TV News Wrap-Up: Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ Gets Limited Series, ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Gets Another Familiar Face, Kaitlyn Dever Making Fewer Appearances on ‘Last Man Standing’ Season 8, and More

It’s the last weekend of 2019 and that means this is the last TV news wrap-up of 2019. We’ve been reflecting a lot with the Best of 2019 and Best of the Decade lists these last few weeks, but TV News is about looking forward to the future. 

And 2020 looks bright. 

Several shows return from fall hiatus in the coming month and long-awaited seasons will be premiering in the next few months. Here are some highlights of things to look forward to as we go into 2020. 

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Kaitlyn Dever will be making sporadic appearances as Eve Baxter on Last Man Standing Season 8.  The Unbelievable actress plays the youngest daughter on the Tim Allen led sitcom. Since the show was resurrected from cancellation in 2018 Dever hasn’t returned as a series regular, but remains on good terms with the cast and crew. TV Line reports Dever made appearances in seven episodes of Last Man Standing Season 7 and has only made one appearance on the first of fourteen episodes of Season 8. but producers are hopeful they can work with her schedule to get her in for more as they wrap production on the new season. 

A preview from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. shows Coulson and the team “out of time.” A photo exclusive to TV Line shows the team visiting 1931, donning period garb kicking off the series final season. The episode puts Coulson and the gang in New York City right as the Empire State Building was finishing construction. The final season premieres in the summer of 2020.

Jamie has a new friend on Outlander Season 5. A TV Line exclusive shows Jamie cuddling someone who isn’t Claire, and it’s a kitten. The photos show the addition of Adso, a kitten that makes his first appearance in Diana Gabaldon’s book The Fiery Cross as a gift to Claire to keep the vermin out of her surgery. Readers will know that this cat becomes a constant presence in the big house on Fraser’s Ridge.

Carrie is getting adapted into a limited series for FX. Deadline confirmed that the project is in the early stages of production and no writer is currently attached. The television treatment comes six years after the latest film adaptation starring Chloë Grace Moretz in the title role. This would be one of many Stephen King properties to receive a series order. Epix recently gave a straight-to-series order for Jerusalem’s Lot, and an adaption of The Outsider is set to premiere in January. Additionally, Castle Rock recently wrapped its second season on Hulu, and The Stand is set to air on CBS All Access. 

The new USA series Dare Me will be more coming of age than a crime story. In an interview with Variety the team behind the creation, Megan Abbott and Gina Fattore, said they more interested in exploring the internalities of adolescence, rather than the things that social media and technology tend to change. The new series, premiering December 29th, ” explores themes of friendship, sexuality, competition, murder, and power through the world of high school cheerleading. The pair also discussed adapting the book into a potentially ongoing series.

Star Trek: Picard is bringing back a familiar character with a new face. A TV Line exclusive report states that fans can expect to see the character Hugh appear in the new series. Hugh first appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 Episode 13, “I, Borg,” in which an injured drone is nursed back to health by the Enterprise. Photos from Star Trek: Picard shows a new version of Hugh with significantly less metal and looking significantly more human. 

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What is your favorite bit of TV news from this week? What shows are you particularly looking forward to in 2020? Let us know in the comments below. 

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