TV News Wrap-Up: ‘Superman & Lois’ Renewed, ‘Pose’ Ending, Comic-Con Canceled Again

A ground-breaking drama sets an end date, a couple of unsurprising renewals, and fans will have to wait another year for their return to Hall H.

Just to be safe, get in line early and check out this week’s news!

‘Pose’ to End With Season 3

• It’s time for one last party, as trail-blazing FX drama Pose is set to end with its upcoming Season 3.
• TVLine reports, the long-delayed season will premiere Sunday, May 2 at 10/9c, with the series finale currently scheduled for Sunday, June 6.
• The final season consists of seven episodes and takes place in 1994 where “Ballroom feels like a distant memory for Blanca, who struggles to balance being a mother with being a present partner to her new love, and her latest role as a nurse’s aide. Meanwhile, as AIDS becomes the leading cause of death for Americans ages 25 to 44, Pray Tell contends with unexpected health burdens. Elsewhere, the emergence of a vicious new upstart house forces the House of Evangelista members to contend with their legacy.”
• “Pose was conceived as a love letter to the underground NY ballroom community, to my beloved New York, to my queer & trans family, to myself. I, along with my incredible collaborators, never intended on changing the TV landscape. I simply wanted to tell an honest story about family, resilience, and love,” said co-creator Steven Canals. “How fortunate am I to have done that for three seasons. I’m filled with gratitude to our intrepid writers, cast, crew, and producers who worked tirelessly to make Pose come to life, humbled by our loyal audience, thankful to the ballroom community who trusted us to tell their story, overwhelmed by the critics who warmly embraced us, and forever indebted to Ryan Murphy, FX, and 20th Television for changing my life
• Pose Season 3 premieres on FX Sunday, May 2 at 10/9c.

Indira Varma Uses The Force to Join Obi-Wan Kenobi

• Indira Varma is heading to a galaxy far far away, as she joins the cast of the Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi series, per Deadline.
• With Lucasfilm’s famous secrecy, we obviously have no details on her character.
• Varma is well known for her roles in For Life, Game of Thrones, and Torchwood.
• Other than it taking place following the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, very little is known about the show.
• Ewan McGregor will once again play the fabled Jedi Master, with Hayden Christensen also returning as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.
• Production is rumored to start in the Spring.

‘Superman & Lois’ Soars Into Season 2, ‘Supergirl’ Sets Season 6 Premiere

• The Man of Steel is sticking around The CW, because Superman & Lois has been renewed for Season 2.
• TVLine reports, the show’s Feb. 23 premiere garnered 1.75 million total viewers, which grew to 2.71 million when Live+3 DVR playback was factored in.
• The series, a spinoff of Supergirl, follows Clark and Lois as they move to Smallville with their twin teenage sons. Superman is engaged in battle with another Earth’s Captain Luthor, while Lois takes on ruthless businessman Morgan Edge.
• TVLine reports that Supergirl Season 6, its last, will premiere Tuesday, March 30 at 9/8c, during Superman & Lois’ Spring hiatus.
• Superman & Lois returns Tuesday, May 18 to finish Season 1, with Supergirl airing its final episodes in the Summer.
• Superman & Lois airs Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW.
• Supergirl Season 6 premieres Tuesday, March 30 at 9/8c on The CW.

Starz Developing ‘Party Down’ Revival

• Starz is planning to bring back one of its most popular originals, with the network in early development on a Party Down limited series revival, per Variety.
• “At the end of 2019, the Party Down cast and producers were all reunited at a retrospective for the show hosted by Vulture. We had such a good time that we wanted to find a way to get the team back together again,” said executive producer Rob Thomas. “The cast is so busy these days that finding a window where we can do it may require trigonometry, but we’re determined to make it happen.”
• The comedy is about a team of cater-waiters, who work various events around Los Angeles while pursuing careers in Hollywood. Every episode featured a different party, where shenanigans would always ensue.
• The cast included TV favorites Adam Scott, Ken Marino, Lizzy Caplan, Jane Lynch, Martin Starr, Ryan Hansen, and Megan Mullally.
• “Before the cast of Party Down became well-known television and movie actors and award winners, they were all wearing the same pink bowties as part of a less than competent team of Los Angeles cater-waiters while chasing their dreams of stardom on the Starz series,” said Christina Davis, president of original programming, Starz. “Fans have been waiting more than 10 years for this revival to happen and we’re thrilled to be in development with Rob, Paul, Dan and John at the helm.”

