"The Boys" renewed / "Stranger Things 4" Vol. 2 teaser / Apple orders "Sugar" / Eichner and Martin talk Chappelle

Plus the weekend calendar, "Schmigadoon!" returning, Spencer signs Discovery+ deal, Thurman in "Old Guard 2," and more

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Amazon renewed the satirical superhero comedy-drama series "The Boys" for a fourth season. The recent Season 3 premiere increased viewership over the first Season 2 episode by 17%. More: Star Karl Urban had recently teased more "Boys" during the SXSW festival, telling Variety that he was returning to shoot additional episodes; the news has now been officially confirmed. "The Boys" already has an animated anthology companion series -- "The Boys Presents: Diabolical" -- and another spin-off set at a college for young superheroes is on the way. "The Boys" is based on a comic book by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson; "Supernatural" vet Erick Kripke created the series and serves as showrunner. VARIETY

Netflix dropped a new teaser for the final episodes of "Stranger Things" Season 4. The first seven Season 4 episodes are streaming on Netflix now; the final two installments, both of which sport movie-length running times, arrive on July 1. More: "Stranger Things" Season 4 is more than twice the length of any previous season; the scripts reportedly ran around 800 pages. The first collection of Season 4 episodes set a new Netflix viewership record for any English-language series; 286 million hours of Season 4 was viewed during its first weekend online. Season 4 stars Winona Ryder, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, David Harbour, Caleb McLaughlin, Joe Keery, Charlie Heaton, and Natalia Dyer; Robert Englund joined the cast this year. INDIEWIRE

