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We officially have the NBC Fall lineup, and it looks exactly as we would’ve expected.

Unfortunately, we’re still lamenting the loss of scripted TV with the acquisition of basketball, and the Fall slate certainly reflects that, as there is slim pickings outside of One Chicago, Law & Order, and Brilliant Minds.

But it’s still comforting to have stalwart franchises on their same nights. The familiarity of that breeds comfort.

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Wednesdays and Thursdays are the juggernaut nights with a full slate of the two franchises. Because, yes, Law & Order: Organized Crime will accompany the other Law & Orders on Thursdays, airing the fifth season to those who may not have tuned in for it on Peacock.

Given that we still don’t have word on the series’ renewal, they’re hoping to build up a bigger audience by re-airing it on broadcast.

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Surprise! The three-hour Law & Order Thursday lineup will be back on NBC’s fall schedule. Law & Order: Organized Crime, which moved from NBC to Peacock ahead of its fifth season a year ago, will return to the broadcast network. Its fifth season, which recently wrapped its run on the NBCUniversal streamer, will get a second window on NBC, airing in its old Thursday 10 Pm slot behind Law & Order and Law & Order: Svu. The L&w trio will debut their new seasons Sept. 25.

The intention with Organized Crime‘s move to Peacock was to make the drama starring Christopher Meloni even more serialized and edgy. While it is serialized, Season 5 was not as dark as anticipated, making it suitable for a 10 Pm airing on broadcast, where the expectation is that it would reach a largely new audience.

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Forget football. The most cutthroat, high-stakes, and utterly absurd sport in America might just be junior college cheerleading. NBC is taking you behind the curtain with a new mockumentary comedy, Stumble. From the creators of Trial & Error and Shrinking, the series stars Taran Killam (Saturday Night Live) and Jenn Lyon (Claws) as the ambitious […]

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NBC has passed on its remaining comedy pilot, the Untitled Ornelas, Keliiaa and Wilson Project.

From the Rutherford Falls trio of Sierra Teller Ornelas, Jackie Kaliiaa and Bobby Wilson, the ensemble comedy revolves around the employees at a Native community center in Oakland, CA who hustle to keep the lights on while lifting up those in need.

NBC ordered three comedy pilot earlier this year. The other two, The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe and executive produced by Tina Fey, and Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s Stumble, headlined by Jenn Lyon, both have been picked up to series.

The untitled Ornelas, Keliiaa and Wilson project was the last of the three to be ordered and the last to be delivered. As Deadline has reported, it generated less buzz than Reggie Dinkins and Stumble, but it was well received internally nevertheless, sources said.

Stumble is headed to NBC. The network has ordered the mockumentary-style comedy series for next season. The series will take viewers into the competitive world of junior college cheerleading.

Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam, Ryan Pinkston, Jarrett Austin Brown, Anissa Borrego, Arianna Davis, Taylor Dunbar, and Georgie Murphy star in the series written by siblings Liz and Jeff Astrof.

According to Deadline, the series was ordered just days before the options on the cast contracts ran out.  The Stumble pilot was popular in internal screenings at , so it was likely to be picked up.

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NBC's 2025-26 television season slate continues to grow. The network has handed a series order to new comedy Stumble from siblings Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof.

Per Deadline, Stumble marks the first team-up project for the Astrofs, who are veteran showrunners in the comedy genre, having previously worked on such hits as The New Adventures of Old Christine, 2 Broke Girls, The King of Queens, The Conners, and Last Man Standing. The upcoming comedy series centers on Courteney Potter (Jenn Lyon), who is determined to rally her newly recruited junior college cheer squad to win her record-breaking 15th championship and improve their lives along the way.

In addition to Lyon, the main cast for Stumble includes former Saturday Night Live cast member Taran Killam, as well as Ryan Pinkston, Jarrett Austin Brown, Anissa Borrego, Arianna Davis, Taylor Dunbar, and Georgie Murphy. After guest-starring in the pilot, Kristin Chenoweth, who...

As we get closer to the fall, NBC is finalizing its lineup for the 2025–2026 season, and the network just added one more comedy TV series to its schedule. NBC's executives have been weighing their options following the finales in May, trying to decide which comedies to take a chance on. Thankfully, for Stumble, NBC has landed on it.

