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Your TV Source Roundup: ‘North of North’ Renewed, ‘Countdown’ Premiere Date, ‘Ugliest House in America’ Premiere Date, ‘Overcompensating’ Trailer, ‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Premiere Date, ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ Trailer, and More!

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Netflix has renewed North of North for a second season. The series is Netflix’s first series commissioned from Canada and is a co-production with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), in partnership with APTN. A young Inuk woman wants to build a new future for herself after a spontaneous – and extremely public – exit from her marriage. But it won’t be easy in a small Arctic town where everybody knows your business. 

Countdown premieres June 25 on Prime Video with the first three episodes. When an officer with the Department of Homeland Security is murdered in broad daylight, LAPD detective Mark Meachum is recruited to a secret task force, alongside undercover agents from all branches of law enforcement, to investigate. But the hunt for the killer soon uncovers a plot far more sinister than anyone could have imagined, kicking off a race against time to save a city of millions. 

Season six of Ugliest House in America premieres June 2 on HGTV. Retta will discover the most extreme variety of ugly houses yet, traveling the country to tour 15 more weird, dysfunctional and downright disastrous homes nominated by their owners. She’ll share her hilarious hot takes of the stunningly bad designs, cringe-worthy layouts and sorely outdated styles. Based on its ugly appearance, poor functionality and most surprising feature, one house will be crowned the “ugliest house in America” by HGTV, and the network will award its owners a showstopping $150,000 renovation completed by designer Alison Victoria, one of its top stars, during a special one-hour finale episode.

Comedy series Overcompensating premieres May 15 on Prime Video. Newly announced guest stars includ guest stars Lukas Gage, Megan Fox, Bowen Yang, Matt Rogers, James Van Der Beek, Didi Conn, Rachel Matthews, Danielle Perez, Boman Martinez Reid and Yasmine Sahid. The series is a college-set ensemble comedy about the wild, chaotic journey of Benny, a closeted former football player and homecoming king, as he becomes fast friends with Carmen, a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs. With guidance from Benny’s older sister and her campus-legend boyfriend, Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka, and fake IDs. Deeply funny and personal, the show explores the lengths to which we all overcompensate while on the path to finding out who we really are. 

Dexter: Resurrection premieres July 11 on Paramount+ with Showtime with the first two episodes. It will make its on air debut July 13. Remaining episodes will premiere weekly. Continuing from Dexter: New Blood, the series takes place weeks after Dexter Morgan takes a bullet to the chest from his own son, as he awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone without a trace. Realizing the weight of what he put his son through, Dexter sets out for New York City, determined to find him and make things right. But closure won’t come easy. When Miami Metro’s Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast. As father and son navigate their own darkness in the city that never sleeps, they soon find themselves deeper than they ever imagined – and that the only way out is together. 

Season two of Nine Perfect Strangers premieres May 21 on hulu. Nine new strangers connected in ways they could never imagine are invited by mysterious guru Masha Dmitrichenko (Nicole Kidman) to join a transformational wellness retreat in the Austrian Alps. Over the course of a week, she takes them to the brink. Will they make it? Will she? Masha is willing to try anything in the interest of healing everyone involved, including herself. 

Aoashi will return for a second season in 2026. The first season of the anime series streamed on Crunchyroll. After a loss in his last junior high school soccer tourney, Ehime Prefecture’s ace player, Ashito Aoi, is devastated but in every loss there’s a victory. Tatsuya Fukuda, manager of an organization that trains students for one of the leading clubs in the J-League, sees Ashito’s raw talent and offers a tryout to his group. Together they’ll bring the youth club and Aoshi’s talents to new heights!

Einstein, which was recently ordered at CBS originally for the 2025-2026 season, will now premiere during the 2026-2027 season. Brilliant but directionless, the great grandson of Albert Einstein spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor until his bad boy antics land him in trouble with the law and he is pressed into service helping a local police detective solve her most puzzling cases.

Match Game will return on ABC with Martin Short as host. Alec Baldwin hosted the most recent reboot which wrapped four years ago. The series is expected to premiere this summer. 

Docuseries Call Her Alex premieres June 10 on hulu. Alex Cooper is at the top of her game, signing one of the biggest deals in podcast history. This revealing two-part series gives audiences a behind-the-scenes, intimate look at her journey and the defining moments that shaped her influential voice. What does it take to become the most influential female podcaster of a generation? Following Alex Cooper as she prepares for her first tour, this compelling two-part documentary series traces Cooper’s evolution – from a self-conscious kid growing up in Pennsylvania to the voice behind “Call Her Daddy,” a podcast that redefined the conversation for women everywhere. The series offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the life-defining events that shaped Cooper’s journey as she grew from a 24-year-old woman with a sex and dating podcast to the CEO of a media empire in just six years. More than just a success story, it’s a portrait of a woman who is creating a space where women feel seen, heard, and empowered. 

