We hope everyone experiencing this heat wave is staying cool! Grab some lemonade and let’s catch up on the week’s TV news.
Premiere dates:
August 6th: Hitmen
August 13th: Five Bedrooms
September 3rd: A.P. Bio
November 13th: Alex Rider
Renewed:
Grantchester, Hanna, Good Witch, Chesapeake Shores
Canceled:
Other headlines:
The premiere of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been delayed.
CBS has switched its fall schedule around a bit because of COVID-19 delays.
Emily in Paris will air on Netflix rather than Paramount Network.
Ordered to series:
Apple: Action-thriller Echo 3 from Mark Boal
ITV: A sequel series to The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Acquired for the U.S.:
Acorn TV: BBC One estranged family comedy The Other One
IMDb TV: British spy series Alex Rider
Netflix: BBC’s adaptation of A Suitable Boy
Peacock: Canadian thriller Departure
Sundance Now: David Tennant serial killer drama Des
In development:
20th Century Fox TV: Dark comedy Good Serial from James Roday Rodriguez and Todd Harthan
Amazon: Near-future comedy The Undesirables
AMC: An adaptation of graphic novel The Treasure of the Black Swan
Bad Wolf America: An adaptation of Chris Bohjalian’s The Red Lotus
HBO: An In Treatment reboot
HBO Max: Limited series Brujo starring Diego Boneta
NBC Universal: Family drama Our House
Peacock: An adaptation of video game Indivisible
Quibi: Instagram fame series @GeneralStories from Adam Goldberg, comedy 137 Things My Wife Hates About Me
Sister: An adaptation of Jennifer Weiner’s Mrs. Everything
Spectrum: A comedy about a deaf man from and starring Nyle Dimarco
Studiocanal: A drama about Josephine Baker
Wolf Entertainment: Las Vegas period drama American Babylon from Dick Wolf
Zero Gravity Management: W.C. Handy drama Delta Blues starring Terrence Howard and Evan Ross
Not moving forward:
Paramount Network: Sexy Beast
USA Network: Evel Knievel limited series
Casting:
Big Leap: Laura Benanti
Home Economics: Caitlin McGee, Karla Souza, Sasheer Zamata
Kenan: Don Johnson, Chris Redd
Monsterland: Kelly Marie Tran
Nine Perfect Strangers: Samara Weaving
Shining Vale: Greg Kinnear
(Image courtesy of Sony Pictures.)
