Oh cool, an unelected South African billionaire 400x over is now running our government. What could go wrong?

This is how old I am:

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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

It’s sounding less and less likely that the Menendez Brothers will be leaving prison after all. Elections have consequences.

James Marsden auditioned for SNL by impersonating a chicken and that’s why James Marsden has never been on SNL.

The continued commodification of an explicitly anti-capitalist piece of art is such a perfect metaphor for late-stage capitalism that I am surprised someone hasn’t made a TV show about it yet.

Wow, Landman … just … wow.

Max has stolen Spotify’s whole “Spotify Wrapped” thing with “Max Rewind” which shows you a recap of what you watched this year.

The Real Housewives of Potomac‘s Karen Huger is facing two years in prison for a DUI that involved a car crash.

Polughtics

Apparently, a megalomaniacal multi-billionaire South African is in charge of our Congress now, and some Senators are calling for it to be true literally, not just figuratively.

Speaker Musk.

Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T13:23:36.339Z

After Speaker of the House Mike Johnson negotiated a last-minute bi-partisan bill to keep the government funded and open, Elon Fucking Musk said, “Nah,” and made up a ton of lies about what the bill contains. So now a bunch of Republicans are now pulling their support of the bill and we are facing a government shutdown tomorrow.

A couple of things about this: our last shutdown (which was courtesy of the Republicans because the shutdowns are ALWAYS because of the Republicans cost $3 billion (although what’s that to a man worth more than $400 billion), and abandoning the bill that was on the table would jeopardize an extension of the farm bill and $100 billion in disaster aid. Meanwhile, the man who is apparently single-handedly running the Republican party, has received billions and billions in government subsidies and contracts for his businesses, including $41.9 for Tesla and $19.8 for SpaceX.

Elon Musk was not on anyone’s ballot.

Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) 2024-12-18T22:37:08.599Z

The ultimate question. On Jan 21, 2025, who gets to run the @POTUS account here and on twitter:Trump or Musk ?

Mark Cuban (@mcuban.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T01:17:44.187Z

Elon Musk: Doing to congress what he does to tesla drivers: trapping us inside and setting us on fire.

Maxwell Frost (@maxwellfrost.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T17:09:01.466Z

Elon Musk is literally everything MAGA Republicans accused George Soros of doing

KamallaDreams (@kamalladreams.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T00:04:50.185Z

Chuck Todd and other media types called ABC News out for “abandoning” George Stephanopoulos by settling with Former President Fake News-Elect, and there was some speculation on how Stephanopoulos could even stay at the network after being shivved by them. And yet … he just signed a new multiyear contract with them, so I guess they really made it worth his while.

The new deal and the high-profile settlement with President-Elect Donald Trump that was signed this weekend were handled separately, with no correlation between one and the other, a source says.

LOL, SURE.

Nancy Pelosi regrets never having hosted Saturday Night Live because she’s convinced she’s “very funny” and I do have to give it to her, this moment was funny:

And this was funny:

And this was funny:

And this was amazing … if not exactly funny (but it was also pretty funny):

Renewals

Cancellations

  • Sunny has been canceled at Apple TV+ after one season.

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendars

  • The It’s Always Sunny/Abbott Elementary crossover will take place on ABC on January 8.

  • Conspirators debuts on ALLBLK on January 2.
  • The Thundermans: Undercover debuts on Nickelodeon on January 22
  • The Challenge All Stars: Rivals will premiere on MTV on January 29.
  • Harpoon Hunters debuts on Discovery on January 24.
  • America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys will premiere on Netflix in 2025.
  • Nightbitch will begin streaming on Hulu on December 27.

R.I.P.

David Murphey, 90 Day Fiancé star

WATCH THIS

Laid: A woman finds out her former lovers are dying in unusual ways in what is being described as a “fucked-up rom-com.” Series premiere.  Peacock

Beast Games: 1,000 contestants compete for a $5 million prize. Series premiere. Prime Video

Virgin River: Season premiere. Netflix

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Series finale. Paramount+

Fast Friends: Fans of the show Friends compete in this new game show to determine who is the Ultimate Friends Fan. Series premiere. Max

Ghosts: Sam and Jay prepare to host Jay’s hard-to-please parents for the holidays, things go awry. One-hour fall finale.  7 p.m., CBS

The Great Christmas Light Fight: Two-hour season finale. 7 p.m., ABC

Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder: Welp, they were quick with this one. How did TMZ allow themselves to be beaten by 20/20? 9 p.m., ABC

Elsbeth: A showrunner of a long-running police procedural is murdered in the fall finale. 9 p.m., CBS

Nate Bargatze’s Nashville Christmas: Nate Bargatze hosts this variety special with appearances by Mikey Day, Noah Kahan, Martina McBride, Ashley Padilla, Jelly Roll, Darius Rucker, Derrick Stroup, the Tennessee Titans, and Carrie Underwood. Premiere. 8 p.m., CBS

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Martin Short, Chloe Fineman
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: John Mulaney, Simon Rich, Nicholas Hoult
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Edward Norton
  • Watch What Happens Live: Shep Rose, Molly O’Connell
THUR 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30
ABC The Great Christmas Light Fight
(new)
The Great Christmas Light Fight
(new)
Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder
(new)
CBS Ghosts
(new)
Nate Bargatze’s Nashville Christmas
(new)
Elsbeth
(new)
CW Scrabble
(new)
Trivial Pursuit
(new)
News/Local
FOX Hell’s Kitchen
(repeat)
Hell’s Kitchen
(repeat)
News/Local
NBC Little Big Town’s Christmas at the Opry Barry Manilow’s A Very Barry Christmas

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