Marvel renews Daredevil: Born Again for Season 3 / The View oddly silent about Jimmy Kimmel / The Paper to get NBC showcase
PLUS: David Letterman, who texted with Jimmy Kimmel this morning, blasts his ABC suspension.
Marvel gives Daredevil: Born Again an early Season 3 renewal
Brad Winderbaum, head of streaming, television and animation at Marvel Studios, told IGN of the series' renewal following earlier confusion over whether the project would wrap up after its second season. "In terms of Daredevil, yeah, we are greenlit for Season 3 and we start shooting next year," Winderbaum said. Over the summer, Daredevil: Born Again star Charlie Cox said at GalaxyCon that Season 2 would be the "final season," prompting co-star Vincent D’Onofrio to responded on X: “Good chance there will be a third.”
David Letterman, who texted with Jimmy Kimmel this morning, says "you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office”
“This is misery,” Letterman, Kimmel's longtime idol, said today at The Atlantic Festival when asked about Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s suspension in New York City, according to Variety. “I feel bad about this,” said Letterman. “We see where this is all going, correct? It’s managed media. And it’s no good. It’s silly. It’s ridiculous. And you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.” Letterman added: “The institution of the president of the United States ought to be bigger than a guy doing a talk show.” Letterman also revealed Kimmel texted him this morning. “He’s up in bed, he’s taking nourishment,” Letterman said.
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Barack Obama slams Jimmy Kimmel's ABC suspension: “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like,” the former president, a four-time Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest, wrote on X on Thursday, linking to Yahoo News’ reposting of a Vox article that calls the Kimmel suspension “Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.”
President Trump says Jimmy Kimmel “was fired” due to "lack of talent": "Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk," the president said in a joint press conference in Britain with UK Prime Minister Keir Starner. "And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings, and they should have fired him a long time ago; so, you know, you can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent."
Fox News' Greg Gutfeld rips Jimmy Kimmel: "I hate to tell you buddy, but the guy who shot and killed Charlie Kirk was more likely a fan of yours"
House Democratic leaders blast FCC Chairman Brendan Carr for a “corrupt abuse of power”
Democratic U.S. Rep Eric Swalwell wears a Jimmy Kimmel Live! hat in Congress
Over the summer, Jimmy Kimmel expressed hope that if Trump went after him, "my colleagues on the right will support my right to say what I like": “Well, you’d have to be naive not to worry a little bit. But that can’t change what you’re doing,” Kimmel told Variety's Todd Spangler. “And maybe it is naive, but I have the hope that if and when the day comes that he does start coming after comedians, that even my colleagues on the right will support my right to say what I like. Now, I could be kidding myself, and hopefully we’ll never find out. But if we do, I would hope that the outrage is significant.” As Spangler points out, "now that Trump and his backers have succeeded in forcing Jimmy Kimmel Live! (for now) off the air, the MAGA-verse — supposedly, a group of full-throated supporters of free speech — has reacted with glee, not outrage."
The View was oddly silent about fellow ABC show Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s suspension — despite no ban on talking about it
"You know how media figures make fun of Fox News when they ignore a huge story that makes President Trump look bad?" says The Hollywood Reporter's James Hibberd. "Something similar seemed to happen during The View on Thursday, which ignored the biggest media story in the country — Jimmy Kimmel Live! being suspended following the host’s controversial comments about suspected Charlie Kirk. The View panel was dead silent on the blockbuster controversy in their own network’s backyard. The show panel instead devoted their time to riveting topics such as Kash Patel’s congressional hearing and a discussion of RFK Jr." As Hibberd reports, "a source close to the show insists the panel was not forbidden from discussing Kimmel. It’s admittedly possible the panelists opted to self-censor during a period of internal crisis, as it’s difficult to imagine they didn’t find the topic compelling enough to discuss." Hibberd also notes that The View panelists weren't shy about talking about Stephen Colbert's cancelation in July.
Jimmy Fallon abruptly bows out of a New York City conference Thursday amid fallout over Jimmy Kimmel's suspension
“Unfortunately, Jimmy Fallon is no longer able to attend today’s session,” the Fast Company Innovation Festival said in a statement. Fallon and marketing executive Bozoma Saint John had been scheduled to discuss their new advertising-focused NBC series On Brand.
SNL to kick off Season 51 with Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler and Sabrina Carpenter
After appearing as musical guest in the Season 50 finale, Bad Bunny will help launch Season 51 with his second hosting stint on Oct. 4, joined by musical guest Doja Cat. Poehler will host the Oct. 11 show, airing on the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live’s Oct. 11, 1975 launch, with musical guest Role Model. This will be Poehler's third time hosting. She hosted solo in 2010 and with Tina Fey in 2015. Carpenter will host for the first time, pulling double duty as musical guest, on Oct. 18.
