TV Updates SJP: A Red Carpet Carrie Bradshaw And Just Like That… The first two episodes are now available on HBO Max and on Crave in Canada. For many people, it’s been one of the most highly anticipated television premieres of the year, considering the past popularity of Sex and the City, and the drama behind the By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 10:24 am
Amazingness Intro for December 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, I didn’t even realise it last week when I posted about Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel’s Live In Front of a Studio Audience and their back-to-back re-enactments of an episode each of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes that it was counterprogramming against NBC’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 09:06 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Critics Choice Awards television nominations were announced yesterday. In the comedy category, it was really great to see that Reservation Dogs will be competing for Best Comedy Series alongside Ted Lasso, Only Murders in the Building, Insecure, Hacks, The Other Two, and What We Do In The By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:01 am
TV Updates The Cowboy Bebop caveat The live-action Cowboy Bebop remake comes with a big caveat. Based on the near-universal complaints of people who know and love the classic anime of the same name, the live-action remake is a travesty. But as someone who has not seen the anime, I can tell you that live-action Cowboy By Sarah • Dec 03, 2021 03:12 pm
Outfit of the Week Outfit of the Week: Gabrielle Union and The Facts of Life Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel produce a series called Live in Front of a Studio Audience that restages classic sitcom episodes from the 70s in real time. Their latest, a double header, will air on ABC on December 7 – Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life. If you’re By Lainey • Dec 03, 2021 02:27 pm
Equality Issues Intro for December 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, PEOPLE Magazine has released its People of the Year covers. There are four of them, including the legend Dolly Parton. Dolly could be a person of the year every year and at 75 she’s as busy and as booked as ever – as PEOPLE says, she has her By Lainey • Dec 02, 2021 09:17 am
TV Updates Miley’s New Year’s Eve Here’s Miley Cyrus yesterday leaving a studio session, 80s hair on point. Miley just turned 29 (what?!) and she’s been famous most of her life. In terms of her musical career, well, she’s been places – from kid-pop to teen-pop to mainstream pop to appropriation and then soft-pop By Lainey • Dec 01, 2021 02:30 pm
BFFs Thanksgiving with Elliot and Awkwafina As I’ve often said, celebrity friendships are often more interesting than celebrity romances. And here’s a new celebrity friendship that we’re just find out about – Elliot Page and Awkwafina were photographed hanging out yesterday in New York. Awkwafina is from New York so it looks like she’ By Lainey • Nov 25, 2021 10:39 am
TV Updates Euphoria Season Two...FINALLY After well over two years of waiting (like, back when the pandemic wasn’t even a thought in anyone’s mind), we have a new trailer and a release date for the second season of Euphoria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPz_XktsEFE&ab_channel=euphoria This trailer By Anastasia • Nov 24, 2021 01:16 pm
TV Updates Yvonne and Joshua at the International Emmys The International Emmys were presented in New York last night. They’re not getting much coverage today and I’m not sure they typically do – and I’m not trying to make it sound like I’m all that much better in this regard because I’m posting about it; By Lainey • Nov 23, 2021 01:04 pm
TV Updates Wheel of Time gets off to an uneven start Based on the long running fantasy series by Robert Jordan—15 books in total—Wheel of Time is (one of) Amazon’s big-budget bets on generating “the next Game of Thrones”. I can tell you right now, it’s not going to be that, but maybe, if the rest of By Sarah • Nov 22, 2021 03:24 pm
TV Updates American Downton Abbey Back at the height Downton Abbey’s popularity, creator Julian Fellowes was developing a prequel series about the Gilded Age-era romance between Cora Levinson and a young Lord Grantham. As we learned during the series, Cora was one of the “dollar duchesses”—I guess in her case, a “coin countess” By Sarah • Nov 19, 2021 03:32 pm
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
