TV Updates Drew is a Square Recently Lainey’s been writing about what it takes to excel at morning television, related to Scarlett Johansson co-hosting on The Today Show for a week as part of “Jenna & Friends”. Thinking about the skills and talents Lainey outlined—likeable, relatable, yet prepared and polished enough to pull off By Sarah • Jan 29, 2025 01:36 pm
TV Updates Still loving Yellowjackets Yellowjackets is to cannibals as Lost is to castaways. Like Lost, Yellowjackets starts strong, setting up a bevy of compelling characters and a central mystery—what DID happen when those girls were stranded in the woods? Featuring a cast of Xennial icons including Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Juliette By Sarah • Jan 23, 2025 10:01 am
TV Updates Are all the Timmys coming too? This post was written before the Oscar nominations and by the time you read it, Timothée Chalamet will likely have received his second Oscar nom for his work in A Complete Unknown. He will then have the opportunity to get right in Oscar voters’ faces this week as the host By Lainey • Jan 23, 2025 09:37 am
TV Updates Kristen Stewart: Blonde Vampire? Kristen Stewart was papped for the first time this year the other day with fiancée (maybe wife now? She’s so low-key that if they got married, quietly, no one would know) Dylan Meyer. She and Dylan aren’t just partnered in their personal life, they’re also business partners. By Lainey • Jan 21, 2025 03:27 pm
TV Updates Do it for Club Chalamet Over the last couple of years, whenever there’s been any news about Timothée Chalamet, “someone check on Club Chalamet” has been a common reaction on social media. That expression took on a different complexion over the last few days as the person who runs Club Chalamet, who is essentially By Lainey • Jan 14, 2025 02:16 pm
TV Updates Escape from the Algorithm As Sarah wrote this morning, Los Angeles is still in flux and that means many Hollywood events are on pause. Safety and containment is of course the first priority for the fires. Then cleanup and the assessment of damage will start. There is a lot of unknown and layered with By Maria • Jan 13, 2025 03:26 pm
TV Updates Meghan’s delay It’s not just award shows and such being postponed due to the wildfires, a bunch of TV shows that film in LA have paused production, too. In a similar vein, Meghan Markle asked Netflix to delay the launch of her new series, With Love, Meghan, from January 15 to By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 10:37 am
TV Updates Meghan Markle’s 2025 Reset Meghan Markel jumped right into 2025 with a resurgence on Instagram (under the @meghan handle) and a trailer for her new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan. Let’s start with Instagram: it’s giving Tampax commercial but honestly, how is anyone going to make Instagram relevant or interesting in 2025? By Maria • Jan 07, 2025 10:58 am
TV Updates Intro for January 7, 2025 Dear Gossips, I watch two dating shows at opposite times of the year. In the summer it’s Love Island USA and those of us who have been devoted to the American version of the series were rewarded this past summer when season six became pretty much the most popular By Lainey • Jan 07, 2025 09:10 am
TV Updates Toranaga and Hot Rabbi The Golden Globes first time nominees luncheon took place yesterday in LA and among the attendees, Hiroyuki Sanada for his performance as Toranaga-sama in Shōgun. He is the reigning Emmy Drama Actor winner, but since Shōgun was only released last February, the series has yet to contend at the Globes, By Lainey • Dec 18, 2024 10:38 am
TV Updates Maybe just don’t go to the White Lotus Since it debuted in 2021, The White Lotus has become one of the most scathing comedy-dramas on TV, an unrelenting, pernicious takedown of entitled white people vacation culture from Mike White, filmmaker and Survivor season 37 runner-up. The trailer for the highly anticipated third season is here, teasing a February By Sarah • Dec 17, 2024 12:04 pm
TV Updates Intro for December 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s eight days until Christmas and this year, on Christmas Day proper, Netflix is giving us what some might consider the most inappropriate – or perhaps appropriate – Christmas gift of all: greed. Or, rather, a series about greed that also happens to be the sequel to the most-watched By Lainey • Dec 17, 2024 09:38 am
TV Updates Intro for December 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, I spent the last few days recovering from a scheduled procedure, staying off screens, and burning through several audiobooks – the first being Jenny Holiday’s Canadian Boyfriend. Sarah posted about this back in September and it’s been talked about all over the chats over on our Substack, By Lainey • Dec 16, 2024 09:28 am
TV Updates Let the Squid Game begin Two weeks until Squid Game returns and the Los Angeles premiere for season two was yesterday, bringing out series stars Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun, and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk. Season two newcomers Yim Si-wan and Jo Yu-ri were also on hand. Not pictured: Lainey’s beloved Gong Yoo. You’re By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 11:01 am
TV Updates Intro for December 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globe nominations were announced yesterday, and on Thursday, it’s the Critics Choice Association’s turn to announce the film nominees for their 2024 honors (I am a voting member of the CCA). Something is different for the CCAs this year, though, which is a category By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 09:10 am
TV Updates Jack and Saoirse do the awards Saoirse Ronan did not receive a Golden Globe nomination today, not for her performance in The Outrun and not for her performance in Blitz. That does not mean, however, that she won’t hear her name called when Critics Choice makes their nominations announcement tomorrow. Interestingly enough, Critics Choice announced By Lainey • Dec 09, 2024 01:40 pm
