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Castle’s Nathan Fillion Breaks Silence on Stana Katic’s Exit

-Why does it feel like a network show is imploding every week these days? Today, it’s Castle’s turn. I don’t watch the show but even I’d heard rumblings about the long-rumoured onset tensions. Now the lead actress has been let go (add her to the ever-growing fired actress pile!) and though the official explanation is “financial reasons,” even the trades are mentioning her reported troubles with Nathan Fillion (who didn’t really help matters with his delayed, impersonal statement about it — especially compared with her other coworkers’ responses.)

-Meanwhile, Us Weekly says things got so bad between Fillion and Stana Katic last season that the network made them go to “couples counseling.” It clearly didn’t work.

Jared Leto knew better to pull any of his stupid Joker bullshit on Viola Davis during the Suicide Squad shoot.

-Wayment — are we actually supposed to *feel bad* for Chris Brown when watching this new documentary?! Hard pass.

Prince Harry and Prince William visited the Star Wars 8 set and it was ADORABLE!

-Meanwhile, Force Awakens favourites  Oscar Isaac and BB-8 reunited for charity. Also adorbs.

Joss Whedon is very sorry for making everyone think he hated the last Avengers movie. (He still hasn’t apologized for his bitch-flounce off Twitter, tho.)

-Allow Taylor Swift to take you on a tour of her Beverly Hills home while talking about cats, cakes, terrible cocktails (vodka Diet Coke? Jesus.) during Vogue’s latest 73 Questions video.

Stephen and Robbie Amell’s crowdfunding movie just passed the million-dollar mark. That makes me feel better about not contributing yet. I mean, I will eventually because I’m not a monster but still…

Patrick Stewart makes a better woman than I could ever hope to be. Depressing but unsurprising.

-Buzzfeed titled this article “This selfie of Milo Ventimiglia proves he’s still the hottest of Rory Gilmore’s boyfriends” and my entire Twitter TL was like:
-Congrats to Oliva Wilde and Jason Sudeikis, who are having another baby.

Michael Strahan is leaving Live with Kelly and Michael. Can someone other than me break this news to my mother? I will pay you in doughnuts.

Aisha Tyler talks about dealing with sexism and getting good advice from Jennifer Aniston in this new article about her crowdfunding efforts to direct. She also revealed on The Talk that she separated from her husband last year but is trying to shelter him from any public fallout because she’s a wonderful human being.

-Speaking of wonderful human beings, Tracy Morgan canceled a comedy show in Mississippi over their anti-LGBTQ law — and he did a special comedy show for the staff of the hospital that saved his life.

-“I’m a little gay & there’s a gay James,” says James Franco. Um, ok.

-Dafuq is going on with Elizabeth Banks‘ Power Rangers costume? The whole point of this movie is nostalgia so of course, just go ahead and change everything.

-I love that Emily Nussbaum just won Pulitzer for TV criticism. I’ve been reading her since she first posted an awesome defense of Sex and the City and I saw her moderate Mindy Kaling’s panel at the Vulture fest. She’s excellent.

-Holy crap, guys. NBC is so rough right now that The Mysteries of Laura looks like it will make it to a third season. How?!

Emilia Clarke recruited the Broad City girls in her mission to “free the P” on Game of Thrones.

Jennifer Garner‘s 44th birthday party included a marching band. I like her style!

Stephen Colbert mocked Johnny Deep and Amber Heard‘s strange apology with his own apology to Australia.

-Vulture has a great piece on how every [white] actor you love will eventually make a superhero movie.

-Like us, Michelle Williams likes to imagine a Dawson’s Creek reunion. But also like us, she doesn’t think it’ll ever happen.

Matt Damon‘s return as Jason Bourne gets teased in two new videos.

Kerry Washington, Elizabeth Banks, Reese Witherspoon, and Eva Longoria Cover EW

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-The new EW cover story featuring Kerry Washington, Elizabeth Banks, Reese Witherspoon, and Eva Longoria is wonderful. They talk passion, persistence & parity — and Reese drops a mother of a blind item when she talks about turning down the girlfriend role of a “dumb comedy” a few years ago that two Oscar winners ended up doing. A Million Ways To Die In The West?  Mortdecai? Crazy Stupid Love? I’m DYING to know!

Selena Gomez’s W cover looks like my Instagram photos when I try to filter them after one too many drinks. In the story, she talks Justin Bieber (“I got my heart broken”), her transition from a Disney princess to a pop star, her “feud” with Miley Cyrus, and her and Taylor Swift‘s love for eating at Chili’s.

George Clooney participated in a half-assed ER “reunion” on Kimmel last night.

-Meanwhile, the secret to George and Amal Clooney‘s successful marriage is talking? Sounds fake but ok.

Stephen Colbert won’t let his college buddy David Schwimmer live down his bad Kylo Ren hair. Nor should he.

