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| Happy Monday and thanks once again for opening today's Inside Streaming. Judd Apatow's comments to Vulture -- and his concerns that streamers will favor licensing deals over developing new shows and films -- certainly make some degree of sense. Apatow's a guy who's always got several creative irons in the fire, so if networks and streamers start massively pulling back on the amount of fresh content they're going to produce, he'd likely be among the first to notice. It's entirely possible Apatow has already seen projects that were moving forward at big media companies get paused due to budgetary concerns. But he's also in a prime position to see the other side of this argument. If licensing deals come back in a major way and suddenly classic libraries become more valuable, that's also a potential win for creatives. Sure, fewer new shows are getting funded in an immediate sense, but once you do get a project going and start developing a career, that work is going to keep paying off in a longer-term way. Writers and producers and directors aren't forced to constantly pivot to something new, because they'll continue to earn residuals on the successful work they've already done. Perhaps Apatow knows something I don't, and sees a future in which studios and streamers continually license older shows without paying their creators. But if audiences want to just keep watching "Ballers" forever, I think that's probably okay, so long as the creators of "Ballers" get fairly compensated. Lon
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| 1 | | According to Deadline, production on Season 3 of HBO's "Euphoria" has been put on indefinite hold while creator and showrunner Sam Levinson completes work on the scripts. The cast has been freed up to take other acting jobs in the interim. More: - No official date has yet been set for production to commence on Season 3, though HBO still plans to release new episodes in 2025.
- "Euphoria" has now been off the air for around 2 years; Season 2 debuted in January of 2022.
- Four "Euphoria" reguars -- Zendaya, Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, and Colman Domingo -- now have busy film careers, while Storm Reid is a recent Emmy winner.
- At the recent SXSW premiere of her horror film "Immaculate," "Euphoria" star Sydney Sweeney suggested that work on "Euphoria" Season 3 was scheduled to begin soon.
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| 2 | | ABC News and Nat Geo announced a two-hour live special covering next month's total solar eclipse. "Eclipse Across America" will air on Monday, April 8 on ABC and several Disney cable networks, while streaming on both Hulu and Disney+. More: - The special airs and streams from 2 pm to 4 pm on April 8, tracking the eclipse as it crosses North America.
- "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir and "ABC News Live Prime" anchor Linsey Davis will serve as co-hosts; Nat Geo personality Mariana van Zeller, photographer Cristina Mittermeir, astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi, and astrophysicists Jedidah Isler and Ved Chirayath also make appearances.
- Live remotes are being planned for 10 different cities across North America, including Mazatlán, Mexico; Del Rio, Texas; Carbondale, Illinois; and Niagara Falls, New York.
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| 3 | | DAILY CALENDAR MONDAY, MARCH 25 PAINT: 2023 indie comedy-drama feature from writer/director Brit McAdams, making his feature debut. Owen Wilson stars as a Bob Ross-esque painter and public television host in Vermont who finds his position threatened by a younger rival (Ciara Renée). Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Stephen Root co-star. [Hulu] GABBY'S DOLLHOUSE: The hybrid live-action and animated series for young kids centers on a young girl named Gabby who shrinks down to explore her enchanted dollhouse along with some feline friends. Season 9 premieres today. [Netflix] | | | |
| 4 | | Netflix previewed its upcoming line-up of anime TV shows and films at the AnimeJapan event in Tokyo. Highlights include the feature film "Ultraman: Rising" and the TV series "Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance." More: - "Ultraman: Rising" is a reboot of the classic superhero character from Industrial Light & Magic and "Kubo and the Two Strings" and "Lost Ollie" vet Shannon Tindle; it debuts in June.
- Other announced films include "My Oni Girl" from Studio Colorido and the "Baki" spinoff feature "Baki Hanma vs. Kengan Ashura."
- New series include the first adaptation of the popular manga series "Rising Impact," the latest installment on the ongoing "Mobile Suit Gundam" franchise, and a new spin on classic fairy tales called "The Grimm Variations."
- Netflix also recently announced that it will stream a collection of Studio Ghibli films, including the Oscar-winning 2023 release "The Boy and the Heron," outside of Japan and the US; in the States, the Ghibli collection streams on Max.
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| 5 | | Hulu dropped a new trailer for the scripted true-crime series "Under the Bridge." The series is based on Rebecca Godfrey's book about the 1997 murder of Canadian fourteen year-old Reena Virk, who was beaten and killed by classmates after attending a house party. More: - The series stars Riley Keough as Godfrey, Vritika Gupta as Virk, and recent Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone as the local police officer investigating the case.
- "Not Okay" vet Quinn Shephard developed the proejct and serves as showrunner and executive producer.
- The first two "Under the Bridge" episodes premiere on Hulu on April 17.
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| 6 | | In an interview with Vulture, filmmaker Judd Apatow said he finds streamers licensing classic shows to be a "scary" development for creators. Apatow cautions that licensing content is much cheaper than developing original productions from scratch, and over time, audiences will "get fewer new shows." More: - Specifically, Apatow pointed to Netflix's recent pick-up of some popular HBO shows, warning that the streaming marketplace could eventually degrade into "passing around all the episodes of 'Ballers' for the rest of our lives."
- Apatow noted that he's not immune from the pleasures of rewatching licensed content, and particularly highlighted "Deadwood" and other work by creator David Milch as personal favorites.
- The "This is 40" and "The Bubble" vet pointed to the box office success of Universal's "Oppenheimer" as an indication that "big risks" can still pay off for Hollywood studios.
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| 7 | | The Australian animated kids mega-hit "Bluey" premieres its first-ever half-hour special next month. The super-sized episode "The Sign" finds the Heeler family preparing to attend a wedding together. More: - "The Sign" premieres globally on the Austrailan Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney Channel, Disney Junior, and Disney+ on Sunday, April 14.
- The episode features a number of guest voices, including Rove McManus, Deborah Mailman, Brendan Williams, and Joel Edgerton.
- "Bluey" was Nielsen's #1 most-streamed title in the US in 2023, with 43.9 billion minutes viewed.
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- Karen Pittman -- who co-starred as Nya Wallace on the first two seasons of HBO's "And Just Like That" -- will not return for the show's upcoming third season; the actress is already a regular on Apple's "The Morning Show," and recently joined the cast of Netflix's drama series "Forever," based on the Judy Blume novel.
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 | Writer | | 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." | | This newsletter was edited by Lon Harris | |
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