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Season two of Heartstopper is set to premiere on Netflix August 3. The coming of age series follows Charlie and Nick navigating school, their personal lives and their blossoming relationship.
Season three of The Other Two will premiere on HBO Max May 4. After comparing themselves for years to their much-younger pop star brother, Chase Dreams, who is now a full adult, and their talk show host mother, who’s now more powerful than she could have ever imagined, Brooke and Cary are finally standing on their own two feet – fully “successful” in their own right! And yet, they somehow find themselves comparing themselves to new people once again??? The series stars Drew Tarver, Heléne Yorke, Molly Shannon, Ken Marino and Case Walker. Recurring cast members include Josh Segarra, Wanda Sykes and Brandon Scott Jones.
Following the cancellation of the adult swim/TBS animated series Final Space, creator Olan Rogers has been looking for a way to wrap up the series. He announced today he was given the rights to wrap up the series in the form of a graphic novel. It is currently available for preorder.
Netflix has renewed animated comedy series Big Mouth for an eighth and final season. The final season will wrap up in 2024, making it the longest running series in Netflix history, outside of Kids & Family programming. Big Mouth spinoff Human Resources will also come to a conclusion at the end of season two, which launches in the coming months. However, the characters and stories from Human Resources will flow into the final seasons of Big Mouth.
Two new acquired dramas are set to premiere on The CW this summer. Supernatural crime thriller The Rising and Australian surfer drama Barons will premiere back to back on May 29. The Rising is the story of Neve Kelly, who discovers that she is dead. Understandably, she’s scared and confused by this new (non) existence, but moreover, when she realizes she has been murdered, she’s furious. Determined to find her killer and get justice, she takes advantage of her new supernatural abilities to go where the police can’t and investigate her own death. In doing so, she uncovers deeply buried secrets and is forced to re-examine everything about her life and the people she cared about. Barons is set at a time of sexual liberation, social disruption, protest and war. The eight-part series captures a unique moment of upheaval and opportunity as a new surfing counterculture collides with the realities of enterprise. Two best friends, inspired by their love for the Australian beach, create what will become rival iconic surf brands. Little do they know that their success will tear them – and their worlds – apart. When their businesses go mainstream, the young rebels and their friends find themselves pulled deep into a world of corporate politics, jealousy, homophobia and racial tension. In selling their dream to the world, they create bitter, lasting rivalries.
ALLBLK has renewed À La Carte for a second season. Season two of À La Carte will explore who Misha, Reign, and Shyra are as friends to each other without the friend that brought them all together, Mahogany. Her absence will serve as a catalyst for comedy and drama within this new friend dynamic. In our mid-20’s, relationships of convenience are fickle, and in L.A. especially, they are not easy to sustain. The mistakes they make will bring them closer in some ways and push them further apart in others. This season, the cast will continue their independent and collective journey discovering and unraveling who they are through the lens of comedy, love, sex, fire, and trial & error.
Apple TV+ has renewed The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy for a second season. The new season follows Levy through Europe as he visits some of the continent’s most beautiful and intriguing destinations, uncovering hidden local gems with new friends, and staying in remarkable and unique hotels along the way.
Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen and Connie Britton have been cast in Netflix’s upcoming limited series Zero Day. They join Robert De Niro in the series that asks how do we find truth in a world in crisis, one seemingly being torn apart by forces outside our control? And in an era rife with conspiracy theory and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps even of our own imagining?
Anthology series Truth Be Told has ended with its recent third season. Based on the novel by Kathleen Barber, the series told a different story each season starring Octavia Spencer.
Brian Cox has been cast in Prime Video’s unscripted adventure series 007’s Road to a Million. The series will see contestants competing in teams of two on a global adventure to win the ultimate prize of up to £1million. Filmed in many iconic Bond locations – from the Scottish Highlands to Venice and Jamaica – this cinematic format will be a true test of intelligence, endurance, and heroism. In addition to conquering obstacles, the contestants, who will compete in two-person teams, must correctly answer questions hidden in the different locations around the world to advance to the next challenge.
