We hope everyone celebrating Canada Day or Independence Day had/is having a nice (and socially distanced) holiday; let’s catch up on the week’s TV news so we can get you back to your grills.
Premiere dates:
July 22nd: Corporate
August 16th: Lovecraft Country
Renewed:
Ozark (for a fourth and final season), Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Great, The Kominsky Method (for a third and final season), Never Have I Ever
Canceled:
Other headlines:
Rodney Barnes will write the Tiger Woods miniseries.
Ordered to series:
NBC: Sci-fi series Debris from J.H. Wyman
Netflix: Colin Kaepernick autobiographical limited series Colin in Black & White from Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay
Quibi: 2016 election fake news series Clickbait starring Fionn Whitehead
Acquired for the U.S.:
Epix: Historical drama Brittania
Pilot orders:
FOX: Natural hair care entrepreneur series Our Kind of People, a country music family drama
In development:
Amazon: A series based on the game Fallout
Awesomeness: Horror comedy Mer
Channel 4: Heist comedy The Curse
HBO: An adaptation of Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, Jack Johnson limited series Unruly starring Mahershala Ali
Quibi/Blumhouse: Murder mystery series Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue from Anthony Horowitz
Sky: Sci-fi adaptation The Midwich Cuckoos
Sony Pictures TV: Fashion memoir adaptation Dressed in Dreams from Gabrielle Union and Freida Pinto
Tomorrow Studios: A global espionage series from Éric Rochant
Not moving forward:
ABC: thirtysomething(else), Brides, Valley Trash, the Revenge sequel
The CW: The L.A. Complex reboot
Pilots still planning to shoot this year:
ABC: Rebel, Harlem’s Kitchen, Bossy, Home Economics, Work Wife
FOX: All six pilots still in contention
Pilots rolled to another development cycle:
ABC: National Parks Service, Triage, Adopted
Casting:
The Crown: Lesley Manville
Ghosts: Utkarsh Ambudkar
Love in the Time of Corona: Leslie Odom Jr., Nicolette Robinson, Tommy Dorfman, Rainey Qualley, Gil Bellows, Rya Kihlstedt, Ava Bellows, L. Scott Caldwell
Nine Perfect Strangers: Melvin Gregg
Stranger Things: Joel Stoffer
Image courtesy of Hulu.
