Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes (HBO, 9:00pm) — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow’s podcast undergoes this miniseries treatment here while expanding upon existing interviews with whistleblowers, private investigators, and more. Of course, the podcast itself was inspired by Farrow’s book about the systemic protection of predators, both in Hollywood and beyond. Since Ronan’s the son of Mia Farrow, who was married to Woody Allen (with the whole paternity issue looking awfully odd), the subject of alleged predatory behavior hits particularly hard. The minseries will dig into the powers that be, beginning with the Harvey Weinstein case, for which Ronan’s groundbreaking New Yorkerinvestigative report really got the #MeToo ball rolling. It’s heavy subject matter, of course, but the series promises some new and surprising revelations.
Shark Week 2021 (Discovery+, Discovery, Nat Geo) — The annual shark-involved festivities continue with several new entries, including Stranger Sharks on Discovery+ as well as three entries on Discovery: Air Jaws: Going for Gold (8:00pm) Jaws Awakens: Phred vs. Slash (9:00pm), and Expedition Unknown: Shark Trek (10:00pm). In addition, National Geographic has a pair of offerings: Shark Attack Files (9:00pm) and Shark Attack Investigation: The Paige Winter Story (10:00pm).
The Beast Must Die: (AMC, 9:00pm) — Jared Harris and Cush Jumbo star in this revenge-thriller series (which originally aired on BritBox UK and achieved a viewing record) that has already been renewed for a second season. The story’s based on Nicholas Blake’s 1938 novel and revolves around a mother who’s hell-bent upon avenging her son’s death, all while a detective’s working the case and hoping hoping to solve matters before mom takes justice into her own hands. Meanwhile, the detective’s suffering from PTSD, and yes, this sounds like an enormously chaotic show, but it’s so crushingly executed that you’d be gripping your seat arms if you watched it in a theater.
All American (CW, 8:00pm) — Jordan and Simone are staring down their all-important day while considering how the future will go, and they’re getting input from Billy and Laura.
The Republic Of Sarah (CW, 9:00pm) — This show follows the ending of tranquility of Greylock, N.H., after a stash of valuable coltan leads to new overlords, and a rebellious teacher (Sarah Cooper) steps in to halt the madness. Soon enough, there’s the prospect of Greylock becoming a sovereign nation. This week, Sarah’s moving into executive-order territory, which presents problems of its own.
The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — Dwayne Johnson, Tom Hiddleston, Tig Notaro, GoldLink Ft. Flo Milli
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Keegan Michael-Key, Tones And I
Late Night With Seth Meyers — Scarlett Johansson, Noah Syndergaard, Charlie Benante
After almost a year of building up hype for his TV return, Jon Stewart’s new series for Apple will start filming this week in New York front of a live audience. However, the show isn’t taking any chances when it comes to COVID safety. The audiences for the July 14 and 16 tapings of The Problem with John Stewart will not only have to provide proof of vaccination, but everyone must wear a mask. Via Deadline:
The Apple TV+ series will require attendees to be fully vaccinated, provide an official vaccination card and complete a wellness screening prior to entering. Audiences and crew members will be required to wear masks at all times.
Obviously, fans of Stewart’s time on The Daily Show are looking forward to his return. There was a massive social media freakout when Stewart reluctantly joined Twitter for the first time and seemingly sent out a request for writers’ packets. However, that enthusiasm has been tempered recently after Stewart made an odd appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he pushed the controversial “lab leak” theory. That caused a bit of stir, but we’d still expect a sizable audience at the tapings for Stewart’s new show, if only because it’s his first regular television gig since leaving The Daily Show back in 2015. It’ll be interesting to see what he has up his sleeve after a six-year break.
According to Deadline, The Problem with Jon Stewart will start streaming this fall and will include hour-long episodes focusing on a single “current affairs” topic.
What happens when a country singer and a comedian bang a cowbell underwater to attract the attention of sharks? You’ll find out when the Shark Week special “Brad Paisley’s Shark Country,” featuring Paisley and J.B. Smoove using their respective talents “in shark-infested waters to see how sound can attract or repel sharks,” premieres on Discovery Channel on Tuesday, July 13. But one thing you should not expect is an appearance from Mr. Wonderful or Mark Cuban, much to Smoove’s dismay.
“Everybody knows that I am a huuuge Shark Tank fan, and I have tons of ideas just ready for Shark Tank,” the Curb Your Enthusiasm star told Entertainment Weekly. “So initially when my manager called me — honestly, sometimes I get tunnel vision and there is a long moment of un-clarity on what exactly this is. They’ll tell me something, but I’ll hear something totally different because I’m already juiced up. I’m ready for the celebrity version of Shark Tank, you know?” When his manager pitched him on Shark Week, all Smoove heard was Shark Tank. “Because Shark Tank is on all the time… Shark Week is, what, once a year?” he explained. This is all makes sense to me.
