TV Shows

The Netflix animated series was a clever reinvention of Scott Pilgrim, but according to creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, the story in season 1 of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is all we’re getting.

There will never be another show quite like HBO’s The Wire. But Apple TV Plus sounds like it’s going to try to recapture that magic with Dope Thief, Peter Craig’s new series based on Dennis Tafoya’s 2009 novel about “long-time Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to have their small-time grift become a life-and-death enterprise.”

The first two (of eight) episodes premiere on March 14th.

The new teaser for the FX spinoff series Alien: Earth doesn’t show a whole lot, but does confirm that the show will premiere in the summer of 2025. Oh, and in 2120 the xenomorphs are still very shiny.

In the meantime, Alien: Romulus starts streaming on Hulu tomorrow.

Though the Charcadet line has one of the most frustrating shiny forms in the Pokémon franchise, the latest Pokétoon web short does a wonderful job poking fun at how hard it is to spot the rare monsters.

Showtime’s high school drama / teen cannibal horror series Yellowjackets will return for season 3 on February 14th, 2025. While the second season was a little uneven, the show still has plenty of bite — though the new teaser trailer doesn’t provide many hints of what to expect.

Is it a reality show? A mockumentary? A desi Entourage? Maybe a serialized reboot of Om Shanti Om? Whatever this untitled Indian “multi-genre” series is, it’s coming in 2025. Netflix is seeing huge viewership in global markets.

Apple has revealed the first look at its upcoming comedy The Studio, which stars Seth Rogen as a budding film studio head. While the show looks full of delightful disasters, perhaps more impressive is the cast which includes the likes of Catherine O’Hara, Kathryn Hahn, and Bryan Cranston. It starts streaming on March 26th.

Act One of Arcane’s final season closed out on a shot that lent even more credence to fans’ theories about how Warwick might be introduced into the series. And it seems like after Act Two drops this weekend, we’ll know how the werewolf came to be.

Firewalk Studios’ Concord may no longer be with us, but the game is still going to have another (short) moment in the sun when Amazon’s Secret Level anthology series premieres on December 10th.

Between being paid a pittance for creating Squid Game and losing multiple teeth from stress during the first season’s production, it would be understandable if Hwang Dong-hyuk had walked away from his hit franchise.

But in a new interview with The BBC, he explains that the streamer’s choice to finally push some serious cash his way is what brought him back for season 2.

HBO’s It prequel series Welcome to Derry still doesn’t have a concrete release date. But the network’s new 2025 sizzle reel features a fresh look at Pennywise (in human disguise) as well as a whole bunch of footage from Creature Commandos, The Chair Company, Dune: Prophecy, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

At 18 episodes, the League of Legends spinoff has become the most expensive animated series ever produced, Variety reports. Despite the heavy spending and the earlier-than-expected series finale, Riot co-founder Marc Merrill told Variety that the company’s “ambitions in entertainment haven’t changed:”

What did change as we learned more was our expectations of ourselves: We realized that getting it right takes a lot more time than we’d originally expected, and so we recalibrated our development, output goals and teams with that in mind.

Though Netflix insists that it has been following tax law to the tee, the BBC reports that the streamer’s European headquarters in Amsterdam and its office in Paris were raided as part of an investigation into whether it has been “covering up serious tax fraud and off-the-books work.”

When Netflix picked up the streaming rights to the sci-fi series, there was hope that it would lead to a renewal for season 2. Unfortunately, according to co-creator Joe Bennett, that’s not the case — though they aren’t giving up yet. “There is more story to be told,” he said, “we are ready to make another season.” Here’s a teaser of what that might look like.

As promised last month, Adventure Time creator Patrick McHale’s Over the Garden Wall got the stop-motion treatment in a new 10th anniversary short film released today.

If you want behind-the-scenes details, Directors Dan Ojari and Mikey Please discussed realizing the short using hand-carved puppets, miniature sets, and stop-motion — or the “complete opposite” of AI — in a brief interview with Fast Company.

Warner Bros. is apparently in the early stages of developing a Game of Thrones movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. I can’t say I’m surprised — add it to the list of other Game of Thrones spin-offs, which include House of the Dragon and the forthcoming A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

HBO is heading back into the world of Stephen King’s It next year with the prequel Welcome to Derry. And while we wait for a proper trailer, the network has released a handful of Pennywise-free first-look images.

Jon Stewart isn’t returning to host The Daily Show full-time, but Variety reports he’s extended his deal with Comedy Central to keep reporting from the desk on Monday nights through the end of 2025.

Just how popular is Shohei Ohtani in Japan? As the Wall Street Journal reports, the recent premiere of One Piece was delayed by a whole week so that it didn’t conflict with the World Series. It seems he’s approaching Dragon Quest levels of fame.

During an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Sarandos was asked which series he wished Netflix produced:

I love The Bear. I wish that was one of ours. Ted Lasso spoke to the time really well. People were looking for something light and fun, and it was just that.

You can check out the full interview below.

Netflix has renewed Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft for a second season that will follow as Lara (Hayley Atwell) “discovers a trail of stolen African Orisha masks.” Sounds like the show might be gesturing towards a bit of Britain’s real-world history of looting the continent.

Following the first wave of Disney Plus series coming out on 4K UHD and Blu-ray last year, physical copies of The Mandalorian’s third season, Ahsoka’s first season, Hawkeye’s first season, and Loki’s second season are set to hit stores on October 31st.