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Jessica Chastain is joining Netflix’s drama The Retrievals as Kaitlyn Langford, a former art historian who endures a decade of failed fertility treatments and becomes a key plaintiff in a historic Yale fentanyl-diversion lawsuit; the series, based on the New York Times/Serial Productions podcast by Susan Burton, is produced by LuckyChap and Quiet Coyote with Lila Neugebauer directing the pilot.
A new Crystal Lake trailer for Peacock teases Pamela Voorhees’ grief-fueled unraveling as she believes Jason is still at Crystal Lake; the eight-episode Friday the 13th prequel debuts Oct. 15 on Peacock, with Cardellini starring alongside a returning cast.
Prime Video’s Reacher season four led Nielsen’s Aug. 10–16, 2026 streaming rankings with 1.5 billion minutes across all seasons, about 1.19 billion of which were from the three new episodes released Aug. 12. It still ranked among the top weeks for the series (fifth-best). Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) with 996 million and Lioness (Paramount+) with 955 million also crossed the billion-minute mark; FX’s The Shards didn’t make the top 10. The Last House led the movie chart with 869 million minutes, while Michael on Starz ranked fourth with 275 million. Nielsen’s data covers U.S. TV viewing only and excludes mobile/computer viewing.
Prime Video canceled Spider-Noir after eight episodes and one season, despite Emmy nominations and strong early reception (92% on Rotten Tomatoes) and 2.6 billion viewing minutes in its first six weeks. The series, starring Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly in 1930s New York, was the first live-action project from Amazon’s Sony Pictures TV Marvel pact, with a second series reportedly in development. It originally premiered on MGM+ on May 25 and then streamed on Prime Video, and the cancellation comes as Amazon continues to develop more Spider-Man-related titles.
Meghan Markle’s rumored involvement in Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen sparked a flurry of headlines ahead of the Season 2 launch, but Variety reports the notion was an early, nascent concept floated during brainstorming with no contracts in place; reports of an offer or backlash-driven withdrawal aren’t confirmed, and while a role isn’t entirely ruled out if writers want to pursue it, nothing has been finalized. Season 3 is in pre-production with a 2028-approximate release window, and Netflix is currently focused on pushing Season 2, though the Duchess’ name continues to generate publicity for the show.
HBO’s Lanterns pairs Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart with Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan in a Midwest-set Green Lantern investigation that blends police-procedural pacing with cosmic sci‑fi mystery. The premiere-season mood is stylish and character-driven, anchored by strong performances and sharp direction, while juggling exposition with momentum as it sets up a multi-season arc across seven of eight episodes; a promising, bold addition to HBO’s lineup that leans into cultural and generational tensions without sacrificing character or tone.
Ryan Murphy outlines a three-season vision for The Shards, adapting Bret Easton Ellis’s 1981 LA-set novel with room for personal storytelling and mentoring a younger cast, while also detailing American Horror Story: AHS13, which will bring back past stars to play multiple characters across seasons. Murphy notes Ellis’s involvement and aims to honor Norman Lear’s influence as he threads these ambitious projects together.
Disney+ has ordered a pilot based on EPCOT’s Spaceship Earth ride, with Jason Fuchs as showrunner and Michael Waldron producing. The series would use the ride’s time-travel premise to follow a group of teens from Earth’s past and future as they work to avert a looming global catastrophe, potentially launching a new park-adaptation-driven drama if greenlit.
Deadline reports Emily In Paris Season 6 filming stayed largely on track after Minnie Driver’s off‑set car crash in France; only one scene was moved due to her pre‑planned break as she recovers from a sprained neck, with production continuing in Greece, Monaco, and Paris and Driver expected to return once she heals.
The Shards, a nine-episode FX/Hulu drama from Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis, expands Ellis’s autobiographical novel into a glittery, excess-soaked portrait of early-1980s Los Angeles focused on prep-school sex, drugs, and a lurking serial killer; while visually lush and often entertaining, the nine-episode arc struggles with tonal coherence, delivering strong performances from Igby Rigney and Kaia Gerber and finishing with a provocative cliffhanger.
Amazon MGM Studios, Blur Studios, and Games Workshop are developing a Warhammer 40,000 animated event series as a spinoff of the Secret Level anthology; Henry Cavill will executive produce (and lead a separate live‑action Warhammer 40,000 project at Amazon) with Natalie Viscuso, while Dave Wilson directs and Tim Miller serves as an executive producer. The series will feature the Deathwatch, an elite group of Space Marines, with plot details still under wraps.
Ted Lasso season 4's trailer reunites many of the original cast while noting that Dani Rojas (Cristo Fernández) won’t return for the new season, which shifts focus to a women’s team with new players, ahead of the August 5 Apple TV+ premiere.
Showrunner Ira Parker says Season 2 has been brutal due to weather and a shift from Northern Ireland to Spain to adapt The Sworn Sword; despite the production delays, the series earned nine Emmy nominations and Parker envisions expanding beyond three seasons with Dexter and Peter aging into new canonical stories, aided by unpublished George R.R. Martin material. A premiere is expected in the first half of next year.
Netflix has kicked off production on its first locally commissioned New Zealand series, Queenstown, an eight-episode drama set in the resort town’s luxe ski scene. Created by Chloe Stearns and directed by Glendyn Ivin and Roseanne Liang, the ensemble cast includes Rufus Sewell, Frances O’Connor, Alycia Debnam-Carey and Te Kohe Tuhaka. Filmed on location in Queenstown, the show follows a wealthy family and their staff as power, loyalty and desire collide. Backed by the New Zealand Film Commission and the Screen Production Rebate, a premiere date hasn't been announced.
Paramount+ streams The Challenge Season 42: Cutthroat, filmed in Thailand with 24 competitors split into three teams and a captain’s power to divide or take all the $500,000 prize; the season premieres August 5 with weekly drops at 12:00 a.m. PT/3:00 a.m. ET and features returning stars CT Tamburello and Johnny Bananas.