Peacock cancels Poker Face — Peter Dinklage being shopped as the new Charlie Cale / Mad Men to stream on HBO Max in 4K / Disney+ to allow user-generated A.I. content
PLUS: Sarah Jessica Parker to be honored with the Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett Award.
Peacock cancels Poker Face, Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne are shopping a new version with Peter Dinklage as Charlie Cale
“Peacock has decided not to renew Poker Face for a third season,” reports Deadline’s Mike Fleming jr. “Natasha Lyonne exits as star, but series creator Rian Johnson, his T-Street partner Ram Bergman, MRC and Lyonne thinks there are many mysteries ahead for the show’s signature character to solve. Last night, they began an effort to shop the show to other broadcasters for a two-season commitment. The shocker: Peter Dinklage will take over the role of Charlie, the sleuth whose superpower is an innate ability to detect liars.” In a statement, Johnson and Lyonne, who will remain as executive producer, said: “We’ve been germinating this next move together since writing the season two finale. We love our Poker Face and this is the perfect way to keep it rolling. Give us a beat and we may just see Charlie Cale again down that open highway.”
Sarah Jessica Parker to be honored with the Golden Globes’ Carol Burnett Award
The former Sex and the City star will be presented with the lifetime achievement TV award during the second-ever Globes-themed Golden Eve special, set to air Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026 on CBS. The special will also feature Helen Mirren accepting the Globes’ movie lifetime achievement award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Mad Men to stream on HBO Max in 4K for the first time ever
The 2007-2015 Emmy-winning AMC period drama, which is currently available to stream on AMC+, will make its 4K streaming debut on HBO Max on Dec. 1.
Disney+ to allow user-generated A.I. content
During an earnings call this morning, Disney CEO Bob Iger said Disney+ is “in the midst of rolling out the biggest and the most significant changes — from a product perspective, from a technology perspective — since we launched the service in 2019,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Iger added: “The other thing that we’re really excited about, that AI is going to give us the ability to do, is to provide users of Disney+ with a much more engaged experience, including the ability for them to create user-generated content and to consume user generated content — mostly short-form — from others.” Iger said Disney has had “productive conversations” with unnamed AI companies, and that he hoped the studio giant could reach an agreement that would also “reflect our need to protect the IP.”
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives producer is exploring potential spinoffs
Ideas include exploring “The Secret Lives” aspect and putting its stars in spinoff series. “I’m very hopeful that something will be coming to viewers and fans very soon,” said Jeff Jenkins, who runs Jeff Jenkins Productions, producer of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
Shōgun Season 2 will be a sweeping love story and an exploration of war’s devastating cost
“Part 2 is, I would say two things,” says co-creator Justin Marks. “Like the first season, I think part two is a really sweeping, beautiful and you’re never going to see a coming, entirely unexpected love story. It’s also a story of war and the cost of war. There are battle sequences that we’re putting together now in part two. I don’t think you’ve ever seen anything like this kind of scale, this kind of tragedy and this kind of humanity.”
Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show is off tonight
It’s unclear why Colbert is only doing three episodes this week. But it comes as Jimmy Kimmel is taking Wednesday and Thursday off after the death of his bandleader Cleto Escobedo III. So Jimmy Fallon will be the only 11:35 p.m. late-night host with a new show tonight.
Bravo’s Summer House spinoff In the City will star Amanda Batula, Kyle Cooke and Lindsay Hubbard
Here’s official logline: “In the city that never sleeps, a group of New Yorkers navigates the biggest transitions of their lives — marriage, parenthood, reinvention, and the reality of growing up without growing apart. Can they have it all, or will they need to choose between the lives they’ve built and the futures they never saw coming?”
Adult Swim creatives are teaming for “creative experience” Adult Swim’s The Elephant
Over the Garden Wall’s Patrick McHale, OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes’ Ian Jones-Quartey, Steven Universe’s Rebecca Sugar and Adventure Time’s Pendleton Ward are working on the project described as a creative experiment in which “each of the three acts are made in isolation,” with Sugar and Jones-Quartey working as a duo. “Every year around this time, we try to give the Adult Swim audience a gift they didn’t know they needed, and this year, it’s ‘Adult Swim’s The Elephant,’” said Michael Ouweleen, president of Adult Swim. “But really, the gift was working with this brilliant team and creating an excuse for their longtime friendship and creative partnership to continue and evolve. We can’t wait for you to see the results of this crazy experiment.”
BBC’s The Celebrity Traitors UK is coming to Peacock next week
The BBC’s recently aired first-ever celebrity version of The Traitors UK will make its Peacock debut next Thursday, Nov. 20, with all nine episodes dropping at once. The Celebrity Traitors UK cast includes Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr, Nick Mohammed and Stephen Fry.
NBC Universal reviving NBC Sports Network, starting on YouTube TV
NBC Sports Network, which shuttered in December 2021, will be revived with a slow rollout that will begin with YouTube TV, followed later by Comcast‘s Xfinity. “While it is in some ways counter-intuitive to launch a cable network in 2025, the strategic goal of the move is to ensure that viewers retain access to NBCU sports programming in a multiplatform environment,” says Deadline’s Dade Hayes. “NBCU recently struck a distribution deal with YouTube and Google, including a presence on YouTube TV, avoiding a potential blackout.”
Disney closes out its 2025 fiscal year on a streaming high note, despite cancelations after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension
Disney+ subscribers increased by 3.8 million in the quarter to hit 131.6 million. Hulu added 8.6 million subscribers.
Jim Avila, former correspondent for ABC News, 20/20 and NBC News, dies at 69
Avila “passed away after a long illness,” ABC News Live anchor Diane Macedo announced. Avila primarily served as ABC News’ Los Angeles-based correspondent for nearly two decades, specializing in politics, justice, law and consumer investigations. “He also worked in the White House and broke the news that the U.S. and Cuba had reopened diplomatic relations. That story earned him the prestigious Merriman Award from the White House Correspondents Association,” Macedo said. Before joining ABC, Avila was a correspondent for NBC News. He also worked at Los Angeles’ KNBC, where he covered the O.J. Simpson murder case.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters gets a Season 2 premiere date, reveals Kong teaser
The second season of the Legendary Monsterverse series will debut on Feb. 27, 2026.
Fallout’s Season 2 trailer features the first look at Kumail Nanjiani, Macaulay Culkin and Justin Theroux
The Amazon video game adaptation returns Dec. 17.
Watch the trailer for HBO’s 1985 Chicago Bears “The Super Bowl Shuffle” documentary
The Shuffle premieres Nov. 25.