FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 10/21/26)
ABC: CMA Presents I Will Always Love You: A Celebration of Dolly Parton (Premiere) at 9pm
APPLE TV: Where’s Wanda?, Season 2 (Premiere)
NETFLIX: The Mothers of Penguins, Season 2 (Premiere)
NETFLIX: The New Stanford Prison Experiment (Premiere)
PARAMOUNT+: All the Queen’s Men, Season 5 (Premiere)
PRIME VIDEO: The Terminal List, Season 2 (Premiere)
TUBI: Just One Before I Die (Premiere)
Netflix released a spicy new trailer for Season 2 of “The Hunting Wives,” featuring fans’ first look at characters played by Dale Dickey (“Widow’s Bay”) and John Stamos (“Big Shot”). The full season premieres Nov. 26.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MGM+ dropped an official trailer for “New Wave,” an original docuseries exploring artists who influenced the music landscape during the ‘70s and ‘80s, including Billy Idol, The Police and Duran Duran. The series is slated to premiere Nov. 23.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hulu released an official trailer and key art for “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County,” which will premiere Nov. 12.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBCUniversal Local will begin airing its new original series “Open House Outrageous” after “Saturday Night Live” on select affiliate channels Oct. 24.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Mayor of Kingstown” will debut its fifth and final season on Paramount+ on Jan. 15.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The BBC renewed its hit drama “This City Is Ours” for Season 3. Season 2 will begin airing in the UK on Sunday. (AMC+ secured the distribution rights for Season 1 earlier this year.)
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Hashtag Homicide,” the documentary true-crime series from BIG Media, has been renewed for a second season, which will premiere next summer. The first season is currently available on several streaming platforms in the US and Canada, including Tubi and Prime Video.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Comedian Nick Kroll (“Big Mouth”) will host the US version of “LOL: Last One Laughing” on Amazon. The international comedy competition series invites 10 performers to spend six hours together trying to get one another to break.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jay-Z will likely headline next year’s Super Bowl halftime show, according to multiple sources familiar with the decision-making process. Given that Jay-Z’s sports management and entertainment company, Roc Nation, has a $5-million-per-year deal with the NFL, the decision is not necessarily surprising.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In other halftime show updates, U2 will perform during Netflix’s Thanksgiving Eve NFL broadcast. The game between the Green Bay Packers and the Los Angeles Rams will mark the NFL’s first Thanksgiving Eve matchup.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBC Sports and Amazon-owned Prime Video are gearing up for their second season as NBA broadcast partners. Both platforms anticipate higher viewership compared with the prior season, but consumers don’t love the idea of having to pay for multiple services to access all games. To sweeten the deal, Prime Video is giving viewers the option to watch games with multiple camera angles and on-screen graphics and stats, while NBC will likely continue offering out-of-market games on Peacock.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sticking with the NBA, the Atlanta Hawks are the first of the league’s teams to stream games exclusively on Prime Video. As part of the agreement, all local games will be available for in-market Prime subscribers at no additional cost.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Now, moving on to the Super Bowl: The NFL, Disney, ESPN and Lucasfilm announced an alternate telecast for next year’s Big Game, which will be set in the “Star Wars” galaxy. “Star Wars Funday Football,” an extension of the Emmy Award-winning “Funday Football” brand, will turn live players into animated avatars representing “Star Wars” characters. The alt telecast will be available to watch on Disney+, the ESPN app, Disney Channel and Disney XD.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Some love for the fighters, too. FloSports announced an expansion to its MMA coverage portfolio thanks to a partnership with Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA). The deal will introduce five LFA events this year to the platform’s hub for combat sports – aptly named FloCombat – with that number expected to grow to 25 events next year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Season 3 finale of “Lioness” ended with the most-watched episode in the show’s history, drawing 9.7 million viewers tuning in during its first seven days of availability. The series averaged 8.5 million viewers per week throughout the season, according to data from Nielsen and Paramount+.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Not surprisingly, the recent breakout success of “You Can See Everything,” Nathan Fielder’s feature-length documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, has driven massive interest in Hulu’s “The Dropout” starring Amanda Seyfried. Viewership of the limited series jumped by 182% in September after the movie was announced Sept. 6. Since then, viewership has increased to 2.2 million hours, or 296,000 estimated views.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix’s new Canadian monster series, “Below,” grabbed the top spot on the streamer’s English TV list in its second week with 21.2 million views. Meanwhile, Season 4 of “The Diplomat” took the No. 5 spot with 2.8 million views four days after its premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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