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
Maple Leaf Hudson and Connor: A frenzy on both coasts It was impossible to know and/or predict what Heated Rivalry would become – and is still becoming. A Canadian production, made on muuuucchhh less money than an American counterpart would have done, starring two unknown actors in a gay hockey romance, as smutty as its source material is THE pop By Lainey • Jan 08, 2026 01:24 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things: Watchable Nostalgia Bait The final season of Netflix's Stranger Things is still watchable despite its empty narrative and excruciating exposition-driven plot By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 02:00 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Pitt crew at the CCAs Let The Pitt’s reign begin, after winning multiple Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series, The Pitt picked up more trophies at the Critics Choice Awards. Noah Wyle won Best Actor in a Drama Series, Katherine LaNasa won Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and the show itself won Best By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 12:44 pm
TV Updates Intro for December 18, 2025 Dear Gossips, I don’t want to sound smug or anything – but actually I do – but for the last few weeks, and several times already this week, I’ve been posting about how Heated Rivalry has yet to peak. One reason is because there are still people who haven’t By Lainey • Dec 18, 2025 09:31 am
TV Updates More Horny Gay Hockey There is more that is terrible than there is good right now. And they say that when that happens, we should hold onto what’s good. What’s good in pop culture at the moment is Heated Rivalry. It is the hottest new series of the season, the most successful By Lainey • Dec 15, 2025 12:28 pm
TV Updates Here comes The Pitt Just Friday I mentioned how I am waiting patiently for promo for The Pitt season two, and lo, a Christmas miracle occurred, as HBO dropped the first 90 seconds of the first episode of season two. Behold: Dr. Robby! Put your helmet on! An emergency medicine physician riding a motorcycle By Sarah • Dec 15, 2025 10:48 am
TV Updates Tom Hiddleston returns to the spy game In pop culture, 2016 stands out for the summer of Hiddleswift, when Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift flew too close to the sun and got scorched by public backlash. But that was also the year of The Night Manager, which was a big hit—huge, in the UK—and won By Sarah • Dec 12, 2025 03:17 pm
TV Updates Taylor Swift: Release and Birthday Week The first two episodes of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour docuseries will be released this Friday on Disney+. The next two are coming next Friday 19 December and the final two on Friday 26 December. So for some of us, especially if we’re very online, it’ll be By Lainey • Dec 10, 2025 02:53 pm
TV Updates Walton Goggins and all his friends Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, and Justin Theroux were just seen at LAX together. This is the cast of Fallout, season two premieres on Prime on December 17, and they were at CCXP this weekend in São Paulo to promote it. There will probably be a few more promotional By Lainey • Dec 08, 2025 02:56 pm
TV Updates Diddy’s reckoning Almost immediately after a new three-part Netflix documentary was released came the cease and desist from the man at the centre of it all. Sean Combs: The Reckoning became available for streaming on Tuesday, and Diddy and his team wasted no time slamming the production. Reps for Diddy say the By Stephanie • Dec 04, 2025 01:29 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things Season 5. Vol. 1: Same old bloat Stranger Things, Netflix’s first blockbuster TV show, returned for its final season last week, nine years after the series premiered in 2016. The first four (of eight) episodes dropped simultaneously as “volume 1”, depicting events set in 1987, nearly four years to the day since the events of the By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 12:15 pm
TV Updates Intro for December 2, 2025 Dear Gossips, Last Friday in this space I told you, I told you that your timeline was about to be taken over by a new show. And I know it’s not just my algorithm – Heated Rivalry exploded on social media this weekend. Lena Waithe just posted about it. Did By Lainey • Dec 02, 2025 09:27 am
