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Just one day after announcing the new slate of cast members coming to Season 3 of “The Pitt,” HBOreleased a teaser for the upcoming season, which takes place on Dr. Robby’s (Noah Wyle) first day back in the ER. The season will premiere sometime in January 2027.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Also arriving in January is Season 2 of “Blue Eye Samurai,” the Netflix animated action series created by Amber Noizumi and Michael Green. The streamer also announced that the show’s third season will be its last.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The streaming service UP Faith & Family announced last week that Season 2 of the procedural mystery series “Blue Skies” will premiere Oct. 1. The series, featuring a criminal investigator and her canine companion, is produced by Bar None Productions in association with Kino Media and Larry Levinson Productions.
(Source: Cynopsis)
BritBox unveiled a first look at Edward Bluemel (“Killing Eve”) as Hercule Poirot in the upcoming series “Hercule,” an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel series featuring the titular Belgian detective. The six-part prequel series, filmed in Liverpool, is produced by Mammoth Screen (part of ITV Studios) and Agatha Christie Limited for BritBox and BBC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Peacock’s live-action “Dungeon Crawler Carl” series, based on the bestselling novel series by Matt Dinniman, has found itself a new co-showrunner in Oscar-nominated screenwriter Eric Heisserer (“Arrival,” “Shadow and Bone”). He joins previously announced writer Chris Yost (“The Mandalorian”).
(Source: Cynopsis)
HBO Max ordered a new eight-episode comedy called “The People v. Gorilla Grodd” from DC Studios and Warner Bros. Television. The original mockumentary-style series presents as a true crime story in which the Daily Planet’s Jimmy Olsen investigates whether Gorilla Grodd (who, by the way, is an evil, super-intelligent, telepathic gorilla) was wrongfully convicted in a famous Metropolis murder trial. Cast members include Skyler Gisondo (“The Righteous Gemstones”) as Jimmy Olsen, Jimmy Tatro (“American Vandal”) as Gorilla Grodd and a handful of actors from the “Superman” universe, such as Beck Bennett and Mikaela Hoover. “American Vandal” creators Tony Yacenda andDan Perrault will serve as showrunners, and DC Studios co-chairmen and co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran will also executive produce.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The creator-first streaming and subscription platform Patreon rolled out roughly 30 new features to help creators get in front of new viewers more easily and measure insights more effectively. One of these features is a tool that turns creator-made videos into shorter, snackable clips that influencers can easily share on social media to expand their reach. Guess television isn’t the only entertainment medium chasing the promise of short-form video monetization as competition for subscriptions rises while attention spans dwindle.
(Source: Cynopsis)
There she is, Miss… wait, where is she? The annual Miss USA pageant, which is set to take place in Miami on Aug. 27, won’t be broadcast on The CW after all due to a last-minute “contractual issue.” Fans who want to watch the event will instead have to turn to the Queen Beauty Network (QBN), a subscription-based streaming platform that’s available online or as an app on several TV devices.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The series premiere of “Lanterns” achieved 6.6 million US viewers and 9.3 million worldwide viewers in its first three days on HBO and HBO Max, as reported by Nielsen. That puts the DC Studios series ahead of “IT: Welcome to Derry,” “The Penguin” and “True Detective: Night Country,” but behind “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Meanwhile, on cable television, the new TLC series “Double Lives of Suburban Wives” delivered the biggest freshman prime-time cable premiere of the year among 25-to-54-year-olds when it premiered on Aug. 9, the network recently announced.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Last month, the most-streamed program for the week of July 20 wasn’t a TV show at all, according to Nielsen’s Top 10 Streaming list. It was “Masters of the Universe,” the 2026 film that made only $114 million at the box office on a $170 million budget when it premiered in early June. Still, the movie managed to beat out even “The Big Bang Theory” for most minutes viewed during the five days after it debuted on Prime Video July 22.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Spider-Man: Brand New Day – $39 million
Insidious: Out of the Further – $25.3 million
The Odyssey – $19.5 million
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie – $9.1 million
The End of Oak Street – $9 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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