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-Apple+ unveiled more info about it’s new TV shows. The streaming service will launch in Nov for $4.99/month (US) which is cheaper than most others. They also offered EW exclusive looks at their new shows, including The Morning Show with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and a trailer for Jason Momoa‘s blind dystopia series.

–Britney Spears has been granted a new conservator after her dad Jamie temporarily resigned — supposedly due to his health issues but this comes days after Britney’s ex Kevin Federline filed a temporary restraining order against Jamie for allegedly breaking into the room of their son Sean and shaking him.

-This costume designer interview about an unnamed “famous actor” is so juicy. “The actress comes into the fitting room, we try this suit on, and she looks at it and decides that she hates the suit because the pinstripe on the fabric is too wide. The pinstripe is making her look fat.”

–Based on an original story by Millie Bobby Brown and her sister Paige, Netflix is developing A Time Lost: a film about a feud between two families that comes to a head when one daughter is diagnosed with cancer. Anyone else just hoping that Millie gets to nap soon?

-Is Meryl Streep pulling a Scarlett Johansson? In Netflix’s upcoming film The Laundromat, which debuted at TIFF last night, director Steven Soderbergh has Streep playing a second character in disguise near the end of the film: a Panamanian office drone “wearing prosthetics and putting on a thick pan-Latin accent.” That sounds…problematic.

-Well, this is good news: critics say Joker is too tame to be incel bait.

-Was Joaquin Phoenix referring to wife Rooney Mara in his TIFF speech when he said: “Somewhere here, I don’t know where, is a fervent dragon, and I want to rip its wings off, fashion a blanket and sleep with it forever. I love you. Thank you”?

–Kim Kardashian continues to insist it didn’t occur to her that naming her shapewear line Kimono would be offensive.

-This oral history of Vampire Diaries is kind of fascinating — mostly because no one wanted Paul Wesley to play Stefan. Creator Julie Plec says “We were sort of pressured into casting Paul Wesley against our desires,” while Nina Dobrev remembers telling producers after her chemistry reads with potential costars: “I don’t know who I connected with the most but I definitely probably connected the least with that Paul Wesley guy.”

-This is terrible: Riverdale star Camila Mendes reveals she was roofied and sexually assaulted in college.

-Netflix’s new miniseries Unbelievable, which stars Toni Collette and Merrit Wever, is getting fantastic reviews.

–Jenny Slate is engaged to someone who is not Chris Evans.

–Ewan McGregor is a now-adult Dan Torrence in the follow up to The Shining, Doctor Sleep.

Justin Bieber Takes Us To Church

–Justin Bieber helped lead last night’s service at Churchome in Beverly Hills, performing with the church’s band.

–Constance Wu addressed her controversial tweets when Fresh Off The Boat was renewed in a new interview with the LA Times. “I had this moment of heat where I got upset because I had to give up a job I had been looking forward to and had been chasing for a while..I’m an actress—I can be dramatic.” She added, “I like that people are expressing their feelings about it, because it improved my awareness of what it means to be a public figure. I’ve had a back and forth about it. It’s the line between being a role model, but also authenticity.”

–Billie Eilish lashed out at Nylon magazine for not getting her consent to use her likeness on the cover.

–Richard Linklater is directing an adaptation of Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along that will star Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein and be shot over the course of *20 years*.

-Lainey has a new blind riddle! The mentions of “stupid” and “infamous” make me think it’s not about Shawn/Camilla. Justin/Hailey? Miley/Kaitlyn?

-Meanwhile, here’s Shawn Mendes without a shirt and eating an avocado. Just because.

–Harry Styles likes the sitcom The Other Two. Good taste!

–Lindsay Lohan’s new song slaps, much to everyone’s surprise. (FF to the 2 min mark to hear a clip from it.)

-A Marriage Story starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver is getting absolutely glowing reviews. I considered using one of my TIFF tickets on this but it’s coming soon to Netflix. Plus, Noah Baumbach aren’t typically my jam.

