TV Updates Intro for October 6, 2021 Dear Gossips, One of our main storylines this week: everyone wants a piece of Squid Game. Four members of the cast will appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tonight and while this has yet to be confirmed, it reportedly will be Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Jung Ho-yeon, and By Lainey • Oct 06, 2021 09:25 am
TV Updates Squid Game Has Taken Over TikTok My title kind of speaks for itself, but I mean, who's surprised? Squid Game is the talk of the town. Lainey has been writing about the series’ huge debut on Netflix, and more specifically, how Netflix’s investment in South Korean programming over the last several years that By Anastasia • Oct 05, 2021 01:00 pm
TV Updates Where be the dragons? The Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, is due next year, and we now have a teaser by which to judge it. Yep, that’s Westeros all right! There’s the Red Keep, and the Iron Throne, though it has been reimagined for an era centuries before By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 11:45 am
TV Updates Intro for October 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, A week ago in this space I wrote about Squid Game and how it was the #1 show in the world on Netflix, including in North America, even though it wasn’t being talked about, at the time, in North America like a #1 show. In the days By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 08:58 am
TV Updates Cowboy Bebop evades Netflix knows what the people want, and that is a trailer for Cowboy Bebop starring John Cho. So, of course, we did not get that during their “Tudum” fan event on Saturday. Why bury Cowboy Bebop, one of their biggest projects coming this year, amidst the content avalanche of the By Sarah • Sep 29, 2021 02:37 pm
TV Updates A New Bachelor Host Is In Town Bachelor Nation has finally been given a permanent host. Former NFL quarterback, Jesse Palmer, will now be the face of the nation, and I don’t think it’s a face that accurately depicts the franchise’s promise for change. If I’m being honest, the NFL quarterback part doesn’ By Anastasia • Sep 29, 2021 10:20 am
TV Updates The Sandman cometh One of the most tortured projects stuck in development hell is The Sandman, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s classic comic. Efforts to adapt The Sandman began in the 1990s, when the comic was not only a hit, but also reshaping the look and feel of comics. Along with comics By Sarah • Sep 28, 2021 12:33 pm
TV Updates Intro for September 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, Sarah wrote yesterday about Netflix’s virtual fan event, Tudum, that took place over the weekend. Her coverage will continue today with pieces on Chris Hemsworth’s Extraction sequel and more. As she noted in her Bridgerton post, the season two preview was one of the biggest highlights By Lainey • Sep 28, 2021 08:51 am
TV Updates Stranger Things Dream Home Netflix’s “Tudum” preview continues with a new teaser for Stranger Things season four, which is now titled Stranger Things 4 in the style of a movie franchise. The teaser shows off the “Creel House”, an obviously haunted Victorian mansion in the woods. It’s my dream home! When can By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 04:40 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton season two first look: Kate dismantles Anthony On Saturday, Netflix hosted a three-hour virtual fan event called “Tudum”, which is supposed to be onomatopoeia for the sound that plays when you start a program on Netflix. It’s more of a “da-dum” sound than a “tu-dum” sound, but whatever. Here’s something to put in your pocket: By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 02:32 pm
TV Updates Owen Wilson finally hosts SNL I don’t know if I would say that Owen Wilson is having a comeback, because his popularity has never really waned, and certainly public affection for him has only grown over the last twenty-plus years, not lessened. But he definitely slowed down his work pace in the mid-2010s, even By Sarah • Sep 24, 2021 12:47 pm
TV Updates Kathryn Hahn’s next move Kathryn Hahn was widely expected to win an Emmy on Sunday night, but in one of the evening’s few genuine upsets, Julianne Nicholson won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series Etc. Hahn will just have to settle for her MTV popcorns and being everyone’s favorite right now. By Sarah • Sep 22, 2021 11:10 am
TV Updates Bachelor In Paradise: The Downfall Of Brendan and Pieper So the talk of the town in Bachelor Nation surrounds Bachelor In Paradise contestants, Brendan Morais and Pieper James, who thought they could crack the Bachelor code and were caught red-handed. After they were exposed for their plan, Brendan lost at least 86,000 followers, and Pieper lost 9,000 By Anastasia • Sep 16, 2021 10:41 am
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston: No Emmys and Not in the Business Season two of The Morning Show premieres this Friday and as one of its two most prominent cast members, as well as a producer, Jennifer Aniston has been on the promotional circuit. She’s also promoting her first LolaVie haircare product. On Monday Jen was on Jimmy Kimmel. These two By Lainey • Sep 15, 2021 03:19 pm
TV Updates Where has THIS Hawkeye been? One of my eternal disappointments with the MCU is how Clint Barton turned out. I am a HUGE fan of Hawkeye in the comics, and despite a pitch-perfect appearance in Thor way back in 2011, the Clint we ended up with in the movies is the most boring, least fun By Sarah • Sep 13, 2021 02:03 pm
TV Updates The Wheel of Time doesn’t have dragons Even though the last seasons and finale disappointed pretty much everyone, Game of Thrones was a HUGE success, so huge that, naturally, everyone raced to copy it. Netflix was first out of the gate with an expensive fantasy series touted as “the next Game of Thrones” with The Witcher, which By Sarah • Sep 10, 2021 01:21 pm
