ABC news
Phillipa Soo Joins Joshua Jackson & Don Johnson In Ryan Murphy Drama Series ‘Dr. Odyssey’ For ABC (April 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/phillipa-soo-cast-ryan-murphy-abc-1235886285/ABC Renewal Status Report: ‘The Conners’ & ‘Not Dead Yet’ (April 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/abc-canceled-renewed-the-conners-not-dead-yet-1235885992/‘The Rookie’ Renewed For Season 7 By ABC (April 15)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-rookie-renewed-season-7-abc-nathan-fillion-1235886091/Don Johnson Joins Joshua Jackson In Ryan Murphy Drama Series ‘Dr. Odyssey’ For ABC (April 15)
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CBS news
‘So Help Me Todd’ Creator Reacts To Series Cancellation: “Best Professional Experience Of My Life” (April 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/so-help-me-todd-creator-reacts-cbs-cancellation-skylar-astin-1235890675/‘CSI: Vegas’ & ‘So Help Me Todd’ Canceled By CBS (April 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/csi-vegas-so-help-me-todd-canceled-cbs-1235890517/CBS Renews ‘Elsbeth’ For Season 2 (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/cbs-renews-elsbeth-season-2-1235889263/‘NCIS: Origins’ Casts Daniel Bellomy, Caleb Martin Foote & Robert Taylor In Recurring Roles (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/ncis-origins-cast-daniel-bellomy-caleb-martin-foote-robert-taylor-1235889458/CBS Renewal Status Report: ‘The Equalizer’, ‘NCIS: Hawai’i’, ‘Elsbeth’, ‘CSI: Vegas’ & ‘So Help Me Todd’ (April 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/cbs-canceled-renewed-equalizer-ncis-hawaii-elsbeth-csi-vegas-so-help-me-todd-1235887600/CBS Orders ‘The Gates’ To Series; Daytime Sudser That Centers On A Black Family To Debut In January (April 15)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/cbs-orders-the-gates-to-series-daytime-soap-premiering-january-2025-1235886082/CBS To Rebroadcast Billy Joel Concert After ‘Piano Man’ Debacle (April 15)
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CW news
The CW Opts Not To Renew Affiliation Deals With Scripps-Owned Stations In Seven Markets (April 19)
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Fox news
Fox Renewal Status Report: ‘The Cleaning Lady’ & ‘Alert’ (April 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-cleaning-lady-alert-lone-911-lone-star-fox-renewal-status-1235888678/Seth MacFarlane On Ending ‘Family Guy’: “I Don’t See A Good Reason To Stop, People Still Love It” (April 16)
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NBC news
NBCUniversal Launches Personalized NextGen TV Broadcasts On Four NBC And Telemundo Stations (April 15)
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Cable channel news
FX’s ‘Alien’ Series Adds ‘Foundation’ Actress Sandra Yi Sencindiver (April 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/alien-series-noah-hawley-cast-foundation-actress-sandra-yi-sencindiver-weyland-yutani-1235890023/‘Miss Scarlet’ Casts Tom Durant Pritchard To Fill Void Left By The Duke [PBS] (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/miss-scarlet-casts-tom-durant-pritchard-replacing-the-duke-1235889081/Sterlin Harjo’s FX Pilot ‘The Sensitive Kind’ Adds Five To Cast (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-sensitive-kind-pilot-adds-killer-mike-four-others-1235889300/["'The Sensitive Kind' is described as a Tulsa noir about a guy (Ethan Hawke) who knows too much. As previously announced, Keith David, Siena East, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Shepherd, Tracy Letts, Kyle Maclachlan and Macon Blair will also star."]
HBO, Bad Wolf Developing ‘Succession’-Level Series On Flamboyant Art Fraudster Inigo Philbrick (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/hbo-bad-wolf-adapt-all-that-glitters-inigo-philbrick-1235888858/‘Somebody Somewhere’ Adds Ólafur Darri Ólafsson To Season 3 Cast On HBO (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/somebody-somewhere-casts-olafur-darri-olafsson-season-three-cast-hbo-1235889101/["the series follows Sam, a true Kansan on the surface, but, beneath it all, struggling to fit the hometown mold. Grappling with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam’s saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a community of outsiders who don’t fit in but don’t give up, showing that finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible. Anywhere. Somewhere. In season three, we see growth against all odds."]
