The Total Screen's Weekly Newsletter 002 - May 7th, 2018

News

• DC's streaming service was official announced with the title DC Universe.  The service will be home to a number of exclusive shows, including the high profile Titans, as well as Swamp Thing, a Harley Quinn series, and the hotly anticipated return of Young Justice.
• Speaking of Swamp Thing, the series has been officially announced with James Wan (Aquaman) attached as a Producer, and Mark Verheiden (Battlestar Galactica) and Gary Dauberman (It) set to run the series.
• Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) is developing a new series for Netflix about the recent #MeToo movement.  The anthology series will have each episode focus on a different case.  The series will be titled Consent. 
• Dallas & Robo, a new animated series for YouTube Red, will feature the voices of John Cena (Blockers) and Kat Dennings (2 Broke Girls).
• FX has picked up a remake of Jemaine Clement (Legion) and Taika Waititi's (Thor Ragnarok) What We Do in the Shadows with a 10 episode series order.
• Sony has picked up the rights to the Wattpad serial Death is my BFF to develop as a series.
• Greg Berlanti (Arrow) has optioned the rights to YA novel The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue for Warner Bros TV.
• Conan is once again adjusting its format, this time the series will make the shift to a half hour format in 2009.  TBS is also expanding the shows touring and online presence, with O'Brien's company Team Coco.
• Anne Rice's son Christopher Rice has announced that the script for the pilot episode of The Vampire Chronicles is complete.  Christopher wrote the script for the series which is being developed by himself, his mother, and prestigious Showrunner Bryan Fuller (Hannibal), who is no longer involved in the project.
• The next season of Channel Zero will be subtitled The Dream Door, and will feature Brandon Scott (Grey’s Anatomy), Maria Sten (Straight Outta Compton), Steven Robertson (Elementary), and Steven Weber (Wings) when it premieres later this year.
• Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club) will take over the role of Princess Margaret in season 3 of The Crown, with Jason Watkins set (Being Human) to portray Prime Minister Harold Wilson. 
• Ali Wong (Savages) has joined the cast of Netflix's animated series Tuca & Bertie.
• Carrie Coon (The Leftovers) has been cast in season 2 of USA's The Sinner as Vera, a formidable community leader.  Natalie Paul (The Deuce) and Hannah Gross (Mindhunter) have also joined the cast.
• Facebook has ordered Queen America, a 10 episode series starring Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago), for their streaming platform Facebook Watch.
• Jonathan Majors (Hostile) will star in Jordan Peele (Get Out) and HBO’s Lovecraft Country.
• Peaky Blinders Creator Steven Knight has said that he has plans up to the seventh season of the series.
• The currently airing second season of Legion will have an additional, 11th, episode.
• Netflix has released an alternate cut of the divisive 4th season of Arrested Development.
• The upcoming Sabrina the Teenage Witch series at Netflix has been officially named Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
• Salma Hayak (Ugly Betty) and Paul Feig's (Freaks & Geeks) currently in development comedy series is close to a pilot order at Amazon.
• Hulu's horror anthology series Into the Dark has been announced as a monthly series of feature length episodes based on holidays.  The series kicks off in October with a Halloween themed episode.
• Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) will be helming the pilot episode of Amazon's adaptation of the Garth Ennis (Preacher) comic The Boys.
• Happy Endings' Creator David Caspe is reuniting with Happy Endings' star Adam Pally on a new comedy series for Youtube Red.
• Renewals:  The Handmaid's Tale at Hulu, Westworld at HBO, Shameless at Showtime, and Final Space at TBS.
• Cancellations:  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to end after it upcoming 4th season, with the possibility of a movie continuation.  Transparent Creator/Showrunner Jill Soloway, has announced that the series will be ending after season 5, without series lead Jeffrey Tambor.
  

Trailers

 Goliath - Amazon

Castle Rock - Hulu

Humans - AMC

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - Netflix

Ducktales - The Disney Channel

Sacred Games - Netflix

Arrested Development - Netflix

You Are Wanted - Amazon

Marvel's Luke Cage - Netflix

Cults and Extreme Belief - A&E

La Casa de las Flores - Netflix

All Night - Hulu 

The Affair - Showtime

The Fourth Estate - Showtime

American Gods - Starz

Wrong Man - Starz

Dietland - AMC

Humans - AMC

Snowfall - FX

American Woman - Paramount Network

USA Network Summer Slate Promo

Podcast

The Weekly Set Podcast Episode 154

Cobra Kai Season 1 Episodes 1 and 2
Lost in Space Season 1 Episode 3

Legion Season 2 Episode 5

Westworld Season 2 Episode 2

Schedule

For our full Schedule, click here. 

Monday, May 7th, 2018 
SuperMansion – Crackle
X Company – Ovation

Thursday, May 10th, 2018
Safe - Netflix
Motherland - Sundance Now

Friday, May 11th, 2018
All Night – Hulu
Bill Nye Saves the World – Netflix
Evil Genius: the True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist - Netflix

Saturday, May 12th, 2018
Patrick Melrose – Showtime

Sunday, May 13th, 2018
Little Women – PBS

Friday, May 18th, 2018
You Are Wanted - Amazon
13 Reasons Why - Netflix

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
Mob Psycho 100 - Netflix
Terrace House: Opening New Doors - Netflix 

Thursday, May 24th, 2018
Fauda - Netflix

Friday, May 25th, 2018
Picnic at Hanging Rock – Amazon
Trollhunters - Netflix

Sunday, May 27th, 2018
The Break with Michelle Wolf - Netflix
The Fourth Estate - Showtime

Monday, May 28th, 2018
Six – History

Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
100 Code – WGN
Queen Sugar – OWN
Animal Kingdom – TNT
Arrested Development - Netflix

Wednesday, May 30th, 2018
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Netflix
Reverie – NBC

Friday, June 1st, 2018
CB Strike – Cinemax

Saturday, June 2nd, 2018
FLCL – Adult Swim

Sunday, June 3rd, 2018
Pose – FX
Succession - HBO

Monday, June 4th, 2018
Dietland – AMC
The Fosters – Freeform

Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
Younger – TV Land
Teachers – TV Land
Humans – AMC

Wednesday, June 6th, 2018
Condor – AT&T/DirecTV

Thursday, June 7th, 2018
American Woman – Paramount
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger – Freeform