TV Updates Justice for Duchess Margaret at last Back in 2018, Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw starred in A Very English Scandal, a three-part dark comedy about an MP who tries and fails to have a former (male) lover killed, and from there events spiral out of control. It’s a SPECTACULAR mini-series, if you haven’t seen By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 02:09 pm
TV Updates JGL takes on an icon Joseph Gordon-Levitt is currently starring as former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on Super Pumped, which doesn’t seem to be making much of a dent amidst all the other shows about scammers and/or Big Tech bros airing right now. But that isn’t on JGL, he’s very good By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 01:18 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton Season 2: Lots of yearning, but where’s the burning? When Bridgerton ended its first season, romantic hero and heroine Simon and Daphne were settling into marital bliss, a baby on the way. Daphne’s older brother, though, announced his intention to find a wife but to excise love from the proceedings. Season two catches up with Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton By Sarah • Mar 22, 2022 03:20 pm
TV Updates Christina Ricci is in Wednesday, but is not Wednesday Lest you have forgotten, consider this a reminder that Tim Burton is directing a new series for Netflix about Wednesday Addams. It’s called Wednesday, and it stars Jenna Ortega (something of a scream queen with films like X, Studio 666, Scream, and The Babysitter: Killer Queen under her belt) By Sarah • Mar 22, 2022 11:46 am
Top Reads Hoyeon Jung: a twin? Squid Game was represented at the Producers Guild Awards this weekend by showrunner Hwang Dong-hyuk, producer Kim Ji-yeon, and star Hoyeon Jung. Since the series has been such a massive success, Netflix wants a second season, but Hwang said at the event that he hasn’t even started writing. Well By Lainey • Mar 21, 2022 01:28 pm
TV Updates Tegan and Sara cast Tegan and Sara Casting your own biopic is all the rage. The latest celebrities to cast themselves are pop duo and Adult Twins Tegan and Sara, who hand-picked their cinematic teenaged counterparts on TikTok. Their memoir, High School, is being adapted into a series by IMDb TV—yes, that’s a real thing— By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 03:39 pm
TV Updates Hoyeon’s next move Fresh off her SAG win, Squid Game’s Hoyeon Jung has lined up her next project. She will be joining Cate Blanchett, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Kevin Kline in Alfonso Cuaron’s upcoming Apple TV+ series, Disclaimer. That is a lot of big names lined up in a By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 01:46 pm
TV Updates The Derry Girls (and Sister Michael) are back Before Nicola Coughlan became Bridgerton’s Lady Whistledown, she was Clare Devlin on Derry Girls, a coming-of-age comedy series about four Irish girls and one Anglo-Irish boy growing up in Northern Ireland during the closing years of The Troubles. It airs on Channel 4 in the UK, but it gained By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 10:57 am
TV Updates Jessica Biel is your friendly neighborhood axe murderer In 2017, Jessica Biel gave her career a kick in the pants with The Sinner, a show that she produced and starred in, and which netted her an Emmy nomination in 2018. She then took on podcasts, adapting the popular Limetown into a limited series, and now she is joining By Sarah • Mar 18, 2022 09:59 am
TV Updates Barry is back (with Noho Hank) It has been three years since Barry’s second season. For three long years we have lived without Noho Hank, the most relentlessly positive and encouraging cinematic mobster. Barry is a widely admired show, and a lot of the attention goes to series co-creator and star Bill Hader, who also By Sarah • Mar 17, 2022 02:41 pm
Equality Issues Intro for March 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, Apple TV’s Pachinko, adapted from Min Jin Lee’s acclaimed novel by the same name, starts streaming on March 25 with the first three episodes dropping right away and then one a week until all eight are released. Reviews so far have been really strong. Rolling Stone By Lainey • Mar 17, 2022 09:23 am
TV Updates A Messy Bachelor and Two Bachelorettes This season of The Bachelor was a rollercoaster, to say the least. When I heard it was going to be Clayton Echard from Michelle’s season of The Bachelorette, I wasn’t expecting much. We didn’t learn much about who Clayton is, so I was under the impression that By Anastasia • Mar 16, 2022 03:27 pm
TV Updates Annie just met Jared Anne Hathaway is currently promoting WeCrashed, premiering this weekend on Apple+. Anne and Jared Leto play Adam and Rebekah Neumann, the WeWork scam couple, and while Jared’s doing another accent fresh off House of Gucci, Anne’s coming in with a new voice for her role, too. It’s By Lainey • Mar 16, 2022 11:35 am
TV Updates Kamala Khan is a brown girl saving the world One thing Marvel keeps poking at but not fully committing to is making stuff for actual children. Sometimes they get close, with stuff like Ant-Man, the most family-friendly film they’ve made, but then the sequel kind of veers out of those waters, or the Spider-Man: Homecoming, which feels very By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 10:46 am
TV Updates Selena Gomez is remaking Sixteen Candles for Gen Z It has happened, people who grew up in the Eighties. Enough time has passed that the Youths are reimagining the cultural objects of YOUR youth. Selena Gomez, along with playwright Tanya Saracho and writer/producer Gabriela Revilla Lugo, is reimagining the John Hughes coming of age classic Sixteen Candles as By Sarah • Mar 16, 2022 10:18 am
TV Updates Ted Lasso in training The cast and crew of Ted Lasso were photographed while filming season three in London today. It looks like some kind of training session as Ted is there with Roy and they’re all in their warmups and I can see Sam and Dani too and the photo agency mentions By Lainey • Mar 15, 2022 02:08 pm
