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
Sports Travis Kelce, Actor Deadline broke the news yesterday that Travis Kelce has been cast in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming new series Grotesquerie. Ryan surprise-announced that the show was happening at the end of February with this teaser: Nope. Pass. I do not f-ck with kind of scary ass content, thank you. That, however, By Lainey • May 08, 2024 10:50 am
TV Updates The Acolyte Don’t Say “Skywalker” Challenge May 4th, also known as Star Wars Day because “may the fourth be with you” and all that, fell over the weekend, and I totally blanked on it. Star Wars as a narrative universe has so consistently failed to do anything interesting since its reemergence under Disney that I have By Sarah • May 08, 2024 09:24 am
TV Updates Benedict Cumberbatch is back It seems like we haven’t seen Benedict Cumberbatch for a while, which isn’t true—Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness came out in 2022, and he was in two of Wes Anderson’s Oscar-winning Roald Dahl shorts last year, as well as Jeymes Samuel’s The Book By Sarah • May 03, 2024 01:04 pm
TV Updates John Mulaney is in LA The Netflix Is A Joke comedy festival kicks off this weekend and one of the centerpiece events is a six-part live special called John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In L.A., hosted by John Mulaney. Every year comedians bitch about this fest, particularly how it’s organized, and yet, a By Sarah • May 03, 2024 12:08 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 1, 2024 Dear Gossips, I was feverish on and off yesterday, tried to stay in bed as much as I could, and when I was awake, much of that time was spent binge-finishing the second half of Queen of Tears and sobbing my way through this cold. The series has now ended By Lainey • May 01, 2024 09:53 am
TV Updates Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai in Shōgun James Clavell’s epic Shōgun, the third volume of his “Asian Saga” series of novels depicting the conflicts between eastern and western civilizations over hundreds of years, was a monster hit after it was published in 1975. It spawned a 1980 TV miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, and Yoko By Sarah • Apr 25, 2024 02:19 pm
TV Updates Emma comes for Emmy Emma Stone won her second Best Actress Oscar last month for her performance in Poor Things. And now it’s Emmy season. I know, I know, it feels like it’s early to be talking about the Emmys because the Emmys just happened in January but that was only because By Lainey • Apr 25, 2024 12:04 pm
TV Updates The Radical Empathy of Baby Reindeer It’s been nearly two weeks since Baby Reindeer premiered on Netflix and it has understandably become a top-watched show and has dominated conversations online. The seven-part miniseries is an adaptation of Richard Gadd’s award-winning one man play. It chronicles the true story of how he, depicted as a By Stephanie • Apr 23, 2024 03:11 pm
TV Updates Intro for April 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s time to talk about AI again! This is going to be an ongoing and ever-evolving conversation, but this week a couple things happened that clearly illustrate the pitfalls of engaging with AI in the entertainment space. First, beloved indie studio A24 used AI to generate some By Sarah • Apr 19, 2024 09:07 am