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WEEKEND CALENDAR FRIDAY, JUNE 10 FOR ALL MANKIND: The sci-fi drama series takes place in a world where the Soviet Union lands a team on the Moon prior to the United States, kicking off an extended alternate-reality space race. Season 3, debuting today, jumps ahead to the 1990s, with various nations and private interests setting their collective sights on Mars. Joel Kinnaman, Shantel VanSanten, Wrenn Schmidt, Jodi Balfour, and Sonya Walger co-star; Edi Gathegi joins the cast this year. [Apple TV+] LOVELY LITTLE FARM: Debut family series from "Teletubbies" collaborators Maddy Darrall, Billy Macqueen, and Catherine Williams about sisters Jill and Jacky (Levi Howden and Kassidi Roberts), who live on a farm and care for a variety of animals, some of whom can speak. Jill, Jacky, and the farm are shot in live-action but most of their animal friends were created using computer animation. [Apple TV+] PEAKY BLINDERS: The sixth and final season of the UK crime drama series -- tracking the clashes between gangs in Birmingham, England, throughout the '10s, '20s and '30s -- comes to Netflix in the US today. Season 6 opens in 1933, with the Nazi Party gaining power in Germany, and the British Union of Fascists growing more prominent in England. Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Ned Dennehy, and Benjamin Zephaniah co-star. [Netflix] FIRST KILL: First-year teen horror-drama series, based on a short story by bestselling author Victoria "V.E." Schwab. Sarah Catherine Hook and Imani Lewis co-star as a novice vampire and a teen monster slayer, respectively, who fall in love despite their respective families' ancient rivalry. [Netflix] DIRTY DADDY: THE BOB SAGET TRIBUTE: Special honoring the late comedian Bob Saget, recorded at LA's The Comedy Store, and featuring tributes and memories from a number of his notable collaborators and friends. Participants include John Stamos, Jeff Ross, Mike Binder, Jim Carrey, John Mayer, Jackson Brown, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Dave Coulier, Jimmy Kimmel, and many others. [Netflix] TREES OF PEACE: Period drama film, set in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide, about four women from different faiths and backgrounds who form a tight bond while hiding together in a basement from the authorities. Alanna Brown ("Blindspotting") wrote and directed. [Netflix] CHICKENHARE AND THE HAMSTER OF DARKNESS: Animated comedy-adventure film, based on the graphic novel "Chickenhare" by Chris Grine. The story centers on a brave half-chicken half-hare prince who overcomes the mockery of his peers on his path to becoming a great hero. [Netflix] INTIMACY (INTIMIDAD): Political thriller series from Spain, starring Itziar Ituño ("Money Heist") as a promising politician whose career is interrupted when a sex tape in which she appears is leaked to the press. The fallout from the incident eventually upends the lives of a number of other women and probes questions about the nature of privacy in the modern world. [Netflix] THE CARD COUNTER: 2021 drama from writer/director Paul Schrader ("First Reformed"). Oscar Isaac stars as a former military interrogator turned professional gambler who's attempting to outrun his dark past when he's approached by an angry young man (Tye Sheridan) with a plan for shared revenge. Tiffany Haddish and Willem Dafoe co-star; Martin Scorsese produced. [HBO Max] NAOMI: CW superhero drama series, based on characters from DC Comics, starring Kaci Walfall as Naomi McDuffie, an Oregon teenager who discovers her own unique superpowers while investigating a UFO sighting. Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship created the series, which was canceled after its first season. [HBO Max] ODO: Animated series for young kids about a little owl with big ideas who lives at The Forest Camp for Young Birds. The third batch of episodes debuts in HBO Max's Cartoonito hub on Friday. [HBO Max] FAIRFAX: Coming-of-age animated comedy series centering on four middle school friends who are immersed in Los Angeles streetwear culture. Skyler Gisondo, Kiersey Clemons, Peter S. Kim, and Jaboukie Young-White co-star; Season 2 guest voices include Guy Fieri, Billy Porter, Zoey Deutch, Camila Mendes, Yvette Nicole Brown, Annie Murphy, Ben Schwartz, and others. [Amazon] NO TIME TO DIE: Daniel Craig's fifth and final James Bond adventure opens with a retired 007 helping the CIA track down a kidnapped scientist, putting him at odds with both the villainous organization SPECTRE and revenge-obsessed terrorist Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek). Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, and Christoph Waltz co-star. [Amazon] HOLLYWOOD HOUSELIFT WITH JEFF LEWIS: New reality series in which interior designer and house flipper Jeff Lewis and his team help various celebrities transform their living spaces. Season 1 guests include Anthony Anderson, Fortune Feimster, Lamorne Morris, Melissa Rivers, and Mira Sorvino. [FreeVee] 90 DAY FIANCE: LOVE IN PARADISE: In this reality series from TLC, a spin-off of the "90 Day" franchise, couples from around the world meet and fall in love during tropical vacations, then see if the romance can last after they return to their everyday lives. Season 2, which introduces LGBTQ couples to the franchise for the first time, arrives on Friday. [Discovery+] BEYOND INFINITY: BUZZ AND THE JOURNEY TO LIGHTYEAR: Promotional special profiling the "Toy Story" character Buzz Lightyear ahead of the theatrical debut of his spinoff film, "Lightyear." The special features insights from Pixar animators and writers, who discuss the evolution of the character from children's toy to human astronaut. [Disney+] SATURDAY, JUNE 11 AMY SCHUMER'S PARENTAL ADVISORY: Comedy special, recorded during the Netflix is a Joke festival in Los Angeles, in which comedian Schumer brings a number of her favorite comics up to the stage. Performers include Ron Funches, Jaye McBride, Christina Pazsitzky, Rachel Feinstein, Chris Distefano, and Lil Rel Howery. [Netflix] HERE BEFORE: Stacey Gregg ("The Baby") wrote and directed this 2022 thriller from the UK. When a family with a young daughter moves in next door to Laura (Andrea Riseborough), at first, it stirs up sad memories of her own little girl, who died years before; soon, she begins to suspect something, possibly even something supernatural, is wrong with her new neighbors. [Hulu] WARHUNT: Direct-to-VOD 2022 action horror film, set in 1945 during WWII, about a group of US Army soldiers who encounter a terrifying supernatural force while on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines in Germany's Black Forest. Mickey Rourke, Jackson Rathbone, Robert Knepper, and Anna Paliga co-star. [Hulu] SUNDAY, JUNE 12 THE 75th ANNUAL TONY AWARDS: This year's Tony Awards will air and stream live coast-to-coast from New York's Radio City Music Hall on both CBS and Paramount+ for the first time. The ceremony honors Broadway productions that opened between Fall 2021 and April 28. The awards begin on CBS and Paramount+ at 8 pm ET; an hour-long pre-show will stream exclusively on Paramount+ starting at 7 pm. Ariana DeBose hosts. [Paramount+] EVIL: The supernatural procedural drama returns to Paramount+ this weekend for a third season. Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, and Aasif Mandvi star as a team of investigators who look into reports of miracles, demonic possession, and other paranormal phenomena on behalf of The Vatican. Kurt Fuller, Christine Lahti, and Andrea Martin co-star; "The Good Fight" vets Michelle and Robert King co-created and showrun the series. [Paramount+] DARK WINDS: Debut psychological thriller series, based on the "Leaphorn & Chee" novels by author Tony Hillerman, and created by "Jack Ryan" and "Lost" vet Graham Roland. Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon co-star as Navajo police officers investigating a double murder case in the '70s Southwest. Noah Emmerich, Jessica Matten, and Rainn Wilson co-star. [AMC+] BECOMING ELIZABETH: Four-part biographical drama series starring Alicia von Rittberg as a young Queen Elizabeth I, following her life in the English court prior to taking the throne in November of 1558. Romola Garai, Jessica Raine, Tom Cullen, and Bella Ramsey co-star; playwright and "EastEnders" vet Anya Reiss created the series. [Starz] SILOS BAKING COMPETITION: Hour-long reality competition special from Magnolia Network in which home bakers descend on Waco, Texas, and prepare their specialty desserts for a shot at a $25,000 grand prize and a spot on the menu at Chip and Joanna Gaines' Silos Baking Co. The Gaines judge the competition themselves. [Discovery+] 2022 LOS ANGELES PRIDE PARADE: Hulu will livestream this year's New York and Los Angeles Pride Parades for the first time ever. The LA edition will feature hosts Ellen Leyva, Karl Schmid, Christiane Cordero, and Eric Resendiz, along with a number of surprise celebrity guests. The stream starts at 11 am PT on Sunday. [Hulu] MY FAKE BOYFRIEND: 2022 gay rom-com from Canada, starring Keiynan Lonsdale as a recently single guy who invents a fake social media boyfriend to keep his ex at bay, but then finds the fictional relationship hard to end when he meets a new guy he likes. Dylan Sprouse, Sarah Hyland, Bukola Ayoka, and Tricia Black co-star. [Amazon]

