Young Sherlock renewed for Season 2 / Pop Culture Jeopardy! to become Netflix's first regular M-F daily show / Michelle Monaghan joins Your Friends & Neighbors
PLUS: Dr. Pimple Popper Sandra Lee reveals she had a stroke while filming her Lifetime show: “A part of my brain died."
Young Sherlock renewed for Season 2
Amazon Prime Video has ordered a second season of the Hero Fiennes Tiffin-led mystery/comedy series following its premiere on March 4. “The Sherlock Holmes origin story has been a big hit for Prime Video, topping its charts in 95 countries and hitting the 45M viewer mark. It is one of Prime Video’s top 10 Originals ever,” says Deadline’s Stewart Clarke. Executive producer Guy Ritchie will return to direct the first episode of Season 2, as he did in Season 1. Young Sherlock was created by Matthew Parkhill, inspired by Andrew Lane’s book Young Sherlock Holmes. “Young Sherlock has that rare magic — millions of fans around the world aren’t just watching a detective story, they’re falling in love with the origin of an icon,” said Peter Friedlander, head of global television, Amazon MGM Studios. “Guy Ritchie and Matthew Parkhill have cracked the code on making Sherlock’s early years feel fresh, dangerous, and utterly addictive, and have introduced a compelling take on James Moriarty that sets the stage for what’s to come. We can’t wait to see where they take him next in season two.”
Dr. Pimple Popper Sandra Lee reveals she had a stroke while filming her Lifetime show: “A part of my brain died”
The viral dermatologist and star of Lifetime reality show Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out discovered she was having a stroke last November when she began slurring her speech. “It happened while I was filming the show,” Lee, who was seeing patients at the time, tells People. “I had what I thought was a hot flash. I got super sweaty and didn’t feel like myself.” the next day, at the urging of her dermatologist father, Lee went to the emergency room, where an MRI revealed that she had indeed suffered an ischemic stroke, where blood vessels supplying the brain are blocked, depriving cells of critical oxygen and nutrients. Lee immediately halted filming and spent the next two months in recovery, undergoing physical and occupational therapy to regain balance and movement, “very basic things,” says Lee, who was especially concerned about her hands. “I don’t like that I don’t have total control of my left hand or the grip wasn’t as strong. If I feel like I’m not at my best—it’s very scary.” Adds Lee’s neurologist Dr. May Kim-Tenser of USC’s Keck medical school: “She’s lucky. Her symptoms are pretty much resolved.” Lee returns with a new season of Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out on April 20.
Michelle Monaghan returning to Apple TV for Your Friends & Neighbors Season 3
After starring on HBO’s The White Lotus in 2025 and Apple TV’s Bad Monkey in 2024, Monaghan will join Jon Hamm as a series regular on Your Friends & Neighbors Season 3. Details of her character are being kept under wraps, but she is expected to play a potential new love interest for Hamm’s Andrew Cooper as part of her one-year deal, according to Deadline.
Colin Jost-hosted Pop Culture Jeopardy! will air daily when it moves from Amazon Prime Video to Netflix
“New episodes will roll out in a very un-Netflix way: daily,” reports Vulture’s Josef Adalian. “The streamer that famously eschewed advertising or live sports — until it did not — has decided to drop one 25-minute episode of Pop Culture Jeopardy! every weekday for a full month, starting on Monday, May 11, and ending with the season-two finale on Friday, June 5. Per a Netflix source, this is believed to be the first time the streamer has used a daily, Monday-through-Friday cadence to release an original U.S. entertainment series.” With Season 1, Amazon Prime Video released three episodes per week. With Season 2, reports Adalian, “Netflix and producers Sony Pictures Television jointly discussed rollout options and ultimately decided that since fans of Jeopardy! are very comfortable with tuning in for daily episodes, it made sense to experiment with that sort of scheduling for season two.”
Dan Stevens joins Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 as the Five Borough Killer
The former Downton Abbey star will play the second big bad of Season 2, joining the previously announced Brian Cox as The New York Ripper. Stevens’ Owen Stark, AKA the Five Borough Killer, “is a serial killer who, much like Zodiac, taunts the police with phone calls threatening the murder of innocent citizens,” according to Deadline. “When he follows through with the awful deeds…the City and the Police are terrorized.”
SNL UK taps Nicola Coughlan and Aimee Lou Wood as hosts
Bridgerton vet Nicola Coughlan will host Saturday Night Live UK on April 25, joined by musical guest Foo Fighters — who have previously appeared on SNL U.S. nine times. The White Lotus and Sex Education alum Aimee Lou Wood will host May 2 with British singer MEEK as musical guest. ALSO: Go behind the scenes of a week at SNL UK.
Nielsen finally releases its monthly Gauge for February, confirming the Winter Olympics were very good for NBC Universal and Versant
“Thanks to the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics, NBCUniversal — with an assist from the recently spun off Versant — dethroned YouTube for the largest share of TV viewing in February,” says The Hollywood Reporter’s Rick Porter. “Nielsen released both its monthly Gauge summary of viewing by platform and its Media Distributor Gauge for the reach of TV use by company on Tuesday. The stats were held back for several weeks due to some Nielsen clients pushing back on a change in how the ratings provider assembled its Gauge data.”
ABC is poised to expand its scripted lineup for the second year in a row
“That is because the network appears likely to pick up at least one of its two pilots while also renewing all of its current scripted series,” reports Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva. The Jay Ellis-led The Rookie spinoff pilot The Rookie: North looks “promising,” says Andreeva. The comedy pilot Do You Want Kids?, co-created by and starring Rachel Bloom with husband Dan Gregor, is looking “mixed” for a pickup.
Jon Stewart thinks he resembles the bearded man being healed in President Trump’s Jesus meme
“What the f*ck?!” Stewart said on The Daily Show.
Check out the first look at Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody
Jay Armstrong Johnson and Jimin Moon will play Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, respectively, in the Off Broadway musical parody that will have an eight-week run starting in May.
Pulitzer-winning poet and writer Mary Oliver is getting the PBS American Masters treatment
Watch the trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, premiering Aug. 25 and featuring interviews with Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Buscemi and Lucy Dacus.