Paramount+ drops shows / Netflix-GM Super Bowl ad / "Terminal List" renewed / Aduba joins "The Residence"

Plus today's calendar, "The Family Stallone," Netflix AI controversy, "Frasier" sequel moves to Boston, and more

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"The Twilight Zone" Paramount+ pulled multiple titles from its platform this week, including Jordan Peele's rebooted "The Twilight Zone" and all three seasons of "The Real World: Homecoming." Other projects that no longer appear in the service's library include "Coyote," "No Activity," "Guilty Party," and "The Harper House." More: Paramount Global announced plans this week to fully merge Paramount+ with the Showtime cable network and streaming service. Showtime also dropped a few original shows this week, including "American Gigolo," "Let the Right One In," and the completed but never-aired drama series "Three Women." "The Real World: Homecoming" reunited casts from classic seasons of the long-running reality show; it has not been formally canceled. VARIETY

Netflix and General Motors teamed for a Super Bowl LVII ad featuring actor Will Ferrell. The spot will promote the automaker's electric vehicles, and highlight upcoming Netflix productions in which they're featured. More: 2023 episodes of Netflix's "Love is Blind," "Queer Eye," and "Unstable" will feature the Chevrolet Bolt EUV, GMC Hummer EV, and Cadillac Lyriq, respectively. The ad inserts Ferrell into various popular Netflix shows and films, including "Squid Game" and "Bridgerton." Ferrell previously appeared in a 2021 Super Bowl ad from General Motors, in which he traveled to Norway to spark a rivalry with the US over EV usage. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed. Super Bowl LVII airs Sunday, February 12 on Fox. DEADLINE

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DAILY CALENDAR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 FREERIDGE: Debut YA supernatural comedy series, spun off from the coming-of-age drama "On My Block," and set in the same fictional LA neighborhood. The action centers on four friends who must work together to reverse a dark curse that has brought them misfortune. "On My Block" creators Lauren Iungerich, Eddie Gonzalez, and Jeremy Haft are all on board the new series; Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Bryana Salaz, and Ciara Riley Wilson co-star. [Netflix] MAKE MY DAY: Original anime series from celebrated manga author Yasuo Ohtagaki and designer Shoji Kawamori, set on a frozen ice planet on which prisoners are forced to work in valuable ore mines. The story centers on a young prison guard who discovers the existence of mysterious creatures living underground. [Netflix] MURDER IN BIG HORN: Original three-part docuseries examining a number of unsolved cases in which young Indigenous girls and women from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Nations disappeared from Montana's Big Horn County and the surrounding areas. The series features eyewitness accounts from local law enforcement, journalists, and members of the victims' families. The series screened at this year's Sundance Film Festival. New episodes stream on Thursdays and air Sundays on Showtime. [Showtime] LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER: 2022 documentary examining the story of the local activists and students in Lowndes Country, Alabama, who helped to organize and coordinate the historic 1956 protest march from Selma to Montgomery, a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. [Peacock] PGA TOUR: Peacock will livestream Golf Channel's coverage of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am tournament throughout the weekend. Coverage starts Thursday at 3 pm ET. [Peacock] I'M TOTALLY FINE: 2022 indie sci-fi comedy feature starring Jillian Bell as a grieving woman whose recently deceased best friend (Natalie Morales) returns, claiming to be an extraterrestrial. Brandon Dermer ("Flatbush Misdemeanors") co-wrote and directed. [Hulu] FLORDELIS: A FAMILY CRIME (EM NOME DA MÃE): Four-part true-crime docuseries from Brazil profiling Flordelis dos Santos de Souza. The former Christian singer and politician -- a mother of 55 children, both biological and adopted -- is currently serving a 50-year prison sentence for the 2019 murder of her husband, Anderson do Carmo de Souza. [HBO Max]

Amazon renewed the Chris Pratt action-thriller series "The Terminal List" for a second season. The streamer also picked up a prequel series from star and producer Taylor Kitsch and "Terminal List" creator David DiGilio. More: Both shows are based on novels written by author Jack Carr; the prequel series will apparently bring in Carr characters who have not yet been featured on the main "Terminal List" series. Pratt's also on board the prequel series as an executive producer through his company, Indivisible Productions, as are author Carr and filmmaker Antoine Fuqua. The prequel will follow Ben Edwards' (Kitsch) transition from serving as a Navy SEAL to a CIA paramilitary operator. Season 1 of "The Terminal List" was a considerable hit for Amazon in Summer 2022, debuting at #2 on Nielsen's chart, behind only Netflix's "Stranger Things." DEADLINE

Uzo Aduba will star in "The Residence," the latest Netflix series from executive producer Shonda Rhimes ("Bridgerton") and her Shondaland banner. The series is a "comedic murder mystery" set at the White House, and inspired by Kate Andersen Brower's non-fiction book "The Residence." More: Brower's book relates stories about the unseen private world of presidents and first families from staffers who have worked at the White House over the years. The series is described as a "screwball whodunnit" set among the eclectic White House staff. Aduba will star as Cordelia Cupp, a consulting detective working on a puzzling case at the President's home. "The Last of Us" and "Barry" vet Liza Johnson will direct the first four episodes. "Orange is the New Black" vet Aduba has also been tapped to star in Netflix's upcoming limited series "Painkiller," about the opioid crisis. "Scandal" and "For the People" vet Paul William Davies will serve as showrunner on the new series. VARIETY

Paramount+ picked up the reality series "The Family Stallone," centering on actor Sylvester Stallone, his wife Jennifer Flavin Stallone, and their three daughters. The eight-part series will debut this spring on Paramount+ in the US and Canada. More: Stallone also appears in a new Super Bowl ad for the streaming service, riffing on his role in the '90s action film "Cliffhanger." Stallone also stars in the Paramount+ crime drama series "Tulsa King," which recently wrapped its first season. Stallone frequently shares candid moments with his family on social media; his daughter Scarlet Stallone also appears as an actor in "Tulsa King." DEADLINE

Netflix Japan stirred controversy online with a trailer for the upcoming anime feature "Dog and Boy," which includes background images produced via generative AI technology. A tweet promoting the project -- translated from Japanese -- called it "an experimental effort to help the anime industry, which has a labor shortage." More: The project is produced by Netflix Japan in collaboration with "Spy x Family" vets Wit Studio. The production credits "AI + Human" as co-creator of the background art and music; the actual human collaborators were not named. A number of commenters on social media questioned whether the effort was required by a genuine "labor shortage," or if Netflix and Wit Studio simply hoped to avoid paying animators for material that could be automated instead. KOTAKU

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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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