Billie Eilish has gone blonde. She won a couple more Grammys on Sunday, so now she’s gone all Marilyn Monroe. In the Instagram video below, she actually smiles.
During the pre-Grammy show, when Billie and brother Finneas won their award for “No Time to Die,” brother and sister actually looked relaxed and happy. On the main show, when they won again, Eilish was articulate and focused.
She’s growing up! What will she sing about now? Just kidding. She has a nice smile. Who new?
Bored? Depressed. The great Judith Owen is going live on facebook today at 5pm Eastern.
She better sing my favorite song hers, “Here.”
Here’s the link. You won’t regret it.
Join me for more live music and chat today on #FFS. I’ll be live at 4pm Central 9pm GMT.
Link to join https://t.co/oi41Pl8PDd pic.twitter.com/ZiX298dtnm— Judith Owen (@judithowen) March 17, 2021
Looks like fans may be tired of crying for the Pearsons.
This fifth season of “This is Us,” a five hanky weeper of a soap opera, is in a spiral down in the ratings this season.
Last night the drama hit 4.8 million, down from the season start last fall of 7.3 million. Each week this season has shown a deterioration as all the big “surprises” and reveals from the past and future have been used up. Jack is still dead, just like Generalissimo Franco (that’s an old SNL joke).
In its early days, “This is Us” was scoring 10 or 12 million viewers a night. After the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, it drew a staggering 26 million.
Little by little, the “This is Us” audience is moving on and moving away. Delayed viewing might help but the trend is there. And they still have to make it to the middle of May with eight more episodes. They may want consider wrapping it up now rather than go for a sixth even shortened season.
Now is the time for Sterling K. Brown to make his move into film. He should really be able to go along the trail blazed by Viola Davis. Fingers crossed.
“Mork and Mindy” star Pam Dawber has only had two acting jobs in the last 20 years, each was one a shot on a series. She’s basically retired, living a pretty good life as Mrs. Mark Harmon.
But now Dawber returns to work for four episodes of “NCIS,” the show that made her husband a big star and very, very rich. The episodes will air “non-sequentially” beginning April 6th, meaning the last one will be the season finale. And that may be Mark Harmon’s overall exit.
Harmon, who’s turning 70, is said to be downsizing his starring role as Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Apparently, Harmon’s contract is up, and he’s ready to cut his appearances to a handful to get the show through its 20 season. They have two more to go.
“NCIS New Orleans” has been cancelled, and “NCIS Los Angeles” is winding down at the same time. A new “NCIS” is being cooked up set in Hawaii since CBS has a big production presence there. But the main show is starting to show signs of ratings wear. Last night’s 9.5 million viewers still wins the night and is in the top 10 for the week of TV shows, but the end is coming.
It’s conceivable that Gibbs, who has never found love on “NCIS,” will find it with Harmon’s real life wife, and they will ride into the sunset. He can make a fortune doing Life Insurance commercials, or just fish off his yacht. God bless.
Remember Ariana Grande’s song, “7 Rings”? It started with a cover of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things,” and we thought all the royalties went to that estate. If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, R&H were the most famous Broadway songwriters. They wrote “The Sound of Music” and “Oklahoma.”
Anyway.
The rest of “7 Rings” was a rap song of some kind. A rapper named DOT aka Josh Stone sued Ariana, saying he’d pitched her an idea at a record company meeting. Well, today it was revealed that Ariana settled with Stone because, once you hear his song, “You Got It,” you’ll get it– it’s the non R&B part of “7 Rings.”
So none of “7 Rings” was original. It was all constructed from other peoples’ material.
The only people who really enjoy rap and hip hop are the lawyers.
“The Walking Dead” faces actual death now.
The AMC show in its 10th season is seeing a quick ratings collapse week to week. Zombies remain as the only loyal viewers.
On Sunday The Walking Dead dropped 25% from its February return to 2.17 million viewers. In February they were low, but at 2.89.
Years ago, The Walking Dead had 13 to 15 million viewers and was so hot you couldn’t touch it. Now, I’m not sure why it’s on TV.
There are just three more episodes left in this season, with another season set for the summer. At this rate, there will be no one left to register their viewing for Nielsen.
This is what happens when a show goes on too long.
Let it go now, AMC.
Queen of a Lot of TV, Shonda Rhimes, is taking the Hollywood Foreign Press to task. She says the people who vote on the Golden Globes ignored her shows until they were hits.
Rhimes reasons: “HFPA rejected our press conference. Until it was a “surprise hit” (Grey’s, Scandal, Murder -SURPRISE!) And yet they STILL asked me to show up in person to present at the Globes. We’re not the only ones. This is why HFPA’s house is on fire.They lit the flame w/their own ignorance.”
She adds: “And I’m the lucky one. More important: think of all the great talent and shows out there that never even got a chance.”
Rhimes’ observation comes on the heels of a published report on TheWrap.com that the HFPA routinely ignored Black movies and TV shows.
The HFPA said last night they would add 13 Black journalists to their group immediately after Hollywood publicists threaten to pull their clients from Golden Globes activities.
The HFPA is really in hot water in ways I never imagined, and I criticized them a lot over the years. But this was bound to happen. Where they’re going to find 13 Black journalists living in L.A. who cover foreign countries is a mystery to me. But I nominate Wilson Morales of BlackFilmandTV. Even though he lives in New York, Morales could cover for any country and is one of the top movie journalists of any color or continent. Just a suggestion.
As for Rhimes, she’s right when she says she’s not alone. So much of TV is ignored by awards groups. I really think once a show has won Best Drama or Comedy that should be it, no more. Actors, writers, directors that’s different. But once the basic gist a show has won, that’s enough. Shows don’t need to win six times.
“SNL” host bookings are improving thanks to the Oscars.
The late night show has engaged Oscar nominees Carey Mulligan and Daniel Kaluuya for shows before Academy Award voting ends.
Kaluuya comes in April 3rd. He’s nominated for Best Supporting Actor in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
Mulligan follows the next week, nominated for Best Actress in “Promising Young Woman.”
Their respective musical guests will be St. Vincent and Kid Cudi.
Already booked for March 27th and Maya Rudolph and Jack Harlow.
With the pandemic, “SNL” was having a little trouble getting celebrities to commit to appearances. But Mulligan and Kaluuya are campaigning, and this should help them get votes. Mulligan’s show should be hilarious is they parody her movie and have her date and kill all the guys on the show.
Here’s a referendum for sociologists to study:
Last night’s episode of “The Bachelor: After the Final Rose” dropped by 400,000 viewers at 10pm when the talk turned from roses to race.
The first two hours of “The Bachelor,” a snore of talk about Matt James choosing between two women, scored 5.7 million viewers.
But then the third hour, in which James had to confront his now estranged winner, Rachael Kirkconnell, fell to 5.3 million. That’s right — 400,000 people checked out when the conversation turned to race, to plantation parties, and world reality.
Host Emmanuel Acho kept warning viewers that the coming talk in the third hour would be uncomfortable. They took that warning more seriously than if they were about to see sex or violence, and left.
All three hours were beaten soundly by “The Voice” on NBC, with over 7 million viewers. Where did everyone go at 10pm? Either to “Bull” on CBS or to bed. The whole thing is Bull, if you ask me.
America does not want the race conversation mixed in their romantic fantasies. That audience can’t take the truth, thank you very much.
Coming soon: two back to back “Bachelorette” seasons, no Chris Harrison, if ever, until next year.
The great character Yaphet Kotto has died at age 81, according to a Facebook post from his third wife, Tessie Sinahon.
She wrote: