TV News Wrap-Up: ‘The Society’ and ‘I Am Not Okay with This’ Canceled By Netflix, 5 Writers Exit ‘All Rise’, ‘Supernatural’ Returns to Production for Final Episodes

Production may have been brought to a standstill for several months, but Hollywood is slowly looking to return to work. 

With it, some new seasons are getting their premiere dates, and even more, are getting second season renewals. 

There is also some sad news about long-awaited second seasons. 

Check out all the updates in our TV news wrap-up. 

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Supernatural star Jensen Ackles is joining The Boys for Season 3. 

• While the second season of the Amazon Prime original won’t be hitting screens until September, the series is already making some big moves. 
• Ackles will be joining the cast as Soldier Boy, the universe’s original superhero, and vague Captain America parody. 
• In the comic books, Soldier Boy fought in World War II and became the world’s first super celebrity. 
• Read more about this casting announcement and watch Ackles’s video right here. 

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels has been canceled after one season by Showtime. 

• Variety broke the news that the cabler was not moving forward with a second season of the show on Friday. 
• “Showtime has decided not to move forward with another season of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. We would like to thank executive producers John Logan, Michael Aguilar, and the entire cast and crew for their outstanding work on this project,” Showtime said in a statement. 
• Season 1 held a 75% critical approval rating on Rotton Tomatoes.

The Crown Season 4 will premiere on November 15th. 

• Netflix released the first teaser trailer for The Crown Season 4 this week, including a glimpse of Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana. 
• This marks the first appearance for Gillian Anderson and Emma Corrin who join the series playing the two iconic characters. 
• Fans will also need to enjoy this series because The Crown isn’t set to go into production again until 2021 with Season 5 premiering in 2022. 
• Watch the first teaser trailer and read more about this new right here. 

ABC has put into development the one-hour dramedy Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person.

• According to Deadline, the drama hails from Matt Tarses, creator of Mad Love and Alex, Inc. and The Good Doctor‘s Freddie Highmore. 
• The dramedy will be based on Alain de Botton’s article of the same name which appeared in The New York Times opinion section in 2016. 
• The series, “explores multiple possible relationships in parallel universes, as each of the two leads, on the eve of marriage, wonders ‘what if?'”

Netflix cancels The Society and I Am Not Okay With This citing COVID-19 circumstances.

• A Deadline article reports, “According to sources, uncertainty around production dates and balancing the availabilities of a large cast like The Society, coupled with unexpected budget increases due to COVID led to the decisions on The Society and I Am Not Okay With This, which had been both well received by critics and fans and had strong support at Netflix.”
• The Society was renewed last summer and was slated to begin production next month. 
• Deadline sources say that I Am Not Okay With This was quietly picked up for a second season with the Season 2 scripts written. 

The Right Stuff finally gets premiere date at Disney+.

• The space race-themed docudrama is finally getting its debut on October 9th. 
• The series was originally slated for NatGeo before moving to the streamer.
• The Right Stuff follows the early days of NASA and the selection of the Mercury 7 headed by Major John Glenn and Lieutenant Commander Alan Shepard.
• “The series will also showcase the personal lives of the astronauts and their families, who all found themselves thrust into a national spotlight. With such an ambitious undertaking being watched by the world, they were players in what has been called “America’s first reality show” as they undertook a mission at risk of their own lives.”
• This marks the second time this content has been made into the movie since the book of the same name was already adapted into a miniseries. 
• Get more information on this series by checkout out our report. 

Supernatural will return in October for its final goodbye. 

• The final seven episodes of the long-running series will begin airing on Thursday, October 8th. 
• Supernatural was part of the coronavirus shutdown in March with production being cut off with only a few episodes left to air. 
• After the shutdown, executive producer Andrew Dabb released a statement saying it wasn’t a matter of if they would finish the series, but when.
• The last episode of the series is currently scheduled to air on Thursday, November 19th at 9/8c with a special retrospective episode to air before it at 8/7c. 
• Read more about this news and find out about the leading duo’s next projects right here. 

All Rise has lost five of the original seven writers in a writer’s room shakeup.

• Of the five writers who departed the show; three were writers of color. 
• The exiting writers left the series citing attempts to combat showrunner Greg Spottiswood’s efforts to give the show a hollow commentary on race.
• Writers cited having to do extensive clean up behind the scenes to keep certain storylines from being tone-deaf or offensive. 
• In response to allegations made by the writers, Warner Bros. TV launched an investigation and saw no need to remove Spottiswood from his post as executive producer. Instead, they hired a Black career coach to help him resolve problems within his team. 
• Read a more detailed report of this shakeup right here. 

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 will premiere on October 15th on CBS All Access. 

• The previous season sent the ship 930 years into the future and scattered across the 32nd Century.
• This marks the furthest into the future that Star Trek has ever gone.
• It will also be the first time since the 90s that the franchise has had so many series on air at once. 
• The return date is set one week after the animated series Star Trek: The Lower Decks is set to end its first season, setting up for a potential crossover.
• Read more about what to expect from Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 right here. 

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