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Stevie Nicks Has (Finally!) Entered The Chat 🔮
Get your remote thumbs ready — Fall premieres are upon us and they are HUGE! Aside from Apple TV+’s much anticipated film from Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Flowers of the Killer Moon, there are so many more autumn surprises 🍁 that the streamers are popping out of pumpkin spice cupcakes this week! Keep scrolling to stream this week’s trailer premieres and celebrity happy birthdays!
Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’: All The Deets
This isn’t a story about Usher the hip-hop/R&B artist, but the latest Mike Flanagan series that will premiere on Netflix on October 12. Flanagan is one of the most successful series creators on Netflix with the widely-watched horror series The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass. The Fall of the House of Usher is a contemporary retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s most memorable works. The all-star cast includes new faces and returning stars of Flanagan’s previous shows — Carla Gugino, Kate Siegel (Flanagan’s real-life wife and muse), Willa Fitzgerald, Mark Hamill, Henry Thomas, Annabeth Gish, and Mary McDonnell. Flanagan describes the new series as “colorful and dark blood-soaked and wicked and funny, and aggressive and scary and hilarious.”
Comedian Jo Koy Gets Not One, But Two Netflix Specials
You may know him as the only modern-day comedian who can sell out a professional sports stadium or maybe as Chelsea Handler’s ex-boyfriend, but Jo Koy is now the king of Netflix comedy as he lands TWO Netflix stand-up specials. The two future specials will be the comedian’s fifth and sixth special at the streamer. The first special will tape at the King’s Theatre in Brooklyn on November 10 and 11 and premiere on Netflix in 2024. His most recent special Jo Koy: Live at the Los Angeles Forum, premiered in September 2022 and is streaming on Netflix. Jo Koy will also voice one of the characters in the new animated feature The Monkey King premiering this month on Netflix.
Most Popular Streaming Series of the Month? Suits and Bluey!
It’s safe to say that Suits (streaming on Netflix and Peacock) and Bluey (Disney+) has saved streaming for July/August. According to Nielsen’s ratings, it looks like TV viewing on more traditional broadcast networks has hit an all-time low with just 38% of the pot, while streaming was up 2.9% for the last two months. So what were the big draws? Looks like Suits and Bluey had a combined viewership of 23 billion minutes in July. Both of these series are acquired by Netflix and Disney+, which is a big win for the streamers as they look to acquire more successful shows during the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes.
Warrior Nun Canceled At Netflix Will Return As Film Trilogy
The action/drama/fantasy series that lasted two seasons at Netflix (that seems like a good run for Netflix) has been canceled, but yet given new life as it will resurrect as a three-film trilogy. This is due to one of those die-hard fan campaigns that urged the streamer to bring back the series after it canceled it in December 2022. The storyline in season 2 already set up the possibility for either another season or film(s). The mystery behind the revamp of this series is where exactly these films will live. Showrunner Simon Barry said in a statement that the series is being revived, but didn’t mention if that was with Netflix or not or if the films would be a theatrical release. Warrior Nun is a supernatural series based on the graphic novel of the same name about a young woman who wakes up to find herself fighting demons in a secret organization.
5. Emmy’s Delayed Until January 2024 And What A Mess!
The 75th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards has been pushed from September 2023 to January 15, 2024 due to the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes. This new date makes for a crowded award shows month with The Golden Globes and The Critics Choice Awards. Other notable events that month in the entertainment world are The Palm Springs Film Awards Gala, BAFTA-Los Angeles Awards Season Tea Party, The AFI Awards, Sundance Film Festival, and the nominations announced for BAFTA, Oscars, Producers Guild and Screen Actors Guild. The issue is the timing of the voting. Final voting for the Emmys began this week and usually the awards air the next month, but now it will be five months out before the show. So while the Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes will be handing out statues for this year — Emmys will be handing out statues for the previous year. For instance, Meryl Streep will be eligible for Critics Choice and Globe awards for Only Murders in the Building: Season 3, but not for the Emmys. The Emmys will still be honoring Only Murders in the Building: Season 2.
