‘Cops’ Back In Production On New Episodes Following Cancellation

revenue and operating income at our domestic parks and resorts, the launch of a new franchise with Encanto, and a significant increase in total subscriptions across our streaming portfolio to 196.4 million, including 11.8 million Disney+ subscribers added in the first quarter,” Bob Chapek, CEO, The Walt Disney Company, said in a statement. “This marks the final year of The Walt Disney Company’s first century, and performance like this coupled with our unmatched collection of assets and platforms, creative capabilities, and unique place in the culture give me great confidence we will continue to define entertainment for the next 100 years.”On the theatrical end, Disney had committed to putting all of its movies released in the last quarter in theaters for an exclusive window of at least 45 days, with the exception of “Encanto,” which had a 30-day theatrical window before hitting Disney+.

Futurama is set to return, with 20 new episodes of the beloved sci-fi comedy animation reportedly ordered by Hulu.Original creators David X. Cohen and Matt Groening will be at the helm once more, according to Variety, with the majority of the classic voice acting cast already attached.Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr and David Herman will all return from the original cast.John DiMaggio, who voiced Bender among various other characters, is not currently believed to be attached.

Love, Victor, the spinoff series from 2018 gay romance film Love, Simon, will conclude with its third season.The show focuses on the complicated love life of a new student at the same high school that Simon (played by Nick Robinson in the film) attended, Creekwood High School, as well as his friends.When news of Love, Victor being renewed last July was announced, it was not confirmed that this season would be the last. Now the story is set to end with its next outing, according to Entertainment Weekly.Following a dramatic cliffhanger in the season 2 finale, the third and final season will see Victor (Michael Cimino) embark on “a journey of self-discovery – not only deciding who he wants to be with, but more broadly, who he wants to be,” according to an official description.“With their post-high-school-plans looming, Victor and his friends are faced with a new set of problems that they must work through to make the best choices for their futures.”All eight episodes of Love, Victor season 3 will premiere June 15 on Hulu.

Fleet Foxes have announced details of a 2022 world tour, which includes new UK dates – see the band’s full schedule below.The band’s new run of shows, which take them from late June until September, come on the back of their 2020 album ‘Shore’.The shows begin in Salt Lake City on June 27, with North American dates running until mid-August, where they play the Forest Hills Stadium in New York.Robin Pecknold and co. then travel to London for a show at All Points East in support of The National before they play four more UK shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester and as a headliner of End Of The Road.The tour then heads to mainland Europe, wrapping up with a Berlin show on September 11.Watch a trailer for the tour and see the full schedule below.

NME on the red carpet of the BRIT Awards 2022, Becky Hill teased a new “dance collaboration” as well as sharing her plans to grab a drink with Self Esteem. Watch our full video interview with Hill above.After releasing her debut ‘Only Honest On The Weekend’ last year, the dance-pop hitmaker was at the London ceremony where she was nominated for Song of the Year and won Best Dance Act.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Production on CBS’ Young Sheldon was shut down for today, I have learned. I hear the decision was made this morning after a COVID-19 test result for a production team member came back positive.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVJared Goetz, an accomplished distribution executive, has resigned as the President of North American Television Distribution at Lionsgate after more than three years.According to sources, Goetz was involved in an incident a couple of weeks ago, involving him carrying a firearm to an out-of-the-office work meeting with a colleague for personal protection.In a statement released through Goetz’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, Goetz revealed that he “had his home burglarized and during the pandemic was attacked in his car while at a stop light,” and he had the gun in his car on the day of the incident because he was planning to go to a shooting range for training after work.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Three and a half years after her Blue Bloods exit, Amy Carlson is returning to CBS with a recurring role on the upcoming second season of FBI: Most Wanted. She is one of two major new recurring additions to the Wolf Entertainment series, along with Lost alum Terry O’Quinn.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Showtime has reversed its Season 2 pickup decision for On Becoming A God In Central Florida, starring Kirsten Dunst. Originally renewed more than a year ago, in September 2019, filming on the series’ second season was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, which halted all production in mid-March.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders“Last year, Showtime renewed On Becoming A God In Central Florida but unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we were unable to move forward with production on the new season,” the network said in a statement to Deadline.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVCountry singer Morgan Wallen will not be performing during this week’s Saturday Night Live. NBC’s decision comes after the musician came under fire after a TikTok video of him partying maskless at a house party made the rounds on the internet.“It’s a tough video for me to make but a necessary one,” Wallen said in an Instagram video filmed in his New York hotel room where he had been staying while preparing for his stint on SNL this Saturday.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVDemore Barnes has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming 22nd season of NBC’s Law & Order: SVU.Barnes will continue in the role of Deputy Chief Christian Garland, a forthright, analytical and charismatic leader, eager to apply more contemporary principles to the NYPD while navigating its political minefields along with Capt. Benson (Mariska Hargitay).

