~plat plat plat plat plat plat~
No fly zone.. š
Sound on š pic.twitter.com/Ebi2NnnuyK
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 11, 2022
Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News
After all the streaming and DVR numbers were counted, Ghosts was the most-watched network comedy debut, surpassing Young Sheldon. Young Sheldon had the early lead, but then Ghosts beat it, suggesting that Young Sheldon has more live viewers (read: olds).
Mark your calendars for May 6th: that’s when King Charles will be coronated. Or don’t mark your calendars, you won’t be able to avoid it as every network will definitely be covering it.
Nathan Fielder is at the Mets game and they put him on the Jumbotron š pic.twitter.com/8N66HLRAue
— Lee J šŖ© (@Lee_Jameson) October 8, 2022
Speaking of Nathan Fielder, according to a New York Times piece on Elon Musk, Musk is desperate to be Fielder’s friend and make him laugh, and all I can hope is that Fielder is milking every second of it for a bit.
A couple of House of the Dragons things:
1. According to Paddy Considine, the actor who plays King Viserys, Geroge R.R. Martin sent him a text that simply read: “Your Viserys is better than my Viserys.” And you know what? He’s right.
2. That scene in this week’s episode when Viserys is struggling to the throne and drops the crown, and Daemon helps him and replaces it on his head? That wasn’t scripted. While filming, the crown accidentally fell off and Matt Smith and Considine just went with it. And it was so good, that the show had a speech for Daemon at the dinner later in the episode, but they cut it because that moment in the throne room conveyed what he said so much better.
3. None of these actors watched Game of Thrones. I don’t know how it’s fucking possible, but they all claim to have not watched it until they were hired.
4.
And with Charmaine DeGratƩ, Eileen Shim, and Sara Hess, #HouseOfTheDragon has also already exceeded the number of credited female writers #GameOfThrones had in its entire run.
Two women, Jane Espenson and Vanessa Taylor, wrote 4 of the 73 episode of #GOT
— Joanna Robinson (@jowrotethis) October 11, 2022
Kathie Lee Gifford will not be reading Kelly Ripa’s book, THANKYOUVERYMUCH. I’m pretty sure Ripa doesn’t give a shit.
Crazy shit that almost happened #2:
In season 2, Eleven was going to mercy kill her mother.— stranger writers (@strangerwriters) October 10, 2022
Gillian Anderson seems to have a good sense of humor:
LOVE! https://t.co/qedIlnYEXL
— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) October 10, 2022
It sounds like the Young Pope might be getting a third season? Maybe? Possibly. I’m not putting this into “Renewals” until it’s confirmed, but keep it in mind.
A CNN reporter and photojournalist have been kicked out of Thailand after covering the horrific daycare mass shooting. They showed some things that they should not have shown, is the bottom line.
So, apparently there’s a whole cheating scandal over in the world of the Miss USA pageant: a number of contestants are convinced that the fix was in for the winner, Miss Texas, and a bunch of the women walked off stage when she was crowned.
Scandal rocks Miss USA pageant. Miss Texas is crowned the winner, but contestants say it was rigged and the winner was pre-determined. After the new Miss USA is crowned, the other contestants walk off the stage, instead of crowding around her for a hug. pic.twitter.com/z0hrQCpo6j
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) October 7, 2022
As a Texan myself, I will only say, MAYBE MISS TEXAS WAS JUST BETTER THAN ALL Y’ALL. EVER THINK OF THAT?
Days of Our Lives actor James Lastovic and his roommate have gone missing in Hawaii. I hope they are both found quickly.
#MeToo
It’s a big couple of weeks for a bunch of sex pests:
Kevin Spacey’s trial in New York based on sex abuse allegations brought by actor Anthony Rapp began last week. Rapp took the stand to testify against Spacey.
Paul Haggis goes to trial in New York next week. A publicist claims he raped her in 2013. Haggis claims that Scientology is behind the accusations, trying to discredit them after he left the cult organization.
Speaking of Scientology, member Danny Masterson goes on trial for raping three women this week. All three women were former Scientology members, and the cult organization attempted to silence them by claiming that their cases should go through a cult-church-run arbitration process instead of criminal court even though the women were no longer members of the cult church. The federal court system called bullshit on that, and now Masterson faces up to 45 years in prison.
