‘True Detective: Night Country’ was the series’ most popular season and Nic Pizzolatto is having a full-blown tantrum about it

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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Hoda Kotb has no hard feelings towards Kelly Rowland ditching her last week as co-host of The Today Show, but she didn’t steer away from the rumor that it was a dressing room issue:

“I just want to say this: I have great love and admiration for Kelly Rowland,” Kotb began. “I adore her and I want her to come back on our show and I want her to host again.”

“She is welcome any time,” Hager interjected.

“Of course she is!” Kotb said not once, but twice. “She can share my dressing room! We’ll be in it together! Anyway, I just wanted to say that we love her. We’ve loved her on this show for many, many, many years.”

I haven’t posted anything about the finale of True Detective, so as to not accidentally spoil anyone (or myself — I haven’t watched yet, tbh), but I will say that former True Detective showrunner Nic Pizzolatto is out there on social media showing his whole ass. Pizzolatto, who ran the show for three seasons, but had nothing to do with the fourth season (Issa López produced this season), has been reposting fanboy messages complaining about season four “misappropriating” elements of the first season. This is not just petty but outright insulting and embarrassing for an adult man to be doing. Just pathetic and small:

Season four star Keli Reis has thoughts:

HBO is delaying the release of Last Week Tonight clips on YouTube until Thursday, instead of Mondays, like they used to, in an attempt to steer people towards subscribing to Max. Shortsighted nonsense.

Ike Barinholtz will be the first Celebrity Jeopardy! contestant to be invited to participate in the Tournament of Champions against “regular” contestants. I’m very happy for him!

What’s going on with Wheel of Fortune? I understand that there are only so many words and phrases but can’t they just recycle answers from the early 80s?

Ayo Edebiri is a hero:

Walmart is buying Vizio, which suggests they are going to get into the FAST TV business themselves.

We’re watching more TV again.

#MeToo

The New York Times has done a very comprehensive story about Jonathan Majors and the other women who have alleged he also abused them. Contrary to his claims that he’s “never struck a woman,” two former girlfriends have come forward to claim that he was routinely physically and emotionally abusive towards them, often threatening to kill them and himself. Additionally, cast and crew from Lovecraft Country describe him as being openly hostile towards women, that women on set warned each other to be careful around him, and one assistant director left the show because of his aggressive behavior towards her. He sounds like a peach.

Anyway. His sentencing for assaulting ex-partner Grace Jabbari has been delayed until April 8 because his defense team has filed a motion to set aside the verdict. Good luck with that, Jonathan.

Boy Meets World stars, Will Friedle and Rider Strong opened up on “Pod Meets World” about regretting having supported a former guest star, Brian Peck, when he was convicted of committing a lewd act against a child on the show in 2004. They talked openly about how Peck, who was 20 years older than them at the time, groomed and befriended them, and how they recognize it as inappropriate now, but at the time, it felt perfectly acceptable. Peck will be part of the upcoming ID documentary, Quiet on the Set, exploring child abuse in the entertainment business.

“There’s an actual victim here. And he turned us against the victim to where now we’re on his team. That’s the thing where, to me, I look back at that as my ever-loving shame for this entire [thing],” [Friedle] said. “Getting taken in by somebody who’s a good actor and a manipulator, I could chalk that up to being young and that’s the way it is. It’s awful. I’m going to use that for my growth as a human being, but when there’s an actual victim involved and now I’m on the abuser’s side, that’s the thing I can’t get over and haven’t been able to get over.”

Arianne Zucker is suing Days of Our Lives production company and former executive producer Albert Alarr, accusing Alarr of sexually harassing her and other female employees.

Russell Simmons has been sued for rape by a former Def Jams senior music executive and video producer. He’s also being sued for defamation by another former executive, A&R director Drew Dixon, who alleges Simmons attempted to undermine her claims that he had sexually assaulted her.

The allegations against Congressman Matt Gaetz, they haven’t gone away.

Chris Brown says he was uninvited from the NBA Celebrity All-Star Game. GOOD. I HOPE SO. I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY HE WAS INVITED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Les Moonves had to pay a piddlingly low fine for “inducing” a Los Angeles police captain to share with him information on the sexual harassment investigation against him.

Racecar driver Christian Horner and star of Drive to Survive (and husband to Ginger Spice) has been accused of “inappropriate, controlling behavior towards a female member of staff” and sending “sexually orientated messages.” He denies the allegations.

French actress Judith Godrèche has filed an official police report against director Jacques Doillon accusing him of sexual assault when she was a minor. Actresses Anna Mouglalis and Isild le Besco also accused Doillon of being sexually inappropriate with them.

Usher is sorry for being handsy with Nicki Minaj at the 2014 VMAs but he apologizes for nothing about his performance with Alicia Keys at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

Tonight’s PBS’s American Experience, “Fly With Me,” explores how flight attendants fought against sexual discrimination in the airline industry:

In 1958, when Mary Pat Laffey Inman became a stewardess — as they were then called — for Northwest Airlines, she was 20 years old and the clock was already ticking. At 32, she would be forced to retire. That is, if she didn’t marry, get pregnant or even gain too much weight before that: All were grounds for termination. It was the golden age of aviation for everyone except, perhaps, the women serving in-flight meals to the nattily dressed passengers.

In 1970, Ms. Laffey Inman, a union leader and Northwest’s first female purser — the lead attendant on a flight — spearheaded a class-action suit, Laffey v. Northwest Airlines Inc., that resulted in the airline paying more than $30 million in damages and back wages in 1985. It also set the precedent for nondiscriminatory hiring of flight attendants across the industry. But even then, not everything changed: Flight attendants on some airlines were still subjected to “weigh-ins” into the 1990s. (Northwest merged with Delta Air Lines in 2008.)

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendars

  • Shirley will debut on Netflix on March 22.
  • Queen of Tears will debut on Netflix on March 9.
  • Art of Love premieres on Netflix on March 14.

R.I.P.

Tom Priestley, Oscar-nominated cinematographer

Robin Windsor, Professional dancer on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing

WATCH THIS

Will Trent: A car bomb sets off an investigation in the season premiere. 7 p.m., ABC

Crime Nation: This anthology series explores crimes ripped from the headlines and cold cases. The first episode examines the Delphi, Indiana double murders. Series premiere. 7 p.m., The CW

The Rookie: The team tries to learn why they were targeted. Season premiere. 8 p.m., ABC

The Good Doctor: Shaun and Lea adapt to being parents. Season premiere. 9 p.m., ABC

Quantum Leap: Ben finds himself reunited with Hannah in the two-hour season finale.  8 p.m., NBC

Name That Tune: Season finale. 7 p.m., Fox

Late Night:

  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Paul Giamatti, Jenny Slate, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
  • The Daily Show: Danai Gurira, host Desi Lydic
  • Watch What Happens Live: Tom Schwartz, Jenna Dewan

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(new)		 FBI: International
(new)		 FBI: Most Wanted
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CW Crime Nation
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(new)		 The Floor
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NBC Night Court
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One thought on “‘True Detective: Night Country’ was the series’ most popular season and Nic Pizzolatto is having a full-blown tantrum about it”

  1. I liked this season of True Detective a lot. The story was well done and the actors completely knocked it out of the park.

    It’s not perfect and there are some unresolved questions (it’s been about 84 years since True Detective: S1, but I vaguely recall a lot of unanswered questions there as well), but the reaction I’ve seen online is like I was watching a completely different show than everyone else.

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