TV Updates Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig are making a Lifetime movie This is not a joke. The movie, expected to air this summer, is about a couple who take care of a pregnant woman in the hopes of adopting her baby only to have it all go horribly awry. It’s described as a “wink” at the genre, the genre being By Sarah • Apr 02, 2015 02:06 pm
TV Updates Keke Palmer for Dorothy - The Wiz on NBC Well, Deadline has apologized by not apologizing, so it’s time to pretend that the NBC musical that was announced yesterday, The Wiz, isn’t totally a reactive, opportunistic move to make them look like they’re on the side of the good guys. Last summer they said that The By Duana • Mar 31, 2015 02:43 pm
TV Updates Trevor Noah to take over The Daily Show In February Jon Stewart announced he will be retiring from The Daily Show later this year, and now it’s become official that his replacement will be South African comedian Trevor Noah. There’s still no date for Stewart’s retirement beyond “later this year”, but when he does go, By Sarah • Mar 30, 2015 11:48 am
TV Updates Getting out of Schitt I can’t say it enough, how proud I am of my friend Dan Levy who created Schitt’s Creek. And wrote it. And stars. And is the showrunner. PS. Dan is only 31. I hate him! While I obsessively watch him, week after week, because I need everything he By Lainey • Mar 30, 2015 08:31 am
TV Updates The Outlander guy, live I was wondering why there were all these horny women standing outside our building this morning… Sam Heughan was at etalk today. I walked by on my way to pee and recognised the hair. The interview will air on April 7th. Discussion points: his charitable contributions, his upcoming projects, Scotland, By Lainey • Mar 27, 2015 01:47 pm
TV Updates “What if there’s TOO MUCH Diversity?” Duana’s (snarky screenwriter) take Oh NO, you guys, terrible news! It seems that Hollywood has gotten a clue, based on how Shondaland kills everything in its path on Thursday nights, how well Jane The Virgin has done, and how Empire has JUGGERNAUTED its way through season one. Hollywood has By Duana • Mar 25, 2015 12:41 pm
TV Updates Deadline published a disgusting article meant to make us mad Sarah’s (snarky blogger) take Yesterday evening an article by Nellie Andreeva was posted on the industry trade website Deadline—formerly the bastion of hard-edged news harpy Nikki Finke—positing that the current pilot season is shaping up to be the most diverse in recent memory, maybe ever, with By Sarah • Mar 25, 2015 12:19 pm
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 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 By Maria • Feb 18, 2015 11:07 am
