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Your TV Source Roundup: ‘Peacemaker’ Premiere Date, ‘Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!’ Renewed, ‘Battle Camp’ Trailer, ‘My Hero Academia: Vigilantes’ English Dub Premiere Date, ‘The Chicken Sisters’ Renewed, Logan Lerman Joins ‘Only Murders in the Building’, and More!

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Peacemaker season two will premiere on Max August 21. Max has also released its latest look at what is coming soon to the streamer, featuring Hacks, Peacemaker, And Just Like That…, and more. 

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! has been renewed for a second season. The first season streamed on Crunchyroll Summer 2024. Meet the girls on the losing side of romance! First is Anna Yanami, the girl-next-door type who can’t say no to delicious food. Then there’s Lemon Yakishio, a beautiful and spirited athlete. Last but not least is Chika Komari, the cute yet shy heroine with gentle charm. Together, they navigate awkward setbacks hoping to finally find love!

Battle Camp premieres April 23 on Netflix. Hosted by Taylor Lewan, the greatest stars from across Netflix’s broad slate of reality and doc-series return to face the ultimate physical and mental competition, where a giant spinning wheel randomly decides who stays and who goes. In order to keep your name off that wheel, our returning fan favorites need to be unbeatable in high octane challenges, unbreakable in grueling punishments and, last but certainly not least, unhateable in camp, as everyone has a vote. The player who achieves all three, becomes the ultimate Netflix reality competitor and takes home the $250,000 prize.

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes premieres on Crunchyroll April 7. The series will be available in both Japanese with English subtitles as well as an English dub. Koichi Haimawari is a dull college student who aspires to be a hero but has given up on his dream. Although 80% of the world’s population has superhuman powers called Quirks, few are chosen to become heroes and protect people. Everything changes for Koichi when he and Pop☆Step are saved by the vigilante Knuckleduster and get recruited to become vigilantes themselves! 

Hallmark Channel has renewed The Chicken Sisters for a second season. The series is based on the novel by KJ Dell’Antonia. The series is a family drama dipped in southern charm and served up with a saucy side of romance. The setting is the fictional town of Merinac, where a generations-old rift between dueling fried chicken restaurants – Mimi’s and Frannie’s – has left the founders’ families fractured and the locals taking sides. When the popular cooking competition show Ultimate Kitchen Clash comes to town, it could be the recipe for ending this feud once and for all. But things are fixing to heat up both inside and outside of the kitchen as the reality show spotlight causes sparks to fly as secrets are spilled and feathers get ruffled. 

Logan Lerman is set to appear in the upcoming fifth season of Only Murders in the Building. He will recur in the hulu series joining Renée Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, Tea Leoni and Keegan-Michael Key. 

Overcompensating premieres May 15 on Prime Video. 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. 

Shudder has ordered an unscripted horror-based competition series, Guts & Glory, from the mind of Greg Nicotero. The six-episode series flips the script on the traditional competition show – thrusting players into an immersive horror experience full of unexpected challenges.

Fox is making a small change to its Sunday schedule. Krapopolis will now air at 9, flipping timeslots with The Great North, which will now air at 9:30. 

Cutthroat Kitchen: Knives Out premieres May 13 on Food Network. Host Brian Malarkey dishes out the unpredictable and diabolical culinary challenges that will test four chefs on their cooking prowess, strategic thinking, and ability to innovate under pressure. With a starting bank of $25,000 each, the chefs will have opportunities to spend that money on advantages for themselves or on sabotages for their competition. The last chef standing walks away with the money they have left in their bank. Each episode will feature one judge who will determine the winner of each round, tasting and evaluating the dishes before they know what challenges and sabotages were endured. Judges joining the fray across the season include Maneet Chauhan, Scott Conant, Alex Guarnaschelli, Aarti Sequeira and Jet Tila. 

Acorn TV has ordered Allie & Andi to series. Set in a quaint New England colonial town, the series starring Brooke Shields is a six-episode murder mystery series following a bestselling novelist who forms an unlikely alliance with an aspiring writer and influencer to find the killer of a close friend. The series will go into production this fall and premiere in 2026. 

Thomas Doherty is set to appear in the upcoming second season of Paradise. Doherty will recur in the hulu political series. 

Season eleven of New Zealand crime drama The Brokenwood Mysteries premieres April 21 on Acorn TV. The series sees Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd and Detective Kristin Sims investigate crimes in the sleepy and secret-filled town of Brokenwood, New Zealand. From seemingly supernatural incidents in the idyllic community of Brokenwood to mysterious murders with hidden motives, the new season sees Shepherd and his team plunge into a web of deception, greed and dark secrets, using less than conventional methods to tackle their most perplexing cases yet. 

Docuseries The Bakersfield 3: A Tale of Murder and Motherhood premieres May 11 on ID. In the spring of 2018 over the course of just 34 days, a young woman and man went missing, and another young man was murdered in Bakersfield, California. While initially thought to be tragic but unconnected events, a string of coincidences unearthed by the victims’ mothers led to the realization that these three cases were entangled with one another. Desperate for answers, they banded together in their unyielding quest for the truth, dubbing their children’s death and disappearances as “The Bakersfield 3.” Now, this three-part docuseries charts the mothers’ journey as they navigate through a labyrinth of clues, dead ends, and unexpected revelations to find out what really happened to their children – and how exactly they were connected. As they uncover disturbing allegations, their newfound bond is put to the ultimate test. 

The second installment of WondLa premieres April 25 on Apple TV+. This futuristic coming-of-age story follows 16-year-old Eva 9 as her epic journey continues and she uncovers startling truths about her past and the world she calls home. Picking up from season one’s shocking cliff-hanger, Eva is drawn toward the promise of home – but new discoveries only lead to more unanswered questions. As she searches for the truth, Eva finds herself pursued by a relentless force that believes she holds the key to something far greater than she ever imagined. In a season brimming with revelations, sacrifice and an existential fight for survival, Eva must choose where she truly belongs. The series is based on the book series by Tony DiTerlizzi. 

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

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