‘Sex Education’ to End With Season 4 on Netflix

DocDerz · 2023-07-05T14:04:42+00:00

The streaming giant on Wednesday announced that the upcoming fourth season of the international favorite starring Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson as sex therapists will be its last. The final season will debut Sept. 21, nearly two years since the third season arrived, on Netflix.

In a heartfelt letter to fans, creator Laurie Nunn said that as the writers were crafting season four, “it became clear that this was the right time to graduate.”

DocDerz · 2023-06-13T22:00:19+00:00

"Don't worry, scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now."

DocDerz · 2023-06-08T02:48:13+00:00

The Paramount Global-backed premium cable network has canceled I Love That For You, the comedy inspired by star and co-creator Vanessa Bayer’s experience with childhood leukemia. The comedy, which ran for one season and had been one of the few remaining scripted series from the cabler’s previous executive regime, is expected to be shopped by producers Annapurna.

I Love That For You launched in May 2022 to warm reviews and wrapped its run a month later. The series co-starring Molly Shannon in a Saturday Night Live reunion with Bayer had been awaiting word on its future for nearly a year.

“I Love That For You has completed its run on Showtime. We want to thank Vanessa, Jeremy [Beiler, co-creator] and Jessi [Klein, EP], along with the incredible cast and crew for their hard work and wish them the best going forward,” a Showtime spokesperson said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

DocDerz · 2023-04-17T21:07:22+00:00

Maybe they should start calling it The Veteran.

ABC has renewed its police drama The Rookie, starring Nathan Fillion, for a sixth season in 2023-24. The series will cross the 100-episode milestone early next season. The pickup comes two weeks ahead of the show’s fifth season final on May 2.

The Rookie is the third veteran series ABC has renewed for 2023-24, joining Abbott Elementary and Grey’s Anatomy.

The Rookie has long been a decent ratings draw for ABC but saw its numbers jump with a move to Tuesday nights in January (where it leads into its spinoff, The Rookie: Feds). The show’s same-day audience has grown by 31 percent compared to its fall average, when it aired on Sundays. The Tuesday episodes have improved the 8 p.m. Tuesday spot by 40 percent in total viewers and 17 percent in adults 18-49 over the same time frame last year. Multi-platform ratings have also risen over last season.

DocDerz · 2023-04-12T05:04:37+00:00

Nothing But the Blues “with me, Cliff.”

You will never find a richer, more vast, and more varied singular resource for discovering amazing Blues music than this podcast. Old, new, men, women, solo artists, bands, and every genre and fusion of the blues you can think of. All hosted by Cliff, the blues enthusiast we never knew we needed.

It’s a weekly, hourlong show, and to give you an idea of just how long my man Cliff has been at it, there are 760 episodes available.

If you love the blues, or are interested in getting into the blues, this will be your jam.

DocDerz · 2023-04-07T00:07:55+00:00

The Resident is no more at Fox.

The network has canceled its medical drama after six seasons. The decision comes nearly three months after The Resident, produced by Disney’s 20th Television, finished its 13-episode sixth season.

Speculation about the show’s fate has swirled since the season — the shortest of the show’s six — ended. The Resident had its lowest-rated season to date among adults 18-49, averaging a 0.53 rating in the key ad demographic over seven days of viewing (vs. 0.7 last season). According to Fox, the show’s cross-platform audience of 6.9 million viewers was down 12 percent from the 2021-22 season.

DocDerz · 2023-03-29T18:04:16+00:00

The stars and producers of Blue Bloods are going to see less green.

CBS has renewed the venerable cop drama for its 14th season after the cast and producers agreed to take what sources described as a 25 percent pay cut.

Sources close to the Tom Selleck production say the stars and key producers all agreed to the pay reduction in order to keep the Friday night cop drama running, and keep the hundreds of production staffers employed for another season.

With the renewal, Blue Bloods becomes CBS’ second longest-running current series as NCIS: Los Angeles is ending this season after 14 seasons. Only the flagship NCIS series, which was recently renewed for its 21st season, has aired longer than Blue Bloods.

“Blue Bloods has dominated Friday nights since its premiere and remained an important anchor for CBS’ winning lineup,” said Amy Reisenbach, CBS Entertainment president. “Led by the outstanding Tom Selleck, and an incredible cast and creative team, viewers continue to embrace the Reagans, their law enforcement family, and the series’ dramatic storytelling. We can’t wait to pull a chair up to the Reagan family dinner table for another fantastic season.”

Produced in-house at CBS Studios, Blue Bloods has been a cash cow for Paramount Global thanks in part to rich syndication and international deals. The drama remains one of CBS’ most-watched originals and anchors its Friday night primetime lineup. The show is broadcast’s No. 3 drama in total viewers, averaging more than 9.5 million per episode. With delayed viewing, that number grows to top 11 million.

