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The fifth and final season of Hacks premieres on HBO Max April 9. The 10-episode season will debut new episodes weekly, with two new episodes on April 30 and May 7, leading up to the series finale on Thursday, May 28. In the aftermath of mistaken and unflattering news reports that she passed away, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) return to Las Vegas more determined than ever to secure Deborah’s legacy as a comedian.
Yellowstone spinoff series Dutton Ranch premieres May 15 on Paramount+ with two episodes, and then weekly throughout the series’ nine-episode first season. Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser return as the indomitable Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler, and this time, they’re taking on Texas. The series also stars Finn Little, Juan Pablo Raba, Jai Courtney, J.R. Villarreal, Marc Menchaca, Natalie Alyn Lind, and Ed Harris and Annette Bening. As Beth and Rip fight to build a future together – far from the ghosts of Yellowstone – they collide with brutal new realities and a ruthless rival ranch that will stop at nothing to protect its empire. In South Texas, blood runs deeper, forgiveness is fleeting, and the cost of survival might just be your soul.
When Calls the Heart will return with a brand new season in 2027. The Hallmark Channel series will return for its fourteenth season.
Disney+ has renewed Wonder Man for a second season. Aspiring Hollywood actor Simon Williams is struggling to get his career off the ground. During a chance meeting with Trevor Slattery, an actor whose biggest roles may be well behind him, Simon learns legendary director Von Kovak is remaking the superhero film “Wonder Man.” These two actors at opposite ends of their careers doggedly pursue life-changing roles in this film as audiences get a peek behind the curtain of the entertainment industry.
CBS has renewed CIA for a second season. The series is a spinoff of FBI. When by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman (Nick Gehlfuss) is loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI task force, he finds himself teamed up with secretive and roguish CIA Agent Colin Glass (Tom Ellis). Together they will work covert operations in New York, uncovering international plots, terrorist cells and geopolitical secrets. Bill will learn the rules of this murky world on the fly as Colin leads him deeper into spy games where only one thing is clear – their work keeps America safe, even if no one will ever know what they did in the shadows.
Regular Show: The Lost Tapes premieres with a half hour special May 11 on Cartoon Network. It will arrive on HBO Max and Hulu later this year. The series centers on Mordecai and Rigby – best friends who work and live at a local park. Somehow, their mundane jobs always descend into surreal chaos, much to the annoyance of their boss and coworkers. From crashing a friend’s luau to searching for the sweetest spot to take a nap, avoiding work quickly spirals into thwarting surreal disasters… in the most hilarious and entertaining of ways. The stellar voice cast includes JG Quintel, William Salyers, Sam Marin, Mark Hamill, Minty Lewis, and Janie Haddad Tompkins among others. The original Regular Show ran for eight seasons.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will be ending with its upcoming second season. The Paramount+ series was renewed for its second season ahead of the series premiere. The series follows the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy. The series will introduce viewers to this young group of cadets as they come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they will discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.
Limited series Half Man premieres April 23 on HBO Max. Richard Gadd stars alongside Jamie Bell in the series. Niall and Ruben are brothers. Not related in blood but the closest you can get. One, fierce and loyal. The other, meek and mild-mannered. Inseparable youth. Brought into each other’s lives through death and circumstance, all they have is each other… But when Ruben turns up at Niall’s wedding three decades later, everything seems different. He is on edge. Shifty. Not acting like himself. And soon, an explosion of violence takes place which catapults us back through their lives, from the eighties to the present day. Capturing 30 years in the lives of these broken men, HALF MAN is a six-part limited series exploring brotherhood, violence, and the intense fragility of male relationships. After all, when things fall apart… It is sometimes the closest relationships which break the hardest.
All eight episodes of Every Year After premiere June 10 on Prime Video. Told over the course of six years and one week in Barry’s Bay, the quintessential lake town, the series is a romantic, nostalgic story of first loves and the people and choices that mark us forever. The series is based on the best-selling novel by Carley Fortune, “Every Summer After.”
Mahershala Ali has joined the cast of Task. Ali will appear in the upcoming second season of the HBO series. Set in the working-class suburbs of Philadelphia, an FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) heads a Task Force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man (Tom Pelphrey).
A new season of America Says premieres April 13 on GSN. Hosted by John Michael Higgins, the series is a fast-paced studio game show where two teams of friends and family face off to guess America’s responses to fill-in-the-blank survey questions covering every topic under the sun. They have to be quick when trying to think of what America says, as time is always ticking and the team with the most money banked after three rounds will head to a bonus round to see if they can win up to $15,000.
Madelyn Burke has joined ESPN as an anchor for SportsCenter, the company’s signature news and information program. She will begin work in April. Burke will be based at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, CT.
ESPN has updated its NBA schedule. On Wednesday, April 1, the Miami Heat and Bam Adebayo host the Boston Celtics, led by Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. This game will be exclusive in the Boston market and replaces the previously scheduled Atlanta Hawks vs. Orlando Magic matchup. NBA Countdown presented by Eli Lilly precedes the broadcast at 7 p.m. on ESPN.
Bear Grylls Is Running Wild premieres April 21 on Fox. The series follows legendary adventurer Bear Grylls as he takes some of the most famous people on the planet into the wild for a 48-hour journey of a lifetime. With thrilling action and revealing conversations, Bear takes his guests on unforgettable adventures in breath-taking wilderness and reveals a side of some of your favorite people like you’ve never seen before. This season, Bear Grylls leads cast members on a globe-spanning adventure through some of the planet’s most unforgiving landscapes – from Norway’s glacial wilderness to the legendary mountains of Eryri in Wales. The journeys cut through Arctic rainforest, vast canyonlands, and brutal desert terrain, pushing participants to their limits with glacier crossings, canyon descents, high-risk extractions, and an adrenaline-charged freefall from 11,000 feet, into an adventure along the Irish Sea.
Where It Lies premieres April 6 on the ESPN app, and April 8 on ESPN2. It is the first docuseries to explore the real world of public golf where quirky characters, hidden histories, and thriving local cultures collide on the course. Each episode uses a public course as a gateway into a city’s food, music, traditions, and personalities, revealing how golf shapes – and is shaped by – the communities that play it. Authentic, cinematic, and offbeat, the series uncovers the game’s most relatable side while celebrating its accessibility and diversity.
Season seven of CoComelon Lane premieres April 20 on Netflix. From the farmhouse to a parade float, JJ and friends find more ways to play and imagine while helping each other and learning all about their feelings.
