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Apple TV+ has unveiled first-look images from Season 2 of its comedy series, “Palm Royale,” starring Kristen Wiig and Laura Dern.

The series returns on Wednesday, Nov. 12, followed by weekly airings until Jan. 14, 2026.  In addition to Wiig and Dern, the cast includes Allison Janney, Leslie Bibb, Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Amber Chardae Robinson, Kaia Gerber and Carol Burnett. 

Per the official logline, “Palm Royale” follows “Maxine Dellacorte (Wiig) as she endeavors to find her footing in the cutthroat world of Palm Beach high society.”

The second season picks up with Maxine being “left a social pariah after a scandalous public breakdown. She’ll have to draw on her deep well of cleverness and cunning to prove once and for all that not only does she belong, but she just might have what it takes to rule this town. Along the way, she will uncover untold truths and finally understand what this town is truly built on… secrets, lies, and the occasional felony.”

“Palm Royale” is written, executive produced and showrun by Abe Sylvia for Aunt Sylvia’s Moving Picture Company.

The series is executive produced by Dern and Jayme Lemons for Jaywalker Pictures, Wiig and Katie O’Connell Marsh. 

Check out the first look images for “Palm Royale” below.

FIRST LOOKS/TRAILERS

BritBox has released the official trailer for “Riot Women,” a brand-new drama from BAFTA award-winning writer Sally Wainwright (“Happy Valley,” “Gentleman Jack”). The series will premiere on Oct. 22 with two episodes, with subsequent episodes to be released weekly. 

“Riot Women” follows five menopausal women including a teacher, a police officer, a pub landlady, a midwife, and a shoplifting freeloader who form a punk rock band to take part in a local talent contest. As the band begins, they suddenly find they have a lot more to shout about than they ever imagined. As they become closer, the teacher, Beth, and freeloader, Kitty, discover a surprising, heartbreaking connection.

The series stars Joanna Scanlan (“After Love,” “The Thick of It”),  Rosalie Craig (“Moonflower Murders,” “Serpent Queen”), Tamsin Greig (“Sexy Beast,” “The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin”), Lorraine Ashbourne (“Sherwood,” “Alma’s Not Normal”), and Amelia Bullmore (“The Buccaneers,” “Vienna Blood”), Taj Atwal (“Line of Duty”), Chandeep Uppal (“Holby City”), and Macy Jacob-Seelochan (“Shadow and Bone”), 

Additional cast members include Anne Reid, Sue Johnston, Peter Davison, Claire Skinner Angel Coulby, Jonny Green, Ellise Chappell, Tony Hirst, Shannon Lavelle, Mark Bazeley, Amit Shah, Rick Warden, Ben Batt, Natalia Tena, Melanie La Barrie, Oliver Huntingdon, Richard Fleeshman,Olwen May, Kevin Doyle, Nicholas Gleaves and Thomas Flynn. 

Roanna Benn for Drama Republic will executive produce, with Tanya Qureshi for the BBC, Robert Schildhouse and Jess O’Riordan for BritBox. The series is produced by Drama Republic, a Mediawan Company.

Watch the trailer for “Riot Women” below.

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Acorn TV has announced the premiere date and released a first trailer for its new original series, “Murder Before Evensong,” which premieres on the platform on Sep. 29.

Based on the first novel in Reverend Richard Coles’ best-selling Canon Clement Mysteries series, “Murder Before Evensong” stars Matthew Lewis as Clement: a 1980s clergyman living with his mother and two pet dachshunds in a rectory, who becomes unexpectedly tangled in a murder case after discovering a dead body in his church.

Amanda Redman plays the mother while Amit Shah, Adam Jones, Meghan Treadway, Alexander Delmain, Marion Bailey, Amanda Hadingue, Tamzin Outhwaite,Francis Magee and Nina Toussaint-White round out the cast.

The neo-noir series is adapted by Nick Hick-Beach and directed by David Moore. Richard Coles serves as an executive producer alongside Radford Neville of The Lighthouse Film and Television, Catherine Mackin and Don Klees of Acorn Media Enterprises, Sebastian Cardwell of Channel 5 and Paul Testar.

The series will be available on Acorn TV across the United States and Canada, and will broadcast and stream on Channel 5 in the UK.

Watch the trailer here:

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A new stand-up comedy competition series, “Crowd Control,” will debut on Dropout on Sept. 8, with episodes releasing every other Monday.

