TV Updates Dominique Thorne in Ironheart Three years after making her MCU debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Dominique Thorne returns to the MCU as Riri Williams, a kid genius in the vein of Tony Stark, except for three critical differences: she’s young, Black, and broke. Catching up with Riri after her Wakandan adventure—but By Sarah • Jun 25, 2025 10:33 am
TV Updates Leslie and Sam are outside Emmy nominations are happening right now—they’ll be announced on July 15—and as such, Emmy hopefuls are very outside. Leslie Bibb starred in The White Lotus, though she isn’t garnering the kind of buzz Carrie Coon and Aimee Lou Wood are, but still, she’s part of By Sarah • Jun 20, 2025 04:16 pm
TV Updates More John and Carolyn Love Story, the John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette series that Ryan Murphy has been working on, is a main character this week after he released screen test photos of Paul Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon, the actors playing the iconic couple, and with the paparazzi shooting them filming in By Lainey • Jun 19, 2025 02:18 pm
TV Updates Activist Noah Wyle is back at it The Pitt season two is currently filming—July 4 chaos here we come!!—but producer-writer-star Noah Wyle took a break to go to Washington and urged Congress to act to better support healthcare workers in the US. He published an op-ed about it this week in USA Today. He’s By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 04:02 pm
TV Updates Squid Game begins to end Between Stranger Things and Squid Game, it’s a big year for Netflix ending their biggest TV shows. Squid Game’s third and final season debuts on June 27, just two weeks away. The cast and series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk were in London yesterday to kick off the press tour. By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 10:29 am
TV Updates Walton and Aimee Lou, in their own words Since the end of The White Lotus’s third season, and the subsequent Great Unfollowing between co-stars Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood, the internet has been wondering if the pair, who play doomed lovers Rick and Chelsea, had a falling out in real life. Social media lit up, Jason By Sarah • Jun 05, 2025 12:28 pm
TV Updates Kate campaigns We used to talk about Kate Hudson a lot in the early days of this site. She was an award show regular, a red carpet regular. And it’s not that she doesn’t show up at events anymore, but it has been a while since she’s been a By Lainey • Jun 03, 2025 11:46 am
TV Updates Nobody Wants This: Campaign and Promo As we’ve been saying for the past week or so, this is Emmys season and we are in a final push for nominations as the nomination voting period closes next week on June 12. This weekend Netflix hosted a campaign event for their breakout hit Nobody Wants This with By Lainey • Jun 02, 2025 01:50 pm
TV Updates Netflix advertises blockbuster TV I went off on Netflix’s movie business, and here is where I go off on their TV business. Creatively, I think they’re better at producing good TV, because they aren’t fundamentally degrading the industry on that side of the fence. On the movie side, they’re actively By Sarah • Jun 02, 2025 12:22 pm
TV Updates Intro for June 2, 2025 Dear Gossips, The twist that shocked me the most, personally, during the season four finale of Hacks last week wasn’t a plot point but a song. So big love to the show’s music supervisor, Matt Biffa, for the inclusion of a classic banger… but maybe not the one By Lainey • Jun 02, 2025 09:01 am
TV Updates The Pitt moves Earlier this week Lainey was writing about the Emmys and mentioned that drama categories “loo[k] like it’ll come down to Severance vs The White Lotus although The Last of Us and The Pitt could be a factor”. Well guess what? The Pitt is moving up. With two weeks By Sarah • May 30, 2025 10:07 am
TV Updates Please explain And Just Like That… Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That… is still somehow going. Who watches this? Seriously, I’m curious. If you watch And Just Like That…, I’d love to hear from you. Why? What’s the appeal? I get the appeal of Sex and the City, it fed By Sarah • May 29, 2025 04:05 pm
TV Updates Alexander Skarsgård in Murderbot Apple TV+ has carved out a niche for itself as the home of high-concept sci-fi series such as For All Mankind, Foundation, and Silo. The latest entry into this super specific niche is Murderbot, a series adaption of Martha Wells’ popular book series, The Murderbot Diaries. Coming from sibling creators By Sarah • May 29, 2025 01:03 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, On Monday in this space, I posted about the Emmys and how even though it was Memorial Day, Hollywood would be busy this week and next before nominations voting for the Emmys begins on June 12. Like clockwork, here are Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper, Ashley Walters, and Erin By Lainey • May 28, 2025 09:22 am
TV Updates Intro for May 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, For some of us, or many of us, considering last year’s ratings, we’re just a week away from the return of a summer indulgence: the season seven premiere of Love Island USA! As you may recall, season six of the show last year was a megahit. By Lainey • May 27, 2025 08:57 am
TV Updates Intro for May 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, We are exactly five weeks away from the release of The Bear season four. To kick off the countdown, they dropped the first trailer yesterday and there are some choices made here – the biggest one being that Jamie Lee Curtis is shown in the preview. Not that it By Lainey • May 21, 2025 09:22 am
