CBS news
How ‘The Talk’ Signed Off After 15 Seasons On CBS (Dec. 20)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-talk-final-episode-15-seasons-cbs-1236239512/CBS Orders Zarna Garg Multi-Cam Comedy Pilot From Darlene Hunt, Mindy Kaling & Kevin Hart (Dec. 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/zarna-garg-cbs-comedy-pilot-darlene-hunt-mindy-kaling-1236209077/["Zarna centers on the eponymous heroine Zarna (Garg), a proud immigrant woman who’s been raising her American-born kids on Indian values. But now that they’re getting older, it’s time for her to focus on her own American dream. The story reflects Garg’s own story. She immigrated from her native India to the U.S. as a teenager and, after getting BA and JD degrees, spent 16 years as a stay-at-home mom before her children encouraged her to try stand-up, launching her comedy career."]
‘Beyond The Gates’ Teaser Shows How Dupree Family “Rules This Community” In New CBS Sudser (Dec. 16)
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CW news
‘All American’: Lauryn Hardy, Terayle Hill & Sasha Lance Join Season 7 As Recurring (Dec. 16)
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NBC news
NBC High-Concept Prison-Based Drama ‘The Hunting Party’ Gets Haunting First Teaser (Dec. 21)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/nbc-the-hunting-party-first-teaser-1236240271/["An elite task force of investigators has its hands full when an off-the-books max-security prison sees a massive breach, leading to the escape of the most notorious convicts. In a first teaser for NBC‘s forthcoming crime procedural, 'The Hunting Party,' Melissa Roxburgh‘s ex-FBI agent Rebecca Henderson must spearhead a search to round up the escaped criminals."]
‘Brilliant Minds’ Season Finale Moves Up A Week With Back-To-Back Episodes On NBC (Dec. 20)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/brilliant-minds-season-finale-new-date-zachary-quinto-nbc-1236239533/‘Burn Notice’ Creator Matt Nix And ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ Author Tess Gerritsen Developing Cop Drama Series ‘Vacationland’ At NBC (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/matt-nix-tess-gerritsen-developing-cop-drama-series-vacationland-nbc-1236203345/["From Universal Television, the series follows top LAPD detective Grace Chen after she resigns from her job in disgust. She retires to the quirky village of Serenity, Maine, determined to put it all behind her. When Serenity’s Sheriff is murdered, however, Grace finds herself dragged back into crime fighting by Joey, a local veterinarian and amateur sleuth determined to protect the town she loves."]
Boston Rob To Host ‘Deal Or No Deal Island’ Aftershow For NBC (Dec. 16)
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Cable channel news
Syfy’s ‘Revival’ Series Based On Comics Adds 8 To Cast (Dec. 20)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/syfys-revival-series-comics-cast-1236238880/["In 'Revival,' on one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story as the “revived” appear and act just like they once were. When local Officer and single mother Dana Cypress (Melanie Scrofano) is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she’s left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect."]
‘Dune: Prophecy’ Gets Second Season Order From HBO (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/dune-prophecy-season-2-1236238385/Streetwear Drama Series From Justin Chon, Bobby Hundreds & Garrett Basch In Works At FX (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/streetwear-drama-series-justin-chon-bobby-hundreds-garrett-basch-development-fx-1236211474/‘Euphoria’ Third (And Likely Final) Season Gets Another Boost With $19.4M Tax Credit [HBO] (Dec. 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/euphoria-final-season-3-tax-credit-1236209879/‘The Old Man’ Canceled By FX After 2 Seasons (Dec. 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-old-man-canceled-fx-no-season-3-jeff-bridges-1236209118/‘The Joe Schmo Show’ Gets Long Awaited Premiere At TBS Watch (Dec. 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-joe-schmo-show-premiere-tbs-trailer-1236205127/‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Premiere Date Revealed; Watch Trailer [HBO] (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-white-lotus-season-3-premiere-date-trailer-1236204678/‘The White Lotus’ Season 3: Everything We Know About The Cast, Premiere Date & More (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/feature/the-white-lotus-season-3-hbo-release-date-cast-1235794626/‘Yellowstone’ Finale: How Taylor Sheridan Wrapped Up (For Now) His Hit Drama On Paramount (Dec. 15)
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Streaming service news--Apple TV+
Apple Lands ‘Bananas’ Series Starring Oscar Isaac & Ana De Armas (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/apple-series-oscar-isaac-ana-de-armas-david-o-russell-1236238695/["The premise for the potential series, written and executive produced by Paiz, is kept under wraps through sources indicate that the working title refers to so-called banana republics, a term used to describe politically and economically unstable countries in areas such as Central America."]
