Get Snatched On ‘Drag Race,’ Pack For ‘Fire Island’ and More TV this Week

Get Snatched On ‘Drag Race,’ Pack For ‘Fire Island’ and More TV this Week

RuPaul's Drag Race and more TV this week

Check out our weekly guide to TV this week, and make sure you’re catching the big premieres, crucial episodes and the stuff you won’t admit you watch when no one’s looking.

It certainly doesn’t feel like we need dystopian fiction right now, when the real world seems dystopian enough, but we’ll make an exception for Hulu’s hotly anticipated television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Starring Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss, the story follows Offred and the other women of Gilead as they cope with the totalitarian theocracy. The first three episodes premiere Wednesday.

Have you been practicing your eye rolls? Logo’s Fire Island premieres Thursday, and I wouldn’t want you to pull a muscle. Stuff your speedo and follow these six gay friends as they navigate drinking, dancing and drama at the popular LGBT summer destination. Catch the premiere episode Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern on Logo.

From the big screen to your screen, Justin Simien’s 2014 satire Dear White People gets 10 episodes on Netflix, dropping Friday.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Snatch Game! That’s right, the fan-favorite challenge puts the season nine gals to the test on this weeks RuPaul’s Drag Race, Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern on VH1. Based on the preview, it looks like Shea channels Naomi Campbell and Peppermint is NeNe Leakes. Leave your guesses for who the other gals should portray in the comments.

With such a wealth of sharp political comedians, we still place Samantha Bee toward the top of our list of faves. The host of Full Frontal doesn’t need a fancy invite to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, she can just throw her own party! Watch her hold nothing back at the slyly titled NOT The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday at 10 p.m. Eastern on TBS.

What are you watching this week on TV?

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YouTube restores 'wrongly blocked' LGBT videos

YouTube restores 'wrongly blocked' LGBT videos

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YouTube restores 'wrongly blocked' LGBT videos

YouTube has modified its content filter after complaints it had blocked political and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) videos.
Restricted mode is an optional filter designed to hide content that may be judged unsuitable for children.
But many prominent LGBT video-makers said their…

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Blondie’s ‘Long Time’ Music Video is an Infectiously Wistful Tribute to NYC: WATCH

Blondie’s ‘Long Time’ Music Video is an Infectiously Wistful Tribute to NYC: WATCH

The timeless Debbie Harry continues her latest splash with last week’s video release of ‘Long Time,’ the second single from Blondie’s imminent new album Pollinator, their eleventh studio effort, due out next week on May 5.

The infectiously wistful song asks some pointed questions of a long-time intimate, and was co-written with Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes. Given the lyrical shout-outs to the Bowery and The Davenport Theatre, the video, directed by Dikael Rimmasch, is also a veteran’s tribute to New York City, with the band and city featuring downtown in lo-fi colors and black-and-white segments. Harry takes her turn at the wheel of a cab, illuminated with a “BLND3” sign, of course.

Take a listen and watch below:

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Turns out the actual inventor of Post-Its is a fan of “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion”

Turns out the actual inventor of Post-Its is a fan of “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion”
Maybe, just maybe, you could raise the viscosity by adding a complex glucose derivative during the emulsification process.

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Senate Intelligence Committee’s Trump-Russia Investigation is a Sham

Senate Intelligence Committee’s Trump-Russia Investigation is a Sham

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While there are allegedly both House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigations underway regarding the Trump campaign’s links to Russia, and last month it appeared as if the Senate panel had it together, that appears to be in question.

RELATED: Senate Intelligence Committee to Question 20 People in Trump-Russia Investigation, Starting Thursday: WATCH

The Daily Beast reports:

More than three months after the committee announced that it had agreed on the scope of the investigation, the panel has not begun substantially investigating possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, three individuals with ties to the committee told The Daily Beast.

The investigation does not have a single staffer dedicated to it full-time, and those staff members working on it part-time do not have significant investigative experience. The probe currently appears to be moving at a pace slower than prior Senate Intelligence Committee investigations, such as the CIA torture inquiry, which took years to accomplish.

No interviews have been conducted with key individuals suspected of being in the Trump-Russia orbit: not Michael Flynn, not Roger Stone, not Carter Page, not Paul Manafort, and not Jared Kushner, according to two sources familiar with the committee’s procedures.

“It’s either a real investigation or not,” said one individual with knowledge of the committee’s activities. “You have to have an approved investigative guide. You have to make it formal. Can you have a credible investigation with only seven part-time staffers, doing everything in secret?”

Read the full article and weep.

Adds Michael Isikoff:

The committee has yet to issue a single subpoena for documents or interview any key witnesses who are central to the probe, the sources said. It also hasn’t requested potentially crucial evidence — such as the emails, memos and phone records of the Trump campaign — in part because the panel’s chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., has so far failed to respond to requests from the panel’s Democrats to sign letters doing so, the sources said.

“The wheels seem to be turning more slowly than the importance of the inquiry would indicate,” said Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of the 9/11 commission and former Watergate prosecutor, one of a number of veteran Washington investigators who have begun to question the lack of movement in the probe.

As Congress returns from its spring recess this week and Trump approaches his 100th day in office, the panel has no further public hearings scheduled, even as the House Intelligence Committee — torn by its own partisan wrangling and internal turmoil — shows some flickering new signs of life.

An independent investigation looks to be more necessary than ever.

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