Organized Crime reunited us with Christopher Meloni’s fan-favorite character Elliot Stabler from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. His retirement comes to an end following his wife’s murder and he decides to join the NYPD and work under Sergeant Ayanna Bell’s command in the hope he’ll find the killer.

In addition to Meloni in the lead role, the cast of Organized Crime also includes Danielle Moné Truitt, Tamara Taylor, Ainsley Seiger, Dylan McDermott, Nona Parker-Johnson, Brent Antonello, and Rick Gonzalez.

NBC didn’t explain their decision to move Organized Crime to their streaming service Peacock, but ratings probably came into play. This series performed below the other Wolf dramas on NBC while doing pretty well on Peacock, most likely because it embraced a darker tone and serialized storytelling that’s not characteristic of other shows in the franchise.

Law & Order: Organized Crime will stream exclusively on Peacock when it comes back for Season 5 after the streamer gave it a 10-episode order.

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Based on the book series of the same name by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles follows the adventures of siblings Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace, who realize that magical creatures are real after moving to their ancestral home, Spiderwick.

The Spiderwick Chronicles debuted on Roku on April 19, with all eight episodes, after being axed by Disney+ due to cost-cutting reasons. Roku claims that “millions” tuned in to watch this series during its opening weekend, which earned the highest daily reach and most hours streamed for any title in Roku’s history during its opening weekend.

Brian Tannenbaum, Roku’s head of originals, described The Spiderwick Chronicles as proof that great IPs with great talent can thrive on their platform.

“We believed in Spiderwick for those reasons, and we will continue to make those types of series and films that directly engage with our streamers and can flourish not only inside the Roku Channel but also on the Roku platform,” Tannenbaum told Deadline.

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We’ve seen several stars launch their own travel shows in recent years, and Ross is the next one in line! She’s getting ready to hit the road in Tracee Travels, an exclusive docu-series set to debut on the Roku Channel in 2025.

This series will see Ross getting ready to travel solo to spectacular locations and exploring the intersection of beauty, fashion, design, food, and culture at each stop.

Ross has been traveling solo since she was 22 years old because she didn’t want to wait for her life to come to her, and she’s hoping that Tracee Travels will inspire other people to do the same.

“I hope this show reminds people that they too can courageously live their lives on their own terms, find their happiness, and be their whole selves and their best selves – by themselves. Everyone deserves to be joyous and audaciously free,” she said in a statement to Variety.

Ross is best known as the five-time Emmy-nominated star of Girlfriends and Black-ish, whose recent credits include the award-winning satire American Fiction and holiday comedy Candy Cane Lane.

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Presumed Innocent is based on Scott Turow’s book which inspired the Harrison Ford-led 1990 adaptation, and it was created for Apple TV+ by David E. Kelley. It was supposed to premiere on June 14, but the streamer moved up its release date to June 12, just three days after its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival.

Presumed Innocent will explore the power and limits of love through the tale of Rusty Sabich, who’s trying to hold his family and marriage together after becoming the prime suspect in the murder of one of his colleagues.

“Starring Gyllenhaal in the lead role of chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich, the series takes viewers on a gripping journey through the horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when one of its own is suspected of the crime,” reads the streamer’s official logline.

In addition to Gyllenhaal in the lead role, this legal drama will also star Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Peter Sarsgaard, O-T Fagbenle, Lily Rabe, and Renate Reinsve.

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Based on Eiichiro Oda’s beloved manga series, One Piece follows the adventures of the Straw Hat Pirates, a group of young adventurers seeking the fabled treasure known as “One Piece”.

Steve Maeda and Matt Owens co-created this series for Netflix and serve as showrunners of Season 1. Maeda is still on board as an executive producer, but he stepped down as a showrunner, letting Joe Tracz take his spot.

Tracz, whose credits include Percy Jackson and the Olympians and A Series of Unfortunate Events, said he’s been lucky to work on big adaptations of several beloved works, and he’s looking forward to adding another one to his resume.

“I’m a huge fan of Oda-san’s incredible imagination and I was blown away by what the live-action team created in Season One. So it’s a dream and a joy to come aboard the Going Merry as it enters the Grand Line for an even more giant Season 2,” said Tracz in a statement.

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Baby Reindeer was created for Netflix by the British comedian Richard Gadd, and it draws inspiration from his one-man show of the same name. It’s based on his real-life experience with being stalked and chronicles his “warped relationship with his female stalker and the impact it has on him as he is ultimately forced to face a deep, dark buried trauma,” according to its official logline.

