Hey, here’s a This Is Us clip from season two, and like a Pavlovian dog, the minute I hear that damn plinky guitar music, the tears begin welling up BEFORE ANYTHING HAS EVEN HAPPENED. Damn you, This Is Us.
Ladies: be like Judge Judy, and know your worth. (Hers is roughly $865,000 per day that she works.)
Comedy Central is going to air an 8-day marathon of South Park episodes ahead of the 21st season premiere. The only thing that will interrupt the South Park onslaught will be The Daily Show. That’s how much South Park there is. The marathon begins September 6.
Some die-hard fans of Homeland took out a full-page ad in The Hollywood Reporter to bitch at the creators for a whole host of issues, including SPOILER ALERT! Peter Quinn’s death and making Carrie a “shell” of herself. Which Game of Thrones fans want to join me in an ad complaining about the timeline this season?
Speaking of Game of Thrones, here are a bunch more new photos from the finale. Notice that today’s photos and yesterday’s are lacking any shots of Daenerys. HMMMM.
And contrary to yesterday‘s report, George R.R. Martin IS still watching the show. STAND DOWN.
Need a refresher on what has happened on Mr. Robot so far? Here’s a 7-minute recap from F Society themselves:
Yikes, it sounds like Tig Notaro is really done with Louis C.K., and yet, he produces her show, so.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel feud with Jay Leno is over (before I knew it even existed).
Zingbot is officially part of the Resistance. Prepare for a Presidential tweet attacking a reality show “robot.”
Pray for our late night writers.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski think Trump should resign, to the surprise of exactly no one.
Oh, Ryen Russillo. (Also, that’s not how you spell “Ryan.”)
Renewals
- Transparent has been renewed by Amazon for a fifth season.
- Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry has been renewed by E! for a third season.
- Get Shorty has been renewed for a second season on Epix.
- Docuseries Born This Way will have a fourth season on A&E.
In Development
- NBC is developing Manifest, a missing plane drama from Robert Zemeckis.
- Fox bought a romantic bus accident comedy from a Grace and Frankie writer.
- CBS is developing a family legal drama from the creator of Blindspot and a legal drama from the creator of Quantico.
- Showtime will broadcast the Prince concert film Sign o’ the Times.
- Your Honor, an Israeli drama, is being adapted for America.
- Smithsonian Channel has two new docuseries about Princess Diana lined up for the anniversary of her death.
- El Rey just announced a two new shows, an animated series and “an independent filmmaking event.”
- Netflix just announced that it will stream two new documentaries Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold and Voyeur, about Gay Talese’s debunked story about a motel owner who spied on his guests.
- Netflix will stream Def Comedy Jam 25, a special honoring the 25th anniversary of the stand-up comedy series.
- Ed Burton is adapting The Progeny as a series.
- BBC has announced some new series and a documentary that we might see over here someday.
- Stephen Coogan is bringing Alan Partridge back to the BBC for a two-hour special.
- Gordon Ramsey is producing a docuseries about cocaine for ITV. OK.
Casting News
- Timothy Hutton will be joining the cast of Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House.
- Griffin Dunne has joined the cast of Gore, the Vidal Gore biopic starring Kevin Spacey.
- Anna Diop will be Starfire in Titans on DC’s digital service.Â
- Alona Tal is joining the cast of SEAL Team.
WATCH THIS
Boy Band: We meet our boy band, they perform their first single, and then they will be shipped off to wherever we are keeping O-Town these days. Season finale. 7 p.m., ABC
The Mist: The group makes a discovery about the possible origins of the mist in the season finale. 9 p.m., Spike
The Lost Boys marathon: Bet you didn’t know there were enough Lost Boys movies to make a marathon! 5 p.m., El Rey
Late Night: Conan: Jane Lynch, Timothy Simons, Rancid The Daily Show: Nnamdi Asomugha, Colin Warner
| THURS | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
| ABC | Boy Band (new) |
Battle of the Network Stars (new) |
The Gong Show (new) |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory (repeat) |
Life in Pieces (repeat) |
Big Brother (new) |
Zoo (new) |
| CW | Penn & Teller: Fool Us (new) |
Whose Line is it Anyway? (new) |
Whose Line is it Anyway? (repeat) |
News/Local |
| FOX | Beat Shazam (new) |
Love Connection (new) |
News/Local |
| NBC | The Wall (new) |
Weekend Update: Summer Edition (new) |
Great News (repeat) |
The Night Shift (new) |