 "Bosch" Amazon announced plans to rebrand the free IMDb TV streaming service as "Amazon Freevee," starting April 27. The service was originally launched in January 2019 as "Freedive." More: - IMDb TV tripled its base of monthly active users over the last two years, and has started producing its own original content.
- Freevee will continue expanding its slate of original shows and films by 70% this year: new series include the "Bosch" spin-off "Legacy," the home design series "Hollywood Houselift," the Australian crime drama "Troppo" and a scripted adaptation of the Tegan and Sara memoir "High School."
- Freevee launched in the UK last fall and will come to Germany later this year.
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 The BBC and Paramount+ jointly greenlit the crime drama series "The Gold," inspired by a real historical UK robbery. "Downton Abbey" vet Hugh Bonneville will star alongside Jack Lowden, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Spencer, Sean Harris, and others. More: - The series will chronicle the 1983 Brink's-Mat Robbery, in which thieves made away with around £26 million (close to £90 million in today's money) in gold bullion, diamonds, and cash from a warehouse near Heathrow Airport.
- Though the majority of the gold was never recovered, two men were ultimately convicted of the crime, which was also linked to a string of shooting deaths.
- "Guilt" vet Neil Forsyth will write the series, while "The Long Goodbye" helmer Aneil Karia and Lawrence Gough ("Misfits") will divide directing duties.
- The six-episode series will air on BBC One in the UK and stream on Paramount+ in the US.
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DAILY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 ICE AGE: SCRAT TALES: Collection of six all-new animated shorts starring Scrat, the accident-prone saber-toothed squirrel from the "Ice Age" films. The shorts find Scrat experiencing the ups and downs of fatherhood as he cares for the adorable but mischeivous Baby Scrat. [Disney+] OUR GREAT NATIONAL PARKS: Five-part nature documentary series shot in national parks all over the world, including Kenya's Tsavo National Park and Monterey Bay, California. President Barack Obama hosts; "Blue Planet II" vet James Honeyborne produced. [Netflix] ALMOST HAPPY (CASI FELIZ): Autobiographical Spanish-language comedy series from Argentinian comedian and radio host Sebastián Wainraich, inspired by his real professional and family life. Season 2 comes to Netflix today. [Netflix] TODAY WE FIX THE WORLD (HOY SE ARREGLA EL MUNDO): Leonardo Sbaraglia stars in this Spanish-language comedy-drama feature from Argentina as David, who discovers he's not actually related to the son (Benjamín Otero) he's been raising for 9 years. Together, the pair set off to find the boy's biological father. Ariel Winograd ("The Heist of the Century") directed. [Netflix] SMOTHER-IN-LAW (A SOGRA QUE TE PARIU): Comedy series from Brazil starring comedian Rodrigo Sant'anna as Dona Isadir, a meddling busybody who moves in with her son (Rafael Zulu) and his family during the pandemic. [Netflix] HIGH DESIGN: Debut reality series from HGTV in which interior designer Kim Myles travels the country providing makeovers and remodels for desperate cannabis dispensaries. The series will also find Myles exploring the range of new products containing cannabis, from soaps to lotions to sodas. [Discovery+] TO TELL THE TRUTH: ABC's revival of the classic game show -- in which a celebrity panel attempts to differentiate people speaking honestly about their lives, hobbies, and work from imposters -- returned on Tuesday night for an eighth season. Episodes hit Hulu on Wednesdays. Anthony Anderson hosts. [Hulu]
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According to a report from CNBC, so far, CNN+ has drawn about 10,000 daily viewers. The service launched on March 29. More: - CNN+ costs $5.99 per month or $59.99 for the year.
- The app only appeared on Roku at the start of this week, and has yet to launch on Android TV devices.
- CNN's cable network receives, on average, around 773,000 viewers per day.
- A CNN spokesperson told CNBC that the company is "happy with the launch and its progress after only two weeks"; the company has not revealed any official subscriber numbers.
- Axios reported on Wednesday that internal discussions about cutting investment and projections for CNN+ are already underway at the newly-formed parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.
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 Hulu dropped a trailer for the scripted crime drama series "Candy," which will stream as a five-night event starting on May 9. Jessica Biel stars as Texas housewife Candy Montgomery, who infamously murdered her neighbor and friend with an axe in 1980. More: - Melanie Lynskey co-stars in the series as Montgomery's victim, Betty Gore; the cast also includes Timothy Simons, Pablo Schreiber, and Raúl Esparza.
