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‘Fallout’ Officially Renewed for Season 2 by Amazon
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Quiet on Set’ Delivers Max’s Biggest Showing Yet
Netflix's '3 Body Problem' tops the Nielsen charts for its premiere week.
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s ‘Long Island Compromise’ Getting Apple TV Adaptation
The author behind ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ will reteam with Susannah Grant and Sarah Timberman to develop upcoming novel for the small screen with Richard Plepler also exec producing.
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‘Squid Game,’ ‘Night Agent’ Set for Second Half of 2024 on Netflix
Co-CEO Ted Sarandos says a host of marquee series will premiere in the latter part of the year.
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‘Fallout’ Officially Renewed for Season 2 by Amazon
It’s official: The sci-fi action-comedy Fallout will return for a second season. Prime Video renewed the series based on the popular Bethesda Softworks game franchise and adapated by showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner and produced by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. The show has given the streamer a welcome buzzy boost, premiering to some […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘Quiet on Set’ Delivers Max’s Biggest Showing Yet
The docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV posted Max’s best streaming numbers to date for its premiere week. The show, which streamed on Max concurrent with its on-air premiere on ID, had 1.25 billion minutes of viewing for the week of March 18-24. That’s the largest weekly total for any series […]
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s ‘Long Island Compromise’ Getting Apple TV Adaptation
Fleishman Is in Trouble author Taffy Brodesser-Akner is adapting her upcoming book Long Island Compromise for Apple. Following a multiple-platform bidding war, Apple has landed the rights to develop the dark family drama for television. As she did with Hulu’s Fleishman, Brodesser-Akner will adapt her novel (due July 9 from Random House) for Apple and […]
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‘Squid Game,’ ‘Night Agent’ Set for Second Half of 2024 on Netflix
Netflix is gearing up for a big second half of 2024. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos teased a host of marquee series set to debut in the last six months of the year on the streamer’s first-quarter earnings call Wednesday. Sarandos was asked about going into this year’s upfront market for advertisers and promised that buyers will […]
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‘Elsbeth’ Nabs Second Season on CBS
CBS is adding to its already extensive list of series renewals for the 2024-25 season. The latest pickup for the network is Elsbeth, the Columbo-esque Good Wife offshoot starring Carrie Preston as the title character, lawyer-turned-investigator Elsbeth Tascioni. The series has performed well over its first few episodes, ranking as the second most watched newcomer […]
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‘The Witcher’ to End With Season 5 at Netflix
The saga of Geralt of Rivia is coming to an end. Netflix announced Wednesday that it has ordered a fifth — and final — season of The Witcher. The streamer also noted that season four, which will see Liam Hemsworth taking over the role of Geralt from Henry Cavill, has begun production. The final two […]
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Tobias Menzies Reflects on ‘Manhunt’ Ahead of Finale Fate: “Democracy Is Fragile”
Tobias Menzies has already caught Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth going into the finale of Apple TV+’s Manhunt, which will sign off on Friday after seven episodes. But his character, U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, suffering from chronic asthma during the historical drama gives a strong hint of Menzies’ foreordained fate by the […]
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‘The Jinx’ Filmmakers Revisit That Robert Durst Confession: “We Screamed”
“Killed them all, of course.” Those five words were spoken by Robert Durst when the New York real estate heir, who was still mic’d, walked to the bathroom after completing his interviews for the HBO true-crime docuseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. Durst had been suspected of killing his close friend Susan […]
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Janelle James on That ‘Abbott Elementary’ Guest Star and Why it’s Time for an Ava Clothing Line
[This story contains spoilers from the April 17 episode of Abbott Elementary, “2 Ava 2 Fest.”] Ava Fest returned to Abbott Elementary for a second year in a row during Wednesday night’s “2 Ava 2 Fest” episode. But, unlike the first festival in season two of the ABC sitcom — where the wildly unqualified principal […]
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‘Oldboy’ TV Series in the Works From Filmmaker Park Chan-wook
Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook is partnering with Lionsgate Television to develop a series version of his 2003 revenge thriller Oldboy. The project would be an English-language adaptation of the story, which was loosely based on a magna with the same name. “Lionsgate Television shares my creative vision for bringing Oldboy into the world of television,” said Park. […]
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‘For All Mankind’ Renewed as Apple Expands Franchise With Soviet Spinoff ‘Star City’
Apple is doubling down on For All Mankind. The iPhone maker and streamer has handed out a fifth season renewal for Ron Moore’s For All Mankind and a straight-to-series order for Star City, a spinoff following the Soviet space race. As with the flagship series, Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi co-created Star City, with […]
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Barbra Streisand Sings Closing Credits Song for ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’
Barbra Streisand is looking to make the final scene in The Tattooist of Auschwitz memorable and poignant as the credits roll after recording a new song, “Love Will Survive,” for the Peacock and Sky original drama. Marking her first ever recording for a TV series, Streisand has performed the end title anthem for the series […]
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‘Shogun’ Star Anna Sawai Breaks Down the Climactic Penultimate Episode: “It’s the Long Fight”
[This story contains major spoilers from Shōgun’s ninth episode, “Crimson Sky.”] Shōgun star Anna Sawai is bidding adieu to Lady Akechi Mariko. The Japanese actor, who was born in New Zealand and raised in Japan, considers the acclaimed miniseries’ penultimate episode, “Crimson Sky,” to be her “final farewell” to her fan-favorite character. Written by Rachel […]
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‘Hacks’ Season 3 Trailer Finds Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder Right Back Where They Started
Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) are right back where they started in the Hacks season three trailer. After Deborah let Ava go as a way for her to spread her wings and grow as a writer, Ava finds herself unable to move on without her mentor. Since viewers last saw Deborah, her […]
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Sylvester Stallone Returns to ‘Tulsa King’ Season 2 Set Amid Casting Controversy
Sylvester Stallone took to social media this week to promote the forthcoming second season of his Paramount + series, Tulsa King, without addressing the accusations that he and one of the show’s unnamed directors were allegedly responsible for a “toxic” on-set environment for its hired background actors, who were reportedly mocked by both for their […]
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Jerrod Carmichael Says Slave Joke Was Taken Out of Context: “It Has Nothing to Do With Sex”
Jerrod Carmichael is addressing criticism he’s received over a joke made in his new HBO series. In a recent episode of the Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, the comedian said: “My boyfriend, he makes me smarter, he makes me read. I have so many books. Realistically I’m not gonna read all those books. He knows that. […]
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