NBC has ordered Stumble to series (per a report from Variety). Stumble is a cheerleading comedy TV show starring Jenn Lyon and Taran Killam, with Kristin Chenoweth playing a recurring character. Additionally, the upcoming series is being described as a mockumentary, meaning NBC is continuing to participate in the resurgence of the once popular genre. Check out Stumble's logline below.

"Coach Courteney Potter (Jenn Lyon) is determined to rally her newly recruited junior college cheer squad to win her record-breaking 15th championship and improve their lives along the way."

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Season 29 of NBC’s long-running sing-off The Voice will be a “something old, something new” affair.

The old? John Legend, Kelly Clarkson and Adam Levine will be reclaiming their red swivel chairs for the “eventized” cycle, which will begin airing in the spring of 2026. (Clarkson will tape The Voice and Season 7 of The Kelly Clarkson Show concurrently.)

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NBC has added another new comedy series for the 2025-26 season, handing a series order to Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading pilot Stumble, headlined by Jenn Lyon. The decision comes days before the options on the cast were set to expire at the end of this week.

This is the second of three comedy pilots NBC has ordered so far in 2025 to score a series pickup, joining The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe and executive produced by Tina Fey, which was ordered to series in May. There is no decision yet on the third pilot, an untitled community center comedy from the Rutherford Falls trio of Sierra Teller Ornelas, Jackie Kaliiaa and Bobby Wilson, which was the last of the three to get a pilot order and the last to be delivered.

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NBC has greenlit the comedy series “Stumble,” Variety has learned.

Originally ordered to pilot back in March, the series is set in the world of competitive cheerleading. The cast includes Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam, Ryan Pinkston, Jarrett Austin Brown, Anissa Borrego, Arianna Davis, Taylor Dunbar, and Georgie Murphy. Kristin Chenoweth will recur.

The official logline for the series states, “Coach Courteney Potter (Lyon) is determined to rally her newly recruited junior college cheer squad to win her record-breaking 15th championship and improve their lives along the way.”

“Stumble” hails from writers and executive producers Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof. Dana Honor is executive producing via Defining Eve Productions, with cheerleading coach Monica Aldama also executive producing. Jeff Blitz directed and executive produced the pilot. Universal Television is the studio.

No official launch date for “Stumble” has been set at the time of this publishing, but NBC does still have two...

NBC has positively flipped for Stumble, giving the cheerleading mockmentary a series order for the 2025-26 TV season.

The network thus is one step closer to filling some holes in its fall schedule, which is waiting on sitcom lead-outs for both St. Denis Medical (on Mondays) and Happy’s Place (on Fridays). The Tracy Morgan/Daniel Radcliffe comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, which already has a series order, is also in the mix to claim a time slot, while an untitled project from Sierra Teller Ornelas (Rutherford Falls, Superstore, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), set at a Native American community center,...

NBC has granted a series order to Jeff and Liz Astrof’s new cheerleading comedy “Stumble.”

The single-camera comedy has been ordered to series by NBC, the network announced Tuesday, just over four months after the network gave a pilot order to the comedy series.

Jeff and Liz Astrof serve as writers and executive producers for “Stumble” alongside EPs Dana Honor and cheer coach Monica Aldama, who most recently appeared on Netflix’s “Cheer.” The show hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Honor’s Defining Eve Productions.

Jeff Blitz directed and served as an executive producer for the pilot.

The official logline is as follows: “Coach Courteney Potter is determined to rally her newly recruited junior college cheer squad to win her record-breaking 15th championship and improve their lives along the way.”

The cast for “Stumble” includes Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam, Ryan Pinkston, Jarrett Austin Brown,...

NBC is adding to its comedy roster.

The network has given a series order to Stumble, a show centered on the coach (Jenn Lyon) of a community college cheerleading team. The series comes from creators (and siblings) Jeff and Liz Astrof and Universal Television.

Stumble joins fellow first-year comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe, on NBC’s slate for 2025-26. The network’s schedule for fall currently has two open spots for half-hours on Mondays and Fridays, and it seems likely (though NBC hasn’t formally said so yet) that the two newcomers will fill those slots. Second-year shows St. Denis Medical (Monday) and Happy’s Place (Friday) are slated to be the other halves of hourlong comedy blocks on those nights.

