TV News Wrap-Up: Character Death Revealed in ’13 Reasons Why’ Season 3 Trailer, HBO Max Acquires ‘Doctor Who’ Streaming Rights, and More

It feels a bit like the calm before the storm this week. There are still some casting annoucements being made, schedule changes from cablers, and a few new series in development for some networks online-only platforms. 

Check out this week’s TV News Wrap-Up to find out the latest.

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13 Reasons Why released a new trailer for the upcoming third season that spoiled a major death. The third season trailer for the Netflix Original showed the main cast at a funeral for Bryce Walker. Netflix also announced that the series was renewed for a fourth and final season. 13 Reasons Why Season 3 will be available on Netflix Friday, August 23rd. Check out more about this story here and watch the trailer below.

Alexis Denisof is joining the cast of Legacies. A TV Line exclusive revealed that the Buffy and Angel alum will recur in the second season of The CW spin-off. Denisof is set to recur as Professor Vardemus in the second episode of the upcoming season. Vardemus is described as an “urbane British sorcerer.” 

Riverdale Season 4 has tapped Supergirl‘s Sam Witwer to play Jughead’s prep school teacher. TV Line reports that Witwer will play Mr. Chipping, “an upper-crust prep school that Jughead attends on scholarship next season.” Mr. Chipping is the creative writing teacher at the school, who will recruit Jughead into his seminar. However, like all things in Riverdale, there’s a darkness under the surface, because, isn’t there always? Riverdale Season 4 will premiere Wednesday, October 9, at 9/8c on The CW. 

Homeland‘s final season has been delayed until 2020. According to TV Line, Showtime announced the delay of Homeland Season 8 on Friday, saying that the final curtain call for Carrie Mathison will debut on Sunday, February 9th. This development means that Homeland will have been off the air for nearly two years when it premieres next winter. Showtime also announced a few plot details of the upcoming season which will include Carrie Mathison recovering from her time in the Russian gulag. While her body is healing her memories are fractured, which is a problem for Saul. Saul is now National Security Advisor to President Warner and he needs information from his protege as he begins peace talks with the Taliban in the hope of stopping the “forever war” with Afghanistan. 

CBS All Access has ordered a new series based on the David Bowie film The Man Who Fell to Earth developed by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet. Deadline reports that the limited series has been in development for over a year at Hulu, but it has since shifted ownership. According to Kurtzman and Lumet the reboot was inspired by the day Steve Jobs announced the first version of the iPhone. As such the new reboot “…does not feature Bowie’s iconic Thomas Jerome Newton but a new central alien character inspired by some of the biggest tech innovators of the past couple of decades including Jobs, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.”

HBO Max has ordered a TV adaptation of Madeline Miller’s novel Circe. According to Vulture, Rise of the Planet of the Apes writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver will pen the script for HBO Max’s latest online-only offering. The story centers around greek-goddess Circe who evolves from a nymph to a witch and becomes powerful enough to challenge the greek gods and the titans. Circe now joins the Gossip Girl revival in the HBO Max’s content programming. 

Joss Whedon’s latest series, The Nevers, has added twelve members to its cast.  Deadline reports that the sci-fi series ordered by HBO, has added cast members Olivia Williams, James Norton, Tom Riley, Ann Skelly, Ben Chaplin, Pip Torrens, Zachary Momoh, Amy Manson, Nick Frost, Rochelle Neil, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Denis O’Hare. These twelve join Laura Donnolly who was previously cast in the lead role. Described as a sci-fi epic The Nevers is “about a gang of Victorian women who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a mission that might change the world.”

Doctor Who‘s new era back catalog will be moving to HBO Max. According to Variety, HBO’s new streaming service has acquired exclusive rights to the BBC series in the United States. This also means that HBO Max will become home to future seasons of Doctor Who soon after they air on BBC America. Fans of Team Tardis can expect the series to move in Spring 2020. The move is said to include all the seasons since the 2006 revival of the series including the most recent eleventh season starring Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor. 

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