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Your TV Source Roundup: ‘The Traitors’ Trailer, ‘A Thousand Blows’ Premiere Date, ‘The Challenge All Stars: Rivals’ Teaser, ‘Ready to Love’ Premiere Date, ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Renewed, ‘Clean Slate’ Premiere Date, and More!

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THE TRAITORS -- Pictured: "The Traitors" Key Art -- (Photo by: Peacock)

Season three of The Traitors premieres January 9 on Peacock. Following the three-episode premiere, new episodes will drop weekly on Thursdays at 6pm PT/9pm ET, with the finale and reunion set for March 6 on Peacock. The series is a nail-biting psychological adventure in which treachery and deceit are the name of the game. The entertainment industry’s most competitive reality stars and famous faces play the ultimate murder mystery game. Hosted by award-winning actor Alan Cumming at an ancient castle set deep in the Scottish Highlands, contestants work together on a series of exhilarating missions to build a prize fund worth up to $250,000. Hidden amongst the Faithful are the Traitors, whose goal is to eliminate the Faithful and claim the prize for themselves. Under the cover of darkness, the Traitors murder the Faithful one by one in a treacherous spree, while the Faithful try to uncover the Traitors and banish them from the game. If the Faithful contestants banish all the Traitors, they will share the prize fund, but if a Traitor or Traitors makes it to the end, they will steal all the money. 

The complete first season of A Thousand Blows premieres February 21 on hulu. From Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the series is set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London and based on little explored real-life characters with incredible stories. Inspired by the true life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880s. Hezekiah Moscow and Alec Munroe, best friends on the run from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London’s thriving bare-knuckle boxing scene. As Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr, who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson, determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threatens everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new. 

The Challenge All Stars: Rivals premieres January 29 on MTV. In a series first, the new season pairs up memorable power players and redemption seekers with their biggest rivals.

Season ten of dating series Ready to Love premieres February 7 on OWN. Hosted by Thomas “Nephew Tommy” Miles, the dating series explores the real-life romantic rollercoasters of successful and striking men and women in their 30s and 40s as they search for authentic relationships. Each week, the series follows couples as they embark on budding romances, hoping to transform them into lasting loves, all while navigating the twists, turns, and challenges presented by Tommy. 

Paramount+ has renewed Mayor of Kingstown for a fourth season. The series stars Jeremy Renner. In season three, a series of explosions rocked Kingstown and its citizens, as a new face of the Russian mob set up shop in the city, and a drug war raged inside and outside prison walls. The pressure was on Mike McLusky to end the war but things got complicated when a familiar face from his incarcerated past threatened to undermine the Mayor’s attempts to keep the peace among all factions. 

Clean Slate premieres February 6 on Prime Video. This heartfelt comedy starring Laverne Cox  and George Wallace follows Harry, an old-school car wash owner in Alabama who has a lot of soul searching to do when the child he once called “son” returns after 17 years as a proud trans woman named Desiree. Her homecoming brings together a hilarious cast of friends, coworkers, and love interests as Desiree and Harry try to get it right the second time around. The series explores universal themes of unconditional love, all through Norman Lear’s signature boundary-pushing brand of comedy. 

Korean series Queen Woo premieres on Paramount+ December 23. It’s the Goguryeo era of imperial rule in Korea, and the heirless King Go-guk-cheon is dead. Without a son to inherit the king’s throne, the five tribes across the land fiercely battle for power. It falls on the newly-widowed Queen Woo to establish a new king – and ensure her people’s survival – by marrying one of the king’s power-hungry brothers in the next 24 hours. If the five tribes hear of the king’s death, a similar fate awaits Queen Woo. Can she find the right suitor in time to prevent the collapse of the Goguryeo Kingdom? 

The Wheel of Time has added additional new cast for the upcoming third season premiering March 13 on Prime Video. Olivia Williams, Luke Fetherston, Callum Kerr, and Nuno Lopes will portray the royal family of the kingdom of Andor. Andor is the largest, most populous, and most influential country within the heart of the Westlands, the fictional land depicted in Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy book series, “The Wheel of Time”, upon which the television series is based. 

More live sports are coming to Roku next year, with a new partnership that makes The Roku Channel the exclusive U.S. streaming home of X Games Aspen and a major X Games event this summer. The competition will be available on The Roku Channel’s recently launched Roku Sports Channel. In addition, Roku has launched X Games TV FAST channel and will curate a dedicated X Games Zone, a one-stop destination for fans to browse, discover, and stream everything X Games including programming highlights, clips, interviews, archival content and more. X Games Zone will launch in the lead up to the live events. 

Netflix has ordered a season-long series that follows college football’s most dominant conference, the Southeastern Conference (SEC), during the 2024 season. This series places viewers inside some of college football’s most storied programs in the SEC through unfiltered access to their coaches and players on and off the field: on the buses, in the locker rooms, at the barbershops, around the fire pits, running out of the tunnels, and more. We take an exclusive look at key matchups throughout the SEC season to show the passion and drama of college football’s leading conference. It will premiere summer 2025. 