‘Beef’s Joseph Lee Joins Leading Cast Of Apple TV+ Drama ‘Neuromancer’ (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/joseph-lee-apple-tv-drama-neuromancer-1236238370/Apple Makes Big Deal For Elliot Ackerman Novel ‘Sheepdogs’ (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/apple-sheepdogsseries-playtone-tom-hanks-gary-goetzman-eliot-ackerman-1236238066/['Sheepdogs' revolves around Skwerl and Cheese, two elite paramilitary soldiers down on their luck. Skwerl is an ex-Marine who used to work for the CIA’s elite paramilitary wing but was fired after a raid went bad in Afghanistan. Big Cheese Aziz is a legendary pilot, but the fall of Kabul has left him working the nightshift at a gas station. Skwerl recruits Cheese into an anonymous network of so-called sheepdogs, who operate in the shadowy space between predator and prey. Their mission, which Skwerl persuades a reluctant Cheese to accept, is to repossess a private jet stranded on a remote African airfield. Their fee: a commission on the jet’s $5 million value. But nothing about the job adds up. Their contact goes missing. Their handler is as mysterious as the real source of the money. And when the women in their lives get involved — one pregnant wife and one a dominatrix — the stakes skyrocket."]
‘Bad Monkey’ Renewed For Season 2 By Apple; Production Moving To LA With Vince Vaughn Back As Yancy (Dec. 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/bad-monkey-renewed-season-2-production-location-move-vince-vaughn-1236208699/Jason Segel, Harrison Ford And ‘Shrinking’ Cast Download Highs And Lows Of Season 2 (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/shrinking-jason-segel-harrison-ford-interview-season-2-1236204333/‘Silo’ Renewed For Two Seasons; Rebecca Ferguson Starrer To End After Year 4 (Dec. 16)
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Streaming service news--Disney+
Disney Executive On Why ‘Star Wars’ Series ‘The Acolyte’ Was Canceled: “It Wasn’t Where We Needed It To Be Given The Cost Structure Of That Title” (Dec. 20)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/disney-executive-why-star-wars-series-the-acolyte-canceled-1236239439/‘Shared Custody’: Watch Trailer For Disney+’s Spanish-Language Relationship Comedy-Drama Series (Dec. 19)
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Streaming service news--Hulu
‘Tell Me Lies’ Renewed For Season 3 By Hulu (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/tell-me-lies-renewed-season-3-hulu-meaghan-oppenheimer-overall-deal-1236229781/‘Gilmore Girls’ Heads To Hulu For The Holidays (Dec. 16)
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Streaming service news--Max
‘The Big Bang Theory’: Chuck Lorre Joined By Zak Penn & Bill Prady On Spinoff Series For Max (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-big-bang-theory-spinoff-chuck-lorre-zak-penn-bill-prady-1236238716/‘Sex Lives Of College Girls’ Star Gracie Lawrence Says Role Isn’t “Replacing” Reneé Rapp’s Leighton (Dec. 18)
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Streaming service news--Netflix
Everything We Know About ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 So Far (Dec. 20)
https://deadline.com/feature/stranger-things-season-5-news-1236169409/‘Stranger Things’ Wraps Production On 5th & Final Season; Behind-The-Scenes Photos (Dec. 20)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/stranger-things-wraps-production-season-5-photos-1236239226/‘Virgin River’ Showrunner Unpacks Season 6: Wedding, Cliffhangers, That Catchy Song & “Hold Space” Line; Teases Season 7’s Theme & More (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/virgin-river-showrunner-season-6-recap-wedding-season-7-interview-1236235552/‘Virgin River’: Mark Ghanimé Leaving As Series Regular After 3 Seasons (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/virgin-river-mark-ghanime-exits-series-regular-cameron-1236235000/‘Virgin River’ Showrunner On Prequel Status & Taking Page From ‘Bridgerton’ Playbook To Tell Everett & Sarah’s Origin Story (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/virgin-river-prequel-status-sarah-everett-bridgerton-1236237771/‘Parasite’ Star Song Kang-Ho Joins ‘Beef’ Season 2 Cast (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/song-kang-ho-cast-beef-season-2-netflix-1236238181/‘Sweet Magnolias’ Gets Season 4 Premiere Date At Netflix (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/sweet-magnolias-season-4-premiere-date-netflix-trailer-1236238118/‘You’ Season 5 Gets Premiere Window; Teaser Posters (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/you-season-5-premiere-teaser-posters-1236235145/‘Ghostbusters’ Animated Movie In The Works From Sony Animation And Netflix (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/ghostbusters-animated-movie-in-the-works-sony-animation-netflix-1236210507/‘Girls5eva’ Canceled At Netflix & Will Not Have Season 4 (Dec. 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/girls5eva-season-4-canceled-netflix-1236209268/‘Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen’ Netflix Series Sets Camila Morrone & Adam DiMarco To Star (Dec. 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/camila-morrone-adam-dimarco-something-very-bad-is-going-to-happen-1236205201/["'Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen' is described as an atmospheric horror series. Set at a wedding, it follows a bride (Morrone) and groom (DiMarco) in the week leading up to their ill-fated nuptials."]
‘XO, Kitty’ Season 2 Trailer: Noah Centineo’s Peter Kavinsky Visits “Chaos Queen” Kitty Song Covey At KISS (Dec. 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/xo-kitty-season-2-trailer-noah-centineo-cameo-1236205358/‘A Man On The Inside’ Renewed For Season 2 By Netflix (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/a-man-on-the-inside-renewed-season-2-netflix-1236204611/Rowan Atkinson Returning To Netflix For ‘Man Vs Baby’ (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/netflix-man-vs-baby-rowan-atkinson-man-vs-bee-1236204445/["Rowan Atkinson is back for Netflix and this time he’s taking on a human foe in 'Man vs Baby.' The streamer has rolled cameras on the series, which follows 2022’s 'Man vs Bee.' In 'Man vs Bee,' the Mr Bean star was Trevor Bingley, a down-on-his-luck man who finds himself entrenched in a battle with an insect while house sitting a rich couple’s modern mansion. 'Man vs Bee' also starred Jing Lusi, Claudie Blakley, Tom Basden, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Greg McHugh. The new series, which has started production, will see Atkinson return as Bingley alongside “another unlikely companion,” according to Netflix, as he looks after a luxurious London penthouse."]
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Streaming service news--Paramount+
‘Mayor Of Kingstown’ Renewed For Fourth Season (Dec. 18)
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Streaming service news--Peacock
Rose Byrne & Meghann Fahy To Headline Peacock’s ‘The Good Daughter’ Limited Series (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/rose-byrne-meghann-fahy-the-good-daughter-peacock-1236238237/["In 'The Good Daughter,' sisters Charlotte and Samantha Quinn have spent the last twenty-eight years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence. When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte is the first witness on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she’s forced to confront her demons as the case twists through one shocking revelation after another. In the end, she and Samantha wonder if the price of being the good daughter was worth it after all."]
‘The Day Of The Jackal’: Eddie Redmayne Will Return For Season 2 (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-day-of-the-jackal-eddie-redmayne-return-season-2-1236237964/Saul Rubinek Boards James Wan & Simu Liu’s Untitled Peacock Espionage Thriller As Recurring (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/saul-rubinek-cast-james-wan-simu-liu-peacock-espionage-thriller-series-1236203460/["The series is set five minutes in the future when first-generation American intelligence analyst Alexander Hale (Liu) realizes his brain has been hacked, giving the perpetrators access to everything he sees and hears. Caught between his shadowy agency and the unknown hackers, he must maintain a performance 24/7 to flush out who’s responsible and prove where his allegiance lies."]
