Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Turner Sam Rubin, an entertainment reporter who has been a fixture on Los Angeles’s KTLA since 1991, has died at 64. “Sam was a giant in the local news industry and the entertainment world, and a fixture of Los Angeles morning television for decades,” the station said in a statement confirming the news. “His laugh, charm and caring personality touched all who knew him. Sam was a loving husband and father: the roles he cherished the most. Our thoughts are with Sam’s family during this difficult time.” A source close to the station later confirmed to Variety ..read more

Photo: Alfonso Bresciani/AMC Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire took a bit to find itself, but one thing it has been from the beginning is self-aware. The series takes an interrogative approach to its source material, framing Rice’s iconic goth novel and its 1994 film adaptation as the previous version of its story, one in which the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) lies and deceives his interviewer, Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). The interview in the series, occurring decades later, is supposedly the real story, with Daniel, now a more seasoned journalist, picking through Lo ..read more

Photo: Disney+ Call it déjà Who. After relaunching in 2005, Doctor Who has been reset for a second time. What would’ve been season 14 is now being billed as season one on Disney+, and Russell T. Davies is once again helming the rebrand. The first taste of Ncuti Gatwa’s season as the Fifteenth Doctor does plenty of hand-holding. To be fair, there is a lot of lore that could be intimidating to a first-time fan. The specials from last year alone introduced the first bi-generation and leaned into sci-fantasy elements. And that’s ..read more

Photo: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Something’s been in the straight men’s water this week. Just days after Red, White & Royal Blue’s Nicholas Galitzine defended his multiple queer roles, John Mayer is defending his friendship with Andy Cohen. It started with The Hollywood Reporter’s cover story on Cohen, where the writer noted that “people seem dubious” that a gay TV host and straight rocker can be friends. Cohen took the speculation on the chin, declaring, “Let them speculate!” But Mayer seemed to feel unsettled after, because he wrote to The Hollywood Reporter about the whole thing. May ..read more

Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Everett Collection (Paramount, A24, Claudette Barius/Universal, Focus Features) This list was originally published on May 10, 2019. It has been updated to include additional scary movie moms ahead of Mother’s Day. If we’ve learned one thing from horror and horror-adjacent films, it is that mother does not always know best. So, in honor of Mother’s Day, Vulture has pulled together a list of 25 of the absolute worst, most frightening moms ever onscreen. And by worst we mean a combination of incredible and evil. Would you want these matriarchs to raise you up ..read more

Anne Marie Fox/Disney Simone’s in the intern hot seat this week. When she first arrived at Grey Sloan, we saw how much she was affected by being at the very hospital where her mother died giving birth to her, and while it’s come up a little bit since, this week she really has to confront those feelings. While she’s doing that, Grey’s Anatomy also does a nice job of reminding us how insanely disproportionate the maternal mortality rate is for Black women in this country; not only must Black pregnant women and their families live with that fear on a daily basis, the fear exists in the minds of ..read more

Photo: Amazon Studios The United States and the United Kingdom are on a mission to end homophobia together, and by that we mean there’s another Red, White & Royal Blue movie in the works. The sequel will again star man-statue Taylor Zakhar Perez as Alex and recently outed (as straight) actor Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Henry. Galitzine recently noted to GQ that he feels “perhaps guilt” for performing queer roles. Anyway, Matthew Lopez, the writer-director of the first film, is again attached to write the script, this time with Casey McQuiston, who wrote the book RWRB is based on. The film ..read more

Photo: Bravo One thing that has struck me about Carl and Lindsay’s romance, from best friends to being engaged, is the emphasis from them both that their yearslong best-friendship has set them up for success. They spent the past summer arguing with their friends over why their relationship is not just a good idea but the most natural progression of their friendship. In last week’s episode, we saw Lindsay repeat in a confessional what so many women say about their partners — “He’s my best friend” — with so much hope she was willing it to stay true. Only w ..read more

Photo: Disney+ The beauty of Doctor Who being a series about regeneration — and okay, fine, also an eccentric alien who flies through space and time in a blue police box — is that it has regular opportunities to reinvent itself: new Doctor, new companion, and a whole new generation of potential fans. But its latest regeneration, which kicks off tonight, may be its biggest yet: as a Disney+ show. As the storied British franchise emerges from one of the most divisive and unpopular periods in its six-decade history, it’s ushering in Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th Doctor era, overseen by the popular showrunne ..read more

Photo: Christopher Bonanos A plaque greets you at the entrance of Conwell Coffee Hall, the striking and mysterious café now open in New York’s Financial District. The text pays tribute to a powerful 1920s magnate, J.G. Conwell, former chairman of the Life and Trust Bank and the builder and former occupant of this craggy limestone skyscraper at 20 Exchange Place. “The Skyscraper,” it explains, is also the name Conwell gave to a coffee blend he perfected shortly before he died “unexpectedly and suddenly under tragic circumstances.” Conwell Coffee celebrates his work and life. Except J.G. Conwell ..read more