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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 11/12/26)
BRAVO: Southern Charm, Season 12 (Premiere) at 9pm
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HBO MAX: The Killing of the Golden Rooster (Premiere)
HISTORY: Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo, Season 3 (Premiere) at 8pm
HULU: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Bros, Season 2 (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Ethos, Season 2 (Premiere)
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NETFLIX: Love Is Blind, Habibi, Season 2 (Premiere)
NETFLIX:Miracles of the ER (Premiere)
PARAMOUNT+: The Jigsaw Puzzle Murder (Premiere)
PEACOCK: The Good Daughter (Premiere)
TLC: Crown of Deceit: Inside the Miss Universe Scandal (Premiere) at 8pm
Blackest night, indeed. The post-firing PR campaign against former DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran has begun, it would seem – and now “Lanterns” is caught in the crosshairs.
–“Lanterns” averaged 19.3 million viewers per episode globally and ranked among HBO’s top five series launches after its first-season finale. Despite this success, anonymous sources told Variety that the show “isn’t quite capturing the zeitgeist” and “didn’t get renewed for a second season.” Variety later had to tweak its wording to reflect that the show hasn’t been renewed yet, not that its fate has already been decided. (Put more simply by showrunner Chris Cantwell on Bluesky: “Nothing’s cancelled. Calm down.”)
-For what it’s worth, not long after it came out that former Marvel producer Jeremy Latcham would be taking over DC Studios, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Skydance execs started courting Latcham in “early fall,” months before Gunn and Safran were officially told.
-In any case, Gunn and Safran’s next series, “The People v. Gorilla Grodd,” is still on track to premiere in 2027. Whether it will receive any marketing support from Skydance in the lead-up is another story altogether.
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- “Lanterns” averaged 19.3 million viewers per episode globally and ranked among HBO’s top five series launches after its first-season finale. Despite this success, anonymous sources told Variety that the show “isn’t quite capturing the zeitgeist” and “didn’t get renewed for a second season.” Variety later had to tweak its wording to reflect that the show hasn’t been renewed yet, not that its fate has already been decided. (Put more simply by showrunner Chris Cantwell on Bluesky: “Nothing’s cancelled. Calm down.”)
In other superhero TV news, the series finale of Marvel’s “VisionQuest” featured a second post-credits sequence (which, of course, we won’t spoil here!) that was not included in the advance screeners sent out to press. Offering alternative cuts to press is a relatively novel approach to avoiding leaks; other shows, such as “Game of Thrones,” have instead responded by cutting off screener access entirely.
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With two major British celebrity misconduct scandals in the news, streaming services are divided on how best to handle the aftermath.
–Netflix, on the one hand, said it will not remove “Russell Brand: Re:Birth,” an original 2018 stand-up special by the star now convicted of sexual assault and rape. However, it will not feature the special in viewing recommendations or in searches for Brand’s name. (Other searches, like “British comedian,” still work.)
-On the other hand, several British companies have already started scrubbing David Walliams, who has been accused of grooming minors, from their streaming line-up. The BBC removed adaptations of Walliams’ children’s books, a 2011 episode of “Doctor Who” featuring the actor and “Little Britain,” among other things. Meanwhile, Channel 4 took down the 2021 special “Chitty Flies Again with David Walliams,” plus several other episodes he’s guest-starred in, and Sky told Deadline that it has “already removed content which features him from our platforms” as a result of the allegations.
–The Takeaway: This scenario highlights the biggest pros and cons of massive streaming libraries. Audiences – plus studios and advertisers, of course – have more access than ever before to decades’ worth of content, but those libraries are always at risk of becoming undesirable in a modern context.
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Netflix dropped the first trailer for the sixth and final season of “Emily in Paris,” which premieres on Dec. 24.
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The 90 Day Fiancé franchise is getting a new (and presumably chaotic) installment in “90 Day Fiancé: Florida,” which premieres on TLC Dec. 14.
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Discovery Channel’s new competition series “Men V. Food” premieres on Dec. 8.
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“Dance Moms: A New Era” returns to Hulu with Season 3 on Dec. 3.
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Fox announced its slate of midseason 2027 premieres, which includes:
-Two new series, “Best Medicine” and “Doc,” on Jan. 5
-New series “Baywatch” and the Season 15 premiere of “The Masked Singer” on Jan. 6
-Season 3 of “Extracted,” which premieres with a two-hour episode on Jan. 7
-Season 3 of “Murder in a Small Town” and Season 2 of “Memory of a Killer” on Feb. 1
-New series “The Interrogator” on Feb. 9
-Season 6 of “Next Level Chef” on Feb. 18
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Not only is Netflix not planning to take down its Russell Brand content, but it’s actually preparing to offer more – namely, a 72 Films-produced documentary series about the comedian’s trial and conviction. As of Wednesday, the deal had not yet officially closed, but is expected to do so as early as today.
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After a massively successful second season, “Adults” has been renewed for a larger, 16-episode third season at FXX. As part of the renewal, creators Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw have also struck a new overall deal with FX Productions.
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MGM+ has greenlit a TV adaptation of Daisy Goodwin’s novel “The American Heiress,” an eight-episode comedy of manners set in 1893. The series stars Julianna Margulies (“Paradise”) as a mother who brings her daughter to England to marry into nobility.
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The BBC drama “Sherwood” will end after its third season, said series creator James Graham. That final season will likely premiere sometime in January or February next year.
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Free ad-supported streaming service Tubi is launching an unscripted queer dating show featuring YouTuber Trisha Paytas. Titled “Don’t Date Alone,” the series will premiere on Feb. 4.
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International streaming service MHz Choice has acquired the exclusive US rights to “The Man Who Died,” a dark Finnish comedy by Northern Irish writer Brendan Foley (“Sherlock & Daughter”). The show’s first season will premiere on Dec. 1.
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Reelz has picked up a new true-crime series from Canada’s Black Watch Entertainment and the UK’s BossaNova. The 10-part series, “Into the Chase,” follows law enforcement officials as they pursue fugitives across the United States.
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Peacock is making more updates to its mobile app to include more sports and a wider range of vertical video features, as well as a “jump back in” button that returns users to the shows they were previously watching.
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YouTuber Druski brought a two-year ratings high to his Nov. 7 episode of “Saturday Night Live.” (Plus, it didn’t hurt that the episode had a nice lead-in from the Notre Dame-Miami game earlier that night.) The show drew in 5.6 million viewers, the most since Nov. 2, 2024. NBC also said the show is the most watched-episode on Peacock, but didn’t disclose the exact number of viewers.
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The Nov. 8 episode of “60 Minutes,” which featured Ross Douthat’s now-viral interview with President Donald Trump, achieved the show’s highest ratings following an NFL singleheader this season. According to CBS, the episode drew 7.8 million viewers and was the week’s No. 1. non-sports primetime program for adults 18+.
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