New DC Studios chiefs / YouTube ad revenue dip / "Guardians" holiday special / "Lilyhammer" exits Netflix

Plus today's calendar, "Never Let Me Go" series to Hulu, "Fleishman Is In Trouble" trailer, "The Watcher" views, and more

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Filmmaker James Gunn and producer Peter Safran have been hired to serve as co-chairs and co-CEOs of DC Studios, a newly-formed division at Warner Bros. DC Studios entirely replaces DC Films; Gunn and Safran will now oversee film, TV, and animation projects based on DC Comics properties. More: Former DC Films chief Walter Hamada exited the studio last week; for months, David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery leadership have searched for a top executive to lead the studio's collective DC Comics-centered projects. Gunn will focus on the creative side, while Safran will deal with business and production issues; both are expected to continue directing and producing films independently as well. The deal will run for four years and makes Gunn -- who has collaborated with Marvel Studios in the past -- exclusive to the studio. Some DC-related projects -- such as Todd Phillips' "Joker" sequel and, potentially, Matt Reeves' "The Batman" films -- will not go to Gunn and Safran's team, and will remain under the direct control of Warner Bros. executives. Gunn directed the 2021 DC Comics film adaptation "The Suicide Squad" and created its spinoff HBO Max series, "Peacemaker." HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

According to Alphabet's Q3 earnings report, YouTube advertising revenue dropped 2% year-over-year to $7.07 billion. This missed analysts' estimates of $7.42 billion, and marked the first quarter in which YouTube ad revenue shrank on a year-over-year basis since the company started reporting these results in 2019. More: Overall Alphabet revenue growth dropped sharply from 41% in 2021 to 6% this year. In a call with analysts, Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat blamed the dip on "pullbacks in advertiser spends." Both Snap and Microsoft have also both reported downturns in the online ad business during recent quarterly reports. CNBC

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DAILY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 STAR WARS: TALES OF THE JEDI: Animated anthology "Star Wars" series from "Clone Wars" vet Dave Filoni, following new adventures of Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) and Count Dooku (Corey Burton) during the "Prequel Trilogy" era. The cast also includes Janina Gavankar, Ian McDiarmid, Liam Neeson, Matt Lanter, and James Arnold Taylor. [Disney+] THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY: The family-friendly mystery adventure series, based on the children's books by Trenton Lee Stewart, returns on Wednesday for a second season. Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance are once again recruited by the eccentric Mr. Benedict (Tony Hale) to thwart a nefarious plan cooked up by his villainous brother, Dr. L.D. Curtain (also Tony Hale). Kristen Schaal, MaameYaa Boafo, Ryan Hurst, Gia Sandhu, Mystic Inscho, and Seth B. Carr co-star. [Disney+] SUMO DO, SUMO DON'T: Debut teen sports comedy-drama series from Japan, based on the 1992 film of the same name. Shoyuki Hayama stars as a college student who's forced to join the sumo club and compete in at least one match before he can graduate. [Disney+] BARBARIAN: 2022 horror film from writer/director Zach Cregger, formerly of the sketch comedy troupe Whitest Kids U Know. Georgina Campbell stars as a woman staying at a creepy Detroit rental home who makes several unsettling discoveries while exploring a secret basement. Bill Skårsgard and Justin Long co-star. [HBO Max] A TREE OF LIFE: THE PITTSBURGH SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING: Feature documentary from HBO looking back at the 2018 shooting at a Pennsylvania synagogue by a white supremacist that resulted in 11 deaths and six injuries, among the deadliest attacks on the American Jewish community in history. Trish Adlesic ("Gasland") directed; Pittsburgh natives Michael Keaton, Billy Porter, and Mark Cuban are among the executive producers. [HBO Max] THE GOOD NURSE: 2022 crime drama, based on the 2013 non-fiction book by Charles Graeber. Jessica Chastain stars as an overworked ICU nurse and single mother who strikes up a close friendship with a colleague (Eddie Redmayne), then begins to suspect he might be behind a string of mysterious patient deaths. Tobias Lindholm ("Another Round") directed. [Netflix] FUGITIVE: THE CURIOUS CASE OF CARLOS GHOSN: French-language documentary profiling the former automotive executive, who was hailed as the savior of Nissan and rose to celebrity status before being implicated in a string of financial crimes. Ghosn remains a wanted fugitive to this day. [Netflix] ROBBING MUSSOLINI (RAPINIAMO IL DUCE): In this historical crime caper from Italy, a ragtag group of resistance fighters at the end of WWII joins forces to steal a legendary treasure belonging to fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Renato De Maria ("The Ruthless") wrote and directed. [Netflix] HELLHOLE (OSTATNIA WIECZERZA): Polish horror film from "Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight" vet Bartosz M. Kowalski, about a police officer in 1987 who infiltrates a remote monastery and finds that the monks are hiding a dark and violent secret. [Netflix] SHERMAN'S SHOWCASE: The musical IFC sketch comedy series parodies classic variety shows, including "Soul Train," "Laugh-In," "American Bandstand," and "The Midnight Special." Bashir Salahuddin stars as host Sherman McDaniels, who invites viewers to explore the 40-year back catalog of his fictitious musical variety show, "Sherman's Showcase." Diallo Riddle co-created the series with Salahuddin and co-stars as his producer and announcer, Dutch Shepherd. Season 2 will air on both IFC and AMC, and streams on AMC+. [AMC+] FAMILY BY FORCE (PARIENTAS A LA FUERZA): Spanish-language telenovela that debuted last year on Telemundo. Guy Ecker stars as a burned-out Hollywood screenwriter who travels to Mexico and falls in love with a young singer (Bárbara de Regil). Season 1 hits Peacock today. [Peacock] CRUZANDO LÍMITES: Spanish-language medical drama from Telemundo about a psychiatrist who works with troubled teens while also hiding her own schizophrenia diagnosis. Season 2 hits Peacock today. [Peacock] 16 AND PREGNANT: The MTV reality series follows the daily lives of pregnant teenage girls, typically following subjects from their fourth to eighth month of pregnancy. The show aired for 5 seasons in the '10s; a revival season, which aired in 2021 on MTV, comes to Paramount+ today. [Paramount+]

