TV Updates Katie promotes Ray Donovan Katie Holmes was on Good Morning America today promoting Ray Donovan. Have you seen Ray Donovan? I’ve just gone through the first season – which I really enjoyed – but the second season has been queued for a while because, how do people get through all this great television? It’s By Lainey • Jul 22, 2015 12:59 pm
Hook Ups Rachel & Taylor’s morning after At this point, True Detective S2 is a proper hate-watch. That f-cking dialogue. I set my Sunday nights at 9PM to the show, while my mask is drying, as a challenge to not move my face and f-ck up the work that the serum is supposedly doing to shrink my By Lainey • Jul 20, 2015 09:21 am
TV Updates Emmy Nominations? ONLY ONE STORY The Emmy Nominations can usually be a little predictable. Until they’re not. There is only one headline here: TATIANA MASLANY nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of EVERYONE in Orphan Black. Amy Schumer (also nominated) was so happy about it she tweeted at her with the hashtag #notsnubbed. By Duana • Jul 16, 2015 01:13 pm
TV Updates Peter Krause in Shondaland EW announced yesterday that Peter Krause has signed onto The Catch, which is the newest drama from Shondaland in which a professional player proceeds to get played. The player is Mireille Enos so everyone else likes to say ‘oh, from The Killing’ but to me she will always be from By Duana • Jul 15, 2015 11:21 am
TV Updates Fancy English Sherlock debuts at Comic-Con The BBC’s Sherlock had a panel yesterday at Comic-Con that remained dry and panty-butter free as Benedict Cumberbatch, preparing to play Hamlet on the West End, was not on hand. But they did do a message video for the crowd, featuring The Batch, show co-creator (and the Superior Mycroft) By Sarah • Jul 10, 2015 11:52 am
TV Updates We missed the anniversary Check out Katie Holmes in New York today. Word is she and Suri are spending the summer in the city. Rumour is she’s renting an apartment for $25K a month. That’s a lot of money for civilians like us. Not a concern for celebrities and besides, Tom Cruise By Lainey • Jul 09, 2015 01:03 pm
TV Updates Dork Storm 2015: Revenge of the Comic-Con A curious thing has happened to Comic-Con over the last few years. Despite being a huge engine that drives pop culture, it has become crystal clear that there is no value in Comic-Con. It’s one of the weirdest things I have ever seen happen in the film industry—no By Sarah • Jul 07, 2015 03:57 pm
Douchebags Thanks, Ben Affleck PBS has decided to suspend the third season of Finding Your Roots as the result of an internal investigation… Whatever. Basically PBS has suspended the third season of Finding Your Roots because of Ben Affleck. You’ll recall, once he learned that some of his ancestors were slave owners, Ben By Lainey • Jun 25, 2015 11:03 am
Quiveration Idris Elba: Speed Freak It’s a good day already. New Idris Elba photos! He was at LAX yesterday. And while I know I don’t need to give you any more information than that because you’ll just be looking at the photos anyway, there’s more. He’s heading to Glastonbury so By Lainey • Jun 25, 2015 10:09 am
TV Updates Taraji covers W Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. It started a few weeks ago when I ended up reading an article about Steve Urkel. I can’t remember how I found that post but it gave me a lot of nostalgia about the television I watched growing up. There By Lainey • Jun 23, 2015 03:23 pm
TV Updates Intro for June 19, 2015 Dear Gossips, Now that Game Of Thrones has wrapped, HBO is moving us right into True Detective season 2, premiering on Sunday in Canada and the US. I wasn’t into the first season. The partnership between Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson didn’t interest me, wasn’t new for By Lainey • Jun 19, 2015 09:37 am
TV Updates A Win for Aaron is a Win for Us All After this week’s weirdly desperate ploy for attention (catch up here), there’s some very good news for Aaron Paul fans. He’s going back to TV – with Jason Katims. Yes, Friday Night Lights and Parenthood Jason Katims. Aaron is starring in a 10-part miniseries about a mysterious and By Maria • Jun 18, 2015 11:00 am
TV Updates The Brenda Years The first thing I want you to do is not reflexively roll your eyes at the idea of “Lifetime movie”. Did you learn nothing from Taraji P. Henson last week, who was so proud of the breakthrough she accomplished and the Emmy nomination that resulted on her last Lifetime movie? By Duana • Jun 17, 2015 10:24 am
TV Updates Lucy Liu, director Lucy Liu was photographed in Ft Lauderdale yesterday directing an episode of Graceland. It’s not her first time. She’s also directed a couple episodes of her own show Elementary. So she’s using her hiatus time to develop other opportunities. I like this career move. Because, well, it’ By Lainey • Jun 16, 2015 02:19 pm
TV Updates Kerry as Anita Hill Check out Kerry Washington as Anita Hill in the upcoming HBO biopic Confirmation about Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court senate hearings. This was almost 25 years ago. I was 17, in my last year of high school. It was all over the TV. It would be another year before I By Lainey • Jun 16, 2015 12:48 pm
TV Updates Taraji’s getting the clothes Taraji P Henson and Terrence Howard are at the Monte Carlo TV Festival promoting Empire, probably the most VIP stars at the event so far. Because Empire, as you know, has been one of the biggest f-cking deals in television this year. And that makes Taraji a very big deal. By Lainey • Jun 15, 2015 03:09 pm