A day after ordering Stumble, NBC said it wouldn’t go forward with comedy pilot from Rutherford Falls creator Sierra Teller Ornelas,...

Exclusive: NBC has some unfinished 2025-2026 comedy business — it has two outstanding comedy pilots, Stumble, and the untitled Ornelas, Keliiaa and Wilson project, and two half-hour holes to fill on the schedule come November, one behind St. Denis Medical on Monday and one behind Happy’s Place on Friday.

Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading pilot Stumble, headlined by Jenn Lyon, has been well received internally at NBC and has also tested well, I hear, making it a strong contender for a series pickup. With its mockumentary style, Stumble would fit right in behind the similarly shot medical comedy St. Denis Medical.

There may be another formidable contender though, and it is a descendant of the single-camera comedy series that made that style a staple, The Office. There are conversations about potentially giving The Paper, the upcoming Peacock comedy series from The Office developer Grag Daniels and Michael Koman,...

NBC has a pilot for a new cheerleading comedy, Stumble, in the works, and Kristin Chenoweth has now been officially added to the main cast. Those without much Broadway knowledge would likely still recognize the actor from the screen, particularly after Kristin Chenoweth’s Wicked cameo, an acknowledgement of Chenoweth earning one of her three Tony nominations for originating the role of Glinda. She’s also appeared in BoJack Horseman, Pushing Daisies, Glee, The Descendants, and the Netflix romantic comedy Our Little Secret, along with far too many other stage and screen credits to mention.

But Kristin Chenoweth’s best onscreen performances may not all be behind her. As reported by Deadline, Chenoweth is now joining the cast of the cheerleading mockumentary series Stumble as a series regular. She’ll be playing the perky, 1989-obsessed Tammy Istiny (pronounced Iss-tih-knee), who takes over for former junior college competitive cheerleading coach Courteney...

According to Deadline, Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth is set to join the cast of Stumble, a new comic cheerleading pilot in development at NBC. Written by siblings Jeff and Liz Astrof, the mockumentary-style series dives into the high-stakes, over-the-top world of junior college cheerleading. Chenoweth will star as Tammy Istiny, a former star flyer still stuck in her 1989 glory days, Tammy is the longtime assistant coach to Courteney Potter (played by Claws star Jenn Lyon). When Courteney is ousted from her top junior college coaching gig after a controversial video surfaces, Tammy "reluctantly" steps into the role of head coach, complete with high ponytail, heavy cheer makeup, and a Cherry Coke slushie in hand. Chenoweth is set to recur alongside an ensemble that...

Exclusive: Tony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth has joined the cast of Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC. Set to recur should the pilot go to series, she joins series regulars Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam, Jarrett Austin Brown and Georgie Murphy, Ryan Pinkston, Anissa Borrego, Arianna Davis and Taylor Dunbar.

Written by the Astrof siblings, Stumble is a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer. It centers on Courteney Potter (Jenn Lyon), a top junior college cheer coach who is pushed out over a controversial video and forced to take a job at a little know school.

Chenoweth will play Tammy Istiny. Her last name is pronounced “Isstinny,” but everyone thinks it’s “Is Tiny” (which does not sound farfetched given Chenoweth’s 4’11” frame.) Courteney’s longtime assistant coach, once a star flyer herself, Tammy lives and dresses in her heyday,...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about FBI, The Last of Us, Chicago Med and more!

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Exclusive: Ryan Pinkston (Young Rock), Anissa Borrego (Ths Is Us), Arianna Davis and Taylor Dunbar round out the series regular cast of Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC. They join reviously cast Jenn Lyon, Taran Killam, Jarrett Austin Brown and Georgie Murphy.

Written by the Astrof siblings in their first collaboration, Stumble is a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer.

Pinkston will play Stevie who dropped out of junior college four credits shy of graduating. Over a decade later, he re-enrolls and joins Courteney’s (Lyon) new team as a thirtysomething “senior.”

Borrego, who trained as a gymnast and cheerleader growing up, will play Krystal. A true Cheerlebrity, Krystal is the star flyer at Sammy Davis Sr. Junior college.

Davis, a professional dancer, will play Madonna, the narcoleptic tumbler who ironically provides the cheer team with energy.