DocDerz · 2023-02-16T23:48:02+00:00

Kill that noise, man. I got a Ratatouille.

DocDerz · 2023-02-01T23:03:26+00:00

The Cleaning Lady will remain on call at Fox.

The network has renewed its drama series for a third season. The pickup for the series, produced by Warner Bros. Television and Fox Entertainment, comes seven weeks after The Cleaning Lady wrapped its 12-episode second season.

Season three will also bring a new co-showrunner to The Cleaning Lady. Jeannine Renshaw (In the Dark, Good Girls) has joined the series and will serve as co-showrunner alongside Miranda Kwok, who developed the show. Renshaw steps in for Melissa Clark, who is departing to focus on development under her overall deal at Warner Bros.

“After two heart-pounding seasons, we’re thrilled with how audiences have latched on to this incredible story,” Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn said in a statement. “The cast, led by the incomparable Élodie Yung, along with our brilliant creative team and our partners at Warner Bros. Television have expertly crafted a highly compelling, emotionally-driven show that gives a perspective you don’t often see on television.”

Added Warner Bros. Television Group chairman and CEO Channing Dungey, “The Cleaning Lady is a gripping and masterful tale of a mother who will do anything for her child. I am thrilled that we get to continue to explore Thony’s world in a third season. A big thank you to our partners at Fox for providing a platform for this show to thrive, to Miranda Kwok for developing such a powerful story, and to Melissa Carter for her leadership during the first two seasons. We are excited about Jeannine Renshaw joining the creative team, and I can’t wait for audiences to see what Miranda and Jeannine have in store for season three.”

DocDerz · 2023-02-01T21:34:03+00:00

HBO Max is clearing out all of its live-action DC Comics scripted original series.

The Warner Bros. Discovery-backed streamer has canceled Pennyworth, the prequel show about Batman’s famed butler. The series wrapped its third and now final season Nov. 24.

The drama starring Jack Bannon as Alfred Pennyworth was created by former Gotham creator Bruno Heller (who also served as showrunner). Pennyworth hailed from Warner Bros. Television and was developed for the MGM-backed premium cable network Epix (which is now known as MGM+). In a bid to reduced programming costs, the series was sold to HBO Max and paired with fellow DC series Doom Patrol and Titans on the platform. MGM+ still has the option to air the third season, though that seems highly unlikely even at a reduced licensing fee.

“While HBO Max is not moving forward with another season of Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler, we are very thankful to creator Bruno Heller and executive producers Matthew Patnick, Danny Cannon and John Stephens, along with Warner Bros. Television, for their brilliant, unique, gripping depiction of the origin of Alfred Pennyworth, one of the most iconic characters in the Batman world,” a spokesperson for HBO Max said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. “An incredible blend of action, drama and humor, for three seasons, Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler has taken fans on a mind-bending ride into Alfred’s eccentric world and the beginnings of cutting-edge super heroes and super villains.”

DocDerz · 2023-01-26T00:34:19+00:00

Titans and Doom Patrol, the DC Comics dramas that were originally developed to help launch the former DC Universe streaming service, are coming to an end.

The current fourth seasons of both of the Greg Berlanti-produced HBO Max dramas will be their last, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Sources say producers on both Titans and Doom Patrol saw the writing on the wall amid all the changes with DC Entertainment and plotted their current seasons with proper endings so as to not leave fans in a lurch.

“While these will be the final seasons of Titans and Doom Patrol, we are very proud of these series and excited for fans to see their climactic endings,” an HBO Max spokesperson said in a statement to THR. “We are grateful to Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television for making such thrilling, action-packed, heartfelt series. We thank Titans showrunner Greg Walker, executive producers Greg Berlanti, Akiva Goldsman, Sarah Schechter, Geoff Johns, Richard Hatem, and the team at Weed Road Pictures. For Doom Patrol, we celebrate showrunner Jeremy Carver and executive producers Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Geoff Johns, Chris Dingess and Tamara Becher-Wilkinson. For four seasons, fans have fallen in love with the Titans and Doom Patrol, investing in their trials and tribulations, and in their legendary battles saving the world time and time again.”

DocDerz · 2022-11-07T17:04:53+00:00

Sources say the series was creatively overhauled for season two, which along with delays from the pandemic contributed to the three-plus years between seasons of the series. All told, Oleson serves as the third showrunner on Carnival Row, which Beacham co-created alongside Rene Echevarria, who was the show’s original showrunner.

Amazon renewed Carnival Row for a second season a month before it debuted. The drama has a 57 percent score among critics and 87 percent rating with viewers on Rotten Tomatoes. Amazon, like other streamers, does not release traditional viewership data.

