By Dustin Rowles | TV | March 26, 2024 |
By Dustin Rowles | TV | March 26, 2024 |
Yesterday, HBO announced that the third season of Euphoria will be delayed and that the cast has been told that they can pursue other projects in the meantime because Sam Levinson apparently has not gotten his shit together and finished the scripts. Reportedly, the next season will involve a time jump, which means that the risque elements of the series will be only half as risque because it will involve college kids instead of high school kids.
The third season won’t arrive until 2025, although there is some question about whether it will ever arrive at all. The Idol was such a shitshow that Levinson’s career is in danger, and much of the Euphoria cast — Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi — have successful film careers now. They may not be eager to return to a series that could do for their careers what The Idol did for the career of Lily-Rose Depp. So, we’ll see.
Apple TV+ has renewed The Last Thing He Told Me, the Jennifer Garner/Angourie Rice mystery series based on the Laura David novel (that novel is also getting a sequel). I thought the series itself was decidedly mediocre, but it apparently performed well enough to merit a second season.
After the ratings uptick this year for The Golden Globes — it was up 50 percent over last year despite Jo Koy’s monologue bombing — CBS has decided to hang on to the ceremony, which — again — is owned by Penske Media. They have signed a five-year deal to keep the Globes on CBS, where it will also be simulcast on Paramount+. I’m sure that Penske Media — which owns the entertainment news industry — can keep the ratings up, even if no one ultimately likes or cares about the ceremony.
Related: I’ve decided to make Penske Media my new arch-nemesis. I hate that one company has so much power in this industry, and so few people even realize it. Talk about an unfair monopoly.
Fans of E.R. and medical dramas, in general, will appreciate this: John Wells, who created E.R., has joined forces with its star, Noah Wyle, for The Pitt, a medical drama. Wyle will serve as showrunner for the show, which received a 15-episode straight-to-series order. It is described as “a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh.” That sounds like my kind of show.
Finally, if you haven’t watched Bad Sisters yet, it’s one of the best series that Apple TV+ has put out so far. They’ve completed shooting the second season. I’m excited about it, although they will have a hard time finding a villain as despicable as Claes Bang. Hopefully, we’ll see that before the end of 2024.