Quick News: Strike, Hogwarts, Boom, Paint

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Garth Franklin
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The BBC

C.B. Strike
The BBC is reportedly preparing to renew “Strike” (aka. “C.B. Strike”) for a sixth season based on novels by J.K. Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Season six will adapt the novel “The Ink Black Heart” and follows the fifth season which aired in December.

The series chronicles cases investigated by Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective, and his business partner Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger). The new run will follow a successful YouTube animator who is murdered after she becomes the target of relentless online hate. [Source: Deadline]

Hogwarts Legacy
The last generation version of “Hogwarts Legacy,” for PS4 and Xbox One, has been delayed by a month and will now arrive on May 5th. The Nintendo Switch version remains on track for a July 25th release, and Avalanche has yet to show off anything from these versions in any detail.

The news comes as the game was already released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC last month to massive sale numbers. Most major AAA titles this year are sticking with current-gen only releases with “Hogwarts Legacy” one of the last to be made available for old hardware. [Source: Twitter]

Boom Boom: The World vs. Boris Becker
Apple TV+ has set an April 7th release date for “Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker,” a two-part documentary series by Alex Gibney about the high-profile and tumultuous personal life of the tennis sensation who won Wimbledon at just 17.

The series features interviews with Becker’s immediate family, as well as tennis stars like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, Novak Djokovic, Mats Wilander, and Michael Stich. [Source: Apple TV+]

Paint
IFC Films has released a new poster for the upcoming comedy feature “Paint” starring Owen Wilson as a very Bob Ross-esque public television painter. Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renee, Lusia Strus, Stephen Root, and Lucy Freyer co-star.

Written and directed by Brit McAdams, the movie focuses on Wilson’s Carl Nargle, a Vermont public television painter that suddenly finds himself out of the spotlight after a younger, better artist steals everything he loves. “Paint” opens April 7th. [Source: Twitter]