A new premiere date for A&E’s Duck Dynasty: The Revival has been announced. The ten one-hour episode first season will now premiere on June 1, instead of the previously announced date of May 28. The series reunites audiences with the Robertson family as they balance life, family, and the future of their Louisiana-based business. The series will feature Willie and Korie Robertson alongside beloved family members Miss Kay, Uncle Si, and the next generation of Robertsons.

Sam Elliott will join the second season of Paramount+’s Landman as a series regular. The series is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs. Based on the podcast “Boomtown”, the series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics. 

A collection of Alfred Hitchcock films are coming to Netflix. Starting June 1, the collection features some of Hitchcock’s most iconic works including Vertigo, Rear Window, Frenzy, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Family Plot, The Birds and more. The collection will also include films inspired by his lasting influence, such as Us and Barbarian, as well as a narrative feature about the filmmaker himself, Hitchcock, directed by Sacha Gervasi. And for those who can’t wait Psycho, is available now on Netflix in the US! 

Comedians Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, co-hosts of the popular “Las Culturistas” podcast, will host the fourth annual Las Culturistas Culture Awards, airing August 5 at 9 -11 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo. Televised for the first time, The Las Culturistas Culture Awards celebrates culture’s most iconic and consequential moments of the year. With more than 100 unique award categories, live musical performances and unexpected celebrity guests, this show brings culture’s most crucial moments to life. The show will be taped on July 17 in Los Angeles. A full list of categories will be announced at a later date. 

Netflix has ordered a mystery horror fantasy series titled Perfect Job. The series follows Hyuk-jun, a young man who takes on a seemingly perfect part-time job offering 50 times the usual hourly wage through a mysterious employment agency called Spyder Human Resource Center. However, the job quickly becomes a nightmare as he encounters strange and terrifying phenomena. 

The CW Network has renewed its agreement with the Pac-12 conference to broadcast nine college football games in 2025. The CW will provide full national coverage to showcase the strength of the Oregon State and Washington State football programs and their student-athletes. The season will kick off on Saturday, August 30 with Idaho at Washington State at 10:00pm ET / 7:00pm PT. 

Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor premieres May 4 on Netflix. 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. 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.

True crime series Murder Has Two Faces hosted by Robin Roberts premieres May 6 on hulu. The series shines a social justice light on harrowing, lesser-known cases that were eclipsed in the media by more notorious murders. Not only does the series share new details on these overlooked crimes, but it also asks a question: Why didn’t they get the same level of attention as their notorious, eerily similar counterparts? Each episode unravels a crime that shares uncanny similarities with high-profile cases, including Laci Peterson, Chandra Levy and the Craigslist Killer. Cases covered include Evelyn Hernandez, a pregnant mother who disappeared with her 5-year-old-son before her remains, like Laci Peterson’s, were found in the San Francisco Bay; Joyce Chiang, a promising young attorney who vanished and was found dead in Washington, DC, like Chandra Levy; and the Tagged Killer, an American serial killer who used social networking, like the Craigslist Killer, to lure women to secluded locations where some met their tragic deaths. The series includes exclusive interviews with friends and families of the victims as they fought for attention and justice for their loved ones, exploring the possible connections to the highly publicized cases. 

Olympo premieres June 20 on Netflix. At the CAR Pirineos, the best athletes in the country train, such as Amaia, the captain of the national artistic swimming team, a self-demanding girl who does not allow herself to make mistakes. But when Núria, her best friend and teammate, surpasses her for the first time, Amaia realizes that some athletes are improving their performance in inexplicable ways… After years of pushing their bodies to the limit and sacrificing their lives for the sport, they face the dilemma: how far are they willing to go? 

Virgins premieres June 9 on TLC. The series is a wild, warm, and wonderfully awkward ride with four adults who have yet to experience sexual intercourse, as they navigate love, intimacy, and self-discovery in their 30s and 40s. After years of missed connections and dating horror stories, these late bloomers are done playing it safe. They’re stepping outside their comfort zones and taking big swings to finally go all the way, emotionally and physically. From navigating awkward first dates to exploring a bondage class and working with an intimacy partner they’re putting it all on the line in hopes of finally sealing the deal. 

Forget You Not premieres May 23 on Netflix. It is a heartfelt celebration of the everyday bonds that carry us through life’s heaviest storms. With warmth, humor, and emotional depth, the series resonates with audiences through its universal message of love and resilience. Set against a bustling city backdrop, Forget You Not explores the enduring power of memory within each family. Cheng Le-le, a stand-up comedian and part-time convenience store employee, juggles her career with marriage. Though she dreams of a better future, she faces marital struggles with her husband, Chang Kai, and challenges with her father. These hardships spur her to embark on a courageous journey – one that redefines her relationship with her family, love and friendship. 

Molly-Mae: Behind It All Part 2 premieres May 9 on Prime Video. You’ve seen the highlights – now hear her story.

Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld will premiere on Fortnite May 2, two days ahead of its premiere on Disney+. This marks the first debut of a Disney+ series in a game. The all-new anthology series of animated shorts focuses on the criminal underbelly of the Star Wars galaxy through the experiences of two iconic villains: Asajj Ventress and Cad Bane. 

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

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