TV News Wrap-Up: Netflix Reverses ‘GLOW’ Season 4 Decision, ‘Dickinson’ Gets Season 3, Kate Mulgrew to Reprise Captain Janeway in ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’

Things are being shaken up in the TV industry. While production shutdowns have been in the news a lot, several shows, including Batwoman, Riverdale, and Maid have headed back to production. 

This also brings news of cancellations and renewals. 

It’s not all hopeful news though, because, on the other side of the coin, a few shows have met their end. 

Check out our TV news wrap up for more. 

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Netflix won’t be proceeding with the final season of GLOW.

• The streamer has reversed the renewal decision made in August 2019. 
• Series creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch said in a statement obtained by Deadline, “COVID has killed actual humans. It’s a national tragedy and should be our focus. COVID also apparently took down our show. Netflix has decided not to finish filming the final season of GLOW. We were handed the creative freedom to make a complicated comedy about women and tell their stories. And wrestle. And now that’s gone. There’s a lot of sh*tty things happening in the world that are much bigger than this right now. But it still sucks that we don’t get to see these 15 women in a frame together again.”
• GLOW was three weeks into filming the fourth season when production was shut down in mid-March with one episode completed and the second episode started.
• The show is filmed entirely in Los Angeles and has faced additional problems given the physical requirements of filming a wrestling drama. 
• Netflix also said that GLOW would return in 2022 at the earliest, almost two and a half years since the end of Season 3. Deadline reports, “…Netflix brass didn’t have confidence there would be a big enough audience who would tune in at that point to justify the investment.”

Kate Mulgrew will reprise her iconic role as Captain Janeway on Nickelodeon’s animated series Star Trek: Prodigy.

• Deadline reports that the casting was announced at New York Comic Con’s virtual event this Thursday.
• “I have invested every scintilla of my being in Captain Janeway, and I can’t wait to endow her with nuance that I never did before in Star Trek: Prodigy. How thrilling to be able to introduce to these young minds an idea that has elevated the world for decades. To be at the helm again is going to be deeply gratifying in a new way for me,” said Mulgrew.
• More casting announcements are expected to come in the coming months. 
• The series reportedly, “…follows a group of lawless teens who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and use it to search for adventure, meaning, and salvation.”

The Morning Show has added Greta Lee and Ruairi O’Connor to Season 2. 

• O’Connor has been cast as Ty Fitzgerald, who Deadline describes as “a charismatic and savvy YouTube star. He is repped by Independent Talent Group, Link, and GGSSC.”
• Lee will also play Stella Bak, “…an ambitious leader of an online media company that caters to a millennial and Gen Z audience.”
• Deadline also reported that filming has begun on The Morning Show Season 2, with Steve Carell returning. Carell originally signed a one-year deal. 
• The Morning Show Season 2 is expected to reflect the pandemic. 

The CW announced it will broadcast and stream Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life as an event series. 

• The network will run the four-part series from Monday, November 23rd thru Thanksgiving.
• Deadline observes, “It’s unusual for a Netflix original to be acquired by a linear network but The CW Chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz was known to have wanted the Gilmore Girls sequel and has admitted that it was tough to have been outspent by the streamer.”
• Amy Sherman-Palladino also spoke about what is keeping another revival from happening.

Teenage Bounty Hunters has been canceled by Netflix after one season.

• News of the cancellation came two months after the series premiered on August 14th.
• The show cracked the Neilsen Streaming Rankings Top 10 of August 17-23.
• Deadline clarified, “Netflix goes straight-to-series on all of its projects, bypassing a pilot stage. Canceling some series after Season 1 is equivalent to networks passing on some of their produced pilots.”

Apple TV+ has renewed Dickinson for Season 3 after setting the Season 2 premiere for early 2021.

• Dickinson Season 2 will premiere on Friday, January 8th.
• This comes a few months after creator, showrunner, and exec producer Alena Smith struck an overall deal with the streamer. 
• Dickinson is the first series on the platform to make it to the third Season. 
• Deadline reports, “In the second season, Dickinson is pulled out of her private literary life and thrust into the public eye, while struggling with the sense that the pursuit of fame might be a dangerous game for her to play.”

The CW has ordered 13 more episodes of The Outpost.

• In addition to the renewal, Anand Desai-Barochia, who plays Janzo, has been upped to associate producer. 
• Deadline reports, “The third season of the show was set to air over the summer but production was halted in March due to the COVID-19  shutdown. In June, the drama became one of the first SAG-AFTRA-approved shows to restart production in Serbia.”
• The CW is not calling this Season 4, but rather an additional thirteen episodes of the series. 

Young Sheldon paused production for one day after a positive COVID-19 test.

• The show, which resumed production on September 22nd, paused for a day after a production member tested positive as part of an ongoing testing protocol put in place by Warner Bros. TV for all production employees.
• Deadline reports, “The person is currently in isolation. Out of an abundance of caution, production on Young Sheldon was paused for today. The show will be back up on Monday as scheduled.”
• WBTV also took the same precautions with the production of All American. 

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