TV Updates The Royals 1.1: “The Queen knows everything” The job of a pilot is to introduce the major characters, set up the primary conflict, and then hook the audience into coming back for more. The Royals succeeds at all of these things, and surprisingly it’s not as soapy as I was expecting. Don’t get me wrong, By Sarah • Mar 16, 2015 12:49 pm
TV Updates Mad Men - Beginning of the End There will be many, many Mad Men pieces in the next few months as the show finally closes. Seven episodes left to finish what Don Draper started years ago when he tried to figure out why that waiter wouldn’t switch to Lucky Strike cigarettes. And I’ll write some, By Duana • Mar 12, 2015 02:17 pm
TV Updates American Idol Eye Shadow Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban, Harry Connick Jr, and Ryan Seacrest were at the American Idol finalists’ party yesterday. People keep talking about the show’s declining ratings but they’re still averaging 10+ million a week. I don’t think that’s an emergency. And that doesn’t mean I’ By Lainey • Mar 12, 2015 12:48 pm
TV Updates Big Dragons A new Game Of Thrones trailer was released this week ahead of the season 5 premiere in April. The star of the preview: Dragons. BIG DRAGONS. Those teenagers are, like, fully challenging adulthood now. Do dragons have sex? I just googled this question and spent more time than I ever By Lainey • Mar 10, 2015 11:22 am
TV Updates Nicholas Hoult’s Top Gear Nicholas Hoult was photographed on the set of Top Gear yesterday in Sussex for the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segment. There was a training session with the Stig. And then he did his laps. The final time, obviously, will air on the show. Like you, I tell myself By Lainey • Mar 05, 2015 10:26 am
TV Updates Cecily Strong Is. Here are pictures of Cecily Strong in Capitol File magazine, in advance of her hosting the White House Correspondent’s dinner next month. She looks great and talks about how she’s most looking forward to meeting the Obamas, which sounds normal and exciting and good for her. But it By Duana • Mar 02, 2015 10:50 am
TV Updates Tatiana’s 3 FLAREs New issue of FLARE features Tatiana Maslany on the cover. But because it’s Tatiana and Tatiana has the range, there are actually 3 covers – see attached below. My favourite is #PunkPerfection, that Joan Jett shag looks so good on her. And the timing could not be better. Tatiana was By Lainey • Mar 02, 2015 09:13 am
TV Updates Norm Macdonald’s SNL Story Time Lainey emailed me last night and said I needed to go look at Norm Macdonald’s Twitter. So I did and it turns out that Macdonald, who appeared on SNL40 over the weekend, was having an SNL-themed story time about the week running up to the anniversary special. The big By Sarah • Feb 19, 2015 10:39 am
TV Updates Saul, I think I love you Obviously I was a huge Breaking Bad fan, and as much as it stressed me out, I miss writing the recaps as it made my love for, and understanding of, the show that much deeper. But I wasn’t super excited about Better Call Saul; a prequel spin-off seems like By Maria • Feb 18, 2015 11:07 am
TV Updates SNL40: The Bad And now for everything that reminds us that Saturday Night Live is never quite as good as we want it to be. Actors impersonating characters During the “Weekend Update” bit several actors appeared as famous SNL characters. Emma Stone impersonated Gilda Radner’s “Roseanne Roseannadanna”, Melissa McCarthy attempted to take By Sarah • Feb 17, 2015 10:40 am
TV Updates SNL40: The Good Like Saturday Night Live itself, the 40th anniversary celebration show was a mixed bag. Here’s everything that was good. Andy Samberg’s digital short Because they are ALWAYS good, but this one, sung with Adam Sandler featuring an assist from Chris Parnell, highlighted the history of character breaks on By Sarah • Feb 17, 2015 10:04 am
TV Updates Opening and closing with Justin Timberlake I understand opening SNL40 with Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake. It certainly wasn't a surprise though. This is a great example of choosing to give people what they want over what they need. Then again, the idea of a reunion show is a "want over need" By Lainey • Feb 17, 2015 09:29 am
TV Updates Jon Stewart is signing off Jon Stewart has hosted The Daily Show for sixteen years. During that time he’s evolved that show from a celebrity-driven late night talk show to an actual news source, seen three presidents come and go, reported on two wars, the worst terrorist attack in US history, and countless national By Sarah • Feb 11, 2015 11:02 am
TV Updates The True Detective denim ad Rachel McAdams, Colin Farrell, and Taylor Kitsch were photographed in LA shooting True Detective season 2 yesterday. It seems like they were shooting some kind of armed standoff. As you know, all three of them play police officers. I like Rachel in cop mode. My Photo Assumption is that all By Lainey • Feb 10, 2015 12:54 pm
TV Updates Daryl Dixon goes solo The Walking Dead returns this Sunday, and Entertainment Weekly dedicated this week’s cover feature to the show. Usually when they do this, they have a group cover shot, or multiple cover variants for different characters on the show, but this time they’ve given the lone cover to Norman By Sarah • Feb 06, 2015 11:56 am
TV Updates The Five-Time Club marks SNL 40 With SNL’s 40th anniversary celebration looming this February (even though the real anniversary is in October but this works to accommodate Sweeps), there’s a lot of SNL coverage, including a new feature in The Hollywood Reporter featuring the people who have hosted at least five times, including Tom By Sarah • Feb 04, 2015 03:02 pm
