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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

The weekend’s big news was The Oscars, but because I was on an airplane for the entirety of the ceremony, I’m not going to be recapping them. I’m sure everyone’s heart is broken, but somehow we’ll muddle through.

That said, here are all of the winners. Anora was the big winner of the night, taking home Best Picture; Best Director; Best Actress; Best Editing; and Original Screenplay. These wins made filmmaker Sean Baker the first person to win four Oscars in one night since Walt Disney. And with Mikey Madison’s surprise(ish) (but also well-deserved) win for Best Actress over Demi Moore, it was difficult to not notice the similarities of reality to the plot of The Substance (spoilers? kinda?).

Adrien Brody also broke a couple of records, with the longest acceptance speech in Oscar history, clocking in at 5 minutes, 40 seconds; and became the first actor to win two Oscars in his first two nominations. It took 22 years, but it’s the still the record.

But the best acceptance speech was from Roman Roy because of course it was:

As always, the In Memoriam became a source of controversy, based on the folks they left out, including Michelle Trachtenberg, Shannen Doherty, Olivia Hussey, George Armitage, Mitzi Gaynor, and others. Meanwhile, Gene Hackman and Quincy Jones both received stand-alone tributes.

But the true hero of the hour was Conan O’Brien who hosted with enthusiasm, silliness, and a true love of the movies themselves. Can we bring him back every year?

The loser of the ceremony: Hulu, who really screwed the pooch with its live-stream of the ceremony. There were outages both at the beginning of the program, and then more infuriatingly, right before Best Actress and Best Picture were announced. I was thisclose to cutting the cord for Hulu Live TV, but now I’m having some second and third thoughts.

Guess Hulu didn’t pay for the pro Zoom.

— Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee.bsky.social) 2025-03-03T03:42:28.420Z

Sean Baker: Watch movies in theaters! Take your kids to the theater!Hulu: Not on my watch! *cuts feed*#Oscars #Hulu

— Stephanie (@lakeeriemermaid.bsky.social) 2025-03-03T03:37:39.610Z

Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies

— Ben Goggin (@bengoggin.bsky.social) 2025-03-03T03:44:27.305Z

Looking at Hulu rn

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2025-03-03T04:03:15.624Z

Hold up: on top of all the other chicanery, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was PAYING its members $75,000 a year?! FOR WHAT? “A spokesperson for the Golden Globes describes the change in policy as an acknowledgment that continuing to pay members could add to a perception of bias in voting.” YA THINK?

Reportedly, the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are trying to get Jennifer Tilly kicked off the show because … ~checks notes~ her divorce settlement? First of all, earning your money from a divorce settlement is a tried and true Hollywood tradition, but second of all, how do y’all think Sutton got her money? Furthermore, Erica Jayne, Kathy Hilton, and Kyle Richards all married into their money, so maybe y’all need to shut up?

The White Lotus‘ Aimee Lou Wood describes filming the series as a social experiment: “Living in a hotel, that we also film in? It was like a social experiment. … One day, I was having my hair done and Miia [Kovero, the hair and makeup artist] was, like, ‘You need to go home. I don’t know who I’m talking to any more, Aimee or Chelsea.’ I’d completely abstracted. Everyone becomes their character to an extent, but I didn’t even know who I was.”

All y’all calling Alexandra Daddario a bad actress need to have all the seats.

Sounds like there’s a three-season plan for Paradise.

SpinCo, the collection of Comcast channels that is being spun off from NBCUniversal, including MSNBC, is actively looking for new real estate in New York, with plans to leave Rockefeller Center. “SpinCo” is also reportedly closing in on a new name, fortunately.

Hold up: Kathy Griffin and Jack Black dated? What?

PolUGHtics

— Sean T. Collins (@seantcollins.com) 2025-03-01T14:27:37.826Z

I honestly don’t know what to say about Friday’s White House press conference with Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy. I am deeply ashamed of my country: something I rarely have said and something that I certainly haven’t said in the previous four years. To abandon an ally, to attempt to humiliate him publicly and to lick the boots of our Russian adversary … it’s a profoundly dark moment and points to a terrifying trajectory for our country.

I don’t have any great insight to add to everything that has already been said and written about this event already — leaving aside all the infuriating demands for Zelenskyy to grovel and thank our country and wear something more appropriate to the White House  ~cough~ Elon ~cough~ — leaving all that aside, the best comparison to what happened on Friday would have been if during World War II, Franklin Roosevelt demanded that Winston Churchill do whatever Adolf Hitler wanted for peace, including giving up parts of the U.K., and ohbytheway hand over all of their energy reserves to America because we want them. It is unimaginable because we used to be a country who believed in Democracy and fought against fascism. Under President Shitler, I’m not so sure anymore.

