In Tribute to Gord Downie, CTV Advances World TV Premiere of LONG TIME RUNNING to Now Air This Friday https://t.co/0gA73RSwlY pic.twitter.com/sjA9Ne1bb9
— CTV Communications (@CTV_PR) October 18, 2017
-In tribute to Gord Downie, who passed away today, CTV has moved up the premiere of the Tragically Hip doc to this Friday night.
–Ryan Reynolds, Seth Rogen and more reacted to Gord’s death on Twitter.
-Meanwhile, of all the stories and tributes that came out today, this Twitter thread is my absolute favourite.
-I follow a lot of TV critics, and absolute favourite has always been Mo Ryan of Variety (previously of HuffPo). She has just as much respect for “low brow” network fare as “prestige” drama, she is constantly and publicly pushing for more diversity in front of and behind the camera, and she frequently gives voice to fan causes (the most recent being the “kill your gays” trope sparked by The 100). So I was absolutely gutted this morning to read her account of being sexually assaulted by a TV executive three years ago at an industry event.
–Kevin Smith says he’s going to donate future revenue from his Weinstein-backed movies to charity.
–Channing Tatum is walking the walk by announcing that he’s halting development on the movie he was supposed to make with Weinstein’s company.
–Laura Dern opened up about being sexually harassed on Ellen’s show today.
–Kate Winslet is in the super awkward position of having to talk about Harvey Weinstein — while also promote her new Woody Allen movie. In a new interview, she says she refused to thank him in her 2009 Oscar speech. “I remember being told, ‘Make sure you thank Harvey if you win.’ And I remember turning around and saying, ‘No, I won’t. No, I won’t.'”
–Casey Affleck has just been cast in Alfonso Cuarón‘s horror drama TV series, proving nothing ever changes.
–Charlyne Yi took to Twitter yesterday to recall the time David Cross introduced himself with a racist comment. He doesn’t remember it that way.
–Johnny Depp is now suing his lawyer, accusing him and his firm of swindling almost $35M.
-Early reactions to Thor: Ragnarok are in — and most critics seem to dig it.
–Blake Lively is redefining extra with all these press tour looks.
-My entire Twitter TL is obsessed with a Norwegian teen drama called Skam — and Facebook just announced they’re doing a US remake of it.
-Ex-Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge hopes to discover aliens with his crowdfunded spaceship. You do you, bud.
-The ratings news for Riverdale just keep getting better and better. Now that the live-plus-3 ratings have come in, the premiere saw its teen audience go up by 400%. This stuff just doesn’t happen on broadcast TV anymore. The power of Netflix binges!
-The Pussycat Dolls are disputing a claim made by a former member that the group is a front for a “prostitution ring.” Whoa.
-I’m not entirely convinced that Ian Somerhalder is famous enough to be mocked on SNL, but this certainly does seem like him…
-The first trailer for Louis C.K.‘s I Love You, Daddy has arrived — at the worst possible timing. I wonder what kind of appetite there is for a movie about a Woody Allen-type character, created by a guy who refuses to address his sexual harassment allegations.
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