‘Dying For Sex’ Adds Rob Delaney, David Rasche & Esco Jouléy As Recurring [FX] (April 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/dying-for-sex-rob-delaney-david-rasche-esco-jouley-cast-1235888096/FX Assembles Cast For ‘Snowflakes’ Comedy Pilot (April 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/snowflakes-cast-fx-comedy-pilot-1235887243/["Snowflakes is a twenty-something ensemble comedy following a group of codependent housemates — Billie (Freyer), Samir (Elassal), Anton (Thiele), Issa (Rao) and Paul Baker (Innanen) — trying to be good people, despite being neither 'good' nor 'people' yet."]
‘Breaking Bad’s Betsy Brandt To EP & Star In Lifetime Movie ‘The Bad Orphan’ (April 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/betsy-brandt-lifetime-movie-the-bad-orphan-1235887101/Tyler Perry Re-Ups Deal With BET Media, Gets New Seasons For 9 Series, Including ‘Sistas’ & ‘The Oval’ (April 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/tyler-perry-deal-bet-sistas-the-oval-renewed-house-of-payne-assisted-living-1235886435/CNN’s ‘King Charles’ Ends Its Run With No Plans To Extend Limited Series (April 15)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/king-charles-cnn-gayle-king-charles-barkley-1235886271/‘Chucky’ Creator On Potential Season 4: “I Already Pitched It To The Network” [Syfy] (April 14)
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Streaming service news--Apple TV+
Apple Nabs Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s ‘Fleishman Is In Trouble’ Followup ‘Long Island Compromise’ For Series Development (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/taffy-brodesser-akner-long-island-compromise-apple-series-1235889528/["'Long Island Compromise' is set nearly forty years after a wealthy businessman was kidnapped and brutalized before his family paid ransom for his release. It examines the lasting impact of the ordeal on the man, his wife and their three grown children and spans the family’s history, winding through decades and generations and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever."]
Apple’s ‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ Casts Eunice Bae (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/your-friends-and-neighbors-cast-eunice-bae-1235888649/Rashida Jones’ Apple Series ‘Sunny’ Sets Premiere Date; First-Look Photos Unveiled (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/rashida-jones-sunny-premiere-date-photos-trailer-apple-1235888730/["'Sunny' is based on the book 'Dark Manual' by Japan-based award-winning Irish writer Colin O’Sullivan. Jones stars as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As 'consolation' she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company. Though at first Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, gradually they develop an unexpected friendship, as together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family, becoming dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed."]
‘For All Mankind’ Renewed For Season 5; Apple Expands Universe With Spinoff Series ‘Star City’ (April 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/for-all-mankind-renewed-season-5-apple-tv-spinoff-series-star-city-1235887717/‘Acapulco’ Trailer Sets Up Competitive Season 3 [Apple TV+] (April 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/acapulco-trailer-season-3-1235887736/Emma Thompson & Ruth Wilson To Star In Apple TV+ Series ‘Down Cemetery Road’ Based On Book From ‘Slow Horses’ Scribe Mick Herron (April 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/down-cemetery-road-emma-thompson-ruth-wilson-to-star-apple-series-1235886108/["The show centers on Sarah Tucker (Wilson), who becomes obsessed with finding a neighbor girl who disappeared in the aftermath of a house explosion in a quiet Oxford suburb. After enlisting the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Thompson) in her quest, the pair find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead."]
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Streaming service news--Disney+
Beatles’ 1970 ‘Let It Be’ Doc Will Stream On Disney+ After Decades In Hiding (April 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/beatles-let-it-be-disney-plus-1235886870/Disney+ Sets Latest Korean Series ‘Low Life’ From ‘Big Bet’ Creator, Hulu On Board (April 15)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/disney-korea-series-low-life-big-bet-creator-1235884782/["The series will star veteran actor Ryu Seungryong (Moving) and Yang Sejong (Doona!). Set in 1970s Korea, the story follows a fisherman as he discovers a treasure lost for generations at the bottom of the ocean. Taking a small part of it home for himself, word soon begins to spread about the vast fortune waiting to be claimed by those brave enough to risk the depths. Desperate to escape his depressing life, Oh Heedong (Yang) partners with his uncle Oh Gwanseok (Ryu) in an attempt to reach the treasure before the rest of the world."]
