‘Halo’ Renewed For Season 2 By Paramount+

Yara Shahidi will be back as Zoey Johnson for another season of Grown-ish – and her on-screen brother is joining her!

Grown-ish will return to Freeform for Season 5 with a familiar face and two new showrunners at the helm.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“Black-ish” may be ending, but the series’ creative universe continues: Freeform has ordered a fifth season of spinoff “Grown-ish.” And as “Black-ish” concludes, another one of that long-running series’ cast members is now set to segue over to “Grown-ish”: Marcrus Scribner has officially been added to the show’s cast.Scribner will reprise his role as Andre Johnson Jr., and as the network explains, “he embarks on his own journey to being ‘grown.'” In moving to “Grown-ish,” Scribner joins his TV sister, Yara Shahidi (who plays Zoey), on the show.Also, as part of the Season 5 pickup, playwright/producer Zakiyyah Alexander (“Russian Doll,” “La Brea”) and “Black-ish” executive producer/showrunner Courtney Lilly will take over as co-showrunners. Season 4 showrunner Julie Bean and executive producer Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry are departing the show.

Tiffany Haddish-fronted murder mystery comedy The Afterparty will be back for a second case.

Selome Hailu The mystery continues.Apple TV Plus announced that “The Afterparty” has been renewed for a second season. Tiffany Haddish is confirmed to return in the role of Detective Danner.The series, which hails from Chris Miller and Phil Lord, is a comedic murder mystery where each episode is told in a different genre and from a different character’s perspective. For example, Episode 1 is styled like a romantic comedy, as it follows the narrative of escape room designer Aniq (Sam Richardson), whose primary goal is to reconnect to his high school crush Zoë (Zoë Chao).

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFox’s “Next Level Chef” is ready for, well, its next level. The Gordon Ramsay-fronted cooking competition has been renewed for a second season. Rob Wade, Fox Entertainment’s president, alternative entertainment and specials, announced the pickup on Wednesday.Fox Alternative Entertainment and Studio Ramsay are behind “Next Level Chef,” which takes place on a three-story stage with different kinds of kitchens on each floor.

Gordon Ramsay and gang are running the culinary gauntlet again.

Starz has renewed its critically acclaimed crime drama series Hightown for a third season.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Hightown” has been renewed for a third season at Starz.The crime drama starring Monica Raymund aired its 10-episode second season between October and December of last year. In the second season of “Hightown,” the picture-perfect version of summer on Cape Cod clashes with its off-season reality.

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian comedy Son of a Critch is returning for a second season.

HBO Max and CBC have ordered a second season of the critically praised comedy series Sort Of. An official selection of the 2021 Toronto Film Festival, Sort Of debuted on HBO Max in November 2021, a month after its Canadian premiere on CBC Gem.

Camille, Tye, Quinn and Angie will reunite for another go-round. Tracy Oliver’s comedy Harlem, has been renewed for a second season on Prime Video. The series hails from Amazon Studios, Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions and Universal TV, where Poehler is under a deal.

There’s a lot of Teen Mom news today!

FX’s award-winning series Fargo from creator Noah Hawley is coming back for a fifth season.

EXCLUSIVE: Teen Mom: Family Reunion will return for more drama at MTV, which has renewed the spinoff series for Season 2.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe business anthology series “Super Pumped” has been renewed for Season 2 at Showtime.The news was announced as part of the ViacomCBS investor day presentation. Each season of the show will focus on a different major story from the world of business.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Yellowstone” prequel “1883” has been renewed for Season 2 at Paramount Plus, and the ViacomCBS-owned streaming service has ordered another Taylor Sheridan-created origin-story show following the Dutton Family called “1932.” Yes, you guessed it — the show will follow a new generation of Duttons “during the time of western expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression.”“1883″ stars Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Billy Bob Thornton, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett, Marc Rissmann, Audie Rick, Eric Nelsen and James Landry Hébert.The show follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of western expansion and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.

Hulu has renewed How I Met Your Father for a second season!!!

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“How I Met Your Father” has been renewed for Season 2 at Hulu, Variety has learned.The first season of the standalone sequel series to “How I Met Your Mother” debuted on Hulu on Jan. 18 with the first two episodes, with new episodes dropping weekly. The first season will consist of 10 episodes, while Season 2 will consist of 20.Like the original series, “How I Met Your Mother” sees a woman in the year 2050 telling her son the story of how she met his father.

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Pickett, the Michael Dorman-fronted drama series, is returning for season two.