 Season 2 of the NBC sci-fi drama "La Brea" will consist of 14 total episodes, four more than the first season. TV Line reported that Season 2 will likely be split into two halves, giving the post-production team sufficient time to complete the show's extensive visual effects work. More: - "La Brea" concerns a group of people who fall into a sinkhole in present-day Los Angeles and emerge into a very different world, 12,000 years in the past.
- The first half of Season 2 will likely debut in the fall, with the second half arriving in 2023.
- Season 2 will continue to film in Victoria, Australia; production could resume as early as the spring.
- Season 1 of "La Brea" is streaming now on both Peacock and Hulu.
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 "Inventing Anna" was viewed for more hours in its first week than any other Netflix English-language original series, since the streamer modified how it reports viewership last summer. Between February 14 and 20, the Shonda Rhimes-produced limited series -- inspired by the true story of New York grifter Anna Sorokin (aka Anna Delvey) -- was watched for about 196 million hours worldwide. More: - Netflix introduced the "hours watched" metric in mid-2021, after initially reporting how many households watched at least the first two minutes of a given program.
- The rest of the top five includes seasons of "You," "The Witcher," "Sex Education," and "Cobra Kai."
- None of these shows even approach the overall record held by the Korean series "Squid Game," which scored about 517 million hours viewed in late September/early October 2021.
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DAILY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 FREE GUY: 2021 action comedy film from director Shawn Levy ("Night at the Museum"), starring Ryan Reynolds as an ordinary bank teller who discovers he's actually a non-playable character within a massive online video game, then makes great effort to avoid being deleted by the game's owners. Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Taika Waititi co-star. [HBO Max and Disney+] FREDERICK DOUGLASS: IN FIVE SPEECHES: Hour-long documentary special featuring actors Denzel Whitaker, Jonathan Majors, Nicole Beharie, Colman Domingo, and Jeffrey Wright performing excerpts from five speeches originally delivered by abolitionist and statesman Frederick Douglass. Historians David Blight and Henry Louis Gates Jr provide context on the readings, while André Holland narrates additional excerpts from Douglass' autobiographies. [HBO Max] ROBOT CHICKEN: The stop-motion animated comedy series from Adult Swim employs classic action figures and toys in various comedy sketches and parodies. The first half of the show's 11th season aired last year on TV and hits HBO Max today. [HBO Max] THE PROUD FAMILY: LOUDER AND PROUDER: Animated revival series, continuing the adventures of "The Proud Family," which originally aired on Disney Channel from 2001 to 2005. Kyla Pratt, Karen Malina White, Jo Marie Payton, Paula Jai Parker, Tommy Davidson, Soleil Moon Frye, and Alisa Reyes all reprise their original roles; newcomers include Tara Strong, Keke Palmer, Zachary Quinto, and Billy Porter. [Disney+] SECRETS OF THE ZOO: TAMPA: The Nat Geo Wild reality series -- set behind the scenes among the animal caretakers of ZooTampa -- returns to Disney+ with its third season. [Disney+] UFO: Romantic drama from Turkey about the relationship that forms between an aspiring musician (Ipek Filiz Yazici) from a wealthy family and an amateur motorcycle racer (Mert Ramazan Demir) who comes from nothing. [Netflix]
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 NBC renewed the crime drama series "The Blacklist" for a tenth season. Season 9 is currently airing on the network, and streaming on Hulu and Peacock. More: - Producer and star James Spader will return for Season 10, and discussed the show's renewal during an appearance this week on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon."
- Season 9 was the series' first without original female lead Megan Boone and creator Jon Bokenkamp.
- John Eisendrath, who took over as sole showrunner following Bokenkamp's departure, will return for the new episodes.
- According to NBC, "The Blacklist" is reaching around 22 million weekly viewers across both TV and streaming platforms this season.