AXS TV invites viewers to spice up their New Year’s Day recovery with the “Hangover from Hell,” a sizzling marathon of Hell’s Kitchen episodes. The culinary mayhem kicks off at 12 PM EST on January 1, 2025, serving up 16 back-to-back episodes featuring the legendary chef Gordon Ramsay at his most intense. 

Hubie Brown, the legendary basketball coach and broadcaster, will call the final NBA game of his storied career on Sunday, February 9, 2025, at 2 p.m. ET on ABC. Brown will return to Milwaukee, Wis. where he began his professional coaching career as the assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks in 1972. The two-time NBA Coach of the Year will serve as broadcast analyst one final time as the Bucks host the Philadelphia 76ers. Mike Breen, a fellow Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame commentator, will provide play-by-play alongside his longtime colleague. The duo called the 2006 NBA Finals on ABC together. During the broadcast, ESPN and the NBA will honor and celebrate Brown’s history-making career, which includes 50 years in the NBA and 35 years as a national television and radio analyst. More details about the special broadcast will be announced in the coming weeks. 

Martin Short is set to host the final episode of Saturday Night Live of 2024, December 21. Hozier will serve as musical guest on the late night NBC series. 

Season nine of Summer House premieres on Bravo February 12. Returning this summer unsure of where everyone stands, these housemates find themselves bonding over a growing wombmate and determined to get back to the carefree group that loves to send it. Nine favorites return to the Hamptons, along with two fresh faces ready to have some fun in the sun. The returning housemates are Amanda Batula, Kyle Cooke, Paige DeSorbo, Lindsay Hubbard, Ciara Miller, Gabby Prescod, Carl Radke, Jesse Solomon and West Wilson. The housemates are joined by new friends Imrul Hassan and Lexi Wood. 

A docuseries based on the life and career of Spanish sports and tennis icon Rafael Nadal is coming soon to Netflix. The series will include unprecedented access with Nadal throughout his comeback to competitive play in the 2024 season after sitting out much of 2023 due to injury. It will spotlight Nadal’s sterling career, as well as his life off-the-court, showcasing never-before-seen material from Nadal’s personal archive and featuring landmark access with the tennis star, his family and his close circle of coaches and advisors. 

True crime docuseries The Bunker premieres January 16 on Viaplay. The series follows a woman revisiting her past trauma of being abducted, held in a bunker, and making a shocking escape. The Bunker offers a stark exploration of survival and a testament to the indomitable human spirit. In 2015, following a date with Dr. Martin Trenneborg, Isabel woke up in a bunker that the doctor had spent years building. He planned to keep her and other women locked up in this horrific place and although Isabel survived the terrifying ordeal, she is still haunted to this day. Battling PTSD, Isabel bravely faces her fears as she revisits her past and tries to come to terms with what the vile kidnapper did to her. 

Docuseries I am Ilary premieres January 9 on Netflix. The series follows TV host Ilary Blasi as she defines her life post-divorce, balancing personal growth, career opportunities and a new love.

Harpoon Hunters premieres January 24 on Discovery Channel. Each summer on Cape Cod, multi-generational fishing families race against the clock – and each other – to catch highly valuable Atlantic bluefin tuna using only 10-foot electrified spears. Time is of the essence as harpoon boats only have four weeks to catch as many fish as they can before the overall limit is met. With fish worth as much as $10K each, stakes are high for these expert fishermen to make ends meet for their families and beat the competition to take home these prize fish.   

The Year: 2024 hosted by Robin Roberts premieres December 26 on ABC. The special revisits the most iconic and memorable moments of this year, from the historic news events, social trends and legal decisions in the headlines to the breakout stars, celebrities and champions who had everyone talking. It is a star-studded and news-filled look at the events that defined the past year with commentary from newsmakers, celebrities, and cultural and political contributors, including interviews with musicians Elton John, Teddy Swims and Shaboozey, actor Lisa Ann Walter, Olympians Ilona Maher and Stephen Nedoroscik, Golden Bachelorette Joan Vassos, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, “The Breakfast Club” co-host Charlamagne tha God and more. 

This Christmas Day, Disney+ is offering subscribers a robust slate of live programming, new Originals, and holiday favorites, plus an exclusive offer to make the holiday even brighter. Christmas Day offerings include five live NBA games and an animated Dunk the Halls alt-cast, the Doctor Who Christmas Special “Joy to the World,” Star Wars: Skeleton Crew episode 5, and episode 4 of the new season of Marvel Animation’s What If… ? It will also feature the annual Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade and beloved holiday classics featured in the Happy Holidays Collection which include Home Alone and The Santa Clause

Avicii – I’m Tim premieres December 31 on Netflix. Before Avicii, there was Tim. Through his own words, witness how a prodigious musical talent became one of the defining artists of his generation.

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

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