When people know that you like or collect something, you tend to get gifts related to that particular thing. Since my love of pumpkin/pumpkin spice flavored everything is well known, I’d say that 80% of the gifts that I received for my birthday were somehow pumpkin-inspired. Add that to the fact that every time that I go to the store I see a new pumpkin spice product and I am pretty much immersed in all things pumpkin. This is not a bad thing; so far I haven’t burned myself out on it, but check back with me in November when I’m going through the motions. So far today I’ve had pumpkin spice coffee and pumpkin spice oatmeal and my day has just begun. Yes, I realize that between this and my brunch obsession that I am really hurting my street cred.
If pumpkin turns out to be some sort of cure for cancer or the magic elixir that makes people immortal, I’m in very good shape. Dorian Gray had his portrait; I have copious amounts of pumpkin spice products stockpiled.
What else do I have a lot of? Pop culture news! It’s time to share that with you with this edition of the roundup. So while I look into pumpkin spice detox programs, get yourself caught up on all the pop culture that you might have missed.
Television
- Best news of the week – FXX has renewed You’re The Worst for a 4th season.
- Adam Reed plans to end Archer after its 10th season.
- The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia gang is planning a full musical episode.
- Billy on the Street returns to truTV in November.
- FX has renewed American Horror Story for a 7th season.
Twisty is delighted by this news.
- ABC gave full season orders to Designated Survivor and Speechless.
- True Blood’s Sam Trammell is headed to This Is Us.
- Chris Columbus is developing an Alfred Hitchcock anthology series, which I would watch the hell out of.
- HBO is giving High Maintenance a second season.
- Adventure Time will end after its 9th season.
- Today only: Pop-up “Luke’s Diners” will open up across the nation. I briefly considered playing hooky.
- CNN has renewed W. Kamau Bell’s United Shades of America.
- Michael Ian Black will host Seeso’s new series Debate Wars.
- John Krasinski will produce a family comedy for Fox.
- Emily Blunt will host SNL on October 15th.
- Sandra Oh will return to TV with a guest role on American Crime.
- Westworld has only aired one episode but there are already a lot of theories.
- A Sons of Anarchy alum has joined the cast of Fear The Walking Dead.
- There is a Stranger Things-themed night club in Britain.
- Iron Fist will drop on Netflix in March 2017.
- Candace Cameron Bure’s 18 year old daughter landed a spot on The Voice.
- Happy Endings is doing a live “lost episode” at Entertainment Weekly’s PopFest.
- ABC has ordered a reboot of The Gong Show.
- Felicity Huffman will star in a political family comedy series from the creator of black-ish.
- The Walking Dead series creator Frank Darabont says AMC owes him $280 million.
- Robert Kirkman says that The Walking Dead TV series will have a different ending than the comics.
- Josh Schwartz and Stephane Savage are rebooting Dynasty for the CW.
- FX orders Snowfall, a series set during the 1980s crack-cocaine epidemic in L.A.
- John Legend will guest star as Fredrick Douglass on WGN’s Underground. He’s the executive producer.
- An Alfred Hitchcock anthology series is in the works.
- Norman Reedus is making bank at Walking Dead conventions.
- NBC has cancelled Aquarius.
- M. Night Shymalan is developing an animated comedy for Fox.
- Ranking the 11 most annoying children’s TV show theme songs *spoiler – Barney somehow isn’t #1*
- ABC has cut four episodes of Imaginary Mary before the show has debuted.
- Ranking Tony Soprano’s henchmen on their effectiveness.
- NBC is adapting The Italian Job for TV.
- FX is moving forward with Meaty, a series from Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson, Inside Amy Schumer’s Jessi Klein and blogger Samantha Irby.
- NBC decided to abandon plans for the sitcom Mail Order Family after backlash.
- Kristian Narin’s mom is even getting in on the Game of Thrones Hodor doorstop craze.
- The Purge may be turned into an anthology series.
- What We Do In The Shadows is getting a TV series spin-off.
- Drunk Girl, High Guy gets a pilot order from Comedy Central.
Movies
- Michael Shannon and Chris Hemsworth will co-star in the war drama Horse Soldiers (which will hopefully be better than War Horse).
- Jon Favreau will direct a live-action The Lion King remake.
- Michelle Pfeiffer and Johnny Depp may join the cast of the Murder on the Orient Express remake.
- Mel Gibson will play an old spy in Every Other Weekend.
