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
TV Updates Bridgerton continues to tease us Like death, Bridgerton season 4 creeps ever closer. Yesterday during their upfront presentation, Netflix dropped a new sneak peek of the fourth season of the hugely popular show, teasing us with the moment Benedict Bridgerton sees Sophie—updated for the show from “Beckett” to “Baek”—or as he knows her By Sarah • May 15, 2025 10:18 am
TV Updates In Andor, the cost of freedom is everything Spoilers for Andor Captain America once said that the cost of freedom is high, but in Andor, a world without superheroes, where there are no magic space wizards coming to save the galaxy—as far as anyone knows—the cost of freedom isn’t just high, it’s everything. Everything By Sarah • May 14, 2025 12:17 pm
TV Updates Zendaya (is still) at work Zendaya is in the midst of a busy year. She has nothing slated to be released in 2025, but she’s working non-stop, which means 2026 will be busy, too, as she has to do press for everything she’s making this year (same goes for Tom Holland). Here she By Sarah • May 13, 2025 04:03 pm
TV Updates Walton & Aimee: Live from New York and London Walton Goggins hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend, the penultimate episode of the season. His new sex symbol status became a recurring theme, and I enjoyed watching him both flex and mock himself at the same time. You could tell he was all-in on the experience from the jump, that By Lainey • May 12, 2025 04:17 pm
TV Updates Forever in 2025 is Still Timeless In all the press about new Netflix series Forever, the three converging timelines might be the least discussed element. The quintessential teen romance of 2025 is inspired by the Judy Blume novel published a literal fifty years ago – but also set in 2018, a time just far enough away from By Duana • May 12, 2025 02:28 pm
TV Updates Walton Goggins is doing the most Remember when I said that Walton Goggins seems to be very comfortable in his celebrity skin? Look at the way he showed up at the Met Gala, fully embracing the fashion moment, and bringing all his Baby Billy chaos to that carpet. The Thom Browne jacket and skirt looked great By Lainey • May 08, 2025 11:07 am
TV Updates Jessica Biel does Deadwood (sort of) Jessica Biel hasn’t acted since 2022’s Candy, a miniseries about Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore’s 1980 murder. Before that, her most lauded role was on The Sinner, a 2018 crime drama co-starring Bill Pullman. Biel, who has a young family and an adult toddler husband, doesn’t By Sarah • May 01, 2025 10:20 am
TV Updates Intro for May 1, 2025 Dear Gossips, We’re big fans of Brian Tyree Henry here and it’s great to see him taking the lead in Apple TV’s Dope Thief. He’s also an executive producer on the show and, now that the final episode has aired, he’s currently campaigning for Emmy By Lainey • May 01, 2025 09:33 am
