TV Updates Intro for June 10, 2021 Dear Gossips, A trailer for the Gossip Girl reboot, premiering on Crave in Canada and HBO Max on July 8, was released yesterday. Is it just me or does the voice off the top sound like Serena Van Der Woodsen, played of course by Blake Lively? It’s not her, By Lainey • Jun 10, 2021 09:18 am
TV Updates Loki bursts out of the gate, ready to play Spoilers With the debut of Loki, Marvel is now three series deep into their new Disney+ series slate, and a shared complaint between the first two series, WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, is that they both got off to a slow start. Well, not so Loki. Compared By Sarah • Jun 09, 2021 10:25 am
TV Updates The Bachelor Franchise Does Not Need Chris Harrison Last night was the premiere of the new season of The Bachelorette, and one thing that it proved was that the franchise does not need Chris Harrison. This morning’s news about Chris leaving the franchise for good is an effective move the show needed to take in order to By Anastasia • Jun 08, 2021 12:29 pm
TV Updates The BAFTAS of Michaela Coel This year’s BAFTA TV Awards belonged to Michaela Coel and I May Destroy You. As we already know, it was one of if not the best series of 2020 and Michaela and the series won in the Writing, Directing, Miniseries, and Acting categories. In her speech, Michaela opened by By Lainey • Jun 07, 2021 02:27 pm
Top Reads Simu Liu’s Big Day There was a lot of Simu Liu in the headlines yesterday. Here’s how it started – with a Facebook post, ahead of the release of season five of Kim’s Convenience on Netflix, which of course as we all know now is the show’s final season, and not because By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 10:52 am
Succession Nicholas Braun: Cousin Greg gets a magazine cover! How impatient are you for the next season of Succession? F-ck! I want it so bad! They’re still filming though, and HBO hasn’t even announced an air date so it won’t be summer, although hopefully they can get enough done for a post-Emmys start. Which would be By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 02:06 pm
Award Season Campaigning Regé-Jean Page’s carriage upgrade We are now six weeks away from the Emmy nominations and one of the big series contenders is Bridgerton. Bridgerton is one of two high profile drama series considerations for Netflix, alongside The Crown, so Regé-Jean Page’s Variety cover feature, which came out last week, was released just in By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 10:32 am
TV Updates There will be more of A Black Lady Sketch Show This past Friday, Robin Thede’s A Black Lady Sketch Show concluded its second season on HBO. Experiencing the show during this horrendous time for humanity has definitely been a relief. The cast stuck with what made us fall in love with the series and turned up what really worked By Melayna • May 31, 2021 11:42 am
TV Updates Outfit of the Week: Julianne Moore Here’s someone we haven’t talked about in a while… Julianne Moore was photographed yesterday in New York, presumably doing some promotion for the upcoming Lisey’s Story, an eight episode series premiering on Apple TV+ on June 4. The series is based on Stephen King’s book of By Lainey • May 28, 2021 02:49 pm
TV Updates The Underground Railroad rolls to a close Spoilers Be advised that episodes 9 and 10 contain disturbing images, including massacre violence, suicide, and infanticide. The final episodes of The Underground Railroad are the most harrowing of the series as Cora (Thuso Mbedu) once again tries to establish a life outside slavery. Royal (William Jackson Harper), who freed By Sarah • May 28, 2021 02:13 pm
TV Updates Mean Rose Byrne is real! When we first glimpsed the upcoming Apple TV+ series Physical, I wondered if the acidic, mean version of Rose Byrne’s character was somehow a product of her imagination, a bored, frustrated housewife projecting herself into the glamorous world of celebrity aerobics. No! Apparently not! A full trailer for Physical By Sarah • May 28, 2021 10:12 am
Style Daphne Bridgerton is back in white There were a lot of reasons why Bridgerton is so popular – the gossip, the romance, the family drama, the Regé-Jean Page, and as Sarah has written about, the costumes and the sets. What’s your favourite Daphne Bridgerton costume? Mine is the outfit she wore for her debut with the By Lainey • May 27, 2021 01:38 pm
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston: Double Shades Are you counting down to the Friends reunion? It’s premiering tomorrow on HBO Max and Crave here in Canada and as we’ve seen, there’s been a lot of coverage with all six members of the cast doing interviews to promote the special. Screeners were sent to select By Lainey • May 26, 2021 02:58 pm
Top Reads Prince Harry and the Success of The Me You Can’t See Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry’s Apple TV+ docuseries, The Me You Can’t See, premiered last week and since then there’s been headline after headline about how Harry talks about his past, about his family, and about breaking the cycle of silence with respect to mental health. Critics By Lainey • May 26, 2021 12:56 pm
Equality Issues Lil Nas X’s wardrobe malfunction Lil Nas X was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend on the season finale hosted by Anya Taylor-Joy. The big headline coming out of his performance was how he split his pants when he dropped it low on the pole. My big takeaway was how adorable he By Lainey • May 25, 2021 10:51 am
TV Updates The Underground Railroad reaches its nadir but offers (some) hope Spoilers for episodes 4-7 of The Underground Railroad After the odyssey of the first three episodes, The Underground Railroad shifts into a contemplative mood for its middle episodes. Episode four, “The Great Spirit” (once again, all episodes are directed by Barry Jenkins, and this episode is written by Adrienne Rush) By Sarah • May 21, 2021 01:47 pm
