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Happy birthday to the actual sound inside my head all of the time these days:
@waltergeoffrey Happy 11th Birthday, King! #happybirthday #birthday #dog #dogsoftiktok #fyp #foryoupage #frenchie #pet
Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News
People are REAL MAD about The White Lotus theme song for season three. Unless they’re not.
Texting the group chat about the new White Lotus theme song.
— Evan DeSimone (@smorgasboredom.bsky.social) 2025-02-17T17:14:07.978Z
Why tf did they change the white lotus theme song? MIKE WHITE PLZ EXPLAIN #thewhitelotus
— Dorlinda (@gl1zzymcguire.bsky.social) 2025-02-17T03:20:50.922Z
hearing the new white lotus theme
— Kristen Bolden (@kboldens.bsky.social) 2025-02-17T05:28:45.566Z
I LIKE THE NEW WHITE LOTUS THEME IS THAT ALLOWED OR SHOULD I WALK INTO THE SEA
— anne t. donahue (@annetdonahue.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T12:33:20.545Z
Severance is Apple TV+’s most popular series, surpassing Ted Lasso.
After making the dumb decision to delay posting Last Week Tonight clips until Thursdays, HBO is reversing course and releasing videos on Mondays again.
Love is Bland Blind is back, and with the least diverse cast ever! Just look at these five men who are all the same man but with different filters! And no, sir, claiming the “show casts itself” is not an excuse.
@badwitch1126 Tell me how I’ve watched 6 hours of these pieces of wonder bread and still don’t know who is who #loveisblind #loveisblindnetflix #loveisblindseason8 #netflix
@morganptalks SIX episodes in the pods mind you….. #loveisblind #loveisblindnetflix #morganpw #greenscreen
Vulture has a great idea to deal with all the unserious men who go on Love is Blind: set them up to date A.I. It’s what they actually want.
And thanks to THAT cast member’s confession, the discussion of a queer version of Love is Blind has come back up again. There are some obvious complications — you couldn’t do a “men’s quarters” and “women’s quarters” — but I’m sure there could be some creative way to get around that.
The director of the original Shōgun miniseries is being old and bitter.
I’m going to hold your hand when I tell you this, but ABC’s “TGIF” didn’t stand for “Thank God It’s Friday.”
Even after the upcoming Netflix movie, there will be more Peaky Blinders.
Conan O’Brien did the favor of a lifetime for Ray Romano by not hiring him.
Conan O’Brien did the favor of a lifetime for Adam Scott by not airing a joke he had.
Bill O’Reilly once offered to punch Sex and the City creator Darren Starr on behalf of the cast — despite the cast not wanting or asking him to — because Bill O’Reilly was telling on himself.
Cynthia Ervo has been cast as Jesus in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar and we’re all going to be very cool and chill about it, right? RIGHT?
Doctor Who has NOT been canceled.
Buffy is nervous about disappointing us.
SOMEBODY BETTER CAST MARLA IN SOMETHING, OR I’M GOING TO START SCREAMING.
PolUGHtics
The White House continues its fight with the Associated Press, refusing to give them access over the whole stupid Gulf of Mexico kerfuffle. The reason this matters is that the AP is used by more than more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters around the world, most often by papers that are too small to have Washington access — it is literally how many small papers report the news, and it is a valuable non-partisan voice. Jim Acosta, who knows a thing or two about integrity, is calling on the rest of the press to stand in solidarity with the AP:
Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.
Meanwhile, the AP is not backing down:
“This is about the government telling the public and press what words to use and retaliating if they do not follow government orders,” Easton said. “The White House has restricted AP’s coverage of presidential events because of how we refer to a location.”
She continued: “The Associated Press has provided critical and independent coverage of the White House for over 100 years.”
Three former FCC chairs warn against the current FCC chair’s determination to punish President Thin Skin’s media “enemies.” “If we lose the First Amendment we’ve lost everything in this country.”
Fortunately, it looks like CBS might actually fight back: In a legal filing, CBS’s lawyers said they will demand President Bankruptcy’s financial records if he persues his $20 billion lawsuit against them for the editing of a 60 Minutes interview.
“This kind of almost advanced self-censorship or yielding in advance that we are seeing [from media companies], the various DEI programs that have just fallen like dominoes, the corporations and companies and people thinking, ‘I’ll start more passively, and hopefully, I’ll gain my footing and start to think about a long game.’ But I think what we’ve learned historically is that once you start to yield, they don’t reward you for submission. These kinds of people are insatiable. We have to be really careful about not yielding.”
President Spray Tan’s Kennedy Center has canceled their scheduled concert with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington because of course it did. Maybe if they promised to perform “YMCA”?
Meanwhile, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Lambda Legal are now suing the administration over the executive orders targeting DEI programs, arguing that the orders are “discriminatory and illegal, and imperiled funding for groups that provide critical services to historically underserved groups of Americans.” They also allege that the orders violate the First and Fifth Amendments. GOOD.
But once again, while I’m glad people are taking these outrageous executive orders to court — which is the correct thing to do — I continue to worry about what happens when the administration loses and then refuses to execute the courts’ orders. Who will make them?
Reminder: Elon Musk is not just a liar, he’s dumb. And yet, he’s going to do untold damage to our government.
Leavitt claims Elon Musk and DOGE "suspect there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent social security payments" and says they will soon dig into the books"If you pay into the system *honestly*, you will continue to receive your social security checks," she adds.
