Stephen Colbert would like to personally thank Trump for his first 100 days:
Seth Meyers is unimpressed with Trump’s first 100 “ignorant” days:
The Daily Show would like to remind Trump that he doesn’t get to claim that 100 days is an arbitrary marker:
In Other Trump is Such an Asshole News
I was so outraged by Trump’s A.P. interview yesterday — SEPTEMBER 11TH, HE COMPARED HIS RATINGS TO SEPTEMBER 11TH, Y’ALL — that I neglected to mention some of the other fun things related to Trump and the media that broke this weekend:
- Trump announced that he will be holding a rally at the same time as the White House Correspondent’s Dinner because of course he did. OF COURSE HE DID.
- As you might imagine, Twitter had a field day with this news:
- Politico ran a long form piece about Trump’s relationship to conservative media and how his presidency has “triggered a civil war” in its ranks. It is an interesting issue: on its face, Trump’s ascendency and the success of the GOP should have been a boon to the likes of Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and Breitbart, but instead, the conservative media is facing an identity crisis as Trump has eschewed what were previously considered “Republican” issues. Oh, and we also learn in this piece that Steve Bannon called Megyn Kelly “the devil,” so.
- Jeff Sessions refuses to say whether or not he will prosecute the media for publishing confidential federal documents, so that’s fun.
In Other News
OH NO: Farmer Teeth was arrested after hitting a tractor with his truck, killing the driver and then fleeing the scene. OH, FARMER TEETH.
Welp, the writers have overwhelmingly approved a strike, so let’s hope they hammer out a deal before next week. A reminder of the shows that will be immediately impacted, and the series that won’t be impacted at all.
Say goodbye to all those HBO shows on Amazon, kids.
Apparently, actors won’t play Clinton and Trump in the upcoming American Horror Story: Election season, but they will use footage from the actual election. As for Feud: Charles and Diana, there is an actual possibility that Sarah Paulson won’t play Diana. (But we’ll see.)
David Letterman and Tina Fey will join Alec Baldwin for episodes of TCM’s The Essentials, so that’s either cool or I am really getting old. Maybe both?
Look, I’ll admit, when I heard they were going to turn Psycho into a series, I was skeptical, but Bates Motel was a sharp little show! So, sure, feel free to turn other Hitchcock movies into series, BUT KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF OF VERTIGO.
Mike Darnell, that’s who we have to blame for all of this.
Apparently, NBC made an exclusively online follow-up to Trial & Error, called Mystery Now, a spoof of shows like Dateline and 48 Hours:
So, Scott Baio was a complete dick about Erin Moran’s death and then when he was called out on being completely wrong about her cause of death, he went full asshole.
Trailer Park
Blood Drive, Syfy, June 14
Renewals
- The Detour has been renewed for a third season on TBS, praise Bee.
- When Calls the Heart has been renewed for a second season by the Hallmark Channel.
Cancellations
- Powerless has been pulled from NBC’s schedule. It’s not an official cancellation, but it’s the next best thing.
- The star of Pure Genius has all but admitted that the show is going to be cancelled.
- Tyra Banks claims that her return to America’s Next Top Model was to keep it from being cancelled, which: yeah? no doy?
In Development
- Jason Alexander’s comedy, Hit the Road, has been given a straight-to-series order at Audience Network.
- The Audience Network also has producing a documentary about police and race relations from Vince Vaughn’s production company.
- Ingrid Michaelson is going to star in a semi-autobiographical comedy at Hulu.
- Dreamfall, an upcoming YA horror novel about a group of insomniacs who are trapped in a terrifying dreamworld is going to be turned into a series.
- Michael Mann and Michael De Luca are going to turn Hue 1968, a book about the Tet Offensive, into a miniseries.
- Steve, Steve Harvey’s new talk show, will debut on September 5 in syndication.
- Descendents 2 will premiere on the Disney channels on June 21.
- You’re going to have to wait a while longer for the Carpool Karaoke series, guys.
- Fox is buying more projects for the off-season, suggesting that they are moving towards a year-round schedule.
Casting News
- Mark Consuelos is going to join the cast of Riverdale as Veronica’s dad, which does not bode well for Pitch’s chances of renewal.
- Camryn Manheim, Eric Lange (Narcos), Annika Marks (The Fosters), Stephen Culp (Bosch) and Sarah Minnich (Better Call Saul) have all joined the cast of the Waco miniseries.
- Separation be damned, Tarek and Christina El Moussa will both be back for 20 more episodes of Flip or Flop.
- Eliza Dushku is going to star in The Black Company, an adaptation of the fantasy series, Garrett P.I.
R.I.P.
- Chris Bearde, writer on Laugh-In and The Gong Show
WATCH THIS
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Third and final piece of the reunion puzzle. Tata, ladies! 8 p.m., Bravo
Great News: Tina Fey’s new show is set once again in the world of television: this time at a hectic cable news network, where a producer is horrified to learn her mother has become an intern. Series premiere. 8 p.m., NBC
Genius: Geoffrey Rush stars as Albert Einstein in this new series. 8 p.m., NGC
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