And then there is the granddaddy of the #MeToo movement: Harvey Weinstein himself. He goes to trial this week in Los Angeles for “four counts of rape, four counts of forcible oral copulation, one count of sexual penetration by use of force, plus one count of sexual battery by restraint and sexual battery in incidents involving five women in L.A. County over a nine-year period.” He faces 140 years in prison. One of the women testifying against him, formerly a Jane Doe in court documents, is Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
The Brad Pitt allegations are just getting worse. In a new countersuit in an ongoing legal battle over a winery Pitt and Angelina Jolie used to own, Jolie claims that Pitt was violent towards her and their children in the days leading up to her filing for divorce. According to this countersuit:
Per the legal filing, as reported by The New York Times, Pitt allegedly āchoked one of the children and struck another in the faceā and āgrabbed Jolie by the head and shook herā after Pitt accused Jolie of being ātoo deferentialā to their children. The alleged incident took place in the bathroom of the private plane and subsequently in the cabin.
āPitt grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her, and then grabbed her shoulders and shook her again before pushing her into the bathroom wall,ā the filing stated. āPitt then punched the ceiling of the plane numerous times, prompting Jolie to leave the bathroom.ā
Later, Pitt is accused of pouring ābeer on Jolie; at another, he poured beer and red wine on the childrenā after they came to Jolieās defense.
Gross. Pitt has denied all of the allegations.
Eric Weinberg, former Scrubs executive producer, has been charged with 18 counts, including rape, sexual battery, and false imprisonment by violence. This monster would ALLEGEDLY lure young actresses to his home with his Hollywood credentials, and then violently attack them.
Chris Albrecht, the president of Lionsgate Television, has been placed on leave ahead of the publication of a book on the history of HBO. In the book, it’s accused that back in the 90s, when Albrecht was an executive at HBO, he choked a fellow HBO employee when she ended their extra-marital affair. The other employee, Sasha Emerson, was forced to go into mediation with HBO and leave the network after taking a settlement.
H’oh boy. We know what Bill Murray did to get himself in trouble on the Aziz Ansari set, and it’s not great: “… numerous sources said Murray allegedly straddled and, through a mask, kissed a ‘much younger’ female on the production who was ‘horrified.’ That staffer ‘interpreted his actions as entirely sexual.'” GUYS. THIS STUFF IS REALLY NOT TOLERATED ANYMORE.
The Times (UK) summarized the following encounter between Davis and Murray: āSheās introduced to [Murray], she writes, in a hotel suite, where Murray greets her with something called The Thumper, a massage device he insists on using on her, despite her emphatically refusing; later, while theyāre filming on location, Murray tracks Davis down in her trailer and begins screaming at her for being late (sheās waiting for her wardrobe), continues to scream at her as she hurries onto the set and even as she gets there, in front of hundreds of cast, crew, curious passers-by.ā
āThat was bad,ā Davis replied. āThe way he behaved at the first meeting⦠I should have walked out of that or profoundly defended myself, in which case I wouldnāt have got the part. I could have avoided that treatment if Iād known how to react or what to do during the audition. But, you know, I was so non-confrontational that I just didnāt.ā
Two female comedians have had really shitty weekends. You might have seen the clip of Ariel Elias being heckled and dodging a beer thrown at her by an asshole MAGA couple. The video has gone viral because of Elias’ bad-bitch response:
Here's the clip pic.twitter.com/soeG3dixP4
— Ariel Elias (@Ariel_Comedy) October 9, 2022
Her quick response landed her a future spot on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
definitely
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) October 9, 2022
Which, yay! Happy ending.
A story that has a much less happy ending is about fellow comedian Kim Congdon who was sexually assaulted after leaving the stage at a performance in New York on Friday.
It happened the second I got off stage at a sold out theatre and in SECONDS he was gone in the dark crowd . By the time they found him the show was almost over and he didnāt care he was being kicked out cause he said āat least I got to touch Kimās pussyā
— Kim Congdon (@kimberlycongdon) October 10, 2022
It sucks that I have to explain all of this. Its embarrassing. I donāt consider myself a āwokeā comic. Iām not political. I just want to do stand up and not be fucking molested.
