Movie Reviews and Previews Regé -Jean Page wastes no time The undisputed breakout of Bridgerton season one is Regé-Jean Page, the duke himself. With all the momentum of being the breakout star of Netflix’s biggest original show to date, Page is wasting no time. He has booked his first major role post-Bridgerton and will co-star with Chris Pine in By Sarah • Feb 17, 2021 12:18 pm
TV Updates The New Mr & Mrs Smith Amazon announced a few days ago that they’re rebooting Mr & Mrs Smith, which I consider to be a classic movie, and not just because it’s the movie where Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt fell in love, kicking off 12 years of Brange. RIP Brange. Of course the By Lainey • Feb 16, 2021 02:29 pm
Douchebags The Bachelor Franchise Is In Crisis (We are so pleased to welcome Anastasia, the newest writer to join the team. Anastasia is a journalism student and a member of Bachelor Nation. She can be reached on Twitter @annieanokyee and on Instagram @annie.anokye. and by email at anastasia@laineygossip.com.) Anyone who is a huge Bachelor By Anastasia • Feb 16, 2021 11:56 am
TV Updates BRIDGERTON FOUND ITS KATE Today in Very Important Bridgerton News, the woman who is too good for Anthony Bridgerton has been cast. Sex Education’s Simone Ashley will star as Kate Sharma in season two. Kate! Is here! And she will NOT be taking ANY of Anthony’s bullsh-t, of which there is a By Sarah • Feb 16, 2021 09:29 am
TV Updates Queen Jodie (in the dark) As we learned last year, Jodie Turner-Smith is playing Anne Boleyn in a new prestige drama series about the doomed queen’s downfall. We’ve seen her on set in the headpieces, but now we have our first official still of JTS as Anne and, well, it’s not great. By Sarah • Feb 11, 2021 11:53 am
Top Reads Jennifer Aniston: Brad and Boyfriend Rumours Here are Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon in LA working on the second season of The Morning Show. Jen was seen in a grey suit for one scene and a camel coat for another – very Alex Levy. Both at one point are wearing face shields. Have we talked about the By Lainey • Feb 10, 2021 10:35 am
TV Updates WandaVision gets to the point Spoilers through episode 5 of WandaVision In my review of the first two episodes of WandaVision, I said the show got off to a slow start and a lot of people argued with me (which happens whenever you say anything less than positive about Marvel online). Listen, I, too, enjoy By Sarah • Feb 09, 2021 11:33 am
TV Updates SAG Awards TV Noms – Discuss Once again we’re splitting discussion of these nominations into TV and Film, and so the actual nominations process, which used to be “televised”, deserves a mention – solely inasmuch as Daveed Diggs’ panic at not being able to add Lily Collins to the IG Live was so real it gave By Duana • Feb 04, 2021 01:08 pm
TV Updates Intro for February 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Screen Actors Guild will announce their nominations later today and while there may be a couple of surprises, it will not be the giant bowl of f-cksh-t that the Golden Globes served up yesterday. Like, I’m pretty sure we won’t be hearing Jared Leto’s By Lainey • Feb 04, 2021 08:59 am
TV Updates The Nevers is not the next Game of Thrones HBO’s quest to replicate the success of Game of Thrones continues, as Westworld never reached the same highs—but hit many of the same lows—and His Dark Materials never really caught on (they insist that people watch it, but do they? No one talks about it). Next up By Sarah • Feb 03, 2021 04:20 pm
TV Updates The Golden Globes TV Nominations Are Embarrassing Look, the most generous-to-neutral observation that I can make about these nominations is that there are an awful lot of nominees whose names start with C. The category for Best Actress in a Drama includes Colman, Comer, and Corrin. You know who it doesn’t have? Coel. Yeah, I know By Duana • Feb 03, 2021 11:09 am
TV Updates Search Party and Facing Your Best-Worst Self SPOILERS When it began in 2016, Search Party was a social satire with a true-crime twist, as an aimless, self-absorbed Millennial made a nearly forgotten college acquaintance’s disappearance all about her. Dory Sief is the worst of all Millennial stereotypes: underemployed in Brooklyn, a bright kid who has not By Sarah • Feb 02, 2021 01:06 pm
TV Updates Ryan Coogler is bringing Wakanda to TV Yesterday, it was announced that Ryan Coogler’s production company, Proximity Media, has signed a five-year deal with Disney to produce shows for their television outlets, including Disney+. The deal also includes development “for Disney’s other outlets as well”, which could mean shows for Hulu, or maybe a docu-series By Sarah • Feb 02, 2021 12:06 pm
TV Updates Search Party’s crimes and punishments SPOILERS If you’re into dark comedy, Search Party remains hysterically funny, but season four dives into the possible karmic retribution Polly Danziger (Michaela Watkins) hinted at last season, which is genuinely upsetting psychological ground to cover. Immediately following their “not guilty” verdict in season three, Drew (John Reynolds) and By Sarah • Feb 01, 2021 04:25 pm
Relationship Assumption Megan & MGK: Getting Married? Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly were seen in New York yesterday and she was wearing a huge ring on that finger that looks like it could be of the engagement variety. So far there’s been no word on whether or not this is actually what it is but… By Lainey • Jan 29, 2021 12:20 pm
TV Updates Jodie Turner-Smith is an Elf The Witcher is one of the most popular original shows on Netflix (thanks to that audience metric that requires you only watch two minutes of a thing to count as a “view”), so it’s no surprise a prequel spin-off is coming. Described as a six-episode limited series, The Witcher: By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 03:05 pm
