TV News Wrap-Up: Fox Sets Four January Premiere Dates, Netflix Cancels ‘Away,’ ‘Black-ish’ Gets 6 More Episodes

It’s been relatively quiet in the realm of TV news this week, except for the fact that Quibi is shutting down after just six months of service. 

While that’s been an interesting thing to watch, there are also more cancellations, castings, and premiere announcements to get excited about. 

Take a look at some of the highlights in this week’s TV news wrap-up. 

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Netflix has canceled Away after one season. 

• The decision comes a little over a month since the streamer aired Season 1. 
• Deadline reports, “Away spent several weeks in the top 10 Nielsen streaming viewership rankings, peaking at No 2 for its first full week of release.”
• They also note that when making renewal and cancellation decisions, Netflix brass always factors in viewership vs. cost. 

A new sci-fi anthology series from Hunters creator David Weil is in the works at Amazon Prime. 

• A Deadline report states, “The sci-fi series will tell seven unique character-driven stories. Each character will set off on a thrilling adventure in an uncertain future and they’ll come to reckon that even during our most isolated moments, we are all connected through the human experience.
• The series has been in the works for a while and will explore the deeper meaning of human connection in the near future. 
• The series falls under an overall deal Weil made with Amazon studios last November.

Mindhunter is “probably done” at Netflix.

• Mindhunter‘s executive producer, most frequent director, and de facto showrunner, David Fincher told Vulture, “It’s a 90-hour workweek. It absorbs everything in your life. When I got done, I was pretty exhausted, and I said, ‘I don’t know if I have it in me right now to break season three.’”
• Fincher also said that Mindhunter was a very expensive show for the viewership it had.
• It’s been over 14 months since Mindhunter Season 2 premiered and Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv were all released from their contracts in January.
• While viewership math doesn’t work in Mindhunter’s favor, Netflix does appear willing to leave a tiny crack open for a possible return. 

Dominic West is in talks to play Prince Charles on The Crown Seasons 5 and 6. 

• Deadline reports that West, whose previous credits include The Wire and The Affair has been lined up for the role, but that the deal has not yet been sealed.
• West recently made front-page news after intimate photos of him and his The Pursuit of Love co-star were published.
• Coincidentally, the timeline for The Crown Seasons 5 and 6 would mean he’d be playing Prince Charles at the time it was revealed that he was having an affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles. 
• He will join an outstanding lineup of actors including Imelda Staunton who has been cast as the new Queen Elizabeth II, Leslie Manville as Princess Margaret, and Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip.

Maura Tierney has been cast in Your Honor, opposite Bryan Cranston.

• Your Honor stars Cranston as “Michael Desiato, a respected judge whose son is involved in a hit-and-run in New Orleans that leads to a high-stakes game of lies, deceit, and impossible choices.”
• According to Deadline, Tierney has been cast as a recurring character on the legal drama as Fiona McKee, a fearless prosecutor trying a case in Desiato’s courtroom.
• She will recur on four episodes of the show. 

Tim Burton’s adaptation of The Addam’s Family is heating up the TV marketplace.

• This series would mark Burton’s first major TV series. 
• A Deadline exclusive reports, “Burton is negotiating to executive produce and possibly direct all episodes of this new take on the franchise.”
• Smallville developers and executive producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are set as head writers. 
• The package is apparently sparking a lot of interest with multiple buyers bidding on it, including Netflix. 
• The exact premise of the series has yet to be confirmed, but sources say it will be set in the present day and will focus on Wednesday Addams and what the world would look like to her in 2020. 

TBS has renewed Miracle Workers for Season 3. 

• Dan Mirk and Robert Padnick have been tapped as showrunners for the third installment of the anthology series. 
• Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Karan Soni will return, and this time they’ll be taking a trip to the Old West.
• According to Deadline, “Set in the year 1844, the new season will follow an idealistic small-town preacher (Radcliffe) who teams up with a wanted outlaw (Buscemi) and a liberated prairie wife (Viswanathan) to lead a wagon train west on the Oregon Trail across an American landscape which, much like today, is fraught with both promise and peril.”
• The series has been a strong ratings driver for TBS since debuting as the top new cable comedy of the season in 2018 with Season 2 drawing 27.5 million viewers across TBS’ linear and digital platforms.

Apple TV+ drama Pachinko sets its cast and production start date. 

• The series is based on Min Jin Lee’s best-selling novel and chronicles the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family. 
• Deadline reports that the cast includes Min Ho Lee, Jin Ha, Anna Sawai, Minha Kim, Soji Arai, and Kaho Minami.
• The series is set to begin production on October 26th across multiple continents. 

The Resident, 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and Prodigal Son have received January premiere dates from Fox.

• According to Deadline, no exact premiere dates have been announced yet. 
• The four series are now in production, and a trailer teased that 9-1-1, and The Resident will remain anchors on Monday and Tuesday at 8/7c respectively. 
• 9-1-1: Lone Star will now follow the mothership series at 9 pm and Prodigal Son has moved to Tuesdays.

Black-ish has received an order of six additional episodes for its seventh season. 

• The show previously had a 15-episode order and set the premiere date for mid-January. 
• That was the first time since the comedy premiered, ABC delayed it midseason before putting it back on the fall schedule on the heels of a growing Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
• Deadline reports that the additional six episodes brings Black-ish‘s total Season 7 order to 21, the equivalent of a full season. 

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