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In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix reveals a first look at Season 5 of “Last Chance U,” and Telemundo brings back a third season of “La Reina del Sur” starring Kate del Castillo.

Renewals

Telemundo has greenlit a third season of its original series “La Reina del Sur,” starring Kate del Castillo as Teresa Mendoza. Also scheduled to reprise their roles are Isabella Sierra, Humberto Zurita and Kika Edgar. “La Reina del Sur” is a Spanish-language series based on a novel of the same name by Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte. The third season will premiere in 2021.

First Looks

Netflix released a trailer for Season 5 of the Emmy-nominated series “Last Chance U,” which premieres July 28. The fifth season takes place in a new setting to give viewers a “raw, authentic look” at the junior football program at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., where its players navigate injuries and stress while finding support in the community.

After nearly a decade, Kate Del Castillo will reprise her role as Teresa Mendoza in the return of the Narco drama La Reina del Sur, set to debut in 2019 on Telemundo. The original story, based on the novel of the same by Arturo Perez-Reverte, follows Mendoza’s climb to the top of the male-dominated Narco world that trafficked drugs on a global scale.

Joining Del Castillo in the new season, which shot on location in seven countries, are a mix of returning actors and new multilingual, international talent including Raoul Bova (Under the Tuscan Sun), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), Paola Nuñez (The Son), Antonio Gil (Quantum of Solace), and legendary novela actor Humberto Zurita.

The series will pick up eight years after the events of the finale where audiences learned that Mendoza was pregnant and unsure of her future. When La Reina returns, audiences learn she’s disappeared into the U.