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Your TV Source Roundup: ‘Unseen’ Teaser, ‘Love Is Blind’ Premiere Date, ‘Mathis Court with Judge Mathis’ Announced, 2 Chainz and Ne-Yo Join ‘BMF’, ‘Ciao House’ Premiere Date, New ‘Schmigadoon!’ Premiere Date, and More!

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South African crime thriller Unseen will premiere on Netflix March 29. Cleaning house has never been this deadly. 

Season four of Love Is Blind will premiere on Netflix March 24 with the first five episodes. Three more episodes will be released on both March 31 and April 7. The final episode will premiere April 14. Singles who want to be loved for who they are have signed up for a less-conventional approach to modern dating in Seattle, and will choose someone to marry without ever meeting them. Over several weeks, the newly engaged couples will move in together, plan their wedding and find out if their physical connection matches their strong emotional bond developed in the Pods. When their wedding day arrives, will real-world realities and external factors push them apart, or will they marry the person they fell blindly in love with? Hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, this addictive twelve episode series will uncover whether looks, race or age do matter, or if love really is blind. 

New syndicated court series Mathis Court with Judge Mathis will premiere this fall. The new one hour series comes on the heels of Judge Mathis being canceled after 24 seasons. The series will be the 8th daily court series for Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group. 

Grammy Award winners 2 Chainz and Ne-Yo will both recur in the third season of Starz’s BMF. 2 Chainz will play “Stacks,” an Atlanta-born and bred distributor whose wisdom and stature command respect wherever he goes. Fiercely loyal and determined to provide for his family no matter the cost, Stacks lives by the street code and challenges Meech’s leadership style. Ne-Yo will play “Rodney ‘Greeny’ Green,” a local Atlanta player who’s all about making the bag. Filled with swagger and an entrepreneurial spirit, there’s more than meets the eye to Greeny. Season two is currently airing. 

Ciao House will premiere on Food Network April 16. Hosted by Chef Alex Guarnaschelli and Tuscan-born Chef Gabriele Bertaccini, shot on-location in Tuscany, Italy, the series welcomes ten rising culinary stars who will live together in a breathtaking Italian villa and compete against each other as individuals and in teams to prove their mastery of Italian cooking techniques and dishes. From real-life nonnas showcasing how they make pasta from scratch to a lesson with the head butcher of a three centuries-old family butcher business, each challenge is accompanied by a local experience steeped in tradition. The competitors must also navigate alliances and rivalries as they pick their own teams and each week, the losing team must vote off one of their own. In the end, only the last chef standing wins the life-changing grand prize: an immersive culinary education across Italy, training with renowned Italian master chefs. 

Schmigadoon! will now premiere two days earlier on Apple TV+. Season two will premiere April 5. It joins Ted Lasso in premiering on Wednesdays as opposed to Apple TV+’s usual Friday premiere dates. 

Javicia Leslie has been cast in ABC’s HPI (High Intellectual Potential) pilot. She joins Kaitlin Olson and Daniel Sunjata in the drama series based on the French series of the same name. 

British series Am I Being Unreasonable? will stream on hulu April 11. The six episode series stars Daisy May Cooper and is a twisted comedy thriller about obsessive friendship, maternal paranoia – and a dead cat. It is a warped tale about just how quickly lives can unravel.

Al-Shabazz Jabateh, Nicholas Duvernay, Diandra Lyle, Justin Cornwell, and Reno Wilson will appear in the upcoming second season of Peacock’s Bel-Air. The five will recur in the season which sees Will at a crossroads in his life as a new figure comes into his life who challenges what he’s learned in Bel-Air and competes for control of his influence.

Queen Latifah will host the 54th NAACP Image Awards. The star-studded evening will also feature A-list presenters taking the stage, including Brian White, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Damson Idris, Taye Diggs, Harold Perrineau, Issa Rae, Janelle Monáe, Janelle James, Jonathan Majors, Kerry Washington, Letitia Wright, Morris Chestnut, Ms. Pat, NAACP President Derrick Johnson, NAACP Chairman Leon W. Russell, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Terrence Howard, Tracee Ellis Ross and Zendaya. The ceremony will air live on BET February 25. 

