‘One Piece’ Producers Say Scripts for a Season 2 Are ‘Ready,’ Episodes Could Air 12-18 Months After Strikes End

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Gordon Ramsay’s high-anxiety restaurant rescue series “Kitchen Nightmares” returns to Fox Monday after 10 years off the air. In that time, a lot has changed — not only in the restaurant industry, but also the broadcast TV food landscape, where Fox dominates with more culinary competitions than the other Big 4 networks. With foodie culture stronger than ever amid the popularity of “The Bear” and the surge of cooking videos splattered across TikTok, Ramsay decided now was the time to expand upon those first seven seasons of kitchen chaos.

Jamie Lee Curtis has once again shared that she would like to star in Netflix‘s live-action One Piece adaptation as Dr. Kureha.Curtis took to Instagram this past weekend to share fan art of herself as Dr. Kureha, pitching herself for the role in the second season of Netflix’s hit series.

With wildly popular manga “One Piece” now a hit series for Netflix, fans have been sharing their ideas about dream casting for future seasons.

It looks like Jamie Lee Curtis has settled on one of her first projects after the SAG-AFTRA strike wraps up, and it’s going to make fans very happy.

Jamie Lee Curtis has officially declared her intent to lobby Netflix for a role in the second season of live action Netflix adaptation of One Piece. And showrunner Matt Owens is all for it.

Michaela Zee Jamie Lee Curtis is ready to be a part of the Straw Hat Pirates’ story. The Oscar-winning actor shared in an Instagram post her desire to play Dr. Kureha in Netflix’s “One Piece,” writing in the caption, “Once the strike against the greed of the [AMPTP] is settled with a fair contract, I will lobby along with the growing fan frenzy to become Doctor Kureha.” “One Piece” co-showrunner Matt Owens voiced his support for Curtis joining the live-action cast as the 141-year-old doctor.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “The Recruit” producer P3 Media has scored a seven-figure investment from Ready Entertainment, a company led by Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter, Bernice A. King, and Ashley Bell.

Netflix has picked up a second season of One Piece, the live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s best-selling manga.

One Piece, the live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s ongoing best-selling manga, just wrapped its second week at No. 1 in Netflix’s Top 10 with another dominating performance internationally. And, in what is becoming a right of passage for every series that hits it big with young adults these days (like Netflix’s Wednesday), One Piece sparked a TikTok craze with tributes to its demented villain Buggy.

Though the fate of Netflix’s “One Piece” remains unknown despite its successful Aug. 31 launch, producers reveal that scripts for a potential season 2 are complete, therefore ready for production, shall they receive the green light.

One Piece is an instant hit on Netflix, so naturally, fans are already curious about whether a second season is on the horizon. And based on what producers are saying, it sounds like it’s on the way!

We’re seeing and hearing from the cast in Netflix’s buzzy live-action series One Piece, based on Eiichiro Oda’s best-selling manga series in history.

Netflix’s One Piece brings the anime phenomena into the live-action realm.Developed by showrunners Matt Owens and Steven Maeda (Helix, Pan Am), the series is based on the ongoing manga by Eiichiro Oda which was adapted into an anime from 1999.The Netflix series stars Iñaki Godoy as the lead character Monkey D. Luffy, who sets off from his village with an assembled crew on a journey to find the titular treasure to become king of the pirates.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Paramount+ saw its first price increase this year with the launch of Paramount+ With Showtime, and Paramount CEO Bob Bakish says it won’t be the streamer’s last. The goal is to hike the cost of Paramount+ With Showtime once again at some point in the next two years. “Our plan is to raise price again, this isn’t our only price increase.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Amid an ongoing strike, the Writers Guild of America East begins voting today on its new council members, including the successor for longtime president Michael Winship. With the strike environment generating solidarity across the WGAE and its WGA West counterpart, it would seem that the election would be a straightforward affair with WGAE members on the same page about what they want from their guild.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Warner Bros. Discovery expects the ongoing Hollywood strikes to have a $300 million-$500 million negative impact on the company’s 2023 earnings.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of “One Piece,” now streaming on Netflix. Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s bestselling manga “One Piece” launched Friday, giving fans their long-awaited chance to compare the eight-episode first season to its print and anime versions. The manga takes place in a fantastical world where pirates and marines battle for control over the Blue Sea.

“One Piece” debuted Aug. 31, bringing fans of Oda’s manga into the world of Luffy’s (Iñaki Godoy) exotic pirate adventures in an unprecedented way. As Luffy and his fellow Straw Hat nomads set sail in search of the One Piece treasure, the real-life cast brings Oda’s tales to life in a brighter, newly-imagined manner, all guided by the artists himself.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “How I Met Your Father” has been canceled after two seasons at Hulu, Variety has confirmed. The Hilary Duff-led “How I Met Your Mother” spinoff concluded its second (and now final) season July 11 without revealing who Duff’s character, Sophie, ended up having a child with.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of “One Piece,” now streaming on Netflix. “One Piece” lodged two cannonballs at its viewers in its first season, one coming halfway through the pirate manga TV adaptation, and the other at the very end. First up was both a big reveal and a deviation from “One Piece” creator Eiichiro Oda’s original story: aspiring pirate king Monkey D.