Narcos
All five seasons of Netflix’s original series “Narcos” will premiere on October 20th on Pluto TV in the show’s first streaming run on a free, ad-supported U.S. platform. “Narcos” will be streamed across four different linear channels on Pluto, whose ad-supported service now boasts 26.6 million monthly active users. There will be multiple airtimes in both English and Spanish. [Source: Bloomberg]
Flatbush Misdemeanors
Showtime has made a straight-to-series order of the ten-episode half-hour comedy “Flatbush Misdemeanors” from creators and writers Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman – adapting their digital series of the same name.
The story follows characters struggling to thrive in their new surroundings in the brash environment of Flatbush, Brooklyn as two longtime friends look to climb out of their heads and connect with others. [Source: Variety]
The Essex Serpent
Keira Knightley has left the Apple TV+ series “The Essex Serpent” due to family reasons. A four-and-a-half month shoot on the series was due to start in six weeks and is now on hiatus. Based on a 2016 novel by Sarah Perry, the story follows a newly widowed woman who, having escaped an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to a small village in the county of Essex. She is intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area. [Source: Variety]
Maid
Billy Burke (“Zoo,” “Revolution”) is set to co-star opposite Margaret Qualley and Andie MacDowell in Netflix’s dramedy series “Maid” based on Stephanie Land’s bestselling memoir.
Qualley plays a single mother who turns to housekeeping to – barely – make ends meet as she battles against poverty, homelessness, and bureaucracy. Burke will play Han, her contractor father who found sobriety through religion and is also the ex-husband of Paula (MacDowell) from whom he is very estranged. Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose and Tracy Vilar also star. [Source: Deadline]
CBS
CBS has announced it will begin rolling out its scripted series in November with ten shows to premiere between November 5th-17th, representing half of the network’s planned scripted lineup for the 2020-21 season. The launch dates are as follows:
Thursday, November 5th: Young Sheldon, B Positive, Mom
Sunday, November 8th: NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans
Wednesday, November 11th: “S.W.A.T.” (double episodes)
Monday, November 16th: The Neighborhood, Bob Hearts Abishola, All Rise
Tuesday, November 17th: NCIS