Kate Hudson who? Nick Jonas is dating Lily Collins.

-Coldplay’s Chris Martin is the latest star in the hot seat for James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke.

-A new promo for The Americans has landed! God, I’ve missed this show.

-I’m not a huge Ryan Murphy fan (though I haven’t watched the OJ show, which everyone is raving about) but good on him for announcing that half of directors on his shows will be women and/or minorities.

-New photos from the Ghostbusters movie include our first glimpse at an adorkable Chris Hemsworth!

-I would never have expected ultra-private couple Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber to open their home up to their home to Architectural Digest, but at least it’s pretty.

Nina Dobrev is in Lip Sync Battle? I mean, I like her, but this seems like a different league than Tatum/Beyonce.

-The Flash is set to film a crossover on Supergirl, which I’m not sure I see the point of. Supergirl is kind of a mess, but it’s not like The Flash is going to bring in a huge audience. That show has good ratings by CW standards, but is dwarfed by anything on CBS. Plus, I can’t imagine any Flash fan who hasn’t already sampled SG…

-Here’s the first trailer of Miles Ahead, starring Don Cheadle as Miles Davis.

Sia always hides her face these days, but she’ll make an exception for Jason Street. Smart girl.

Sam Claflin woos Emilia Clarke in the Me Before You trailer. I had a LOT of trouble with that book and the main character’s lack of agency/self-respect, but this cast might just  sway me.

 

Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson and Mary J. Blige’s Awesome Apple Ad

-The Emmys were great, but Apple was the night’s biggest winner for tapping Kerry WashingtonTaraji P. Henson, and Mary J. Blige for this excellent Apple Music commercial, directed by Ava DuVernay.

-Kerry also wore one of my favourite dresses of the night, as did Alison Janney. My least favourite dress was Tracee Ellis-Ross‘.

Amy Schumer says Jennifer Lawrence texted her after her Emmys win. “She said that I looked pretty but not smart.” Ha!

-In his (well deserved) acceptance speech last night, Jon Hamm thanked ex-girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt and their dog Cora. The other people he mentioned were mostly school parents at John Burroughs in St. Louis who took him in after his mom died of colon cancer when he was 10.

-Another emotional moment was Tracy Morgan’s triumphant return.

-The red carpet questions that came in last night for Amy Poehler‘s Smart Girls #AskHerMore campaign were great.

-Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany and Kristian Bruun are on this week’s Comedy Bang Bang podcast (the CBB team wrote most of Samberg‘s jokes last night, which is largely why the Emmys didn’t suck this year).

-Yes, Tatiana Maslany lost last night, but it was hard to feel bad about Viola Davis‘ epic, historic win. She’s the first black woman to win Best Actress in a Drama, and her speech was amazing. (Her statements were punctuated by the Game Of Thrones’ creators, who thanked HBO for giving them breaks despite their total lack of experience.)

-Of course, Viola‘s win was immediately met with controversy after some soap star starting shooting her mouth off about how Davis has never been discriminated against and how her speech was too dramatic. Ugh.

-Speaking of actors who’ve imploded on Twitter, Stephen Amell has finally (FINALLY!) apologized. He posted a mea culpa in response to a fan who sent him an excellent video about why his comments hurt her. My only wish is that he’d shared his comment to his main Facebook page instead of just replying to her video post (where most of his fans will never see it), but at least he’s redeemed himself a bit.

-This is probably a really good time to link to Jay Smooth’s excellent video on how to process celebrities and bigotry.

-Speaking of diversity in Hollywood, I really liked this interview with Fresh Off the Boat’s Constance Wu in GQ. “I was talking to a friend the other day about HBO’s Togetherness. I was like, ‘It’s a show about white people.’ And he said ‘Oh, come on, they’re just people.’ But if somebody says my show is about Asian American people, nobody bats an eye.”

Amy Poehler and Elizabeth Banks just landed new sitcom deals.

-Every review I’ve read for season 2 of Gotham (which returns tonight) says the show has finally found its focus — but no one really seems to like what that focus is.

-Also, Gotham costars Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie are apparently dating. Way to go, Ryan Atwood!

Allison Williams got married this weekend — and Tom Hanks officiated it!

Orlando Bloom and Kendall Jenner may be “secretly dating”? He’s 38 and Kendall is 19, which explains the “secret” part. Wasn’t he once linked with Selena Gomez? What’s wrong with this guy? Is he allergic to appropriateness?

-The new Chvches album AND Ryan Adams‘ cover of Taylor Swift‘s 1989 are both streaming online today. Nobody talk to me for the next 19 hours, kthxbai.

-How have I never seen this Kleenex commercial of Tom Hardy crying while cradling a puppy? HOW???!?

-This 400 Days trailer is stacked with a lot of TV people I adore.