Only Murders in the Building renewed for London-set SeasonA 6 / ABC sets midseason premiere dates for the Scrubs revival and more / Disney+ exits Doctor Who partnership
PLUS: Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim have an emotional reunion after exiting SNL, describing it as “such a challenging place” to work.
Only Murders in the Building renewed for London-set Season 6
Hulu confirmed in its renewal announcement that the murder-mystery comedy “will film overseas for the first time,” with the beloved crime-solving trio of Mabel, Charles and Oliver leaving New York City to investigate London’s newest mystery.” The Season 5 finale teases the murder of a royal family descendant, a trip to London and the return of Cinda Channing, played by Tina Fey. “This whole season has been asking some central questions about the location of the building and what got them involved in all of this,” co-creator John Hoffman tells The Hollywood Reporter in discussing the Season 5 finale and Season 6. ”It’s a season where we’re looking at What does the home mean to us? How much do we defend the home? How far have we come together as a trio after five seasons? Unbelievable to say that, but after five seasons, we land with this trio solving all these murders and hitting a new level of care about what got started five years ago in relation to the family that was built in their building and among the trio. So we’re going back to the origin point, again, for the trio. What brought them together in the first place? It was a Cinda Canning affection and a particular affection around one true crime podcast she was doing at the moment they all met that both inspired them and got them rolling into this direction. There was a lot about looking at where we are going to be setting our next season, and thinking about the origins of storytelling around crime and mysteries and murder mysteries, cozy murder mysteries.”
ABC sets midseason premiere dates for the Scrubs revival, American Idol, Will Trent, The Rookie, The Bachelorette — but not The Bachelor
The Scrubs revival, reteaming Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison, will premiere on Feb. 25 and be paired with Abbott Elementary on Wednesday nights. American Idol is moving full-time to Monday nights for Season 24. Will Trent and The Rookie will join High Potential on Tuesday nights, starting Jan. 6. Season 22 of The Bachelorette, with Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul in the title role, will premiere on March 22. Meanwhile, The Bachelor, which was renewed for Season 30 in May, will premiere at a later date under new showrunner Scott Teti.
Mark Harmon to return as Gibbs on NCIS: Origins as part of a Veteran’s Day crossover event
Harmon, who narrates NCIS: Origins, will make his first on-screen appearance as Gibbs since the prequel series’ 2024 pilot. The crossover event airs on Nov. 11, starting with NCIS: Origins at 8 p.m. followed by NCIS at 9 p.m. According to the official description, “younger Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and team investigate the small-town death of a naval officer in the ‘90s — a case that’s unexpectedly re-opened in the present day.”
Disney+ exits Doctor Who partnership after two seasons as BBC commits to the long-running series
The partnership that made Disney+ the worldwide (outside of Britain and Ireland) streamer for Doctor Who has ended. The BBC, however, says it’s committed to continuing Doctor Who, announcing that the next installment will be a 2026 Christmas special. “We’d like to thank Disney+ for being terrific global partners and collaborators over the past two seasons, and for the upcoming (spinoff series) The War Between the Land and the Sea,” said Lindsay Salt, director of drama at the BBC. “The BBC remains fully committed to Doctor Who, which continues to be one of our most loved dramas, and we are delighted that Russell T Davies has agreed to write us another spectacular Christmas special for 2026. We can assure fans, the Doctor is not going anywhere, and we will be announcing plans for the next series in due course, which will ensure the TARDIS remains at the heart of the BBC.” Disney+ and the BBC announced the Doctor Who streaming deal in October 2022, which infused Doctor Who with more money. The deal ended up covering Ncuti Gatwa’s two seasons as the 15th Doctor.
Netflix is developing a contemporary take on Dangerous Liaisons
Mood creator and star Nicôle Lecky is behind the new take on the popular tale of manipulation and seduction. Inspired by the 18th century French novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, “Dangerous Liaisons is a modern-day reimagining set in 2025 London. A globe-trotting, heart-wrenching and scintillating erotic thriller, it is an unflinching exploration of power, wealth, race, romance amidst the unapologetic sexual appetites of the British ruling class and the new money elites,” per Deadline. The news comes as HBO Max is releasing next month a French-language reworking of Dangerous Liaisons, titled The Seduction.