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Following being kicked out of the White House, Zelenskyy did an interview with Fox News, where he insisted while he doesn’t owe anyone an apology, he also believes that the relationship with President Mushroom Dick can be mended. We’ll see. In the meantime, Zelenskyy is receiving the European Union support we refuse to give him.

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2025-02-28T22:26:29.088Z

Meanwhile, President Putin’s Puppy is out here calling Europe a land full of “rape gangs” and “murderers” and insists we needn’t be so worried about Putin.

I just want to pause here and remind everyone — because it’s not being mentioned in much of the press coverage of this outrage — that Volodymyr Zelenskyy was at the center of President Twice Impeached’s first impeachment. If you remember, President No Quid Pro Quo illegally blocked a Congressionally-mandated military aid package to Ukraine unless Zelenskyy delivered some manufactured lies about Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election. At the time, this was the most pro-Russian, despicable act that President Wannabe Strong Man waged against Ukraine. But he outdid himself on Friday, and I anticipate it’s only going to get worse.

And I don’t know what is going on here: if our President is a fully compromised asset of Russia (which we kinda knew back in 2016) or if he doesn’t understand how allyship and soft power benefits our country or if he’s still angry at Zelenskyy for not helping spread disinformation to help him get reelected or some combination of all the above, but the result is the same: after 80 years of being aligned with Western European forces and maintaining a cultural and political hegemony that spread democracy throughout the world and defeated and contained Russia’s imperialist ambitions, we’re just walking away from all that because of one small man’s small vision. I hate this for all of us.

“The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday. “This largely aligns with our vision.”

Renewals

• PAW Patrol has been renewed through season fourteen on Nickelodeon and Paramount+.
• Rubble & Crew has been renewed through season four on Nickelodeon and Paramount+.

In Development

• Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, a darkly humorous thriller starring Tatiana Maslany, has been picked up at Apple TV+.
  
• A new comedy written, produced by, and starring Sharon Horgan is in the works at HBO.
• Good Sex, a comedy starring Natalie Portman, written and directed by Lena Dunham, has been acquired by Netflix.
• Crazy Rich Asians is officially in the works as a TV series.
• A documentary about former NFL and college football star Ricky Williams and “the physical, mental and emotional toll of an American football career” is in the works at streaming platform Rewarded TV.
• A Sorority Mom’s Guide to Rush has been greenlit at Lifetime.
• The Sunday Philosophy Club series of books is being adapted into a TV series.
• Only Murders has begun shooting season five:

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Casting News

• Haley Joel Osment, RJ Cyler, Justin Kirk, Kyrie McAlpin, Danielle Kennedy, and Randy Oglesby have joined the cast of The ‘Burbs on Peacock.
• Lauren Tsai has joined the cast of the untitled Bill Lawrence comedy on HBO.
• Michael Angarano has joined Margo’s Got Money Troubles on Apple TV+.

Mark Your Calendar

• Doctor Who returns on Disney+ and BBC on April 12.

• The Parenting debuts on Max on March 13.

• Side Quest debuts on Apple TV+ on March 26.

• Miss Austen premieres on PBS on May 4.

• Formula 1: Drive to Survive returns on March 7 on Netflix.

• Accused: Guilty or Innocent? returns on A& E on March 20.

• Accused: Did I Do It? premieres on A&E on March 20.

• Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero will premiere on BritBox on April 16.

• Sin City Gigolo: A Murder In Las Vegas debuts on Paramount+ on March 4.
• Maxton Hall will return on Prime Video in late 2025.
• Nimesh Patel: Instant Karma will premiere on April 1 on Netflix.

R.I.P.

James Houghton, Four-time Emmy-winning writer for The Young and the Restless and soap actor on Knots Landing, The Young and the Restless, The Colbys

Joseph Wambaugh, Author and co-creator of Police Story

Neville Green, British TV director and producer

David Johansen, Front man of The New York Dolls and Buster Poindexter

Angie Stone, R&B and soul singer

Joey Molland, Guitarist and last remaining member of Badfinger

WATCH THIS

The Bachelor: The Dreaded Hometowns. 7 p.m., ABC

Rumours: Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance star in this horror-comedy-climate-change metaphor as members of the G7 who get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis. Paramount+

Ex Machina: Maybe the tech bros are the baddies? 9:15 p.m., Showtime Extreme

Late Night:

• Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Michael Strahan, Giada De Laurentiis, a performance from “Maybe Happy Ending”
• Late Night with Seth Meyers: Kate Hudson, John Turturro
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Brian Tyree Henry, Tony Hawk, Laura Benanti
• After Midnight: Bobby Moynihan, Thomas Lennon, Mary Elizabeth Ellis
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: Ben Stiller, Regina King, Phantogram
• The Daily Show: Matthew Desmond, host Jon Stewart
• Watch What Happens Live: Gabrielle Union, Jay Ellis

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