- Winston Duke will play the villain Man-Ape in Black Panther.
- Warwick Davis has a role in Star Wars: Episode VIII.
- All the Harry Potter films are returning to theaters October 13th.
- Zac Efron might play an investment banker in the adaptation of the memoir Straight to Hell.
- A Roy Orbison biopic is in development.
- Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz will play love interests in Disobedience.
- Christopher Walken and Robert DeNiro will reunite for The War With Grandpa.
- In other grandpa news, Chevy Chase will play a foul-mouthed grandfather in the upcoming Federal Offense.
- Justin Lin will direct the Hot Wheels movie. Dude loves his cars.
- A Wolf of Wall Street screenwriter will re-write the Scarface remake.
- Lee Daniels is working on a musical biopic about Lee Daniels.
- The Mrs. Doubtfire house is for sale.
Trailers
- Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them:
- True Memoirs of an International Assassin:
- The Young Pope:
- Paterson:
- Personal Shopper:
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dean Men Tell No Tales:
- Season 3 of Lip Sync Battle:
- Rules Don’t Apply:
- Gimme Danger:
- Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events:
- The Space Between Us:
- Jack Reacher: Never Go Back:
- Ice:
- Coming Through the Rye:
- Jon Glaser Loves Gear:
Music
- Leslie Odom, Jr. is releasing a Christmas album.
- Because nothing about Kanye West is subtle, he performed “Famous” three times at his concert in Taylor Swift’s hometown.
- Kanye and Juicy J released a video for “Ballin’.”
- Jay Z has inked a movie and TV deal with the Weinstein Company.
- A new Bruno Mars single is due out Friday.
- Demi Lovato called out Taylor Swift and her “squad.”
- The University of Texas at San Antonio is offering a course called “Black Women, Beyoncé, & Popular Culture.” Can I audit the course online?
- Britney Spears inhales helium and sings a little ”Shake it Off.”
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will do the soundtrack for Patriots Day.
- Garth Brooks has more diamond albums than anyone else (including the Beatles).
- A 6-year-old had a Drake-themed birthday party which caught the attention of the rapper.
- Fetty Wap faces yet another lawsuit over “Trap Queen.”
Books
- Job security for Tom Hanks – Dan Brown is writing another novel in his Robert Langdon series.
- Has the real identity of author Elena Ferrante been uncovered?
Theater
- The Mean Girls musical is slated to premiere in Washington DC in 2017.
Odds and Ends
- Kim Kardashian West was robbed at gunpoint in Paris.
- Robin Williams’ widow wrote an essay about his neurological disorder.
- Ben Stiller reveals that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago.
- Angelina Jolie got everything that she wanted in her temporary divorce deal with Brad Pitt.
- 23 celebrities now own a piece of UFC.
- There is a Super Mario themed Airbnb.
- Toni Braxton was hospitalized for complication related to lupus.
- A timeline for the Nate Parker rape scandal and the damage control that followed. I still plan to see The Birth of a Nation.
- Martha Stewart received an original painting from her BFF Snoop Dogg:
This is an original Snoop Dogg painting, and Snoop gave it to me as a gift! Very nice, don't you think? https://t.co/a1AOjWsgXT—
Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart) September 30, 2016
- Well that was fast – Making a Murderer’s Steven Avery’s engagement to Lynn Hartman is already over.
- Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds welcomed baby #2.
- Kid Cudi has checked himself into a facility to seek treatment for depression.
- Richard Trentlage, who wrote “The Oscar Mayer Weiner Song, is dead at 87.
- Gloria Naylor, the author of The Women of Brewster Place, has passed away at 66.
- Gary Glasberg, the showrunner of NCIS, has died. He was 50.
- Agnes Nixon, creator of All My Children and One Life to Live, has died at 93.
- Congrats to Samira Wiley and Orange Is The New Black writer Lauren Morelli on their engagement.
Mashups and Supercuts
- Tommy Boy recut as a heart wrenching drama:
- Disney recycled animation scenes:
- Justin Bieber’s “Cold Water” done as a country song:
- Postmodern Jukebox redid the Family Guy theme song:
- Chance the Rapper reimagined the Kit Kat song:
- A homemade shot-for-shot remake of the He-Man intro:
- Lin-Manuel Miranda does the “wheel of fresstyle” on The Tonight Show:
- Kristin Chenoweth sings the Game of Thrones theme song:
- And finally…..did we know that Benedict Cumberbatch could sing?
