This is a rough time of the year for me. As I’ve written before, unlike the rest of the world I don’t give a hoot about the Olympics. It just doesn’t interest me at all and yet I cannot get away from it. Even with my valiant attempts to avoid any sort of coverage, I still know a lot about what’s going on. My friends made me watch parts of the opening ceremonies just to torture me (they also made me watch parts of the Mets game – that was a brutal night). Nothing else is really on TV. It’s all that people want to talk about. The Olympics are everywhere. This must be what it’s like to be someone who doesn’t watch Game of Thrones.
The Olympics have even crept into my sanctuary of pop culture. Putting together this week’s roundup meant wading into the Internet where Olympics coverage lives. For every article about what’s happening at the Television Critics Association press tour, I had to sidestep stories about the Internet falling in love with the flag bearer from Tonga. But for you guys I’m willing to make this sacrifice. So if you need a break from pretending to care about badminton, get yourself get caught up what was going on in the world of pop culture.
- A Game of Thrones live concert tour is coming in 2017.
- George R.R. Martin has another series coming to TV.
- Here’s how Game of Thrones handled the Hodor reveal in other languages.
- The sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is already slated for November 2018.
- Rami Malek and Charlie Hunnam are slated to co-star in a remake of Papillion.
- David O. Russell, Julianne Moore, and Robert De Niro are teaming up for a TV series.
- Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah, and Jon Rudnitsky are all leaving SNL.
- Free Hulu will be a thing of the past soon.
- Rebel Wilson to star in a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
- Bob Odenkirk participated in the Albuquerque Isotopes’ Better Call Saul night.
- L.A. Law is the latest show to possibly get a reboot.
- Amy Schumer will voice three separate characters on Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons and Family Guy on September 25th.
- The Simpsons will air its first ever hour-long episode.
- FX says only one of the American Horror Story teasers circulating is actually accurate for the new season.
- Sarah Paulson confirms that she’ll be back for AHS season 6.
- Someone wrote a perfect spec script for Seinfeld set in the days after 9/11.
- Jimmy Fallon and Seth Rogen had a lip sync battle:
- A sequel to The Secret Life of Pets is coming in 2018.
- Sadly IKEA isn’t going to take Kanye up on his furniture design ideas.
- Adele had her credit card denied.
- Suits has been renewed for a 7th season.
- Patton Oswalt will publish his late wife’s unfinished book.
- Leslie Jones is heading to Rio to join NBC’s Olympic coverage team.
- The screenwriter for The Girl on the Train is now adapting Eileen.
- Bradley Cooper was willing to let James Corden tase him.
- Ariana Grande dropped two previously unreleased tracks.
- A Gilmore Girls marathon will lead up to the debut of new episodes.
- The Rock is apparently “beefing” with some of his male Fast 8 co-stars #publicity:
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- Jessica McNamee and Jason Statham will star in the shark thriller Meg.
- The creators of Gossip Girl are developing a YA thriller for Netflix.
- Brendan Fraser will appear on this season of The Affair.
- Daisy Ridley will star in the adaptation of Chaos Walking.
- Michael Imperioli will play an angel on Lucifer.
- Ava DuVernay makes history as the first woman of color to direct a $100 million budget movie.
- Matthew Rhys has never watched a full episode of Felicity.
- Mariah Carey is coming to Empire.
- Joel Edgerton set to co-star with Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow.
- Sebastian Stan will star in the adaptation of We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
- James Coden and Rose Byrne are on board for a Peter Rabbit movie.
- Gwyneth Paltrow joins the cast of Apple’s reality show, Planet of the Apps.
- USA has ordered a Skull and Bones period drama.
- Pat Benatar’s life will be turned into a Broadway musical.
- Natalie Portman will star in and executive produce the HBO miniseries We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
- NBC is developing the Cruel Intentions pilot for streaming services.
- Maya Rudolph will join Melissa McCarthy in Life of the Party.
Time for some trailers….
- Luke Cage:
- Moana:
- Mascots:
- Transparent season 3:
- Goliath:
- One Mississippi:
- Fleabag:
- Debate Wars:
- RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season two:
- I Am Not A Serial Killer:
- Storks:
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter:
- Brother Nature:
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
- Mariah’s World:
- One More Time with Feeling:
- Chance:
- XOXO:
- 24×36: A Movie About Movie Posters:
- Lace Crater:
- Antibirth:
- Klown Forever:
- Two Lovers and a Bear:
- Nathan Fillion will have a multi-episode guest role on Modern Family.
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan wasn’t a fan of The Good Wife finale.
- Director Alexander Payne is developing a family pot comedy for A&E.
- Delta is showing an edited version of the movie Carol without all that pesky same-sex kissing.
- Riz Ahmed made an album with Heems.
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine and New Girl will have a crossover event.
- Ken Marino will be the new guest captain on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- Fox has cancelled Party Over Here.
- Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem performed at the Outside Lands festival.
- Bradley Cooper is developing a miniseries about the origins of ISIS.
- Jennifer Grey turned down a role in the Dirty Dancing TV remake.
- Here are the 2016 TCA award winners.
- The creator of Lizzie McGuire is back at the Disney Channel with a new show.
- Stephen Sondheim may debut a new musical Off-Broadway in 2017.
- Conor Oberst announced a new solo album.
- Brie Larson is preparing for her role as Captain Marvel:
- In her free time, Larson will also make her directorial debut.
- ABC has renewed Pyramid and Match Game.
- Frances Bean Cobain made her musical debut.
- HBO is doing an anthology series with the Duplass brothers.
- Tom Hiddleston is now on Instagram.
- Hank Azaria wanted his Friends character to end up with Phoebe.
- When you do a live show, sometimes people forget their lines. And sometimes people get shot with a flaming arrow.
- Idina Menzel will release a new album in September.
- There is a heavy metal band inspired by The Simpson’s Ned Flanders.
- Pumpkinhead is getting a reboot.
- The men of NSYNC (even JT!) reunited for JC’s 40th birthday:
- Eminem’s former bodyguard claims that Suge Knight tried to have Slim Shady murdered.
- Anton Yelchin’s parents are filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler.
- Amy Poehler and Will Arnett have finalized their divorce.
- Ozzy Osbourne is seeking treatment for sex addiction.
- 50 Cent and The Game have ended their feud.
- Ellie Kemper and husband welcomed their first child.
- Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green welcomed their third son, Journey River.
- Bow Wow is retiring from the rap game at the ripe old age of 29.
- Lauren Potter (Becky from Glee) and her childhood friend are engaged.
- Actor David Huddleston, best known for playing the title character in The Big Lebowski, has passed away.
As always, we end with the mashups and supercuts…..
- Bill Burr “narrates” Keeping Up With The Kardashians:
- A supercut of all the spells in the Harry Potter movies, in alphabetical order:
- The Pokémon theme in 20 different styles of the late 90s:
- Donald Trump meets 30 Rock’s Jenna Maroney in this Tublr mashup:
- A supercut of noises made by Kanye:
- Here’s Lin-Manuel Miranda and The Rock singing a little Beauty and the Beast:
- LEGO Suicide Squad:
- Pearl Jam cover Aerosmith:
- Kids recreate scenes from Real Housewives of Atlanta:
- 80s movies loved dance sequences:
- Morgan Freeman narrates a pedestrian on Hollywood Boulevard:
- Matthew McConaughey tells a story:
- And finally, the movies sing “Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)”:
