"Top Gun" Paramount+ debut / Brandy reprises Cinderella role / International Emmys / Netflix's "Kaleidoscope" first look

Plus today's calendar, "Devil's Hour" renewed, Hulu's "Back in the Groove," Metallica concert on Paramount+, and more

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The action-drama sequel "Top Gun: Maverick," the year's top-grossing film, makes its Paramount+ debut on Thursday, December 22 in the US. The film also hits the platform that day in Canada, Australia, Germany, Austria, Italy, the UK, and throughout Latin America. More: "Top Gun: Maverick" brought in more than $1.4 billion at the international box office, ranking it among the highest-grossing movies of all time. Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish had vowed the film would arrive on Paramount+ before the end of the year. Most Paramount films come to Paramount+ 45 days after their theatrical debut; "Maverick" was delayed due to its massive success at the box office. The film will also air and stream on Epix beginning on December 22. DEADLINE

Brandy in 1997's "Cinderella" Singer and actress Brandy will reprise her role as Cinderella for the latest installment of Disney's "Descendants" franchise. The "Descendants" films are set in a world occupied by the teenage offspring of Disney's most iconic heroes and villains; the new film "The Pocket Watch" explores the mysterious, unincorporated territory of Wonderland. More: The new film is being produced specifically for Disney+. Rita Ora also joined the cast as the villainous Queen of Hearts. The film follows polar opposites Red (Kylie Cantrall) and Chloe (Malia Baker), who travel back in time via a magical pocket watch, created by the Mad Hatter's son. Melanie Paxson will reprise her role from previous "Descendants" films as the Fairy Godmother. Brandy previously portrayed Cinderella in Walt Disney Television's landmark 1997 take on the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, which also featured Whitney Houston, Whoopi Goldberg, Victor Garber, Bernadette Peters, and Jason Alexander. EW

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DAILY CALENDAR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES: True-crime drama series about the founding of the male strip revue Chippendales, based on the non-fiction book "Deadly Dance: The Chippendales Murders" by K. Scot Macdonald and Patrick MontesDeOca. Kumail Nanjiani stars as Chippendales founder Somen "Steve" Banerjee, who was ultimately accused of a variety of crimes, including attempted arson, racketeering, and murder for hire. Murray Bartlett, Annaleigh Ashford, Dan Stevens, and Juliette Lewis co-star; Robert Siegel ("Pam & Tommy") created. [Hulu] OUR UNIVERSE: Six-part nature and science docuseries blending animation with real wildlife footage to relate the complete history of the universe, with a focus on how 13.8 billion years of cosmic change and development led inextricably to the present moment. Morgan Freeman narrates. [Netflix] TREVOR NOAH: I WISH YOU WOULD: The comedian and retiring "Daily Show" host's third Netflix special follows 2017's "Afraid of the Dark" and 2018's "Son of Patricia," and features material about weird presidential voices, learning to speak German, horror movies, and eating Indian food in Scotland. [Netflix] LEGO: CITY ADVENTURES: The animated Nickelodeon series is loosely inspired by the LEGO City toy line, and set among civil servants like police officers, firefighters, and sanitation workers in a busy metropolis. Season 4 debuts today on Netflix. [Netflix] DANGEROUS BREED: CRIME. CONS. CATS. True-crime documentary profiling independent wrestler and Persian cat breeder Teddy Hart, from Canadian filmmaker Frederick Kroetsch. As Kroetsch was shooting footage for what he believed would be a reality TV series, Hart was accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women, before ultimately his protégé and ex-girlfriend Samantha Fiddler went missing. [Peacock] BLOOD RELATIVES: Actor Noah Segan wrote, directed, and stars in this horror-comedy about a vampire loner who embarks on a road trip with the estranged teenage daughter (Victoria Moroles) he just met for the first time. The film is Segan's directorial debut. [Shudder] ANIMAL KINGDOM: The TNT crime drama series is based on a 2010 Australian film of the same name, and stars Finn Cole as Joshua "J" Cody, who goes to live with his criminal relatives in Oceanside, California. Shawn Hatosy, Ben Robson, Jake Weary, and Leila George co-star. The sixth and final season aired on cable over the summer and hits Amazon Prime Video today. [Amazon] 911 CRISIS CENTER: Reality series from Oxygen set among the dispatchers at a 911 call center outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Season 2 comes to Peacock today. [Peacock]

Two UK series claimed the top prizes at the International Emmy Awards, which were handed out in a ceremony in New York on Monday. BBC One police procedural "Vigil" claimed the top prize in the Drama category, while Netflix's "Sex Education" claimed the top Comedy Series trophy. More: British shows claimed seven awards in all; France was the only other country with multiple wins, scoring two. Season 2 of Australia's "Love on the Spectrum" claimed the Best Non-Scripted Entertainment award while France's "Iraq's Lost Generation" was named the top Documentary. The ceremony was hosted by illusionist Penn Jillette. DEADLINE

Netflix shared a first look at the upcoming "non-linear" heist drama "Kaleidoscope." The experimental series debuts on New Year's Day. More: Each of the eight episodes making up the show's first season is named after a color, and will stream in random order for different Netflix subscribers. The episodes will make sense when viewed in any order, but the sequencing will nonetheless impact the viewer's expectations and experience. The story centers on an elaborate heist that takes 25 years to fully pull off; the cast includes Giancarlo Esposito, Paz Vega, Rufus Sewell, and Jai Courteney. Eric Garcia, who directed the 2010 film "Repo Men," serves as showrunner. THE PLAYLIST

Amazon confirmed that the UK thriller series "The Devil's Hour" will return for two additional seasons. Both stars Jessica Raine and Peter Capaldi will apparently return for the new episodes. More: A number of other featured players, including Nikesh Patel, Phil Dunster, Meera Syal, and Benjamin Chivers, will also be back for Season 2, which is scheduled to enter production early next year. The show's writer and creator, Tom Moran, refers to Season 1 as "the opening act of a TV novel"; he says he has always envisioned the show as a three-act story. He teased that, in Season 2, Gideon's (Capaldi) motivations will become more clear, as he attempts to involve Lucy (Raine) in his plans. Season 1 of "The Devil's Hour" is now streaming in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video in the US. RADIO TIMES

Hulu released a trailer for the debut reality dating series "Back in the Groove." The series follows three women in their 40s who rediscover their youthful spirit, and romance significantly younger men, while vacationing at "The Groove Hotel" in the Dominican Republic. More: The series seems to take inspiration from the Terry McMillan novel "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" and its 1998 film adaptation, but does not make the connection explicit. Taye Diggs, who appeared in the 1998 film, hosts the series. The eight-episode series marks the first-ever Hulu Original from the Walt Disney Television Alternative division. The first two "Back in the Groove" episodes hit Hulu on December 8. DEADLINE

Metallica's "Helping Hands" charity concert will stream live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Paramount+ starting on December 16. The show benefits the band's All Within My Hands foundation, which combats food insecurity and provides aid to natural disaster victims around the world. More: The concert features a new set by Metallica along with a performance from guest Greta Van Fleet. The concert will also be livestreamed on Pluto TV and YouTube, starting at 5:30 pm PT. The previous two "Helping Hands" concerts -- held in 2018 and 2020 -- collectively raised more than $3 million. VARIETY

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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 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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