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Streaming service news--Hulu
Hulu To Exclusively Launch Two ‘Family Guy’ Holiday Specials Later This Year (April 20)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/hulu-two-family-guy-holiday-specials-1235890940/Hulu Orders ‘Journey To The Center Of The Internet’ Adult Animated Presentation (April 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/hulu-orders-journey-to-the-center-of-the-internet-adult-animated-presentation-1235890626/Margaret Qualley Exits Hulu’s Amanda Knox Limited Series (April 16)
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Streaming service news--Max
‘The Iron Claw’ Sets Max Premiere Date (April 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-iron-claw-sets-streaming-premiere-date-max-1235890605/‘Pretty Little Liars: Summer School’ Drops Season 2 Trailer [Max] (April 18)
https://deadline.com/video/pretty-little-liars-summer-school-season-2-trailer/‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Starts Filming & James Gunn Shares Photo From The Set [Max] (April 13)
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Streaming service news--Netflix
Netflix Lands Series ‘Calabasas’ From Kim Kardashian, Marlene King And Emma Roberts Following Bidding War (April 20)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/calabasas-netflix-kim-kardashian-marlene-king-emma-roberts-1235888244/["In the vein of The O.C. and Beverly Hills 90210, Calabasas follows Via, a 16-year-old sheltered Midwestern Catholic school girl whose world is turned upside down when her family moves and she’s forced to transfer to the fast world of Calabasas High where nothing is as it appears and where everyone is trying to be someone else. It’s a place where dreams come true … but not without complications and sometimes unforeseen consequences."]
Meta Golding Joins Netflix’s ‘Ransom Canyon’ Romantic Drama Series (April 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/ransom-canyon-cast-meta-golding-1235890141/["Created, written and executive produced by April Blair based on Jodi Thomas’ book series, 'Ransom Canyon' is a romance-fueled family drama and contemporary western saga that charts the intersecting lives of three ranching families, all set against the rugged expanse of Texas Hill Country."]
Abel Gance’s ‘Napoléon,’ Restored Over 16 Years, To Open Cannes Classics Before Heading To Netflix (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/abel-gance-napoleon-cannes-classics-netflix-1235889370/["Celebrated by scholars for its technical and aesthetic innovations, [the silent film] 'Napolean' premiered at the Paris Opera on April 7, 1927, in the presence of French President Gaston Doumergue before embarking on a world tour. The film’s original reels were thereafter scattered across the globe, some lost or destroyed. The film was then recut — with 22 different versions known to date. 'Napolean' has not been shown in its original [seven-hour] version, known as the 'Grande Version,' since 1927."]
‘The Witcher’ Renewed For 5th & Final Season At Netflix (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-witcher-renewed-canceled-end-season-5-1235889124/Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Series Moves To Netflix (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-netflix-1235888355/Guillaume Canet Action Thriller ‘Ad Vitam’ Begins Shoot in Paris For Netflix (April 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/guillaume-canet-action-thriller-ad-vitam-shoot-paris-for-netflix-1235887871/‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’: Netflix Unveils Teaser For Series Adaptation Of Gabriel García Marquez’s Magical Realist Masterpiece (April 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-netflix-series-teaser-gabriel-garcia-marquez-1235887886/["The multi-generational tale follows the Buendía family and tells the story of the founding of the mythical town of Macondo."]
Netflix Pushes Two Spanish Features Into Production Including J.A. Bayona Produced Political Thriller ‘Un Fantasma En La Batalla’ (April 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/netflix-j-a-bayona-un-fantasma-en-la-batalla-political-thriller-la-desconocida-rosa-montero-1235886779/‘A Man In Full’ Trailer: Jeff Daniels Is A Bankrupt Real Estate Mogul In Netflix Series From David E. Kelley & Regina King — Update (April 16)
https://deadline.com/video/a-man-in-full-trailer-jeff-daniels-david-e-kelley-regina-king-netflix/‘Wednesday’ Season 2: Everything We Know About The Cast, Premiere Date & More (April 16)
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Streaming service news--Paramount+
‘The Chi’ Drops New Trailer For Second Half Of Season Six On Paramount+ With Showtime (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-chi-season-six-trailer-second-half-showtime-1235889053/‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ Star David Oyelowo, Showrunner Chad Feehan Say Bass Is Riding Off Into The Sunset [Paramount+] (April 14)
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Streaming service news--Peacock
‘We Are Lady Parts’ Sets Season 2 Return; Malala Yousafzai & Meera Syal To Guest Star [Peacock] (April 18)
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Streaming service news--Prime Video
‘Fallout’ Renewed For Season 2 At Amazon (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/fallout-renewed-season-2-amazon-1235889742/‘Clarkson’s Farm’: Host Returns To Diddly Squat In Season 3 Trailer [Prime Video] (April 18)
https://deadline.com/video/clarksons-farm-season-3-trailer-diddly-squat/‘Outer Range’: Prime Video Drops Official Trailer For Season 2 Of Josh Brolin Drama (April 15)
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International series news
Leonie Benesch And Frank Van Passel On The Mystery Of “Moresnet,” A European Drama In Which A Time Capsule Carries A Deadly Message (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/leonie-benesch-on-moresnet-european-drama-time-capsule-newen-1235887905/Emily VanCamp To Lead Canadian TV Drama About Former Sex Worker Turned Litigator (April 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/emily-vancamp-prejudice-celeste-parr-1235885913/["In Prejudice, VanCamp plays Liesl Wellington, a rising Toronto litigator whose career and marriage to a senator are thrown into upheaval when her past as a sex worker is publicly exposed. Scorned by her field and social circle, she launches her own law firm dedicated to defending the likewise silenced and delegitimized."]
