TV Updates Get your witchy circle together Amy Poehler has added so much to the girl talk lexicon, from Galentine’s Day to a whole slew of compliments for your best friend. Now she adds “witchy circle” to her contributions, and if you think I’m not having custom paper products printed with “witchy circle” for my By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 12:59 pm
TV Updates Reese and Jen’s Morning Show As Sarah just wrote, Apple brought out the stars yesterday at its big TV presentation. Apple TV+ will be launched this fall, which is the old-school television model, and probably its most highly anticipated series is The Morning Show, produced by and starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, alongside Steve By Lainey • Mar 26, 2019 10:10 am
TV Updates Turns out, Spielberg is shilling for Apple After the Oscars, word got out that Steven Spielberg is agitating for a rule change that would effectively block Netflix from competing for Oscars as they don’t much believe in distributing their movies in theaters when the whole point of their company is to make movies available instantly at By Sarah • Mar 26, 2019 09:44 am
TV Updates The Stranger Things kids are growing up so fast Stranger Things 3 premieres on July 4, and now we have a trailer to look at and guess things. ST2 was a little divisive—I like it, as it has stronger character development than the first season—but season three was not rushed out, and as a result, it looks By Sarah • Mar 20, 2019 12:01 pm
TV Updates Intro for March 20, 2019 Dear Gossips, Jann Arden is a Canadian treasure. Her album Living Under June, that includes the hit singles “Good Mother”, “Could I Be Your Girl”, and “Insensitive”, came out 25 years ago this year. You know what’s amazing about Jann though? She’s about to turn 57 – and she By Lainey • Mar 20, 2019 08:32 am
TV Updates Nicole Kidman’s throwback hair Nicole Kidman is currently in New York shooting a new series for HBO called The Undoing based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s book You Should Have Known. She plays Grace Sachs, a woman who appears to have it all together – husband has a successful medical practice, son is enrolled at By Lainey • Mar 18, 2019 03:40 pm
TV Updates Intro for March 15, 2019 Dear Gossips, Taika Waititi posted a Bob Marley quote today on Twitter: "The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness." The light in this space today belongs to Lilly Singh. She was By Lainey • Mar 15, 2019 09:07 am
TV Updates Shea Coulee Calls Last Week’s Drag Race Challenge “Tone Deaf” Last week’s episode of Drag Race was really good, a sign that the show might be starting to return back to its true form. The main challenge was to act in one of two parodies, based on Black Panther and Get Out. Watching the episode the first time around, By Prem • Mar 12, 2019 03:35 pm
TV Updates The Business of Being Busy Busy Philipps has a lot of schlep. She works hard! In addition to her Friday SXSW panel with Clique Media Group’s Hillary Kerr, she was a part of a Follies show, and hosted a live edition of her talk show Busy Tonight for some VIPs at the NBCUComcast SXSW By Joanna • Mar 11, 2019 04:33 pm
TV Updates The Snapchat Network and Taylor Swift The Black List is “an annual survey of [300] Hollywood executives’ favourite unproduced screenplays". According to Deadline, “since its inception by feature development executive Franklin Leonard the survey has yielded north of 400 Black List scripts. Of that batch, those produced continued on to earn $26B+ at the global By Lainey • Mar 11, 2019 12:23 pm
TV Updates LMM on B99 On yesterday’s episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Lin-Manuel Miranda guest starred as Amy Santiago’s brother. If you recall, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was cancelled this summer and then saved in 31 hours, partly thanks to the swell of support from celebrities including LMM. I guess his guest appearance is a way By Prem • Mar 08, 2019 12:22 pm
TV Updates OH CANADA! Drag Race Season 11 *Spoilers below* *Monique voice* America, I am exhausted. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus) on Feb 27, 2019 at 1:55pm PST I feel like I’m still recovering from All Stars 4 and we’re already full swing into a new season. Plus, By Prem • Mar 01, 2019 03:14 pm
TV Updates Brooklyn Nine-Nine Tackles #MeToo On Wednesday, Sarah wrote about Emma Thompson’s open letter and how her decision to quit Luck because of John Lasseter was privileged because she had the means and the resources to support herself and find work afterward. It was, however, an important step because by being the first person By Prem • Mar 01, 2019 03:00 pm
TV Updates Leaving Neverland premieres this weekend After Sundance, many of you emailed for commentary about Leaving Neverland, the new documentary directed by Dan Reed that “explores the separate but parallel experiences of James ‘Jimmy’ Safechuck and Wade Robson” with Michael Jackson, alleging that he sexually abused them as children. I’ve not written about it because By Lainey • Mar 01, 2019 10:30 am
TV Updates Idris Elba’s comedy series Did you remember that Idris Elba made a comedy series for Netflix? I kinda forgot, then Lainey emailed me about the trailer for Turn Up Charlie and was like, Oh yeaaaaah, Idris Elba made a comedy series for Netflix. We’re living in Andy Warhol’s future, where everyone is By Sarah • Feb 28, 2019 03:07 pm
TV Updates Welcome Back to West Beverly High The video teaser I’m posting below is only 10 seconds long. It has exactly zero familiar faces in it. So how, exactly, is it so satisfying? Kathleen and I were talking this weekend about songs that get stuck in your DNA. Mostly Christmas carols or hymns – and pop songs By Duana • Feb 28, 2019 12:14 pm
