The Total Screen's Weekly Newsletter 004 - May 21st, 2018

News

• ThunderCats will be returning to TV as ThunderCats Roar, a super-deformed, and more comic, iteration of the iconic 80s cartoon, which seems to be drawing inspiration from fellow Cartoon Network series Teen Titans Go.
  
• Amazon has made a straight to series order for The Hunt, a Nazi Hunters drama from Jordan Peele (Get Out).
• Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man) has brought a new documentary series about artificial intelligence to YouTube's paid subscription service, YouTube Red.
• Gillian Anderson (American Gods) is joining Asa Butterfield (Hugo) in Sex Education, a British Netflix dramedy.
• Showtime has ordered Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's (Good Will Hunting) Boston set drama series, City on a Hill.  The series will star Kevin Bacon (Tremors), Aldis Hodge (Leverage), and Jonathan Tucker (Westworld).
• Doctor Who Actors David Tennant and Catherine Tate are reuniting in Sky's Americons, which sees the 2 Brits moving to America.
• Hulu is jumping on board the Truce Crime bandwagon with, The Act, a scripted season anthology.
• British boy band idol Harry Styles will be producing the CBS comedy series Happy Together.
• Roseanne Co-Showrunner Whitney Cummings is leaving the series due to her increasingly busy schedule.
• Arrow Star Stephen Amell has announced that Batwoman will be joining the Arrow-verse for next season's 4 show cross-over event.
• Netflix has announced the cast of their upcoming She-Ra reboot, which includes Aimee Carrero (Level Up) as Adora/She-Ra, Jordan Fisher (Grease Live) as Seahawk, Marcus Scribner (Black-ish) as Bow, Lorraine Toussaint (Orange Is the New Black) as Shadow Weaver, Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) as Castaspella, and more, including Karen Fukuhara (Suicide Squad), AJ Michalka (The Goldbergs), Reshma Shetty (Royal Pains), and Keston John (The Good Place)
• Giancarlo Giannini (Casino Royale) has joined the impressive roster of George Clooney's Hulu series Catch-22.
• Wilson Bethel (Generation Kill) will be portraying Bullseye on the 3rd season of Marvel's Daredevil.
• Billie Lourd will be returning to American Horror Story for its upcoming 8th season.
• Connie Nielsen (Law & Order) has left her co-starring role in CBS' upcoming Dick Wolf (Law & Order) series FBI.
• Elisabeth Shue (The Karate Kid) will be portraying Madelyn Stillwell in Amazon's adaptation of Garth Ennis' (Preacher) comic book, The Boys.
• Cameos for season 2 of Marvel's Luke Cage include musicians Faith Evans, Joi & D-Nice, Gary Clark Jr., Esperanza Spalding, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Ghostface Killah, Stephen Marley, Jadakiss, KRS-One, and Rakim.
• Actress Portia de Rossi appeared on her Wife Ellen DeGeneres' talk show and announced her retirement from acting.  Rossi will appear in season 5 of Arrested Development later this month on Netflix.
• Amazon's exceedingly expensive Lord of the Rings series will reportedly focus on the early life of Aragorn, who was portrayed by Viggo Mortensen in the Peter Jackson films.
• Following its cancellation by ABC, Designated Survivor is reportedly being negotiated at Netflix for another season.
• Siren has been renewed for a second season at Freeform, and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel got its second season from Amazon.
• Falling Water and The Last Ship have been cancelled at USA and TBS respectively.

Trailers

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - Netflix

Trollhunters - Netflix

Ballers - HBO

 

ThunderCats Roar - Cartoon Network

FLCL Progressive - Adult Swim


Preacher - AMC

Animal Kingdom - TNT

 

12 Monkeys - SyFy

Nightflyers - SyFy

  Happy Together - CBS

Magnum PI - CBS

 

 FBI - CBS

  The Neighborhood - CBS

God Friended Me - CBS

  Murphy Brown - CBS

All American - The CW

 

Charmed - The CW

The Fix - ABC

 

A Million Little things -ABC

Grand Hotel - ABC

The Kids are Alright -ABC

Single Parents - ABC

Whisky Cavalier - ABC

Podcast

The Weekly Set Podcast Episode 156

Lost in Space Season 1 Episode 5

Legion Season 2 Episode 7

Westworld Season 2 Episode 4

Schedule

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

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
The Split - Sundance
Explained - Netflix

Thursday, May 24th, 2018
Fauda - Netflix

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

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
Dallas & Robo - YouTube Red 

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
Five Points - Facebook Watch 

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

Wednesday, June 6th, 2018
Condor – AT&T/DirecTV
Impulse - YouTube Red 

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

Friday, June 8th, 2018
Sense8 - Netflix

Sunday, June 10th, 2018
Claws – TNT

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
The Bold Type – Freeform

Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Marlon – NBC
Strange Angel - CBS All Access
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce - Bravo 

Friday, June 15th, 2018
Goliath - Amazon
12 Moneys - SyFy

Sunday, June 17th, 2018
The Affair – Showtime
Deep State – Epix
Shades of Blue – NBC

Tuesday, June 19th, 2018
Drunk History – Comedy Central
Love is ____ - OWN 

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018
Yellowstone – Paramount
Young & Hungry – Freeform

Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Queen of the South – USA
Shooter – USA
Detroiters - Comedy Central
Take Two - ABC