“My brain went to, ‘Maybe I can think of my ideas based on Shark Week that I can still take to Shark Tank. How can I benefit from this mistake and still get a chance to pitch my amazing ideas for Shark Tank, even though it was clear that this was not Shark Tank?’”
Smoove brings up a good point. There are not enough shark-based pitches on Shark Tank. That’s called tapping into an unrealized market. I bet he could get Cuban to invest a cool $120,000 on a shark-shaped cowboy hat. I know I’d buy three.
HBO Max was hoping to make a big splash with its Gossip Girl revival, and it seems initial returns for the show’s modern reboot are exactly what the streaming service was hoping for.
According to The Wrap, HBO claims the series is already its most popular show. Though no exact numbers were given in the traditional Nielsen-like sense, the network touted a strong impact on social media and a heavy renewed interest in the original version of the show.
According to the streaming service, “Within an hour of the episode’s premiere at 12:01 a.m. PT on Thursday, the show was trending No. 11 nationwide on Twitter, continuing as a Top 5 trend through mid-day.” HBO Max said there were also “15 billion impressions” of “Gossip Girl” content on TikTok pegged to the show’s launch.
In the week ahead of the reboot’s premiere, HBO Max saw a 200% increase in viewership of the first season of the OG series.
Given all the HBO content already available on Max and the sheer volume of new content available there, claiming Gossip Girl as the most popular thing on the service is certainly notable. But without specifics, something streaming services just love to withhold from the public, it’s difficult to say just how popular the show is outside of its walled streaming garden. But at least HBO Max seems happy with the numbers it’s keeping from the rest of us thus far.
Jason Isbell’s residencies at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium have become an annual tradition, but the pandemic forced him to take 2020 off. Isbell and his 400 Unit are ready to return for 2021, though, as Isbell has announced details for this year’s edition of the residency.
Isbell’s run will include eight dates in the fall: October 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, and 24. On those nights, he will be joined, respectively, by guests Amanda Shires, Brittney Spencer, Mickey Guyton, Amythyst Kiah, Semekia Copeland, Allison Russell, Joy Oladokun, and Adia Victoria.
“Time to dust of some oldies,” Isbell wrote alongside his announcement.
By the time they hit three years old, most children are still learning numbers, let alone how to read a clock. That didn’t stop Cardi B and Offset from giving their child one of the most extravagant birthday presents anyone could receive, whether they were a little kid or senior citizen.
You may be aware of the Swiss luxury watch company Richard Mille, which was founded in 2001 and has since been name-checked in about 200 rap songs as one of the pinnacles of wealth in hip-hop — particularly by Jay-Z and Meek Mill. They can run upward of $1.5 million as a result of both their super high-end craftsmanship and rarity, with only five of the above-mentioned, $1.5 million RM 056 chronograph tourbillons produced.
While the Richard Mille timepiece given to Kulture at her fairytale-themed third birthday party by her parents Cardi B and Offset doesn’t quite reach that price range, the lowest end of the range would set you back over $150,000. For her part, Kulture accepts the present like a typical kid — she looks way more interested in the box. Of course, Offset and Cardi are hardly the first parents in the hip-hop world to overshoot the mark; in 2019, Future was subject to a deluge of jokes for giving his five-year-old a Rolex. Heck, this isn’t even the first time Cardi and Offset splurged on Kulture’s birthday; in 2019, they spent over $400,000 on her birthday, and last year, they bought Kulture a Hermes Birkin bag, presumably to keep stuff like her Fisher-Price figures in.
Check out videos from the extravagant party below.
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In a rare moment of honesty, Donald Trump fully admitted to a CPAC crowd that if the event’s straw poll results look bad for him, he’ll simply call the whole thing “fake.” During his speech on Sunday, Trump flat-out admitted his entire strategy for dealing with information that looks bad for him, and naturally, the audience ate it up even though the former president essentially confessed that he has no problem lying to his supporters on a routine basis.
Trump on polling: “If it’s bad, I say it’s fake. If it’s good, I say, that’s the most accurate poll perhaps ever.” pic.twitter.com/YxeYxlZy3M
“By the way, you have a poll coming out,” Trump said about halfway through his remarks. “I want to know what it is. You know they do that straw poll, right?”
“Now, if it’s bad, I just say it’s fake,” Trump continued, as the crowd laughed. “If it’s good, I say that’s the most accurate poll, perhaps ever.”
During his speech, Trump also attempted to cajole CPAC organizers to tell him the results of the straw poll in advance, but they wouldn’t budge. When that strategy didn’t work, he decided to make a bold prediction about what would happen.