-I don’t know how I missed CBC’s segment of Jam or Not a Jam with Lizzo but it’s great. She defends Nickelback (“It has a beautiful climax…The beat drop out? I think they get a lot of shit because he had a curly blond perm because this is an amazing song”) and discovers BTS (“Keep playing because I’ve never heard a BTS song. This is making me excited in a lot of weird ways!”)

–Brie Larson belted out an acoustic version of Normani‘s Motivation which was good — but I also kinda wish she hadn’t? I’m cool with her version of Miley Cyrus’ “Slide Away” though.

-Netflix’s cheesy new rom-com Falling Inn Love is getting good reviews. Not that bad reviews would have stopped me from watching it, but still.

-HBO is releasing the new episode of Succession tomorrow because of Labour Day weekend. And it’s the introduction of Holly Hunt’s character!

-This thread from Cole Hersch (creator of I’m The Dad Now) about the time he was accidentally cast on a dance show is gold.

–Meryl Streep play a widow investigating insurance fraud that turns out to be the scandal at the heart of the Panama Papers in The Laundromat trailer, coming soon to Netflix.

Anne Hathaway Expecting Baby #2

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-Congrats to Anne Hathaway, who revealed she’s pregnant! In her IG caption, she hints at trouble conceiving, saying “For everyone going through infertility and conception hell, please know it was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies. Sending you extra love.”

-This blooper reel from Avengers: Endgame is super short but still fun.

-The TCAs kicked off today (I always feel so bad for all the entertainment reporters who have to go straight from Comic-Con to this) and on HBO’s panel, they disputed the reports of drama behind the scenes on Big Little Lies, saying “As anyone who works in TV knows, the director doesn’t have final creative control. That creative control was taken from a director is a false premise.” But even if Andrea Arnold wasn’t promised full creative control, they certainly sold this season as being driven by her vision. So even if the plan was always to have Jean-Marc Vallée come in and un-do her work (which seems wildly inefficient), it’s still a bad look for a show that promotes itself as female-centric.

-Also, I really want bts footage of Meryl Streep pushing back on acting notes.

–Louis Tomlinson is refuting an article claiming One Direction split due to Larry Stylinson’ fan fiction, calling it the “biggest load of bulls–t I’ve seen in a while.”

-I’m always fascinated by the culture of TV writers rooms, so this article about the Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ writers byzantine process for choosing lunch is like catnip.

-I gotta stop reading postmortem interviews about Veronica Mars because it’s bumming me out even more. Showrunner Rob Thomas says that if the show continues, it’ll be as a crime-solving show (presumably outside of Neptune and without most of the supporting cast): “Kristen [Bell] and I really want to keep doing more of these [limited, self-contained seasons], like the Sherlock and even Fargo templates. Something where, when we both have windows of availability, we can come back and do it. The thinking is that we need to survive as a noir detective show. And if we kept doing a show that was half teenage soap and half mystery show, the fear is it would start feeling like nostalgia.” This feels like such a miscalculation; who watches VM for the mysteries over the relationships?

-I’m not sure what’s happening with the Canadian band Stars, but they seem to be having a rough day on Twitter.

–Faye Dunaway was fired from the Broadway-bound play Tea at Five after she allegedly slapped and threw things at crew members.

–Isaiah Washington is a Trump supporter? Why am I not surprised.

-I’m bummed that the reviews for Mindy Kaling‘s Four Weddings and a Funeral adaptation for Hulu aren’t more glowing. (It’s also weird that the show is somehow less queer than the 1994 movie.)

-A lot of the reviews for Orange Is The New Black indicate the series ends its run with a really strong final season.

-Speaking of reviews, the more I read about Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the less I want to see it.

–Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kirby Howell-Baptiste are starring in a show called Why Women Kill from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry — and the trailer hooked me.

–Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn‘s friendship being the basis of a Lifetime movie makes so much sense, it’s weird it hasn’t been done before.