Law & Order: Special Victims Unit continues to shatter television records as it stretches into its 26th season on the air, but will the procedural return for season 27? Launched in 1999 as a spinoff of Dick Wolf's wildly successful Law & Order, SVU Follows the detectives of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, a unit that specializes in investigating sex-based crimes across the city. Managing to outlive the flagship Law & Order series (which was canceled in 2010 but has since been revived), SVU Continues to set the record as the longest-running live-action scripted series in television history. Anchoring the…
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Heartstopper has brought Alice Oseman's charming LGBTQ+ comic series to life as a three-season show on Netflix so far, but will the streamer renew it for season 4? Debuting in 2022, the show concerns teenagers Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Keith Connor) as their school friendship blossoms into a romance. Known for its twee atmosphere and multi-faceted storylines dealing with issues that really affect LGBTQ+ youth, Heartstopper Delivers a nice story without pulling too many punches. Season 3 was the most dramatic yet, and it set the stage for the series to grow even more going forward. Season 3 of…
The NBC Procedural found (2023) returned for its second season in late 2024, but will the Shanola Hampton-led thriller be renewed for season 3? Premiering during the strike-affected fall of 2023, the series follows Hampton's Gabi Mosely, a PR and crisis management expert who makes it her life's mission to recover missing people who have been ignored by law enforcement agencies. The reason why she has such a dogged determination to save missing people is because Gabi herself was the victim of kidnapping. On top of that, she harbors a dark secret of her own from her team of associates.…
Another Stephen King novel is being adapted for the small screen with the announcement of MGM+'s miniseries based on King's The institute. Released in 2019, the underrated horror book concerns a talented 12-year-old boy named Luke who is mysteriously kidnapped and finds himself in an institute surrounded by children just like him. It wouldn't be a King novel with a weird twist, and Luke's gifts extend far beyond the intellectual and include telekinesis. Stretching back to King's debut novel, CurryThe King of Horror has always had a penchant for stories about strange children. When it comes to adapted works, TV…
Director Denis Villeneuve's first two Don Movies adapt the first novel in the series, and Dunn: Three parts News confirms that he will adopt the second, Dunn: Christ. Although there are more than two dozen books that comprise the Don franchise, only the first six were written by original author Frank Herbert. The first two novels center on the character of Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet), also the crux of Villeneuve's story. The Don The story has been adapted in movie and miniseries forms in the past, but Villeneuve's approach turned the hippy sci-fi/fantasy series into a bona fide Hollywood blockbuster.…
Coming hot on the heels of the latest installment in the home invasion horror franchise, The Strangers: Chapter 2 Coming soon. Released May 2024, The Strangers: Chapter 1 is a pseudo-remake of the 2008 film and follows a couple who are traveling across the country but find themselves stranded in a rural town. Forced to find lodgings for the night, the unsuspecting couple become the victims of masked killers who stalk and torture them for seemingly no reason but the thrill. Like his predecessors, The strangers and 2018s The Strangers: Prey at night, The Strangers: Chapter 1 is an effective…
JRR Tolkien's classic epic fantasy series The Lord of the Rings is returning in a whole new slate of spinoff movies, the first of which is the newly announced The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. Beginning with the publication of The Hobbit In 1937, English author JRR Tolkien created the fictional realm of Middle-earth and populated it with some of the most beloved fantasy characters and adventures in literary history. Expanded over his trilogy, The Lord of the RingsThroughout the 1950s, Tolkien is very responsible for how fantasy stories are told. Naturally, the entire Middle-earth saga made…
God of war It's finally getting a live-action adaptation after almost two decades of being stuck in development hell, and even though it's in the early stages, there's plenty of news. The God of war Video game series began in 2005, and follows the titular god, Kratos, who was tricked into killing his family by Ares. Kratos attempts to take revenge, but he must first fight through hoods of Olympian gods. The series cleverly mixes Greek and Norse mythology, and the franchise and lore only get deeper and more epic in scope with each installment. Although concrete details are few…
Quick links The Madison: Further News & Information Taylor Sheridan's television empire has expanded with the announcement of The MadisonAn upcoming western series that is envisioned as a spinoff of Yellowstone. Often confused with the long-standing Yellowstone Sequel series which is still in the works, The Madison will follow the Clyburn family as they relocate to Montana after the death of their patriarch. Many details surrounding the show remain hazy, but A-lister Michelle Pfeiffer has been confirmed to lead the new series. The current state of the US Yellowstone Universe is remarkable, and even as the original series prepares to…
Aaron Korsh and NBCUniversal are working on a new Suits show, and details are starting to pour in about the currently titled spinoff suits la. The 2011-2019 drama Suits Focused on ultra-slick litigator Harvey Specter and his college dropout mentor with a photographic memory Mike Ross. Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams led the cast of the show. While it was successful in its day, Suits Started making waves again when it arrived on Netflix in 2023. Somehow The Aaron Korsh Show defied all expectations (even his) and became the most watched show in the platform's history, overtaking 2022's Wednesday…