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The Independent
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Lauren Graham reveals shocking truth about her Gilmore Girls paychecks
Lauren Graham isn't tired of talking about Gilmore Girls. The hit TV show that catapulted her to fame is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Gilmore Girls ran for seven seasons on network television from 2000-2007. It then had a brief four-episode revival on Netflix in 2016. Graham played Lorelai Gilmore, mom to Rory (Alexis Bledel) and daughter of Emily (Kelly Bishop) for the duration of its run. While Gilmore Girls has long since stopped filming, the Amy Sherman-Palladino-penned comedy-drama has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity among fans streaming the series on Netflix. 'We have definitely reached more people than we were reaching on The WB,' Graham told Jimmy Kimmel this week. Even with its massive fandom, Gilmore Girls has not been a cash cow for the stars. 'There really are no residuals on Netflix,' Graham said. 'But I've been paid in love and appreciation.' Gilmore Girls is consistently one of the most-watched shows on Netflix and has been for the decade it's been available on the streaming platform. Netflix reportedly has Gilmore Girls licensed through 2026, and it's likely the company will opt to renew. Graham and Kimmel chatted about her recent birthday festivities, which included tacos and margaritas before the host quickly doubled back to Gilmore Girls. "I still can't believe you don't get any residuals," Kimmel said. But Graham was quick to change the topic. 'Let's not talk about it anymore!' she laughed. 'I'm in trouble.' Graham appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to discuss her latest show, The Z-Suite, which was recently released on Tubi. The season's final episode dropped on March 18. The series centers around Graham's character, Monica, being forced out of her C-Suite job at an ad agency after a disastrous campaign. Three Gen-Z colleagues take her place, prompting Monica to fight her way back to the top. Its renewal for a second series has not yet been confirmed.
Axios
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
New movies and shows this week on Hulu, Prime Video and Tubi
A new season of "The Kardashians" and "Invincible" and a workplace comedy about Gen Z are among the top new titles this week on Hulu, Prime Video, Tubi and Netflix. " The Kardashians" season 6 available now on Hulu The latest: In the season premiere, we follow Kim as she visits former Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House to discuss prison reform, the family celebrates Kourtney's 45th birthday at IHOP and Khloé reunites with estranged ex-husband Lamar Odom. " Invincible" season 3 available now on Prime Video Behind the scenes: The first three episodes of this critically acclaimed animated series are available to stream. New episodes will drop every Thursday through March 13. " The Z-Suite" available now on Tubi State of play: Lauren Graham ("Gilmore Girls") and Nico Santos ("Superstore") star in this workplace comedy about an ad agency C-suite that gets taken over by a group of Gen Z employees. Driving the news: Tubi is airing an ad for the series during the Super Bowl. " Sweet Magnolias" season 4 on Netflix The cast has released two new Christmas songs that will be featured this season: a rendition of "O Come, All Ye Faithful" by Heather Headley and a new original song by Dylan Rysstad. Available now. " Clean Slate" on Prime Video Produced by TV legend Norman Lear, this sitcom follows an old-school car wash owner in Alabama (played by George Wallace) who is reunited with his son who is now a trans woman named Desiree (played by Laverne Cox). Available now. " Kinda Pregnant" on Netflix Amy Schumer, Jillian Bell and Will Forte star in this comedy about a woman who becomes envious of her best friend's pregnancy and starts to wear a fake baby bump. Available now. " Burden of Guilt" on Paramount+ This docuseries follows a woman who investigates the murder of her baby brother, a crime that she was blamed for when she was 2 years old. Available now. " Apple Cider Vinegar" on Netflix This Australian limited series inspired by real events is based on " The Woman Who Fooled the World" by journalists Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano. Available now. " Death Without Mercy" on Paramount+ with Showtime Academy Award-nominee Waad Al-Kateab directs this documentary that follows two Syrian families in the aftermath of the tragic 2023 earthquake. Available now. " The Takedown: American Aryans" on Max This four-part documentary examines the fall of a notorious Texas-based neo-Nazi group and the federal agent responsible for its destruction. Available now. "The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl" on Disney+ Thirty years after the release of "The Lion King," this concert pays homage to the movie and its legacy with performances by Jennifer Hudson, North West and some of the 1994 film's original cast members. Available Friday.