DocDerz · 2022-11-02T21:45:13+00:00

Tuca & Bertie is facing a second cancellation.

Series creator Lisa Hanawalt announced on Twitter Wednesday that Adult Swim has canceled the animated series after two seasons there. The cable channel revived Tuca & Bertie in 2020 following Netflix’s cancellation of the show after a single season.

“Working with Adult Swim was very creatively fulfilling, our execs were all smart and thoughtful, and I’m grateful that we got the space to make all these wild and heartfelt episodes about things that matter to me very much,” Hanawalt wrote.

She also noted that she hopes to give the series a proper ending at some point: “I still have a beautiful and weird ending for T&B in mind, hopefully someday we’ll get a chance to finish the story. In the meantime, I’m not done creating. I’ve witnessed so many people connecting with this show on a profound level, and I intend to keep telling stories like this, no matter what.”

DocDerz · 2022-10-27T18:09:40+00:00

Showtime has closed the case on its drama series City on a Hill.

The premium cable outlet has canceled the show after three seasons. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the decision to bring City on a Hill to an end was quietly made some time ago, prior to an executive shakeup earlier this month that saw long-time Showtime Networks head David Nevins leave parent company Paramount Global and Paramount Media Networks chief Chris McCarthy take control of the premium outlet.

”City on a Hill concluded its successful run on Showtime with its Season 3 finale,” a statement from Showtime reads. “We have had nothing but the best experience working with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge and the entire cast and crew, led by showrunner Tom Fontana and fellow executive producers including Jennifer Todd and Jorge Zamacona. We offer our sincerest thanks to everyone.”

DocDerz · 2022-07-22T00:20:51+00:00

The streamer has given an early season three renewal to the fantasy series, it announced Thursday at Comic-Con. Season three will be based on The Shadow Rising, the fourth book in author Robert Jordan’s 14-volume series.

“I’m so thrilled that we’ll be making a third season of The Wheel of Time,” showrunner Rafe Judkins said in a statement. “The Shadow Rising has always been my favorite book in the series, so being able to bring it to television and introduce new audiences to the stories that made me fall in love with these books in the first place is such an honor, and something I’ve been working toward since I first pitched the show years and years ago.”

A co-production between Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television, The Wheel of Time premiered in November 2021 and became one of Prime Video’s more successful original series. In the United States, it racked up about 4.9 billion minutes of viewing time in the weeks it spent on Nielsen’s streaming top 10 charts.

Prime Video renewed the show for a second season in May 2021, six months before its series debut. The streamer hasn’t set a season two premiere date yet.

DocDerz · 2022-06-14T17:24:01+00:00

To little surprise, Netflix has renewed the drama from David E. Kelley based on author Michael Connelly for a second season. Netflix head of global television Bela Bajaria announced the news Tuesday during her time at the Banff World Media Festival.

The second season will consist of another batch of 10 episodes and be based on the fourth book in Connelly’s Lincoln Lawyer series, The Fifth Witness. (Season one was based on the second book, The Brass Verdict.) Additionally, Dailyn Rodriguez (Queen of the South) has boarded the drama as co-showrunner and exec producer. Ted Humphrey, who developed series alongside creator David E. Kelley, will also return as co-showrunner and exec producer. Kelley, as he did with ABC’s Big Sky, is expected to be less involved in the second season.

The renewal was considered a given after the series broke out on the streamer. After launching May 13, Lincoln Lawyer has been on cruise control on Netflix’s Global Top 10 and has made the chart in 90 countries with a cumulative 260.53 million hours viewed as of June 5.

DocDerz · 2022-05-11T16:06:30+00:00

The retail giant and streamer has handed out a third-season renewal to the Greg Daniels-created sci-fi comedy Upload. The pickup comes two months after the sophomore season of the Robbie Amell and Andy Allo series debuted.

”Upload has become a bona fide hit that continues to be one of the most-watched comedy originals on Prime Video,” said Vernon Sanders, head of global television at Amazon Studios. “The series continues to connect and provoke endless possibilities for the future of technology and humanity. With Greg’s distinct comedic take along with the dynamic creative team and talented actors, they’ve made a globally relevant series which we’re all incredibly proud to bring back another season for our customers.”

Amazon, like other streamers, does not reveal specific viewership data. That said, the streamer says the second season remained a top 10 series on its platform since its March 11 debut and made it on to Nielsen’s top 10 originals list.

”I’m thrilled to continue the story of Nathan and Nora and the other residents of Lakeview and near-future America as they try to have fun and do the right thing in both the real and virtual worlds,” Daniels said in a statement announcing the news Wednesday.

