TV Updates Jennifer Aniston and Pedro Pascal: LA and London I got a text from a family member last night. She doesn’t work in entertainment, she isn’t super online. And she asked me, “Jennifer Aniston and Pedro Pascal???” I don’t know if she was just a few weeks behind or wishful thinking or both. But there are By Lainey • Apr 29, 2025 12:53 pm
TV Updates Scarjo and Walton: The Closers I was just saying in the last post of the day yesterday that Saturday Night Live had yet to announce its final two guest hosts for season 50 and then they posted it… Walton Goggins, what did I tell you. It was two weeks ago today when I wrote that By Lainey • Apr 25, 2025 10:36 am
TV Updates Intro for April 25, 2025 Dear Gossips, Matthew Belloni’s latest Puck newsletter is all about movie stars, and ranking the ones “who actually matter”. Over the last decade or so, one of the ongoing conversations about celebrity in general is whether or not movie stars are made anymore. And what it takes to remain By Lainey • Apr 25, 2025 09:23 am
TV Updates Walton Goggins: Beef and Bulge I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Walton Goggins, the Celebrity - he’s been a working and successful actor for decades, but this year he became a Celebrity because of The White Lotus season three. And up to this point he kinda seems to be enjoying it in By Lainey • Apr 24, 2025 11:49 am
TV Updates Penn Badgley tries his best The fifth and final season of You premieres today. I do not watch this show but I do know there’s a following. Some people are super into it, and probably just as many hate-watch it. Which means You will probably be all over your feed for the next few By Lainey • Apr 24, 2025 10:46 am
TV Updates Wednesday’s return Back in 2022, Wednesday took Jenna Ortega from scream queen to breakout stardom. The Addams Family spin-off series centered on the adventures of Wednesday Addams was a big hit three years ago, but that was then, this is now. Wednesday is one of the culprits in the streaming phenomenon of By Sarah • Apr 24, 2025 09:55 am
TV Updates Intro for April 22, 2025 Dear Gossips, Maria sent this to me over the weekend with exclamation points and they were warranted. This clip made me laugh and I kept expecting it to be more of a conversation than it is. Was it the Easter break? Coachella? Are not enough people watching Hacks? Or is By Lainey • Apr 22, 2025 09:49 am
TV Updates More PPG! Season six of Love Island USA last summer was the first non-UK instalment of the franchise that outperformed the British version. It was a huge hit for Peacock … because of its cast. These people were dramatic AF and everyone signed up for the f-ckery. It was a big win for By Lainey • Apr 17, 2025 04:01 pm
TV Updates Timothy Olyphant turned up for Ramy One of the central principles of LaineyGossip is that if Timothy Olyphant emerges, I must write about him, so behold, here is Timothy at the premiere of the new Prime Video animated show, #1 Happy Family USA, which is from comedian Ramy Youssef. Olyphant voices a character in the show, By Sarah • Apr 17, 2025 10:11 am
TV Updates Diego: Andor and TIME Diego Luna is among those on the TIME 100 list, in the Artists category, with an endorsement written by his best friend, Gael Garcia Bernal. Theirs is a decades-long friendship – we met them of course in Y tu mamá también, a f-cking classic, and they recently starred together in Hulu’ By Lainey • Apr 16, 2025 04:06 pm
TV Updates Sydney Sweeney gets her wedding Spoiler alert… Sydney Sweeney was supposed to be getting married next month to Jonathan Davino. We know now that that’s not happening as the two haven’t been living together since at least February and have reportedly broken off their engagement. She still gets to wear a wedding dress By Lainey • Apr 16, 2025 12:30 pm
TV Updates Intro for April 16, 2025 Dear Gossips, Ampere Analysis is a research firm that focuses on entertainment industry data. A few days ago it released a report showing that in 2024 “Korean content [was…] second only to U.S. shows and accounting for a 8% of all global Netflix streams”. Per Variety: “In the second By Lainey • Apr 16, 2025 09:29 am
TV Updates Is this Alexander Skarsgård’s next big thing? Alexander Skarsgård is one of those actors who is, by any metric, having a great career—he’s been on numerous great TV shows, he’s won a bunch of awards, he’s a fun cameo in a bunch of other great TV shows, he’s been in more great By Sarah • Apr 10, 2025 10:21 am
TV Updates Intro for April 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, Netflix is working on a series adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Deadline reported last fall that the scripts were written (by Dolly Alderton) but noted that the project had not yet been greenlit at the time and “may not make it to screen”. Seems like it’s heading By Lainey • Apr 10, 2025 09:36 am
TV Updates Jon Hamm and Tina Fey: One Good Joke Jon Hamm looked great last night at the premiere of Jonathan Tropper’s Your Friends & Neighbours, premiering on Apple TV+ on Friday. It’s about a successful hedge fund manager who gets fired and ends up stealing from people in his neighbourhood. Amanda Peet plays his wife and his By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 01:13 pm
TV Updates The Pitt is hell itself There are several contemporary television shows running in the “is this really hell” stakes, from Severance (is Lumon hell?), to Doctor Odyssey (is the Odyssey ferrying the dead to the afterlife?), to The White Lotus (is the White Lotus where the rich go to have their hearts weighed against feather, By Sarah • Apr 09, 2025 11:50 am