The Paper will become the first show created for Peacock to air on NBC
The first season of The Office sequel will air after St. Denis Medical on Mondays, starting Nov. 10. The Paper's entire first season dropped on Sept. 4. "While NBC has aired one-off episodes of Peacock shows as promotional stunts designed to drive audiences to the streamer, this will mark the first time a series created by and for Peacock will get a full season run on NBC, but it likely won’t be the last," says Vulture's Josef Adalian. "Opening up broadcast windows for streaming originals has become increasingly common over the last couple of years, with the time between digital and linear premieres rapidly shrinking."
NBC cheerleading comedy series Stumble gets a premiere date
The mockumentary-style single-camera comedy will air after Happy's Place on Fridays, starting Nov. 10.
Chace Crawford joins Dan Fogelman's Hulu NFL drama series
Crawford will play the new general manager for the football team owned by William H. Macy's character.
The Summer I Turned Pretty did indeed film fake series finale scenes in Paris
Creator Jenny Han says she filmed special scenes with Lola Tung and one of her co-stars "because I like to keep surprises for the audience. That's really hard in this day and age. As movies get filmed, people see the whole movie, and I think it takes away from some of the excitement around it when you have all these spoilers. So that was my way of trying to protect the story for the audience."
Roseanne Barr appears to blame the Biden administration for Roseanne's cancelation that took place under the first Trump administration
"Yeah imagine an administration putting pressure on a television channel to fire a comedian they didn’t like," Barr tweeted after anti-Trump former George W. Bush official David Frum tweeted: "Trying to imagine the reaction if the Biden administration had demanded that Fox fire Greg Gutfeld because he wasn't sufficiently sad about the assault on Paul Pelosi." ABC's Roseanne reboot was canceled in May 2018, in the second year of Trump's first presidency.
Golden Globe Awards expands with a Golden Eve primetime special on CBS
Airing the night before the Globes on Jan. 8, the Golden Eve special will feature highlights from the presentation of the Globes’ tribute awards, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and the Carol Burnett Award.
Nobody Wants This books Seth Rogen and Kate Berlant
The pair will be featured in guest star roles in Season 2 of the hit Netflix comedy series.
Natasha Lyonne and Matt Berry team for retro Sky drama series Force & Majeure
Lyonne and Berry are co-creating with Tom Scharpling and starring in the British outlet's “retro-infused, playfully irreverent take on the classic TV action-adventure detective genre.” According to Deadline, "Force & Majeure follows a British art expert, Thomas Force (Berry,) and American mercenary Jennifer Majeure (Lyonne). The pair are recruited by an eccentric, justice-obsessed billionaire named Amanda Daventry and find themselves tasked with defeating the evil plans of international villains operating in locations across Europe. But as Force & Majeure team up to defeat the forces of evil, they must also work together to escape the clutches of Amanda, who may not be telling them the whole story. More casting is anticipated in due course along with launch date."
The Charlie Kirk Show producer urges Comedy Central to restore "Got a Nut" episode that parodied Charlie Kirk
Andrew Kolvet, an executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show and a close friend of the slain conservative activist, said Kirk “loved that he was featured in South Park" and would have wanted the episode satirizing him to continue airing. “As someone who can speak with some authority on this, Charlie loved that he was featured in South Park,” Kolvet wrote on X. “He told me many times. He would want the episode back up.”
Andre Agassi teams with Julie Plec on a tennis academy drama series
Set at a hyper-competitive elite tennis academy, the series from the retired tennis legend and The Vampire Diaries co-creator follows ambitious young players discover the loneliest sport in the world demands sacrificing the very connections that might be the only thing that makes winning feel worth it.
Former WWE wrestler to star in USA Network's Everything On The Menu with Braun Strowman
The unscripted food series follows Strowman as “he brings his superhuman appetite to America’s most delicious destinations, from the ultimate greasy-spoon favorites to the Michelin-starred temples of gastronomy and everything in-between."
50 Cent's Starz boxing drama Fightland adds eight to cast
Howard Charles, Nicholas Pinnock, Deborah Ayorinde, Charles Babalola, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Tahirah Sharif, Tyler Conti and Richard Pepple will star in the drama series set in the world of British boxing.
Tim Robinson uncovers a vast criminal conspiracy in HBO's The Chair Company trailer
Robinson stars as a man who finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy after experiencing an embarrassing incident at work in the comedy series he co-created with longtime collaborator Zach Kanin. The Chair Company premieres Oct. 12.
Jason Clarke is on the hunt for escaped convicts in the Alaska wilderness in Apple TV+'s The Last Frontier trailer
Premiering Oct. 10 with two episodes, The Last Frontier follows Frank Remnick (Clarke), the lone U.S. marshal in charge of the quiet, rugged barrens of Alaska.
The Diplomat Season 3 trailer pits Keri Russell vs. Allison Janney
The Netflix political drama series returns Oct. 16.