Disney+ posted an official trailer for a new holiday special starring the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Guardians of the Galaxy. The special debuts on November 25. More: The "Guardians" films are written and directed by James Gunn, who just took over as co-CEO and creative lead for Warner Bros. Discovery's DC Studios. Chris Pratt, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, and Michael Rooker reprise their roles from the "Guardians" films in the special; actor Kevin Bacon also makes a guest appearance as himself. A third "Guardians" feature film is set for theatrical release on May 5, 2023. CNET

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According to IndieWire, the very first Netflix original series -- the crime comedy-drama "Lilyhammer" -- will leave the service in November. The show originally debuted on February 6, 2012, re-launching the DVD-by-mail rental service Netflix as a new streaming platform. More: Though "Lilyhammer" was billed at the time as a Netflix Original, it was actually a licensed show produced for Norwegian broadcast TV. Netflix licensed the show for a period of 10 years, which expires in November; the deal was not extended. "Sopranos" vet Steven van Zandt stars in the series as Frank Tagliano, a former mobster who enters the FBI's Witness Protection program and finds himself re-located to Norway. INDIEWIRE

Macdonald, Ullman, Prettejohn FX ordered a series based on the Kazuo Ishiguro sci-fi novel "Never Let Me Go," which will stream on Hulu. "The Nevers" vet Melissa Iqbal wrote the pilot for the adaptation and will serve as showrunner on the series. More: Viola Prettejohn, who collaborated with Iqbal on "The Nevers," has been tapped to star in the series. She'll play Thora, a teenager who discovers that her boarding school guards a dark secret about her and her classmates, and begins plotting an escape. Tracey Ullman and Kelly Macdonald signed on for supporting roles in the series. The book previously inspired a 2010 film starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, and Andrew Garfield. DEADLINE

Hulu dropped a trailer for the comedy-drama series "Fleishman Is In Trouble," based on the novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. The series -- which was developed for the FX Network -- arrives on November 17. More: Jesse Eisenberg and Clare Danes co-star as parents who are going through a bitter divorce, when one of them suddenly vanishes. Lizzy Caplan, Adam Brody, Christian Slater, Josh Radnor, and Juani Feliz co-star. TV LINE

QUICK HITS Get ahead of the holiday madness and gear up your influencer and affiliate strategy for success.* Ryan Murphy's true-crime thriller "The Watcher" remained the most-viewed series on Netflix for the second week in a row, with 148.2 million hours viewed; "The Watcher" replaced another Murphy series, "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story," atop Netflix's Top 10 in the US. The fourth and final season of Apple TV+'s horror series "Servant" -- from producer and sometime-director M. Night Shyamalan -- arrives on January 13, 2023. HBO Max's "The Batman" spinoff series set at Arkham Asylum will move forward with "The Staircase" vet Antonio Campos as director and showrunner; the series was originally centered on members of the Gotham Police Department before shifting focus. Peacock's baking competition series "Baking It" will return for a second season on December 12; Amy Poehler will now co-host alongside Maya Rudolph, replacing Season 1 regular Andy Samberg. Roku grabbed the rights to both seasons of the canceled TBS comedy series "Chad"; a full Season 2 of the coming-of-age series -- starring Nasim Pedrad as a teenage Iranian-American boy -- was produced but never actually aired on cable. Netflix dropped a teaser for "Lockwood & Co," a YA detective series about a girl with psychic powers who forms a ghost-hunting agency along with two friends; "Attack the Block" filmmaker Joe Cornish created the series and directs some episodes. HBO Max's planned series based on the DC Comics superhero "Green Lantern" will undergo creative redevelopment, and will now focus primarily on the character of John Stewart; writer/showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith has exited the project. "Grey's Anatomy" vet Jesse Williams joined the cast of Hulu's mystery-comedy "Only Murders in the Building" for its upcoming third season; he'll play a documentarian with a particular interest in the show's latest investigation, involving actor Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd) collapsing on stage. Antonia Thomas ("The Good Doctor") and Craig Roberts ("Red Oaks") will co-star in the Apple TV+ British comedy series "Still Up"; the series centers on a couple of insomniacs who bond over their shared inability to sleep, despite never meeting face-to-face. An upcoming episode of "The Simpsons" -- one of the show's "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween specials -- parodies the 2006 anime series "Death Note." *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 Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade.

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