Nobody Wants This Season 2 debuts to 8.6 million views in its first four days of streaming, down from Season 1
Viewership on the Kristen Bell-Adam Brody romcom series fell 17%, from 10.3 million views for Season 1 in its first four days, per Netflix figures.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow criticizes parent company Comcast for helping fund President Trump’s East Wing ballroom construction project
“For every Avelo Airlines, for every Paul Weiss law firm, and all the other law firms that did corrupt deals with Trump, for every corporation – like our parent company for another hot minute, Comcast – that wants to pay for Trump to take a literal wrecking ball, excuse me, I mean an excavator to the White House, those public-facing companies should know there’s a cost in terms of their reputation with the American people,” Maddow said Monday, per The Guardian.
Michelle Obama will be interviewed by Robin Roberts for an ABC News 20/20 special this Sunday
Michelle Obama: The Style, The Power, The Look – A Conversation with Robin Roberts – Special Edition of 20/20 will air on Sunday at 8 p.m., timed with the former first lady’s upcoming book The Look.
Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim have an emotional reunion after exiting SNL, describing it as “such a challenging place” to work
On Nwodim’s Thanks Dad podcast, the pair discussed getting “vulnerable” about everything that made SNL “such a challenging place” to work, according to The Daily Beast. “I am so honored that we worked so hard there, and then we also worked on our friendship so hard, which wasn’t hard, by the way,” Gardner said, “I just mean… we’re humans, so we have egos, we want things for ourselves, we want to succeed, and there weren’t a lot of times when we were able to succeed in the way we wanted at the exact same time.” Nwodim added: “It’s so easy to be caught up with your own stuff at SNL, and what you’re getting on and what you’re not getting on, and how you’re succeeding and how you wish you were doing better, or how I want what that person has.” She continued, “I remember so many times being like, why can’t we be able to be winning together at the same time, so it could feel like full celebration and not one of us mourning or frustrated and one of us like on cloud nine.”
One Piece Season 2 premieres in March
Toei Animation announced during a livestream event today that the live-action Netflix manga adaptation will return for Season 2 on March 10, 2026. Netflix also announced that the One Piece anime is going on a three-month break before returning in 2026 with a reduced yearly episode count.
Christina Applegate to reunite with her Married with Children castmates to raise money for Race to End MS
Applegate, who announced her MS diagnosis in 2021, will join Ed O’Neill, Katey Sagal and David Faustino at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, for “An Evening with The Bundys: The Married with Children Cast Reunion” to celebrate and reminisce about their iconic 11-season Fox sitcom. Race to Erase MS, which is dedicated to the treatment and cure of Multiple Sclerosis, will receive $2 from every ticket sold. Attendees “can expect never-before-heard stories, rare behind-the-scenes moments, and plenty of laughs as the Bundys relive their most outrageous and iconic memories together,” but the reunion won’t be filmed.
Bad Monkey Season 2 brings back Natalie Martinez, promotes Bill Lawrence’s daughter Charlotte Lawrence
Martinez will reprise her role as Rosa. Charlotte Lawrence, daughter of Bad Monkey creator Bill Lawrence and Christa Miller who recurred as rebellious teen Caitlin, has been promoted to series regular.
ESPN may move Scott Van Pelt to Around the Horn’s old timeslot
ESPN president of content Burke Magnus confirmed to The Athletic that Van Pelt, who hosts the late-night SportsCenter, is a candidate for the 5 p.m. ET timeslot, which is sandwiched between NFL Live and Pardon the Interruption. Other candidates include Peter Schrager and Brian Windhorst.
CNN’s new All Access streaming service launches
The new service costing $7 a month “will have more features for an audience that wants news first and a connection to traditional TV a distant second,” says Variety’s Brian Steinberg. “To be sure, the company’s new ‘All Access’ streaming outlet features its traditional cable programming — nearly all of the live hours of the linear grid between 5 a.m. and midnight, with a few exceptions. But its main goal is to bring viewers into the CNN fold who are interested in the latest news on trending topics, and not necessarily on time slots or talent.”
Ronan Farrow to turn his New Yorker story on the police’s mishandling of serial sexual predator Sean Williams into an HBO documentary
This will be Farrow’s third documentary based on his reporting, following 2021’s Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes and 2024’s Surveilled. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato will direct the documentary based on Farrow’s March 2025 New Yorker investigative story “How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away.”
