TV Updates Kerry Washington shows Alyson Hannigan’s work I love pilot announcements at this time of year because there are inevitably surprises in terms of what gets picked up, and because show ‘loglines’ – the short, two-or-three-sentence descriptions of upcoming shows – inevitably look different when there’s a star visual attached. So for example, Kerry Washington’ By Duana • Mar 02, 2018 09:53 am
TV Updates Kelly Clarkson saves The Voice I like The Voice. I’ve watched almost every season. Somewhere, Sarah is making fun of me right now for all the sh-tty TV I watch. For the most part, The Voice is not sh-tty TV. Even though the show has yet to discover a star artist, for By Kathleen • Feb 27, 2018 11:26 am
TV Updates Tiff and O About 20 minutes after I watched the PURE JOY that is Tiffany Haddish meeting Oprah Winfrey for the first time, I saw this tweet from my favourite ex-Grantland writer, Rembert Browne. i'd watch 100 episodes of the show "Oprah Surprises Famous Black People Who Never Thought By Kathleen • Feb 23, 2018 11:31 am
TV Updates Tiffany Haddish is everywhere She’s in Super Bowl commercials, she’s acing Drunk History, she’s a best-selling author, P.T. Anderson wants to work with her, she will be presenting at the Oscars—ever since breaking out in Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish is everywhere. And among the many projects she has By Sarah • Feb 21, 2018 03:41 pm
TV Updates Chris Pine on TV Here’s Chris Pine in LA yesterday on the set of One Day She’ll Darken, an upcoming 6 episode series on TNT that he’s also executive producing with Patty Jenkins who is directing at least the first two episodes. As you know, Chris and Patty worked together on By Lainey • Feb 09, 2018 03:52 pm
TV Updates Jessica Jones returns Jessica Jones is arguably the best season of television put out by the Marvel/Netflix partnership. All of these shows have too many episodes, but JJ is sustained by the most cohesive plotting anyone has managed in a Marvel/Netflix show, and also, an all-time great villain courtesy David By Sarah • Feb 08, 2018 10:36 am
TV Updates Dr. Ben Covington Scott Speedman is joining Grey's Anatomy. It's not confirmed how long his run will be or if he's even playing a doctor at Seattle Grace Mercy Grey Sloan West Whatever (I still watch every episode of this show I have no idea what the By Kathleen • Feb 07, 2018 12:40 pm
TV Updates This Is Us wins Why do we do this to ourselves? If you’re a crier like me, the Super Bowl episode of This Is Us was not fun to watch. It was good television – if you like emotional network TV dramas –but enjoyable? Gratifying? I mean, is sobbing into your laptop fun? Then By Kathleen • Feb 06, 2018 11:24 am
TV Updates Barbra… and Gwyneth?!? One of the best celebrity facts of all time is that Barbra Streisand has a mall in her basement. An actual mall. We have written about Barbra’s mall several times here on this blog. And for some reason, people don’t pay attention – TO THE FACT THAT SHE HAS By Lainey • Feb 06, 2018 10:40 am
TV Updates Kerry Washington’s birthday Today is Kerry Washington’s 41st birthday. I’m always bragging about January babies. It’s not about star signs. I’m a Capricorn and Kerry is an Aquarius. I just have this theory that the best people happen to be born in the same month I was (Justin Timberlake By Kathleen • Jan 31, 2018 03:03 pm
TV Updates John Krasinski’s Jack Ryan show goes Super Bowl The first trailer for John Krasinski’s new Amazon show, Jack Ryan, did not get me excited the series. As much as I like Krasinski, I don’t think we need an “American abroad fighting terrorists” show right now. It looks like 24 except without the catchy gimmick. Well there’ By Sarah • Jan 31, 2018 11:22 am
TV Updates FYI, Murphy Brown is back. I sent Lainey an all-caps message about Murphy Brown because I was sure someone would scoop up the chance to write about the reboot before me. I can’t possibly be the only one who is super excited about this, right? Murphy Brown ran for 10 years (starting when By Maria • Jan 25, 2018 11:22 am
TV Updates Natalie Portman: Instagram, Tennis, SNL When Natalie Portman joined Instagram a few weeks ago, Maria observed in Smutty Social Media that her handle was @nportmanofficial because a fan account had already taken @natalieportman. Natalie Portman’s official Instagram is now @natalieportman. So either the fan voluntarily gave that up or was compensated for giving it By Lainey • Jan 24, 2018 04:54 pm
TV Updates Taylor Kitsch’s press day Waco, the miniseries, will premiere tomorrow night on Paramount Network (formerly Spike). Taylor Kitsch plays David Koresh and, as Sarah noted when she wrote about the trailer a few months ago, this is hopefully the role that will break Taylor Kitsch out of his post-FNL funk. Did you watch By Lainey • Jan 23, 2018 08:50 am
TV Updates It’s Double SAG-nominee Alison Brie’s Problem We’ll get to what she said in a minute. But we really need to take a second and talk about the truly maddening fact that Alison Brie was asked about James Franco at all. If you didn’t know, she’s married to his brother Dave Franco, which is By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 01:34 pm
TV Updates Riverdale is still crazy, Cole Sprouse is still hot I’m having a hard time watching this season of Riverdale sober. Over the past few days, I’ve tried to catch up in preparation for its midseason premiere tonight and without the aid of alcohol, I only made it halfway through episode 9. Good lord, this show has gone By Kathleen • Jan 17, 2018 11:37 am
