TV Updates Intro for September 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, Remember Reesa Teesa? She went mega viral earlier this year for her TikTok series Who TF Did I Marry, which ended up being over 50 videos that added up to over eight hours of viewing… and people were viewing. So, as I said at the time, everybody these By Lainey • Sep 05, 2024 08:58 am
TV Updates Intro for August 28, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday this space was dedicated to the DNC production team’s Show Your Work in how they put together a political event that was also a four-day television miniseries. We’re sticking with that today because Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, aka the showrunner and director, did an By Lainey • Aug 28, 2024 09:16 am
TV Updates Even more murders this time! Over three seasons, Only Murders in the Building has been mostly consistent. It started good, wobbled a little in its sophomore season, and then hit the right combination of cozy mystery, outstanding ensemble acting, and stellar outerwear that have come to define the show. Season four feels like an even By Sarah • Aug 27, 2024 10:43 am
TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy’s killer return Here’s Anya Taylor-Joy out for lunch with a friend yesterday in LA. It’s a perfect summer lunch outfit – striped belted shirt over shorts and flats, Dior tote, and headphones. Proper headphones. It makes me happy to see others who prefer headphones over earbuds because as I’ve said By Lainey • Aug 23, 2024 11:21 am
TV Updates Sadly, this is not a Hit Man spin-off Coming off his big summer, in which HE is the star and not Tom Cruise, Glen Powell is already back at work on his next project, a football comedy series for Hulu called Chad Powers. While the show was co-created by Loki’s Michael Waldron and Powell, both of whom By Sarah • Aug 22, 2024 10:03 am
TV Updates The devil and Taylor Swift’s boyfriend I felt a stir in the air, like the displacement of a raven’s wings in the sticky humid heat of the approaching autumn equinox, and I knew—Ryan Murphy has a new TV show. His latest is Grotesquerie, and the teaser dropped yesterday. It’s Southern Gothic by way By Sarah • Aug 16, 2024 01:08 pm
TV Updates Sophie Turner, back at work Last year, Sophie Turner made headlines when her very public divorce from Joe Jonas defied the usual misogynistic playbook and attempts to cast Sophie as a “wayward” mother—because she’s a working parent—blew up in Joe’s face big time. It’s a rare example of misogyny and By Sarah • Aug 16, 2024 10:51 am
TV Updates Intro for August 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, Hiroyuki Sanada was out in New York yesterday for an appearance on Good Morning America to promote Shōgun, aka the best new series of 2024, and all its Emmy nominations (25 including Outstanding Drama and Lead Drama Actor for him). Toranaga-sama was humble and appreciative and he talked By Lainey • Aug 15, 2024 09:20 am
TV Updates D23 trailer haul Hey everyone, welcome to my haul video! Just kidding, this is text. But it IS a haul OF videos from D23, the in-house Disney fan convention. We’re just off Comic-Con but this happened, too, because we live in a culture of constant capitalist overconsumption and commercials are commodities unto By Sarah • Aug 12, 2024 12:38 pm
TV Updates Cate Blanchett always serves We’ve been talking about all of Blake Lively’s floral fashions on the It Ends With Us press tour. Cate Blanchett is also on a press tour. Borderlands opens this Friday and Cate’s been making the rounds and, well, because this is Cate Blanchett, we’re dealing with By Lainey • Aug 07, 2024 02:41 pm
TV Updates Zooks! Hey look, it’s Jason Mantzoukaaaaaaas! Jason Mantzoukas does not get photographed a lot, the fact that a photographer caught him out in LA yesterday means he either called the guy himself (doubtful, not the type), or that photographer was looking for someone else and saw Zooks going about his By Sarah • Aug 01, 2024 11:49 am
TV Updates Intro for August 1, 2024 Dear Gossips, American politics and the Olympic Games are dominating the news cycle. And in the spirit of the Olympics, Netflix’s clever marketing team has made an announcement. The second season of the most-watched Netflix show in history now has a release date. I love the timing of this By Lainey • Aug 01, 2024 09:54 am
TV Updates “You’re gonna get a bad bitch”? The line on SNL was actually, “You coulda had a bad bitch” during one of Maya Rudolph’s appearances as Vice President Kamala Harris. And now we’re getting a bad bitch, if not officially in the Oval Office then on Saturday nights this fall as Deadline is reporting that By Lainey • Jul 31, 2024 01:18 pm
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston gets splashed Jennifer Aniston is in New York working on season four of The Morning Show. I didn’t read the caption at first and when I saw these new pap shots of her on set I actually thought she was getting oil splashed on her for real from a hater, like By Lainey • Jul 29, 2024 03:42 pm
TV Updates Intro for July 18, 2024 Dear Gossips, After the Emmy nominations were announced yesterday, there was the usual talk about snubs. Shōgun was the most nominated series overall with 25 total but nothing for Cosmo Jarvis. Is he a snub though? That entire cast could have been nominated – like if you’re going to consider By Lainey • Jul 18, 2024 09:33 am
TV Updates Shōgun is the Most In her post, previous to this one, about the Emmy nominations, Duana argued gently that maybe categories don’t matter, which is a conversation that’s been coming up a lot with respect to The Bear. On our Substack today, a member called Miss Mellie said they were tired of By Lainey • Jul 17, 2024 03:51 pm
