TV Updates Intro for February 18, 2025 Dear Gossips, The red carpet for the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary special was like the Oscars, Grammys, and Emmys at the same time – a huge flex for Lorne Michaels with that kind of guest list, a seemingly endless list of proper celebrities all wanting to be part of the By Lainey • Feb 18, 2025 09:06 am
TV Updates Happy Valentine’s Day, Love Lady Whistledown Monday is Family Day in Canada so the site will be dark. We'll be back to normal programming on Tuesday. See you then! Bridgerton season four isn’t expected until next year, but the Bridgerton PR team at Netflix never miss a chance to celebrate with Lady Whistledown. By Sarah • Feb 14, 2025 04:00 pm
TV Updates 10 SNL Moments As most of you may know, we are in the midst of SNL’s 50th season, and this weekend is the official celebration of the show’s 50th anniversary. Some of us have already been reflecting and reminiscing while streaming Peacock’s Beyond Saturday Night four-episode docuseries and Questlove’s By Violeta • Feb 14, 2025 10:58 am
TV Updates Ladies of SNL on WWHL Sometimes I indulge in the ritual of making a good breakfast while catching up on some TV. I will open up my iPad next to my coffee maker and hope that the guests on Watch What Happens Live are some I recognize. Look, I am no reality TV snob, but By Violeta • Feb 13, 2025 10:22 am
TV Updates The White Lotus in bloom The White Lotus blooms again this Sunday, and the premiere was last night in Los Angeles. Given the show’s stature three seasons in, and its powerhouse cast, the premiere was a star-studded affair. Returning White Lotus star Natasha Rothwell was there in a beaded gown giving Art Deco vibes, By Sarah • Feb 11, 2025 10:23 am
TV Updates BUFFY IS (apparently, actually, potentially) BACK?! I really didn’t expect good news this week, since the past few days/lifetime have been A Bit Unusual where world news is concerned – and, like everyone else, my resolve to be aware of/not obsessed by the news is pretty rusty. I need discipline. Which has come from By Duana • Feb 04, 2025 02:23 pm
TV Updates Is Netflix trying harder? Here is one sign that Hollywood is getting back to business as usual as the fires go out around LA: Netflix held their 2025 yearly preview at the Egyptian Theater yesterday. They had some stars on hand, like John Mulaney, whose Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney talk series launches By Sarah • Jan 31, 2025 02:33 pm
TV Updates The White Lotus and a Goggins goggle mystery I know everyone’s all into Severance right now—I’m waiting to start until they’re halfway through the season because I cannot TAKE the STRESS, and I don’t want to wait two whole months to see what happens next—but the show I am most hotly anticipating By Sarah • Jan 29, 2025 03:11 pm
TV Updates Drew is a Square Recently Lainey’s been writing about what it takes to excel at morning television, related to Scarlett Johansson co-hosting on The Today Show for a week as part of “Jenna & Friends”. Thinking about the skills and talents Lainey outlined—likeable, relatable, yet prepared and polished enough to pull off By Sarah • Jan 29, 2025 01:36 pm
TV Updates Still loving Yellowjackets Yellowjackets is to cannibals as Lost is to castaways. Like Lost, Yellowjackets starts strong, setting up a bevy of compelling characters and a central mystery—what DID happen when those girls were stranded in the woods? Featuring a cast of Xennial icons including Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Juliette By Sarah • Jan 23, 2025 10:01 am
TV Updates Are all the Timmys coming too? This post was written before the Oscar nominations and by the time you read it, Timothée Chalamet will likely have received his second Oscar nom for his work in A Complete Unknown. He will then have the opportunity to get right in Oscar voters’ faces this week as the host By Lainey • Jan 23, 2025 09:37 am
TV Updates Kristen Stewart: Blonde Vampire? Kristen Stewart was papped for the first time this year the other day with fiancée (maybe wife now? She’s so low-key that if they got married, quietly, no one would know) Dylan Meyer. She and Dylan aren’t just partnered in their personal life, they’re also business partners. By Lainey • Jan 21, 2025 03:27 pm
TV Updates Do it for Club Chalamet Over the last couple of years, whenever there’s been any news about Timothée Chalamet, “someone check on Club Chalamet” has been a common reaction on social media. That expression took on a different complexion over the last few days as the person who runs Club Chalamet, who is essentially By Lainey • Jan 14, 2025 02:16 pm
TV Updates Escape from the Algorithm As Sarah wrote this morning, Los Angeles is still in flux and that means many Hollywood events are on pause. Safety and containment is of course the first priority for the fires. Then cleanup and the assessment of damage will start. There is a lot of unknown and layered with By Maria • Jan 13, 2025 03:26 pm
TV Updates Meghan’s delay It’s not just award shows and such being postponed due to the wildfires, a bunch of TV shows that film in LA have paused production, too. In a similar vein, Meghan Markle asked Netflix to delay the launch of her new series, With Love, Meghan, from January 15 to By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 10:37 am
TV Updates Meghan Markle’s 2025 Reset Meghan Markel jumped right into 2025 with a resurgence on Instagram (under the @meghan handle) and a trailer for her new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan. Let’s start with Instagram: it’s giving Tampax commercial but honestly, how is anyone going to make Instagram relevant or interesting in 2025? By Maria • Jan 07, 2025 10:58 am