TV Updates Intro for July 24, 2017 Dear Gossips, The New York Times had a very important question for us this weekend: How Quiet Should You Be During Game Of Thrones? I’m pretty quiet during GoT. I don’t like watching with anyone else. I will text other people during the episode but I’m watching By Lainey • Jul 24, 2017 09:05 am
TV Updates Intro for July 20, 2017 Dear Gossips, As mentioned yesterday in What Else?, Game Of Thrones is so popular that some people even put off their porn last Sunday to watch the season premiere. GoT will no doubt be the main television event this Sunday too. But… what about after? After episode 2, it’s By Lainey • Jul 20, 2017 09:38 am
TV Updates “500 hours of beauty school” It was confirmed this week that a scripted series based on the life of Mimi is being developed at Starz and produced by Mimi herself, along with Brett Ratner. The story will start when Mimi is 16 and track the course of her career, showing us how she became Mimi, By Lainey • Jul 19, 2017 12:13 pm
TV Updates Jennifer & Justin: 2 weeks before 2 years Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux will have been married for two years on August 5. They’ve been spending time in New York recently. On Monday night they had dinner at the restaurant where they got engaged. Last night they stepped out for Italian. Some were wondering if Justin would By Lainey • Jul 19, 2017 10:13 am
TV Updates Alexander Skarsgard’s blind date Alexander Skarsgard received his first Emmy nomination yesterday in the limited series supporting actor category for his excellent work as Perry in Big Little Lies. As noted the other day, BLL did more for his career than Tarzan, which was supposed to make him a big movie star. And some By Lainey • Jul 14, 2017 03:36 pm
TV Updates 2017 Emmy Noms & Snubs Look, we all got here together. We have only ourselves to blame. We all revolted against the domination of vampire series and cop shows, and watched and watched the copious offerings cable had to bring us, and we ran to each new offering with open arms. This is what we By Duana • Jul 13, 2017 03:39 pm
TV Updates Jessica Biel, the “phoenix” Jessica Biel covers the new issue of Marie Claire to promote her new series, The Sinner. As I’ve mentioned a few times now, returning to television is a good move for her. I might be more interested in what we’ll see from her in The Sinner than I’ By Lainey • Jul 13, 2017 11:59 am
TV Updates Helen Hunt’s sneaky reinvention How do you remember Helen Hunt? She’ll always be Jamie Buchman from Mad About You or an Oscar winner for her great work in As Good as it Gets to me, but now she’s sneaking into the Emmy race with three possible shots at a directing nomination (her By Joanna • Jul 11, 2017 12:16 pm
TV Updates Intro for July 11, 2017 Dear Gossips, The Emmy Award nominations will be announced on Thursday. In the Best Drama Actress category, Elisabeth Moss is the lead contender for her work in The Handmaid’s Tale. The Crown’s Claire Foy is up there too. The name that’s missing from the list: Tatiana Maslany, By Lainey • Jul 11, 2017 09:25 am
TV Updates Blessed be the (Passion)fruit I’m SORRY. I HAD TO. I couldn’t stop myself. And you’ve just groaned. And I don’t blame you. But… it was too corny not to! We’re about a week away from the Emmy Award nominations. The Handmaid’s Tale is expected to be a major By Lainey • Jul 06, 2017 10:09 am
TV Updates The Gray Bits of Paradise After shutting down production in mid-June, the Bachelor in Paradise sexual misconduct investigation is complete, with the studio, DeMario Jackson, and Corinne Olympios speaking publicly about the incident. (For my earlier pieces on it, please click here and here.) DeMario did an interview with E! and talked at length about By Maria • Jun 30, 2017 10:23 am
TV Updates The Bachelorette: are we still having fun? I have repeatedly referred to my devotion to The Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise (never Bachelor in Paradise) as a guilty pleasure. I feel guilty because these shows have always been full of f-cked up, anti-feminist rhetoric, “the marriage plot”, and a significant lack of diversity. Plus, it’s a show where By Kathleen • Jun 28, 2017 05:15 pm
TV Updates GLOW: A 1980s feminist power ballad SPOILERS Inspired by the real-life “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling” that was briefly popular in the 1980s, GLOW is not a biography, but a fictionalized behind-the-scenes comedy. Alison Brie stars as Ruth, a struggling actress who latches onto professional wrestling as her last best shot at making it. Betty Gilpin (Nurse By Sarah • Jun 28, 2017 10:08 am
TV Updates Alexis Bledel returns to The Handmaid’s Tale I had several emotions in a row when I read this headline today, telling us Alexis Bledel will be a series regular in Season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale. My first thought was, yeah, no sh*t, she was great. Of course they should up her to series regular. By Duana • Jun 22, 2017 02:55 pm
TV Updates Don’t go back to the Wall For the first day of summer, a look into winter. A new trailer for the seventh season of Game of Thrones has been released, and at this point, I’m just ready for this sh*t to start. You could show me two and a half minutes of a dog By Sarah • Jun 21, 2017 03:33 pm
TV Updates Planet of the Apps: after two episodes Planet of the Apps is Apple’s first push into original TV content and stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, will.i.am and author/motivational speaker, angel investor (think: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat) Gary Vaynerchuk. These four act as judges and then mentors/coaches to app developers. Yes, it’s very By Maria • Jun 19, 2017 11:14 am
