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
TV Updates Only Murders in the Building is not cozy Only Murders in the Building, the true crime parody cum actual murder mystery show co-created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman, opens with a Charles-Haden Savage (Martin) voiceover about living in the city. “As any true crime aficionado will tell you,” he says, “it’s the boondocks you need to By Sarah • Sep 10, 2021 12:53 pm
TV Updates Phoebe Waller-Bridge dumps Mr. Smith Solo co-stars and founding members of a mutual admiration society Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover were supposed to reunite for a television remake of Mr. & Mrs. Smith which is, of course, a gossip hall of fame film as it brought us Brangelina. Glover had the idea of reimagining the By Sarah • Sep 09, 2021 02:04 pm
TV Updates Reese’s Morning Show Stripes Promotion for season two of The Morning Show is underway. Cast members were junketing yesterday and many if not most of the usual outlets were invited to participate in virtual interviews with Hasan Minhaj, who joins this season, and also Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, who were paired from separate By Lainey • Sep 09, 2021 10:35 am
Gorgessity RJ and his GF at GQ Regé-Jean Page, a year ago, was not a household name. Nine months ago, all that changed with the release of Bridgerton on Netflix. And then he was in millions of homes, and fantasies. So it makes total sense that he’s one of GQ’s Men of the Year for By Lainey • Sep 02, 2021 10:43 am
TV Updates Intro for September 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, NBC yesterday released the first trailer for Season 21 of The Voice – and the reason why this is getting extra headline space is because Ariana Grande has joined the show as a coach this season. There have been other popstars in their prime who’ve been on The By Lainey • Sep 01, 2021 10:07 am
TV Updates Reservation Dogs: An Indigenous Hang-out Sitcom I have dithered over this review for a while, partly because I am just plain enjoying Reservation Dogs, and sometimes when you enjoy something you don’t want to commodify it. But also partly because with each new episode I fall further down the rabbit hole of struggling to express By Sarah • Aug 31, 2021 12:43 pm
Succession Intro for August 31, 2021 Dear Gossips, I savoured Hunter Harris’s latest piece for Vulture this morning. It’s about Succession, its cast and showrunner, after having spent two weeks with the season three production in Italy this summer, part of Vulture’s fall preview. And there’s a lot to look forward to By Lainey • Aug 31, 2021 08:57 am
TV Updates Tom Hiddleston: Coffee on a Dog Walk Tom Hiddleston was photographed today in London with his dog and a coffee mug. I see this in my neighbourhood too, in the mornings, when people are out with their dogs and they take their coffee with them, and I’m always jealous. Not that I drink coffee but I By Lainey • Aug 27, 2021 02:39 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 27, 2021 Dear Gossips, Apple released a new trailer for the second season of The Morning Show this week and the big surprise reveal is that Will Arnett has joined the cast; he plays Jennifer Aniston’s (Alex Levy) agent, Doug. The stereotype of agents in show business is usually douchebag – and By Lainey • Aug 27, 2021 09:14 am