Hosted by Jacquis Neal and voiced by Chioke I’Anson, each episode will feature a trio of comedians competing against one another with no prewritten material allowed. Their set will come from prompts given to them and audience interactions. Additionally, the audience that the comedian’s material is based on will be the ones who judge the winner. 

Comedians competing in the series are Bob The Drag Queen, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Paul F. Tompkins, Moshe Kasher, Leslie Liao, Ify Nwadiwe, Jamie Loftus, Gianmarco Soresi, Leah Rudick, Cristela Alonzo, Guy Branum, Atsuko Okatsuka, Kiran Deol, Tina Friml, Baron Vaughn, Jenny Zigrino, Megan Gailey and Joyelle Nicole Johnson.

Check out the “Crowd Control” trailer below.

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Apple TV+ debuted the trailer for Season 2 of their stop-motion animated series, “Shape Island,” which will premiere all eight episodes on Friday, Aug. 29.

The second season features voices of Yvette Nicole Brown (“Frog and Toad”) as the narrator, Harvey Guillén (“Puss In Boots: The Last Wish”) as Square, Scott Adsit (“Big Hero 6”) as Triangle and Gideon Adlon (“Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earth”) as Circle.

“Shape Island” takes place on a “charming island and invites viewers to join serious Square, intrepid Circle and tricky Triangle as they dig up some fun, search for answers and build on their friendship — all while learning how to navigate each other’s differences.”

The series was co-created by book authors Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, who also serve as executive producers. Kelli Bixler and Drew Hodges (“Tumble Leaf”) from Bix Pix Entertainment are also executive producers. Ryan Pequin serves as co-executive producer and head writer.

Watch the Season 2 trailer of “Shape Island” below.

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Part one of the new true crime documentary special “Death Row Confidential: Secrets of a Serial Killer” will release on Oxygen on Sep. 13 at 9:00pm ET/PT.

The special chronicles how ex-con William A. Noguera investigates the crimes of his former prisonmate, convicted serial killer Joseph Naso. Though Naso was convicted for killing and raping four women in 2013, he was a suspect in several unsolved murders as well. Throughout the series, Noguera partners with professional investigator Ken Mains and uses evidence he accrued while living with Naso to oust his culpability in the cold cases while working towards justice and closure for the victims’ families.

The first part of the special is two hours long and part two and three will premiere concurrently on Sep. 20 at 9pm. The special is produced by Wolf Entertainment, Fireside Pictures, Universal Television Alternative Studio and Vanity Fair Studios. Dick Wolf, Tom Thayer, Jason Wolf, Patrick DeLuca, Helen Estabrook, Sarah Amos, Claire Howorth and Liz Yale Marsh are executive producers while Kevin Brennecke serves as showrunner. 

Watch the trailer here:

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Netflix has released the official trailer for “Black Rabbit,” a new eight-episode limited series starring and executive produced by Jude Law and Jason Bateman. 

From creators Zach Baylin and Kate Susman, “Black Rabbit” will debut globally on Netflix on Sept. 18. 

The cast includes Bateman, Law, Cleopatra Coleman, Amaka Okafor, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Troy Kotsur, Abbey Lee, Chris Coy, Dagmara Dominczyk, Odessa Young and Robin De Jesus with Amir Malaklou, Don Harvey, Forrest Weber, Francis Benhamou, Gus Birney, John Ales and Steve Witting.

“’Black Rabbit’ follows two brothers who are pushed to the brink by their duty to family and their pursuit of success. Jake Friedken (Law) is the charismatic owner of Black Rabbit, a restaurant and VIP lounge, poised to become the hottest spot in New York. But when his brother, Vince (Bateman), returns to the business unexpectedly, trouble soon follows, opening the door to old traumas and new dangers that threaten to bring down everything they’ve built.”

Bateman executive produced the project alongside Michael Costigan and Roxie Rodriguez’s Aggregate Films; Law and Ben Jackson’s Riff Raff Entertainment; Zach Baylin and Kate Susman’s Youngblood Pictures; Brian Kavanaugh-Jones from Automatik; Andrew Hinderaker, Zac Frognowski, Justin Levy, David Bernon and Erica Kay.

Bateman also directs a few episodes alongside Laura Linney, Ben Semanoff and Justin Kurzel. 

Watch the “Black Rabbit” trailer here.

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Fox has released the trailer for Season 2 of “Doc,” which returns to the network on Sept. 23.

