It’s one of the biggest times for TV news, as upfronts are happening and the networks are announcing their 2025-26 schedules: we’ve got CBS, NBC, Fox, and ABC. Read on for the rest of the news from the past two weeks . . .
Premiere dates:
June 4th: Stick
June 6th: The Survivors
June 9th: Tyler Perry’s Divorced Sistas
June 23rd: Acapulco
June 25th: The Bear
July 10th: Too Much
July 11th: Foundation
July 17th: Untamed, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
August 12th: Alien: Earth
August 21st: Peacemaker
September 23rd: The Lowdown
September 30th: Chad Powers
Renewed:
Acorn TV: Inspector Ellis
Angel Studios: Homestead: The Series
Apple TV+: Trying, The Studio
BBC: This City Is Ours
Fox: Going Dutch, Animal Control
NBC: Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Brilliant Minds, The Hunting Party
Netflix: Lupin, Bridgerton (for two seasons), The Four Seasons, Forever, My Life with the Walter Boys, Survival of the Thickest (for a third and final season), The Diplomat
Prime Video: Fallout
Canceled:
Amazon Prime Video: On Call, The Bondsman
Apple TV+: Acapulco (after the upcoming fourth season)
Fox: Rescue Hi-Surf
NBC: Night Court, Lopez Vs. Lopez, The Irrational, Suits LA, Found
Starz: Power Book III: Raising Kanan (after the upcoming fifth season)
Other headlines:
Peacock’s The Office follow-up will be called The Paper.
It’s not quite a series order, but CBS has ordered a writers’ room and twelve scripts for Robert and Michelle King’s Silicon Valley drama Cupertino.
Morris Chestnut will recur rather than be a regular in season three of Reasonable Doubt.
Season two of Rivals will have twelve episodes.
Anthony Hemingway will direct and EP the first episode of Boston Blue.
Ben Watkins will direct the first two episodes of The Greatest.
Julie Martin and Norberto Barba will no longer server as executive producers on Law & Order: SVU.
Ordered to series:
Amazon Prime Video: A Barbershop series starring Jermaine Fowler, Creed spinoff Delphi produced by Michael B. Jordan
Apple TV+: Thriller The Wanted Man starring Hugh Laurie, Thandiwe Newton, Fionn Whitehead, Gina McKee, Hazel Doupe, Elliott Heffernan, and Stephen Dillane, Siegfried & Roy series Wild Things starring Jude Law and Andrew Garfield
BBC/Britbox: An adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Endless Night
CBS: Yellowstone sequel Schooled
Fox: An adaptation of British medical comedy Doc Martin called Best Medicine and starring Josh Charles, hitman drama Memory of a Killer starring Patrick Dempsey, Biblical event series The Faithful
NBC: Tracy Morgan/Daniel Radcliffe comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
Netflix: A comedic crime series starring Dan Levy and Taylor Ortega as siblings, an adaptation of S.A. Crosby’s crime novel All the Sinners Bleed, coming of age drama The Body
Peacock: Archaeology comedy Dig from Mike Schur and Amy Poehler and starring Poehler
USA Network: Nevada Barr park ranger mystery adaptation Anna Pigeon
Acquired for the U.S.:
The CW: Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent
Acquired for North America:
BritBox: British drama The Other Bennet Sister
Mubi: Joe Wright’s limited series Mussolini: Son of the Century
Pilot orders:
ABC: PI drama RJ Decker based on Carl Hiaasen’s Double Whammy
Onyx Collective for Hulu: A real estate drama starring Edgar Ramírez and directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
In development:
A24: Crime drama Trigger Point
Amazon MGM Studios: A drama about Barneys New York from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage
BVC Films: Limited series Blood on the Books about the 1970 police killing of college students starring Nicholas G. Sims
Caroussel: True crime drama The Annecy Murders from Benedict Cumberbatch
Cowboy Films: An adaptation of Kit Conway’s suburban suspense novel Cat Fight
Go Team Entertainment: An adaptation of Britanny Cavallaro’s Charlotte Holmes YA novels
HBO: Ensemble comedy Lifties from Jimmy Tatro and Dan Lagana
Madison Wells: An adaptation of Kate Stayman-London’s novel Fang Fiction from Diablo Cody
Netflix: A limited series about the life of Madonna from Shawn Levy
Titan1Studios: Heist series Sideshow
Leaving their shows:
Law & Order: SVU: Octavio Pisano, Juliana Aidén Martinez
Guest stars:
The Chi: Kyla Pratt, Punkie Johnson, Reagan Gomez, Tammy Townsend
The Lincoln Lawyer: Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jason O’Mara, Nancy Silverton, Javon Johnson
Shrinking: Michael J. Fox
Returns:
Law & Order: SVU: Kelli Giddish
Casting:
12 12 12: Kali Reis, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Agathe Rousselle, Sallie Harmsen
9-1-1: Nashville: LeAnn Rimes, Kimberly Williams-Paisley
American Love Story: Naomi Watts, Paul Kelly
Boston Blue: Sonequa Martin-Green, Ernie Hudson
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ryan Kiera Armstrong
Cape Fear: Anna Baryshnikov, Jamie Hector, Clara Wong, Lily Collias, Joe Anders, Malia Pyles
Daredevil: Born Again: Krysten Ritter
A Different World: Chibuikem Uche, Maleah Joi Moon, Cornell Young IV, Jordan Aaron Hall, Alijah Kai, Kennedi McClure
Elle: Lisa Yamada, Chloe Wepper, David Burtka, Brad Harder, Kayla Maisonet, James Van Der Beek
Emily in Paris: Minnie Driver
Frauds: Talisa Garcia, Karan Gill, Elizabeth Berrington, Christian Cooke
It’s Not Like That: J.R. Ramirez
A Man on the Inside: Constance Marie, David Strathairn, Gary Cole, Jason Mantzoukas, Jill Talley, Linda Park, Lisa Gilroy, Madison Hu, Max Greenfield, Michaela Conlin, Sam Huntington
Mayor of Kingstown: Derek Rivera
Off Campus: Ella Bright, Belmont Cameli, Mika Abdalla, Antonio Cipriano, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Stephen Kalyn, Josh Heuston
Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Shameik Moore
Reasonable Doubt: Kyle Bary, Rumer Willis, Brandee Evans, Richard Brooks, April Parker Jones, Keith Arthur Bolden
Sheriff Country: Amanda Arcuri, Caroline Rhea
Tell Me Lies: Costa D’Angelo
Tulsa King: Kevin Pollak
Waiting for the Out: Josh Finan, Gerard Kearns, Samantha Spiro, Phil Daniels, Stephen Wight, Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, Neal Barry, Alex Ferns, Francis Lovehall, Steven Meo, Ric Renton, Tom Moutchi, Nima Taleghani, Sule Rimi, Charlie Rix, Jude Mack
Write to Kill: Charlotte Kirk, Billy Hayes, Elena Sanchez, Sean Cronin, Rich Graff, Amber Doig-Thorne, Brooke Lewis Bellas, Vanessa Eichholz, David Kallaway, Jack Hudson
Your Friends & Neighbors: Arienne Mandi, Erin Robinson, Bre Blair
(Image courtesy of FX.)
