TV Updates The Bridgerton countdown has begun Bridgerton season two arrives on March 25, and a trailer must be coming soon because Netflix dropped a batch of first look photos, conveniently giving us high-res images of all the main characters, new and old. There is Daphne, looking like she’s giving Anthony a late-night dressing down, and By Sarah • Jan 20, 2022 09:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pocket Prince Daniel Radcliffe to play Comedy King Weird Al Today in Short King News, it was announced that Daniel Radcliffe will star as Weird Al Yankovic in a biopic of the seminal comedian, musician, filmmaker, and polka legend for, of all places, the Roku Channel. (Did not know that Roku has a channel, but you learn something new every By Sarah • Jan 19, 2022 11:00 am
TV Updates Moon Knight gives very little away Marvel has a lot of series coming to Disney+ this year, and it’s hard to decide which is the most anticipated, though Oscar Isaac starring in Moon Knight puts it near the top of the list. The first trailer dropped last night during a football game—Matt Goldberg from By Sarah • Jan 18, 2022 11:56 am
TV Updates Joss Whedon takes himself to the woodshed There is a longform profile of Joss Whedon in New York Magazine titled “The Undoing of Joss Whedon” and it is a masterclass in interviewing someone and letting them take themselves out back to the woodshed. The piece is from writer Lila Shapiro, and it could also be titled “Joss By Sarah • Jan 18, 2022 09:29 am
What Else What Else Priyanka Chopra (Jonas) says it’s not a big deal that she changed her name on Instagram, and that everything is fine in the Chopra-Jonas household. Mmkay. (DListed) FKA twigs dropped her new mixtape, Caprisongs. Not blown away so far, but her music has a way of sneaking up on By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews We have to relitigate Beanie Babies now Right at the end of December, a documentary dropped on HBO Max about the Beanie Baby collecting craze of the 1990s, Beanie Mania. It’s not groundbreaking, but it does bring shame to the entire Chicago area—the first avid collectors were suburban Chicago moms—and it does a pretty By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 02:42 pm
TV Updates Raylan Givens is BACK IT’S A FRIDAY MIRACLE!!!! Back in spring 2021, we heard that FX was adapting a new Elmore Leonard novel, City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, with a big, fat “maybe” on Timothy Olyphant’s return as the coolest cat on TV, Raylan Givens. Well, FX has given a greenlight By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 12:53 pm
TV Updates Uber’s garbage culture TV show Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a lot of modes, but my favorite might be “smiley but untrustworthy scumbag”. He doesn’t do it often, but every once in a while, you get a Don Jon or a Hesher out of him, and damn, I love it every time. So of course, I By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 11:23 am
Award Season Campaigning David Letterman and Nominee Will Smith Here is Will Smith, fresh off his SAG award nomination, taping a segment with David Letterman for Letterman’s Netflix interview show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. They both look to be in high spirits, which isn’t unusual for Will Smith—that guy is always on—but Letterman By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 09:23 am
Tig Notaro Intro for January 14, 2022 Dear Gossips, 2022 is two weeks old and it’s already doing the most. There are celebrity couples breaking up, celebrity couples getting married, there are celebrity couples being Julia Fox and Ye (more on them later), the royal family is one step closer to yeeting Prince Andrew into the By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 08:54 am
What Else What Else Jamie Lynn Spears would like everyone to know she had nothing to do with that whole conservatorship business involving her sister, Britney, even though Britney made it clear her whole family, not just her dad, was benefitting from the conservatorship. (DListed) The Fug Girls break down the covers of the By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 04:14 pm
TV Updates Aubrey Plaza to vacation at The White Lotus The White Lotus was one of the hippest shows of 2020. The internet was obsessed, I’ve met zero people in the real world who watch it, but the GIFs and the memes were everywhere last summer. A second season, to be set at a new fictional White Lotus resort, By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 03:34 pm
Business of Hollywood The Oscars will have a host again For the first time in three years, the Oscars will have a host again. This year’s telecast is currently scheduled for March 27, and Craig Erwich, president of ABC Entertainment, owner of the network on which the Oscars currently air, stated that they intend to have a host, or By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 02:49 pm
Award Season Campaigning Awards season takes shape As we’ve been saying, this awards season is wide open. But with the SAG nominations landing today, we’re finally starting to get a picture of what the Oscar race really looks like. For instance, The Power of the Dog, a favorite frontrunner since it hit the festival circuit By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 01:21 pm
BFFs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon chew the fat Ben Affleck is still on the combined promotional trail for The Tender Bar and campaign trail for that movie and/or The Last Duel, neither of which have serious hopes of major awards nominations. He follows his LA Times interview with a new Entertainment Weekly cover story, with an interview By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 12:21 pm
TV Updates Lily James talks Pamela Anderson and privacy Lily James is on the cover of Net A Porter’s digital magazine this month—is it more accurate to say that she is the face of the digital magazine? There is no “cover”—to promote the upcoming Pam & Tommy series on Hulu. The interview, conducted by Eva Wiseman, By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 10:37 am