Inspired by a true story, “Doc” Season 2 focuses on, according to its official description, “Dr. Amy Larsen as she rebuilds her life after a car crash erased eight years of her memory. Amy will continue to confront hard truths about her missing years, work to repair fractured relationships and seek to reconcile the person she used to be with the one everyone else has come to know.”

The logline continues, “Determined to get her memory back and piece together who she really is, Amy’s goal is to become the doctor she used to be in those missing years and to eventually, once again, be Chief of Internal Medicine.”

“Doc” stars Molly Parker as Dr. Amy Larsen, Omar Metwally as Dr. Michael Hamda, Felicity Huffman as Dr. Joan Ridley, Amirah Vann as Dr. Gina Walker, Charlotte Fountain-Jardim as Katie Hamda, Jon Ecker as Dr. Jake Heller and Anya Banerjee as Dr. Sonya Maitra.

“Doc” is co-produced by Sony Pictures Television and Fox Entertainment Studios. Barbie Kligman and Hank Steinberg serve as showrunners and executive producers. Erwin Stoff and Judith McCreary also serve as executive producers.

“Doc” is based on the globally acclaimed Italian series, “Doc — Nelle tue mani,” which was created and is produced by Lux Vide, a Fremantle Company.

Watch the trailer for “Doc” Season 2 below.

STREAMING

Rich Eisen and Kurt Warner will lead YouTube’s first-ever NFL live broadcast alongside Terry McAulay for the São Paulo game featuring the Kansas City Chiefs vs. the L.A. Chargers on Sept. 5.

YouTube will also have a Spanish commentary team featuring René Giraldo on play-by-play and Edgar Lopez providing commentary during the game.

Taking place at the Corinthians Arena in São Paulo, Brazil, the Week 1 matchup between the AFC champion Chiefs and the Chargers will stream for free and without a subscription required on YouTube. The game will also be available on YouTube TV in the U.S. Coverage begins with YouTube’s pregame show at 7 p.m. ET/8 p.m. BRT (local time), with the game kicking off at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. BRT (local time). 

Sideline correspondent Stacey Dales will also report live from the field alongside YouTube creator and former kicker Deestroying.

YouTube’s pregame show will broadcast live from São Paulo and the NFL Network’s Los Angeles studios. In Brazil, the show will be hosted by Kay Adams and Cam Newton. From Los Angeles, Derek Carr, Brandon Marshall and Tyrann Mathieu, along with Peter Overzet, will join the conversation.

Adams and Newton will provide expert analysis, game recaps and highlights. Dales will conduct player and coach interviews from the field and Deestroying will share insights into his experience on the sideline. 

Karol G is also set to perform at the halftime show.

“By merging NFL legends and seasoned pros alongside top YouTube Creators, we are connecting two worlds that already call YouTube home,” said Angela Courtin, VP of sports and entertainment marketing at YouTube. 

She continued, “This broadcast lineup is intentionally designed to merge the deep analytical insights of traditional sports coverage with the community-driven energy from our creators. Together they have a combined reach of almost 11 million subscribers on YouTube,  spanning across every generation of football fan— an experience that could only be built on YouTube.”

CASTING

Amalia Williamson and Tom Cavanaugh have been cast in Acorn TV’s upcoming mystery series “You’re Killing Me,” starring and executive produced by Brook Shields.

“You’re Killing Me”— previously referred to under the working title “Allie & Andi”—follows a bestselling novelist, Allie, who teams up with an aspiring writer, Andi, to find a killer in a small New England town. Shields plays Allie while Williamson plays Andi. Cavanagh, meanwhile, will play Jack: the lead detective in the town’s police department.

Williamson is best known for playing Maddie West in Netflix’s “Northern Rescue” and Lola Gunderson in Netflix’s “Sullivan’s Crossing.” Cavanagh is recognized for playing arch-villain Reverse Flash on the CW’s “The Flash” and TV journalist Gordon Godfrey on “Superman & Lois.” He also directed for both series. He’s also appeared in the films “BitCoin” and “Don’t Move” and received an Emmy nomination for his role in Showtime’s “Bang Bang, You’re Dead.”

Williamson was offered the part via a video call with Shields, where she accepted through tears of joy and excitement. “It was unanimous,” Shields said told Williamson on the call, “You were wonderful in the room. You made my talent better and you were just a delight.” Williamson replied, “Thank you so much! I’m so excited!”

