Happy St. Patrick’s Day, kids! And no reason, but a reminder that if one of your parents or grandparents were born in Ireland, you can apply for citizenship.
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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News
Well, that didn’t take long: after allegations of fostering a toxic work environment came out which led to the resignations of two other producers, The Bachelor’s showrunners and executive producers, Claire Freeland and Bennett Graebner, are negotiating their resignations from the series.
Through their lawyer, the pair denied the allegations against them. “My clients are well-respected professionals with a long history in this business. They are frankly stunned and saddened by some of the things they are hearing now for the first time,” Michael Weinsten, counsel for Freeland and Graebner, told Deadline last month.
Freeland and Graebner were hired to replace Mike Fleiss back in 2023 after he was fired for fostering a hostile workplace (seriously, Bachelor, what the fuck), along with a third producer, Jason Ehrlich. Ehrlich, who had been with the franchise for over 20 years, reportedly left following the success of The Golden Bachelor, though I can’t find ANYTHING about his departure other than one sentence in the piece linked above. And now I’m curious.
It’s been a rough 2025 for The Bachelor universe of shows: a new showrunner for Bachelor in Paradise was announced in January; in February, it was announced that The Bachelorette wouldn’t be returning in the summer and the crew was informed they were not being brought back; the toxic work environment claims — and the allegation that it was Clarie Freeman’s idea to make Jen Trann watch her proposal live — then leaked to the press; and producers Michael Margolis and Keely Booth left earlier this month. It will be interesting to see if ABC can right this ship.
I get that James Carville is famously married to his Republican counterpart and therefore believes that people should be able to be in relationships with people whose political beliefs do not align. BUT. He’s a white heterosexual cis man whose rights aren’t being stripped away at an unprecedented rate, so maybe he can sit out this conversation about the Love is Blind women who decided they couldn’t marry men whose moral and political compasses didn’t align with theirs. THANKS.
Two of the Love is Blind season eight female contestants matched on Hinge before the show taped, and I don’t know but maybe it’s time for the LGBTQ version of the show.
“Why Ellen Pompeo Won’t Let Her 10-year-old Daughter Watch ‘Grey’s Anatomy’” Uhhhh … maybe because it’s not an appropriate show for a 10-year-old?
The critically acclaimed and popular Netflix limited series, Adolescence, is not based on a single true story, but instead a general troubling trend of violence among young men.
ABC News and Live with Kelly and Mark are moving from their longtime and historic Upper West Side homes to new studios in Hudson Yards this month. Deborah Roberts said goodbye to the studios in this post last week.
Hilaria Baldwin continues to be a ridiculous person: “The whole world was mean to me.” MA’AM, YOU ARE FROM BOSTON AND YOU PRETENDED TO FORGET THE ENGLISH WORD FOR “CUCUMBER.”
So I didn’t mention this story last week because someone being cut from a movie is a thing that happens fairly often, but apparently Sharon Stone was not actually cut from Another Simple Favor despite claiming she was, because she was never cast in it and she never filmed anything? What are you going on about, Sharon?
PolUGHtics
I’m tempted to leave this gif here and call it a day:
But I know that we need to talk about a couple of other alarming things before we move on:
On Friday, President Lawfare delivered a meandering but dangerous speech at the Department of Justice where he attacked his perceived enemies by name, essentially instructing the DOJ to investigate and prosecute them. He also alleged that CNN and MSNBC’s coverage of him is “illegal.”
“I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6 percent bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat party, and in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal,” Trump said, again using his nickname for MSNBC.
He also bashed other outlets, including CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, for their reporting. He claimed that the mainstream outlets were influencing judges and “I don’t believe it’s legal.”
Yeah, that’s not how the First Amendment works, Champ.
He also is dismantling Voice of America, the oldest and biggest U.S. international broadcasters that disseminates news to audiences that don’t have our press freedoms. It was established in 1942 to combat Axis powers’ disinformation and later became a tool against communism. And here’s the important part:
Throughout its operations, it has aimed to broadcast uncensored information to residents under restrictive regimes, even airing behind the Iron Curtain. In response, some countries began investing in technology to jam VOA broadcasts. In post-Soviet Russia under Vladimir Putin, VOA was designated as a “foreign agent” and blocked alongside other western international broadcasters, but its programming still reaches Russian listeners through other means.
He’s attacked a third law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, even after a judge ruled his previous executive order aimed at Perkins Coie appeared unconstitutional.