Elon Musk is a phony and an imbecile who does not understand COBOL syntax.
— Sic Semper Tyrannis (@aurumminer.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T02:21:58.941Z
A new entry for your “Donald Jenius Trump is a Fucking Idiot” files: He didn’t know what happened at Pearl Harbor. Also, he can’t read.
Zachary Levi begs the leopards to not eat faces. Because the leopards? They are feasting.
Renewals
- The Jennifer Hudson Show has been renewed for a fourth season in syndication.
- Miss Scarlett has been renewed for a sixth season on PBS.
- Vigil has been renewed for a third season on BBC One and Peacock.
Cancellations
- Bookie has been canceled after two seasons on Max.
In Development
- Boston Blue, a spinoff series of Blue Bloods starring Donnie Wahlberg, has been given a straight-to-series order at CBS.
- Not Suitable for Work, a comedy from Mindy Kaling, has been greenlit at Hulu.
- The Applebaum Curse, a new series from the creator of My So-Called Life starring Claire Danes is in development at HBO.
- Rumor has it that Melissa Gorga and Dolores Catania will get their own Real Housewives of New Jersey spinoff series on Bravo. It’s unclear what will happen with Teresa Giudice — whether she will be back on the flagship series, or given her own spinoff. But news has it that Margaret Josephs, Rachel Fuda, and Danielle Cabral will not be back. Again, just rumors at this stage.
- Climbing in Heels is being developed into a series at Peacock.
- They’re threatening to make another adaptation of Lonesome Dove.
- Hotter in The Hamptons is being adapted into a TV series by the Foster sisters who developed Nobody Wants This.
- Dream State is being adapted into a TV series by A24.
- Blue Therapy is coming to Netflix.
Casting News
- Shane Gillis will host Saturday Night Live on March 1 with musical guest Tate McRae; Lady Gaga will host and be the musical guest on March 8.
- Davionte “GaTa” Ganter, Justin Theroux, John Cho, Haley Joel Osment, and Patti Harrison have joined the cast of Poker Face on Peacock.
- Chris Perfetti and Joy Sunday have joined the cast of DTF St. Louis on HBO.
- Mary Louise Parker and David Alan Grier will guest star on Elsbeth on CBS.
- Suzanna Son has joined the cast of Monster on Netflix.
- Adam Nagaitis, Josef Davies, and Ruby Ashbourne Serkis have joined Star City on Apple TV+.
- Marsha Warfield has joined Night Court on NBC.
- Reggie Miller is joining NBC Sports.
- Edison Alcaide, Conleith Hill, Emily Mortimer, and Russell Tovey have been cast in Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Disney+ UK (so maybe Hulu in the States: stay tuned).
- Charlie Besso has joined the cast of General Hospital on ABC.
Mark Your Calendars
- The Residence debuts on Netflix on March 20.
- Dope Thief premieres on Apple TV+ on March 14.
- Good American Family debuts on Hulu on March 19.
- Black Ops debuts on Hulu on February 25.
- Suits LA premieres on February 23 on NBC.
- Chelsea Handler: The Feeling premieres on Netflix on March 25.
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip will debut on Disney+ on March 28.
- Wicked will stream on Peacock beginning on March 21.
- Pulse will premiere on Netflix on April 3.
- Control Freak debuts on Hulu on March 13.
- Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana debuts on PBS on April 29.
- David Frost Vs will premiere on MSNBC on April 27.
- Queer premieres on Max on March 28, on HBO on March 29.
R.I.P.
Marshall Rose, Candace Bergman’s husband and real estate developer
Ariane Bellamar, Playboy model who appeared in Entourage, Beverly Hills Nannies, Minding the Store, Jersey Couture, Hotel Hell and The Millionaire Matchmaker
Rick Buckler, Drummer for The Jam
Paquita la del Barrio, Mexican singer
WATCH THIS
Good Cop/Bad Cop: Leighton Meester stars in this new quirky cop series as one half of a sister and brother detective team in the Pacific Northwest. Series premiere. 8 p.m., The CW
Win or Lose: Pixar’s first series follows the adventures of eight different characters as they prepare for the big softball game. Series premiere. Disney+
NOVA: Pompeii’s Secret Underworld: The official description reads: “New archaeological finds in Pompeii are revealing that the city, hailed as a sophisticated jewel of the Roman Empire, hid a very dark side. As the evidence unfolds, a much more complex picture of the fated city comes into view.” So … “sophisticated” but with a “very dark side”? Wait … are y’all just now discovering that they were Romans? 8 p.m., PBS
Late Night:
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Robert De Niro, Tamara Tunie
- After Midnight: Josh Sharp, Aaron Jackson, Monét X Change, Clifton Davis, Karla Mosley
| WEDS. | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
| ABC | Shifting Gears (repeat) |
Shifting Gears (repeat) |
Celebrity Jeopardy! (repeat) |
What Would You Do? (new) |
| CBS | Hollywood Squares (new) |
The Price is Right at Night (new) |
Raid the Cage (new) |
| CW | Wild Cards (new) |
Good Cop/Bad Cop (new) |
Local |
| FOX | The Masked Singer (new) |
The Floor (new) |
News/Local |
| NBC | Chicago Med (new) |
Chicago Fire (new) |
Chicago P.D. (new) |
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