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Streaming service news--Prime Video
‘The Wheel Of Time’ Adds Olivia Williams, Luke Fetherston, Callum Kerr & Nuno Lopes To Season 3 Cast (Dec. 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/the-wheel-of-time-adds-cast-olivia-williams-luke-fetherston-1236209238/‘Secret Level’ Renewed For Season 2 At Prime Video (Dec. 17)
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Streaming service news--Other services
Roku Lands Select Streaming Rights To The X Games (Dec. 18)
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Syndicated series news
Deborah Norville To Host New Syndicated Game Show “The Perfect Line” For CBS Media Ventures (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/deborah-norville-host-new-syndicated-game-show-the-perfect-line-1236238197/‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ Renewed For Season 7 By NBCUniversal (Dec. 16)
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International series news
‘Ozark’ Co-Creator Mark Williams & Actor Alfie Allen On Explosive Crime Drama ‘Safe Harbor’ As First Trailer Drops (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/safe-harbor-trailer-mark-williams-alfie-allen-1236204089/["The drama revolves around Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port. It follows gifted hacker Tobias, played by Alfie Allen, and his ambitious best friend Marco, played by Dutch actor Martijn Lakemeier (Marie Antoinette). The misfit pair are intent on entering the tech billionaires club."]
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Series in development
Sony Developing Jennifer L. Armentrout’s ‘From Blood & Ash’ Book Series TV Adaptation (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/sony-developing-jennifer-l-armentrout-from-blood-and-ash-book-series-tv-adaptation-1236204651/["The book series follows Poppy, whose life has never been her own since being chosen at birth to usher in a new era. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers."]
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Ratings
‘Dexter: Original Sin’ Debuts To Promising 3-Day Audience Across Paramount+ & Showtime (Dec. 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/dexter-original-sin-premiere-viewership-showtime-1236238850/WWE’s ‘Saturday Night’s Main Event’ Returns To 2.3M Viewers On NBC (Dec. 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/wwe-saturday-nights-main-event-return-ratings-nbc-1236209061/‘Carry-On’ Soars To Netflix’s Biggest Film Debut Of The Year As ‘Black Doves’ Continues TV Reign (Dec. 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/carry-on-black-doves-netflix-ratings-top-10-1236208803/‘Yellowstone’ Season 5B Finale Wrangles Record Same-Day Audience (Dec. 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/yellowstone-season-5b-finale-ratings-viewership-1236205345/‘Red One’ Pulls In Record 50M Global Viewers In Debut Prime Video Weekend, The Most Ever For An Amazon MGM Studio Movie (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/red-one-prime-video-viewership-record-1236205237/‘Blue Bloods’ Finale Delivers Season High For CBS, Network Says (Dec. 16)
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The business of TV
Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery & Fox Officially Lose Latest Move To Kill Venu Sports Streaming Suit From Fubo; Trial Still On For 2025 (Dec. 16)
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Obituaries
Diane Delano Dies: ‘Northern Exposure’, ‘Popular’ & ‘Wicker Man’ Actor Was 67 (Dec. 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/diane-delano-dead-northern-exposure-popular-actress-1236205264/Jill Jacobson Dies: ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ & ‘Who’s the Boss?’ Actress Was 70 (Dec. 15)
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Other News
Zoe Saldaña On ‘Lioness’ Season 3, What To Expect From ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ & Her Hopes For ‘Star Trek 4’: “I Wish We Were Able To Do It Sooner” (Dec. 20)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/zoe-saldana-star-trek-4-avatar-fire-ash-interview-1236239446/‘Black Doves’ Star Keira Knightley On Her “Juicy” TV Series, Why She Stepped Away From Action Films & Season 2: “There’s Got To Be One Serious Rupture” (Dec. 15)
https://deadline.com/2024/12/black-doves-keira-knightley-season-2-interview-news-1236203583/
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