Praise of the Week: Stevie Nicks For ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’
August 25 - The Flash: Movie premieres on MAX
August 30 - Prince Harry’s Heart of Invictus documentary premieres on Netflix
September 8 - Selling The O.C: Season 2 premieres on Netflix
September 14 - Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will honor late Director William Friedkin by airing three of his films — The French Connection, To Live and Die in LA and The Boys in the Band
September 15 - Fast X premieres on Peacock
September 20 - American Horror Story: Delicate Part One premieres on FX on Hulu
September 29 - The New York Times Presents: How To Fix A Pageant premieres on FX on Hulu
October 4 - Chucky: Season 3 premieres on SyFy/Peacock
October 4 - SurrealEstate: Season 2 premieres on Peacock
October 26 - American Horror Stories: Special Huluween Event premieres on Hulu
November 8 - The Buccaneers premieres on Apple TV+
November 14 - Murder at the End of the World premieres on Hulu
November 21 - Fargo: Season 5 premieres on FX on Hulu
December 20 - Percy Jackson and the Olympians series premieres on Disney+
FX FALL POSTERS REVEAL!!
Painting with John canceled at HBO after three seasons
Streaming News
Paramount has decided not to sell BET media group, informing its bidders early this week
YouTube adds monthly payment option for NFL Sunday Ticket + polls and real-time highlights. The streamer is offering a deal to pay $99.75 over four months ($399 total).
Roku adds Fast Channels from NBC Universal including Little House on the Prairie, Murder, She Wrote, Columbo, Kojak, and The Rockford Files.
Both Roku and Netflix are currently testing gaming titles that can be played on internet-connected TVs, PCs, and players. Phones can be used the controller.
‘Fellow Travelers’ by novelist Thomas Mallon
Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey star in this love story/political thriller that follows the romance of two very different men who meet in Washington D.C. during the McCarthy-era. Their courtship is told over four decades highlighting such notable events as the Vietnam War, the disco-era, and the AIDS-crisis during the 80s. The series premieres on October 27 on Paramount+ with Showtime.
‘The Other Black Girl” by novelist Zakiya Dalila Harris
This series follows an Nella, editorial assistant who is feeling the strains with being the only Black girl at her company. When Hazel is hired Nella sees it as a move forward in a positive direction, but as soon as Hazel quickly rises to the top of the company chain, Nella falls into a downward spiral and begins to find sinister going-ons happening within her workplace. The series premieres September 13 on Hulu.
‘The Buccaneers’ - an unfinished novel by Edith Wharton
A series adaptation of Edith Wharton’s final novel will premiere on November 8 on Apple TV+. The series will star Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and tells the story of American heiresses in 1870s London seeking husbands. Fans of HBO’s Gilded Age will love the lavish sets and costumes inspired by British’s upper-upper class.
First Look: ‘Monarch - Legacy of the Monsters’ starring Kurt Russell (Apple TV+)
Per official logline “Set after the battle between Godzilla and the Titans, revealing that monsters are real, follows one family's journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to Monarch.”
First Look: ‘The Couple Next Door’ starring Sam Heughan (STARZ)
Per official logline: “Evie and Pete move to an upscale neighborhood and find themselves twitching and anxious. They become friends with couple next door, Danny and his Becka. Danny shares a passionate night with Evie, his beautiful but troubled neighbor.”
First Look: ‘Reptile’ starring Benicio Del Toro, Alicia Silverstone, and Justin Timberlake (Netflix)
Per official logline “Nichols, a hardened New England detective unflinching in his pursuit of a case where nothing is as it seems, one that begins to dismantle the illusions in his own life.”
First Look: Fingernails starring Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley (Apple TV+)
Per official logline: “Anna (Buckley) increasingly suspects that her relationship with her longtime partner may not actually be the real thing. In an attempt to improve things, she secretly embarks on a new assignment working at a mysterious institute designed to incite and test the presence of romantic love in increasingly desperate couples.”
Maestro (Netflix)
More Trailers
The Changeling (Apple TV+)
Riverdale: Series Finale Trailer (The CW)
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (MAX)
Sneak Peeks!
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Netflix)
August 18 🥳
Kaitlin Olson, 48 - stream It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia on Hulu
Edward Norton, 54 - stream Primal Fear on Pluto TV
Robert Redford, 87 - stream The Natural on STARZ
Christian Slater, 54 - stream Fleischman is in Trouble on Hulu
Sarita Choudhury, 57 - stream And Just Like That on MAX
Madeline Stowe, 65 - stream The Last of the Mohicans on AMC+
Andy Samberg, 45 - stream Saturday Night Live on Peacock
Madelaine Petsch, 29 - stream Riverdale on Netflix
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 53 - stream Fool’s Gold on MAX
Denis Leary, 66 - stream Rescue Me on Hulu
Martin Mull, 80 - stream Clue on MGM+
Born on this Day: Shelley Winters (1920-2006)
Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in East St. Louis, Illinois to Austrian Jewish parents and had one sister, Blanche. While she was still very young, her family moved to Brooklyn, New York so the father could find stead work in the city’s garment district as a tailor’s cutter. Shelley loved acting early on and starred in many high school plays. By her mid-teens she was performing in vaudeville and nightclubs and modeling using the money she earned to pay for acting classes. She auditioned for the part of Scarlet O’Hara, but George Cukor, the auditioning director, advised her to get more acting lessons. In 1941, she made her Broadway debut in “The Night Before Christmas”, billed as Shelley Winter (without the “s”). She set her sights on Hollywood and had a bumpy ride with itty bitty roles, most of which ended up on the cutting room floor.
