TV Updates 4 Things That Could Make All Stars 5 the Best Season Yet On Friday, RuPaul’s Drag Race announced the cast and premiere date for All Stars 5. Meet your #AllStars5 Queens! 👑👇 Premieres FRI 6/5 at 8/7c on @VH1! 🏁💋 pic.twitter.com/Q2iWOCZPz3 — RuPaul's Drag Race (@RuPaulsDragRace) May 8, 2020 If you’ve read my previous Drag Race By Prem • May 11, 2020 11:02 am
Equality Issues Issa Rae wants to be The One Issa Rae covers the June 2020 issue of Cosmopolitan and it’s Ira Madison III who interviews her so everyone else better come correct with their June magazine offerings because how are you going to top this? Issa is currently promoting … well… SO much. Insecure Season 4 is currently in By Lainey • May 07, 2020 02:39 pm
TV Updates Space Farce Remember 50 million years ago when Trump created “Space Force”, the intergalactic branch of the Air Force that will patrol space or something, I don’t know, f-ck it was so long ago and so stupid and this whole thing is making me insane and if we get four By Sarah • May 06, 2020 11:18 am
TV Updates Of course Nicolas Cage will play Joe Exotic Ever since Tiger King aired, people have been fantasy-casting the inevitable narrative adaptation of the show. We already had one project in the works, based on the Wondery podcast, starring Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin. There is now a second project officially on the go, this one technically deriving By Sarah • May 05, 2020 12:37 pm
TV Updates Amazon’s Upload Is For… Who, Exactly? I am unreasonably fond of the expression ‘our people’. As in, ‘she’s our people’. Once I was really nervous about joining a particular group, and after a couple of people one of the guys there said he’d told someone else about me that, “she’s our people”. As By Duana • May 04, 2020 01:10 pm
TV Updates All Eyes on Mindy’s Never Have I Ever It’s been over a year since we first learned about Mindy Kaling’s new project, a TV show loosely based on her life as a rebellious teenager, and even before it aired, it was already subverting expectations left and right. Just making a coming of age show about a By Prem • May 04, 2020 10:55 am
TV Updates Parks & Recreation Reunion was Perfect – And Not Enough Last night’s brand-new, shot-from-home reunion episode of Parks and Recreation was the first time in a long while that I can remember sitting down to watch something live, on broadcast, as soon as it was released (that’s not counting the number of times I’ve By Duana • May 01, 2020 02:49 pm
TV Updates Hug Me, by Tom Hardy Tom Hardy is very popular with the dude-bros what with all his tough guy roles and the superhero thing, twice: Bane and Venom. He is also very popular with parents in England, especially the moms in England, for his semi-regular appearances on BBC’s CBeebies. He’s doing By Lainey • Apr 27, 2020 11:16 am
TV Updates Brad Pitt, the Semi-Host What kind of camera equipment does Brad Pitt have at home?!? There have been two episodes of SNL@Home and no one has had the HQ shots that they managed for Brad Pitt. Not any of the cast members, not any of the guest performers, not Jimmy Fallon on any By Lainey • Apr 27, 2020 10:11 am
TV Updates BlackAF (This is the latest entry to our “Long Reads” series – previous essays can be accessed here.) BlackAF debuted on Netflix last Friday. There was already controversy surrounding the show before its release. Created, written, and starring Kenya Barris, this is his first acting project after producing an incredibly stacked resumé By Melayna • Apr 24, 2020 11:42 am
TV Updates Reality TV Showdown: Too Hot To Handle vs Love Is Blind Have you watched Too Hot To Handle yet? It’s Netflix’s newest dating reality show that takes several “serial swipers” and “commitment-phobes” to a tropical island. THTH was released last Friday and while it sounds standard enough, almost like every other show….EXCEPT there are rules to THTH. By Prem • Apr 23, 2020 11:18 am
TV Updates Julia walks the dogs Julia Roberts was photographed out in LA yesterday walking her dogs. A lot of people have been talking about hair maintenance right now during the lockdown. Julia clearly has no issues with this, her hair looks amazing – and if you didn’t know that this was 2020, you’d believe By Lainey • Apr 23, 2020 09:46 am
TV Updates Friends will wait to reunite This week, WarnerMedia announced that HBO Max, their proprietary streaming platform, will launch on May 27. However, not unlike Peacock missing the summer Olympics, HBO Max will launch without a signature piece of programming: the Friends reunion. Like so many other projects, the Friends reunion is caught up in the By Sarah • Apr 22, 2020 09:48 am
TV Updates What’s on Peacock Last week the new streaming platform Peacock opted for a soft launch with an exclusive, VIP guest list of Comcast Xfinity subscribers getting access to their platform first. The rest of us sloppy-mouthed plebes will get to check out Peacock on July 15, but thanks to the worldwide disruption By Sarah • Apr 21, 2020 03:02 pm
Equality Issues Intro for April 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, I live for Sundays again, at least for the next few weeks. The Last Dance is on Sundays. Killing Eve is on Sundays. And Insecure is on Sundays. Here’s the promo for next week’s episode, “Lowkey Thankful”. Wait for the joke that comes at the end By Lainey • Apr 21, 2020 08:54 am
TV Updates Some Good News with Brad Pitt Some of you have written asking for comment about Brad Pitt’s appearance on the Property Brothers’ new show. Home renovation shows are not my thing. I don’t know if I’ve ever watched an entire episode of any home renovation series. As I’ve said before, I like By Lainey • Apr 20, 2020 10:52 am
