We’ve got a bunch of renewals and big news about Disney’s new streaming service in this week’s TV news, but let’s start with some spring and summer premiere dates!
Premiere dates:
May 8th: Lucifer
May 10th: Sneaky Pete
May 23rd: The Name of the Rose
June 7th: Tales of the City
June 9th: Pose
June 12th: Younger
June 16th: Euphoria
June 20th: Rosehaven, Reef Break
June 30th: The Loudest Voice
July 26th: Veronica Mars
July 31st: Four Weddings and a Funeral
August 12th: The Terror: Infamy, Lodge 49
Renewed:
Killing Eve, Find Me in Paris, NCIS, Hanna, Future Man (for a third and final season), Blue Bloods, Good Girls, Barry, When Calls the Heart
Canceled:
Preacher (ending with season 4), Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television, Champaign ILL, Sideswiped, Do You Want to See a Dead Body
Other headlines:
We got a bunch of info about Disney+ this week!
Season nine of American Horror Story will be called 1984 and have a summer camp slasher theme.
When Calls the Heart will come back from hiatus on May 6th, with Lori Laughlin edited out.
Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 will have a crossover event on May 2nd.
The High Fidelity series has moved from Disney+ to Hulu.
Season three of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will have eight episodes.
New showrunners:
Killing Eve: Suzanne Heathcote
Pilot directors and other director announcements:
Into the Dark: Gigi Saul Guerrero
The Swarm: Alan Taylor
Village Gazette: Richie Keen
Ordered to series:
Alibi: Psychological thriller We Hunt Together
AMC: A new Walking Dead spinoff
Apple: Stephen King adaptation Lisey’s Song starring Julianne Moore
Hulu: Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos limited series The Dropout starring Kate McKinnon
Netflix: Paranormal musical comedy series Julie and the Phantoms, man and dog comedy series It’s Bruno!
In development:
Anonymous Content/Picture Perfect Federation: Ancient Egyptian epic drama Ramses
Dancing Ledge: A true criem anthology drama from Lee Child
Disney+: A Hawkeye series starring Jeremy Renner, a Love, Simon sequel series, a series based on The Sandlot
Drama Republic: An adaptation of Sara Collins historical novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Dramacorp: Crime drama Cannes Confidential
HBO: An adaptation of Gary Shteyngart novel Lake Success starring Jake Gyllenhaal
Keshet Studios: A U.S. version of Israeli black comedy Stockholm
NBCUniversal: Billboard diva limited series Angelyne starring Emmy Rossum
Paramount TV: An adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans
Yellow Bird U.K.: Danish murder mystery adaptation The Secret Woman
Promoted to series regular:
Better Call Saul: Tony Dalton
Guest stars:
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Sean Astin
Superstore: Ana Ortiz, Anjelah Johnson
Returns:
Shameless: Noel Fisher
Casting:
Castle Rock: Paul Sparks (replacing Garrett Hedlund)
The Crown: Emma Corrin
Dispatches from Elsewhere: Sally Field, Richard E. Grant
Dollface: Shay Mitchell (replacing Lex Scott Davis)
The Eddy: Joanna Kulig
Foodie Love: Laia Costa, Guillermo Pfening
The Hunt: Kate Mulvany, James Le Gros, Ebony Obsidian, Caleb Emery, Henry Hunter Hall, Jeannie Berlin
Interrogation: Vincent D’Onofrio
Into the Dark: Martha Higareda, Shawn Ashmore, Barbara Crampton, Felipe de Lara, Creed Bratton
Jupiter’s Legacy: Tenika Davis
Perry Mason: Tatiana Maslany
The Plot Against America: Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Anthony Boyle, Azhy Robertson, Caleb Malis
The Righteous Gemstones: Walton Goggins
Shadowplay: Taylor Kitsch, Michael C. Hall, Nina Hoss, Sebastian Koch, Tuppence Middleton, Logan Marshall-Green, Mala Emde
Star Wars: Rogue One spinoff series: Alan Tudyk
Titans: Iain Glen
Westworld: Lena Waithe
(Image courtesy of Netflix.)
