TV Updates The Hero Of Her Own Story You’ve heard me rattle on all year about these televised musicals. The Wiz airs Thursday night on NBC, and it is going to be far better than the live musicals of the previous years, which is good for musical lovers but bad for live-tweeters. This article from the Hollywood By Duana • Dec 01, 2015 12:53 pm
Quiveration Tom Hardy taboo Today is Cyber Monday. Apparently all of us will be throwing money at the Internet, supposedly buying gifts but really shopping for ourselves. Well I have a gift for you, OK? Just me. And my pleasure has nothing to do with it. I am sucking up to you because I& By Lainey • Nov 30, 2015 10:46 am
TV Updates Friday Night Lights, the musical It’s Thanksgiving in the United States. And I haven’t bitched at you in a while about Friday Night Lights. So I guess this is perfect timing. WHY HAVEN’T YOU WATCHED FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS? You can binge this weekend. And then you can email me, grovelling about why By Lainey • Nov 25, 2015 12:00 pm
TV Updates You should be watching Jessica Jones On Friday Marvel released the second of their Netflix series, Jessica Jones. So far the Netflix series feel custom-made for people who don’t really like superheroes, with the emphasis on street-level life and realism and not superpowers. If you’ve ever disliked a Marvel movie for being too goofy, By Sarah • Nov 24, 2015 01:22 pm
TV Updates Matthew McConaughey on Saturday night Matthew McConaughey is in New York this week rehearsing for Saturday Night Live. He’s hosting this weekend with musical guest Adele. It’ll be his second time. The first time was in 2003 before he decided to remodel his career. Before he became Matthew McConaughey, Best Actor Oscar winner By Lainey • Nov 18, 2015 12:08 pm
TV Updates Jon Hamm supports Aziz Click here for my earlier post on Aziz Ansari and his new show Master Of None on Netflix. As mentioned, there was a screening and a Q&A for it last night in New York. And Jon Hamm was there to moderate. They’ve been friends for a while. By Lainey • Nov 03, 2015 12:12 pm
TV Updates Aziz Ansari: Master Of None Master Of None is Aziz Ansari’s new show on Netflix premiering on Friday. Last night there was a screening and Q&A moderated by Jon Hamm (we’ll get to him later). This is probably Aziz’s most significant career move yet – he co-created and co-writes with Alan By Lainey • Nov 03, 2015 10:16 am
TV Updates Dominic Cooper in Preacher – I GET IT After a long and troubled development period that saw the project go from a feature film to an HBO series to an AMC pilot, Seth Rogen and his creative partner, Evan Goldberg, have finally got an adaptation of the cult classic comic book Preacher onto the screen. During last night’ By Sarah • Nov 02, 2015 01:20 pm
TV Updates Tom Hardy would smash Bond Tom Hardy stepped out last night in London for a Triumph motorcycles event. Idris Elba was the DJ. And both have been talked about to play the next Bond. Idris doesn’t want to talk about this anymore. For him, it’s over. When asked about the opportunity, here’s By Lainey • Oct 29, 2015 05:23 pm
TV Updates Marketing Problems So you know how you start hearing about someone, and then a little more, and then you’re able to say to your friends or your mom, when she asks, “oh you know, she’s kind of the awkward one in teen movies” or etc, and people reconcile the name By Duana • Oct 28, 2015 01:08 pm
TV Updates SNL shuffled the deck Have you been watching Saturday Night Live recently and thinking that it seems a little better than we’ve grown used to in recent years? Perhaps you have thought that, since coming back for season 41 three weeks ago, SNL is a cut above the previous season. Well, if you’ By Sarah • Oct 21, 2015 11:52 am
TV Updates Where You Lead Twitter last night was a playground. It was the Christmas Eve of we Canadians getting a new Prime Minister, the Blue Jays had yet to make us anxious and dramatic, and I was texting Lainey about The News: Gilmore Girls is slated to have a limited-series revival on Netflix (where By Duana • Oct 20, 2015 01:51 pm
TV Updates Gwyneth & Ryan’s One Hit Wonders A couple of years ago, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Murphy were going to do a movie together called One Hit Wonders and Reese Witherspoon and Cameron Diaz were attached to the project too. All The Skinny Singing Blondes. Then Amy Pascal left Sony and the film plans fell apart. Now, By Lainey • Oct 15, 2015 01:05 pm
Girlcrushes Effie Brown and Matt Damon are not super best friends The last time we talked about Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s HBO revival of Project Greenlight, it was about #mattsplaining and Damon’s dumb remarks about diversity hiring on a film set, which he directed at Effie Brown, an African-American producer. Now, as the show heads toward its finale, By Sarah • Oct 14, 2015 01:09 pm
TV Updates Emilia is Sexy, Esquire is Bullsh-t Emilia Clarke has been named Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive, which every year seems to be more and more of a “thing,” although nowhere near the anticipation of PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive title. Sexiest Woman Alive can’t anoint a woman’s entry into the upper echelons like PEOPLE’ By Maria • Oct 14, 2015 11:36 am
TV Updates Quentin Tarantino is bummed he lost an Oscar, is not into TV There is a new interview with Quentin Tarantino in the New York Times magazine, and by far the most annoying thing about it is that the interview is conducted by Bret Easton Ellis. QT actually manages to come off as the reasonable one here, mostly because the majority of the By Sarah • Oct 13, 2015 03:36 pm