Redbox and Crackle are celebrating Black History Month with the release of three docuseries available to stream. HBCU Homecomings: The Journey to the Yard  showcases the exhilarating journey of homecomings at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). From packing and missed flights to cars towed and late-night parties, it is all Black joy! An authentic walk through the HBCU experience and culture, schools featured include Bethune Cookman University, Florida A&M University, Grambling State University, Hampton University, Howard University, North Carolina A&T State University, and Jackson State University. The HBCU Honors Award Show showcases the “Who’s Who of HBCUs,” and celebrates the best and brightest HBCU alumni across various industries. The event was held at the Black Archives-Historic Lyric Theater in Miami, Florida. Emmy award-winning actress and producer Wendy Raquel Robinson, a Howard University alumna, hosted the all-star night of Black Excellence. HBCU Honors salute game-changers, innovators, legends, and history-makers. The event pays tribute to HBCU alumni who have made an indelible mark on the Black community and beyond. Miami’s Richmond Heights: The Black Shangri-La explores the lives of early Black World War II veterans in detail and the rationale of the white developer Captain Frank C. Martin who perpetuated social change during Jim Crow. Martin made a bold and unpopular decision in 1949 to build a self-contained community for these veterans.

Inside with Jen Psaki will premiere on MSNBC March 19. This will be the first weekly news program for the former White House press secretary. 

Nominated casts from Babylon, The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans and Women Talking are set to present at the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The ceremony will air live on Netflix’s YouTube channel, YouTube.com/Netflix, Sunday, February 26 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT from the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Presenting includes Jovan Adepo, Diego Calva, Li Jun Li, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson,  Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh, Paul Dano, Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams,  Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, and  Rooney Mara. 

Comedy special Mae Martin: SAP will premiere on Netflix March 28. Mae Martin makes their hour-long comedy special debut, directed by Abbi Jacobson. The award-winning comedian, writer, and actor, best known for their critically acclaimed series Feel Good, reflects on a world off its axis, from a mythical moose encounter to the gender spectrum in “Beauty and the Beast”, in this new stand-up special. The special was filmed last December at the Vogue Theater in Vancouver, Canada. 

Comedy series Class of ’07 premieres on Prime Video March 17. The series is about a never-ending high school reunion with life-and-death stakes. When an apocalyptic tidal wave hits during the 10-year reunion of an all-girls high school, a group of women must find a way to survive atop the island peak of their high school campus. Now freshly entangled in decade-old drama, their greatest threat to survival isn’t the end of the world, but each other. The eight episode series is an unapologetic love letter to female friendship, featuring two old friends finding their way back to each other in the most absurd of settings: the apocalypse. 

Divorce Attorney Shin will premiere on Netflix March 4. Driven by a personal tragedy, a pianist-turned-lawyer navigates the complex world of divorce – fighting for his clients to win by any means necessary. 

Season two of Most Dangerous Game titled Most Dangerous Game: New York will premiere on The Roku Channel March 10. The new season stars David Castañeda, Christoph Waltz, Anna Gunn, Ciara Bravo, Martina Ortiz Luis, and Aaron Poole. Victor, a down-on-his-luck fighter, will do anything to protect his sister – and when he learns she’s in trouble – he springs into action. Needing to come up with a half a million dollars to protect her – he agrees to participate in a deadly game – to be hunted through the mean streets of New York for 24 hours by five of the most experienced hunters in the world. If he survives, he’ll make a fortune. Out of love for his sister – he’s determined to live… 

Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever will premiere on Disney+ February 28. Discover a collection of sounds from all over the world. 

Interactive special We Lost Our Human premieres on Netflix March 21. In this epic comedy adventure, Pud the Cat and Ham the Dog wake up one day to discover that every human on Earth has disappeared! 

Lee Arvoy
Lee Arvoy joined the TV Source team in the summer of 2020 as a TV Writer.

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