Richard Gadd created this series and plays the lead role alongside Jessica Gunning, while the supporting cast includes Nava Mau, Tom Goodman-Hill, Hugh Coles, Michael Wildman, Danny Kirrane, Shalom Brune-Franklin, and Nina Sosanya.

Baby Reindeer debuted on Netflix on April 11 and initially attracted 2.6 million views in its first few days of availability, only to rise to the top with 13.3 million. These numbers are quite impressive considering its seven-episode count and the lack of a large-scale marketing campaign ahead of its release.

The rest of the shows in the top ten were far behind Baby Reindeer, including Unlocked: A Jail Experiment at No. 2 with 5 million views and 3 Body Problem at No. 3 with 3.2 million views.

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Transcendent Kingdom centers on Gifty, a neuroscientist in training trying to make sense of the suffering she’s seen all around her. She’s trying to reconcile her present-day life and her childhood as a first-generation Ghanaian in rural Alabama while turning to hard sciences in an attempt to unlock the mystery of her family’s loss.

This project will be developed under Orji’s first-look deal with Sony, and the Insecure star said she was excited to partner up with this studio when she signed it a year ago.

“From the first meeting with Katherine Pope and the rest of her amazing executive team, I knew this was the right home for me. They got my vision immediately and were genuinely enthusiastic about the stories I wanted to tell that bridge the diaspora,” said Orji in a statement.

Orji rose to prominence with her Emmy-nominated role in HBO’s Insecure. She most recently starred in Vacation Friends 2 and voiced the animated series Velma and My Dad the Bounty Hunter.

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All American is loosely based on the life of professional football player Spencer Paysinger, and it centers on a rising high school football star Spencer James. His world turns upside down when he’s recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, and his new life collides with his upbringing in the Crenshaw neighborhood in South Los Angeles.

Daniel Ezra leads the ensemble of this series, while the supporting cast includes Bre-Z, Greta Onieogou, Samantha Logan, Cody Christian, Karimah Westbrook, Monét Mazur, Chelsea Tavares, Michael Evans Behling, and Jalyn Hall.

The first five seasons of All American ranged between 16-20 episodes, and The CW will be able to stick to a similar number in Season 6. The upcoming season was initially supposed to feature 13 episodes, but the network decided to extend it to 15.

This decision makes total sense since The CW’s flagship drama is bringing many changes our way in Season 6. It will see Spencer James prepare for the next big step in his football career – the NFL draft.

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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder kicks off five years after the murder of a popular high school senior shook a small English town, and one person still believes that this crime is yet to be solved.

“Pip Fitz-Amobi sees how the gruesome murder still has a grip on her hometown, and she thinks there’s more to the story. Pip begins an investigation of her own as she looks into the case for her senior project, determined to get to the bottom of this mystery,” reads Netflix’s press release.

In addition to Emma Myers in the lead role, this series will also star Zain Iqbal, Anna Maxwell Martin, Gary Beadle, Mathew Baynton, India Lillie Davies, Rahul Pattni, Henry Ashton, Mitu Panicucci, Orla Hill, Asha Banks, and Mathew Baynton, among others.

This adaptation hails from Red Rose writer Poppy Cogan and director Dolly Wells. It will premiere in the UK this July on BBC 3 and BBC iPlayer, while Netflix will handle the distribution in the US and most other international territories.

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Calabasas draws inspiration from Via Bleidner’s book If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous by Now from 2021. It centers on a 16-year-old sheltered Catholic schoolgirl, who finds herself struggling to fit in after being thrown into unfamiliar territory when she transfers to Calabasas High.

Pretty Little Liars creator I. Marlene King is coming on board as the writer and showrunner. This project came together after she pitched it to Alexandra Milchan, who’ll also be credited as one of the EPs alongside Kardashian, Roberts, King, Lauren Wagner, Sarah Preiss, and Matt Matruski.

According to Deadline, Calabasas was involved in an intense bidding war, which also included two other offers from major buyers, but Netflix managed to push them out.

Calabasas will reunite Kardashian with Emma Roberts after they starred by each other’s side in American Horror Story: Delicate. This isn’t her first project heading to Netflix – the streamer also secured the rights for The Fifth Wheel, the ensemble comedy that will serve as a star vehicle for Kardashian.

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Organized Crime reunited us with Christopher Meloni’s fan-favorite character Elliot Stabler from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. His retirement comes to an end following his wife’s murder and he decides to join the NYPD and work under Sergeant Ayanna Bell’s command in the hope he’ll find the killer.