USA Today
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Best 2025 Super Bowl commercials: All 57 ranked according to USA TODAY Ad Meter
Hear this story Budweiser broke out the Clydesdales to win USA TODAY Ad Meter 2025, the ninth time the brand has claimed the prize as the Super Bowl's best commercial. The beer brand brought back the beloved horses in its spot titled "First Delivery," featuring a foal's journey to deliver a keg to claim the contest for the first time since 2015. Anheuser-Busch had four ads finish in the top eight, with Michelob Ultra's "Ultra Hustle" (No. 3) and Bud Light's "Big Men on Cul-De-Sac" (No. 8) among the most popular ads of the night. Lay's heartwarming spot "The Little Farmer" finished a close second behind Budweiser. Tubi's 15-second ad "The Z-Suite" was the lowest-rate ad of the 57 national commercials, with Fetch (No. 55) and Coffee mate (No. 56) rounding out the bottom three. Here's a look at the full rankings from this year's Ad Meter: Best Super Bowl commercials 2025 22. Little Caesar's – "Whoa!" (3.02) 23. Rocket – "Own The Dream" (3.02) 24. Mountain Dew – "Kiss from a Lime" (2.95) 25. – "Get Your Stay Ridiculously Right" (2.92) 26. He Gets Us 'What is Greatness?' – (2.91) 27. Reese's – "Don't Eat Lava" (2.88) 28. RITZ – "RITZ Salty Club" 2.86 29. Haagen-Dazs "Not So Fast, Not So Furious" 2.83 30. NerdWallet "Genius Beluga" 2.83 31. NERDS – "Wonderful World of NERDS" (2.82) 32. Disney+ – 'What If' (2.81) 33. Duracell – "Brady Reboost" (2.81) 34. Dunkin' "DunKings 2" (2.79) 35. HexClad Cookware – "Unidentified Frying Object" (2.78) 36. Liquid Death – "Safe For Work" (2.77) 37. – "Not Saying We're the Best" (2.74) 38. Universal Pictures – "How To Train Your Dragon | Big Game Spot" (2.68) 39. MSC Cruises – "Let's Holiday" (2.66) 40. – "Still Not Saying We're the Best" (2.64) 41. Angel Soft – "The Big Game Potty-tunity" (2.61) 42. Totino's Pizza Rolls – "Chazmo Finally Goes Home" (2.61) 43. Bosch – "The More You Bosch" (2.61) 44. Ray-Ban | Meta "Hey Meta, Who Eats Art? Ft. Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt and Kris Jenner | Ray-Ban Meta Glasses" (2.61) 45. Taco Bell – "The Fans" (2.61 46. Poppi – "Soda Thoughts" (2.6) 47. TurboTax – "Now Taxes is So Sweet" (2.57) 48. GoDaddy – "Act Like You Know" (2.57) 49. Hims & Hers – "Sick of the System" (2.51) 50. DoorDash – 'DashPass Math' (2.5) 51. T-Mobile – 'A New Era in Connectivity' (2.5) 52. Squarespace – "A Tale As Old As Websites" (2.46) 53. OpenAI – "ChatGPT | The Intelligence Age" (2.41) 54. Cirkul – "You Got Cirkul" (2.37) 55. Coffee mate – "Foam Diva" (2.04) 56. Fetch – "The Big Reward" (1.98) 57. Tubi – "The Z-Suite" (1.85)
Los Angeles Times
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Review: Lauren Graham shines in Tubi's generational comedy ‘The Z-Suite'
In 'The Z-Suite,' premiering Thursday on Tubi, Lauren Graham plays Monica, the award-winning head of a New York advertising agency, who loses her job after an ill-conceived slogan for headphones — 'All Vibes Matter' — gets a ton of social media blowback. Deciding that the agency needs to be more in tune with the times, her boss fires Monica and her creative partner, Doug (Nico Santos), and replaces them with the firm's Gen-Z social media team. Leading this crew is new Chief Executive Kriska (Madison Shamoun), 24, or '24½,' as she'll make a point of pointing out. She's peppy, ambitious and impatient; having worked at the firm, called Atelier, for a grand total of 168 days, including 43 'in the office,' she feels she's ready for, even due, a promotion. She's supported, if that's the word, by Clem (Anna Bezahler), who is sluggish, and Elliot (Spencer Stevenson), distracted by his own flamboyance. Their appointment, in a real-world business sense, is idiotic — they don't have any idea how to run things, despite their 'literal communication degrees,' and depend heavily on Monica's former/Kriska's current secretary, Annabelle (Dani Kind), for guidance. But this is a sitcom, after all — created by Katie O'Brien ('Teachers') — with no particular obligation to reality. How did Ted Baxter keep his job as a news anchor in 