Ladywatch With Ryan & Jason

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason choose to recount the many Lady blessings from the past weekend's successful Women's March on the whole WORLD instead of dwelling on the unsuccessful embarrassment that was the swearing in of a certain President Toilet Penis. Also: update on Gladys Knight's Chicken & Waffles, promising quotes from and a Robert Osbourne Award to non-Lady Ryan Murphy and his incredible stable of Ladies assembling for the upcoming Bette vs. Joan series "Feud", trying to determine the best way to help Shelley Duvall (and what we're working on to further that cause), Madonna finally catches a break on LadyWatch (and another Lady is officially removed), and all the many ways in which Netflix is sticking to their winning formula of employing Ladies Ladies Ladies! PLUS: Jenifer Lewis is using Facebook more creatively than you, Helen Mirren is using Instagram more redundantly than you, Wynonna Judd is using Twitter more patriotically than you, and MUCH MUCH MORE!

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason finally return to the ol' Lady routine after the extended hiatus, and just in time to learn that we couldn't need the Ladies more than we do now! From saying goodbye to First Lady Michelle Obama, to taking cues from Rosie O'Donnell, Jane Fonda, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cecile Richards, and Chita Rivera on how to make actionable counter-programming choices during this week's shameful inauguration proceedings (also how one Lady somehow ended up on the wrong side of the fight, and I'm telling you it wasn't pretty!) Also: Gabrielle Carteris crusades for the right of 29 year-olds to play 16, Ladies making big comebacks this year on screens both large and small, Tina Knowles' thumbs accidentally start a social media feud, Vivica A. Fox sets the record "straight" about her male strip club, Rita Moreno wants her Lady sex on TV, and much much more! IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK!

Ryan and Jason announce recipients of The Second Annual LadyWatch Awards, honoring LadyWork performed in the year 2016! Thank you to everyone who voted again this year, your participation and enthusiasm helped make this yet another successful award season for LadyWatch!

Ryan and Jason pay tribute to two significant Ladies losses: Without a doubt, the most shocking and heartbreaking and maddeningly beautiful memorial we've ever had to publish. Two Ladies who have been central to the show since the very beginning of LadyWatch. Two Ladies whose own relationship and perseverance through innumerable highs and lows is the stuff that movies are (and were) made of. Two Ladies who conquered personal obstacles again and again to come out on the other side better and stronger than ever. Two Ladies who showed the world what being a survivor really means, and in an industry that is about as sexist and agist as they come. Our newly canonized Patron LadySaints of Mothers and Daughters, intertwined now for all of eternity, our beloved Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher.

*PROGRAMMING NOTE* This nomination special was recorded on December 16th, a couple of weeks before LadyWatch was rocked by the passing of our beloved Carrie and Debbie. We present this episode unaltered, and invite you to listen to our special super-sized double LadyWatch Memorial for Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds recorded in their honor. ***  On this week's LadyWatch agenda: THE SECOND ANNUAL LADYWATCH AWARDS NOMINATIONS SPECIAL! Ryan and Jason unveil the list of nominations for 2016 LadyWatch Awards celebrating excellence in Lady-ing throughout an otherwise terrible year all around. BRIGHT SPOT! Let your LadyVoice be heard and cast your own vote at www.ladywatchpod.com/awards before Wednesday, January 11th at 11:59pm, and then look out for our results special shortly thereafter! WE WISH ALL OUR FABULOUS LADYWATCHERS AN OPTIMISTIC AND HEALTHY 2017!  

Ryan and Jason pay tribute to a fallen Lady: A woman who built a career playing befuddled and often deceptively silent characters with a face that is known even if the name is not, our favorite screaming librarian, Alice Drummond. 

Ryan and Jason pay tribute to a fallen Lady: Quite possibly THE iconic TV mom of the 20th century, but also an accomplished soprano of stage and screen, game show circuit workhorse, and tireless pitchLady for any product, anywhere. Everyone's favorite bawdy broad behind the scenes, Mrs. Carol Brady herself, Florence Henderson.