In addition to Meloni in the lead role, the cast of Organized Crime also includes Danielle Moné Truitt, Tamara Taylor, Ainsley Seiger, Dylan McDermott, Nona Parker-Johnson, Brent Antonello, and Rick Gonzalez.

NBC didn’t explain their decision to move Organized Crime to their streaming service Peacock, but ratings probably came into play. This series performed below the other Wolf dramas on NBC while doing pretty well on Peacock, most likely because it embraced a darker tone and serialized storytelling that’s not characteristic of other shows in the franchise.

Law & Order: Organized Crime will stream exclusively on Peacock when it comes back for Season 5 after the streamer gave it a 10-episode order.

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Based on the book series of the same name by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles follows the adventures of siblings Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace, who realize that magical creatures are real after moving to their ancestral home, Spiderwick.

The Spiderwick Chronicles debuted on Roku on April 19, with all eight episodes, after being axed by Disney+ due to cost-cutting reasons. Roku claims that “millions” tuned in to watch this series during its opening weekend, which earned the highest daily reach and most hours streamed for any title in Roku’s history during its opening weekend.

Brian Tannenbaum, Roku’s head of originals, described The Spiderwick Chronicles as proof that great IPs with great talent can thrive on their platform.

“We believed in Spiderwick for those reasons, and we will continue to make those types of series and films that directly engage with our streamers and can flourish not only inside the Roku Channel but also on the Roku platform,” Tannenbaum told Deadline.

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We’ve seen several stars launch their own travel shows in recent years, and Ross is the next one in line! She’s getting ready to hit the road in Tracee Travels, an exclusive docu-series set to debut on the Roku Channel in 2025.

This series will see Ross getting ready to travel solo to spectacular locations and exploring the intersection of beauty, fashion, design, food, and culture at each stop.

Ross has been traveling solo since she was 22 years old because she didn’t want to wait for her life to come to her, and she’s hoping that Tracee Travels will inspire other people to do the same.

“I hope this show reminds people that they too can courageously live their lives on their own terms, find their happiness, and be their whole selves and their best selves – by themselves. Everyone deserves to be joyous and audaciously free,” she said in a statement to Variety.

Ross is best known as the five-time Emmy-nominated star of Girlfriends and Black-ish, whose recent credits include the award-winning satire American Fiction and holiday comedy Candy Cane Lane.

The post Tracee Ellis Ross Joining Forces With Roku for “Tracee Travels” appeared first on watchingtvnow.com.

Presumed Innocent is based on Scott Turow’s book which inspired the Harrison Ford-led 1990 adaptation, and it was created for Apple TV+ by David E. Kelley. It was supposed to premiere on June 14, but the streamer moved up its release date to June 12, just three days after its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival.

Presumed Innocent will explore the power and limits of love through the tale of Rusty Sabich, who’s trying to hold his family and marriage together after becoming the prime suspect in the murder of one of his colleagues.

“Starring Gyllenhaal in the lead role of chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich, the series takes viewers on a gripping journey through the horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when one of its own is suspected of the crime,” reads the streamer’s official logline.

In addition to Gyllenhaal in the lead role, this legal drama will also star Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Peter Sarsgaard, O-T Fagbenle, Lily Rabe, and Renate Reinsve.

The post Apple TV+ Moves Up the Release of Jake Gyllenhaal’s “Presumed Innocent” appeared first on watchingtvnow.com.

Based on Eiichiro Oda’s beloved manga series, One Piece follows the adventures of the Straw Hat Pirates, a group of young adventurers seeking the fabled treasure known as “One Piece”.

Steve Maeda and Matt Owens co-created this series for Netflix and serve as showrunners of Season 1. Maeda is still on board as an executive producer, but he stepped down as a showrunner, letting Joe Tracz take his spot.

Tracz, whose credits include Percy Jackson and the Olympians and A Series of Unfortunate Events, said he’s been lucky to work on big adaptations of several beloved works, and he’s looking forward to adding another one to his resume.

“I’m a huge fan of Oda-san’s incredible imagination and I was blown away by what the live-action team created in Season One. So it’s a dream and a joy to come aboard the Going Merry as it enters the Grand Line for an even more giant Season 2,” said Tracz in a statement.

The post “One Piece” Finds New Co-Showrunner Ahead of Season 2 appeared first on watchingtvnow.com.

Baby Reindeer was created for Netflix by the British comedian Richard Gadd, and it draws inspiration from his one-man show of the same name. It’s based on his real-life experience with being stalked and chronicles his “warped relationship with his female stalker and the impact it has on him as he is ultimately forced to face a deep, dark buried trauma,” according to its official logline.

