TV Updates Mid-life Crisis Crown The Crown season three is dropping at an interesting time. Peter Morgan, Netflix, everyone involved with The Crown could not have known that, of course, but as it happens, The Crown arrives at an existential crisis at the same moment that the British royal family is knee-deep in another kind By Sarah • Oct 21, 2019 01:28 pm
TV Updates Harry & Meghan’s Documentary: The Work There is so much to cover after Harry & Megan: An African Journey aired last night in the UK on ITV I’m doing it in two separate posts. As you’ve probably seen, the British tabloids are in a frenzy about what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s comments By Lainey • Oct 21, 2019 09:38 am
TV Updates Phoebe & Taylor’s SNL The season premiere of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Woody Harrelson, wasn’t great. In fact, the whole episode was embarrassing, except for Aidy Bryant cracking up when a crew member came in at the wrong time. So, as I wrote last week, it was going to be interesting to By Lainey • Oct 07, 2019 01:57 pm
TV Updates Taylor Swift can see Taylor Swift is the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend. They keep lubing up her fans by posting throwbacks of her previous appearances on Twitter. And here’s the promo she shot with this week’s host, Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 🎉 Phoebe Waller-Bridge hosts the show this weekend with musical By Lainey • Oct 04, 2019 12:46 pm
TV Updates Outfit of the Week: January Jones Back when Mad Men was a factor at award shows and its cast regularly appearing on all the award show carpets, January Jones would be one we would consistently wait for. And she was consistently one of the best dressed – at the Emmys, at the Globes, at the SAGs, January By Lainey • Sep 27, 2019 02:08 pm
TV Updates Bill Hader is asked the Gillis Question I have to be honest, I am baffled that we are discussing Shane Gillis’s firing from SNL as if it is some kind of moral or free speech issue. 1) Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences, no one is arresting Gillis for what he said but By Sarah • Sep 25, 2019 03:09 pm
TV Updates The Crown gets on with it Season three of The Crown is coming in November, and there is now a teaser to show off Olivia Colman in action as Queen Elizabeth II. We’ve already seen a photo of Colman suited up as QEII, but now we can hear her accent and see some of her By Sarah • Sep 20, 2019 01:52 pm
TV Updates A Late Week of Lilly Singh This week marked the debut for A Little Late with Lilly Singh, the former YouTuber, replacing Last Call with Carson Daly, which occupied the slot since 2002. Lilly’s show is fresh and original. She upholds some of the popular late night traditions, like the monologue, but she puts a By Prem • Sep 20, 2019 11:26 am
TV Updates Paul Rudd’s Prestige A year ago we learned about Paul Rudd’s Netflix series in which he would play a dual role, and I said it sounded like “The Prestige but with no magic and plus comedy”. We now have a trailer for Rudd’s show, Living With Yourself, and holy hell, IT By Sarah • Sep 17, 2019 03:42 pm
TV Updates The Crown claims it doesn’t watch The Crown Today in Sure Jan.gif news, Buckingham Palace has issued a statement to The Guardian letting all us peasants know that The Crown does not watch The Crown. It all started on September 7, when The Guardian ran a profile of The Crown and its creator, Peter Morgan. In this By Sarah • Sep 17, 2019 01:52 pm
Douchebags SNL fires Shane Gillis Shane Gillis was announced as a new cast member on Saturday Night Live less than a week ago. He hadn’t started yet and he’s been fired for racist and homophobic slurs made last year. I don’t have a thesis for this post, just a lot of thoughts. By Lainey • Sep 17, 2019 01:04 pm
TV Updates SNL hired Milkshake Duck As SNL heads into season 45, there are some casting changes. We know Leslie Jones is leaving, and yesterday three new cast members were announced: Chloe Fineman, Shane Gillis, and Bowen Yang, who has been on SNL’s writing staff and was recently featured in The Hollywood Reporter’s comedy By Sarah • Sep 13, 2019 01:34 pm
TV Updates The Work and Power Era of Jennifer Aniston The narrative about Jennifer Aniston after the end of her marriage to Justin Theroux was not the same as it was when she and Brad Pitt broke up. Every “source” report on her post JT was about how happy she was, how excited she was, and she’d show up By Lainey • Sep 04, 2019 02:27 pm
TV Updates Kirsten Dunst gets her star The past 48 hours or so of the Kirsten Durst news cycle has been a pre-long weekend gift. We've been treated to new photos and video of Kiki and her fiancé Jesse Plemons as she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which included the public By Joanna • Aug 30, 2019 12:06 pm
TV Updates Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “all about trophies” Emmy voting officially ended late last night, and in less than a month, we’ll know for sure if Julia Louis-Dreyfus will break the record she shares with Cloris Leachman and become the most-decorated performer in Emmy history. GoldDerby has her as a done deal to win in her category, By Joanna • Aug 30, 2019 09:59 am
TV Updates Lauren Graham’s Post-Millennial Musical Twitter gets a bad rap, and approximately 87% of the time it’s deserved. But I cannot quit an application that occasionally gives me massive, unexpected joy bombs. Here is last night’s: when characters in musicals transition from speaking to singing pic.twitter.com/YwZwsIZOBN— chopped liva (@realchoppedliva) August By Duana • Aug 28, 2019 03:12 pm
