TV Updates Intro for September 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, Saturday Night Live is kicking off its milestone 50th season next week. And it also happens to be an election year. For the show, then, the timing couldn’t be better. Because SNL’s ratings always go up during elections. It happened in 2016/17 and again in By Lainey • Sep 19, 2024 09:12 am
Sports David Beckham, Emmy Winner The Creative Arts Emmys happened a week before the Emmys broadcast this past Sunday. It was TIFF and Venice and NYFW and NFL Week 1 and US presidential politics all at the same time and some of what happened at the Creative Arts Emmys kinda got buried or didn’t By Lainey • Sep 17, 2024 03:39 pm
TV Updates Charlie Hunnam is Ryan Murphy’s new Monster Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is one of the worst-titled series in Netflix history, but it is also Netflix’s third-most popular original English language series. Besides being a hit for the platform, it also won a bunch of awards, including an Emmy for Niecy Nash Betts—I will By Sarah • Sep 17, 2024 10:34 am
TV Updates Intro for September 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, Ruth Wilson was in New York yesterday promoting the new Amazon series, A Very Royal Scandal. This show is from the same producers as A Very English Scandal and A Very British Scandal, two acclaimed series about political and social figures in England, starring Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw By Lainey • Sep 17, 2024 09:58 am
TV Updates Kathryn and Aubrey before Agatha Agatha All Along premieres next week on Disney+, which means the cast is out doing the publicity rounds. Yesterday, Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza were both in New York, though making separate appearances. Aubrey was at Howard Stern’s show, and Kathryn was doing the hotel to and fro. Can By Sarah • Sep 12, 2024 12:44 pm
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