Richard Gadd created this series and plays the lead role alongside Jessica Gunning, while the supporting cast includes Nava Mau, Tom Goodman-Hill, Hugh Coles, Michael Wildman, Danny Kirrane, Shalom Brune-Franklin, and Nina Sosanya.

Baby Reindeer debuted on Netflix on April 11 and initially attracted 2.6 million views in its first few days of availability, only to rise to the top with 13.3 million. These numbers are quite impressive considering its seven-episode count and the lack of a large-scale marketing campaign ahead of its release.

The rest of the shows in the top ten were far behind Baby Reindeer, including Unlocked: A Jail Experiment at No. 2 with 5 million views and 3 Body Problem at No. 3 with 3.2 million views.

The post “Baby Reindeer” Tops Netflix’s English-Language TV Chart appeared first on watchingtvnow.com.

Transcendent Kingdom centers on Gifty, a neuroscientist in training trying to make sense of the suffering she’s seen all around her. She’s trying to reconcile her present-day life and her childhood as a first-generation Ghanaian in rural Alabama while turning to hard sciences in an attempt to unlock the mystery of her family’s loss.

This project will be developed under Orji’s first-look deal with Sony, and the Insecure star said she was excited to partner up with this studio when she signed it a year ago.

“From the first meeting with Katherine Pope and the rest of her amazing executive team, I knew this was the right home for me. They got my vision immediately and were genuinely enthusiastic about the stories I wanted to tell that bridge the diaspora,” said Orji in a statement.

Orji rose to prominence with her Emmy-nominated role in HBO’s Insecure. She most recently starred in Vacation Friends 2 and voiced the animated series Velma and My Dad the Bounty Hunter.

The post Yvonne Orji is Developing “Transcendent Kingdom” Into a TV Series appeared first on watchingtvnow.com.

All American is loosely based on the life of professional football player Spencer Paysinger, and it centers on a rising high school football star Spencer James. His world turns upside down when he’s recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, and his new life collides with his upbringing in the Crenshaw neighborhood in South Los Angeles.

Daniel Ezra leads the ensemble of this series, while the supporting cast includes Bre-Z, Greta Onieogou, Samantha Logan, Cody Christian, Karimah Westbrook, Monét Mazur, Chelsea Tavares, Michael Evans Behling, and Jalyn Hall.

The first five seasons of All American ranged between 16-20 episodes, and The CW will be able to stick to a similar number in Season 6. The upcoming season was initially supposed to feature 13 episodes, but the network decided to extend it to 15.

This decision makes total sense since The CW’s flagship drama is bringing many changes our way in Season 6. It will see Spencer James prepare for the next big step in his football career – the NFL draft.

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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder kicks off five years after the murder of a popular high school senior shook a small English town, and one person still believes that this crime is yet to be solved.

“Pip Fitz-Amobi sees how the gruesome murder still has a grip on her hometown, and she thinks there’s more to the story. Pip begins an investigation of her own as she looks into the case for her senior project, determined to get to the bottom of this mystery,” reads Netflix’s press release.

In addition to Emma Myers in the lead role, this series will also star Zain Iqbal, Anna Maxwell Martin, Gary Beadle, Mathew Baynton, India Lillie Davies, Rahul Pattni, Henry Ashton, Mitu Panicucci, Orla Hill, Asha Banks, and Mathew Baynton, among others.

This adaptation hails from Red Rose writer Poppy Cogan and director Dolly Wells. It will premiere in the UK this July on BBC 3 and BBC iPlayer, while Netflix will handle the distribution in the US and most other international territories.

The post “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” Adaptation is Heading to Netflix appeared first on watchingtvnow.com.

Calabasas draws inspiration from Via Bleidner’s book If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous by Now from 2021. It centers on a 16-year-old sheltered Catholic schoolgirl, who finds herself struggling to fit in after being thrown into unfamiliar territory when she transfers to Calabasas High.

Pretty Little Liars creator I. Marlene King is coming on board as the writer and showrunner. This project came together after she pitched it to Alexandra Milchan, who’ll also be credited as one of the EPs alongside Kardashian, Roberts, King, Lauren Wagner, Sarah Preiss, and Matt Matruski.

According to Deadline, Calabasas was involved in an intense bidding war, which also included two other offers from major buyers, but Netflix managed to push them out.

Calabasas will reunite Kardashian with Emma Roberts after they starred by each other’s side in American Horror Story: Delicate. This isn’t her first project heading to Netflix – the streamer also secured the rights for The Fifth Wheel, the ensemble comedy that will serve as a star vehicle for Kardashian.

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