TV Updates The intense, unknowable Jake G Jake Gyllenhaal has a new series—his first television role—premiering on Apple TV+ next week. Presumed Innocent comes from David E. Kelley and is another adaptation of Scott Turow’s novel of the same name, which previously inspired Alan Pakula’s 1990 film starring Harrison Ford. It looks intense. By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 01:06 pm
TV Updates Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae in The Acolyte I have long held that the Jedi are a bunch of killjoy nerds and the galaxy far, far away is better off without them, and finally, a piece of Star Wars media agrees with me. The Acolyte, a new series set in the Star Wars universe, takes place a century By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 11:59 am
TV Updates Intro for June 5, 2024 Dear Gossips, Today in What PLANET Are You ON news, Alec Baldwin and his wife, notable Spanish Bostonian Hilaria, announced they are filming a reality series for TLC focused on their home life with their seven young children. The show is tentatively called The Baldwins and is tentatively slated to By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 09:18 am
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston: For Your Consideration, Drama As mentioned in the site open, the Emmy nominations will be voted on starting in less than two weeks so it’s heavy campaigning for a final push, at least until after the nominations come out and those who are in the race pick it back up again. There was By Lainey • Jun 03, 2024 10:34 am
TV Updates Intro for June 3, 2024 Dear Gossips, Nominations voting for the Emmys begins in less than two weeks so the For Your Consideration campaigning, at this stage anyway, is at full blast. Over the weekend there was an FYC event for the acclaimed series, Fellow Travelers, starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey. According to Variety By Lainey • Jun 03, 2024 09:11 am
TV Updates The Bear is open for business For some reason, everyone decided to drop a trailer yesterday, but here’s one that stands out—The Bear season 3. Carmy and Syd and Cousin Richie are back, The Bear is open, and…well. It’s The Bear so no one is having a good time. This is, however, By Sarah • May 30, 2024 10:50 am
TV Updates Selena Gomez’s Very Good Week I posted earlier this week about Selena Gomez and how she, alongside her Emilia Pérez castmates, won the Best Actress award at Cannes last weekend. And my bigger point in that post was that because Selena is so often making gossip headlines for her personal life, it overshadows her professional By Lainey • May 30, 2024 10:00 am
TV Updates Amandla Stenberg’s Star Wars fit The Acolyte premieres next week, the latest entry into New New Star Wars which looks back to a time before Skywalkers. It looks promising, and I can’t wait to see if creator and showrunner Leslye Headland found a story path for Star Wars free of Skywalkers and original trilogy By Sarah • May 29, 2024 01:21 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Since it was announced last week that Sony Pictures Television would be expanding the Jeopardy! Universe and launching Pop Culture Jeopardy! to stream exclusively on Amazon Prime, in addition to people registering their teams and taking the online test, there’s been speculation about who the host might By Lainey • May 22, 2024 09:19 am
TV Updates Intro for May 21, 2024 Dear Gossips, Welcome back to those in Canada from the Victoria Day long weekend. And this coming weekend it’s a long weekend in the US, Memorial Day, so it’ll be interesting to see what surprises there are for us in gossip. After Memorial Day, Hollywood will be dialing By Lainey • May 21, 2024 09:32 am
TV Updates Intro for May 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, Emmy nominations begin in June, and we have an interesting development in the Outstanding Talk Series category. Youtube show “Hot Ones”, hosted by Sean Evans, has successfully petitioned to be included in the talk series category, which puts Evans up against network stalwarts like Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, By Sarah • May 17, 2024 09:22 am
TV Updates Bridgerton Season 3: Good vibes return Bridgerton is back, baby, and nothing makes me happier than to announce that the good vibes have returned, too. After season two wandered into an unevenly paced, unevenly dramatic, and unevenly romantic arena, season three steps back into the blossom-bedecked Bridgerton light. Jess Brownell takes over showrunning duties from Chris By Sarah • May 16, 2024 02:17 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, Totally serious and admittedly shameless request: I need your help. There’s a job I want. This is not a joke. It was announced this week at the Amazon upfront that Sony Pictures Television is launching… Pop Culture Jeopardy! “I’ll take Beyoncé for 1000 please, Lainey” are By Lainey • May 16, 2024 09:21 am
TV Updates Amazon’s traffic jam upfront I used to think the biannual television upfronts, in which TV networks hawk their wares for advertisers, were a relic of a bygone era, but then every streaming service started introducing user tiers that include ads, so now I guess the upfronts are more relevant than ever. To that end, By Sarah • May 15, 2024 11:46 am
TV Updates Intro for May 13, 2024 Dear Gossips, The third annual Gold House Gala happened this weekend in Hollywood. Gold House aims to celebrate and amplify creatives from Asian Pacific communities and the third annual event brought out a diverse collective of leaders and up-and-coming stars from Michelle Yeoh to Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, as we continue to By Lainey • May 13, 2024 09:38 am
TV Updates David Beckham: Honey, Spice, Emmy David Beckham has been in LA the last few days and yesterday stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! for an interview about his Netflix documentary, Beckham. We’ll get back to the doc in a minute, let’s start with the interview itself, because it’s a good one, he came By Lainey • May 09, 2024 12:16 pm