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
TV Updates Emmys: Nominations Mean Everything; Categories, Not So Much It’s kind of funny to me that awards show coverage always leads with “[PROJECT] gets a stunning [NUMBER] nods!” I get that it’s a shorthand for how well-regarded a show is, if every possible category landed a nomination. But it’s also indicative of past Emmy discourse, a By Duana • Jul 17, 2024 03:18 pm
TV Updates Qualified Emmy love The Emmy nominations are here and are largely as expected (lots of The Bear, Shōgun, and Baby Reindeer), but there are a couple nice surprises, and one maybe not so much surprise and disappointingly met expectation. Let’s start with the good news. Reservation Dogs FINALLY got major Emmy nominations! By Sarah • Jul 17, 2024 02:04 pm
TV Updates Intro for July 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Emmy nominations will be announced today at 1130am ET/830am PT and we’ll have more posts about that later. For me personally, the Emmys storyline I care most about is Shōgun and how many nominations the series will receive. Shōgun is heavily predicted to lead the By Lainey • Jul 17, 2024 09:32 am
TV Updates Intro for July 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Emmy nominations are tomorrow, and I know it feels like we just did the Emmys—because we did, in January—but this is actually the regular schedule for nominations ahead of the traditional September ceremony. Despite the strike-delayed 2023 award ceremony, though, the Emmys eligibility windows never By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 09:30 am
TV Updates Nicole Kidman riffs on Nicole Kidman It’s a match made in murder mystery heaven—mystery novelist Elin Hilderbrand, queen of prestige mystery TV Nicole Kidman, and The Night Manager director Susanna Bier are uniting for an adaptation of Hilderbrand’s novel, The Perfect Couple. People often describe Elin Hilderbrand as “the queen of the beach By Sarah • Jul 12, 2024 12:58 pm
TV Updates Marvel’s witch pitch After a recent rough patch, Marvel is attempting something of a comeback (there was definitely a post-Endgame malaise the pandemic exacerbated, but let’s be real that their box office losses didn’t really start until last year when Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania sh-t the bed, and even still, By Sarah • Jul 09, 2024 03:55 pm
Quiveration Intro for July 9, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s Tuesday. And right now, for a certain corner of the internet, Tuesdays are for Manny Jacinto. You know exactly what I mean if you’ve been watching The Acolyte. New episodes drop Tuesdays at 9pm ET/6pm PT. And for the last two weeks especially, social By Lainey • Jul 09, 2024 09:25 am
