TV Shows

In Government Cheese, Apple’s new comedy co-created by Paul Hunter and Aeysha Carr, an unusual family living in late ‘60s San Francisco find their lives turned upside down when the head of the house (David Oyelowo) is freed from a stint in prison.

The CW canceled its live-action Powerpuff Girls adaptation starring Chloe Bennet as Blossom, Dove Cameron, as Bubbles, and Yana Perrault as Buttercup before the series ever got a chance to air. Behind-the-scenes set photos have been floating around on the internet for years, but a full-on trailer showcasing what could have been was posted to YouTube on Thursday by Lost Media Busters.

The nonprofit Sesame Workshop production company is laying off staff, with Sesame Street still needing to find a new platform to broadcast future episodes after Max dropped the beloved children’s show in December. Production on season 56 starts next month and will feature a new “narrative-led” format.

Jack Kirby, the iconic comics artist who co-created Marvel’s X-Men and Avengers, and originated DC’s New Gods, is the subject of Kirbyvision, a new documentary from director Ricki Stern (Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, UFOs: Investigating the Unknown).

Following the debut trailer for Andor’s second season, Lucasfilm has released another brief video, with some behind-the-scenes footage and a few new tidbits — including Diego Luna in some cool sci-fi sunglasses. The show starts streaming on Disney Plus on April 22nd.

Disney is reportedly laying off 200 employees (about 6 percent of its workforce) from its ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks units.

Apple debuted a trailer today for Side Quest, the upcoming four-episode anthology series based off of Mythic Quest. I bounced off Mythic Quest after season 2, but I liked the episodes that were separate from the main plot line. Hopefully this series channels those.

Kiana Khansmith’s (Big City Greens) Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl isn’t a fledged show just yet, but her new pilot introducing Aika (Anairis Quiñones), Zira (Bennett Abara), and Hoshi (Christine Marie Cabanos) is concrete evidence that it absolutely needs to be.

Sony is soliciting bids to bring Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune to streaming services, The New York Times reports. The company apparently expects that it will reach a deal by early April.

And now you can try refining numbers yourself on the Lumon Industries website. It’s sort of like an unsettling version of Minesweeper — though it’d be even better played on a Lumon computer.

Pokémon Horizons wasn’t a big part of today’s Pokémon Presents showcase, but The Pokémon Company is teasing Mega Evolution becoming part of the series, which makes it seem like Liko and Roy might be making a trip to Lumiose City.

During its most recent earnings call, Paramount reported that Paramount Plus’ revenue was up by 16 percent in Q4, and the streamer added 5.6 million new subscribers, bringing its total up to 77.5 million. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount expects to keep the new-sub momentum going through Q1 2025, albeit at a slightly slower rate due to its current content lineup.

After making his Disney Plus debut in Daredevil: Born Again, Jon Bernthal’s take on Frank Castle / The Punisher is coming back for his own MCU special à la Werewolf by Night and Guardians of the Galaxy. Per Entertainment Weekly, Bernthal will co-write the special’s script with Reinaldo Marcus Green (We Own This City), who will also direct. Details about the special are thin, but Marvel TV head Brad Winderbaum teased it as “a shotgun blast of a story.”

We finally have word about the second season of the best thing on Peacock. The return of Poker Face — a clever detective series from Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne — will once again include some great guests, which this time means Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney, and Katie Holmes, among others. No trailer yet ahead of the spring 2025 premiere window, but you can check out the first images below.

There are countless chill beats to work / study to, but few of them are as ominous as this new eight-hour-long mix from Severance. Not only is just the right amount of creepy, but it also includes some great close-up shots of those bizarre computers.

You might not have been keeping up with the development of Marvel’s Nova, Strange Academy, and Terror, Inc. Disney Plus series, but Deadline reports that the studio is putting all three on hold as it rethinks which projects it wants to prioritize for the MCU’s future.

Over the next four years, Netflix plans to spend $1 billion dollars to energize the production of new films and series out of Mexico according to The Hollywood Reporter. The investment is nowhere near the $2.5 billion Netflix committed to South Korean productions a few years ago. And a time when the studio has come under fire for platforming questionable depictions of Mexico (see: Emilia Pérez), the move definitely feels like some strategic damage control.

Apple (like most streamers) has always been cagey about sharing viewership data, which makes it difficult to know exactly how well its shows are performing. But Deadline reports that, following the premiere of its second season, Severance has dethroned Ted Lasso as Apple TV Plus’ most-watched series to date:

In Apple TV Plus’ new adaptation of Dennis Tafoya’s 2009 novel Dope Thief, best friends Ray and Manny (Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura) come up with the bright idea to pose as Drug Enforcement Administration agents in order to rob other criminals more easily. Very little about the duo’s plan seems to be paying off in a new trailer for the series that highlights how quickly things start to go sideways. But the show looks like it might scratch that Breaking Bad itch for Apple TV Plus subscribers when it debuts on March 14th.

Nothing is official until HBO confirms it, but Deadline is reporting that John Lithgow is in talks to play Dumbledore in the network’s upcoming Harry Potter reboot series scheduled to debut some time next year.

When FX renewed its English Teacher series for a second season last Friday, the network emphasized how the comedy was “one of the most critically acclaimed new shows of 2024.” Much of that acclaim came before Vulture’s extensive report published back in December detailing allegations of sexual misconduct by The English Teacher creator Brian Jordan Alvarez. And as Maureen Ryan points out in a new Salon piece, everything about the way FX is handling the situation feels equal parts grim and disheartening.