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
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 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
TV Updates Sherlock’s Victorian Christmas Sherlock season four won’t premiere until next year—waiting for this show is the worst—so to tide us over the BBC and Masterpiece Theater are giving us a Christmas special this December, for which we now have a trailer. Christmas specials aren’t really a thing in the By Sarah • Oct 08, 2015 12:16 pm
TV Updates Oh the shenanigans Sorry for the lame title, but you’ll see why in a minute. Nicholas Sparks is developing a sitcom about a divorced middle aged man. See? Shenanigans! It’s long been part of the pop culture narrative that Nicholas Sparks is some kind of romantic genius but really he struck By Maria • Oct 06, 2015 04:39 pm
TV Updates Jennifer & Justin’s first married red carpet The Leftovers season 2 premiere in Austin on Saturday – Jennifer Aniston was there to support her husband on their first ever red carpet as a married couple; it happened exactly two months ago today. Two month anniversary? That’s wrong because an anniversary is annual. I once asked a smartass By Lainey • Oct 05, 2015 04:08 pm
Girly Throw Downs Julianna, what’s good? Girl Sh-t is the Best Sh-t. Especially when one girl tries to deny the sh-t and the other asks her… what’s good? via GIPHY As you know, the final scene on The Good Wife between Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi was spliced together, presumably – but totally By Lainey • Oct 05, 2015 01:18 pm
TV Updates Serial TV It’s been a year since Serial. Duana got me into it. She kept yelling at me to get into it and finally, after my laser eye surgery, when I couldn’t open my eyes, I listened to the first two episodes and had to tell her she was right By Lainey • Oct 01, 2015 12:26 pm
TV Updates The X-Files: Still waiting on that truth, bro When movies get sequels, reboots, remakes, or spin-offs, people complain. Too many franchises! Why are they remaking that! What’s the difference between a reboot and a remake anyway! But when a television show does it, people love it. Breaking Bad spin-off starring Saul Goodman? Sign me up! By Sarah • Sep 30, 2015 10:07 am
TV Updates Amanda Seyfried returns to TV Here’s Amanda Seyfried at the Concert For Our Oceans in Beverly Hills last night in support of her friend from TED, Seth MacFarlane. It was announced a couple of weeks ago that Amanda will be joining the cast of Twin Peaks on Showtime. Apparently it’s a “major role” By Lainey • Sep 29, 2015 12:36 pm
TV Updates Trevor Noah’s solidly solid debut Last night Trevor Noah sat at The Daily Show desk for the first time as host, and it went very much okay. He opened with a tribute to Jon Stewart that felt genuine and heartfelt, and then he segued into current events, focusing on the Pope’s trip to the By Sarah • Sep 29, 2015 12:14 pm
TV Updates Gwyneth & Brad: social media public Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk have been together for over a year and public in private for months. Now they’re public on social media. Last night G was with Brad in LA at the premiere of his show Scream Queens. As you know, he’s a pretty successful television By Lainey • Sep 22, 2015 10:15 am
