Top Reads Netflix cancelled Meghan Markle (and everyone else) Following Netflix’s bad earnings call and stock freefall, the company is in full slash-and-burn mode, axing programming left and right and no one is safe, not even the Duchess of Sussex. Archewell Productions has a development deal with Netflix, through which Meghan Markle was developing an animated series aimed By Sarah • May 02, 2022 11:15 am
TV Updates Intro for May 2, 2022 Dear Gossips, Last Monday I posted in this space about Heartstopper, the new queer teen rom-com on Netflix. I’d just started watching, as the series was just starting to pick up momentum, and even though at the time I was only two and a half episodes in, I was By Lainey • May 02, 2022 09:04 am
Top Reads James Corden’s Last Year It was big news yesterday – the announcement that after next season, James Corden will be leaving The Late Late Show. One of the major reasons this was a surprise is that the show is considered a success. It’s not like James and The Late Late Show were struggling. Carpool By Lainey • Apr 29, 2022 02:51 pm
TV Updates Russian Doll is slightly less good the second time The first season of Russian Doll is basically perfect, so the bar for a second season is especially high. There is also the Fleabag standard to contend with, in which a one-off limited series is extended to a second season after breakout success, and in Fleabag’s case, the second By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 03:53 pm
TV Updates The After Afterparty So far, 2022 has been AMAZING for comedy shows, and The Afterparty is one of the strongest of the bunch. It’s been renewed for a second season, and the new ensemble has just been announced. Tiffany Haddish is returning as Detective Danner with a new murder to solve, and By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 02:49 pm
TV Updates First Lady Michelle (Pfeiffer) Michelle Pfeiffer is currently starring on The First Lady as Betty Ford. The show has not been getting great reviews, and I don’t want to bag on it because it’s not even bad in an interesting way, it’s just a weird combination of looking expensive but being By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 11:41 am
TV Updates The Essex Serpent finally shows itself I was JUST asking about a trailer for The Essex Serpent, and lo, it has appeared. Apple dropped the first—only?—look at the historical drama starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston yesterday and it looks…fine. It’s very soggy and British and everyone is Victorian and repressed. Hiddleston By Sarah • Apr 27, 2022 03:35 pm
TV Updates Shailene is “done” with Aaron Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers reportedly ended their engagement in February. But then they continued to be seen together, as she travelled with him to Miami when all those rumours were happening about whether or not he’d leave the Green Bay Packers and last time they attended a wedding. By Lainey • Apr 26, 2022 11:10 am
TV Updates Barry is back and impressively better than ever After a pandemic-delayed three-year hiatus, Barry is finally back, with the premiere episode of season three airing last night on HBO. For a show that started out strong, somehow Barry keeps getting better, reaching new highs—and emotional lows—topping itself in ever more impressive ways. Series co-creators Bill Hader By Sarah • Apr 25, 2022 03:06 pm
TV Updates Whither Essex Serpent? The Essex Serpent, the period drama starring Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes and based on Sarah Perry’s novel, drops on Apple TV+ on May 13. That’s just a couple weeks away, and the premiere was held yesterday. It’s one of those events where everyone showed up dressed By Sarah • Apr 25, 2022 01:19 pm
TV Updates Intro for April 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, I am two-and-a-half episodes into Heartstopper and I had to force myself to slowwwwww down. Heartstopper is based on Alice Oseman’s graphic novel (they also scripted the series), a queer teen rom-com, a story about crushes and friendship and identity and rugby, lol, and it’s sweet By Lainey • Apr 25, 2022 09:03 am
TV Updates Joe Alwyn’s Next Level Conversations With Friends, the series based on Sally Rooney’s first book, will be released on May 15. Promotion for the show is now picking up. It’s been almost exactly two years since the Normal People came out, like just a few weeks into the pandemic in the west, By Lainey • Apr 20, 2022 12:47 pm
TV Updates Claire’s Cold Run It’s been almost two years since the end of Homeland, right? Claire Danes is coming back to TV soon – in less than a month, in fact. She’s starring in Apple’s upcoming The Essex Serpent, a six-episode series based on the book of the same name, alongside Tom By Lainey • Apr 19, 2022 01:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning Amanda Seyfried in the lead? Like Maria, I haven’t yet started The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes. Mostly because I’m still catching up on so many other shows – like the other tech scammer show that’s on right now: WeCrashed, with Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto. And the thing with that By Lainey • Apr 13, 2022 12:59 pm
TV Updates Claire & Paul’s Very British Scandal Claire Foy and Paul Bettany are currently in New York promoting their new series – it’s already aired in the UK – which starts streaming on Amazon on April 22. A Very British Scandal is based on the true divorce story of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, a major tabloid By Lainey • Apr 13, 2022 10:32 am
TV Updates Stranger Things is just spooky New Girl Stranger Things’ penultimate season finally arrives this spring and summer after a pandemic delay in production. “Volume 1” drops on May 27, followed by “volume 2” on July 1. As much as Netflix’s “consume everything at once” binge model has permanently changed television—and audiences do like the convenience By Sarah • Apr 12, 2022 11:23 am
