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Your TV Source Roundup: ‘Andor’ Trailer, ‘The Studio’ Cast Revealed, ‘Doctor Who’ Trailer, ‘Got to Get Out’ Trailer, ‘When Calls the Heart’ Renewed, ‘Project Runway’ Icons Return, and More!

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The second and final season of Andor premieres April 22 on Disney+. Rife with political intrigue, danger, tension, and high stakes, the series is a prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which portrayed a heroic band of rebels who steal the plans to the Empire’s weapon of mass destruction: The Death Star, setting the stage for the events of the original 1977 film. The series sets the clock back five years from the events of Rogue One to tell the story of the film’s hero, Cassian Andor, and his transformation from disinterested, cynical nobody into a rebel hero on his way to an epic destiny. The final season will unfold over 12 episodes broken down into four chapters of three episodes each.

The Studio premieres March 26 on Apple TV+. Seth Rogen stars as the newly appointed head of a movie studio, Continental Studios. Desperate for the approval of celebrities, he and his team of executives at Continental Studios must juggle corporate demands with creative ambitions as they try to keep movies alive and relevant.

Season two of Doctor Who premieres April 12 on Disney+. The Doctor meets Belinda Chandra and begins an epic quest to get her back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, bigger enemies and wilder terrors than ever before. The new season stars Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor, Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra, and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday. Previously announced guest cast includes Rose Ayling-Ellis, Christopher Chung, Rylan Clark, Alan Cumming, Anita Dobson, Freddie Fox, Michelle Greenidge, Jonah Hauer-King, Ruth Madeley, Jemma Redgrave and Susan Twist. 

Got to Get Out premieres on hulu April 11 with all eight episodes. Twenty people under one roof, $1 million dollars in prizes up for grabs. To win it, they’ve GOT TO GET OUT… but that’s much easier said than done. Lies and lunacy collide in this exhilarating competition series where an outrageous mix of reality icons and crafty gamers must conspire to get out. In this house, time is money. As the clock ticks up, so does the prize money. The longer they stay, the greater their chance to earn more. They can split the money equally in the end, or at any point in time, try to make their escape with the accumulated money all for themselves, leaving others to start again at $0. From wild strategies and temptations to shifting alliances and unbelievable escape attempts, the players will try any and every way to make it out of the gate and win the prize. 

Hallmark Channel has renewed When Calls the Heart for a thirteenth season. The series will return to Hope Valley in 2026.

Christian Siriano, Nina Garcia and Law Roach are set to join Heidi Klum for Season 21 of Project Runway. The series begins production today and will air this summer on Disney+, Hulu and Freeform. Additional special guest judges will be announced at a later time. 

Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms has been renewed for a second season. The series streams on Crunchyroll in the US. For Mona Kawai, winning hearts and turning heads comes naturally. Everything changes when Medaka Kuroiwa, a new transfer student, arrives. He won’t even give Mona a second look, and it turns her life upside down! Mona tries everything she can to win Medaka over, even going to the extreme at times. Tune in to a new rom-com about a queen bee and an unfazed boy among the school’s halls.

Linda Cardellini is set to star in Peacock’s Crystal Lake. She will play Pamela Voorhees in the Friday the 13th prequel series. 

Tom Everett Scott has been cast in Prime Video’s Elle. He will play Elle’s dad in the Legally Blonde prequel series. 

Robert Patrick and Beau Knapp have been cast in season three of Paramount+’s Tulsa King as series regulars. Robert Patrick will play ‘Jeremiah Dunmire’, a powerful, forceful man with deep pockets in the liquor business. Beau Knapp will play ‘Cole Dunmire’, Jeremiah’s son and a trust fund country boy with crazy in his eyes. 

One Piece Egghead Arc officially resumes simulcast on Crunchyroll, starting with a double episode drop for the first weekend of its return April 5 and 6. Additionally, an 83-minute Egghead Arc Part-1 Recap Special will air to catch fans up on the story before diving into the new episodes on April 5. 

Blake Shelton, Eric Church, and Lainey Wilson kick-off the performance rollout for the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards. Hosted by Reba McEntire, the country music celebration 60 years in the making returns exclusively on Prime Video live from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, TX on Thursday, May 8 at 8 p.m. EDT / 7 p.m. CDT / 5 p.m. PDT. Many more unforgettable performances will be revealed in the coming weeks. 

YouTube series Alan’s Universe season one will begin streaming on The Roku Channel March 24. The high school anthology series is about love, friendships, and heart. The series follows Alan and his classmates, who face off against bullies and villains, emerging victorious through the power of love. It has over 80 million subscribers on YouTube and boasts over 50 billion overall channel views.

