Seth MacFarlane Wants To See More 'Hope' From TV Shows

As someone who’s sick of the constant and downright destructive doomerism on social media, I’m on board with everything Seth MacFarlane is saying here. That said, is he dating Elizabeth Gillies now? Is that what I’m looking at? When did that happen? (Variety)

Machine Gun Kelly cleverly threw fuel on those Sydney Sweeney rumors. (Lainey Gossip)

Has Chanel privately apologized to Jennifer Lopez? (Celebitchy)

PragerU isn’t taking over PBS — yet! (Wonkette)

From Lindsay: Harry and Meghan’s Netflix deal isn’t dead after all. 🤷‍♀️ (BBC)

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our first Labubu heist. (The Cut)

Ford is ready to bludgeon Tesla with a $30,000 EV truck. (Gizmodo)

Don’t believe anything about The Batman II unless it comes from James Gunn, or one of my rants. I’m sure he just forgot that part. (Gizmodo)

DHS still doesn’t get that Darth Vader is the bad guy. (Gizmodo)

Aww, John Oliver hurt Dean Cain’s feeling. (Daily Beast)

Don’t mom shame Sophie Turner. What’s wrong with you? (Page Six)

Knowing the number of Kurt Vonnegut novels is limited (14), Uncoolaidman only reads one every few years. This year he read Cat’s Cradle. “Despite how wild and borderline depressing how some of his novels can be, it always feels a bit like putting on a favorite sweater when I start one of his books.” Do you have a favorite novel by the author? (Cannonball Read 17)

From Kayleigh:

There will come a payday hallelujah what a payday!

— Jordan Slayton (@jslayton87) August 9, 2025