Severance fave Dichen Lachman has joined Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series for Season 2 in the role of Yangchen, the streamer announced on X.

Also boarding the second-season ensemble are Madison Hu (The Brothers Sun) as Fei; Dolly De Leon (Nine Perfect Strangers) as Lo and Li; Lily Gao (Letterkenny) as Ursa; and Terry Chen (Wild Cards) as Jeong Jeong.

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“Stumble,” an NBC comedy pilot described as “a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer,” has added Taran Killam, Jarrett Austin Brown and Georgie Murphy to its cast.

They join previously announced star Jenn Lyon, who plays Courteney Potter. Courteney is “tied for the winningest coach in junior college cheer history” but “has a huge fall from grace when a ‘scandalous’ video emerges of her partying with her team, forcing her to take a job coaching at a small crappy school in a town with an unpronounceable name.”

Killam will play Courteney’s husband and high school sweetheart, Boone E. Potter. Boone is the football coach of Sammy Davis Sr. Junior college.

Brown will play Dimarcus, “the starting quarterback who leads the team in rushing yards and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties.”

Murphy will play Sally, who “grew up in the foster care system before moving into...

Exclusive: Taran Killam (High Potential), Jarrett Austin Brown (Don’t Turn Out the Lights) and Georgie Murphy (Small Achievable Goals) have been cast as series regulars opposite Jenn Lyon in Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC.

Written by the Astrof siblings in their first collaboration, Stumble is a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer.

Killam will play Boone E. Potter, the football coach of Sammy Davis Sr. Junior college, married to his high school sweetheart and cheer coach, Courteney (Lyon). Brown will play Dimarcus, the starting quarterback who leads the team in rushing yards and unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. Murphy will play Sally who grew up in the foster care system before moving into her car at 18. Not a great cheerleader, but Courteney sees potential in her.

Liz Astrof and Jeff Astrof executive produce alongside cheerleading coach Monica Aldama,...

“The Summer I Turned Pretty” star Christopher Briney is set to receive the North Fork TV Festival’s 2025 Rising Star Award.

Created to celebrate emerging talent whose performances have captivated audiences and signaled a bold new force in television, the accolade will be presented to Briney at the 10th Annual North Fork TV Festival, which runs June 17-18 in Greenport, NY.

The event will feature a curated lineup of pilot screenings, panel discussions, exclusive receptions, and award spotlights, offering attendees a behind-the-scenes look at the evolving art of television storytelling.

Best known for his breakout role as Conrad Fisher in Amazon’s YA romance series “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” which will debut its third and final season this July, Briney recently starred as Aaron Samuel” in Paramount’s “Mean Girls.” Briney made his debut starring opposite Ben Kingsley in “Dalíland.” He graduated from Pace University where he received a...

Tracy Morgan is headed back to NBC, and Daniel Radcliffe is coming with him. The duo will star in a previously untitled sitcom from Morgan's Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock colleague Tina Fey, which is now called The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. Variety reports the half-hour comedy has been picked up to series by NBC, who also released the first image from the series.

In the first image, Morgan (playing the titular Dinkins) sits on a park bench with Radcliffe and co-star Erika Alexander (Living Single). Morgan will play Reggie Dinkins, a disgraced running back trying to rehabilitate his image. Helping him out are Arthur Tobin (Radcliffe), an award-winning documentary filmmaker who's living with Reggie to film an immersive film about his comeback, and Monica (Alexander), Reggie's childhood sweetheart turned ex-wife, who is also his agent and business manager. Also starring on the series are fellow SNL alum Bobby Moynihan as Gator,...

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Netflix ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de la serie Sirenas, creada por Molly Smith Metzler (La asistenta).

En Sirenas, adaptación de la obra de Metzler Elemeno Pea, Devon (Fahy) sospecha que su hermana Simone (Alcock) mantiene una relación muy extraña con su nueva jefa, la enigmática socialité Michaela Kell (Moore). La lujosa vida de Michaela es como una droga para Simone y Devon decide que es hora de intervenir, poco sabe de que Michaela es una oponente a la que hay que temer.

La miniserie de comedia negra, ambientada en un único fin de semana en la lujosa finca isleña de los Kell, está protagonizada por Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock y Julianne Moore. Completan el reparto Kevin Bacon, Glenn Howerton, Bill Camp, Josh Segarra, Felix Solis, Trevor Salter, Lauren Weedman, Britne Oldford y Jenn Lyon.