“If it’s bad, it’s front-page news in the newspapers and if it’s great, they won’t even cover it,” Trump said.
To the surprise of no one, Trump scored a whopping 98% approval rating from the CPAC crowd, and the results were immediately reported on Fox News. However, there was an interesting wrinkle in the results. According to Mediaite, while Trump was the clear favorite to win the 2024 Republican primary for president, besting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis 70% to 26%, DeSantis dominated the results when Trump was cleared from the field.
Considering the two are currently at odds, with reports coming out that Trump “f*cking hates” DeSantis, these poll results should do wonders for their feud as it makes clear that the Republican Party is ready to back DeSantis if Trump can’t run in 2024.
Shohei Ohtani is in the midst of one of the greatest individual seasons in Major League Baseball history. That may sound hyperbolic, but the man is leading the league in home runs with 33 and boasts an OPS of 1.062, all while posting a 3.49 ERA in 13 starts for the Angels.
It’s truly insane stuff, and he doesn’t do anything cheaply. At the plate, he’s in the top 1 percent in max exit velocity (119 mph), top 2 percent in average exit velocity (93.7 mph), top 1 percent in barrel rate (26 percent), top 1 percent in hard hit rate (56.9 percent), which can all be seen in the mammoth home runs he hits that go viral. On the mound he’s 60th percentile in fastball velocity (96 mph average) and is 85th percentile in strikeout percentage. All of this is to say, he is one of the coolest baseball players to walk the planet and does so with a joy and enthusiasm that is infectious, which makes complaints that he uses an interpreter incredibly stupid.
Ohtani was selected as an All-Star as both a pitcher and hitter, and he is going to be the unquestioned star of All-Star festivities in Denver this week. On Monday night, he’s going to be the top seed in the Home Run Derby, and then on Tuesday he’s going to bat leadoff for the AL and be the starting pitcher opposite Max Scherzer, as was announced on Monday afternoon.
It’s pretty outrageous for someone to leadoff the All-Star Game and be the starting pitcher, but Ohtani has more than earned that special designation and it’s going to make for a must-see start to the game. The complete AL and NL lineups can be found below.
American League
1. Shohei Ohtani, DH
2. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 1B
3. Xander Bogaerts, SS
4. Aaron Judge, RF
5. Rafael Devers, 3B
6. Marcus Semien, 2B
7. Salvador Perez, C
8. Teoscar Hernandez, LF
9. Cedric Mullins, CF
National League
1. Fernando Tatis Jr., SS
2. Max Muncy, DH
3. Nolan Arenado, 3B
4. Freddie Freeman, 1B
5. Nick Castellanos, RF
6. Jesse Winker, LF
7. JT Realmuto, C
8. Bryan Reynolds, CF
9. Adam Frazier, 2B
Now that Meghan McCain has announced that she’s leaving The View at the end of the current season, the hunt is on for her replacement, and according to a new report, ABC News has reached out to one of the show’s very first co-hosts, Debbie Matenopoulos. When The View first debuted in 1997, Matenopoulos was a member of the original panel, which featured iconic news anchor Barbara Walters, Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, and Joy Behar.
Unlike McCain, Matenopoulous only lasted for two seasons, but according to her team, she may get a second chance on the daytime staple that she helped launch as a young 21-year-old “straight out of NYU.” Via PEOPLE:
“Her rep has in fact been having conversations with senior executives at ABC News over the past few months about many things, including her participation in celebrating the 25th season of The View, and she appreciates all the interest in her returning,” said the spokesperson. “Currently, she is in development on two food shows and her own lifestyle show, but she’d never say never to returning to her first television home.”
As PEOPLE notes, ABC News declined to comment on whether or not it’s having conversations with Matenopoulos. If she does end up taking McCain’s vacant seat on The View, it will be interesting to see how the outspoken conservative reacts to the network replacing her so quickly. According to a behind-the-scenes report, all of the co-hosts, including the usually “chill” Whoopi Goldberg, have been pushing for McCain’s ouster by repeatedly telling ABC News brass that they no longer want to work with the Republican commentator.
Since we’re always on the lookout for new bottles to try this month, we reached out to some pros to help in our endeavor. Seventeen bartenders told us their picks for the best tequilas for fans of sweet agave flavor notes. Check out all of their responses below and click on the prices if you want to try them as the Dog Days hit hard.
Fortaleza Reposado
Fortaleza
Rob Krueger, head bartender of JF restaurants in New York City
My favorite agave-forward tequila has got to be Fortaleza Reposado. The roasted agave notes are balanced perfectly with the right amount of oak. It’s smooth but textured, with fruit, earth, and delicate spice.
They distill only to 46 percent ABV, which means a more robust agave flavor makes it through to the barrel and bottle.
