The numbers crunchers over at HBO Max are declaring Gossip Girl 2.0 the outlet’s No. 1 debut of all time, surpassing previous record holder The Flight Attendant. According to the streamer, the Gossip Girl reboot’s premiere episode — which dropped July 8 and earned an average C+ grade from TVLine readers — drew record viewership during […]
Monday, July 12, 2021
CBS Sets Fall Dates for Survivor 41, NCIS: Hawai'i, FBI Trifecta and Others
CBS is the second broadcast network (following The CW) to reveal exact premiere dates for the fall. Its slate unspools in late September/early October, and features an unexpected November “vanishing act” for one drama series. First, to recap: Because it can never be noted enough, NCIS is moving to Mondays this fall, marking the well-watched, […]
Sunday Ratings: Big Brother Continues to Outdraw Previous Season
In the latest TV show ratings, ABC’s coverage of the NBA Finals dominated Sunday, though Game 3 — with 6.4 million total viewers with a 1.8 demo rating, per preliminary numbers — looks to be down a bit from Thursday’s match-up. Leading into the hoops contest, Jimmy Kimmel Live did 3.8 mil/0.9, followed by NBA […]
Power Book III: Raising Kanan Renewed for Season 2 Ahead of Series Premiere
Starz is continuing its Power trip: The premium cable channel has renewed a prequel to its original drug drama before the spinoff even premieres. The network greenlit Season 2 of Power Book III Monday, ahead of the series’ premiere on Sunday, July 18 (8/7c). The show, subtitled Raising Kanan, is set in the 1990s and chronicles […]
Cedric the Entertainer to Host 2021 Emmys — Watch His Announcement
CBS is calling on a familiar face to host television’s biggest night: The Neighborhood star Cedric the Entertainer has been tapped to emcee the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards in September. Not only will this fall’s broadcast mark the first time Cedric the Entertainer has hosted the Emmys, but the in-person ceremony will feature a limited […]
Black Widow Targets $60M From Disney+ Premier Access Alone, Folds In Character From an MCU TV Series
Black Widow‘s box office haul for opening weekend includes more than $60 million in global spending from those who streamed it at home via Disney+ Premier Access. And for those who have kept tabs on the Disney+ Marvel series that have rolled out this year, the feature film’s post-credits scene features a character that — […]
Ted Lasso Season 2 Review: Apple's Feel-Good Hit Is Just as Lovely as You Remember, But More Complicated, Too
Like the scrappy soccer team it follows, Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso is a bit of an underdog. After all, it was based on a series of NBC Sports commercials, which isn’t the most promising start, and it debuted to little fanfare last summer on a new streaming service that hadn’t found its breakout hit yet. […]
Animal Kingdom EP Unpacks the Potentially Deadly Consequences of Pope's Season 5 Premiere About-Face
Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Season 5 premiere of Animal Kingdom. If you’d rather watch first, read later, you might want to treat this recap like J does the truth — in other words, avoid it. And they’re off! The Season 5 premiere of TNT’s back-and-better-than-ever Animal Kingdom was on target to do […]
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Animal Kingdom Season 5 Premiere Recap: Shots, Anyone? Gunshots?
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Sunday’s Season 5 premiere of Animal Kingdom. If you’d rather watch first, read later, move away from this recap as quickly as a Cody from the straight life. Almost two years (!) after the Season 4 finale of Animal Kingdom (refresh your memory here), the criminally addictive TNT drama […]
The Chi Recap: Nina's Big Secret Is Out!
Nina? Never play poker. The Chi character’s guilt over cheating on her wife, Dre, has been growing in intensity — and therefore ever harder for her to conceal — in the weeks since she went home with that rando from the bar. So it’s not surprising that Nina confesses to Dre in this week’s episode, […]
The White Lotus Premiere Recap: Lifestyles of the Rich and Heinous
The White Lotus‘ first darkly comedic curveball gets pitched right out of the gate. In Sunday’s opening scene of Enlightened auteur Mike White’s six-episode HBO’s limited series, an intensely gloomy and classically handsome dude by the name of Shane Patton (played by Office alum Jake Lacy) is sitting alone in a Hawaiian airport when an inquisitive […]
Run the World's Andrea Bordeaux Breaks Down That Finale Revelation and Shares Hopes for Season 2
Remember when Run the World‘s Ola showed up at Whitney’s door right after she decided that she’d finally tell him she cheated? Well, the Starz series’ season finale picks up immediately after that, with Whitney wasting no time in telling her fiancé she slept with someone else. Their emotional conversation is spread throughout the half-hour […]
Evil's Aasif Mandvi: Expect a 'Really Big Mind F--k' Later This Season
Spoiler Alert: This post contains key details from Sunday’s episode of Evil. You know the drill! Can someone give Evil‘s Ben a hug? The show’s resident rational techie had quite a rough run in Sunday’s episode, which found him entombed in an apartment building’s horrifying basement, where he awaited certain death while being mocked by […]
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