- "The Act" vet Robin Veith created the series and wrote the pilot; Nick Antosca, who also collaborated on "The Act," executive produced.
- HBO Max is also developing a series about the same incident, "Love and Death," starring Elizabeth Olsen as Montgomery.
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 The upcoming seventh season of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" will feature a cast of returning champions competing for the title "Queen of All Queens." The line-up includes Season 12 winner Jaida Essence Hall, Season 5 winner Jinkx Monsoon, All Stars 4 winners Monét X Change and Trinity the Tuck, and others. More: - The title "Queen of All Queens" also comes with a $200,000 cash prize.
- Competitors also include Raja from Season 3; Shea Coulée from All Stars Season 5, The Vivienne from "Drag Race UK," and Yvie Oddly from Season 11.
- Some of these Queens will be appearing on their third "Drag Race" season.
- The new episodes debut on Paramount+ on May 20.
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 Peacock posted a trailer for Season 2 of the musical comedy series "Girls5eva." The new episodes debut on May 5. More: - The series centers on a pop group from the early '00s that reforms in the present day, following an unexpected surge in popularity.
- Season 2 finds the group preparing to record a new album in just six weeks.
- The cast includes Sara Bareilles, Busy Philipps, Paula Pell, and Renée Elise Goldsberry; Meredith Scardino ("Kimmy Schmidt") created the series and serves as showrunner.
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 Powley, Schreiber, Cole Disney+ announced the cast of the National Geographic-produced historical drama series "A Small Light." The eight-episode series will star "Morning Show" vet Bel Powley as Miep Gies, the young secretary who helped Otto Frank (Liev Schreiber) hide his family from the Nazis during WWII. More: - Actor Joe Cole also joined the series; he'll play Gies' husband, Jan.
- Giep sheltered the Frank family for more than two years, and was vital in finding and keeping Anne Frank's diary for posterity.
- Gies died in 2010 at age 100.
- The series' title is based on a quote from Gies, who said: "I don’t like being called a hero because no one should ever think you have to be special to help others. Even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can turn on a small light in a dark room."
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 Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt joined the cast of the Peacock mystery drama series "Poker Face." The show comes from "Knives Out" filmmaker Rian Johnson -- who collaborated with Gordon-Levitt on the films "Brick" and "Looper" -- and his company, T-Street. More: - Natasha Lyonne stars in the series and also executive produces through her company, Animal Pictures; Maya Rudolph is also onboard as a producer.
- No plot details about the series have yet been announced.
- Gordon-Levitt currently stars as Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on Showtime's business drama "Super Pumped"; he also created and starred in the Apple TV+ comedy-drama "Mr. Corman."
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- Actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried -- who voiced the parrot Iago in Disney's "Aladdin" and was a mainstay of Comedy Central's celebrity roasts -- passed away on Tuesday at age 67 following a long illness.
- The world premiere of the Netflix documentary "Halftime" -- in which Jennifer Lopez reflects on her acting and recording career to date -- will open the Tribeca Film Festival on June 8.
- Starz posted a teaser for the second season of the strip club-set drama series "P-Valley," returning on June 3.
- BBC picked up the UK rights to the HBO Max crime drama series "Tokyo Vice."
- Netflix subscribers in Russia filed a class-action suit against the streamer, which cut off service to the country following the invasion of Ukraine.
- Robin Wright, Ray Winstone, Shohreh Aghdashloo and several others joined the cast of Netflix's fantasy film "Damsel," starring Millie Bobby Brown as a princess who discovers that her kingdom plans to sacrifice her to a fire-breathing dragon.
- AMC posted a teaser for the upcoming six-episode anthology horror series "Tales of the Walking Dead," which will stream on AMC+ this summer.
- Suggestive comments made by actor Frank Langella -- which may have occurred during a rehearsal -- on the set of Netflix's horror drama "The Fall of the House of Usher" are apparently under investigation, according to a report in TMZ; the actor is accused of making an inappropriate sexual joke while touching the leg of a female co-star.
- The action-fantasy film "The Princess" -- starring Joey King ("The Kissing Booth") as a young royal who must save her kingdom from a sociopathic suitor -- hits Hulu on July 1.
- "Narcos" vet Dana Calvo joined the upcoming ABC mystery drama series "Avalon" -- from superstar producer David E. Kelley and author Michael Connelly -- as executive producer and showrunner; the show centers on an LA Sheriff's Department detective operating a small office on Catalina Island.
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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 and editor who lives in Los Angeles. | |
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