Tequila 512 Blanco is a great tequila with a nice backbone of fresh agave flavor all pulled together by volcanic spring water to provide a crisp experience. Bottoms up.
For the summer, I immediately think of Clase Azul. The plata is great for daytime on the rocks while the aged varieties are all very enjoyable neat. Once the sun goes down and temperatures cool off a bit, I could easily switch to the reposado, añejo, or ultra añejo.
Herradura Silver
Herradura
Chandra Richter, beverage development and chief mixologist at Drinkworks
If you are looking for fresh summer tequila that features sweet, fruity agave notes, then I would say the best option is Herradura Silver. I love the fruit-forward profile and the nice smoky counter-balance. I think it’s a great tequila to sip on its own or to use in summer cocktails.
Tres Agave Blanco is my tequila of choice for the summer. This tequila is organic and made from 100 percent agave. The aromas have notes of bright citrus and pear. It has a smooth finish that can be sipped neat or enjoyed in a margarita.
I generally keep a bottle of Espolon Blanco in my bar at all times. I was never a tequila fan until moving to New York, but a number of good friends have shown me the light (with still a lot to learn). I just find this tequila hits all the right buttons for me. The blue agave notes are as clear as day. It combines tropical fruit with hints of lemon and pepper.
Currently, I’ve been into the Mi Campo line of tequila. Their reposado is fantastic for the price, with wonderful notes of fresh agave that are rounded out with delightful flavors you would expect from time in ex-wine casks.
Arette Silver
Arette
Robert Kidd, head bartender at Le Cavalier in Wilmington, Delaware
Arette Silver Tequila is a delicious, sweet expression of agave that I would stand by when it comes to great blanco tequila. A lot of my guests are very pleasantly surprised when they taste this tequila. It has hints of cooked agave, earthiness, and some nice herbal and floral notes. It is 100 percent agave on stainless still tanks with an open-air fermentation. The price point really can’t be beaten either. It is great in a margarita or just served with some ice and lime.
Cimarron Blanco
Cimarron
Jacob Mata, bar manager at Garden & Grain in Pensacola, Florida
Tequila has to be my favorite spirit. This makes it hard to narrow it down to just one. My go-to tequila this summer has been Cimarron Blanco. Cimarron is an excellent highland tequila that boasts bright flavors of lavender, lemon balm, melon rind, and vanilla. This tequila is a go-to for any tequila cocktail. A Cimarron paloma goes down like a breeze.
Fortaleza Still Strength
Fortaleza
Liam Odien, beverage director at Playa Provisions in Playa Del Rey, California
I tend to lean towards higher proof spirits because I like when a spirit has enough backbone to stand up to whatever I’m eating or drinking it with, and because I’m a glutton for pain. Fortaleza Still Strength is nice and vegetal, and the agave itself shines through nicely. I love it in a tequila tonic, done Spanish-style with different aromatics and botanicals in the glass. It’s delicious, easy to drink, and extremely customizable. A little bit of basil, some orange zest, or a tiny bit of pineapple make the drink pop and add depth alongside layers of aroma.
The notes you get from the barrel in the reposado (vanilla, black pepper) work really nice with sweet ripe summer fruit, and nothing is more refreshing than watermelon on a hot summer day. For a real summer hit, try Tromba Reposado, add a touch of lime, some fresh mint, and a sweetener of your choice (agave, honey, or simple syrup). To make this drink extra special, toss it in a blender with some ice, and you have yourself a delicious frozen libation.
El Tesoro Blanco
El Tesoro
Ryan Anderson, complex director of beverage at Ace Hotel in New Orleans
Tequila El Tesoro is my favorite all-around blanco tequila. They produce tequila the old way. They don’t just grind up the agave but rather roast it and crush it with giant stone wheels. The roasting process coaxes out a lovely, sweeter expression of agave to make any cocktail naturally fresh.
Tequila Ocho Plata
Tequila Ocho
Matt Nicholas, bar manager for The Kennedy Bar in Pensacola, Florida
There are so many great tequila brands on the market today, but my personal choice for this summer is Tequila Ocho Plata. Made in the highlands of Jalisco, Tequila Ocho uses the finest agave, copper stills, and open-air fermentation to produce a bright, refreshing tequila with notes of citrus, white pepper, and mint.
Teremana Blanco
Teremana
Lynnette Marrero, bar director at Llama Inn in New York City
Teremana Blanco for its wonderful herbal, agave-forward notes. The agave really shines through and is complimented with some fragrant citrusy and earthy notes, vanilla, and a hint of aromatic peppery spice. It’s delicious neat or on the rocks and works so well in bright, clean, and citrus-forward cocktails. Both Teremana’s Blanco and its reposado expressions are exceptionally clean and versatile — I can use them in many different cocktails and no matter what the complexity, their dominant profiles still shine through.
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