wuthering Heights and now it’s time to fight about Pride and Prejudice as Dolly Alderton’s adaptation for Netflix has a first-look teaser to be picked apart and judged. Are you ready to rumble!!! The teaser is just that, a very brief cinematic By Sarah • Feb 24, 2026 12:02 pm
TV Updates Nicolas Cage in (live) action as Spider-Noir As questions about the future of superhero franchises continue to permeate the pop culture consciousness, one franchise that just keeps trucking is the Spider-Verse, the vividly animated films featuring Shameik Moore as the voice of Miles Morales, an alternate universe Spider-Man. The first film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, won an By Sarah • Feb 13, 2026 01:54 pm
TV Updates Love Story on the red carpet Sarah posted yesterday about the trailer for Love Story that dropped earlier this week and her main point was that she didn’t hate it. Neither did I. In fact I was very encouraged by it. There’s a shot of Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette where she’s drinking By Lainey • Feb 04, 2026 01:19 pm
TV Updates JFK Jr and Carolyn’s Love Story We watched on tenterhooks as the latest installment in Ryan Murphy’s “American Story” franchise was filmed in New York last year, and now we have an official trailer by which to judge the renamed Love Story, centered on the ill-fated romance and marriage of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and By Sarah • Feb 03, 2026 11:22 am
TV Updates Alex, Marcello, and the SNL cast Alexander Skarsgård is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend for the first time and it’s the 1000th episode. The show commemorates seasons but not usually episode counts so it’s a standard Saturday but maybe they’ll give it a little something extra. Alex has been on an unhinged By Lainey • Jan 28, 2026 12:47 pm
TV Updates Sophie Turner flexes as Lara Croft Four months ago Sophie Turner was announced as the latest actress to play video game heroine Lara Croft in a new Tomb Raider series developed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Yesterday, Prime Video, which is producing the new adaptation as a series, dropped a first-look photo of Turner done up as Lara, By Sarah • Jan 16, 2026 11:34 am
TV Updates Spinning the Ryan Murphy wheel again Oh boy, it’s time for another round of my favorite game, How Long Can I Watch Ryan Murphy’s New TV Show?! The last time I played I made it through four episodes of All’s Fair, and now it’s time to try Ryan Murphy’s latest series, By Sarah • Jan 15, 2026 11:53 am
Maple Leaf Heated Rivalry at all the parties Hollywood is now fully operational, back to business in the first week of January, and it’s award season with the Golden Globes happening on Sunday, which every year means that almost everyone is in town, because even if they’re not contending for awards, they’re there to network, By Lainey • Jan 09, 2026 11:22 am
