TV News Wrap-Up: Larry David Says ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ For Going Outside, ‘Blindspot’ Gets Final Season Premiere Date, ‘Snowpiercer’ Gets Early Premiere Date, and More

Welcome to April, and week three of the Covid-19 production shutdowns.

The effects of the Covid-19 shutdowns are starting to reveal themselves. Some shows have gotten truncated seasons and some summer shows are getting early premiere dates.

The ripples are just starting and are sure to pour through the summer and into the fall scheduling season. 

Take a look at some of the highlights in our TV news wrap-up. 

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Larry David, Seinfeld co-creator and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, has a message for all the “idiots out there.” Exactly what is says on the tin! A video of the actor appeared on the Office of the Governor of California Twitter page, urging people to stay home and heed the shelter-in-place warning. “So stay home and, you know, don’t see anyone except maybe if there’s a plumbing emergency, let the plumber in and then, you know, wipe everything down after he leaves… but that’s it. OK,” says David in the video. 

“You’re hurting old people like me. Well, not me… I’ll never see you.”

Larry David wants everyone to stay home to protect older Californians from #COVID19!
He does not do these things.
Listen to Larry.#StayHomeSaveLiveshttps://t.co/snYe5v55Rw pic.twitter.com/C5cKOaAufE

— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) March 31, 2020

The Flash‘s Logan Williams has died. Deadline reports that the sixteen-year-old actor died on Thursday, and no cause of death has been revealed. Grant Gustin who plays the adult Barry Allen on The Flash wrote, “I was so impressed by not only Logan’s talent but his professionalism on set. My thoughts and prayers will be with him and his family during what is I’m sure an unimaginably difficult time for them. Please keep Logan and his family in your thoughts and prayers during what has been a strange and trying time for us all. Sending love to everyone.”

Fox has announced that Empire will end sooner than expected. Fox revealed that the 18th episode of the sixth season will be its last, electing not to film a proper finale. Deadline reports that in order for this premature end to bring a satisfying conclusion to the series, it’s likely the new finale will feature footage from the penultimate episode. At the time of the coronavirus shutdown, the cast and crew was halfway through filming the penultimate episode, but Episode 20 will never see the light of day for this series that had once been a blockbuster. 

Netflix has renewed Locke & Key for Season 2. The news comes after the first season premiered on the streamer in February.  According to Deadline, “The new season will see the stakes grow higher for the Locke siblings as they embrace their role as the new Keepers of the Keys.”

Dylan Walsh has been cast as General Samuel Lane on Superman & Lois. A Deadline exclusive reports that Walsh will star opposite Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch on The CW drama, playing Lois’s father. General Lane is described as, “…a no-nonsense Army general who’s determined to keep America, and the world, safe from all threats – from this world or beyond. Lane’s a workaholic who demands nothing but excellence from all those in his life.”

The Conners is paving the way for their third season renewal as multiple cast members secure new deals. Deadline reports that principle actors Sara Gilbert, John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, and Lecy Goranso have supposedly all committed to a third episode of the Roseanne spinoff. The next step to securing a renewal with ABC will be license-fee negotiations, which are, reportedly, underway. 

Blindspot Season 5 has finally been given a premiere date. The final season of the show will debut on Thursday, April 30th at 10/9c before settiling into a regular 9/8c timeslot on May 7th. According to TVLine this is one of many shifts that networks have made in the event of production shutdowns. NBC previously announced that the 11-episode final season would be held for summer. 

TNT has moved up the premiere of Snowpiercer. The Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs-fronted post-apocolyptic sci-fi series will now premiere on Sunday, May 17th at 9pm. It was previously planned to launch on Sunday, May 31st. According to Deadline, the show is not replacing anything on the schedule, but the network is responding to growing demands for new content as the majority of Americans are on lockdown. 

Chris Meloni will be making a return to TV screens in an Eliot Stabler-centric spinoff. TV Line reports that the series will star the fan-favorite detective as the boss of the organized crime division of the New York City Police Department. The series has been given a 13-episode order for Season 1. Plans to bring back Stabler’s wife and troubled son in the Season 21 finale were scrapped when production shut down due to coronavirus, but the return was meant to tee up Meloni’s return to the role. 

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