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVSouth Park: The Pandemic Special continues to post strong numbers for Comedy Central.In Live+Same Day, the supersized special episode of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s venerable animated series drew 2.3 million total viewers and a 2.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, the show’s highest L+SD demo number in seven years.After three days of playback, the special’s viewership grew to 3.23 million, with the 18-49 rating rising to 2.89, the highest L+3 demo number for a South Park episode in four years.The episode, which tackled the COVID-19 pandemic and skewered Disney, Donald Trump and cops, also ranked as the No.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has opted not to pick up a second season of Teenage Bounty Hunters. The news comes almost two months after the series’ August 14 debut on the streamer.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersTeenage Bounty Hunters, created by Kathleen Jordan, centered on fraternal twins Sterling (Maddie Phillips) and Blair (Anjelica Bette Fellini), a duo looking for more trouble beyond their pristine Southern lifestyle.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: GLOW, Netflix’s female wrestling dramedy, will not be returning to the ring for a fourth and final season. The streamer has reversed its renewal decision, made more than a year ago, in August 2019.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC has given a production commitment to Valley Of the Gods, a drama from How To Get Away With Murder creator/executive producer Pete Nowalk, The Bold Type executive producer Joanna Coles and ABC Studios.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Nowalk, Valley Of the Gods is described as a sexy, high-stakes drama about the most powerful people in Silicon Valley and the hungry, underestimated outsiders trying to claw their way in.Nowalk and Coles executive produce.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Apple’s The Morning Show is headed back to production. The award-winning series is slated to restart filming its second season on October 19.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVThe CW’s All American will be taking a break from filming on Monday after a positive COVID-19 test for a person from the production.The Warner Bros. TV-produced series was up and running on Friday.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVUPDATE THURSDAY PM: One more series in Vancouver, the CW/CBS TV Studios’ Charmed, will return to production tomorrow after getting the delayed COVID-19 test results for the cast and crew. There are still a number of shows that have been dark for days due to the backlog.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVAfter a months-long coronavirus-related delay, National Geographic’s Genius: Aretha resumed production today in Atlanta as planned, and cast and crew were greeted with a welcome back letter from executive producer/showrunner Suzan-Lori Parks.Genius: Aretha, starring Cynthia Erivo as the legendary singer Aretha Franklin, had filmed 5 1/2 episodes of its eight-episode order when production shut down mid-March amid the escalating coronavirus outbreak. Two weeks later, Nat Geo delayed the premiere of the limited series, originally slated for May 25.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVMTV’s Jersey Shore Family Vacation is back in production on its fourth season amid the coronavirus pandemic.I hear Jersey Shore Family Vacation has taken over a Nevada resort where a bubble was created for cast and crew, with series producer, SallyAnn Salsano’s 495 Productions, adhering to local, state and federal COVID-19 health and safety requirements.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Cameras will start rolling again on ABC’s A Million Little Things tomorrow, Thursday, I have learned. The ensemble drama was among a slew of series from multiple studios, which had to suspend production because of lengthy delays in receiving COVID-19 test results for their casts and crew.In returning to production, A Million Little Things rejoins a couple of Vancouver-based series, which have not experienced test results delays and have continued filming, including ABC’s The Good Doctor and Netflix’s Midnight Mass.The remaining series that were affected will remain dark tomorrow, with strong indications that shooting would resume Friday, according to sources.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVAs Deadline first reported on Tuesday, most U.S. series filming in Vancouver had to pause or delay production because of delays in COVID-19 test results.