TV Updates This Is Us is back Everybody wins when the Pearson family feuds. The last time I wrote about This Is Us, we were five episodes into the season and I was annoyed. I was annoyed that the show was focusing more on unnecessary twists than the family drama of the core Pearson clan. Well, the By Kathleen • Jan 10, 2018 11:15 am
TV Updates Lena Waithe’s own words Last year, Lena Waithe became the first black woman to win an Emmy for writing in a comedy series, for her work on Master of None’s stellar “Thanksgiving” episode. This year, Waithe is launching her own show, The Chi, on Showtime. According to her profile in the New York By Sarah • Jan 04, 2018 12:08 pm
TV Updates Daenerys Stormborn arrives for the Golden Globe week Game Of Thrones is up against The Crown, The Handmaid’s Tale, Stranger Things, and This Is Us for Best Television Drama at the Golden Globes this week. The category looked almost the same last year with one exception – Westworld was in there instead of The Handmaid’s Tale. And By Lainey • Jan 03, 2018 11:06 am
TV Updates Intro for January 3, 2018 Dear Gossips, I’m so excited for tonight. Tonight is the series premiere of grown-ish, which is the spin-off of black-ish, a show I love SO MUCH, starring Yara Shahidi as Zoe Johnson who goes off to university. And, of course, many people, including creator Kenya Barris, are comparing it By Lainey • Jan 03, 2018 09:17 am
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston’s strategic placement Jennifer Aniston took over smartwater’s Instagram account this week, did you see? The photos were taken inside her home. My favourite shots, obviously, are the ones with the dogs. A post shared by smartwater (@smartwater) on Dec 4, 2017 at 2:03pm PST A post shared by smartwater (@smartwater) By Lainey • Dec 06, 2017 10:20 am
TV Updates Mae, Christina & Retta are Good Girls I only lasted 18 seconds. I watched the trailer for Good Girls, which premieres on NBC next February, and liked it almost instantly – but I only lasted 18 seconds before I punched the space bar to pause in some kind of rage-endorsement, and wrote the following in an email to By Duana • Dec 05, 2017 01:43 pm
TV Updates Alexander Skarsgard: What’s next? Earlier this year, Alexander Skarsgard won an Emmy for Big Little Lies. Now, he is graduating from a supporting role to leading, as he has signed on to star in The Little Drummer Girl, the next John le Carré adaptation from the team that made The Night Manager. That miniseries, By Sarah • Nov 29, 2017 12:31 pm
TV Updates Selena as Sabrina Selena Gomez has shared most of her recent headlines with her on-again boyfriend Justin Bieber. This post is not about Justin Bieber. I am defying direct orders from the boss herself to “gush” about Selena and Justin. They’re back together. They’re kissing in public again. They spent Thanksgiving By Kathleen • Nov 28, 2017 03:24 pm
TV Updates RISE It’s being hailed as NBC’s successor to This Is Us. It will literally replace This Is Us when season two wraps up in March. No pressure. I’ve had my issues with This Is Us this season (the last few episodes have been MUCH better and some of By Kathleen • Nov 23, 2017 12:51 pm
TV Updates Chance The Rapper, future 5-timer Chance The Rapper hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend and if you saw it, you know what I mean in the title of this post. There’s no way he won’t be invited back. They’ll invite him back as many times as he wants to come back. Chance By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 03:40 pm
TV Updates Riverdale season two so far Spoilers Riverdale has so much potential. Last season, it was this close to delivering on that potential. The premise of a darker, moodier Archie comic turned teen drama in 2017 is great. The cast is spot on. So why has so much of the fun been sucked out of Riverdale? By Kathleen • Nov 17, 2017 11:19 am
TV Updates Versace Crime Story The next chapter in Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story anthology is The Assassination of Gianni Versace, and a new trailer has dropped, giving us a look at what Murphy has done with this story. The answer seems to be: render it a soap opera. Which is basically what Murphy By Sarah • Nov 15, 2017 03:52 pm
TV Updates ‘Encore’ Is My Kristen-Bell-Fueled DREAM Last week, I noticed Lainey said Do It On My Twin Bed was one of my favourite SNL sketches. The wording is important, because it was once my favourite, but can never get back there. That spot has been permanently supplanted by Crucible Cast Party: Crucible Cast Party (Kate McKinnon) By Duana • Nov 15, 2017 03:41 pm
TV Updates Taylor Kitsch: Waco Intense A new trailer for the upcoming miniseries Waco has been released, and damn if this doesn’t really feel like the moment Taylor Kitsch breaks out at long last. Like the first trailer, he is the focus with Michael Shannon riding shotgun, and Kitsch is so compelling as David Koresh By Sarah • Nov 15, 2017 01:16 pm
TV Updates Tiffany Haddish breaks through Tiffany Haddish has had a YEAR. Just to recap: she was the breakout star of Girls Trip, she was Jimmy Kimmel’s best guest, her very first standup special aired on Showtime, and she just hosted Saturday Night Live and your soul is unsalvageable if you weren’t charmed by By Lainey • Nov 15, 2017 11:45 am
TV Updates Meghan Markle’s next step It was confirmed yesterday that Meghan Markle and Patrick J Adams will not be back for season 8 of Suits. Deadline reports that both their contracts have been fulfilled. While this has not been confirmed by the network, it’s probably not a surprise, at least not in Meghan’s By Lainey • Nov 14, 2017 10:17 am
