TV News Wrap-Up: ‘City on a Hill’ Renewed, ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ Canceled, FX Announces 2021 Premiere Dates

Netflix switches from heroes to villains, HBO Max’s latest true-crime drama adds another big name, and BBC closes the doors on a longtime hit.

Hang up your capes and check out this week’s news!

‘The Mosquito Coast’ Renewed for Season 2

AppleTV+ continues to build its original programming roster, with The Mosquito Coast getting renewed for Season 2.

The series, featuring the characters from Paul Theroux’s novel, follows inventor Allie Fox and his family as they go on the run in Mexico. Paul’s nephew, Justin Theroux stars with Melissa George, Logan Polish, and Gabriel Bateman.

Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders TV, Justin Theroux said that even though the novel has “its own finite ending … it’s still sort of TBD for Neil [Cross] in what areas we want to start to play in if we’re lucky to get a second season, and a third and fourth.”

The Mosquito Coast is streaming on AppleTV+.

FX Announces 2021 Premiere Dates for its Lineup

From What We Do in the Shadows to American Horror Story to the latest installment of American Crime Story, FX has announced the summer and fall premiere dates for some of its most anticipated series, per TVLine.

TVLine reports, FX’s biggest franchise American Horror Story debuts Season 10, Double Feature on Wednesday, Aug. 25 at 10/9c. The episodes will hit FX on Hulu the following day.

Double Feature includes the usual Ryan Murphy players Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Adina Porter, Leslie Grossman, Angelica Ross, Billie Lourd, and Finn Wittrock. It will have two stories, ” one by the sea, one by the sand.”

The franchise expands with American Horror Stories, an anthology spinoff featuring seven episodes. The first two premiere on FX on Hulu on Thursday, July 15, with new outings dropping every Thursday.

The cast for at least one episode features Kevin McHale, Dyllón Burnside, Charles Melton, and Nico Greetham.

Impeachment: American Crime Story, which follows the Clinton Impeachment scandal will premiere Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 10/9c.

Like its predecessors, Impeachment features a stacked cast that includes Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton, Clive Owen as Bill Clinton, Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky, and Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp.

Popular vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows debuts Season 3 Thursday, Sept 2 at 10 pm.

Ben Schnetzer, Diane Lane and Amber Tamblyn star in the long-awaited adaptation of Y: The Last Man. Based on the comic, the story is set in a post-apocalyptic world where every mammal with a y chromosome, except for one cisgender man and his monkey have been killed. It starts streaming on FX on Hulu Monday, Sept. 13.

Also hitting FX on Hulu: Reservation Dogs on Monday, Aug. 9, and the untitled B.J. Novak anthology on Thursday, Sept. 16.

FXX has the premiere of Archer Season 12 on Wednesday, Aug. 25 at 10 pm.

Sophie Turner Joins HBO Max’s ‘The Staircase’

The latest star-studded limited series from HBO Max has added a familiar face. Variety reports, Sophie Turner has joined The Staircase.

The series stars Colin Firth as Michael Peterson and Toni Collette as his wife Kathleen. It’s based on the true-crime story where Michael was accused of murdering Kathleen. He said she fell down the stairs, but the police thought he bludgeoned her to death and staged the fall.

Turner will play Michael’s adopted daughter Margaret Ratliff. She joins a cast that includes Parker Posey, Juliette Binoche, and Rosemarie DeWitt.

Turner is most well-known for portraying Game of Thrones‘ Sansa Stark, and Jean Grey in the X-Men movie franchise.

‘City on a Hill’ Gets Season 3

Showtime wants more of the intense back and forth between Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge, as it has renewed City on a Hill for Season 3.

TVLine, reports, the new season will have eight episodes, and will likely premiere in 2022.

The drama follows Bacon’s shady FBI agent Jackie Rohr and Hodge’s ADA Decourcy Ward as they chase justice in Boston.

City on a Hill Season 2 ended with Decourcy and Jackie each unsure of their life choices following trauma and tragedy.