“Severance” star Tramell Tillman will receive the Breakout Performance Award at the 2025 North Fork TV Festival in June.

The achievement is “an honor that celebrates his performance which has captivated audiences and defined a moment in television,” per the festival, which is celebrating its 10th year anniversary.

Currently starring as Seth Milchick in Apple TV+’s hit drama “Severance,” a role that has garnered him SAG and Independent Spirit Award nominations, Tillman will next be seen alongside Tom Cruise in “Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” which will debut at Cannes this spring.

Tillman will be honored at the North Fork TV Festival alongside “Law & Order” franchise star Christopher Meloni who, as previously announced, will receive the 2025 Canopy Award, recognizing a career of enduring impact and innovation in television. The festival will take place June 17-18 at the Sound View Greenport in New York.

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Julianne Moore toes the line between enigmatic socialite and cult leader in the new trailer for Sirens, a new limited series premiering May 22 on Netflix.

In the series, Moore plays the wildly wealthy, but mysterious Michaela Kell, who presides over her luxurious seaside estate, Cliff House, with a rather unsettling air (there’s kind of a Wicker Man/Midsommar in Lily Pulitzer vibe to the whole place). Meanwhile, Milly Alcock plays Michaela’s devoted assistant, Simone, who has become deeply enthralled with all this wealth and developed an exceptionally strange relationship with her boss.

Netflix has released the trailer for “Sirens,” a new limited series led by Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock.

The series follows three women at a beach estate over Labor Day weekend. Fahy plays Devon, who is troubled by her sister Simone’s (Alcock), attachment to her socialite employer, Michaela Kell (Moore). In trying to step in between the two, Devon discovers that “she has no idea what a formidable opponent Michaela will be,” according to the official logline. The trailer shows that Michaela, better known as Kiki, runs a cultish-ish group that has taken over Simone’s life.

The cast also includes Kevin Bacon, Glenn Howerton, Bill Camp, Josh Segarra, Felix Solis, Trevor Salter, Lauren Weedman, Britne Oldford and Jenn Lyon.

The show was created by Molly Smith Metzler, who was previously behind “Maid.” Executive producers include Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Dani Gorin via LuckyChap (the company was also part of “Maid.

New Amsterdam vet Ryan Eggold is marrying into a family of Seven Sisters at FX.

The actor will star in the cabler’s drama pilot, headlined by Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti as two of the titular siblings, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Jenn Lyon has been cast in a lead role in the NBC comedy pilot “Stumble,” Variety has learned.

The pilot was originally announced back in March. As previously reported, the logline for the show states that it is “a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer.” The project was originally set up with a put pilot commitment at NBC in late 2024.

Lyon will star as Courtney Potter. The character description reads:

“Tied for the winningest coach in Junior College Cheer history, Courteney has a huge fall from grace when a ‘scandalous’ video emerges of her partying with her team, forcing her to take a job coaching at a small crappy school in a town with an unpronounceable name. Can she win the championship with a rag tag team of misfits? She can. She must. She … might not.”

Lyon is best known for her leading role...

Jenn Lyon (Claws) has been cast as the lead of Stumble, Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof’s single-camera cheerleading comedy pilot for NBC.

Underlining just how tight the job market is post-peak TV with well-paying series regular role opportunities few and far between, there were six well known actresses who tested for the part, I hear. Most of them have led series, movies or Broadway productions, with major award winners in the midst.

Written by the Astrof siblings in their first collaboration, Stumble is a mockumentary about the ridiculously high stakes competitive world of junior college cheer.

Lyon will play Courteney Potter. Tied for the winningest coach in Junior College Cheer history, Courteney has a huge fall from grace when a “scandalous” video emerges of her partying with her team, forcing her to take a job coaching at a small crappy school in a town with an unpronounceable name. Can...

This post contains spoilers from Paramount+'s Happy Face episode 4, "Controlled Burn."

One of the things I’m loving about Happy Face is how each episode ends: with a bombshell. We learned last week that Melissa’s (Annaleigh Ashford) brother was with their father in Texas when Heather Richmond was killed. In this episode 4 recap, Shane (Philip Ettinger) enters the picture, as does someone unexpected, Melissa confronts her ex, and Happy Face (Dennis Quaid) gets to Hazel (Khiyla Aynne) then drops some bombshells in his attempted controlled burn, which is a tactic firemen use to prevent bigger fires. Jesperson uses them to start them, though, so only he can control them.

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Happy Face is a new Paramount+ true-crime series set to roll out eight new episodes this Spring. Adapted from the 2018 podcast of the same name, the docudrama concerns a teenage girl who discovers her father is secretly the Happy Face Killer, a serial kidnapper and murderer who took the lives of at least eight women in the 1990s. Dennis Quaid and Annaleigh Ashford headline the docudrama as the father-daughter combo.

With a relatively straightforward streaming schedule, Happy Face will air its eight-episode first season over seven weeks, ending on May 1st. Once hooking viewers with a double dose of terror, Paramount+ will issue a new weekly episode until the finale. Including episode titles and writers attached, here's everything to know about when, where, and how to watch Happy Face in the coming weeks.

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Stars of the highly anticipated limited series Happy Face, including Dennis Quaid and Annaleigh Ashford, walked the red carpet at an Emmys For Your Consideration event at The Metrograph in New York City on March 18.

Joining Quaid and Ashford were cast members James Wolk, Tamera Tomakili, Khiyla Aynne, Benjamin Mackey, Phillip Ettinger, and Jenn Lyon. The industry event also welcomed the creative team behind Happy Face: showrunner Jennifer Cacicio and executive producers Melissa G. Moore, Robert King, Michelle King, and Liz Glotzer. The eight-episode series is adapted from Moore's 2018 podcast, Happy Face, and the 2009 autobiography Shattered Silence, and cowritten by M. Bridget Cook.

Quaid (an Emmy nominee for The Special Relationship) portrays Keith Hunter Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. Ashford (an Emmy nominee for Welcome to Chippendales) plays Moore, Keith's daughter and a makeup artist on a television talk show who learns of her father's deadly secret.

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Do you hear that sound? It's the siren call of the next hugely addictive Netflix limited series off in the distance, ready to make its premiere very, very soon. After making your way through Netflix's limited series offerings in 2025 so far, like Missing You, Zero Day, and Adolescence, the streaming service has revealed the release date for its upcoming star-studded dark comedy Sirens.

In addition to revealing that Sirens premieres on Thursday, May 22, Netflix also shared some first-look images of series stars Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock, and Kevin Bacon. The streamer reunites with May December star Moore, The Perfect Couple star Fahy, and Leave the World Behind star bacon for a series that's sure to become one of the year's best binges.

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Sirens comes from Maid creator and writer Molly Smith Metzler, who landed an...

After her breakout role in the Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, Milly Alcock will star in the upcoming Dcu movie Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. Bridging the gap between these major roles in Alcock's career will be the Netflix limited series Sirens, which has just gotten its official premiere date.

On Tuesday, Netflix announced that Sirens will start streaming on May 22, 2025. Along with featuring Alcock as a part of the ensemble cast, the series also stars Julianne Moore (May December), Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus), and Kevin Bacon (Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F). From showrunner, writer, and executive producer Molly Smith Metzler of Quiet Coyote, the series is based on her play Elemeno Pea, which she wrote at The Juilliard School First look images of the series can be viewed below.

The official synopsis for Sirens reads, "Devon (Fahy) thinks her sister Simone (Alcock) has a...

When it comes to the streaming world, newly released original shows face quite the uphill battle when it comes to fighting for a second season, as it often needs to deliver with both audiences and critics while serving up stellar viewership numbers. In fact, no matter how quirky the characters are or unique the premise is, if a show can't deliver in the ratings department it will likely find itself in the ever-ominous gravesite of fan-favorite programs gone too soon.

In 2024, Netflix released the spellbinding supernatural horror series Dead Boy Detectives, an adaptation of the DC Comics books and characters that focused on two young ghostly sleuths as they bypassed the afterlife in favor of solving paranormal crimes on Earth, all-the-while trying to evade the ever-looming threat of Death. Set within the universe of the equally dark and engrossing Netflix hit The Sandman, the dramedy earned an exceptional 92% Rotten Tomatoes...

