Hulu "Prey" trailer / "League of Their Own" first look / More Geeked Week updates / Apple grabs McQueen's "Blitz"

Plus today's calendar, Netflix grabs "Dumped," "Martin" reunion trailer, Visnjic joins "Valhalla," and more

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Hulu dropped a trailer for the upcoming "Predator" movie prequel, "Prey." The sci-fi action film concerns the arrival of a deadly alien hunter to the Comanche Nation in the year 1719. More: Amber Midthunder stars as Naru, a young warrior who must face off against a deadly adversary from space. "10 Cloverfield Lane" vet Dan Trachtenberg directs; Patrick Aison ("Jack Ryan") wrote the script. "Prey" is the fifth film in the main "Predator" film franchise, not counting the spin-off "Alien vs. Predator" adventures. The film premieres on August 5. COLLIDER

Amazon dropped a teaser for the upcoming drama series based on the 1992 Penny Marshall film "A League of Their Own." All eight Season 1 episodes hit Prime Video on August 12. More: Abbi Jacobson ("Broad City") co-created the series with "Mozart in the Jungle" vet Will Graham and also co-stars alongside Chanté Adams, D'Arcy Carden, and Melanie Field. Both the film and series are inspired by the real All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which operated from 1943 to 1954. Though the film only lightly touched on issues of LGBT discrimination and racism, the series will apparently delve deeper into these stories. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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DAILY CALENDAR TUESDAY, JUNE 7 THAT'S MY TIME WITH DAVID LETTERMAN: Comedy special recorded in May at Los Angeles' Fonda Theatre, as part of the Netflix is a Joke festival. The former late-night host welcomes a group of comedians to perform, then join him on stage for a post-set interview. Letterman's guests include Sam Morril, Naomi Ekperigin, Rosebud Baker, Brian Simpson, Robin Tran, and Phil Wang. [Netflix] AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR: The obstacle course competition series returned on Monday night to NBC for its 14th season; new episodes hit Hulu on Tuesdays. Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila co-host; Zuri Hall is the sideline reporter. [Hulu] THE ACCURSED: 2021 horror drama starring Yancy Butler as the matriarch of a family that's been under a dark curse for 20 years, who's forced to make some tough choices in order to keep her loved ones safe. Maiara Walsh, Izabela Vidovic, Melora Walters, and Goran Visnjic co-star. [Hulu] THE BARKING MURDERS: Three-part scripted drama series from the UK, relating the story of Essex serial rapist and murderer Stephen Port, who drugged and killed four gay men in London in 2014 and 2015. Stephen Merchant stars as Port; Sheridan Smith co-stars as Sarah Sak, the mother of victim Anthony Walgate, who publicly criticized the investigation by Metropolitan Police. [BritBox] ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO: Ths sci-fi drama series returned on Monday night for a fourth and final season on CW; new episodes hit the website and app on Tuesdays. The show is the second TV adaptation of the "Roswell High" novels by Melinda Metz, and centers on a biomedical researcher (Liz Ortecho) who returns to her hometown and discovers her teenage crush (Nathan Dean Parsons) is secretly an alien. [CW] IN THE DARK: Perry Mattfeld stars in the CW crime drama series as blind and self-destructive 20-something Murphy Mason; over the course of three seasons, she's gone from lazy receptionist to vigilante detective to drug kingpin. The fourth and final season opens with Murphy in prison, facing threats from all sides; new episodes hit streaming on Tuesdays. [CW] KILLER SIBLINGS: The Oxygen true-crime docuseries examines stories about homicidal pairs or groups of siblings throughout history. The first three seasons come to Peacock today. [Peacock]

"Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities" Day 1 of Netflix's Geeked Week fan event focused on TV updates, while the upcoming Day 2 will center on movie news. The streamer dropped an early look at the horror anthology series "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities" on Monday afternoon. More: "Cabinet of Curiosities" features contributions from a number of noted horror directors including Jennifer Kent ("The Babadook"), David Pryor ("The Empty Man"), Panos Cosmatos ("Mandy"), and Catherine Hardwicke ("Twilight"). The third and final season of the dark fantasy drama series "Locke & Key" arrives on August 10. The fourth and final season of "Manifest" -- which was abruptly canceled in 2021 by NBC and then saved at the zero hour by Netflix -- will be split into two 10-episode parts; the first half will premiere in the fall. The YA fantasy drama series "Fate: The Winx Saga" -- an adaptation of the animated "Winx Club" franchise -- returns for a second season this fall; the new episodes introduce Paulina Chávez as the earth fairy, Flora. IGN

Apple acquired the rights to "Blitz," the next feature from "12 Years a Slave" director Steve McQueen. The film followers the stories of several different Londoners during Germany's WWII Blitz bombing campaign. More: McQueen will write, direct and produce the film himself. "Blitz" will enter production later this year. The film will be produced by New Regency as part of McQueen's overall first-look deal with the studio. McQueen previously produced the anthology series "Small Axe" -- about West African immigrants living in London -- for Amazon, and also recently helmed three documentaries for Amazon and the BBC. DEADLINE

Flanders and Friedlander Netflix is developing the single-camera comedy series "Dumped." The project comes from writer Heather Flanders ("iCarly") and director Liz Friedlander ("The Rookie"). More: As Netflix traditionally doesn't produce pilots, the project is currently under consideration for a Season 1 pick-up, and has opened a writer's room. The concept originated as a spec script by Flanders; it's a serialized comedy-mystery series about a hopeless romantic who becomes an amateur detective after investigating a recent ex's many lies and deceptions. DEADLINE

Entertainment Weekly posted the first trailer for the BET+ "Martin" reunion special. The show will bring together stars Marin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, Richina Arnold, and Carl Anthony Payne II. More: The trailer opens with the ensemble playing tribute to their late castmate Tommy Ford, who died at age 52 in 2016. The 90-minute special features the actors reminiscing about making "Martin" on a recreation of the show's original living room set. Celebrity guests and musical performers include Snoop Dogg, Brian McKnight, Le'Andria Johnson, Reginald Ballard, Marla Gibbs, Tommy Davidson, Tracy Morgan, and Sean Lampkin; Affion Crockett hosts. The original "Martin" aired for five seasons on Fox from 1992 to 1997. "Martin: The Reunion" debuts on BET+ on June 16. EW

"ER" vet Goran Visnjic will join the cast of "Vikings: Valhalla" in its third season. Visnjic will play the legendary Viking explroer Erik the Red as part of a "multi-year arc" on the series. More: Erik the Red was the father of lead "Valhalla" characters Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett) and Freydis Eiríksdóttir (Frida Gustavsson). "Valhalla" is a follow-up to the original series "Vikings," which ran for six seasons from 2013-2020. The new show picks up the story in the 11th Century, the era of Norman King William the Conquerer and several of history's most famous Viking explorers. Season 1 of "Vikings: Valhalla" debuted earlier this year; no release date has yet been announced for Season 2. COLLIDER

QUICK HITS Everything you need to successfully create and launch an influencer campaign. Get the influencer program starter kit.* Sarah Silverman joined the cast of Netflix and Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein biopic "Maestro"; Deadline reports that she'll play the famed composer's sister. According to Deadline, Amazon will likely license the international film project "Role Play" for the US market; David Oyelowo and Kaley Cuoco co-star as a married couple who discover shocking, life-altering information about one another's pasts. Fox finally released a schedule for its Fall 2022-2023 broadcast season; "Monarch," the country music drama starring Susan Sarandon and Trace Adkins, will premiere on Sunday, September 11, following an NFL doubleheader. At the film's red carpet premiere, The Hollywood Reporter spoke with director Andrew Ahn, writer/star Joel Kim Booster, and the cast of Hulu's "Fire Island" about turning Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" into an inclusive queer romantic comedy that would resonate in the modern world. The dystopian sci-fi action series "Salvage Marines" -- featuring "Starship Troopers" vet Casper Van Dien -- will stream on Crackle Plus in the US. *This is sponsored content

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