TV Updates Is this Alexander Skarsgård’s next big thing? Alexander Skarsgård is one of those actors who is, by any metric, having a great career—he’s been on numerous great TV shows, he’s won a bunch of awards, he’s a fun cameo in a bunch of other great TV shows, he’s been in more great By Sarah • Apr 10, 2025 10:21 am
TV Updates Intro for April 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, Netflix is working on a series adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Deadline reported last fall that the scripts were written (by Dolly Alderton) but noted that the project had not yet been greenlit at the time and “may not make it to screen”. Seems like it’s heading By Lainey • Apr 10, 2025 09:36 am
TV Updates Jon Hamm and Tina Fey: One Good Joke Jon Hamm looked great last night at the premiere of Jonathan Tropper’s Your Friends & Neighbours, premiering on Apple TV+ on Friday. It’s about a successful hedge fund manager who gets fired and ends up stealing from people in his neighbourhood. Amanda Peet plays his wife and his By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 01:13 pm
TV Updates The Pitt is hell itself There are several contemporary television shows running in the “is this really hell” stakes, from Severance (is Lumon hell?), to Doctor Odyssey (is the Odyssey ferrying the dead to the afterlife?), to The White Lotus (is the White Lotus where the rich go to have their hearts weighed against feather, By Sarah • Apr 09, 2025 11:50 am
TV Updates Daniel Dae Kim in the lead Daniel Dae Kim and Winnie Holzman (My So Called Life) were honoured last night at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts gala. Daniel is an alumnus, he got his MFA in the Graduate Acting Program, and his son graduated from NYU too. Look how cute this photo is from By Lainey • Apr 08, 2025 04:11 pm
TV Updates Intro for April 7, 2025 Dear Gossips, If you are a regular visitor to this site, you know that I have no time for boring people with their boring bitching about how “SNL isn’t funny anymore” or “SNL isn’t relevant anymore”. First of all, that’s bullsh-t, and second, they clearly don’ By Lainey • Apr 07, 2025 09:13 am
TV Updates Michelle and Jenny: Co-stars and Co-Bobs Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate were in New York last night for the premiere of their new series Dying for Sex, premiering tomorrow on Hulu and Disney+ in Canada. They were close and cute on the red carpet together, co-stars with co-bobs. As I mentioned the other day By Lainey • Apr 03, 2025 04:14 pm
TV Updates Apple and Ava: nepo baby first steps Two new nepo baby stories have dropped: Ava Philippe in an “Elle Woods” bikini for her appearance on Doctor Odyssey (which is a nighttime soap I saw someone describe as the campy yin to The Pitt’s devastating yang), appearing alongside Paris Jackson and Charlotte Lawrence (daughter of Bill Lawrence By Maria • Apr 03, 2025 02:10 pm
TV Updates Michelle Williams: Is it time “Fo Shiz”? Michelle Williams has started the press tour for her upcoming series Dying for Sex. I linked to a piece at Vulture about the show last week that’s worth the read if you missed it the first time. This is based on the true story of Molly Kochan who, with By Lainey • Apr 01, 2025 10:28 am
TV Updates Carey Mulligan took the jacket off Carey Mulligan is promoting The Ballad of Wallis Island opening in limited release in the US this weekend. The film currently has a 97% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the trailer looks charming and sweet, and … well… it’s Carey Mulligan, she is always watchable. She was even watchable in Maestro, By Lainey • Mar 27, 2025 04:06 pm
TV Updates Ellen Pompeo’s new style game Ellen Pompeo’s been pretty visible the last couple of weeks promoting the new series Good American Family which premiered last week on Hulu. The show also stars Mark Duplass and Imogen Faith Reid and it’s the Natalia Grace story – if you’re not familiar, it’s pretty bleak. By Lainey • Mar 27, 2025 01:54 pm
TV Updates Seth Rogen in The Studio Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have been making movies together since 2007’s Superbad, which they co-wrote. They’ve been co-directing since 2013’s This Is The End, and they’ve been running the production company Point Grey since 2011. In other words, they’re three decades deep By Sarah • Mar 27, 2025 12:06 pm
TV Updates Rosamund Pike in spring paisley Always happy to see Rosamund Pike – and she looks so happy in these photos. Rosamund is in New York to promote The Wheel of Time, season three is airing now. I don’t watch this show regularly but I covered the junket a couple of months ago so I had By Lainey • Mar 26, 2025 04:04 pm
TV Updates Zendaya’s Ambitious Schedule Zendaya has been filming Euphoria season three for the last couple of months. Here she is on set on March 18 and what you’re looking at here isn’t Zendaya, master of the red carpet, fashion icon, but Rue. This is Rue. It’s not just in her clothing By Lainey • Mar 26, 2025 11:49 am
TV Updates Pedro Pascal: The Artful Dodge Pedro Pascal was the main story yesterday – Sarah posted about him being papped after a three-hour dinner with Jennifer Aniston among others and the instant online speculation about whether or not they now might be dating. Interesting timing too since he’s now promoting The Last of Us season By Lainey • Mar 25, 2025 10:22 am
TV Updates Celebrate Severance Severance season two has come to an end, and everyone has opinions. Mine is that you should email me about it so as not to do spoilers on main. Unquestionably, though, Severance is Apple TV+’s biggest hit since Ted Lasso, and the most HBO show to never air on By Sarah • Mar 24, 2025 02:14 pm