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 "Upload" NEW TRAILERS THE PIRATES: THE LAST ROYAL TREASURE: Period fantasy-adventure film from South Korea, serving as a follow-up to the 2014 film "The Pirates," about a band of buccaneers searching for a lost, mythical treasure, in a race against supernatural rivals. Kang Ha-neul, Han Hyo-joo, Lee Kwang-soo, and Kwone Sang-woo co-star; the film hits Netflix in the US on March 2. [Netflix] THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES: Six-part documentary based on the artist's own writings, narrated by Warhol through the use of AI technology. (Actor Bill Irwin recorded the lines, which were then modified using an algorithm to more closely resemble the artist's voice.) Andrew Rossi ("Page One: Inside the New York Times") directs; Ryan Murphy produced. The series debuts on March 9. [Netflix] UPLOAD: The sci-fi comedy series -- starring Robbie Amell as Nathan, a guy who dies and has his conscience uploaded into a strictly capitalist virtual afterlife -- is back for a second season on March 11. The new episodes find Nathan's girlfriend Ingrid (Allega Edwards) uploading her brain as well, which complicates his relationship with his "angel," Nora (Andy Allo). "The Office" and "Space Force" vet Greg Daniels created the series. [Amazon] PHOENIX RISING: Two-part documentary in which Evan Rachel Wood discusses her relationship with Marilyn Manson (aka Brian Warner), with a focus on her abuse allegations against the controversial musician. The film also includes interviews with Wood's mother and brother, and footage of her attending a support group with other survivors and testifying in front of lawmakers about her experiences. Amy Berg ("Deliver Us From Evil") directed. The film, which had its premiere at this year's Sundance, hits HBO and HBO Max on March 15. [HBO Max] RESCUED BY RUBY: Biographical drama, based on a true story, starring Grant Gustin as a state trooper who must train a clever but undisciplined shelter pup to earn his spot on an elite K-9 unit. Katt Shea ("The Rage: Carrie 2") directs. The film arrives on March 17. [Netflix]
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 Netflix acquired the rights to Marc Olden's "Black Samurai" novels, and plans to turn the books into a film franchise. John Schoenfelder and Russell Ackerman ("Hold the Dark," "Séance") will produce the films. More: - No writer or director has yet signed on to the project.
- Olden wrote eight "Black Samurai" novels in the 1970s; the books center on Robert Sand, an American soldier serving in Japan who studies martial arts and becomes the first Black samurai.
- The novels previously inspired the 1977 blaxploitation film "Black Samurai," starring Jim Kelly as Sand.
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 Michael Chiklis CASTING UPDATES ACCUSED: Each episode of the upcoming Fox anthology crime drama centers a different defendant in a courtroom setting, and features flashbacks showing how that person came to be in their present legal situation. "The Shield" vet Michael Chiklis will star in the pilot; Michael Cuesta ("Dopesick") will direct. The show is based on a BBC series. [Fox] L.A. LAW: Juliana Harkavy ("Arrow") has been cast in a lead role in ABC's revival of the legal drama series. She'll co-star alongside Blair Underwood and Corbin Bernsen -- reprising their roles from the original series -- and fellow newcomers Hari Nef, Toks Olagundoye, Ian Duff, and John Harlan Kim. [ABC] I'M A VIRGO: The upcoming absurdist dark coming-of-age comedy series comes from "Sorry to Bother You" mastermind Boots Riley, and stars Jharrel Jerome as a 13-foot-tall teen from Oakland, California. Brett Gray, Kara Young, Allius Barnes, and Olivia Washington joined the cast, which also includes previously announced co-stars Mike Epps and Carmen Ejogo. [Amazon]
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 The US version of the reality dating series "Love Island" will move from CBS to Peacock. The streaming platform picked up two more seasons for the series, the first of which will begin production in California later this year. More: - The show finds a group of singles living together at a lavish villa; each week, contestants pair off into couples, and anyone left without a partner is eliminated.
- The US "Love Island" was inspired by a British format, which debuted on ITV in 2015.
- Peacock ordered 80 episodes of "Love Island" in total; multiple episodes will debut each week when the show returns.
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- "His Dark Materials" vet William McGregor will direct the vampire film "Smile" for Netflix and Matt Reeves' company, 6th & Idaho; the story centers on a teenager with just 24 hours to kill the vampire who bit her, before permanently transforming into a bloodsucker herself.
- Disney+ confirmed that some of the Marvel shows originally produced for Netflix -- such as "Daredevil" and "Jessica Jones" -- will come to the streaming platform next month in select countries; no US release dates have yet been announced.
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- Netflix introduced "Breakout," a program that will fund debut projects from up-and-coming British filmmakers, in partnership with Creative UK.
- A behind-the-scenes featurette shows how the crew used a robotic camera arm to shoot a 3-minute fight sequence for the new Netflix martial arts thriller "Fistful of Vengeance."
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 |  | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." |  | | Editor | Jonathan Harris is a writer for Inside.com. Previously, he wrote for The Huffington Post, TakePart.com, and the YouTube channel What’s Trending. | |
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