I had an awesome summer. I visited Atlanta, Washington DC, Buffalo, the NYS fair and made multiple trips to my home away from home NYC. I got to see some great concerts and had more than my fair share of s’mores. But I’m not really sad to see the summer come to an end. Because ladies and gentlemen, I am all about autumn. It’s my absolute favorite time of year; in fact, other than my family, it’s really the only reason I still live in this part of the country. I would gladly pick up stakes and move somewhere that I didn’t have to deal with winter, but fall in the Northeast is just too much to give up. I love when the temperature dips just a bit, when the leaves turn brilliant oranges and reds, and when my obsession with all things pumpkin is at least tolerated as seasonally appropriate. In upstate New York, autumn also means apple season, which offers a thinly veiled excuse for cider donuts. I will be miserable as soon as the first flake of snow falls, but until then I am in my glory. I’m especially excited for fall this year since I missed out on everything last year; I broke my ankle in September and wasn’t completely off crutches until November. By then I had missed out on everything. So adios, summer. You were great, but better things are coming.
Speaking of great things…..it’s time for the weekly pop culture roundup. You know the drill – I compile all the best that the world of pop culture had to offer in the last week. Consider this your pop culture cheat sheet.
Television
- There is a Dark Towers TV series spin-off in development with Idris Ellba attached.
- Walton Goggins will star in a dark comedy for Showtime.
- The Simpsons season premiere coincidentally made a joke about golfer Arnold Palmer on the day he died.
- Daniel Radcliffe would like to be murdered on Game of Thrones. #same
- Alan Cummings will star in the CBS drama Dr. Death.
- NBC has ordered a full season of This Is Us.
- South Park often cuts it close with getting episodes done in time for air, but they came very close to missing their season 20 premiere.
- The 4th season of The Strain will be its last.
- Sophie Turner hints at some major character deaths in season 7 of Game of Thrones.
- The Punisher will apparently appear in Netflix’s Iron Fist.
- Margot Robbie will host the season premiere of SNL.
- Ryan Murphy is reportedly working on a “secret season” of American Horror Story.
- The first two episode titles for the new season of Sherlock have been revealed.
- Jeffrey Tambor confirms that Arrested Development will start filming again in January.
- Vulture’s pop culture bracket this year looks at best TV couples.
- Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox played Friends trivia on Celebrity Name Game:
- Seth Myers is developing multiple comedies for NBC.
- The second season of Fuller House will drop December 9th.
- Modern Family will make history when it features the first transgender child actor.
- AMC has renewed Ride with Norman Reedus.
- Peter Capaldi will appear in the Doctor Who spin-off show.
- Billy Eichner joined the cast of NBC’s Hairspray Live!.
- Amazon has ordered I Love Dick, Jean-Claude Van Johnson and The Tick to series.
- FXX announced its next Simpsons marathon.
- ABC is developing a show about Magnum P.I.’s daughter.
- Comedy Central has ordered a weekly talk show from Moshe Kasher.
- Cherry Jones will join the third season of American Crime.
- The Weinstein Company is making a ten-part biographical series about the life of Elvis with the Presley estate.
- Judge Mary Berry is also leaving The Great British Bake-Off.
- Two Game of Thrones fan favorites hung out:
- ABC is developing a “Cagney & Lacey-esque” procedural.
- CBS has ordered Jermaine Fowler’s Superior Donuts to series.
- Matt LeBlanc will return for more episodes of Top Gear.
- Josh Gad is developing a limited series about a real-life toy company war.
- Megyn Kelly and a producer from Fifty Shades of Grey are teaming up for a comedy series about reporters covering the campaign trail.
- NBC has renewed Better Late Than Never.
- NBC has ordered more episodes of Superstore.
- Cary Fukunaga will no longer direct all eight episodes of TNT’s The Alienist.
- David Hornsby (Rickety Cricket to It’s Always Sunny fans) will guest star on New Girl (which happens to star his sister-in-law).
- Justin Lin is rebooting SWAT for CBS.
- Showtime has renewed Dice.
- Uma Thurman will have a recurring guest role on Bravo’s My So Called Wife.
- The Ramsey family is suing CBS over its JonBenet documentary (for kind of obvious reasons).
- Vulture has compiled of the earmuff outfits Chanel No. 3 has worn on Scream Queens.
Movies
- Netflix has picked up the crime thriller Shimmer Lake, which happens in reverse.
- Jessica Williams and Chris O’Dowd are starring in a movie together.
- Viola Davis will star in a female-led heist-thriller from Steve McQueen.
- Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson will star in a movie written by Kaling about a late-night talk show host.
- Hayley Atwell wants to do a Agent Carter movie.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda shares some details about Mary Poppins Returns.
- Julia Roberts will star in a biopic about a mom framed for drug crimes.
- Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan will play unhappy couple in Wildlife.
- Martin Scorsese’s new film Silence will be released December 23rd.
- Sam Neill will appear in Thor: Ragnarok in a mystery role.
