TV Updates Pam & Tommy & The Tape The teaser for Hulu’s Pam & Tommy dropped this week, and while the physical transformations of Lily James and Sebastian Stan into Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, respectively, are jaw-dropping, you know what really hooks me? The way James lands on the line, “No, not like me you’re By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 02:42 pm
Royals Meghan and Ellen The Ellen DeGeneres Show is in its final season and so far, for a final season, there hasn’t been all that much buzz. And it’s showing in the ratings. The number one daytime talk show of fall 2021 is Live with Kelly and Ryan, by an enormous margin By Lainey • Nov 19, 2021 10:08 am
TV Updates Lizzy Caplan week Lizzy Caplan, perennially underappreciated actor and wearer of an equally underappreciated Emmys dress, has had a busy week. The erstwhile Janis Ian has been announced as the star of a Fatal Attraction television series, which…okay, sure. Caplan will play the Alex role previously inhabited by Glenn Close, and while By Sarah • Nov 18, 2021 02:22 pm
TV Updates Nicholas Hoult and Elle Fanning are cheerfully antagonistic The Great season two drops on Hulu this Friday, and in advance of that, Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult cover the digital edition of Entertainment Weekly. I love this format for a show like The Great, because the motion images allows both Hoult and Fanning to really pose in character, By Sarah • Nov 18, 2021 12:34 pm
TV Updates Simu Liu: Tuesday night before Saturday night Saturday Night Live is all about tradition. There’s a schedule to the week that, by now, is probably familiar to pop culture enthusiasts. On Tuesday night, the week’s guest host goes out for dinner with the SNL team. Simu Liu is the host this coming Saturday and last By Lainey • Nov 17, 2021 02:31 pm
TV Updates The Proud Family is back Look at this, it’s a trailer from Disney+ Day that is longer than three seconds. The Proud Family is back, rebooted as The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, set to debut on D+ in February 2022. As An Old, I did not watch The Proud Family in its original By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 03:32 pm
TV Updates Hawkeye’s branding problem One of the smoother aspects of Disney+ Day was the new Hawkeye clip, probably because it came via Good Morning America and live television demands a certain amount of—maybe not “polish”, because anything can and will go wrong at any moment, but certainly—preparation. So Jeremy Renner popped up By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 02:53 pm
TV Updates Oh my gosh, The Great! I really enjoyed the first season of The Great, but somewhere in the pandemic fog that has become my brain over the last eighteen months, I totally lost track of its return for season two. But it’s coming back! THIS WEEK! The second season begins on Friday. Here are By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 01:58 pm
TV Updates Ms. Marvel suits up Friday was “Disney+ Day”, aka a global marketing bonanza in which Disney tried to gin up some interest in new subscriptions for Disney+ after they missed Wall Street expectations and added “just” 2.1 million new subscribers in their fourth quarter. Honestly, the insistence on total global domination is exhausting, By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan and Will swap Ryan Reynolds is promoting Red Notice, out today on Netflix (my review is posting later today), and Will Ferrell is promoting The Shrink Next Door, dropping on Apple TV+ today, too. They did a jokey thing where they “swapped” late night appearances, with Will Ferrell appearing in place of Reynolds By Sarah • Nov 12, 2021 09:29 am
TV Updates Maya Rudolph on set? Here are photos of Maya Rudolph in a fuchsia dress and horrible crocs “on set” for “Human Resources”. Why the quotations? Because I think these photos might be mislabeled. Human Resources is a spin-off of Big Mouth centered on the hormone monsters and other imaginary creatures of Big Mouth. Rudolph’ By Sarah • Nov 10, 2021 01:42 pm
Aging Gorgessity It’s Paul Rudd! So the question is…who f-cked over Page Six?! Last week Page Six claimed to have been told by “multiple sources” that Chris Evans would be named PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive this year. Well, they were wrong. Chris Evans is not the Sexiest Man Alive. Did PEOPLE intentionally false-leak By Lainey • Nov 10, 2021 09:35 am
TV Updates Squid Game: Campaign and Sequel As noted yesterday, Netflix is pushing an award season run for Squid Game, its most successful show ever. This is pretty radical, for multiple reasons. The fact that Squid Game, a show almost entirely in Korean, has become the most-watched television show in the world and also that this show By Lainey • Nov 09, 2021 01:20 pm
Style Vogue brings back SJP At the end of my post about Lady Gaga’s British Vogue cover story last week, I wondered who would cover American Vogue, if it wasn’t Gaga, who is American, in the December issue. Would it be someone major? We found out yesterday – it’s Sarah Jessica Parker: This By Lainey • Nov 09, 2021 12:38 pm
Award Season Campaigning Squid Game on the Campaign Trail + Lee Min-ho Over the last few years, the annual Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Art + Film Gala (now in its tenth year) has become an unofficial campaign stop during award season. It is not be confused with the Art of Elysium Heaven Gala that happens in January around the Golden By Lainey • Nov 08, 2021 02:10 pm
TV Updates SJP and Chris Noth: And Just Like That… Soon Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Noth were photographed in New York yesterday shooting scenes for And Just Like That. The paps describe this as a “romantic” moment, and it looks that way with Carrie wrapping her arms around Big while wearing a very Carrie outfit – so Carrie that, to me By Lainey • Nov 08, 2021 11:02 am