— Kim Congdon (@kimberlycongdon) October 10, 2022
So, obviously, a bunch of dudes showed up in her replies and accused her of lying or claiming that her assault, “isn’t even that bad”.
— Kim Congdon (@kimberlycongdon) October 9, 2022
I’m going to burn everything down.
Vote Democrat:
That clip https://t.co/sddRhw9zZN pic.twitter.com/EQEh0xtRrH
— Aziā¢ļø (@Azi) October 7, 2022
Renewals
- Bobbyās Triple Threat has been renewed for a second season on Food Network.
- Quantum Leap has been given six additional first-season episodes on NBC.
Cancellations
- The Man Who Fell to Earth has been canceled after one season on Showtime.
- Who Do You Think You Are? has likely been canceled at NBC.
In Development
- An untitled father-and-son comedy series starring Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. is being developed at CBS.
- The 1996 film Fear is being turned into a series at Peacock.
- Natives, a docuseries produced by Mark Ruffalo about Indigenous activists, is being developed.
- Kennedy, a docuseries about President Kennedy, is in development.
- Director Todd Field has left The Devil and the White City at Hulu; this after Keanu Reeves left the project. What is going on?
Casting News
- John Stamos and Katelyn Tarver will star in Open Book on Freevee.
- Walter Perez has been cast in Fatal Attraction on Paramount+.
- Sonia Denis has joined the cast of Ironheart on Disney+.
- Charlotte Hope will star in Catch Me a Killer.
Mark Your Calendars
- Mythic Quest will debut on Apple TV+ on November 11.
- Enola Holmes 2 will premiere on Netflix on November 4.
- The Fastest Woman on Earth will debut on HBO Max on October 20.
- The Takeover will premiere on Netflix on November 1.
- The Owl House premieres on the Disney Channel on October 15.
R.I.P.
Eileen Ryan, Prolific actress who appeared on The Twilight Zone, Bonanza, The Detectives, Ben Casey, Marcus Welby, M.D., Little House on the Prairie, Arli$$, Ally McBeal, NYPD Blue, ER, CSI, Men of a Certain Age and Greyās Anatomy among many others, and the mother of Sean, Christopher and Michael Penn
Austin Stoker, Actor from Assault on Precinct 13 and Roots
Art Laboe, Los Angeles radio legend
WATCH THIS
The Winchesters: The love story of John and Mary begins. If you know, you know. Series premiere. 7 p.m., The CW
Professionals: Brendan Frasier stars in this action-comedy as a billionaire who hires security expert Tom Welling to investigate the possible sabotage of one of his projects. Hilarity ensues. Series premiere 8 p.m., The CW
Hereditary: Alright, so we’re knee-deep in spooky season, and I’m going to recommend a bunch of horror movies this week. That said, if you’re looking to be deeply frightened and disturbed and have nightmares for the rest of the week, this movie will do the trick. Still one of the most frightening films I’ve ever seen. 8:50 p.m., Showtime Showcase West
Late Night:
- Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Pierce Brosnan, Charlie Puth, Kate del Castillo
- Late Night with Seth Meyers: Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, Kaitlyn Dever
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: John Lithgow, Wendell Pierce
- The Late Late Show with James Corden: Nick Kroll, Florence Welch, Florence + the Machine
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lucas Bravo, Midland featuring Jon Pardi
- Watch What Happens Live: Melissa Etheridge, Rachel Maddow
TUES. | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
ABC | Bachelor in Paradise (new) |
The Rookie: Feds (new) |
CBS | FBI (new) |
FBI: International (new) |
FBI: Most Wanted (new) |
CW | The Winchesters (new) |
Professionals (new) |
Local |
FOX | The Resident (new) |
Monarch (new) |
News/Local |
NBC | The Voice (new) |
La Brea (new) |
New Amsterdam (new) |
A few thoughts on today’s post:
Ghosts is an almost perfect comedy. It’s sweet and funny and I’m glad people are watching it.
I knew the DOOL 3 way was going to blow people’s minds lol
I could read about these very specific cheating scandals (Chess, Fishing, Miss America apparently) forever.
‘Ghosts’ is a goddamned delight. I’m so glad audiences have responded to it. CBS has struggled with single-camera comedies, and I fully anticipated that this would fail, too. I’m glad I was wrong.
-T
Love Ghosts. We even watched the British one too on HBOmax