The Thursday Wine Down🍷 (9-23)

September 23, 2021 Popcorn Winedown

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

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

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

THE WATCHOUT

Highlights

What’s Poppin’

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

Tonight’s Focus