TV Updates Intro for November 20, 2024 Dear Gossips, As noted in What Else? earlier this week, there’s a lot going on in Vancouver lately. The Grey Cup just happened this past weekend; Taylor Swift will be there for three shows to close out The Eras Tour in early December. The city will host the Invictus By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 09:23 am
TV Updates Jimmy O. Yang in Interior Chinatown There is a moment in the first episode of Interior Chinatown in which the protagonist, Willis Wu goes “not far” to talk with a detective, and it turns out to be a kind of beach party situation like you’d see in an alcohol commercial. Indeed, “Deep Watr” hard seltzer By Sarah • Nov 19, 2024 11:13 am
Quiveration Diego & Gael: My SMAs Many of PEOPLE Magazine’s SMA’s come from Boston, but two of my Sexiest Men Alive Ever are Mexican-born, and they are Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna. For many, Diego & Gael are our still-charming Matt & Damon who have known each other all of their lives, became By Violeta • Nov 18, 2024 02:45 pm
TV Updates Cameron Diaz is back (in action) It was almost two years ago that we saw Cameron Diaz on the set of her first film since 2014’s Annie. That film, made for Netflix and titled Back In Action, now has a teaser, showing off Diaz’s return to acting following a decade-long break in which she By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 12:25 pm
TV Updates Ali Wong + Frankie Quiñones = No Fools Yesterday I was so happy to learn that Ali Wong will be directing a one-hour special from Frankie Quiñones as part of Hulu’s “Hularious” banner: Frankie Quiñones is a stand-up comedian and actor who starred in Hulu’s This Fool, a show that was probably canceled because people like By Violeta • Nov 14, 2024 01:33 pm
TV Updates Gladiator Strangers I am cornily proud of that title because when I came up with it, it only applied to one story but now I realise that it actually works for two! Let me explain… In London last night, the Gladiator II premiere, with director Ridley Scott and cast members Denzel Washington, By Lainey • Nov 14, 2024 12:39 pm
TV Updates Intro for November 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, MAX, the network formerly known as HBO MAX, released a 2025 preview yesterday that included the first footage we’ve seen from the upcoming third season of The White Lotus. The full trailer with all the clips from all their shows can be seen here. Here are the By Lainey • Nov 12, 2024 09:03 am
TV Updates Squid Game 2 and Double the Gong Yoo Earlier this week Deadline reported that David Fincher had landed on his next project: an English-language Squid Games series. Apparently he’ll be working on it through 2025 and it’s a spinoff from the original that takes place in South Korea, only this one will happen in America. Not By Lainey • Nov 01, 2024 11:53 am
TV Updates Las Brujas: Narrative and Power in Agatha All Along With WandaVision, I understood its protagonist quickly and deeply. The show came out at a time when I was struggling with narratives—not only could I not make them, I was struggling to focus on them, make sense of them, understand them. This might not seem like a big deal, By Violeta • Oct 30, 2024 03:05 pm
TV Updates Intro for October 29, 2024 Dear Gossips, On the train to work this morning I watched a trailer for an upcoming new Netflix show starring Ted Danson, by showrunner Michael Schur (The Good Place, Parks and Recreation etc), called A Man on the Inside. It’s about a retiree who goes undercover at a retirement By Lainey • Oct 29, 2024 09:50 am
TV Updates Nicole and Zoe: Lionesses contending together A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Nicole Kidman that was titled “Nicole Kidman doesn’t stop” and in that post I included a tweet that made me laugh. As I wrote at the time, “some people were offended by it but I understand the spirit because it By Lainey • Oct 24, 2024 10:48 am
TV Updates Eddie and Lashana: Award the Jackal! Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch were in London last night for the UK premiere of The Day of the Jackal. The ten-part series is a reimagining of the film of the same name from 1973, a cult classic, which was adapted from Frederick Forsyth’s novel, a cat-and-mouse story about By Lainey • Oct 23, 2024 11:57 am
TV Updates Welcome to Chinatown [int] Two years ago, it was announced that Charles Yu would adapt his own award-winning novel, Interior Chinatown, into a TV series starring Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng, and Chloe Bennet, and co-produced by Taika Waititi, who is also directing the pilot. Well, that series is now here, set to debut By Sarah • Oct 23, 2024 11:24 am
TV Updates Intro for October 23, 2024 Dear Gossips, It was confirmed yesterday that Beef is now an anthology as there will be a second season with an all-new cast. An all-star cast. More meat? Very good! The first season of Beef, created by showrunner Lee Sung Jin, starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong was a critically By Lainey • Oct 23, 2024 08:36 am
TV Updates Simu the Dragon: A Lesson in Bubble Tea Social media blew up this weekend over a pitch on CBC’s Dragon’s Den where Simu Liu is guest dragon this season. If you haven’t been aware of the controversy, here’s the clip and since my post is specifically about how Simu handled it, it’s worth By Lainey • Oct 15, 2024 11:47 am
TV Updates Intro for October 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, I was today year’s old when I realised that American Ninja Warrior is a real thing. Like I may have seen a commercial for it here and there but nothing ever really took hold in my consciousness until this morning, when for whatever reason, a video of By Lainey • Oct 08, 2024 10:13 am
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