TV Updates John Legend’s Jesus. As for the Superstar… Last week, thinking about Emma Stone at the Oscars, I wrote about how many things would have to go wrong to constitute a bad day. Today I’m contemplating the opposite – you know when things are shaping up to give you a really good day? So far today, the weather By Duana • Mar 14, 2018 03:17 pm
TV Updates This Is Us gets married God, I love a good wedding episode. The season two finale of This Is Us aptly titled The Wedding aired last night and it was a very good wedding episode. Ending this chapter with Toby and Kate’s nuptials was the obvious conclusion to a season that has been frustrating By Kathleen • Mar 14, 2018 09:48 am
TV Updates Katy Perry on Idol The American Idol reboot no one asked for premiered this week. Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan and Katy Perry make up the new judging panel. We've been writing about the strategy behind Perry's decision to do Idol since it was announced last year. In May, Lainey asked, By Kathleen • Mar 13, 2018 12:54 pm
TV Updates Grey’s Anatomy cast shakeup I’ve found both April Kepner and Arizona Robbins insufferable for full seasons at a time during their tenures at Grey Sloan Memorial. I’ve also found them both inexplicably engaging, likeable and progressively more tolerable as the seasons went on. Arizona was at her best when she was with By Kathleen • Mar 12, 2018 09:48 am
TV Updates Intro for March 12, 2018 Dear Gossips, Kim’s Convenience was named Best Comedy Series at the Canadian Screen Awards gala last night, with Paul Sun-Hyung Lee winning Best Lead Actor, Comedy and Andrew Phung winning Best Supporting Actor for the second year in a row. "Representation matters. When communities see themselves reflected onscreen, By Lainey • Mar 12, 2018 08:41 am
TV Updates Silicon Valley has a gender problem and no one misses TJ Miller That’s the takeaway from The Hollywood Reporter’s cover profile of Silicon Valley, ahead of the show’s fifth season launch. TJ Miller, of course, got caught up in Hollywood’s sex pest infestation, but that’s not why he left Silicon Valley. According to Miller, he left as By Sarah • Mar 08, 2018 09:52 am
TV Updates Wakanda represent Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o are both presenting at the Oscars on Sunday. No idea if they’re presenting together, but they’re both riding the Black Panther high—and it will be the dominant film again on Oscar weekend which, if Get Out were to pull off some By Sarah • Mar 02, 2018 11:49 am
TV Updates Kerry Washington shows Alyson Hannigan’s work I love pilot announcements at this time of year because there are inevitably surprises in terms of what gets picked up, and because show ‘loglines’ – the short, two-or-three-sentence descriptions of upcoming shows – inevitably look different when there’s a star visual attached. So for example, Kerry Washington’s company will By Duana • Mar 02, 2018 09:53 am
TV Updates Kelly Clarkson saves The Voice I like The Voice. I’ve watched almost every season. Somewhere, Sarah is making fun of me right now for all the sh-tty TV I watch. For the most part, The Voice is not sh-tty TV. Even though the show has yet to discover a star artist, for entertainment’s By Kathleen • Feb 27, 2018 11:26 am
TV Updates Tiff and O About 20 minutes after I watched the PURE JOY that is Tiffany Haddish meeting Oprah Winfrey for the first time, I saw this tweet from my favourite ex-Grantland writer, Rembert Browne. i'd watch 100 episodes of the show "Oprah Surprises Famous Black People Who Never Thought They& By Kathleen • Feb 23, 2018 11:31 am
TV Updates Tiffany Haddish is everywhere She’s in Super Bowl commercials, she’s acing Drunk History, she’s a best-selling author, P.T. Anderson wants to work with her, she will be presenting at the Oscars—ever since breaking out in Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish is everywhere. And among the many projects she has in By Sarah • Feb 21, 2018 03:41 pm
TV Updates Chris Pine on TV Here’s Chris Pine in LA yesterday on the set of One Day She’ll Darken, an upcoming 6 episode series on TNT that he’s also executive producing with Patty Jenkins who is directing at least the first two episodes. As you know, Chris and Patty worked together on By Lainey • Feb 09, 2018 03:52 pm
TV Updates Jessica Jones returns Jessica Jones is arguably the best season of television put out by the Marvel/Netflix partnership. All of these shows have too many episodes, but JJ is sustained by the most cohesive plotting anyone has managed in a Marvel/Netflix show, and also, an all-time great villain courtesy David Tennant. By Sarah • Feb 08, 2018 10:36 am
TV Updates Dr. Ben Covington Scott Speedman is joining Grey's Anatomy. It's not confirmed how long his run will be or if he's even playing a doctor at Seattle Grace Mercy Grey Sloan West Whatever (I still watch every episode of this show I have no idea what the By Kathleen • Feb 07, 2018 12:40 pm
TV Updates This Is Us wins Why do we do this to ourselves? If you’re a crier like me, the Super Bowl episode of This Is Us was not fun to watch. It was good television – if you like emotional network TV dramas –but enjoyable? Gratifying? I mean, is sobbing into your laptop fun? Then By Kathleen • Feb 06, 2018 11:24 am
TV Updates Barbra… and Gwyneth?!? One of the best celebrity facts of all time is that Barbra Streisand has a mall in her basement. An actual mall. We have written about Barbra’s mall several times here on this blog. And for some reason, people don’t pay attention – TO THE FACT THAT SHE HAS By Lainey • Feb 06, 2018 10:40 am