“You’re Killing Me” is a six-episode Acorn TV original series created by Robin Bernheim. It is a co-production between Topsail Entertainment and Shaftesbury. Production begins in Nova Scotia this September and it will release in 2026.

PROGRAMMING

Chef Vivian Howard will return to PBS this fall with her third network series, “Kitchen Curious,” premiering nationwide on Oct. 6.

A follow-up to her “A Chef’s Life and Somewhere South,” Howard’s new series introduces a different culinary theme each episode and reveals the culture, science and stories behind everyday ingredients.

“With ‘Kitchen Curious’ I wanted to make a show that I felt like I needed to watch,” Howard said in a statement. “By that I mean, there are millions of cooks, food fans and general ‘experts’ with a platform these days and they all have different opinions about what’s good or bad for you, as well as what you should eat and why.”

She continued, “So many opinions, in fact, that even I have a hard time figuring out what to buy at the grocery store. Then, when I get home, I’m usually too tired to spend a lot of time cheffing things up. ‘Kitchen Curious’ covers all those bases. I visit, shop, and spend time with certified experts. I go to ground zero of the questions we all have when we cook.”

With stops in Charleston, S.C., North Carolina, California and Paris, “Kitchen Curious” was created to blend storytelling, travel and practical cooking tips to inspire viewers and deepen their appreciation for foods.

“Kitchen Curious” will be available to stream on the PBS app beginning Monday, Oct. 6.

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ION, ION Mystery, Bounce, Court TV, Court TV Legendary Trials and Scripps News are now streaming as part of Peacock’s 24/7 channel offering.

Owned by The E.W. Scripps Company, ION features a programming lineup that includes women’s sports. ION Mystery offers docuseries and originals, as well as Court TV and Court TV Legendary Trials, which feature in-depth legal reporting and expert analysis on trials. 

Bounce includes a mix of original series and movies, theatrical motion pictures, off-network series, specials and events designed for African American audiences. Additionally, Scripps News delivers context-driven news and fact-based reporting.

These always-on channels build upon the current collection of content across categories, including Sports (NFL, Premier League), News (NBC News, Sky News, TODAY), Entertainment (WWE and Saturday Night Live) and more channels, ranging from reality, true crime, Spanish-language, comedy and more.

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The first season of “Gen V” will launch on Sony Pictures Core on Aug. 21, a month before its second season.

Season 1 will be available to stream through Sept. 21 on Sony Pictures Core in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany and Mexico.

To watch, viewers need to have the Sony Pictures Core app downloaded on their eligible Bravia TVs or PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles and be current PlayStation Plus Premium members. “Gen V” is included as part of a streaming benefit for PlayStation Plus Premium subscription through the Sony Pictures Core app.

“Gen V” Season 2 premieres on Prime Video on Sept. 17 and will feature a few new and familiar faces. 

“Wicked” star Ethan Slater is joining the “Gen V” cast as Thomas Godolkin, the founder of the superhero school. Several “The Boys” alumni, such as Erin Moriarty’s Starlight, Chace Crawford’s the Deep and Nathan Mitchell’s Black Noir, also appear in the upcoming season. 

Other Season 2 cast members include Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau, Lizze Broadway as Emma Meyer, Maddie Phillips as Cate Dunlap, London Thor as Jordan Li, Derek Luh as Jordan Li, Asa Germann as Sam Riordan, Sean Patrick Thomas as Polarity and Hamish Linklater as Dean Cipher.

EXECUTIVE NEWS

A. Smith & Co. Productions promoted Tim Dix to vice president of development for unscripted TV. He now reports to  Eli Baldrige,  executive vice president of development.

“I’m incredibly honored to begin the next chapter at A. Smith & Co. and to continue building alongside such a talented team,” Dix said. “This company has an extraordinary legacy of boundary-pushing entertainment and a culture where no idea is too big. I couldn’t be more excited to expand on that and help shape what’s ahead.”

Dix has served as the director of development and programming at A. Smith & Co. Productions since 2023. While in that role, he developed and sold several upcoming series to enter production later this year, including titles for Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery. Additionally, he assisted with securing high-profile partnerships with marquee talent and organizations on other large-scale projects.

Before joining A. Smith & Co. Productions, Dix worked for over a decade in unscripted TV on shows such as “BattleBots,” NBC’s “American Ninja Warrior” and produced hundreds of episodes for ESPN’s “Sport Science.”