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Your TV Source Roundup: ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ New Premiere Date, ‘Squid Game’ Trailer, ‘Dexter: Original Sin’ Trailer, ‘Pulisic’ Premiere Date, ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Shake Up, ‘The Talk’ Series Finale Date, and More!

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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will now premiere a day earlier, on December 2 with the first two episodes. The brand-new Star Wars story introduces a crew of murderous pirates in the era of the New Republic and six new characters – Jod (Jude Law), Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), KB (Kyriana Kratter), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), and SM-33 (Nick Frost) – on a rollicking journey among the stars. New weekly episodes will premiere every Tuesday starting at 6 p.m. PT on December 10. 

Squid Game season two premieres December 26 on Netflix. Seong Gi-hun returns, locked in a tense battle with the shadowy Front Man. As new games unfold, the stakes grow deadlier, and Gi-hun’s mission to end the games once and for all takes center stage. Will he succeed, or will the system claim even more victims? 

Dexter: Original Sin premieres December 13 on Paramount+ with Showtime. It will make its on air debut December 15. Set in 1991 Miami, the series follows Dexter as he transitions from student to avenging serial killer. When his bloodthirsty urges can’t be ignored any longer, Dexter must learn to channel his inner darkness. With the guidance of his father, Harry, he adopts a Code designed to help him find and kill people who deserve to be eliminated from society without getting on law enforcement’s radar. This is a particular challenge for young Dexter as he begins a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department. 

Soccer docuseries Pulisic will premiere December 9 on Paramount+. Episodes two and three will premiere in January with subsequent seasons airing later in 2025. The series provides unprecedented access to Pulisic’s life and growing celebrity in Italy as he competes in UEFA Champions League and Serie A competitions. Cameras capture Pulisic’s journey in meeting the demands of global stardom while he prepares for the biggest moment of his career – the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup on home soil. The series looks back at the life and career of Pulisic, from his beginnings in Hershey, Pennsylvania to European standout and American hero. From representing the U.S. Men’s National Team to suiting up for AC Milan against the game’s biggest stars in Europe, Pulisic’s stardom is reaching new heights both on and off the pitch. Notable interview subjects featured in the docuseries include American soccer legend and CBS Sports analyst Clint Dempsey, Swedish soccer legend and current AC Milan executive Zlatan Ibrahimović, coaching legend Jürgen Klopp, U.S. Soccer teammate Weston McKennie, former AC Milan teammate Olivier Giroud, former U.S. Soccer manager Jürgen Klinsmann, Italian soccer legend Christian Vieri, reporter Fabrizio Romano, CBS Sports’ Kate Scott, and members of the Pulisic family. 

Bravo has renewed Vanderpump Rules for season twelve which will feature new cast members. It will feature Lisa Vanderpump and a new group of close-knit SUR-vers who are as complicatedly involved with one another as their iconic predecessors. The series will celebrate the past decade of heartbreaks, friendship rifts and scandals with a retrospective special highlighting the past 11 seasons. 

The series finale of The Talk will air December 20 on CBS. Hosts Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell and Sheryl Underwood welcoming an array of guests and big holiday giveaways December 16 through December 20. In December alone, the talk show will gift more than $2.5 million in giveaways to the show’s loyal audience. Over the show’s 15 season run, it will have aired 2,993 episodes, garnered over 70 awards/nominations, promoted over 10,800 guests, gifted over $103 million in giveaways, and welcomed over 250,000 audience members. 

HGTV has ordered Sin City Rehab where designer Alison Victoria will take on the bright lights and high stakes of the Las Vegas real estate scene. The series will document Alison, best known for Windy City Rehab, taking the biggest gamble of her career as she expands her successful design business out West. Throughout the series, Alison will bet on herself for lofty rewards, diving headfirst into multi-million-dollar client projects and risky flips all while building a team and reputation from the ground up in a flashy new market. The new series is slated for late 2025. 

Evolve and Flex will premiere on truTV and Max December 6. The series is a weekly look into the personal growth and fashion evolution of stars from the worlds of sports, culture and fashion hosted by sports-lifestyle expert Lance Fresh. It features candid conversations with guests to discuss how life’s events have contributed to their sense of style. Scheduled guests throughout the season include Dapper Dan, Fabolous, Dwyane Wade, Saint Jhn, Michael Strahan, Taylor Rooks, Sue Bird, and Brandon Marshall. 