Bill Moyers to get the documentary treatment
A documentary on Moyers, the former President Lyndon B. Johnson aide who went on to become the face of public television, is in the works four months after his death at age 91 in June. The documentary, which is yet to be titled, will explore Moyers’ life, work and impact. It is being made by filmmakers Kathleen Hughes and Tom Casciato and executive producers Sally Roy and Judy Doctoroff.
John Turturro to direct a documentary on four-time New York Yankees World Series-winning manager Joe Torre
“Joe Torre’s lifelong journey to the World Series is full of ups and downs, twists and turns, through a changing landscape and turbulent times,” said Turturro in a statement of his documentary, titled Joe Torre. “There’s something deeply human about Joe Torre’s quiet strength. In a time when men in sports hid their emotions behind toughness, Joe defied convention. His strength comes from compassion, his victories from understanding people.”
Brad Paisley has been the National Anthem singer for the only two 18-inning games in World Series history
Last night’s World Series Game 3 that went to 18 innings had a lot in common with the only other World Series game to last that long: 2018’s World Series Game 3: Both featured a Los Angeles Dodger player hitting a game-winning home run to win the game and both featured Paisley as National Anthem performer.
Reba McEntire tears up on The Voice over late stepson Brandon Blackstock over cancer survivor-inspired performance
A contestant’s dedication of her performance of Martina McBride’s “I’m Gonna Love You Through It” to her cancer-survivor dad on Monday’s show prompted McEntire to get emotional over Blackstock, who died of cancer in August, “I lost my oldest son, because he did not win with cancer,” McEntire said, per EW. “So that was a real reminder that life goes on, and we sing songs about it, so we can remember the ones that are around us that we love so much and that we lean on at times like this.”
Chappell Roan and The Killers the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony
They join a long list of presenters and performers already announced for the Nov. 8 ceremony.
YouTube TV adds two Bloomberg Media channels to its lineup
Bloomberg TV+, which has live coverage of breaking business and financial news, and Bloomberg Originals, featuring a slate of original series and documentaries, are both available on YouTube TV starting today.
Dancing with the Stars pro Jan Ravnik fires back Maks Chmerkovskiy with Taylor Swift lyrics
Ravnik, a backup dancer on Swift’s Eras tour, used her lyrics to respond to former Dancing pro Chmerkovskiy saying he has “absolutely no business being a pro on Dancing with the Stars.” “I’ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams,” Ravnik wrote on Instagram over the photo, a lyric from Swift’s Reputation track, “Look What You Made Me Do.”
Prunella Scales, Fawlty Towers star, dies at 93
Scales, the British actress best known for her role as Sybil Fawlty, the unflappable foil to her hotheaded husband, Basil, played by John Cleese, died Monday at her home in London. No cause was released, but Scales was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2014. “She was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died,” her sons said in a statement. “In Fawlty Towers, which aired on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979 and later on PBS, Ms. Scales elevated the character of exasperated spouse to a new level,” Natasha King writes in Scales’ New York Times obituary. “Starring opposite John Cleese, who played the high-strung manager of a dysfunctional seaside hotel, Ms. Scales was his elaborately coiffed and impeccably dressed wife who stood as a picture of eye-rolling calm as farce unfolded around her. She was often found smoking in a back room while on the telephone with a friend, her gossiping frequently punctuated with a drawling ‘Oh, I know!’ Confronted with her husband’s shenanigans, she cut him down to size with a withering look or a short, sharp ‘BASIL!’ — no mean feat for the petite 5-foot-3 Ms. Scales facing the 6-foot-5 Mr. Cleese. Some of Basil’s favorite epithets for his wife included “my little piranha fish” and “my little nest of vipers,” and he likened her braying laugh to ‘someone machine-gunning a seal.’ She often responded in kind: ‘Do you really imagine, even in your wildest dreams, that a girl like this could possibly be interested in an aging, brilliantined stick insect like you?” she admonished when she caught him in the closet of an attractive guest’s room.” Scales was also best known for co-hosting Channel 4’s Great Canal Journeys with her husband Timothy West. In a statement, John Cleese paid tribute to Prunella Scales, calling his on-screen wife in the BBC sitcom as “a really wonderful comic actress,” and added: “Scene after scene she was absolutely perfect.”