The Thursday Wine Down🍷 (9-23)

Headlines

• RIP Willie Garson, Sex & The City, White Collar Actor Was 57 (Variety)

• RIP Melvin Van Peebles, Pioneer of Black Cinema Passes Away At 89 (THR)

• Latinos Continue To Be Underrepresented In Media Jobs (The Wrap)

• How An IATSE Strike Would Cripple Film & TV Production From Coast To Coast (Variety)

• Peacock’s Pitch Perfect Spinoff (TVLine)

• Drake Gets a 34th Week Atop Billboard Artist 100 (Billboard)

• LISA Has Top Selling Song On Rap Chart, 3rd Kpop Artist To Due So (Forbes)

• Ray Donovan Gets An Indian Adaptation On Netflix India (Deadline)

• Netflix Acquires Road Dahl’s Story Company, Plans Exclusive Universe (THR)

• J Cole Drops Heaven’s Ep (VIBE)

• David Simon, The Wire Creator Pulling Project From Texas Because of Abortion Law (THR)

• Kathryn Hahn To Play Joan Rivers (Variety)

• It’s Britney, Bitch And And She’s Back On The Gram (People)

• Closing Arguments In R. Kelly Case (Rolling Stone)

MUSIC NEWS & NOTES

• Lisa Talks All Things Blackpink, Korea and More (Rolling Stone)

• Lil Nas X Covers Dolly Parton’s Iconic “Jolene” (People)

• Dru Hill Challenges Not One But Two Groups To A Verzuz (VIBE)

• Meet Karol G The Queen of Reggaeton (Billboard)

• Billie Eilish Performs At iHeartRadio Fest (Rolling Stone)

What’s Really Going On

• Great, More Rona Surges Projected🤬🤬🤬 (CNN)

• Family of Missing Jelani Day Pleads For Help (People)

• Laura Chen Is Also Missing Will She Get the Gabby Petito Treatment? (The Independent)

• Biden Admin Is Really F*cking With The Haiti Migrants (The Independent)

• How Did So Many Haitians End Up In Texas of All Places (USA TODAY)

• Facebook Really Is The Devil (CNN)

• UGA Educators Introducing Mask Mandates In Their Classrooms (CNN)

• Microsoft’s New Surface Laptop, Surface Pros & Phone (USA TODAY)

Sports Talk

• Ben Simmons Is Over the 76ers; Inevitable Breakup Will Probably Get Ugly (Bleacher Report)

• Tracking The MLB Playoffs Who’s In, Who’s Trying To Clinch & The Must Watch Games (ESPN)

• Representation Matters: Study Concludes “Dismal” Representation of Women In Sports Media (ESPN)

• Deion Sanders To Help Jackson State Get Trainers (People)

• Tamika Tremaglio Will Be Next NBPA (Sportico)

• Jets Get Picked Apart By A Kid🤣🤣🤣 (Yahoo Sports)

• Conference Pettiness Plaguing CFB Playoff Expansion (Sports Illustrated)

• Snubs: Which Top Players Didn’t Make The Top 100 Cut? (Sports Illustrated)

• Worst Teams In College Football, Who Made The Bottom 10? (ESPN)

Scores & Rankings

• MLB Scoreboard 9-22 (Sports Illustrated)

• The Best Players In WNBA History (ESPN)

• College Football USA TODAY  Coaches Poll [9-19]- (USA TODAY)

• College Football AP Poll [9-19] - (Yahoo Sports)

• College Football Power Rankings Wk 3 (ESPN)

• MLB Power Rankings

• Week 3 NFL Power Rankings (ESPN)

• Ranking the NBA’s Top 100 Players 21-22 Season (Sports Illustrated)

What’s Charting & Playing

• New This Week On The Radio [9-19] - (Wine Down Radio)

• EW’s Best New Songs of the Week (9-17)

• Best In Latin Music This Week (9-19)

• Songs To Get You Through The Week [9-21] (Billboard)

• Fresh New Hip Hop Joints To Get You Through The Week [9-14]- (Billboard)

• Billboard Hot 100 [9-25] (Billboard)

• Billboard Hot 200 [9-25]-(Billboard)

• 2021 Album Release Calendar (Metacritic)

BookEnds

• Read Excerpt FromThe Lost Dreamer, Coming Next Spring (EW)

• NY TIMES Best Seller List [9-26] (NY TIMES)

• The September Reading List (EW)

• August’s Best Comics (EW)

• August’s Romances Heat It Up (EW)

• In Real Life: Fall’s Best Memoirs (EW)

• Best Books of the Year, So Far (Barnes & Noble)

THE WATCHOUT

Highlights

• Hot List- What to Watch, Read, & Play In September (THR)

• Best Movies Streaming September (EW)

• 2021 Movie Release Calendar (Cinemablend)

• Fall TV Schedule (TVLine)

• Most Anticipated Movies of 2021 (Variety)

• 2022 Awards Season Calendar (EW)

• Fall TV Premiere Dates (EW)

What’s Poppin’

• Top 10 Movies From Toronto International Film Festival (Rolling Stone)

• Meet The TIME 100 (Time Magazine)

• Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of all Time (Rolling Stone)

• 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of 21st Century (Thrillist)

• Esquire’s 40 Best Books Of The Year So Far (Esquire)

• 100 Best Sitcoms of All Time (Rolling Stone)

• 50 Best Teen Dramas of All Time (EW)

• Billboard Team Ranks The Top 50 Albums of The Year So Far (Billboard)

• 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time (Rolling Stone)

WINE DOWN TV

The Latest In Streaming

• 9 Must-Watch Shows This Fall (EW)

• This Week’s Comings & Goings (9-19) (TVLine)

• What’s Streaming In September (Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon, etc…) (Slate)

• Fall TV Premiere Dates (The Wrap)

TV Listings

• EW Thursday Listings

• TVLine Thursday Listings

• TV Guide Thursday Listings

Tonight’s Focus

• Doom Patrol (HBO Max)

• Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime 8E/7C (NBC)

• WNBA Playoffs 8E/7C (ESPN2)

• Thursday Night Football 8E/7C (NFL Network)

🎬 Trailer Park 🎬

Maid (Billy Burke; Andie MacDowell; Margaret Qualley) Netflix (Oct 1)

The Tragedy of Macbeth (Denzel Washington; Frances McDormand; Brendan Gleeson) In Theaters (Dec.25th)