Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

Heidi Gardner leads the ‘SNL’ exodus

It turns out Michael Longfellow won’t be anchoring ‘Weekend Update’ this season. PLUS: Amy Adams and Matt Smith join ‘Star Wars: Starfighter,’ ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ sequel is in the works, and Jimmy Fallon loves advertising.

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

‘The Pitt’ Season 2 trailer sends Noah Wyle back to the ER

Feels like I should be watching this show. PLUS: YouTube makes a play for the Oscars, ‘Stranger Things’ creators jump to Paramount, and RIP Seth Meyers’ dog, Frisbee.

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

‘The Naked Gun!’ Spider-Man swings! ‘The Office’ spins off!

I’m catching up with the summer’s biggest comedy and more August news. PLUS: Paramount plans ‘Top Gun,’ ‘Star Trek’ sequels, ‘Bourne’ sticks with universal, and Chalamet becomes the king of pong.

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

No, Robin Williams doesn’t ‘gotta be the voice of AI’

What’s wrong with some people? PLUS: Trailers for ‘Avatar: Ash and Fire,’ ‘Zootopia 2’ and ‘Eternity,’ I need the ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ Legos, and does the ‘Social Network’ sequel have a new Zuckerberg?

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

We finally have a, well, fantastic ‘Fantastic Four’ movie

‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ is perfectly cast. PLUS: Late-night TV rallies after Colbert cancellation, trailers for ‘Predator: Badlands’ and ‘One Battle After Another,’ and ‘Ted Lasso’ rises from the dead.

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

CBS cancels Colbert, ‘The Late Show’ to end next year

‘I’m not being replaced, this is all just going away.’ PLUS: New trailers for ’Stranger Things,’ ‘Tron: Ares,’ ‘Alien: Earth’ and ‘Hoppers,’ Emmy noms, and why won’t James Gunn just make a ‘Superman’ sequel?

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ is great because its Superman is good

The DCU begins with a bang. PLUS: The third ‘Dune’ movie loses its ‘Messiah,’ Jon M. Chu takes the wheel for ‘Hot Wheels,’ and Larry David teams up with ... Barack Obama?

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

Is Ryan Gosling’s ‘Project Hail Mary’ the next ‘Martian’?

The duo behind ’The Lego Movie’ brings Andy Weir’s latest book to life. PLUS: The first ‘Running Man’ trailer, Amazon wants a baby ‘Bond,’ and Disney plans an ‘Indy’ reboot?

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

The next ‘James Bond’ director is Villeneuve. Denis Villeneuve.

The ‘Dune’ director will helm Amazon MGM Studios’ franchise reboot. PLUS: Sorkin to write and direct ‘Social Network’ sequel, ‘Fantastic Four’ gets final trailer, and Channing Tatum is ‘Roofman.’

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

‘Always Sunny’ gangs up on ‘Abbott Elementary’ and ‘The Golden Bachelor’ in new trailer

The series returns for Season 17 next month. PLUS: Cruise and Parton get honorary Oscars, Gunn talks ‘Superman,’ and the summer of Seth Meyers continues.

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

The summer of Seth Meyers

As if his late-night show, YouTube segment and two podcasts weren’t enough, the host is suddenly everywhere. PLUS: It’s splitsville for Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney turns its lawyers on an AI image generator, and a Wonder Woman movie is in the works.

Popculturology • Friday Newsletter

First ‘Wicked: For Good’ trailer brings the fight to the Wizard

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande take us back to Oz. PLUS: Trailers for ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ and more, first look at Josh Brolin in ‘Whalefall,’ and Marc Maron ends ‘WTF.’