Syndicated game show Flip Side has been renewed for a second season. The series is hosted by Jaleel White. New syndicated game show The Perfect Line will premiere this year as well. Deborah Norville hosts the new series. Flip Side pits two teams of players against each other to test them on how they think two different groups of people feel about the same issue. The teams compete for a shot at $10,000 by guessing the top answers based on anonymous surveys—which can be provocative, surprising, and laugh-out-loud funny. The Perfect Line is trivia game that includes questions about from world events, pop culture, sports, science and other topics. Contestants are given a category and then arrange events, items or people order – such as arranging six actors in the order of their worldwide box office gross. Winners are able to create “the perfect line” via that correct order, and try not to be eliminated after every round. The last person standing plays a final round for a chance at $10,000.

ESPN begins its 36th season of Major League Baseball coverage with an exclusive MLB Opening Day doubleheader on Thursday, March 27, and the 2025 Sunday Night Baseball debut on Sunday, March 30. Both of ESPN’s MLB Opening Day games will also be available for the first time on ESPN+ and Disney+. ESPN’s MLB Opening Day doubleheader begins at 3 p.m. ET as the 2024 American League Champion New York Yankees and Aaron Judge host the Milwaukee Brewers and Christian Yelich from Yankee Stadium. Joe Buck, the voice of ESPN’s Monday Night Football and a veteran of 24 World Series, will call his first national MLB game since the 2021 “Fall Classic.” Buck will be joined by guest analysts Joe Girardi (YES Network) and Bill Schroeder (Milwaukee Brewers) on commentary. 

On Sunday, March 23, the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor celebrated Conan O’Brien at the Kennedy Center. Lineup of leading performers included Nikki Glaser, Will Ferrell, David Letterman, Kumail Nanjiani, Tracy Morgan, Adam Sandler, Andy Richter, Reggie Watts, Bill Burr, John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert, Sean Evans, Robert Smigel and others. A red carpet was held in advance of the program. With music direction by Max Weinberg, the program paid tribute to the humor and accomplishments of O’Brien and featured a host of his admirers, friends, and collaborators. The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Conan O’Brien will premiere Sunday, May 4, only on Netflix.

David Letterman will interview WNBA star Caitlin Clark for an upcoming episode of Season 5 for Netflix’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman on April 8. Combining humor, curiosity and in-depth conversations with extraordinary people, the series has Letterman back in the host’s chair, following a 33-year reign in late night.

My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON will premiere on Crunchyroll this October. The new season  will be the exciting conclusion of the anime series based on the popular manga created by Kohei Horikoshi, which was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump and reached its final chapter in August 2024. It is set in a world where about 80% of the population has a superpowered Quirk. Heroes protect people and society from accidents, disasters, and villains—criminals who use their Quirks for evil. The story of Izuku Midoriya and his classmates at U.A. High School and their growth, fights, and friendship unfolds as they aim to become heroes.

Docuseries Spy High premieres April 8 on Prime Video with all four episodes. The series explores the story of 15-year-old Blake Robbins, who filed a lawsuit claiming that his prestigious public school was spying on him when he was accused of selling drugs. Beneath this juicy suburban scandal lie more troubling revelations, with implications in a larger war over digital privacy being waged in schools today. 

ESPN is continuing its Masters Tournament campaign rendition of the iconic “Georgia On My Mind” featuring 2x GRAMMY nominated, multi-platinum singer-songwriter Noah Kahan. This is ESPN’s sixth rendition of the hit 1960s song “Georgia On My Mind” by Ray Charles to be used in its annual marketing campaign leading up its coverage of the prestigious event. For the 18th year, ESPN will have live telecasts of the first two rounds of the Masters Tournament from 3-7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday and Friday, April 10-11, on ESPN, with live streaming coverage of Featured Holes, Featured Groups and more on ESPN+ for all four days of Tournament play. The annual Masters Par 3 Contest on Wednesday, April 9, will appear on ESPN and ESPN+ and for the first time will also be available on Disney+. 

When Life Gives You Tangerines Volume 4 premieres march 28 on Netflix. The series follows the adventures of Ae-sun, “the remarkable rebel,” and Gwan-sik, nicknamed “unyielding iron,” through four vibrant seasons on Jeju Island. 

ESPN announced it is soundtracking Sunday Night Baseball in collaboration with the Jonas Brothers and their new unreleased song “I Can’t Lose.” The song will be used as ESPN’s season-long anthem for all Sunday Night Baseball promotions, featured across the broadcasts and weekly tune-in commercials. The Jonas Brothers highlighted the collaboration during their 20th anniversary Jonascon celebration at American Dream in New Jersey on March 23. The trio will be touring in honor of their 20th anniversary with performances inside MLB stadiums throughout the summer. 

At this year’s AnimeJapan, Netflix showcased its popular anime offerings and teased what’s to come in 2025. Series highlighted include Moonrise (April 10), BEASTARS, My Melody & Kuromi (July), Devil May Cry (April 3), SAKAMOTO DAYS (Part 2, July), The Summer Hikaru Died, and more. 

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

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