- Don’t expect to see Sam Neill in Jurassic World 2.
- Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange will likely turn up in Avengers: Infinity War.
- Daisy Ridley and Elizabeth Debicki have joined the cast of Peter Rabbit.
- Mark Wahlberg and LeBron James are working on a movie.
- Wahlberg is also reteaming with David O. Russell for a new biopic.
- Will Forte is working on a sequel to MacGruber.
- Bill Hader will voice Alpha 5 in The Power Rangers.
- John Carpenter is not a fan of Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake.
- The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj has joined the comedy Rock That Body, starring Scarlett Johansson.
- Pacific Rim 2 has added Adria Arjona to the cast.
- Amandla Sternberg will play the lead in the big screen adaptation of the Darkest Minds YA trilogy.
Trailers
- Allied:
- Luke Cage:
- Fences:
- Blue Jay:
- King Cobra:
- Good Girls Revolt:
- Trespass Against Us:
- The Crown:
- Fist Fight:
- 20th Century Women:
- The Whole Truth:
- Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids:
- People of Earth:
- The Eyes of My Mother:
- Bad Santa 2:
- Supergirl, season 2:
- Hamilton’s America:
- Shooting Clerks:
- Newtown:
- 13th:
- Dog Eat Dog:
- Shovel Buddies:
Music
- The Weeknd has cut his hair.
- It took Adele’s 25 less than a year to go diamond.
- Lady Gaga has released the tracklist for her upcoming album Joanne.
- Metallica released a video for “Moth Into Flame”:
- John Mayer now has a jewelry line.
- AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams is retiring.
- Leonard Cohen released a new single.
- Weird Al had a special guest at his Radio City Music Hall concert:
- Dirty Projectors have released their first new song since 2012.
- A new bronze statue of Glenn Frey was unveiled in Winslow, Arizona.
- The Backstreet Boys are getting a Vegas residency.
- There’s a mural dedicated the A Tribe Calls Quest in Queens.
- Lupita Nyong’o unveiled her rap alter ego on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKyo7HPA1Zu/
- Bob Dylan is releasing a 36-disc set of 1966 live albums.
- Solange Knowles will release her 4th album on Friday.
Books
- Joel McHale’s memoir has a trailer.
- James Patterson has decided not to publish The Murder of Stephen King.
- Stephen King’s Hearts in Atlantis will be adapted for the big screen.
- You can discover your Patronus on Pottermore because you Harry Potter people are obsessed.
- Mapping the real-world locations that inspired children’s books.
Standup
- The Meltdown with Johan and Kumail will end its weekly standup showcase. The related Comedy Central show will also end.
- Comedy Central announced standup specials from Lewis Black, Roy Wood Jr. and others.
- Kevin Hart and Amy Schumer are the king and queen of highest paid comedians.
Theater
- Kristen Chenoweth will return to Broadway with My Love Letter To Broadway.
- Molly Ringwald will star in a stage adaptation of Terms of Endearment.
- The Frozen Broadway musical is eyeing a new director.
- For those of you that like to plan ahead, the 2017 Tonys will be on June 11th.
Odds and Ends
- Here’s what’s coming and going from Amazon Prime and Netflix in October.
- Sean “Diddy” Combs has pledged $1 million toward a new scholarship at Howard University.
- Disney has pulled its Moana Halloween costume after controversy.
- Leonardo DiCaprio and the Stranger Things kids are headed to South By South Lawn festival.
- The Muppets are getting a new live show at Disney World.
- Tom Hanks crashed a couple’s wedding photo shoot in Central Park.
- Bill Murray is launching a line of golf apparel.
- Actors can now have their ages removed from IMDb.
- Naomi Watts and Live Schreiber are calling it quits after 11 years together.
- Making a Murder’s Steven Avery found love in a hopeless place; he’s engaged to Lynn Hartman.
- Amy Schumer and boyfriend Ben Hanisch were on the Kiss Cam at a Mets game:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKzAdlFhnV2/
- Monty Python’s Terry Jones has been diagnosed with dementia.
- Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo (Carlos Walker) was killed in a car accident.
- Curtis Hanson, the director of L.A. Confidential, has died.
- Actor Bill Nunn has passed away. He was 62.
- Herschell Gordon Lewis, the “godfather of gore,” died.
- Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis are expecting a baby girl.
- Adam Levine and wife Behati Prinsloo welcomed baby girl Dusty Rose:
- Lil Wayne officiated a gay wedding in prison (he isn’t a licensed minister).
Mashups and Supercuts
- Batman vs. Batman:
- Ellen and Kristen Bell audition to be Spice Girls:
- Inappropriate Musicals with James Corden:
- 21 best character departures of all time:
- A homemade version of the Family Guy opening credits:
- Fifty Shades of Joker:
- Stranger Things meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- A Cribs-style look at Ash’s trailer on Ash vs. Evil Dead:
- Finally, the cast of Will & Grace reunited for a scene about the 2016 election: