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Three years into its local production effort in Australia and New Zealand, Netflix has greenlighted two new series, one feature film and one full-length documentary from Australia.

These are in addition to previously announced renewals of teen series “Heartbreak High” and “Surviving Summer” and the go-ahead for prestige book-to-series adaptation “Boy Swallows Universe” and kids animation “Eddie’s Lil Homies.”

Set in the Australian Outback, epic succession tale “Desert King” revolves around billionaire miners, traditional owners, cowboys and desert gangsters fighting over the world’s biggest cattle station the size of Wales. It’s a hot, dusty, sexy Outback Western with guns and helicopters.

It is directed by Greg McLean and created by Tim Lee and Ben Davies, with production by Paul Ranford. The series is a co-production between Easy Tiger and Ronde.

“We’re thrilled to have assembled an incredible creative team, on and off screen, to do justice to the rarely-seen world,...

It's been a great week for fans of Hallmark, and now, it's about to get even better.

Some of the cabler's most beloved stars are joining forces for Notes of Autumn, a brand-new original movie.

Ashley Williams, Luke Macfarlane, Marcus Rosner, and Peter Porte are set to star. 

The flick is set to premiere Saturday, September 16 at 8/7c on Hallmark Channel as part of the network's annual Fall into Love programming event.

As an executive producer, singer-songwriter, and actress Debbie Gibson helped bring the story from script to screen.

"I'm so thrilled to have a creative voice during such an exciting time in Hallmark Channel's programming," Gibson shared in a statement.

"This is a special story that celebrates how love can blossom in the most unexpected ways."

The movie marks Gibson's return to the network, having previously starred in the 2016 original movie Summer of Dreams, and the 2018 sequel Wedding of Dreams,...

Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey are acting greats, so putting them in a project together should lead to lightning in a bottle.

The pair are set to headline Paramount+ and Showtime drama series Fellow Travelers, which has landed an October 27 premiere date on both streaming and linear.

The series will air one day later in the UK, Australia, Latin America, South Korea, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

Fellow Travelers is created for television by Oscar® nominee Ron Nyswaner.

The series also stars Jelani Alladin (The Walking Dead World Beyond), Allison Williams, and Noah J. Ricketts (American Gods).

Bomer and Nyswaner executive produce with Robbie Rogers and Dee Johnson.

Daniel Minahan executive produces and also directs the first two episodes.

Based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers is an epic love story and political thriller chronicling the clandestine romance of two very different men who meet in McCarthy-era Washington.

Jodie Sweetin is speaking out after it was revealed her new movie would be a part of Great American Family's schedule.

The cable network has been scrutinized following Sweetin's one-time Full House costar Candace Cameron Bure's controversial sentiments about keeping "traditional marriages at the core" of the network's offerings.

Bure serves as the chief creative officer for the network and declared that she didn't think movies featuring LGBTQ+ couples would make their way to the cabler.

"I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core," she stated, while former Hallmark CEO Bill Abbott said in the same interview that it may not always be the case.

"It's certainly the year 2022, so we're aware of the trends," he told Wall Street Journal.

"There's no whiteboard that says, 'Yes, this' or 'No, we'll never go here.'"

Sweetin shared a statement with Entertainment Tonight in December 2022, a month after Bure's remarks,...

Gordon Ramsey's reign on Fox is not coming to a close in the near future.

Masterchef has scored a renewal for Season 14, TV Fanatic can confirm.

The news comes on the heels of the milestone 250th episode (sneak peek here!), airing tonight at 8/7c.

Award-winning chef and executive producer Gordon Ramsay will return as a host and judge alongside acclaimed chef Aarón Sánchez and renowned restaurateur Joe Bastianich.

Exciting, right?

"MasterChef is a beloved staple of the Fox brand. Its impressive performance this Summer and tonight's 250th episode are a testament to the strength, distinction and longevity of this very special show," said Allison Wallach, President of Unscripted Programming of Fox Entertainment.

"Of course, our incredible partner, Gordon Ramsay, together with Aarón Sánchez, Joe Bastianich and Endemol Shine North America, continue to make MasterChef the massive success it is and we are proud to renew it for its 14th season.

The Television Critics Association announced the winners for the 39th annual awards on Monday.

As expected, it was another clean sweep for Succession and The Bear -- both of which have been awards magnets since their debuts.

Check out the complete list of winners below.

Individual Achievement In Drama

Christine Baranski, The Good Fight

Kieran Culkin, Succession

Dominique Fishback, Swarm

Betty Gilpin, Mrs. Davis

Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us

Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us

Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul — Winner

Sarah Snook, Succession

Jeremy Strong, Succession

Individual Achievement In Comedy

Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (2022 Winner)

Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

Harrison Ford, Shrinking

Bill Hader, Barry

Janelle James, Abbott Elementary

Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face — Winner

James Marsden, Jury Duty

Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Outstanding Achievement In News And Information

30 for 30 (ESPN)

Free Chol Soo Lee (PBS)

Frontline (PBS)

Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? (Netflix)

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Apple TV+ has extinguished City on Fire.

According to Deadline, the crime drama has been canceled after just one season.

The decision comes six weeks after the conclusion of City on Fire Season 1.

The series failed to garner much buzz, a surefire sign that a show is not long for this world.

We rarely get viewership statistics for streaming shows, so the buzz is the only indicator of success to observers.

City on Fire was saddled with terrible reviews from critics, with a 39% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Fans were considerably more positive, with an audience score of 78%.

Apple TV+ recently launched Silo, which became the most-watched drama, achieving considerable buzz and acclaim.

Hijack also seems ripe for success after breaking through in ways many shows haven't.

On City on Fire, an NYU student is shot in Central Park on the Fourth of July, 2003.

Samantha is alone; there are no...

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Apple TV+ has canceled its Uma Thurman drama series Suspicion after a single season.

Deadline first reported the news a year and a half after its freshman finale.

"When the son of a prominent American businesswoman (Thurman) is kidnapped from a New York hotel, the eye of suspicion quickly falls on four seemingly ordinary British citizens who were at the hotel on the night in question," the logline teased.

"As they find themselves in a trans-Atlantic cat and mouse race to evade the combined forces of the National Crime Agency and the F.B.I. to prove their innocence, it becomes apparent that not everyone can be trusted."

"Who is really behind the mysterious abduction, and who is only guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time?"

In addition to Thurman, the ensemble cast for Suspicion includes Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory...

We're in the home stretch of summer, but that doesn't mean there's a lack of TV content.

The CW kicks off its Monday comedy block, Good Omens finally returns, and Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig return to the ring on Heels Season 2.

Oh, and we can't forget Taylor Sheridan's Special Ops: Lioness. The cast alone is worth tuning in for.

Scroll down to find out what we recommend this week.

Saturday, July 22

8/7c V.C. Andrews' Dawn: Twilight's Child (Lifetime)

Dawn should be living her best life. She's now married to her pseudo-brother husband and raising some deadbeat Broadway star's kid while running her evil family's hotel empire.

She should be living the perfect life these days, right? Yeah, no.

She still has her creepy obsessive brother Philip and evil sister Clara to contend with, as Lillian's memory still haunts her. Yes, it's another round of this saga,...

BritBox has a proven track record for fine British drama, and the streaming service's August slate sounds very promising. 

Headlined by Sleepy Hollow's Tom Mison and New Amsterdam's Janet Montgomery, The Ex-Wife will make its exclusive US debut on August 10.

Earlier in the month, the Scottish crime drama Granite Harbour featuring Romario Simpson, Hannah Donaldson (The Crown), and Katia Winter will debut on August 1.

Based on Jess Ryder's hit psychological thriller of the same name, The Ex-Wife tells the story of Tasha, a young woman who feels like she is living the dream: she has the perfect house, a loving husband, and a beautiful little girl.

But there's one large blot on Tasha's marital landscape: her husband's (Mison) ex-wife (Montgomery) won't leave them alone and seems intent on staying in the picture.

When Tasha returns home one day to find her life turned upside down, she realizes that the dream...

Change is in the air in the official trailer for The Chi Season 6.

Showtime dropped the first look at the highly-anticipated next chapter of the series.

As previously reported, The Chi Season 6 will premiere Friday, August 4, streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime and on-demand, before making its on-air debut Sunday, August 6 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt on Showtime.  

The premium cabler also announced the series will be getting its biggest episode order to date, with 16 new episodes ordered.

"Life in The Chi reverberates between the highest highs and lowest lows," reads the official logline for Season 6.

"Big dreams are finally realized but at a cost and everyone will be tested in unimaginable ways as they calculate the risks and rewards of their next big move."

"Emmett and Kiesha's blissful blended union is tested by his insatiable drive to expand Smokey's and a new perilous partnership, while Kiesha finally races toward a rewarding new career.

Jane Krakowski and Randy Jackson (American Idol) will be back on Fox this fall with a special fall season of Celebrity Name That Tune.

The beloved game show will be paired with I Can See Your Voice as part of the network's exciting Tuesday slate of originals.

Krakowski hosts the series and also features Jackson as the band leader.

Fox's spin on Name That Tune has been on the air since 2021, with fans tuning in in their droves to watch the two complete games that air on every episode.

Take a look at the exclusive key art for Celebrity Name That Tune's fall edition.

The celebrity edition switches up the dynamic vs. the civilian iteration with a fresh spin on the competition.

"Celebrity Name That Tune returns for an all-celebrity edition with games that will test the musical knowledge of athletes, musicians, actors, TV personalities, comedians and Olympians all playing...

CBS is making some changes to its fall schedule in the wake of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

First up, the network hopes to expose Yellowstone to a bigger audience than before.

Yellowstone will make its broadcast debut by airing as part of the network's Sunday slate, paired up with 60 Minutes and Big Brother.

Yes, Big Brother is airing later in the fall this season and will also air later in the evening on Sundays.

For some reason, the network is banishing fresh episodes to 10 p.m. on that night.

Obviously, 60 Minutes will serve as a better lead-in for Yellowstone, but the move could harm the network's reliable reality staple.

Big Brother will also air Tuesdays and Thursdays in the 8 p.m. slot.

Thursdays will also consist of Buddy Games and The Challenge: USA but will switch things up later into the fall when those two reality shows conclude.

The CW is getting prepared for the fall season.

The network on Wednesday unveiled its fall premiere dates, and there are some changes vs. the schedule the network revealed earlier this year.

All American, which was set to remain on Mondays in the fall, has been pushed to midseason.

The scheduling shift isn't surprising: The WGA strike is ongoing, and there's a good chance a SAG-AFTRA strike will go ahead later this evening.

Moving the show off the fall schedule is a good move because there's no telling when new episodes will be ready for air.

The decision means all four returning CW dramas have been delayed until midseason.

All American: Homecoming, Superman & Lois, and Walker recently landed pickups for the 2023-24 season.

Canceled AMC series 61st Street, which was set to join All American on the fall schedule, has also been delayed.

In their place, the network...

Nominations for the 2023 Emmy Awards were revealed Thursday morning, just hours before a likely SAG-AFTRA actors strike.

The lavish event is currently set to air Monday, September 18, on Fox.

However, that could change amid the Hollywood strikes, so we should get some answers about that shortly.

The Outstanding Drama Series category looks like a tough race, with Andor, Better Call Saul, The Crown, House of the Dragon, The Last of Us, Succession, The White Lotus, and Yellowjackets duking it out for the top spot.

Many cast members of Succession are up for the acting categories.

They will compete against the likes of The Crown, The White Lotus, and Better Call Saul.

The Bear, Barry, Jury Duty, and Ted Lasso are well-represented on the comedy front.

Take a look at the complete list of nominations below.

Best Talk Series

The Daily Show With Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)

Jimmy Kimmel Live!...

Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

Just weeks after Padma Lakshmi announced her exit from Top Chef, we have an answer about her replacement.

The Bravo reality series announced that Top Chef Season 10 winner Kristen Kish would take over the role.

Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons will return as judges for Top Chef Season 21, which will be set in Wisconsin.

"Top Chef is where I started my journey — first as a competing chef, then a guest judge and now as host, I have the honor of helping to continue to build this brand," Kish said in a statement.

"I'm thrilled to sit alongside Gail and Tom as we get to know new incredible chefs and see what they cook up. It feels like coming home."

Elsewhere in the world of reality TV, Ariana Madix is coupling up with Love Island.

Peacock...

The world of To All The Boys continues with Xo, Kitty, the new Netflix spinoff that sees Anna Cathcart’s Kitty embarking on a brand new adventure. The 10-episode series was released on May 18, two years after To All the Boys: Always and Forever, and makes unique changes to To All the Boys that help it stand apart from its beloved origins. The focus on Kitty rather than Lara Jean also gives the series an exciting chance to showcase a new perspective and go to bold new places (like Korea).

Music has always been a crucial part of To All the Boys, and Xo, Kitty is no exception. Needle drops, a unique score, and exciting interpretations of beloved songs are all present in Xo, Kitty, thanks to composers Jina Hyojin An and Shirley Song and a list of other musical collaborators. Screen Rant is excited to premiere two tracks from...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for 9-1-1 Season 6 Episode 17, “Love Is in the Air.”] To propose or not to propose, that is the question … still for Chimney (Kenneth Choi) on 9-1-1. But little does he know, as the 118 deals with calls that have him continuing to flip flop on what to do — a man jumps off the building to propose, and his girlfriend feels she has to say yes … for a few months, at least, and an older woman determined to marry the love of her life before being taken to the hospital — that Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) has found the ring where their daughter put it in her dollhouse. Chimney has taken the ring being “missing” as a sign it’s time to move on, and he even files an insurance claim (during which he tries to ask the agent for her advice). But he doesn’t know that by this point, the ring is actually ...

Imagine dropping down on one knee to propose and then suddenly finding yourself swept up, quite literally, in a high-speed chase with a bank robber!

We’ll see this play out on 9-1-1 Season 6 Episode 17, as a man finds himself in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with a parachute strapped to his back.

In this clip exclusive to TV Fanatic, we’ll see Athena chasing the bank robber suspect down and the 118 racing to help the helpless lad with the worst possible luck.

Athena has been in her fair share of chases, but a man dragged behind a car she’s chasing may be a first for the decorated Sergeant.

As you’ll see in this clip, Athena is able to capture her suspect, luckily, before any more damage can be inflicted upon the innocent victim.

Even after being drug down the streets of Los Angeles, the...

Hey, "9-1-1" fans. We are back on here to let you guys know that Fox has another new episode of your favorite show 9-1-1 all lined up and ready to go for you next Monday night, May 8, 2023. Yep, this next, new episode will be the 17th one for 9-1-1's current season 6, and we've got some new spoiler info for it. We were able to get a hold of a couple of new, official teaser spoilers for this new episode 17 by way of NBC's official episode 17 press release synopsis. So, we're going to take a look at it right now. Let's do it. To start, we've got an official title for this new episode 17 of 9-1-1's current season 6. The writers decided to name this one, "Love Is In The Air." It sounds like episode 17 will feature some more very intense, dramatic, action-filled, suspenseful, interesting, emotional and scandalous as...