Oh boy, here comes the orange clown car of cabinet appointees!

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Oh, to be a guinea pig falling asleep on a piano. Or to just be a guinea pig, honestly.

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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

In the most important decision made in our lifetimes (every year) John Krasinski was named “Sexiest Man Alive” by People Magazine for some reason. (Maybe because the guy they actually wanted chose a different magazine instead?)

Actress Chanel Maya Banks, who appeared in the reboot of Gossip Girl and Blue Bloods, was found safe after having been reported as missing by her family on October 30. Though, interestingly, the family who reported her missing are saying the woman who was found is not her, and that she is still missing. Strange.

Whoopi Goldberg promoted a cheese with her face on it on The View, adding that she likes “to be eaten from time to time,” sending a shocked Sara Hines to walk off stage for a minute.

If you’re looking to watch a comedy in these rather grim days, Paramount+ is the streamer with the highest percentage of comedies.  (Of course, percentages of comedies do not equal the number of comedies, so, there might be numerically more comedies on other platforms and therefore this entire post is moot. OH WELL.)

Wishing Dave Coulier well, as he battles aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

SIGH. So, I guess this Former President I Can’t Believe We’re Doing This Shit Again-Elect is actually taking office in January, as he’s been naming a bunch of cabinet members, and while I have an active imagination, I don’t know that even my worst nightmares would get into the drudgery of cabinet nominations. That said, these people are literally the stuff of your wake-up-in-a-cold-sweat bad dreams:

  • Marco Rubio, little man, as Secretary of State
  • Pete Hegseth, Fox News host and pro-insurrectionist, as Secretary of Defense
  • South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, puppy killer, as Director of Homeland Security
  • Tulsi Gabbard, Putin apologist and conspiracy theorist, as Director of National Security
  • Lee Zeldin, staunch anti-environmentalist, as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
  • and Matt Gaetz — a suspected sex criminal who has a whole Congressional report on his sex crimes with underage girls that was supposed to be released tomorrow, but who resigned instead — as Attorney General

Will any or some of these people get through the Senate confirmation process, now that it’s led by relatively-non-MAGA Republican Senate leader John Thune? I don’t know! But I do know that dumber things have happened and we must never for one instant underestimate the gutless cowardice when it comes to the GOP and this terrible man.

Oh, and he’s appointed Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk as very inefficient co-heads of something they are calling the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE which is a nod to crypto dorks). They claim they are going to “cut the national budget by a third” mostly by firing a bunch of federal employees, so that will work out well for all of us and the overall health and productivity of our government, I’m sure. It’s not an official agency, but something to keep these two fuckos busy, as well as the teams of lawyers they will be going up against.

He’s also named Elise Stefanik as the Ambassador to the UN, and Mike “There is no such thing as a Palestinean” as the Ambassador to Israel, so I hope all those folks who either didn’t vote for Harris or made a protest vote because of the genocide in the West Bank are happy. I know Netanyahu sure is.

Meanwhile, I’ve been in London all week looking at real estate, and the biggest controversy they are wrestling with right now is this Christmas commercial for a department store, John Lewis. 

Renewals

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendars

CBS has released their mid-season premiere dates:

  • January 8: Raid the Cage
  • January 9: Hollywood Squares
  • January 26: Watson
  • January 27: The Neighborhood
  • January 27: Poppa’s House
  • January 27: NCIS
  • January 27: NCIS: Origins
  • January 28: FBI
  • January 28: FBI: Most Wanted
  • January 28: FBI: International
  • January 30: Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage
  • January 30: Ghosts
  • January 30: Matlock
  • January 30: Elsbeth
  • January 31: NCIS: Sydney
  • January 31: Fire Country
  • January 31: S.W.A.T.
  • February 16: Tracker
  • February 16: The Equalizer
  • February 26: Survivor
  • March 5: The Amazing Race

 

  • The Night Agent returns on Netflix on January 23.

  • The Later Daters will debut on Netflix on November 29.

  • Queer Eye returns on Netflix on December 11.

  • Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary will debut on HBO on November 29.

  • The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday will return on Roku on November 21.

  • Amazon Wish List Games will debut on Prime Video on November 20.

  • as1one: The Israeli-Palestinian Pop Music Journey debuts on Paramount+ on December 3.

  • The Family Guy holiday special will debut on Hulu on November 25.

  • Secret Level will premiere on Prime Video on December 10.

R.I.P.

Timothy West, British screen and stage actor known for EastEnders and Coronation Street, Brass, and Great Canal Journeys

John Peaslee, Comedy writer known for Coach and The World According to Jim

Nick Wade, Animator

Tim Sullivan, Novelist, book reviewer and screenwriter

Song Jae-lim, South Korean actor

WATCH THIS

Cross: Aldis Hodge stars as Alex Cross in this much-anticipated new crime thriller series based on the James Patterson novels. Series premiere. Prime Video

The Day of the Jackal: Eddie Redmayne stars in this new adaptation of the cat-and-mouse thriller. Series premiere. Peacock

Say Nothing: The grim story of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, this new limited series explores the emotional and psychological costs of radical violence on a nation. Series premiere. FX on Hulu

Frasier: Season two premiere. Paramount+

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Ariana Grande, Michael Bublé
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Cynthia Erivo, Brett Goldstein
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Billy Bob Thornton, Sharon Horgan
  • After Midnight: Mark Duplass, Kate Micucci, Pete Holmes
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Ted Danson, Mikey Madison, Blxst, Anderson .Paak
  • The Daily Show: Francis Ford Coppola, host Jordan Klepper
  • Watch What Happens Live: Wendi McLendon-Covey
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