TV Updates All I Want For Bill Murray’s Christmas special is more Miley I was looking forward to Bill Murray’s A Very Murray Christmas special on Netflix, but it turns out this is a case of all the good stuff being in the trailer. Directed by Sofia Coppola and written by Coppola, Mitch Glazer (Rock the Kasbah), and Murray, A Very Murray By Sarah • Dec 07, 2015 10:15 am
TV Updates The Wiz Live! “…Hello, Dorothy!” I mean, come on. Did you see that star? That alleged ‘rookie’, Shanice Williams? Did you see her kill this show, without breaking a sweat? What a blast that was to watch. It’s not just people being nice (when have you ever heard of people being nice By Duana • Dec 04, 2015 11:13 am
TV Updates Ryan Gosling SNL I don’t know how I missed this. But I was away last week on holiday. So I had no idea Ryan Gosling is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend. It’ll be his first time. He’s promoting The Big Short. As you know, RG hasn’t done it By Lainey • Dec 03, 2015 03:27 pm
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 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 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 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 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