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Whether you’re looking for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or something just plain weird — Netflix’s catalog is filled with dozens of fantastic shows and movies. Some of them are particularly mind-bending, which is exactly what we’re looking at today!

If you do one search for ‘mind-bending’ shows and movies on Netflix, you’ll see dozens of results. In fact, it’s one of the most popular categories on the streamer. From outstanding anthology series to downright bizarre dramas, there are tons of great options on Netflix. In this list, we count down 10 of the best.

All of these shows and films are available to stream on Netflix right now. Let’s dive in!

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Exclusive: Kasey Kitchen’s boutique entertainment and lifestyle firm Marque PR is expanding with a new Atlanta office set to open in April.

Marque PR was founded by Kitchen in 2020 and is headquartered in Los Angeles.

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Vanessa Williams (Bad Hair) and Jenn Lyon (Dead Boy Detectives) guest star on CBS’s Elsbeth season two episode four, “Elsbeth’s Eleven.” Directed by Mary Lou Belli from a script by Zoe Marshall, episode four will air on Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 10pm Et/Pt.

Carrie Preston stars as Elsbeth Tascioni, Wendell Pierce stars as Captain C.W. Wagner, and Carra Patterson is back as Officer Kaya Blanke. Robert King, Michelle King, Liz Glotzer, and Jonathan Tolins serve as executive producers.

“Elsbeth’s Eleven” Plot: While investigating the death of an employee at New York’s most exclusive jewelry store, Elsbeth and the team uncover plans for a gala heist orchestrated by a chic VIP customer (Williams).

Vanessa Williams as Roselyn Joshi and Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni in ‘Elsbeth’ season 2 episode 4 Elsbeth Season 2 Description, Courtesy of CBS:

Emmy Award winner Carrie Preston is back as Elsbeth Tascioni, the astute...

"Will you come with me when I go to space tomorrow?" Freestyle Digital Media has unveiled a fun trailer for an indie comedy called Darla in Space, a kooky, wacky creation from the filmmakers Eric Laplante & Susie Moon as their feature debut. This premiered at the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival earlier this year, and it'll be out to watch on VOD in October. Darla Peterson just found out she owes the IRS $349,000.22. She teams up with a sentient kombucha scoby named "Mother" who has the ability to grant mind-blowing orgasms to pay off the debt. In exchange, Mother wants Darla's help getting to space. Is this a match made in heaven, or the other place? Alex E. Harris plays Darla, with Constance Shulman, Thomas Jay Ryan, Jenn Lyon, Rasheda Crockett, Eamon O'Connell, and Js Oliver. This is such a weird concept, and it's a real shoestring indie made for less than $100K.

Evan Marquez (Brian Jordan Alvarez) is going through it.

The high school English teacher in suburban Texas recently broke up with boyfriend Malcolm (Jordan Firstman), is under investigation by the school board for kissing him in front of students, doesn’t want to be a local queer hero, and is also expressly forbidden from dating fellow teachers, like handsome new hire Harry (Langston Kerman).

FX’s latest comedy stays true to its genre, with laugh-out-loud dialogue, casually outrageous characters, and scenarios that could be out of the sitcom handbook on the surface, but get sharpened to a 2024 clip by Alvarez and fellow writers Stephanie Koenig, Jake Bender, Zach Dunn, and Dave King. Jokes fly so fast that they could be improvised, setting the bar from the very first scene for a show bursting with humor even when the plot goes off course.

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It's one and done for Dead Boy Detectives. According to Variety, Netflix has cancelled the supernatural dramedy series after just one season. The series premiered on the streaming service in April.

George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri, Kassius Nelson, Yuyu Kitamura, Jenn Lyon, Briana Cuoco, Lukas Gage, David Iacono, and Ruth Connell star in the Dead Boy Detectives series. The story follows a team of two humans and two ghosts as they investigate paranormal mysteries. It's based on characters created for DC Comics by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner.

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Netflix will not be moving forward with a second season of Dead Boy Detectives, greatly disappointing fans who were hoping to see the story continue. Shortly after the news was broken, the two lead stars of the series shared their reactions on social media.