‘The Simpsons’ Picks up Two-Season Renewal

• To the surprise of no one, Fox has given its flagship series The Simpsons another two-season renewal, bringing it to Seasons 33 and 34.
• TVLine reports, the series will reach 750 episodes and air through 2023.
• “Everyone at The Simpsons is thrilled to be renewed once more, and we are planning lots of big surprises,” says series creator Matt Groening. “Homer will lose a hair, Milhouse will get contact lenses and Bart will celebrate his tenth birthday for the thirty-third time.”
• The Simpsons airs Sunday at 8/7c on Fox.

Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo Set for AppleTV+ Anthology ‘Roar’

• Fresh off the success of The Undoing, Nicole Kidman has lined up her next TV project with the AppleTV+ anthology series Roar
• According to The Hollywood Reporter, she will be joined by Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, and Alison Brie.
• Cecelia Ahern’s book of short stories will be adapted into eight half-hour episodes “about what it means to be a woman.”
• Roar counts Kidman among its executive producers.

IMDB TV Orders ‘Bosch’ Spinoff

• Bosch fans can cheer up, as Harry Bosch isn’t done with TV yet. Variety reports Titus Welliver will continue to portray the character in an IMDB TV spinoff.
• Welliver will be joined by Mimi Rogers and Madison Lintz in a story following “Harry Bosch (Welliver) as he embarks on the next chapter of his career and finds himself working with his one-time enemy and top-notch attorney Honey “Money” Chandler (Rogers). With a deep and complicated history between this unlikely pair, they must work together to do what they can agree on – finding justice.”
• “To say I am ecstatic is an understatement!” Welliver said. “To be given the opportunity to tell more Harry Bosch stories is a tremendous gift. The process of shooting season 7 with the shadow of it being our final loomed heavily so when the idea was presented to continue with the possibility of a spinoff, without hesitation I said, ‘let’s go.’ To all of our Bosch fans, thank for your incredible support for all these years and I can promise you the ride will only get better!”
• Bosch Season 7, its last, is scheduled to air this summer on Amazon Prime Video.

Bill Nye Brings New Science Show to Peacock

• Popular scientist Bill Nye is returning to television with his new Peacock series The End is Nye, per Variety.
• Nye also executive produces the show, which covers “the mystery and reality of such threats as viruses, volcanoes, asteroids, authoritarianism, climate change, and chemical warfare.”
• Nye gained fame as the host of the ’90s show Bill Nye the Science Guy. The series featured Nye explaining and demystifying science using experiments and interviews with other scientists.
• In addition to his podcast Science Rules!, Nye can currently be seen as Upton Sinclair in the film Mank, now streaming on Netflix.
• Brannon Braga (Star Trek, Cosmos) is the showrunner/director for The End is Nye, which also has Seth MacFarlane as an executive producer.

San Diego Comic-Con Goes Virtual Again

• As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt all facets of life, the organizers behind San Diego International Comic-Con are taking the event virtual again in 2021, per Deadline.
• “We have made the challenging decision to postpone Comic-Con 2021 as an in-person gathering until our 2022 dates, and once again hold this year’s celebration as the free online Comic-Con@Home,” said a message on the official Comic-Con website. “We will return to the San Diego Convention Center July 20-24, 2022.”
• Despite Comic-Con’s July cancelation, a small in-person event is planned for November, though there are no confirmed dates or details announced.
• Attendees who had their 2020 badges rolled over to 2021 will have those honored in 2022.
• The organization already announced the cancelation of WonderCon 2021, which will now be WonderCon@Home March 26-27.

So does the ATX Television Festival

• The festival announced that it would expand its dates from Friday, June 11 to Sunday, June 20 to celebrate its tenth year (Season 10). 
• The second weekend of the event (June 18-20) will be filmed from iconic locations in the heart of Austin.
• The festival will announce its first round of Season 10 programming in April.

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