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
Style Lewis and Chris show up to work This year and a half has surprised us in so many ways. Many if not most of the surprises have been sh-t. But there are some highlights. Like if you had told me at the start of the pandemic that I would be the kind of person who sets recording By Lainey • Aug 26, 2021 11:58 am
TV Updates John Cho has GREAT hair That’s not a secret, he’s always had great hair, but the first photos from Cowboy Bebop are really leaning into John Cho’s great hair. The photo with the headphones, especially, is all about the hair. The height, the swoop, it’s like a perfect parabola of hair. By Sarah • Aug 24, 2021 11:48 am
Succession Intro for August 24, 2021 Dear Gossips, I wish I could run a sound effect along with this sentence – and the effect I would play you is the piano tinkling. You know it: the theme song to Succession. Because those assholes are coming back, and we finally know when. October. pic.twitter.com/1kNnfr13Wa — Succession By Lainey • Aug 24, 2021 09:38 am
TV Updates Roy Kent arrives for press night If you watch Ted Lasso, and I’m pretty sure a lot of you do, you know who Roy Kent is – not a real person, but a great character, as all the characters are on the show. So here’s Brett Goldstein, who plays Roy Kent, last night in London, By Lainey • Aug 19, 2021 11:40 am
TV Updates Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki and the new Charles and Diana The Crown season five will move into the 1990s, which means we are getting a new set of royals. Imelda Staunton takes over as the Queen, and Jonathan Pryce will be the new Prince Philip. Prince Charles and Princess Diana, meanwhile, will transition from Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin By Sarah • Aug 19, 2021 09:47 am
Style Thandiwe and Nico: A mom and daughter carpet Remember the other day when Hollywood insiders who allegedly rep A-list talent were bitching to Page Six that this year’s Met Gala was being ruined by influencers and TikTokers? One of them said that the real stars were staying away from the event this year because the pandemic is By Lainey • Aug 18, 2021 02:13 pm
TV Updates Anne Hathaway as a Grifter No matter what your kink – be it podcasts or documentary series or television series or books or magazine articles, by now at least some of you are aware of the WeWork story. The WeWork story is currently what Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes were in the culture a few years ago, By Lainey • Aug 18, 2021 01:27 pm