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Series in development
‘The Office’: Domhnall Gleeson & ‘White Lotus’s Sabrina Impacciatore Cast In New Greg Daniels Comedy (April 19)
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Ratings
‘Quiet On Set’ Bests ‘The Last Of Us’ To Become Max’s Most Successful Title Ever On Nielsen Streaming Charts (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/quiet-on-set-3-body-problem-road-house-viewership-nielsen-streaming-1235889664/‘3 Body Problem’ Stays At No. 1 Despite Sleepy Week For Netflix TV; ‘What Jennifer Did’ Debuts Atop Film List (April 16)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/3-body-problem-what-jennifer-did-netflix-viewership-1235887315/Women’s NCAA Tournament Boosts March Cable Viewership; ‘Love Is Blind,’ ‘The Gentlemen’ & ‘Avatar’ Dominate On Netflix, Nielsen Says (April 16)
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The business of TV
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2023 Pay Package Just Shy Of $50 Million (April 19)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/warner-bros-discovery-david-zaslaz-2023-ceo-pay-package-1235890028/Netflix Shocker Streamer Will Stop Reporting Quarterly Subscriber Numbers In 2025 (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/netflix-will-stop-reporting-quarterly-subscriber-numbers-2025-1235889568/Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters Says Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Not Hurt Viewership, Citing Internal Data That “Cuts Through The Noise” About The Policy Shift (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown-viewing-1235889708/Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos Sees 2023 Pay Package Push $50 Million (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/netflix-co-ceo-ted-sarandos-2023-pay-package-1235889604/Netflix Adds 9.3M Subscribers In Another Strong Quarter (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/netflix-earnings-streaming-subscribers-1235889403/Viaplay Launching On Prime Video Channels After Shutting Down U.S. Streaming App (April 17)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/viaplay-prime-video-channels-launch-1235887096/Max Readies Norwegian Original ‘MILF Of Norway’ Ahead Of Europe Launch (April 15)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/max-norway-milf-of-norway-europe-launch-1235885699/["MILF of Norway follows Lene (Mariann Hole), a woman in the middle of midlife crisis who unexpectedly becomes an internet porn star."]
TCM Sets Up Shop On Fandango At Home, Offering Free Streams Of Select Classic Movies Through The End Of May (April 15)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/tcm-fandango-free-streaming-classic-movies-1235885810/‘Suits’ To Make Its Broadcast Debut This Fall On MyNetworkTV In The Wake Of Its 2023 Streaming Explosion (April 15)
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Obituaries
Ron Thompson Dies: Actor In ‘Baretta’ And Ralph Bakshi’s ‘American Pop’ Was 83 (April 14)
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Other News
Tribeca Festival Sets 2024 TV Lineup: Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Presumed Innocent’, New Season Premieres ‘My Brilliant Friend’, ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ (April 18)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/tribeca-festival-2024-tv-lineup-jake-gyllenhaal-presumed-innocent-walking-dead-1235888648/‘Tamron Hall’ Renewed For Season 6 (April 15)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/tamron-hall-renewal-sixth-season-1235883600/'Rust' armorer sentenced to 18 months in fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin (April 15)
https://news.yahoo.com/rust-armorer-faces-sentencing-fatal-113248153.htmlThe Raquel Welch Collection Auction Highlighted By Knock-Off Of Her Iconic ‘One Million Years B.C.’ Faux Fur Bikini (April 13)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/raquel-welch-collection-auction-1235883718/
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