Month: June 2018

I was going to post my Anthony Bourdain tribute on my regular “Watch This” post, but it felt wrong. So, anyway.

Alia Shawkat wishes she had done more in that Arrested Development interview, but I am here to tell her she did just fine and shouldn’t second guess herself.

Please note: this ad first aired on Fox & Friends, and it is fantastic:

Pose very nearly included a Donald Trump played by James Van Der Beek but then the election happened.

Greg Berlanti signed a deal with Warner Brothers that is Ryan Murphy-sized.

Full Frontal saw a number of advertisers hit the pause button this week in response to the cuntraversy, but there were no full-scale withdrawals by any of them.

ABC is really sorry about that Quantico episode in which Indian terrorists plan an attack in Manhattan with the intention to pin it on Pakistan.

Stranger Things is getting the novelization treatment.

Killing Eve shows that a “strong female protagonist” doesn’t have to equal masculine.

Buffy v. Buffy. (I’m Team Buffy.)

Saved by the Bell is now a restaurant.

Y’all need to leave Kim Kardashian alone. She did a good thing by advocating for Alice Marie Johnson’s pardon.

Nathan Fielder warns that the Emmys are very vulnerable to election hacking and gives a very detailed step-by-step instructions on how one might go about doing that, and suggests that if another show other than Nathan For You wins Outstanding Variety Sketch Series the FBI should do a thorough investigation.

Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer announced that his cancer has returned and he only has “a few weeks” to live. Our sincere condolences.

Renewals

• Atlanta has been renewed for a third season because OF COURSE it has been renewed. And it also gives me a chance to yell at you to go watch the BEST SHOW ON TELEVISION if you haven’t already.

In Development

• The Real World might be coming back.
• The Last Summer has been bought by Netflix.
• Inside The Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes has been ordered by Fox.
• Magical Elves, Project Runway‘s original production company, is returning to helm the show as it moves to Bravo.
• Eco-Challenge is being revived by Mark Burnett and Bear Grylls.
• The Orphan X books will be turned into a series.
• Year of the Rabbit is coming to IFC.
• Shantaram has landed at Apple.
• Dave Grohl’s mom wrote a book, From Cradle to Stage, and it’s being turned into a TV series.
• Hot Ones is headed to Snapchat which has programming now because everyone does.

Casting News

• Lizzy Caplan will co-star in two roles in Apple’s Are You Sleeping.
• Tony Goldwin will co-star in Netflix’s Chambers.
• Eddie Murphy is starring in the Netflix movie Dolemite is My Name.
• Gabriel Maddox will play a “major role” on How to Get Away with Murder.
• Melinda Page Hamilton, Stefania LaVie Owen, Jane Adams, Sayyid El Alami, Fares Landousil, and Wil Traval have joined the cast of Netflix’s Messiah.
• Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff, and Roxane Mesquida are joining Starz’s Now Apocalypse.
• Damián Alcázar and Tamara Vallarta have been cast in Netflix’s Tijuana.

Mark Your Calendar

• CNN will be honoring Anthony Bourdain this weekend with a special tonight, his favorite episodes of Parts Unknown on Saturday, and a new episode of Parts Unknown on Sunday.
• Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind will air on HBO on July 16. ~sigh~

• Kidding will debut on Showtime on September 9 and it looks like a heartbreaker.

• Shameless also returns on Showtime on September 9.
• Queer Eye returns on June 15 on Netflix, yay!:

• Living Biblically and Me, Myself and I will be burned off on CBS beginning on July 7.
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee will return on Netflix on July 6. Comedians will include: Jerry Lewis, Kate McKinnon, Ellen DeGeneres, Hasan Minhaj, Dana Carvey, Neil Brennan, Tracy Morgan, Brian Regan, Alec Baldwin, Zach Galifinakis, John Mulaney, and Dave Chappelle.
• Inside North Korea will air on June 10 on NatGeo, two days before Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-Un.
• Burgers, Brew & ‘Cue will return on July 3 on the Cooking Channel.
• Marlon returns on NBC on June 14.

• Close up with Hollywood Reporter will return on Sundance on June 24.

R.I.P.

Alan O’Neill, Actor best known for Sons of Anarchy

David Lavin, Executive at CBS Studios

Alan Silverbach, Pioneer in international TV distribution

Peter Stringfellow, Nightclub owner and producer

WATCH THIS

FRIDAY

Sense8: A final goodbye. Netflix

The Staircase: Your new true crime obsession. Netflix

Alex Strangelove: A teenager questions his sexuality after meeting a charming gay kid in this original film. Netflix

Just Another Immigrant: Romesh Ranganathan moves to America with his family in this new comedic docuseries. 8 p.m., Showtime

SATURDAY

American Made: This is that weird movie starring Tom Cruise where he’s recruited by the CIA to run drugs or something? Anyway. 7 p.m., HBO

Big Hero 6: Series premiere. 8 a.m., Disney

The Crossing: ABC burns off the final two episodes. Series finale. 7 p.m., ABC

SUNDAY

Claws: The women struggle to remain hopeful under their new Russian regime. Season premiere. 8 p.m., TNT

The Tony Awards: Broadway stuff. 7 p.m., CBS

Fear the Walking Dead: Morgan tries to do the right thing in the mid-season finale. 8 p.m., AMC

Late Night: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: (Friday): Penelope Cruz, David Koechner, Interpol Jimmy Kimmel Live (Friday): Billy Bob Thornton, Hannibal Buress, Aloe Blacc

FRI.

7:00

7:30

8:00

8:30

9:00

9:30

ABC	NBA Finals (live)

CBS

Undercover Boss: Celebrity Edition (new)

Hawaii Five-0 (repeat)

Blue Bloods (repeat)

CW

My Last Days (new)

Life Sentence (new)

Local

FOX

Phenoms (new)

Local

NBC

American Ninja Warrior (repeat)

Dateline (new)

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SAT.

7:00

7:30

8:00

8:30

9:00

9:30

10:00

10:30

11:00

11:30

ABC

High School Football All-Star Game (live)

News/Local

CBS

Ransom (new)

48 Hours (repeat)

48 Hours (repeat)

News/Local

FOX

MLB Baseball (live)

News/Local

NBC

Taken (new)

Dateline (repeat)

News/Local

Saturday Night Live (repeat)

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SUN.

6:00

6:30

7:00

7:30

8:00

8:30

9:00

9:30

ABC

America’s Funniest Home Videos (repeat)

Celebrity Family Feud (new)

The $100,000 Pyramid (new)

To Tell the Truth (new)

CBS

60 Minutes (new)

The Tony Awards (live)

FOX

One Strange Rock (repeat)

The Simpsons (repeat)

Bob’s Burgers (repeat)

Family Guy (repeat)

(repeat)

Local/News

NBC

Dateline (new)

Stanley Cup Final (live)