Ryan and Jason pay tribute to a fallen Lady: The unsung hero of Golden Age Hollywood musicals, Time Magazine's "Ghostess with the Mostest" (and thorn in Natalie Wood's side), the multi-talented voice of a thousand faces, Marni Nixon.

Ryan and Jason pay tribute to a fallen Lady, a woman whose incredible late-in-life success story was matched only by her singular stage presence, her spectacular voice, and her indomitable spirit... the great Sharon Jones.

Ryan and Jason pay tribute to a fallen Lady, with a Memorial that is itself as tardy as the Lady herself would want a Memorial to be, literal star of stage and screen, Beth Howland.

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: EVERYTHING

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason take one final dive into the Google Alert archives for the last of our special June, June, JOAN installments of Fake LadyWatch, a series of bite-sized summer hiatus episodes featuring your regularly scheduled Lady Birthdays and also June Lady story predictions! Up next week: WAAAAAAAAAAAY TOO MANY STORIES!

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason jump back into the Google Alert archives for another special June, June, JOAN Edition of Fake LadyWatch, a series of bite-sized summer hiatus episodes which also feature your regularly scheduled Lady Birthdays, and also June Lady story predictions!

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason jump back into the Google Alert archives for another special June, June, JOAN Edition of Fake LadyWatch, a series of bite-sized summer hiatus episodes which also feature your regularly scheduled Lady Birthdays and also June Lady story predictions!

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason pull from the Google Alert archives for the first of 4 special June, June, JOAN Editions of Fake LadyWatch, a series of bite-sized morsels of summer episodes also featuring Lady Birthdays and Lady story predictions!

Ryan and Jason pay tribute to a fallen Lady, one of the greatest Lady success stories we've yet encountered, a woman who did not fully come into her own until her 70s and continued to burn bright all the way into her 80s. THE comedic character actress of her time, everybody loved Doris Roberts.

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason sing the many praises of Netflix, none greater than being the official Mary Kay Place place, but also for keeping Sissy Spacek, Swoosie Kurtz, Marsha Mason, Ana Gasteyer, and Mary Louise Wilson in paychecks and TV sets. ALSO: Christine Baranski gets an official green light at CBS for her 'Good Wife' spinoff, Helena Bonham Carter helps us clear up Brexit, Naomi Judd is hopefully not a racist (but Wynonna definitely loves grits), Robin Wright has her don't-fuck-with-me-fellas moment and Susan Sarandon will have a fuck-me-fellas moment when she is 80, Sheila E. comes to her own (and Chaka Khan's) defense at Linda Perry's defense of Madonna, and MUCH MUCH MORE!

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason stumble over themselves with astonishment at the news of a Carrie Fisher/Debbie Reynolds documentary at Cannes Film Festival (and offer a compete Cannes Lady report covering everyone from Dionne Warwick to Susan Sarandon, and grey pounds everywhere you look). Plus: Unpacking the troubling developments on Sinead O'Connor's mental health, Barbra Streisand's new Broadway-by-way-of-Hollywood album and tour, Enya's reclusive compound (and how Celine Dion can help her), Linda Ronstadt's producing chops, Madeleine Stowe's naked bravery, and the debut of a Dawnn Lewis LadyWatch Pledge. PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE! 

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason return from a week off completely overwhelmed with Ladies all over the news, from the return of Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in 'Grace and Frankie', to Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange taking on two of the all-time Lady greats in a new anthology series on FX. Also: Janet Jackson and the longest baby announcement in the history of music, Sinead O'Connor's dick and who can suck it, Geena Davis' 2nd Annual Bentonville Film Festival (and what she learned from Susan Sarandon), Hollywood Walk of Fame Stars for two Ladies (but only one who's been possessed by the devil), Shirley MacLaine's arson squad threatens Florida, Sharon Osbourne leaves Ozzy and the reason why is none of our business, and MUCH MUCH MORE

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason navigate some tricky personal territory to bring you a special episode of DeadLadyWatch honoring THE movie star of the 20th century, THE sex symbol, THE activist, THE one and only Goddess receiving Ryan's prayers these days, Dame Elizabeth Taylor. May her eternal rest in peace bring us all a little peace.