Because I kinda can’t bear the news about right-wing monsters claiming the teenagers who have found the strength to speak out about gun violence are crisis actors or think about those trolls have just come out and made fun of them — I MEAN IMAGINE WHAT KIND OF INHUMAN PIECE OF TRASH YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE TO ATTACK VICTIMS OF A SHOOTING, OH MY GOD THERE’S THE RAGE AGAIN — because I can’t really wrap my head around that without bursting a few vessels, instead, I’m going to focus on this story about the Real Housewives of New York being trapped on a shitty Colombian “yacht” in rough seas, vomiting and screaming in terror, which is just, frankly hilarious, doubly so for the fact that Sonja Morgan — who is never mentioned in the article — is clearly the source of the story. Can not wait to see this on the show when it returns, and have it distract me from the fact that our country is filled with people who would rather attack children who have been shot at rather than actually part with their precious toys.
Here are some pretty exciting Game of Thrones set photos that suggest some interesting developments for King’s Landing next season. Spoilery!
Sterling Brown and Bill Hader will be hosting Saturday Night Live next month, along with Charles Barkley for some reason.
Get well soon, Wendy Williams.
A federal judge says that AT&T can not see communications between the Department of Justice and the White House about their potential merger with Time Warner, because “the company had not demonstrated that it had been unfairly treated by regulators.” Did AT&T’s lawyers not submit Trump’s tweets railing against CNN as evidence?
President Oprah just donated $500,000 to The March for Our Lives, following President George Clooney and President Amal Clooney’s lead. Meanwhile, the kids behind the movement aren’t sure they want the celebrities to distract from their message, and maybe they aren’t wrong? The minute George Clooney shows up, the cameras are going to pay more attention to him and not a bunch of 16-year-olds, but guess who is more sympathetic to the average American. These kids are smart. Do not underestimate them.
Time’s Up
According to a recent survey, 94 percent of women in Hollywood have experienced sexual harassment or assault. While that is a shocking number, based on the questions asked, I think that 94 percent number is applicable to the general population of women, too.
Andy Dick’s girlfriend has sought a restraining order against him and the most surprising thing about this story is that Andy Dick is still a thing.
Paul Marciano is stepping aside from Guess amidst allegations of improper behavior brought by Kate Upton and others.
Steve Wynn is being sued by his company’s shareholders. GOOD.
Meanwhile, the Weinstein Company is trying to distance themselves from him, claiming they had nothing to do with his behavior. You know, except for hiring people whose jobs were expressly to facilitate his behavior, protecting his behavior and to writing into contracts that they knew about his behavior. Good luck with that, guys!
Tavis Smiley is suing PBS over his firing.
The Arrested Development cast — or, at least a “number” of them — are standing behind Jeffrey Tambor, according to David Cross.
Natalie Portman regrets supporting Roman Polanski. No doubt she does.
Renewals
Cancellations
In Development
- Girls Code from Paul Feig has been ordered by Freeform.
- There is a Muppets reboot in the works for Disney’s streaming service.
- CBS ordered TKO, a reality competition from Mark Burnett in which people try to run through an obstacle course while other people throw shit at them. Sounds healthy.
- USA is developing Dancing Bear based on the crime novel by James Crumley. It’s being produced by Mel Gibson, gross.
- Tiffany Hadish is going to star in Tuca & Bernie, a new animated series for Netflix from the BoJack Horseman guys.
- Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is in the works at Disney.
- Netflix has bought animated film White Fang which has an impressive voice cast.
- Amazon is developing Consider Phelbas as an epic fantasy series.
- Netflix has bought four Duplass brothers movies.
- Here’s what we know about Alex Garland’s FX series: it’s called Devs, it’s being developed as a miniseries, it’s set in San Francisco and it’s tech-based sci-fi.
Casting News
- Jay Hernandez is your new Magnum P.I.
- Katie Holmes is going to star in an FBI drama for Fox.
- Walton Goggins is your new Kevin Spacey — NO, NOT LIKE THAT — in the L.A. Confidential pilot. (This is actually some perfect casting.
- Bill Gates will guest star on The Big Bang Theory.
- Joe Morton is going to co-star in the CBS pilot God Has Friended Me.
- Melonie Diaz is one of the leads in the Charmed reboot.
- Phillipa Soo is joining the CBS pilot, The Code.
- Miranda Otto is joining the Sabrina the Teenage Witch cast.
- Christina Ochoa has been cast in the ABC pilot A Million Little Things, pretty much confirming that Valor is canceled.
- Annie Ilonzeh will be the lead in the ABC pilot The Staties.
- Julia Kelly has been added to the cast of the Get Christie Love reboot.
- Sarah Gadon and Emily Nelson have been added to the True Detective cast.
- Gage Golightly has been cast in the lead of The CW pilot The End of the World As We Know It.
- Tyler Ritter will be the lead in The CW’s pilot Playing Dead.
- David Zayas is joining the cast of ABC’s pilot The Staties.
- Rita Farr has been cast as Elasti-Girl on Titans.
- Michael O’Neill will have a guest role on Scandal.
Mark Your Calendars
- Legion is returning to FX on April 3. OR IS IT?
- Lost in Space is coming to Netflix on April 13.
- The Push asks whether you can be manipulated into becoming a murderer. It debuts on Netflix on February 27 and it looks SO ANXIETY-INDUCING.
- Santa Clarita Diet returns on Netflix on March 23.
- 100 Code will debut on WGN America on May 29.
- The Curse of Civil War Gold will debut on History on March 6.
- Sell it Like Serhant will debut on Bravo on April 11.
- The Mountain Lion and Me will debut on Smithsonian on March 14.
- Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own will debut on Discovery on April 14.
R.I.P.
Billy Graham, Evangelist
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