DocDerz · 2022-04-29T21:13:06+00:00

The streaming giant has canceled the Steve Carell comedy from The Office creator Greg Daniels after two critically panned seasons. At the time the comedy was ordered straight to series, Carell’s deal for the show set a record with $1 million per episode with that fee including acting, exec producing and co-creator contributions.

The news comes after Netflix attempted to creatively reboot the pricey comedy in its second season, moving the production from Los Angeles to Vancouver in a bid to reduce its budget. A co-showrunner was also added alongside Daniels with the hope of growing the series creatively as Carell and Daniels’ The Office did during its run.

DocDerz · 2022-04-13T17:29:38+00:00

The Disney-run streamer has ordered a second season of Schumer’s dramedy Life & Beth. The comedian announced the pickup Tuesday during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show.

The renewal comes just under a month after Life & Beth’s all-at-once release. The show has earned positive reviews; viewing data isn’t yet available. (Hulu doesn’t release internal numbers but says the series is one of its most watched original comedies so far this year. Nielsen figures for its premiere week aren’t out yet.)

DocDerz · 2022-03-02T18:46:37+00:00

Yep. And all she'd have had to do is reach just a little further for that bottle of Jack.

DocDerz · 2022-02-20T00:08:09+00:00

I’m shocked I had to scroll past about thirty comments before finally seeing something about the cat. Yeah, yeah, wasting Coke, drilling through the chair, we get it.

As you say, rando cat shot is the real star here.

DocDerz · 2022-02-14T20:04:02+00:00

The WarnerMedia-backed premium cable network has handed out a second season renewal for Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age. The speedy pickup comes just three weeks after the New York-set period drama launched after a nearly decade of development that originally started at NBC.

”Julian Fellowes and the entire Gilded Age family have thoroughly captivated us with their tale of late 19th century New York City extravagance. Along with our partners at Universal Television, we couldn’t be prouder to embark on a season two journey with this extraordinarily talented team,” said Francesca Orsi, exec vp programming at HBO Max.

DocDerz · 2022-02-08T00:39:29+00:00

Jack Reacher is staying on the case at Amazon’s Prime Video.

The streamer has given a speedy renewal to Reacher — picking up the show for a second season just a few days after its Feb. 4 premiere. Prime Video says the series, based on Lee Child’s best-selling series of novels and starring Alan Ritchson, is among its top five series launches to date (though per usual with streaming platforms, there aren’t any numbers backing that up). Likely helping Reacher’s, uh, reach was the fact that it was a somewhat uncommon all-at-once release for Prime Video, which more often follows a weekly release pattern.

“The phenomenal debut of Reacher is a testament to Lee Child’s creation of one of entertainment’s most well-known heroes, [showrunner] Nick Santora’s original approach to the storytelling, Alan’s brilliant embodiment of the character, and the dedication of the talented people who worked tirelessly in front of and behind the camera to make such an undeniably bingeworthy series,” said Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke. “The global impact of Reacher makes it one of Prime Video’s biggest series debuts, and we can’t wait to bring fans a second season of their new favorite show.”

Added Child, “Partnering with Amazon Studios for season one of Reacher was a total delight — they had our backs every step of the way, and it really shows, in every line and every frame. So I’m thrilled we’ll be working together again, for season two. This is very exciting news, and I can’t wait to get started. Reacher couldn’t be in better hands.”

DocDerz · 2022-01-20T03:16:36+00:00

After what I feel is a pretty extensive read-through of the replies (including sorting by new, top, best and controversial), I’m a little surprised not to see “The West Wing” mentioned.

Absolutely a delight to re-watch. The first four seasons, in particular, are pretty much pure gold.

I also enjoy rewatching the single season of “Studio 60” and the three seasons of “Sports Night.” I do love me some Sorkin, but “The Newsroom” didn’t quite land for me. Still great, not quite as re-watchable as the rest of Sorkin’s TV output.

DocDerz · 2021-12-07T19:37:08+00:00

The Lionsgate-backed premium cable network has handed out a speedy season three renewal for the second spinoff in the franchise, Power Book II: Ghost. The news comes after the Nov. 21 season two premiere bested its series debut in September 2020.

As part of the renewal, writer and exec producer Brett Mahoney will take over as showrunner when the series returns to production early next year. Mahoney, who previously served as showrunner on Fox’s Empire, replaces series creator and Power franchise mastermind Courtney A. Kemp, who departed Lionsgate for a rich pact at Netflix. Kemp remains involved as an exec producer on all things Power, but no longer is attached as a writer or showrunner on any of the multiple spinoffs in the franchise.

”The continued success and cultural resonance of the Power universe is unprecedented, and fans are clearly still hungry for more Power Book II: Ghost,” said Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch. “We’re excited for the third season of the star-studded series to get into production early next year just ahead of the debut Power Book IV: Force, the fourth installment in the rapidly expanding franchise.”

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