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Re: this actress playing Tara. Bill Bell and the production teams of his era would have used her red-rimmed eyes and depressive nature to poignant effect, but on this flat, two-dimensionally produced show, she just feels sorta wan and forgettable. Jabot needs players with more gravitas than Kyle and Summer with Jack as a babysitter. It’s always nice to see Tricia Cast, but how they’re using Nina is a bummer.

Joseline Hernandez came on Wendy today amped up, and WW was not impressed:

Season 9 is confirmed to start filming next month: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/vanderpump-rules-starting-production-season-9-bravo-1234943567/

LOL. Flashbacks of Avery and her baked goods on Y&R.

Karla is just a temp, so of course hasn’t had time to embody the character, but it just emphasized to me how much Mishael’s charisma and emotional clarity bring really flat, dull dialogue to life. She is a rare talent.

Final numbers for the Oscars were 2.1 in the demo and 10.4 million total viewers. Surprisingly the higher quarter-hour was 2.3 and the lowest was a 2.0, so the viewership was relatively stable in spite of the poorly received ceremony. Just not that many people were watching in the first place!

If Candiace were smart, she’d a) take an anger-management course and b) be on her knees begging Karen and Ashley for forgiveness.

From USA 🇺🇸

Wendy threw Monique completely under the bus alongside Gizelle, only to become targeted by Gizelle herself. Who will Candiace align with?

Has she been Chloe yet? And why hasn’t she been a man yet?

The Janet/Justin Super Bowl debacle and Janet’s subsequent blacklisting are reportedly getting the “Framing Britney Spears” treatment. JT is probably bracing himself for another brutal reckoning (as well as Les Moonves, whose obsession with ruining Janet’s career will also be tackled in the doc). https://pagesix.com/2021/04/26/framing-britney-producers-making-janet-jackson-super-bowl-doc/

Huge ratings collapse, per Variety:

“Rapstar” is No. 1 for a second week. The Weeknd’s “Save Your Tears” is on track for No. 1 next week with an Ariana remix.

Episode will air May 21.

Did Moses really have a chat with Nick before ever meeting his sister Lily? The story surrounding Kyle’s secret is oddly constructed. Why is Kyle hiding the paternity of Harrison from Jack of all people? Like I’m not waiting on pins and needles anticipating how Jack will respond...

Eli/LA really looks amazing. Whatever he’s doing for his skin is working.

Lily looks great in that sparkly dress. Y&R has a lot more energy lately (actual conflict) and seems to have stabilized in the ratings (recently beating TPIR in both ad demos), but it’s still pretty bad. This is likely the best it’ll get for the foreseeable future.

So cool. Will keep my ears out for any dish. Also saw this. Porsha 🔥

LOL this is how the Oscars should have ended last night:

From the UAE 🇦🇪

Sir Anthony Hopkins posted his short acceptance speech from beautiful Wales and paid tribute to Chadwick: https://www.instagram.com/p/COHpbqpHcqY/?igshid=aengf8ff0dqp

But BAFTA got both right. I figured them awarding Hopkins was just Brit bias (plus they have a bad track record of recognizing Af-Am talent). Indeed. And they had all those prior pandemic-adjusted ceremonies to learn how to do an entertaining ceremony in these difficult times. The Grammys actually nailed it.