Simon Russell Beale, Freddie Fox, Gayle Rankin and Abubakar Salim have been cast in the upcoming second season of House of the Dragon. The HBO Game of Thrones prequel series tells the story of House Targaryen.
Maja Simonsen, Ragga Ragnars, Jay Duffy and Rima Te Wiata have been cast in Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time. The four will recur in the upcoming second season.
The second season of Yellowjackets will resume with its sixth episode on May 5 after taking a one week preemption this weekend. In the upcoming sixth episode of the season, titled “Qui,” the Yellowjackets, trapped inside on a snow day, revisit the highlights, humiliations and traumas of “Health Class.” Taissa and Vanessa help each other kindly rewind, Misty explores joining a classic Cosmic American tribute band, Lisa helps Natalie carp the day, and Shauna gets a pop quiz on her cookie-reading assignment.
Prime Video is developing a TV series based on the film The Magnificent Seven. In the tradition of the great epics from the golden age of westerns, an outlaw and his cohorts must unite a disparate band of indelible fighters to defend a settlement of immigrant homesteaders in an open range war against cattle barons in central Texas, telling an expansive saga of adventure, action and romance.
HGTV heads to Zambia for a safari resort renovation in the first Africa based series Renovation Wild, premiering May 15. Set amongst the extraordinary surroundings of the majestic Lower Zambezi National Park, the eight-episode series will chronicle the incredible journey of resort owners, Grant and Lynsey Cumings, and their children as they work arm-in-arm with their right-hand man and project manager, Ngoli, and resort manager, Juliet, to take on the challenges of renovating in a remote locale. Throughout the season, they’ll face an array of logistical nightmares including monsoon season, extreme supply chain issues and countless exotic wildlife encounters that threaten to halt their plans to upgrade their resort in the middle of the African bush.
The newest Street Outlaws series Street Outlaws: Locals Only premieres on Discovery Channel May 15. Dynamic racing duo and fan-favorite wheelmen – Farmtruck and AZN, best known from Street Outlaws: OKC travel to racetracks across the US in search of the fastest local driving heroes. From Idaho to New Hampshire and Texas to Pennsylvania, top local drivers will race against each other in a bracket-style, single elimination challenge. The winner will take home a prize of $5,000 and get the chance to race against a veteran Street Outlaw driver from the ‘No Prep Kings’ series for another 5K, such as Lizzy Musi, Daddy Dave, Jermaine Boddie and Kye Kelley, among others.
Production on Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings will begin this July. The stakes are higher than ever with more souped-up cars, more drivers – and for the first time, a new fan-nominated team captain. For the past 3 seasons of Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings, the 405’s top racer, Ryan Martin, has captured the No Prep Kings Championship. But this year, No Prep Kings will be turned on its head. Instead of individual drivers racing for the championship, eight teams will be competing for the title. At the first event, eight captains will draft their rosters from a pool of 40+ drivers. At the end of 15 No Prep Kings events held across the U.S., the team with the most wins will take home the No Prep Kings Championship. This year, fans will have the opportunity to choose one of the eight team captains, the People’s Choice Captain.
The Dead Files returns for a new season on Travel Channel June 1. Former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi and medium Amy Allan reunite to help solve incidents of devastating paranormal activity for beleaguered homeowners.
CNN’s new series King Charles will premiere this fall. Gayle King and Charles Barkley will serve as hosts of the new live hour.
Tucker Carlson has been let go at Fox News. His last episode aired April 21.
CNN has let go of Don Lemon after 17 years as a host. For years he hosted a primetime show before moving to the new CNN morning show.
Adele gives James Corden one final ride to work when she takes the wheel for a moving last Carpool Karaoke, in The Last Last Late Late Show with James Corden Carpool Karaoke Special April 27 on CBS. Adele surprises her longtime friend at home in the morning, waking him up and offering to drive the late-night host to work. Once in the car, Adele then turns the tables on Corden, asking him about past Carpools, pivotal moments in their friendship (including the time he tried, unsuccessfully, to prank her), and even a song she wrote that was inspired by an emotional conversation they shared.
The Tailor is set to premiere on Netflix May 2. A famous tailor begins to sew a wedding dress for his best friend’s fiancée – but all three have dark secrets that will soon upend their lives.