Season four of NFL Icons premieres January 17 on MGM+. The series is a documentary biography series that delivers the stories of some of the biggest names in professional football history, showcasing not only their remarkable athleticism, but also the significant impact these icons had on the game and their communities. Each hour-long episode focuses on a single subject, whose career comes to life in his own words through a deep dive into the NFL Films library, original interviews and newly unearthed footage. In the upcoming fourth season, the docuseries will feature Pro Football Hall of Famers Joe Montana, DeMarcus Ware, Kurt Warner and Gale Sayers. It is narrated by Rich Eisen, who tells each legendary figure’s story through a combination of highlights, mic’d-up sound and never-before-seen archives. 

Swedish Cold War political satire Whiskey on the Rocks premieres January 22 on hulu with all six episodes. In the early hours of October 28, 1981, a Soviet nuclear Whiskey class submarine was spotted aground inside a restricted Swedish military area. The world teetered on the brink of disaster. With global superpowers on edge, the eyes of the world turned to Sweden’s calm and collected prime minister, Thorbjörn Fälldin, a former sheep farmer, who faced the immense challenge of keeping peace between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan. 

Season two of Rogue Heroes will premiere on MGM+ in 2025. The series is a dramatized account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two. Based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, the series centers on David Stirling, an eccentric young officer, who is hospitalized after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest, and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team is every bit as complicated, flawed, and reckless as it is brave and heroic. 

Season two of The Manny premieres December 18 on Netflix. A busy executive hires a cowboy to care for her kids in a moment of panic. Little does she know he’ll challenge her views of gender roles – and of love. The story between Gabriel and Jimena was left unfinished, but ‘El Niñero’ returns corrected and augmented to leave his ranch wisdom among the people around him and recover what he loves most. 

Season two of Darby and Joan premieres on Acorn TV December 30. A year after their lives collided on an outback road, retired Australian detective Jack Darby and English widowed nurse Joan Kirkhope have forged a deep friendship amid shared investigative adventures. But Jack’s story has only just begun – he’s determined to clear his name of the unexplained cloud hanging over his career. Despite the potential danger – or perhaps because of it – Joan insists on helping Jack with his quest. As they travel through Queensland’s picturesque landscapes solving mysteries along the way, Jack and Joan’s relationship with be tested. An escapist adventure where a new mystery awaits around every bend in the road, Darby and Joan ask: can you find yourself in the middle of nowhere? 

Season four of true crime series Wild Crime premieres December 5 on hulu. Wild Crime: Eleven Skulls delves into the haunting 2012 disappearance of Samantha Koenig, an 18-year-old Anchorage barista last seen leaving her place of work with an unknown man on a dark winter night. The search for Koenig leads FBI and police from Alaska’s wilderness to the remote forests of Washington’s Olympic National Park and all the way to rural Vermont, exposing a killer’s terrifying trail of crimes. As investigators follow the twisted clues of this case, they uncover the identity of Israel Keyes, a psychopathic serial killer with a hidden life of violence and a dark path he forged while growing up off the grid. Ultimately, a search of Keyes’ prison cell reveals what investigators believe to be the chilling truth. It features never-before-seen footage and in-depth interviews with notable figures in the Israel Keyes case, including FBI lead investigators, officers from the Anchorage Police Department, expert profilers from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit and more. Through personal accounts from friends and relatives of Keyes’ victims, the docuseries provides an intimate look at the devastating impact of his crimes and the complex investigation that unraveled his dark, hidden life. 

Henry Danger The Movie will premieres on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon January 17. Henry Danger meets a superfan – eager to fight crime with Kid Danger – who comes into possession of a device that can open up alternate realities. Facing a wild ride, Henry will need his best friend Jasper and his new superfan sidekick to find his way out or be stuck in another dimension forever. The movie stars original series cast members Jace Norman, as “Henry Danger,” Sean Ryan Fox, as “Jasper,” Ella Anderson, as “Piper Hart,” Michael D. Cohen, as “Schwoz,” and Frankie Grande, as “Frankini,” as well as new cast member, Glee Dango, as “Missy Martin/Superfan.” 

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

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