Apple TV+ ordered a first season for the genre-bending series "Sugar." Colin Farrell will star in and executive produce the series, which comes from creator Mark Protosevich ("I Am Legend"). More: "City of God" filmmaker Fernando Meirelles is onboard to direct episodes and executive produce the series. "Dark Phoenix" vet Simon Kinberg will also produce through his company, Genre Films, which previously collaborated with Apple on the sci-fi series "Invasion." No specific plot details have been released, but Deadline reports that the show is a contemporary detective story set in Los Angeles. DEADLINE

Comedians Billy Eichner and Mae Martin mock Netflix's support of Dave Chappelle during the Netflix comedy special "Stand Out: An LGBTQ Celebration." The special was recorded during the Netflix is a Joke comedy festival in Los Angeles in May; it debuted on the streaming platform this week. More: Eichner hosted the event, which is said to be the largest-ever gathering of LGBTQ+ comics in a single special. Following a joke about dehumanizing and erasing the rights of trans people, Eichner added "And I'm not even talking about Florida. I'm talking about Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special." Martin joked about their comedy somehow changing the minds of comedians who have joked about trans rights, including Chappelle, Louis CK, and Ricky Gervais; their fantasy ends with the comics cradling one another and kissing. Chappelle had his own headline event during the Netflix is a Joke festival, during which he was physically attacked on stage; afterward, he joked "it was a trans man." Other comedians featured in "Stand Out: An LGBTQ Celebration" include Judy Gold, Joel Kim Booster, James Adomian, Guy Branum, Gina Yashere, Bob the Drag Queen, Trixie Mattel, Scott Thompson, and Todd Glass. VARIETY

