ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS  JANUARY 02, 2020 The Live TV Chaos That Kicked Off 2020 Happy New Year, dear readers! No matter how you rang in this fresh decade, it likely wasn’t with as much devil-may-care spirit as Alanis Morissette, who encouraged one of the stars of the Jagged Little Pill musical to keep the profanity in a live New Year’s Eve performance of “You Oughta Know.” ABC’s censors caught it, but the anarchic spirit remained. Or maybe you celebrated like CNN’s Don Lemon and got a new tattoo—and revealed it on live TV? If you weren’t awake to watch any of this happen, Vanity Fair’s Laura Bradley has recapped all the mayhem that went down during New Year’s Eve broadcasts. Could the year really have started any other way? Elsewhere in HWD, the Little Gold Men team is looking ahead to Sunday’s Golden Globes and predicting which films and TV shows will reign supreme, from The Irishmanto Fleabag; Yohana Desta finds Martin Scorsesesupremely uninterested in watching Joker, a movie directly inspired by his work; and Anthony Breznicancontinues his peerless coverage of The Rise of Skywalkerby getting J.J. Abrams to reveal how he convinced Harrison Ford to make one last appearance as Han Solo.

New Year, Same Mayhem New Year’s Eve broadcasts will probably never be less weird—and that, in and of itself, is somehow kind of encouraging. READ MORE » “I Get It. It’s Fine.” After months of battling Marvel, Martin Scorsese turns his disdain to a different comic book-inspired project—though, mind you, he’s seen clips! READ MORE » A Golden Crystal Ball The Golden Globes pride themselves on being unpredictable—but darn it, we’re going to try and predict some winners anyway. Start brushing up that speech, Brad Pitt! READ MORE » Han Solo’s Goodbye Though he died in 2015’s The Force Awakens, Han Solo made a brief and emotional return in The Rise of Skywalker—and J.J. Abrams reveals the conversations he and Harrison Ford had to make it happen. READ MORE » 2020: The Year of WandaVision? The Disney+ series has been bumped up from its planned 2021 premiere, which has us wondering—is this the next Mandalorian? READ MORE »