TV Updates Friends…in Canada Yesterday in What Else?, I wrote that in Canada there wasn’t word yet on whether or not we’d be getting the Friends reunion. Today, super fresh, Crave has confirmed it: the Friends reunion will stream exclusively day and date a week from today on Thursday May 27th. Friends By Lainey • May 20, 2021 11:09 am
TV Updates Billy Porter Shares HIV-Positive Status Billy Porter has opened up about a secret he’s been keeping from almost everyone in his life for the last 14 years. In 2007, he was diagnosed HIV-positive. He’s telling his story for the first time to The Hollywood Reporter because he wants everyone to know, “This is By Cody • May 20, 2021 10:04 am
TV Updates Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are nosy neighbors Yesterday, a teaser was released for Only Murders in the Building, a ten-episode series coming to Hulu (and Star, internationally) on August 31. Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez play nosy neighbors who get caught up in a murder mystery in their apartment building. Short’s character is also, By Sarah • May 19, 2021 03:29 pm
Style Issa Rae: How to Dress While Building an Empire Issa Rae rarely turns a bad look. She’s styled for the June issue of Vanity Fair by Shiona Turini, the costume designer on Insecure, Issa’s HBO show in which she appears equality well dressed — all the time. I’m not crazy about the belt she’s wearing on By Cody • May 19, 2021 03:09 pm
TV Updates Loki meets Mobius Sunday night, Marvel and Disney+ did great at the MTV Movie & TV Awards. Their first forays into streaming television won big, and an OG6 Avenger was given the Generation Award, and during the broadcast they dropped a clip from Loki, their next series due in just under a month. By Sarah • May 18, 2021 09:50 am
TV Updates Get to know Anne Boleyn with Jodie Turner-Smith On Friday, Jodie Turner-Smith dropped a teaser for Anne Boleyn on her Instagram. The lighting continues to be bad, but besides that, the teaser shows us brief hits of Anne Boleyn as the world starts to close in around her, with no sons delivered to Henry VIII and a venomous By Sarah • May 17, 2021 12:54 pm
TV Updates Elizabeth & Kathryn: The Witches Win Big The MTV Movie and TV Awards are kinda like the People’s Choice Awards – if you show up, it means you’re winning something. And Marvel won almost everything last night, with Anthony Mackie taking home Best Hero and Best Onscreen Duo (with Sebastian Stan, who wasn’t there). During By Lainey • May 17, 2021 12:22 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton gets its first spin-off I say “first” because the Bridgerton book universe includes prequels, so there was always a high potential for spin-offs with Bridgerton. The first spin-off, though, will not be based on a Julia Quinn book but is inspired by Queen Charlotte, played in the series by Golda Rosheuvel. Shonda Rhimes is By Sarah • May 17, 2021 10:00 am
TV Updates The Underground Railroad ep 1-3 Spoilers for episodes 1-3 of The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, arrives on Amazon Prime today, with all ten episodes available to stream at once. This is completely the wrong way to absorb it. The Underground By Sarah • May 14, 2021 03:12 pm
TV Updates Friends…and BTS A surprise today, and it was done quite cleverly: an update on the Friends reunion. It had previously been reported that they’d been working on it, after a delay of nearly a year, but there was no information about when, like how long HBO Max would hold it before By Lainey • May 13, 2021 03:56 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Lily and Sebastian and Pam & Tommy On Friday we were given a gift, a great gift, the gift of Lily James and Sebastian Stan done up in costume as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. The two are starring in Hulu’s upcoming limited series Pam & Tommy, which focuses on their whirlwind romance made in 1990s By Sarah • May 10, 2021 10:40 am
TV Updates Succession SNL There were two Succession cast members at the Saturday Night Live after-party this weekend. Well here’s a return to “normal”: the traditional SNL after-party has always been a thing. The parties were suspended, obviously, until recently. But bars and restaurants in New York have been open for a few By Lainey • May 10, 2021 09:49 am
TV Updates Alexander Skarsgard’s First Succession Maria mentioned it in Celebrity Social Media yesterday – Alexander Skarsgard has joined the cast of Succession for the third season. He’s a “confrontational tech executive” so, basically, a rich Silicon Valley type with an aggressive personality. Which means he’s probably an asshole and will fit right into this By Lainey • May 05, 2021 10:17 am
TV Updates Ewan McGregor is Halston for the world Last week we got a cover profile of Ewan McGregor in advance of his new Netflix series Halston, about the 1970s fashion designer-icon. Now we have a trailer to give us a taste of McGregor as Halston. Look, he seems fantastic. He’s a great actor, the quality of the By Sarah • May 04, 2021 12:46 pm
Top Reads Bridgerton at the Races Filming of season two of Bridgerton is underway which means we have our first look at the family in the season of 1814 (minus Regé-Jean Page as Simon, who will be, I don’t know, busy on his estate all year or something). Set photos reveal the Bridgertons at a By Sarah • May 03, 2021 10:34 am
TV Updates Sharon Carter’s new job Spoilers One of the joys of WandaVision was how that show took underused side characters like Darcy Lewis and Jimmy Woo and made them more fulsome characters in the MCU. Sure, they’re still exposition machines, but WandaVision gave them a chance to demonstrate expertise and contribute beyond just silly By Sarah • Apr 30, 2021 01:25 pm