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: A month after U.S. series began to resume production in Vancouver with COVID-19 protocols amid the pandemic, a number of them have suspended filming.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Chicago Med has paused filming for the next two weeks due to a positive COVID-19 test.The Chicago-based medical drama shut down production earlier today when a regular rapid test, part of the show’s safety protocols, delivered a positive result. The person in question, a production team member from a Zone A department, was immediately sent home, sources said.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVForty-five years after Norman Lear’s One Day at a Time premiered on CBS, the Once Day at a Time reboot is debuting there, marking Lear’s return to the network where he was a staple in the 1970s.The Season 4 broadcast run, which kicks off October 5 with back-to-back episodes over three weeks, was part of the deal ViacomCBS sibling Pop TV made last year to rescue the praised family sitcom after its cancellation by Netflix. ODAAT, a reimagining of the classic Lear sitcom with a Latino family, was going to be a likely summer fare for the broadcast network, but the pandemic-related production shutdown delayed the 2020-21 broadcast series and the comedy found its way to the fall schedule.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Maggie Kiley (Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, Riverdale) is set to direct and executive produce the first two episodes of Peacock’s limited series Dr. Death, starring Jamie Dornan, Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Field, who has recurred as Rita Devereaux on NCIS: New Orleans for the past four seasons, has been promoted to series regular for CBS drama’s upcoming seventh season.After a successful career as an attorney with the Department of Justice, Field’s Rita returned to her hometown of New Orleans to pursue a relationship with Dwayne Pride, her one-time boyfriend, portrayed by her real-life husband, NCIS: Nee Orleans star Scott Bakula.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC is getting in the Sam Esmail business in a major way. The network has bought two dramas from the Mr.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: National Geographic’s Genius: Aretha is set to resume filming Oct. 1 in Atlanta.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Filming has just resumed in New Zealand on Amazon’s sprawling The Lord Of The Rings TV series, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels, I have learned.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVBatwoman was among the first broadcast series to start production when cameras started rolling on its second season Sept. 3 in Vancouver.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVAmazon’s superhero series The Boys is getting a spinoff set in superhero college.The project, written by The Boys executive producer Craig Rosenberg, had been in the works for awhile. It is being fast-tracked in light of the success of the original series’ second season which marked the most-watched global launch of an Amazon Original series ever.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: ABC has handed a big production commitment to Mason Dixon, an hourlong drama from Lee Daniels (Empire, Star) and writer Julian Breece (The First). 20th Television, where Daniels is under an overall deal, is the studio.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersLee is set to direct the potential pilot written by Breece.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVMore Warner Bros. TV-produced series are getting back in production with COVID safety protocols amid the pandemic.The studio’s CBS drama All Rise started filming Season 2 on the Warner Bros.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: With Batwoman and Riverdale already filming in Vancouver, several more Greg Berlanti  series are gearing up to go back to production. Supergirl is slated to begin filming its sixth and final season in Vancouver next Monday, Sept.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVNetflix has picked up freshman CBS series Evil and Unicorn.In an unusual deal, CBS TV Studios, which produces both series, has licensed their first seasons to Netflix in advance of the shows’ upcoming second seasons on CBS. Evil and Unicorn will make their Netflix debut on October 1.The agreement is for one year and not exclusive, with the first seasons of drama Evil and comedy The Unicorn continuing to stream on CBS All Access.