George Rexstrew, who played ghost detective Edwin Payne, suggested he was heartbroken by sharing a broken heart emoji on his Instagram Stories. Jayden Revri, who co-starred as Edwin's partner Charles Rowland, opened up a bit more with a post on X. Revri chose to look at the positives, feeling grateful that he had the experience of working on the show. He gives credit to his fellow cast and crew along with the fans who have shown their support all throughout his short-lived Dead Boy Detectives journey.

Just wanted to come on here and say how forever grateful I am to Dead Boy Detectives. I met...

It's a sad day for fans of Dead Boy Detectives, Netflix's YA offshoot of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. Variety has reported that the series will not return for a second season. Though the news doesn't come as a huge surprise, given that there's been no word on the show since its April debut, it's still a disappointment to those who were hopeful the series would continue.

Dead Boy Detectives was a little bit of an oddity in itself since the series was originally going to air on Max and connect more to the DC universe (it's based on the DC comic book series of the same name) but then was later moved to Netflix, which made sense because The Sandman, another series set in the Gaiman universe, was already airing there and Dead Boy Detectives featured a couple of little crossovers between the two Netflix series.

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Netflix has pulled the plug on Dead Boy Detectives, a fun show with a lot of promise and a passionate fanbase, according to Variety. Such is life on the world's streamer.

In all seriousness, it's not too surprising that the show has been canceled. Dead Boy Detectives, about a pair of dead boys who became detectives, stayed on the list of Netflix's Top 10 most watched shows for three weeks before falling off. It amassed millions of views but not millions enough. Still, considering the positive reception among fans and critics both — it has a 92% score among critics and 90% among fans on Rotten Tomatoes — it's a shame that it's ending this early. The good ones go young...again.

The show was based on a comic series of the same name, which itself was a spinoff of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comics, which Netflix is also turning into a TV show...

There will be no second season for Dead Boy Detectives. Netflix has canceled the series after one season, sources confirm to Deadline.

The first season, which dropped on April 25, will now be the final season for the show, which was originally set up at Max.

Based on the comics of the same name by Neil Gaiman and part of The Sandman Universe, Dead Boy Detectives followed Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), “the brains” and “the brawn” behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts… who solve mysteries.

They will do anything to stick together – including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), they crack some of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal cases.

Dead Boy Detectives has been canceled.

On Friday (August 30), it was announced that the series based on the beloved comic series from Neil Gaiman had been canceled by Netflix after one season, Variety reported.

George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri starred in the series as the dead boys, who became friends in the afterlife and teamed up to solve supernatural mysteries.

Keep reading to find out more…The series also starred Kassius Nelson, Yuyu Kitamura, Jenn Lyon, Briana Cuoco, David Iacono, Lukas Gage, and Ruth Connell.

The first and only season of Dead Boy Detectives debuted in April 2024 on Netflix.

Dead Boy Detectives was part of the of Sandman franchise. A second season of The Sandman is currently in the works on the streaming platform.

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There will be no more mysteries to solve for Edwin and Charles. It's been revealed that Dead Boy Detectives will end its run after a single season, despite its positive reception.

Back in April, Netflix debuted all eight episodes of the first season of Dead Boy Detectives, a Neil Gaiman adaptation set in the same universe as The Sandman. The future of the show has since been unclear, but the newest update on Dead Boy Detectives is very bad news for fans. Per Variety, Netflix has officially chosen to cancel Dead Boy Detectives, putting the show onto the pile of previously-axed titles that fans say ended way too soon on the streaming platform.

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Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives ends its first season with a series of unanswered questions, with some even setting up arcs for a potential Season 2.

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Dead Boy Detectives season 2 is not happening, as Netflix has officially canceled the Sandman spinoff. Based on the characters created by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, and part of the Sandman universe, the series followed Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) and Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew), two ghosts that decide to evade Death and remain on Earth to solve mysteries. With a main cast that also included Kassius Nelson, Briana Cuoco, Jenn Lyon, Lukas Gage, Ruth Connell, and Yuyu Kitamura, there has been a lot of speculation about Dead Boy Detectives season 2.

Variety confirms that Netflix will not be moving forward with Dead Boy Detectives season 2. The cancellation comes just five months after the Sandman spinoff show first premiered on the streaming platform, where it scored rave reviews and started off with strong ratings, though gradually dropped over its first month of release. At the time of writing, Netflix has not explained...