TV Updates Smash, Scorned showrunners, and ‘Yes, And’ When I first read the Theresa Rebeck's essay about being fired from Smash that Entertainment Weekly ran, I was standing in a long lineup and immediately looked up, shocked that the line was still happening. Like, I somehow expected everyone else around me to have read it at By Duana • Apr 05, 2017 01:24 pm
TV Updates Master of Joy Yesterday Lainey wrote about TV FOMO in the age of Peak TV, and how hard it is to keep up with the sheer volume of shows available now. With something like 500 scripted shows airing in 2017 across all platforms, it is virtually impossible to see everything. I wrote to By Sarah • Apr 05, 2017 11:52 am
TV Updates Kerry Washington’s art and activism I’m in a fight with Scandal because of what happened at the end of season 6, episode 7. I won’t tell you what happened because #nospoilers but let’s just say that Olivia Pope and Shonda Rhimes are usually my imaginary besties but lately, I’ve been yelling By Kathleen • Apr 04, 2017 02:57 pm
TV Updates SJP’s fashion voice Maria mentioned a few weeks ago that she feels like she’s the only one who cared about HBO’s Divorce starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church. They’re shooting season 2 now. I watched the first episode, didn’t hate it but at the same time I By Lainey • Apr 04, 2017 11:53 am
TV Updates Feud and the Working Woman’s Trap Five episodes into Feud: Bette and Joan and we have covered the making of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, its release, and subsequent trip to the Oscars in 1963. We’re now at the point where Bette Davis and Joan Crawford should be swamped in offers, careers reignited thanks to By Sarah • Apr 03, 2017 11:04 am
TV Updates Nicole at 50 Nicole Kidman will turn 50 in June. (Julia Roberts celebrates her 50th this year too, in October.) We’ve just seen her deliver one of the most memorable performances of her career in Big Little Lies for which she is now considered the frontrunner for an Emmy award. Come summer By Lainey • Apr 03, 2017 10:35 am
TV Updates Intro for April 3, 2017 Dear Gossips, Why lie? That’s what the female detective wanted to know at the end of Big Little Lies last night. Only a woman would be able to really understand the answer to that question. And the answer only leads to another question. Not about lies but about the By Lainey • Apr 03, 2017 09:01 am
TV Updates Selena’s Only You The Weeknd had a few days off this week and he spent them with Selena Gomez in South America. After this weekend he gets a 3 week break before resuming his tour. Let’s come back to that in a minute. Selena last night was in New York for the By Lainey • Mar 31, 2017 01:15 pm
TV Updates Aunt Viv responds Of course, she did. Earlier this week I wrote about the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion. Alfonso Ribeiro posted a picture of the cast looking all grown and beautiful but that's not what everyone was talking about. Instead, the photo sparked the question, "Where's First By Kathleen • Mar 30, 2017 01:01 pm
TV Updates Where’s Aunt Viv? "The first Aunt Viv was the best Aunt Viv." Not only is this an undeniable fact about The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, it’s also a line in The Hate U Give. I had been meaning to read it. It was on my list. Then, on Saturday, Lainey By Kathleen • Mar 28, 2017 01:45 pm
TV Updates Intro for March 28, 2017 Dear Gossips, Nicole Kidman’s been doing some press ahead of Sunday’s Big Little Lies series finale. I can’t imagine she wouldn’t be up for every major acting award for her work on this show. It’s pretty much unanimous that this is the best she’s By Lainey • Mar 28, 2017 09:39 am
TV Updates Big Little Lies: Six Big Little Lies, episode 6 is on Sunday. And next week is the series finale. So we’re getting there, we’re getting close. And it’s already been so tense up to this point. If you watch the show (OF COURSE YOU WATCH THE SHOW IT’S THE SHOW By Lainey • Mar 24, 2017 11:43 am
TV Updates Alexa & Alex together in New York It’s been a while since Alexa Chung and Alexander Skarsgard have been photographed together. Which is why so many people assumed that they’d broken up. Here they are today in New York, together. Another example of how not being photographed together sometimes doesn’t mean anything. Like the By Lainey • Mar 23, 2017 04:24 pm
TV Updates Checking in on Riverdale Thursdays still belong to Shonda Rhimes but for the past 7 weeks, I’ve ventured out of Shondaland and into a mysterious, perpetually overcast town called Riverdale for an hour every Thursday. Riverdale is back with new episodes next week but to hold you over until then, I’m essentially By Kathleen • Mar 23, 2017 01:14 pm
TV Updates Ava DuVernay, the great leader Ava DuVernay has been working on A Wrinkle In Time. The film’s budget is at least $100 million making her the first black woman to direct a movie of that size. She posted on Instagram the other day that principle photography is now complete and now they’re in By Lainey • Mar 23, 2017 11:14 am
TV Updates This Is Only Some Of Us On Friday, I opened Messenger, texted Kathleen, and proceeded to ruin her day. I’ve been thinking about This Is Us all week and I’m not the only one —their Saturday night panel at PaleyFest was packed. The show is ridiculously successful in a time when both network shows By Duana • Mar 20, 2017 03:01 pm