Bacon and Hodge are executive producers alongside Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

City on a Hill is available to stream on sho.com.

‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ Canceled, Spinoff to Continue Universe

Netflix has decided to move on from Jupiter’s Legacy, but is staying in the universe with a new live-action series focused on the villains, per Deadline.

Set in the world of Jupiter’s Legacy, Supercrooks follows “a ragtag gang of supervillains, con artists, petty thieves and leg-breakers who band together for the heist of the century and the most outrageous crime story you’ve ever seen in your life. Crime pays, and they’re going to prove it. Some people just want to have the time of their lives and make a little dirty money while they’re doing it. If the superheroes get in the way, they’re going to be spitting teeth.”

Jupiter’s Legacy is part of the streamer’s purchase of Millarworld, an expansive roster of characters and stories created by comic book writer Mark Millar.

“I’m really proud of what the team achieved with Jupiter’s Legacy and the amazing work everyone did on that origin season,” Millar said. “I’ve been asked a lot about what we’re planning next with this world, and the answer is to see what the supervillains are getting up to. I’ve always loved crime stories, from Scorsese to Tarantino, and supervillains are always the most fun part of any superhero story. To do something exclusively focused on the villains they fight just feels incredibly fresh as we explore what it’s like to be a bad guy in a world crawling with good guys who want to put you in jail.”

Since the network is moving on to a new part of the franchise, the star-studded cast of Jupiter’s Legacy, which includes Josh Duhamel, Ben Daniels, Leslie Bibb, Matt Lanter, and Tyler Mane, has been released from its commitments.

“Jupiter’s Legacy is a vast and rich space with lots of characters to mine, and so I’m happy to share that our next step here is a live-action version of the Supercrooks comic I created with Leinil Francis Yu a few years back,” Millar continued. “Given where we’re going next, we’ve made the tough call of letting our incredible cast out of their show commitment as we continue to thoughtfully develop all realms of the Jupiter’s Legacy saga. We’re confident we’ll return to it later and just want to say thanks to you guys for your continued support and to the cast and crew who made this look so great.”

There’s also an anime adaptation of Supercrooks coming to Netflix. Though characters from Jupiter’s Legacy appear in Supercrooks, there is no word on if any of the actors will cross over to the new series.

Jupiter’s Legacy is now streaming on Netflix.

‘NCIS: LA’ Promotes Gerald McRaney to Series Regular

NCIS: LA fans will be seeing even more of Admiral Kilbride in Season 13. TVLine reports, veteran actor Gerald McRaney has been promoted to series regular for the procedural’s next season.

McRaney’s Admiral Hollace Kilbride (Ret.) has recurred since Season 6. In recent seasons he has appeared as the team’s supervisor while Linda Hunt took time away.

“When you have an actor of Gerald McRaney’s caliber, you do everything you can to make sure you get him as often as possible,” NCIS: LA showrunner R. Scott Gemmill told Deadline. “Admiral Kilbride has been an esteemed part of our universe for seven years now and we look forward to viewers seeing him come in and shake up our NCIS: LA world.”

NCIS: LA recently wrapped up Season 12 on a rare happy note. However, the finale featured the exits of series vets Barrett Foa and Renee Felice Smith.

NCIS: LA Season 12 is streaming on CBS. It’s set to return in the fall, continuing to air Sundays at 9/8c.

BBC’s ‘Holby City’ to End After 23 Seasons

BBC announced that the long-running medical drama Holby City will end in early 2022, per The Hollywood Reporter.

 A spinoff of Casualty, Holby City premiered in 1999 and has run for 23 seasons and over 1000 episodes.

It’s featured future stars Letitia Wright, Michael Fassbender, and Nicholas Hoult among the memorable patients who’ve checked into Holby.

“Holby has been a stalwart with audiences, delighting millions of viewers each week and winning hundreds of awards with a compelling mix of cutting edge medical stories and explosive personal stories,” the BBC said. “We look forward to working with the team over the coming months to ensure that when it ends, Holby goes out on a high.”

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