Even birds are dissing Drake:
@umbrellabailey Hey my songs on… #fyp #birdsoftiktok #parrotsoftiktok #notlikeus
Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News
Alright ,so a new game show has been taping since January 20 (Inauguration Day) and finished taping yesterday, in which a group of people have been isolated and then quizzed on which current headlines are real and which were fake. Which is a GENIUS idea for a game show in the second term of President Fake News. Gulf of America? Invading Greenland? Sharing war plans in a group text — WITH A JOURNALIST? Tariffing penguins?! EXCEPT, it was made by the worst possible people: it’s going to be on Fox Nation, hosted by Greg Gutfeld and called Greg Gutfeld’s What Did I Miss? So, yeah, I’m not going to be watching that, thanks.
Jason Isaacs is a messy bitch: Sir, you do not get to hint at behind-the-scenes drama and then tell us it’s “none of [our] business” when people begin to speculate! That’s not how any of this works!
Saturday Night Live reached out to Aimee Lou Wood with an apology after mocking her in “The White Potus” sketch.
The number of TV writing jobs dropped an astonishing 42% in the past year. There were fewer writing jobs in the 2023-2024 season than during the pandemic. Damn.
They kicked Mickey Rourke off of Celebrity Big Brother UK. Now, I will note that they didn’t kick him out after he said homophobic things to JoJo Siwa, and they didn’t kick him out after he made inappropriate sexual comments to Ella Wise, but they DID kick him out after he got into an argument with Chris Hughes, a man. Huh.
Live with Kelly and Mark!‘s new studio was revealed today and … it looks a lot like the old studio, gotta be honest.
Finn Wolfhard has some mixed feelings about the end of Stranger Things: “I was so happy with his ending, and I don’t know, I was satisfied, but I was also very confused and sad, but also very happy,” he said. According to Wolfhard, filming the finale “was definitely a lot. I felt like I was in a dream or something. None of it felt real. I don’t know, it felt perfect.”
I know there are no stupid questions, but asking Ellen Pompeo why she hasn’t permanently walked away from Grey’s Anatomy is a really stupid question.
A bunch of celebrities and Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend went to “space” today, in case you give a shit.
TELL HIM AGAIN. GET IT THROUGH THAT THICK BALD HEAD OF HIS.
Some The Last of Us season premiere spoilers for you. Do not click the clickies until you’ve watched:
- The premiere undid the “The Last of Us Part II” game’s biggest twist in the opening moments of the episode.
- Here are the character changes and easter eggs from the game.
- More on that new infected.
- “This season is about the consequence of violence,” series co-creator and executive producer Neil Druckmann says. “How far will you go in that pursuit of justice, when you are feeling righteous and just?”
- Wanna dress like Joel?
Oh, and here are a bunch of Black Mirror easter eggs, if you’ve watched season seven already.
Adolescence has been toppled by a new Netflix series: Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing. Apparently we can’t get enough bad news about teens.
Paul Verhoeven thought Starship Troopers was too subtle for American audiences. (Uh yeah, it was.)
I need the T-shirts that Lizzo wore on Saturday Night Live this weekend.
Cancellations
- Mythic Quest has been canceled after four seasons on Apple TV+. The finale episode, which was not imagined as a series finale, will be given an update this week to help give fans closure.
- The Sex Lives of College Girls is really dead; it could not find another streaming home.
In Development
- 200 East Main, a true crime docuseries about a man who was convicted of raping and assaulting dozens of women while the local police covered up and ignored his crimes, is in the works. (And if you are interested, Rowan Farrow wrote an INFURIATING piece about this story in The New Yorker.)
- Happy Endings with Bruno has been ordered at WOW Presents Plus.
Casting News
- John Lithgow, Janet McTeer, Paapa Essiedu, Nick Frost, Luke Thallon, and Paul Whitehouse have officially been cast in the Harry Potter series on HBO and Max (and the hate for Essiedu is well underway).
- Quinta Brunson will host SNL on NBC on May 3 with musical guest Benson Boone.
- Mélanie Laurent is joining Fauda which will be on Netflix soon.
- Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Michael Peña have joined the Will Ferrell/Zac Efron movie at Amazon MGM.
Mark Your Calendar
- Another Simple Favor will debut on Prime Video on May 1.
- Couples Therapy returns on Showtime and Paramount+ with Showtime on May 23.
- Weak Hero Class 2 will premiere on Netflix on April 25.
- Duck Dynasty: The Revival premieres on A&E on May 28.
- The Talamasca: The Secret Order will debut on AMC and AMC+ this fall.
R.I.P.
Don Mischer, 15-time Emmy winning director of live events, including “two Academy Awards, 15 Emmy ceremonies, multiple Kennedy Center Honors, People’s Choice Awards and Breakthrough Prize Ceremonies, the annual 9/11 memorials at Ground Zero in New York,” and “the Opening Ceremonies of both the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics; the Super Bowl Halftime Shows with Michael Jackson, Prince, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen; the Obama Inaugural Concert at the Lincoln Memorial where 750,000 gathered on the National Mall; Motown 25; the Democratic National Convention; and Carnegie Hall: Live at 100.”
Jean Marsh, Emmy-winning actress known for Upstairs, Downstairs, The Twilight Zone, and Doctor Who
Nicky Katt, Actor known for Boston Public, SubUrbiaDazed and Confused, and Boiler Room among others
Ted Kotcheff, Director of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, First Blood, and Weekend at Bernie’s among others, and an executive producer of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
E. Jay Krause, Emmy-winning art director and set designer
Rick Levine, Award-winning TV commercial director
Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate author and giant of Latin American literature
Robert Snow, Former “Secret Service agent who served as a technical adviser on films including In the Line of Fire, The American President, and Air Force One”
Ed Arnold, Longtime broadcaster at KTLA and KABC
Tony Nicholls, British documentary maker and activist
WATCH THIS
The Corridors of Power: Through interviews with Colin Powell, Madeline Albright, James Baker, Hillary Clinton, Wesley Moore, and more, this documentary film explores how America responded to war crimes, genocide, and other crises when it became the sole superpower following the fall of the Soviet Union. 9 p.m., PBS
Tic Tac Dough: The classic game show is back in its fourth iteration. Series premiere. 6 p.m., GSN
Late Night:
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Sarah Snook, Melinda French Gates
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Kathy Bates, Diego Luna, Djo
- The Daily Show: Ramy Youssef, host Jon Stewart
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