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So what do you want me to recap?

Therese Odell
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Time for you to tell me what you want

HEY FRIENDS! So, remember a couple of weeks ago, when I explained that I’m shaking up the Hate Blog voting process up by turning it into a tournament?

Quick refresher: I am going to create a March Madness-style tournament of four different categories of shows for y’all to vote on, ultimately choosing one show for me to recap this fall. One of those categories will be entirely shows that you recommend, and I asked y’all to start thinking about what shows you’d like to include.

Welp, the comment section is wide open and I’d love to hear your suggestions.

As for what the other categories are, and the shows included in each:

Category One: New Fall TV Shows

Category Two: Classic Shows I Should Have Recapped, but Didn’t

*Technically, I did recap these two shows, but I didn’t start from the beginning. I would recap the first seasons if chosen.

Category Three: Shows I Began Recapping, and Then Gave Up On, Including Hate Blogs

Category Four: Your Suggestions

It’s all yours. And you can go wherever you want with this. You can recommend great shows, or terrible shows, dramas, comedies, reality, shows that are on streaming, or on broadcast, new or old … it’s up to you. Oh — and feel free to make multiple suggestions. Someone has already recommended The Boys, and I think that’s a great start. I can’t wait to see what y’all come up with!

At the end of this month, I’ll do a devoted post describing each of the series along with trailers (if available) and then the tournament will begin in September. I am both nervous and excited to see how you monsters will torture me this year.

Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Murderous drug dealers immortalized in statue in American city.

Top Chef is headed to London for an international all-stars season.

Nearly 600 male showrunners, including Damon Lindelof, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, J.J. Abrams, Jordan Peele, Greg Berlanti, Donald Glover, Aaron Sorkin, David E. Kelley, Taika Waititi and Ryan Murphy have signed a letter demanding that studios put in specific safety protocols for pregnant employees in states where abortion has been outlawed. They, and the similar letter signed by female showrunners, demand that the studios deliver a plan by August 10. So now we wait.

Related: Film and TV productions spent $4.4 billion in Georgia this last year, a new record.

Netflix is now suing the unofficial Bridgerton musical. It was all fun and games when the musical wasn’t profitable, but that’s all done changed.

Production on Snowpiercer had to be suspended due to excessive heat after 14 people had to be hospitalized. That’s too many people being hospitalized! Maybe pause production after the second person has to be hospitalized!

A thing I did not know: the wonderful Natasha Rothwell — who played both the hilarious Kelli on Insecure and the heartbreaking Belinda in White Lotus (and became one of my favorite actresses of last year) — started as a writer on Insecure. She’s most likely not going to win the Emmy this year for her role on White Lotus, but she is certainly deserving. And I can’t wait to see what she does next.

Either George Jetson was born yesterday … or maybe not. It’s unclear.

Chris Rock continues to joke about The Slap, but still has not accepted Will Smith’s apology.

The Peaky Blinders movie is almost written. And Alison Brie says there has been “movement” on a Community movie.

This rocks. Literally:

Rutgers Medical School is going to use Stranger Things to teach a psychiatry course, and you can follow along on Twitter this October.

Casey Wilson and Adam Pally are recording a Happy Endings podcast together, and that’s great, but BOY I WISH THEY HADN’T CANCELED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Having learned that they can’t fuck around without finding out after not immediately denouncing Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill, Disney has signed on to a letter with over one hundred other companies supporting the Respect for Marriage Act. Good.

The BBC has announced they will no longer show any part of the Princess Diana interview that has caused so much mess, and asked other broadcasters to refrain from using footage, too. However, Sky is like, “Nah.” And plans to air parts of it in a documentary this month. The Royal family should really try to keep people’s focus on this non-story, lest people pay attention to what other things are going on with them, that’s my advice.

A not-so-quick reminder that the Republicans are the worst:

So, there was a bill the Republicans had been holding hostage that would allocate billions of dollars to boost microchip production here in the United States. This is an obvious solution to a huge problem we realized during the pandemic: when microchip production came to a standstill in Asia, it delayed production on everything downline, from TVs to cars to important military equipment. As a result, prices on those items skyrocketed, contributing to the inflation we are seeing today. The Republicans held up the bill, however, in part because they couldn’t stomach giving the Democrats an easy economic win. But after trimming the bill down a bit, last week the GOP caved and passed the bill in the Senate. Yay! Everyone benefits! Except China! Which is another win for us!

EXCEPT, as soon as the microchip bill was passed, Joe Manchin announced that he and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had come to a tentative agreement on part of Biden’s Build Back Better bill and that they might be able to get a large economic package passed through reconciliation. It’s a huge win for Biden if it happens — KRYSTEN SINEMA — and reportedly, it blindsided Mitch McConnell who had no idea Manchin had been actually negotiating with his OWN PARTY.

And so, in a fit of pure spite, the Senate Republicans blocked a bill to help veterans who have been exposed to burn pits. A number of GOP senators who had previously voted to pass this bill, changed their vote last week, explicitly to punish the Democrats for daring to try to pass an economic package while they have control of the government. The Republicans, knowing that being spiteful little bitches who are willing to harm veterans to get back at the Democrats isn’t a great look for them, claim they changed their votes because the bill itself changed. It did not.

Jon Stewart who has been one of the biggest supporters of the bill, had some thoughts on this erroneous claim from Texas’ worst senator, Ted Cruz. It is worth your three and a half minutes:

And here’s Texas’ other worst senator, John Cornyn, giving away the game:

And in conclusion, please vote Democrat in November, because these guys are such assholes.

Renewals

Cancellations

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendar

R.I.P.

Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Nyota Uhura on Star Trek, and boundary breaker

This is beautiful, press play:

Bill Russell, NBA great — possibly greatest — player, and civil rights activist

Pat Carroll, Emmy and Grammy-award-winning actress and comedian who served as the voice of Ursula in The Little Mermaid and who appeared in Jimmy Durante Show, The Danny Thomas Show, Laverne & Shirley, and ER among others

Burt Metcalfe, Producer, writer and director of M*A*S*H

Heather Gray, Emmy-winning executive producer of The Talk

Paul Coker, Designer of the Raskin/Bass stop-motion and animated holiday specials

Ron Zimmerman, Film and television producer, stand-up comic and longtime writer for Marvel comics

Michael Clancy, Costume designer for Ray Donovan and My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Jimy Sohns, Lead singer of The Shadows of Knight

WATCH THIS

Better Call Saul: The episode is called “Breaking Bad.” That’s pretty much all you need to know, right? 8 p.m., AMC

The Bachelorette: They pack all the dummies onto a cruise ship, because the cruise industry hasn’t had enough bad press lately.  7 p.m., ABC

Industry: Season two premiere. 8 p.m., HBO

Late Night:

MON. 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30
ABC The Bachelorette
(new)		 Claim to Fame
(new)
CBS The Neighborhood
(repeat)		 Bob ♥ Abishola
(repeat)		 NCIS
(repeat)		 NCIS: Hawai’i
(repeat)
CW Roswell, New Mexico
(new)		 In the Dark
(new)		 Local
FOX Don’t Forget the Lyrics!
(new)		 Beat Shazam
(new)		 News/Local
NBC American Ninja Warrior
(new)		 Weakest Link
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