Her breakthrough was as the replacement in Oklahoma! on Broadway while at the same time starring in a small role in George Cukor’s A Double Life (1947). This elevated her career where she went to star as the second-leading lady in movies such as Cry of the City (1948) and The Great Gatsby (1949). However, she never could get that glammed-up leading lady reputation. Winters was typecast in vulgar, tawdry bottled blonde roles. That was until 1951’s A Place in the Sun. The film starred Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor and Winters played a desperate ,pregnant woman threatening to blackmail Clift’s character. This role earned Winters her first Oscar nomination. She went onto star mostly in “B” movies after that, but it was her role in 1955’s The Night of the Hunter that finally earned her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
She went on to play the role of trashy, alcoholic mothers in Lolita (1962) and Patch of Blue (1965), the latter earning her another Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She continued a career in film, television and on Broadway, keeping relevant in the press with three divorces and countless affairs. Later in life, she starred in fan favorites The Poseidon Adventure and even as Roseanne’s grandmother in the self-titled sitcom. She passed in a nursing home in Beverly Hills of heart failure.
Stream Shelley Winters:
The Poseidon Adventure (STARZ)
Lolita (Tubi)
The Night of the Hunter (MGM+)
A Place in the Sun (Pluto TV)
Born on this Day: Patrick Swayze (1952-2009)
Patrick Swayze was born in Houston, Texas to choreographer Patsy Swayse and Jesse Wayne Swayze, a chemical plant engineer. Patrick was a student at his mother’s dance school. He graduated high school in Houston and went onto college at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas. At 19, he met his wife, Lisa Niemi at his mother’s dance school when she was just 15. Swayze trained as a professional dancer at Joffrey Ballet School and landed his first job as Prince Charming in Disney on Parade. This earned him the role of Danny Zuko in Broadway’s production of Grease. His first film role was Skatetown USA (1979) and in 1981 starred as a soldier diagnosed with leukemia in M.A.S.H.
Swayze had a few supporting roles that didn’t quite move him forward in his career, however the lead role in the TV mini-series North & South: Book 1 (1985) got the attention of the casting director for his breakthrough role as dance instructor Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing (1987). This role earned him a Golden Globe nomination. He received a second nomination for Ghost (1990). The film would go on to be the highest grossing film of 1990 and at the time, the fourth highest grossing film of all time. In 1991 People Magazine named him the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. Most of the films that followed did not have the same box office success as Ghost. He returned to Broadway in 2003 in the role of Billy Flynn in “Chicago”. He 2008 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and passed in 2009 at the age of 57 at his ranch in Sylmar, California. Angelina Jolie is currently producing a Broadway production of the 1983 film and S.E. Hinton novel The Outsiders of which Patrick Swayze had starred.
Stream Patrick Swayze:
Dirty Dancing (Tubi)
Ghost (MAX)
Point Break (Freevee)
The Outsiders (MAX)
August 19 🥳
Erika Christensen, 40 - stream ‘Traffic’ on Prime Video
Kyra Sedgwick, 57 - stream The Closer on MAX
Matthew Perry, 53 - stream Friends on MAX
Peter Gallagher, 67 - stream American Beauty on Paramount+ with Showtime
Gerald McRaney, 67 - stream Focus on Cinemax
Adam Arkin, 66 - stream Justified on Hulu
Kevin Dillon, 66 - stream Entourage on MAX
John Stamos, 59 - stream Full House on Hulu
Jill St. John, 82 - stream The Player on MAX
August 20 🥳
Amy Adams, 48 - stream The Arrival on Pluto TV
Andrew Garfield, 39 - stream The Amazing Spider-man 2 on Disney+
Ke Huy Quan, 51 - stream Everything Everywhere All At Once on Paramount+ with Showtime
Ben Barnes, 41 - Stream Westworld on MAX
Joan Allen, 66 - stream Room on MAX
Director David O. Russell, 64 - stream American Hustle on Netflix
Demi Lovato, 30 - stream Camp Rock on Disney+