The Trump administration has deported alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the U.S. despite a court order forbidding it from doing so, saying in an extraordinary statement that a judge did not have the authority to block its actions.
The deportation operation followed a move by Judge James Boasberg to block President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act’s wartime powers to rapidly deport more than 200 alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion and contract killings.
“A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft … full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
She said the court had “no lawful basis” and that federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over how a president conducts foreign affairs.
The turn of events represented a remarkable escalation in Trump’s challenge to the U.S. Constitution’s system of checks and balances and the independence of the judicial branch of government.
Patrick Eddington, a homeland security and civil liberties legal expert at the libertarian Cato Institute, said that, whatever it might say, the White House was in “open defiance” of the judge.
“This is beyond the pale and certainly unprecedented,” Eddington said, calling it the most radical test of America’s system of checks and balances since the Civil War.
This is huge, y’all. They are openly testing our checks and balances. With a completely submissive Legislative branch that will do nothing to check his power, all that is left is the Judicial branch to stop them from committing illegal acts. If the White House defies court orders, there is literally nothing to stop them from doing whatever they want, laws and Constitution be damned. This is a Constitutional crisis. We are in it.
Oh and he’s cutting the post office; making plans to put more troops in Panama; he sent DOGE and the FBI to The U.S. Institute of Peace which is an “independent organization created by Congress in 1985 that works to end conflict with diplomacy” to try to reduce their staff and function; got big mad that President Biden signed pardons with an electric pen; and won a big important golf tournament.
Anyway. This again:
Renewals
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians has been renewed for a third season on Disney+ ahead of the second season premiere.
In Development
- In Dispute, a fast-turnaround doc about the Justin Baldoni/Blake Lively dispute, is coming to Investigation Discovery and Max.
- A single-camera comedy set at a Native American community center has been given a pilot order at NBC.
- Snow King: From Olympian to Narco, a documentary about Olympic-snowboarder-turned-drug-kingpin, is in the works.
- Joan Rater and Tony Phelan have signed a first-look deal with CBS.
Casting News
- Conan O’Brien will return as host of The Oscars in 2026.
- Bobby Moynihan is joining the Tracy Morgan comedy pilot at NBC.
- Sam Elliott is joining the cast of Landman on Paramount+.
- Chris O’Donnell has joined the cast of 9-1-1: Nashville on ABC.
- Kai Caster has joined Spider-Noir on Prime Video.
Mark Your Calendar
- The Chelsea Detective returns on Acorn TV on April 7.
- Holy Marvels with Dennis Quaid debuts on History Channel on April 14.
- PolyFamily will debut on TLC on March 29.
- Married to the Game returns on Prime Video on April 8.
- Mama June: Family Crisis returns on We TV in May.
- Full Court Press returns on ESPN on May 3.
- Fight for Glory: 2024 World Series debuts on Apple TV+ on March 28.
- Blippi’s Job Show debuts on Netflix on April 7.
- Gannibal returns on Hulu on March 19.
- Revelations premieres on Netflix on March 21.
- Record of Ragnarok III will return on Netflix soon.
- True Detective: Night Country will begin airing on TNT on March 28.
- Hacks will begin airing on TBS on April 3.
- Tic Tac Dough and Bingo Blitz will premiere on Game Show Network on April 14.
R.I.P.
Émilie Dequenne, Belgian actress
Stedman Pearson, Singer and dancer and member of British pop group Five Star
WATCH THIS
Anora: This year’s Best Picture comes to streaming. I was hesitant to watch this one — was worried it was going to be a bummer — but it’s actually a very funny, very heartfelt picture. I loved it. Hulu
The Bachelor: Fantasy suites head to the D.R. 7 p.m., ABC
iHeartRadio Music Awards: More awards for awards‘ sake. 7 p.m., Fox
Late Night:
- Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Michael Shannon, Leslie Bibb, Jonathan Roumie, Nick Thune
- The Daily Show: Sen. Chris Murphy, host Jon Stewart
- Watch What Happens Live: Chrissy Teigen, Harry Van Vliet
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The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (new) |
| CBS | The Neighbor-hood (repeat) |
Poppa’s House (repeat) |
NCIS (repeat) |
NCIS: Origins (repeat) |
| CW | All American (new) |
Trivial Pursuit (repeat) |
Local |
| FOX | iHeartRadio Music Awards (new) |
News/Local |
| NBC | The Voice (new) |
The Hunting Party (new) |