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"Fear The Walking Dead" Premier Date Announced at Comiccon
The new season of "Fear the Walking Dead" will premier on October 11th. The remainder of the season has yet to be completed because of COVID-19, which also has interfered with the start of work on the next season of "The Walking Dead." While Morgan's status is unknown, the rest of the cast will be adjusting to life under pioneer rule.
"Fear the Walking Dead" Showrunner Teases Multiple Time Jumps
When asked at the recent ComicCon if there would be time jumps, showrunner Scott Gimple said, "There will be multiple time jumps."
There was also talk of how the show is being restructured into a kind of anthology-like format in which we'll get to see what each of the characters are going through in their new "homes."
BBC Three commissions second series of Ladhood
Adapted from his 2015-launched BBC Radio 4 series of the same name, Ladhood straddles two timelines as modern Liam explores the roots of his contemporary masculinity by delving into the memories of his own misspent adolescence in the Leeds suburb of Garforth during the early 2000s.
Series 1 of Ladhood was published in November 2019 on BBC Three-branded iPlayer, and aired late on Monday nights on BBC One from early January.
Filming for six further 25-minute episodes will take place later this year.
Two Doors Down to return for a fifth series
The BBC has commissioned a fifth series of Scottish suburban sitcom Two Doors Down. Set in the fictional suburban Glaswegian street of Latimer Crescent, the latest six-part series about neighbourly relations will reunite Arabella Weir and Alex Norton as Beth and Eric Baird, around whom all the action revolves.
Series 5 is hoped to film after coronavirus lockdown measures have been lifted, and is expected to broadcast in 2021.
The Boys Renewed for Season 3 at Amazon, Adds After-Show
The Boys will be back once again — Amazon Prime Video has renewed the superhero and vigilante drama for a third season, the streamer announced.
Additionally, the second season will deliver an after-show entitled “Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys,” hosted and executive produced by Aisha Tyler. While the second season of “The Boys” premieres on Sept. 4, delivering three episodes at launch with the subsequent five dropping weekly through Oct. 9, the after-show will start on Aug. 28 with a look back at the series so far.
NBC Acquires Season One of Canadian Medical Drama "Transplant"
While no premier date has been announced, NBC has acquired CTV's medical drama, which concerns a refugee doctor from Syria living in Toronto with his younger sister.
NBC is the third major broadcaster to acquire already-produced content from other outlets, as production on its in-house slate remains shut down by the pandemic.
"Transplant" Renewed for a Second Season
Details on second-season storylines are still scarce, but for now we can confirm that Hamza Haq (Bashir "Bash" Hamed) and his Season 1 co-stars Laurence Leboeuf (Margalie Leblanc), John Hannah (Dr. Bishop), Jim Watson (Dr. Theo Hunter), and Ayisha Issa (Dr. June Curtis) are all returning.
HBO Renews 'Perry Mason'
HBO announced today that Perry Mason has been picked up for a second season. The good news comes five weeks into the drama's eight-episode freshman run, which has gotten off to a solid start.
The show debuted on June 21 as the cable network's most-watched series premiere in almost two years. Critics have been enjoying it as well, with an overall positive reception of the storytelling, directing, and cast.
Based on the famed criminal defense lawyer from the novels of the same name, Perry Mason follows his early days as a struggling private investigator in 1931 Los Angeles. After landing the case of the decade involving a kidnapping that goes wrong, Mason's relentless pursuit of the truth reveals a fractured city and a possible road to self-redemption.
Look for Season 2 of Perry Mason in 2021.
'Burden Of Truth' Renewed For Season 4
Canada's CBC announced today that Burden of Truth has been picked up for a fourth season. The good news comes less than two weeks after the drama wrapped its Season 3 run on The CW in the US.
Kristin Kreuk stars in the series as Joanna Hanley, an up-and-coming corporate attorney who returns to her hometown of Millwood, a prairie town with an industrial past, to represent a major client in a case against a group of sick high school girls. But after winning the case handily, Joanna learns that the girls are actually sicker than previously thought, and stays around to look for answers.
While The CW hasn't made any formal announcement about Season 4, it is expected that Burden of Truth will continue to air on the network in the summer of 2021.