Apple renewed the musical comedy series "Schmigadoon!" for a second season. While the first season parodied musicals from the 1940s, Season 2 will jump ahead in time to the '60s and '70s, and thus will be retitled "Schmicago!" More: Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong will reprise their lead roles as Josh and Melissa from Season 1; other returning actors include Ariana DeBose, Dove Cameron, Jaime Camil, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Ann Harada, Jane Krakowski, Martin Short, and Aaron Tveit. Tituss Burgess and Patrick Page will both join the ensemble for the new episodes. Season 1 concerned Josh and Melissa working through their relationship issues while trapped in an alternate "Broadway musical"-inspired reality; the season ended with the couple presumably finding a way out of "Schmigadoon" and back to the real world of New York City. TV LINE

Octavia Spencer and her production company, Orit Entertainment, signed an overall deal to develop and produce true-crime content for ID and Discovery+. Work is already underway on two projects, including the docuseries "Highway 20." More: "Highway 20" examines a string of disappearances of women and girls along Oregon's US Highway 20 between the 1970s and the 1990s, and considers if it could have been the work of a serial killer. The series is based on the work of journalists Noelle Crombie, Dave Killen, and Beth Nakamura of The Oregonian. VARIETY

QUICK HITS If you’re looking for a little guidance on how to rev up your influencer marketing programs, Impact’s got you covered with the ultimate influencer program starter kit.* Uma Thurman and Henry Golding joined the cast of the Netflix action-fantasy sequel "The Old Guard 2"; Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Veronica Ngo, and Chiwetel Ejiofor will all reprise their roles from the first film. Netflix's animated fantasy series "The Dragon Prince" returns for a long-awaited fourth season -- subtitled "Mystery of Aaravos" -- later this year. According to Neilsen's latest streaming chart, Hulu's limited series "Candy" was viewed for 577 million minutes during its debut week; that's the streamer's strongest debut since the Season 4 premiere of "The Handmaid's Tale" in May 2021. Sam Worthington ("Under the Banner of Heaven") joined the cast of the upcoming F. Gary Gray thriller "Lift"; Kevin Hart stars as a thief attempting to pull off an impossible heist on a 777 as it flies from London to Zurich. The four-part docuseries "Menudo: Forever Young" -- chronicling the rise and fall of the iconic Latin American boy band -- premieres on HBO Max on June 23. At Summer Game Fest, Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann showed the first image of Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in character as Joel and Ellie from HBO's "The Last of Us" series; Druckmann directed the episode from which the image was taken. "Arrow" vet Beth Schwartz will join Steve Yockey as co-showrunner of HBO Max's "Dead Boys Detectives" series; the show is based on the DC Comics characters created by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, and centers on the ghosts of two British teens who solve mysteries along with their still-living friend. Netflix settled a copyright lawsuit over the series "Umbrella Academy" -- and in particular a villain character with a fish tank for a head -- with comic book artist Kevin Atkinson; the terms of the agreement were not revealed. In a series of emails sent to Variety, "The Staircase" subject Michael Peterson called the new HBO series about his life and trial a "betrayal" and complained that docuseries filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade "pimped... out" his family to scripted series creator Antonio Campos. "Doctor Who" vet Pearl Mackie and Jess Chanliau ("Brave New World") signed on to the ensemble cast of "The Diplomat," a new Netflix political thriller starring Keri Russell. 64% of companies used this channel to generate nearly half of their revenue—and it’s not paid ads or content.* *This is sponsored content

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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