TV Updates New Trailer for Love, Victor It’s been over two years since Love, Simon came out (get it?), a time when adult gay men all cried in the theatre because our collective mom, Jennifer Garner, told us all that we could all exhale. Let’s just re-watch this clip because I think we could By Prem • May 28, 2020 10:25 am
Maple Leaf Intro for May 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, As we near the end of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and Asian and Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States, big ups to Andrew Phung of Kim’s Convenience who won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor last night! Congratulations Andrew! WHAT IS By Lainey • May 28, 2020 08:46 am
TV Updates Hannah Gadsby is back with Douglas Two years after her not-comedy special Nanette made her a household name, Hannah Gadsby is back with Douglas, a stand-up special/one-woman show/glorified Ted Talk/lecture—whatever you want to call it, she really does not care. Gadsby herself compares the arc of Douglas to a By Sarah • May 27, 2020 10:06 am
Break Ups The End of Bughead I was going to write about Cole Sprouse yesterday because of these new pictures but then I ran out of time and it ended up working out because then Page Six reported that he and Lili Reinhart broke up and PEOPLE confirmed it and then E! News followed both of By Lainey • May 26, 2020 03:06 pm
TV Updates Taylor Swift, “Jack leopards & the dolphin club” A cover version of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” played during last night’s episode of Killing Eve. Taylor has said many times that she loves the show. And she’s friends with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. So, naturally, she was proud to have her song featured: By Lainey • May 25, 2020 11:10 am
TV Updates Intro for May 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, Many of you have emailed over the last few weeks asking about our Normal People coverage since I wrote about the book so much last year. The show hasn’t aired yet in Canada but that changes this week. CBC Gem will air two episodes a week beginning By Lainey • May 25, 2020 09:48 am
Theatre Nerd SMASH, as it was meant to be I have no emotional reserves anymore so it could be that I’m just extra in general, but I got absolute goosebumps when I discovered that SMASH, the ridiculous, inexplicable television spectacle of 2012 which I and everyone else wrote about ad nauseum, which confounded an entire television-watching generation, By Duana • May 22, 2020 03:25 pm
TV Updates All Stars 5: That’s the Twist? With Season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race wrapping up (and only the virtual reunion and finale left), we’re of course ready to jump back in on June 5th with All Stars 5 right? RIGHT? Last week, I wrote about the potential for All Stars to be the best By Prem • May 22, 2020 02:57 pm
TV Updates The Great: The Power of Gossip, the Power of Sex – and Teen Princess! Tony McNamara, Oscar-nominated co-writer of The Favourite, is back with another anachronistic tale of a woman in power. This time he focuses on Russia’s Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning), in a Hulu series titled The Great. It’s not as dark as The Favourite, and overall has By Sarah • May 21, 2020 02:37 pm
TV Updates The Stand arrives at the best-worst moment One of Stephen King’s most enduring novels is The Stand, a book about humanity attempting to rebuild—or just go full-end times—after 99% of the population is wiped out by a virus. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in earnest earlier this year, people immediately leapt to By Sarah • May 21, 2020 11:00 am
TV Updates Intro for May 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, I would have watched another ten episodes of The Last Dance, it’s been such a highlight every weekend for the last month. And now that it’s over, probably a lot of us have withdrawal, not unlike the withdrawal that the NBA and basketball as a whole By Lainey • May 19, 2020 08:40 am
Top Reads Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, and Netflix We started the week with a post about Prince Andrew’s sketchy financial dealings so why not end the week with a post about a new docuseries that he and the British royal family might be worried about. The four-part Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich series drops on Netflix on By Lainey • May 15, 2020 12:52 pm
Drag Race Canada’s Drag Race is Finally Here, and It Looks GOOD Even though we learned about the Canadian version of Drag Race almost a year ago, it has felt like some sort of dream or conceptual project because we’ve heard nothing about it. Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly gave us our first look at the show, as well as an interview with By Prem • May 12, 2020 02:57 pm
TV Updates Is Kristen Wiig pregnant? I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the Hollywood Lockdown Baby Boom and the growing list of celebrities who’ve announced their pregnancies over the last few weeks. Are we adding Kristen Wiig to it? During the season finale of Saturday Night Live @ Home this weekend, Kristen was the By Lainey • May 12, 2020 11:58 am
Gossip Nostalgia Reese 2020 and Reese 2000 Gossip Nostalgia Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine is a major player in Hollywood now. In the last three years alone, well, you know about the success of Big Little Lies, and The Morning Show, and Little Fires Everywhere just finished late last month. She’s producing Daisy Jones and The Six. She By Lainey • May 12, 2020 10:29 am
TV Updates Friends in the Fall…and More Jennifer Aniston Gossip Nostalgia The Friends reunion was supposed to happen with the launch of HBO Max in two weeks but has now been pushed back because of the pandemic. Since then though, everything and everyone is reuniting virtually. The latest reunion was Back To The Future which just happened yesterday courtesy Josh Gad. By Lainey • May 12, 2020 09:39 am
