TV Updates My spiney alien queen in Alien: Earth What makes us human? Is it our organic bodies, failing all around us; is it our memories, the building blocks of identity; or is it our heart, that intangible, metaphysical je ne sai quoi that allows us to love, to grieve, to fear, to hope? The greatest science fiction asks By Sarah • Aug 21, 2025 12:09 pm
Sports Glen Powell and Eli Manning try to conquer TV As I mentioned the other day, Glen Powell is returning to TV for the first time since starring in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens in the mid-2010s. Starting September 30, he will star in Chad Powers, a football comedy on Hulu based on a character created by Eli Manning. To By Sarah • Aug 21, 2025 10:26 am
TV Updates Intro for August 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, Emmys voting is now underway and will continue until next Wednesday 27 August. As I mentioned earlier this week, this is a competitive year across pretty much all the major categories, including Outstanding Drama Series. In its freshman year, The Pitt has come out to challenge high-profile favourites By Lainey • Aug 21, 2025 09:18 am
TV Updates Fallout’s sci-fi escape hatch I really enjoyed the first season of Fallout, Prime Video’s adaptation of the popular video game series. In fact, I like it so much, I will go out on a limb and say that Walton Goggins should have gotten an Emmy nomination for Fallout, not The White Lotus. His By Sarah • Aug 20, 2025 10:34 am
TV Updates This is for The Pitts Emmys voting officially begins today so there were wall-to-wall Emmys events over the weekend as everyone’s trying to get into position for the next week or so before people gear way down before Labour Day. Just a heads up that we’ll be gearing down too – we’re all By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 11:24 am
TV Updates Intro for August 15, 2025 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift has given us a great gossip week—one reason I believe she is a great gossip herself is because she knows so well how to stoke gossip cycles—but let’s not lose sight of the other gossip happening right now: Marc Maron versus every right-wing By Sarah • Aug 15, 2025 09:29 am
TV Updates Jack goes for groceries Jack Lowden was seen in London shopping at Sainsbury’s with his reusable grocery bag. This man looks… tired. And it could be for a couple of reasons. First, as Sarah wrote in her post from a couple of weeks ago, production has started on Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice, By Lainey • Aug 13, 2025 04:04 pm
TV Updates SMG’s telltale accessory on the Buffy set Something I’ve noticed as pieces of news about the Buffy reboot trickle out is the tiptoeing. By tiptoeing, I mean that every single fan of this show, and half the people who didn’t watch it originally but have been browbeaten into it by friends and family in the By Duana • Aug 13, 2025 12:43 pm
TV Updates Timothy Olyphant’s chaotic streak continues Alien: Earth premiered last night—will I review it? Who can ever be sure!—which means Timothy Olyphant is back on TV screens once again. And yes, even with his character’s strong look—neon white hair and bleached brows, very Nineties Euro raver—he is still Very Handsome. My By Sarah • Aug 13, 2025 10:55 am
TV Updates Wednesday gets a deeper mystery and a bigger cast After an almost three-year hiatus, Wednesday is back with the further adventures of Wednesday Addams at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters Nevermore Academy. The first season has plenty of style and Jenna Ortega’s outstanding performance as Wednesday, but, well, it never really beats the allegations of creative disharmony By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 03:41 pm
TV Updates Intro for August 8, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Office is one of the most popular TV shows of the millennium so far, a monster hit when it was originally airing in the 2000s and early 2010s, and perennially popular on streaming ever since it ended in 2013. But it is, of course, a spin-off, an By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 09:24 am
TV Updates Jenna Ortega’s Doom Tour The first part of the second season of Wednesday premieres next week, and as such, Jenna Ortega is on the “Doom Tour” promoting the show around the world. Cute branding! Seriously, I was mixed on season one, but I do like how everyone leans into Wednesday Addams’ Goth girl roots By Sarah • Aug 01, 2025 11:12 am
TV Updates K-POP SPICE Back in February when Apple TV+ announced their newest music competition KPOPPED hosted by PSY and Megan Thee Stallion, both K-pop and western pop music fans alike were intrigued – us included. A show where some of the most well-known western pop stars team up with K-pop acts to transform their By MC • Jul 31, 2025 11:00 am
TV Updates Meet the new Bennet sisters Production has begun on a new six-episode Netflix adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The new series is written by Dolly Alderton, the creator of Everything I Know About Love, and directed by the excellently named Euros Lyn, an award-winning director who has worked on everything from Dr. Who (David Tennant By Sarah • Jul 30, 2025 10:20 am
TV Updates Paul Kelly is nailing it As you know by now, Ryan Murphy is my nemesis. I rarely make it all the way through his series, some, usually the true crime ones, I can’t even watch at all. But I was a kid in the Nineties, images of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy are seared into my By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 02:34 pm
TV Updates Intro for July 24, 2025 Dear Gossips, The fallout from the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert continues, this time, in the form of some cold hard reporting. From the jump, executives at CBS have insisted this decision was “purely financial”, even though it looks at least in part political. But here are By Sarah • Jul 24, 2025 09:11 am
