Tudum 2022 trailers / "TNF" Week 3 views / Oprah and Apple end partnership / "Bridgerton" lawsuit dropped

Plus today's calendar, "The Last of Us" teaser, Billie Eilish concert stream, "True Detective" Season 4 casting, and more

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"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Behind the Craft" Netflix held its global fan event, Tudum, over the weekend, releasing new trailers, previews and announcements about dozens of upcoming shows and films. Collectively, Tudum-related trailers and clips received about 25 million views last year. More: New film trailers and clips include "The School for Good & Evil," "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," "Slumberland," "They Cloned Tyrone," "The Mother," and "Enola Holmes 2." Netflix also posted behind-the-scenes making-of clips for the films "Extraction 2," "Pinocchio," and "Heart of Stone." A viral clip from the Olympic basketball documentary "The Redeem Team" shows Kobe Bryant preparing to play against his Los Angeles Lakers teammate Pau Gasol. Tudum also featured promotion for new seasons of "Dead to Me," "Manifest," "Shadow and Bone," "Bridgerton," "Lupin," "Vikings: Valhalla," "The Umbrella Academy," and "Never Have I Ever," as well as a "Stranger Things" Season 4 blooper reel. Ryan Murphy's new series "The Watcher" -- starring Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale -- also got a first trailer. Netflix also held Tudum events for India, Korea, and Japan. VARIETY

Amazon Prime Video's "Thursday Night Football" streams drew an average of 11.03 million viewers in their second week. The Week 3 NFL game featured the Pittsburgh Steelers facing off against the Cleveland Browns. More: Thursday's game saw a 39% improvement over last year's Week 3 game, which aired and streamed on the NFL Network, and was viewed by around 7.96 million people. Nielsen's metrics includes Prime Video views along with local stations, viewers on Amazon's Twitch platform, and people watching in out-of-home locations like restaurants and bars. Prime Video told ad buyers to expect an average of around 12.5 million viewers on these games. DEADLINE

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DAILY CALENDAR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 CHEFS VS. WILD: Debut reality competition series in which two chefs are paired with a survival expert, helicoptered into a remote wilderness location, then challenged to forage enough wild ingredients to create a fine dining meal. Kiran Jethwa and Valerie Segrest host and serve as judges; David Chang produced in conjunction with Vox Media Studios. The first two episodes debut today. [Hulu] THE ROOKIE: The Fox cop drama stars Nathan Fillion as a relative newcomer rising through the ranks at of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). It returned to TV on Sunday night for a fifth season, with new episodes hitting Hulu on Mondays. Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones, Mekia Cox, Melissa O'Neil, and Eric Winter co-star. [Hulu] THE SIMPSONS: The iconic animated comedy series returned on Sunday night to Fox for its landmark 34th season. The new season features two "Treehouse of Horror" installments for the first time, along with guest voices Simu Liu, Melissa McCarthy, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Joe Mantegna, and others. [Hulu] BOB'S BURGERS: The Fox animated comedy series returned for a 13th season to TV on Sunday night; new episodes hit Hulu on Mondays. This is the first season of new episodes following the release of "The Bob's Burgers Movie" over the summer. [Hulu] FAMILY GUY: The animated comedy series returned to Fox on Sunday for its 21st season, with new episodes streaming on Hulu on Mondays. Season 21 will include the show's 400th episode, and features guest voices Mario Lopez, Gerald McRaney, Jay Pharoah, Martha Plimpton, Casey Wilson, and more. [Hulu] THE GREAT NORTH: The Fox animated sitcom from "Bob's Burgers" vets Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux is back for a third season; new episodes air on Sundays and hit Hulu on Mondays. Nick Offerman stars as Beef Tobin, a single dad raising four kids in the fictional town of Lone Moose, Alaska. [Hulu] CELEBRITY JEOPARDY!: Debut primetime ABC quiz show, spun off from "Jeopardy!" and featuring celebrity contestants competing on behalf of their favorite charities. Contestants include Simu Liu, Constance Wu, Iliza Shlesinger, Ray Romano, and Patton Oswalt; Mayim Bialik hosts. [Hulu] CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE: The celebrity version of "Wheel of Fortune" is back on ABC for a third season; contestants this year include Amanda Seales, Snoop Dogg, Tiki Barber, Jim Jefferies, Kristen Schaal, and Ron Funches. Pat Sajak and Vanna White co-host. [Hulu] A CHIARA: The third film in Italian writer/director Jonas Carpignano's Calabrian trilogy, following 2015's "Mediterranea" and 2017's "A Ciambra." The story centers around 15-year-old Chiara Guerrasio (Swamy Rotolo), who begins investigating her family's ties to organized crime following a mysterious explosion in her neighborhood. [Hulu] A TRIP TO INFINITY: Documentary film featuring mathematicians, particle physicists, cosmologists, and other experts discussing the concept of "infinity" paired with imagery created by animators from 10 different countries. [Netflix] MY LITTLE PONY: MAKE YOUR MARK: Animated kids series, following up on the 2021 film "My Little Pony: A New Generation" and set in an Equestria community made up of pegasi, unicorns, and magical Earth ponies. A second collection of episodes, dubbed "Chapter Two," comes to Netflix today. [Netflix]

Oprah Winfrey and Apple plan to wind down their multi-year content partnership. The most recent collaboration between Winfrey and the streamer is the Sidney Poitier documentary profile "Sidney." More: Sources told Deadline that Winfrey and Apple plan to keep working together on a project-by-project basis. Winfrey original productions for Apple include "The Oprah Conversations," the mental health special "The Me You Can't See," and the "Oprah's Book Club" series for Apple Books. Apple had also planned a two-part documentary feature about Winfrey; it's unclear if that project remains in development. DEADLINE

Netflix abandoned its lawsuit against the creators of the unofficial "Bridgerton" musical, according to a report from Insider. The streamer had filed the suit against Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear in July, after the duo performed the show at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. More: Netflix had originally shared the project in early 2021, when it started life as a TikTok viral video. The project went on to win a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album in April. According to the lawsuit, Netflix had offered to negotiate a license fee for the Kennedy Center performance with Barlow and Bear, but the duo refused. Tickets for the DC performance cost up to $149; Barlow and Bear allegedly also sold merchandise bearing "Bridgerton" trademarks. No reason was provided for Netflix's decision to exit the suit. BUSINESS INSIDER

HBO released a teaser for its TV series adaptation of "The Last of Us" video games. The series debuts sometime in early 2023. More: Pedro Pascal and Bela Ramsay co-star in the series as Joel and Ellie, two survivors in a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with once-human monsters known as The Infected. The trailer was released in honor of "Last of Us Day," celebrated by fans each year on September 26; in the games, this is when the civilization-destroying infection reached critical mass. "Chernobyl" vet Craig Mazin co-wrote and produced the series along with the games' original creative director, Neil Druckmann. KOTAKU

Billie Eilish will stream a show from her recent "Happier Than Ever" world tour on Apple Music. The performance -- recorded over the summer at London's O2 Arena -- will make its Apple Music debut on Friday, September 30, at 7 pm PT. More: Eilish performed five nights at the O2 video during the show's European leg. This week, Eilish will close out the tour at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia. The singer-songwriter also sat down for an interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, which will debut on September 29. BILLBOARD

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