Despite their awards season success, critical acclaim and fan devotion, “Ted Lasso” may be following through with their initial game plan to limit the show to just three seasons.
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Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Riverdale” will end with Season 7 at The CW, the broadcaster has announced.The news was part of The CW’s 2022 fall schedule release, which stated that the popular series will debut its seventh and final season at midseason in 2023.The show was renewed for Season 7 back in March among a slew of other CW shows like “The Flash,” “All American,” “Kung Fu,” and “Walker.” It is now the latest long-running CW shows to come to an end, with the network having recently canceled “Legends of Tomorrow” after seven seasons, “Dynasty” after five seasons, and “Legacies” after four seasons.CLICK HERE to follow Variety’s coverage of Upfronts 2022“Riverdale” proved to be a major hit for The CW upon its debut. The show debuted to solid ratings by the network’s standards, but exploded in popularity once it became available on Netflix.
“Riverdale” has aired over 100 episodes to date. Based on the characters from the Archie Comics, “Riverdale” was developed for television by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
The show offered a heightened take on the Archie Comics world, with its characters dealing with things like murder, drugs, sex, and much more in the town of Riverdale.The cast includes KJ Apa as Archie, Lili Reinhart as Betty, Camila Mendes as Veronica, Cole Sprouse as Jughead, Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl, Mädchen Amick as Alice, Charles Melton as Reggie, and Vanessa Morgan as Toni. Luke Perry starred in the series as Archie’s father until his death in 2019.Aguirre-Sacasa executive produces along with Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions as well as Jon Goldwater, publisher and CEO of Archie Comics.
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.Despite their awards season success, critical acclaim and fan devotion, “Ted Lasso” may be following through with their initial game plan to limit the show to just three seasons.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has renewed “Is It Cake?” for Season 2.The show is a cooking competition in which master bakers work to create hyper-realistic cakes that look exactly like everyday objects. The cakes are then presented before a panel of celebrity judges along with an array of actual objects to see if the judges can tell which of them is in fact cake. If the bakers are able to successfully fool the judges, they win a cash prize.Mikey Day hosts the series and is expected to return for Season 2.
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The Good Fight is coming to an end.
“The Good Fight,” a spinoff of “The Good Wife,” will conclude with its upcoming sixth season, Paramount+ announced Friday.“We’ve LOVED fighting ‘The Good Fight’ these last six seasons. To be able to tell stories about an upside-down world in real time has been a gift.
The upcoming sixth season of The Good Fight will be the last for the acclaimed series, which helped launch Paramount+ predecessor CBS All Access as its first original series. Production is currently underway in New York City on Season 6, which will premiere Sept. 8. This wraps a 13-season run for Robert and Michelle King, creators and executive producers of The Good Wife, which aired on CBS for seven seasons, and co-creators/executive producers of spinoff The Good Fight.
Cynthia Littleton Business EditorThe upcoming season of “The Good Fight” will be its last. Showrunners Robert and Michelle King will bring a 13-year journey with Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart to a close when Season 6 premieres Sept. 8 on Paramount+.For the Kings, the decision to call it a wrap with a final 10-episode season is a matter of not wanting to “overstay your welcome,” as Robert King told Variety.
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Joe Otterson TV ReporterCBS has pulled the Season 4 finale of “FBI” in light of the shooting at a Texas elementary school that saw over a dozen children murdered on Tuesday.The episode has been pulled due to the fact that the storyline concerned a school shooting. The official synopsis reads: “As the team investigates a deadly robbery that garnered a cache of automatic weapons for the killers, they discover one of the perps is a classmate of Jubal’s son, who is reluctant to cooperate with the case.”A repeat of “FBI” will air in the finale’s place. A new airdate for the finale has yet to be determined.Tuesday’s shooting took place at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX.
The final countdown! After five years on The CW, Riverdale is nearing its conclusion with a seventh and final season.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterMatt Shakman has come onboard the live-action Godzilla series at Apple from Legendary Television, Variety has learned exclusively.The show was ordered at Apple back in January. Shakman will direct the first two episodes and serve as an executive producer on the series. The untitled series continues the story of the Legendary Monsterverse established in films like “Kong: Skull Island” and 2014’s “Godzilla.”Shakman most recently directed all of the Disney+ Marvel series “WandaVision” in addition to executive producing.
. The CW announced on Thursday that their «iconic» teen drama will be taking its final bow after an upcoming seventh and final season, wrapping up a spellbinding run that's seen the beloved Archie Comics characters face off against dangerous cults, obsessive families, the Gargoyle King and much, much more.
“Riverdale” is coming to an end.The long-running CW series will debut its seventh and final season at midseason in spring 2023, the network announced Thursday.“Riverdale” was given the green light for Season 7 in March along with several other popular series that were handed early renewals, including “All American,” “The Flash,” “Kung Fu,” “Nancy Drew,” “Superman & Lois” and “Walker.”
Very sad news for Riverdale fans. The beloved The CW show is coming to an end.