TV Updates Countdown to The Crown When the Queen died last month, Netflix reported a surge in viewership – obviously people were watching The Crown seasons one through four and getting reacquainted with the storylines, the drama, the rivalries, the pettiness and the protocol. There are a lot of people who are well-primed for what happens next. By Lainey • Oct 13, 2022 11:27 am
TV Updates Intro for October 13, 2022 Dear Gossips, Big announcement yesterday! The Joy Luck Club is getting a sequel! A “Joy Luck Club 2" is happening! The original cast is in talks to return to their roles as mothers and grandmothers. The film will also highlight a new generation of Asian female-identifying actors, from granddaughters By Lainey • Oct 13, 2022 09:31 am
TV Updates The Devil in the White City is my white whale All I want in this stupid world is for SOMEONE to develop a movie or limited series based on The Devil in the White City that we will ACTUALLY get to see. Following the announcement back in August that Keanu Reeves would star in a limited series for Hulu, to By Sarah • Oct 11, 2022 10:36 am
TV Updates Devery Jacobs is Now and Next “It’s been a crazy time, a crazy year” – what Devery Jacobs told ELLE CANADA in her cover feature for the magazine’s October 2022 issue. This is an understatement. Season two of Reservation Dogs just wrapped up this week (it streams in Canada on Disney+) and season three was By Lainey • Sep 30, 2022 11:58 am
Quiveration Zahn McClarnon in Dark Winds Zahn McClarnon is an actor with over 90 credits to his name, but you’ve probably only started to notice him within the last decade. He’s done his time hopscotching through network procedurals like NYPD Blue, Criminal Minds, and Castle, and he’s been in most projects of note By Sarah • Sep 30, 2022 11:17 am
TV Updates Jen and Jon on a date I was at the newsstand at the airport yesterday before my flight home and saw Jennifer Aniston on the cover of some tabloid and the headline was something something about how Angelina Jolie ruined her life. For a minute there I forgot when I was. When, as in is it By Lainey • Sep 29, 2022 11:05 am
TV Updates Jon Bernthal shows up for Norman Reedus When last we discussed Jon Bernthal, he was giving a literal microphone to Shia LaBeouf as part of LaBeouf’s apology tour. This killed many people’s Bernthal crush. It put a serious dent in mine. I get it, they’re friends and Bernthal wants to support his friend, but By Sarah • Sep 28, 2022 11:08 am
Break Ups Simu Liu: A Breakup and a Win The last few times I’ve posted about Simu Liu it was about his love life. He and Jade Bender made it red carpet official this summer which is newsworthy because Simu is newsworthy – he’s been newsworthy now for over a year, ever since the release of Shang-Chi and By Lainey • Sep 27, 2022 01:08 pm
TV Updates Just here for the Hamm and Beharie I do not watch The Morning Show—I don’t believe anyone except Duana does—and I won’t pretend to care about it, but here are Jon Hamm and Jennifer Aniston shooting a scene with a cool Porsche, with bonus Nicole Beharie filming a different scene in Central Park. By Sarah • Sep 27, 2022 10:13 am
TV Updates Be charmed by the new queen Of Bridgerton’s version of England, that is. During “Tudum”, Netflix dropped a teaser for Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, a limited series depicting the romance between young King George III and then-Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg. The teaser is a scene depicting their meet cute as Princess Charlotte attempts to By Sarah • Sep 26, 2022 03:24 pm
TV Updates The Crown is done mourning It’s been exactly a week since Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral which means that the additional seven days of mourning observed by the British royal family has concluded. That was the Crown’s schedule, at least. But it was not The Crown’s schedule. The Crown is one of By Lainey • Sep 26, 2022 12:05 pm
TV Updates Diego Luna shines in Andor Rogue One is arguably the second-best film to come out of New New Star Wars (the best is The Last Jedi, argue with a wall). The middle of Rogue One is a goddamn mess, but it has a memorable ending and in just one film introduced a compelling gallery of By Sarah • Sep 22, 2022 02:01 pm
TV Updates Kumail Nanjiani’s good Eighties vibes Speaking of true crime, the teaser for Welcome to Chippendales dropped yesterday. The Hulu limited series stars Kumail Nanjiani as Steve Banerjee, the founder of Chippendale’s who gets into a murder plot involving the club’s choreographer, Nick De Noia. Murray Bartlett, fresh off his Emmy win for The By Sarah • Sep 21, 2022 01:42 pm
TV Updates We are Ready for Sheryl Lee Ralph & Abbott Elementary Many of us have been back to school and tomorrow, Emmy award-winning Abbott Elementary will be back with its second season premiere! https://youtu.be/H9vWZQuAYfg Since last week’s Emmy broadcast, people have been celebrating the much-deserved wins for Sheryl Lee Ralph and Quinta Brunson. From the moment Sheryl By Violeta • Sep 20, 2022 01:56 pm
TV Updates Page and Powell and Butch and Sundance Earlier this week, Lainey fell under the spell of Glen Powell and Jonathan Majors. That’s a powerful combination, a one-two punch of hot and sexy. But how do you feel about Glen Powell and Regé-Jean Page? They’re at the center of a “reimagining”—no one wants to use By Sarah • Sep 16, 2022 12:27 pm
TV Updates Not now, Marvel Technically, it’s “not now, Disney”, since this weekend was: the end of the Venice Film Festival, the beginning of TIFF, the beginning of New York Fashion Week, tonight is the Emmys, and here comes Disney like tra-la-la, let’s have D23, our Comic-Con-esque fan convention, the same weekend as By Sarah • Sep 12, 2022 01:36 pm