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'? Did Darrin Stevens ever present even a halfway, half-baked idea for a campaign on 'Bewitched,' even with Samantha's help? We do know that young people are good at social media and that the advertising business is full of bright stars under 30. And we know as well that people who run businesses can make very bad decisions and that people with no perceptible ability find themselves in positions of power. There has been a good deal of feature and essay writing too about the zoomers in the work world lately — their supposed entitlement, unpunctuality, lack of initiative, lack of social skills, inappropriate dress — and 'The Z-Suite,' while not exactly taking sides, does hit these points. ('I have time blindness,' says Elliot, coming in late.) There are reasons, of course, to feel for the poorly paid young in a time when any kind of material stability seems out of reach, and society and the world have never seemed so close to collapse. Self-absorption might just be a defense mechanism. Work, on the other hand, is so important to Monica — her work-life balance is tipped entirely to the former — that she has an exact replica of her office in her apartment. (Doug's problem is Christmas miniatures; he has apparently wiped himself out collecting them.) While the 20-somethings explore their new playground — armed with a company credit card, Elliot redecorates the office with a churro cart, a ball pit, a slide ('for aesthetic purposes only') and a llama — Monica, who finds all doors shut to her, is contriving to get back into the game. Much of the humor comes out of mutual generational disdain. (Thus was it ever.) Each party finds the other incomprehensible — 'What is it that people your age like to do, besides correct others?' Monica asks the social media team, while she still has her job — the oldsters mangling the youngsters' slang, the youngsters' ignorant of anything they didn't personally experience, Gen-Z finding Gen-X insensitive, Gen X-finding Gen-Z too sensitive and so on. Though it's the spine of the show, it's the most obvious, least interesting aspect, and again, your own age may determine whether you prefer a joke about 'geriatric stink' to one about the 'ethically made adult sleep sack' Clem wears to a meeting. ('If I get tired, I just lie down.') It may just be my own chronological prejudice, but there's a tiresome quality to the younger characters the show doesn't quite overcome — although one might also say that this means only that they have played their parts well. Also at the agency are Evan Marsh as Minnesota Matt, an overeager square not as young as the youngsters or as old as the oldsters, and so reviled by both — it's a character created mostly to be abused — and Nadine Djoury as HR person Natasha, who worries that the phrase 'Oh, God' might 'trigger the deists.' And there's good guest work from Mark McKinney as an Atelier client who defers to the taste of his 14-year-old daughter, and Rhys Darby as a roguish former colleague now out on his own — his scenes with Graham have a delightful rhythm, and one hopes to see more of him. But what 'The Z-Suite' has going for it most of all is Graham, an actor who, however whimsical the context, comes across as absolutely real and amplifies the realness of the show that surrounds her. She has something of the quiet charisma of a Jean Arthur or Irene Dunne — actors whom all generations should know — and whatever sort of character she's playing, she's the person in any scene you'd most want to go over and talk with. As the sudden underdog here — even as a person we're to take as critically self-involved and going a little crazy — she reads as the protagonist. With only four episodes available for review, whatever longer game the show is playing — whether lessons will be learned or no lessons will be learned — remains unknown. Perhaps Monica and Kriska will discover that, experience aside, they're not so different after all. In any case, this being Tubi's first foray into original scripted content, it's reasonable to assume that the series won't end with the season. I'm good with that.
