Top TV News of the Week: 'Outlander' Final Season, 'Bad Sisters' New Trailer, 'Beef' Season 2 Casting, 'East of Eden', 'Carrie' Get New Adaptations, 'Oregon Trail' Comedy In The Works

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Oct 26, 2024

This week’s news has me traveling back in time to third-grade computer class when the monitors were cigarette-stained yellow, and the screen would only flash neon green pixels.

Rainy days playing Oregon Trail were the greatest days in elementary school (heads-up-7-up a close second), fight me if you disagree. Keep scrolling for this news plus a wagon full of new trailers and some exciting series renewals. Dysentery not included.

‘God of War’ Series Taps Outlander’s Ronald D. Moore as Showrunner + ‘Outlander’ Preview Clip

Producer Ronald D. Moore of Outlander and Battlestar Galactica fame has stepped in as showrunner to the new live-action God of War series at Prime Video. Based on the popular PlayStation game, the show was on hold after Rafe Judkins (the original showrunner) and his executive producers departed the series after the studio decided to go in a different creative direction. God of War is described as a character-driven franchise with rich story-telling that will take viewers into expansive and immersive worlds.

Oh and sidenote…here’s a preview clip from the first of the upcoming final episodes of Outlander airing November 22.

Shogun Co-Creator Justin Marks Inks New Deal at FX

Justin Marks, co-creator of the Emmy-winning series Shogun, has inked a deal with FX Productions to develop new projects for the network. Marks is currently creating new seasons of Shogun with his writing partner and wife, Rachel Kondo, in partnership with Shogun author James Clavell’s estate. Marks previous projects include the screenplays for the live-action The Jungle Book (2016) and Top Gun: Maverick.

Netflix’s Releases First Look at Queer Eye’s New Cast Member

Jeremiah Brent (bottom center) joins The Fab Five for Season 9 of Netflix’s ‘Queer Eye’

The Fab Five got a slight makeover for the upcoming season of Queer Eye. Netflix revealed the updated marketing for Season 9 to include new Queer Eye cast member, Jeremiah Brent. You might know Brent by way of his famous Oprah-approved interior designer husband, Nate Berkus with whom he shares two children. Brent will replace Bobby Berk who departed the series in November 2023.

Lifetime Christmas Movie To Feature Sex Scene

Last Christmas, Lifetime made headlines when it streamed a new holiday movie that featured an intense makeout scene. This spicy new addition to those sweet Christmas movies had a lot of fans saying they wanted more. Ask and you shall receive. Santa is bringing a new Christmas movie to Lifetime that will feature a sex scene. A Carpenter Christmas Romance “follows novelist Andrea, who heads to her family’s farmhouse to finish her latest book. While there, she rekindles things with her “ex-crush, Seth, an artisanal woodworker who’s helping rebuild the town after it was nearly destroyed by a fire.” The movie will air on Lifetime on December 21.

Oregon Trail Movie Gets Greenlit At Apple

Your elementary school computer class dreams are finally coming true. Oregon Trail, a live-action comedy movie is in the works at Apple Original Films. The game created in 1971 and quickly developed a cult-like following as one of the first educational games allowed in schools, loosely mimics 19th-century pioneer times, following a covered wagon heading west. The dark storylines filled with broken arms, typhoid and dysentery. There are so many people involved in this project including The Lucas Brothers, who received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay of Judas and the Black Messiah, Caroline Rollins who will produce on behalf of HarperCollins who currently has the rights to the game, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will produce and provide the original music (they are both hold the coveted EGOT title and won an Emmy for Only Murders in the Building)

Yuh-Jung Youn (Pachinko) to star in Beef: Season 2 at Netflix) alongside Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan
Law & Order: Organized Crime adds Olivia Thirlby
Martin Short Joins John Hamm in the animated series Grimsburg: Season 2 at Fox
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Keanu Reeves among voices cast in Prime Video’s upcoming animated series set in world of video games
Tatiana Maslany joins cast of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy for Season 2 at Paramount+
Elsbeth on Paramount+ cast guest stars Eric McCormack and Laurie Metcalf

Virgin River renewed for Season 7 at Netflix
Matlock renewed for Season 2 at CBS/Paramount+
The Legend of Vox renewed for Season 4 at Prime Video
Patrick Star Show renewed for Seasons 4 and 5 at Nickelodeon
Good Omens to end with one final episode on Prime Video

November 25 - Family Guy Christmas Special Premieres on Hulu
January 7, 2025 - Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action documentary premieres on Netflix
January 22, 2025 - Prime Target limited series Premieres on Apple TV+
March 4, 2025 - Daredevil: Born Again premieres on Disney+

John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” will be adapted into a limited series for Netflix starring Florence Pugh, Zoe Kazan, Martha Plimpton, and Tracy Letts.
Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) is adapting Stephen King’s “Carrie” for Prime Video