The Wednesday edition
Just one RoL this week. I had a good reason for it yesterday, but now it's escaping me completely and I can't be bothered to pretend otherwise at this point. That does mean this is a bit of an overstuffed issue once again, but you'll just have to deal with that, now wontchya.
☝️ But first...
- Big news out of FX with The Bear premiere date of June 25, Alien: Earth on August 12, and Sterlin Harjo's (Reservation Dogs) new show starring Ethan Hawke, The Lowdown, coming September 23.
- A review of our Release of the Week GOLLIWAG over at Pitchfork, where it got an 8.7!
- A Napoleon Dynamite sequel is officially in the works.
- James Gray's next film, Paper Tigers, begins production soon with Scarlett Johannson, Adam Driver, and Miles Teller.
- A24 pairs up Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White in a new crime movie, Enemies, set to begin production in Chicago shortly.
- And Austin Butler is going to star in City on Fire, the next film from Matt Ross.
- The Diplomat announced season three will be coming in the fall with an early season four renewal.
- Fallout also got an early renewal for season three ahead of it's season two debut.
- Suits LA was quickly canceled.
- And CNN renewed Have I Got News For You for a third season.
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📹 Video of the week
First full length trailer is here. I'm super nervous about this one. On the one hand, James Gunn has been absolutely killing it at everything ever. On the other, he seems swamped with all the DC stuff and early tests weren't superb...
📖 Story of the week
📰 The Paper: Peacock's "The Office" Spinoff Set for September 2025
The Paper stars Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, About Time), Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus), and features the return of Oscar Nuñez (The Proposal), who will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez
This has a lot of potential for Peacock—the most since debuting Poker Face a few years ago. The Office was pretty big when it was airing, but achieved cult status through Netflix and is still constantly in reruns on Comedy Central. It eventually made it's way to Peacock from Netflix and I doubt many people signed up for Peacock because of it, but now that they have a spinoff, that could very well change things if they nail it. Peacock always felt like a streamer that should've gone all in on 30 min comedies like those from Tina Fey and Mike Schur and this will be the first real test of that premise. And having it be about a small town newspaper is gold.
Below the Fold we dive into Netflix's slate, ESPN and CNN's streamers, a film score festival, unions, and a bunch more film castings.
