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Your TV Source Roundup: ‘Heartstopper’ Premiere Date, ‘That ’90s Show’ Teaser, ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ Renewed, ‘The Voice’ Coaches Announced, ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Renewed, ‘Bridgerton’ Cover Songs Announced, and More!

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Season three of Heartstopper will premiere October 3 on Netflix. Charlie would like to tell Nick that he loves him. Nick also has something important to say to Charlie. As the summer holiday ends and the months race on, the friends begin to realise that the school year will come with both its joys and its challenges. As they learn more about each other and their relationships, plan social events and parties and start thinking about university choices, everyone must learn to lean on those they love when life doesn’t go to plan. 

That ’90s Show Part 2 premieres June 27 on Netflix. Part 3 will premiere October 24. It’s 1996 and Leia Forman is back in Point Place for another summer of fun with her friends and grandparents, Kitty and Red. Leia and Jay are excited to be together again after nine months of long distance. But she’s on edge since Jay still doesn’t know she almost kissed Nate. Nate is concerned that his girlfriend, Nikki, doesn’t know either. How long can they keep this secret? Turns out, not long at all. And when the truth finally comes out, relationships are threatened, friendships are at stake, and the summer is on the verge of ending before it even gets started. 

ABC has renewed America’s Funniest Home Videos for a 35th season. Alfonso Ribeiro hosts the series where each week, the “AFV” team evaluates thousands of user-submitted home videos to showcase America’s real-life funny moments captured on video. The series offers weekly cash prizes to the funniest or most unique videos submitted by families from across the nation. 

The coaching panel for the upcoming season of The Voice has been announced. Season 26 will feature new coaches Snoop Dogg and Michael Bublé joining returning coaches Reba McEntire and Gwen Stefani. Bublé served as a season 3 advisor to Team Blake. Snoop previously took the reins as season 20 mega mentor. 

Seth Meyers has renewed his deal with NBCUniversal to host Late Night with Seth Meyers through 2028. Meyers recently celebrated his 10-year anniversary as host of the late night series which launched on February 24, 2014. 

Bridgerton Season 3: Part 1, premiering May 16, will feature more instrumental covers of current songs. Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever,” BTS’s “Dynamite” and Sia’s “Cheap Thrills” reimagined by Vitamin String Quartet to Nick Jonas’s “Jealous” covered by Shimmer and Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey’s “Snow On The Beach” covered by Atwood Quartet, the soundtrack promises to charm. The soundtrack for Part 1 will be released globally on May 16. 

Jake Borelli is leaving Grey’s Anatomy after seven seasons. Borelli will wrap up his story in the upcoming 21st season, but no longer as a series regular. 

Carrie-Anne Moss has been cast in FUBAR. Moss will play a former spy in the Netflix series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The final five episodes of Jessica’s Big Little World will begin airing May 27 on Cartoon Network. The final episode of the Craig of the Creek spinoff series will air May 31. 

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are returning for a new series on Peacock. The two starred in The Simple Life for five seasons on Fox and E!. More information will be announced soon. 

Awkwafina, Henry Golding, James Marsden, Florence Pugh, Issa Rae and Justin Theroux will appear in the upcoming National Geographic series No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski. Premiering Spring 2025, the series features Porowski as he guides a celebrity guest on epic journeys to discover their past by way of their ancestors’ food traditions, techniques and culinary experiences. With Rae in Senegal, Pugh in the United Kingdom, Golding in Malaysian Borneo, Marsden in Germany, Awkwafina in South Korea and Theroux in Italy, each episode is an epic adventure, filled with cinematic moments, intimate conversations with locals, the joys of cooking and, of course, lots and lots of eating. 

Ellen Degeneres is back with a brand new comedy special launching on Netflix later this year. This marks Ellen’s second stand-up with Netflix, after 2018’s Relatable.

The MTV Movie & TV Awards will not air this year. The ceremony is currently scheduled to return in 2025. The 2023 ceremony was forced to pre-record the event due to the writers strike which saw host Drew Barrymore step aside. 

Presenters for the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards include Alabama, BRELAND, Tyler Cameron, Jordan Davis, Sara Evans, Carin León, Little Big Town, Ashley McBryde, Dion and Rozene Pride, Noah Reid, Richard Sherman, Charissa Thompson, Randy Travis, and Clay Walker. Hosted by entertainment icon Reba McEntire, Country Music’s Party of the Year returns exclusively on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, live from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on Thursday, May 16, 2024. 

Roku has secured the exclusive multi-year rights for Major League Baseball (MLB) Sunday Leadoff live games. Starting May 19, Roku will offer Sunday MLB games for free on The Roku Channel, plus an all-new MLB Zone to help baseball fans discover live and upcoming games, nightly recaps, highlights, a fully programmed MLB FAST channel, and more across the Roku platform. On most Sundays throughout the season, Roku will be the home for the first games of the day, with an exclusivity window during airtime as well. 

NBC Sports has acquired an additional NFL regular-season game on December 21, to be presented across NBC, Peacock and Telemundo. NBC Sports also announced that the NFL Kickoff game (September 5 on NBC and Peacock) will feature a rematch of the AFC Championship Game, as Patrick Mahomes and the Super Bowl-champion Kansas City Chiefs host Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens. 

Pyramid Game premieres May 30 on Paramount+. In the South Korean psychological thriller series, Seong Su-ji is a new student at the Baekyeon Girls’ High School. Between the bullies, her studies, and the fight for popularity, high school already feels like a game of survival for Su-ji. But when she’s introduced to a ranking system that chooses class outcasts via secret vote, Su-ji must decide whether to accept her status and its violent fallout or lead an uprising against the Pyramid Game. 

Season two of Frog and Toad premieres May 31 on Apple TV+. Frog is a frog. Toad is a toad. They have a lot in common … but they are also very different. Frog and Toad are best friends who know that the true secret to friendship is not only enjoying the things you have in common, but embracing the things that make you different. Since our differences are what makes us special, Frog and Toad celebrate what makes them unique! 

Season two of Transformers: EarthSpark premieres June 7 on Paramount+. The series introduces a new generation of Transformers robots – the first to be born on Earth – and together with the humans who welcome them and care for them, they’ll redefine what it means to be a family. In season two, the Emberstone has shattered, and it’s a race against the Decepticons to find all the pieces. Limitless power will be at the fingertips of whoever holds the artifact… Amidst the chaos, Robby meets someone special; Mo uncovers an ancient secret in Witwicky; and the Terrans level up. Together the Malto family and the Autobots see how far they must go to defend all that they love. 

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

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