Paramount+ Announces Premiere Dates For Several Series, While Patrick Stewart Leaves The Door Open After 'Star Trek: Picard'
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While the day didn’t start on a great foot for Paramount+ with the cancellation of the Workaholics movie, Monday was their Television Critics Association panel. It is the first in-person event since the pandemic. At one point this was a vital promotional event for network programming. Many networks and platforms have abandoned the event this year. Even Paramount’s Showtime will not have a presence. But Paramount+ came packing, hyping four new series and the final season of Star Trek: Picard.
First was the spy drama Rabbit Hole, starring Kiefer Sutherland. Premiering on March 26, the spy drama finds corporate espionage’s master of deception John Weir (Sutherland) framed for murder by forces most would find comparable to Illuminati, or at least as it’s put “powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations”. Charles Dance, Meta Golding, Enid Graham, Jason Butler Harner, Walt Klink, and Rob Yang also star. John Requa and Glenn Ficarra serve as showrunners.
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The Grease prequel Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies was next. Starring Marisa Davila as Jane, Cheyenne Isabel Wells as Olivia, Ari Notartomaso as Cynthia, and Tricia Fukuhara as Nancy as the inaugural and original Pink Ladies-to-be, the series is set in 1954, four years before the film. The girls are described as “four fed-up outcasts” who “dare to have fun on their own terms, sparking a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever.” After having been originally ordered in October 2019 as Grease: Rydell High for HBO Max, it moved services in October 2020, and will finally premiere on April 6, 2023.
With Star Trek: Picard, its February 16 return date for its third and final season has been known since September’s Star Trek Day, but there was still discussion to be had. For the grand farewell, this season brings back most of the rest of Patrick Stewart’s cast mates from Star Trek: The Next Generation movies. Stewart says “There is still enormous potential for matters in what we can do and there are doors left open and we didn’t close all of them.” Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean more Picard, on Picard or not. Especially as some outlets interpreted that this might not be the final season. The doors don’t need to be about him, but any of the people surrounding him, his crews of either show. It had been said that the plate was full as far as series on the air, and with this slot opening, anything is possible, and franchise steward Alex Kurtzman said “anything is possible”.
School Spirits stars Cobra Kai’s Peyton List as Maddie Nears, a murdered teen girl investigating her own death while still attending high school in the afterlife, and what she finds as she solves it is more secrets and lies. It is based on the upcoming graphic novel by Nate Trinrud, Megan Trinrud, and Maria Nguyen. Originally marked for a fall premiere, it’s coming on March 9, at least half a year sooner.
And finally, what do you say to a Fatal Attraction series? That’s right, the 1987 Michael Douglas/Glenn Close film is being reimagined as a television series Paramount+, with Joshua Jackson as Dan Gallagher, Amanda Peet as wife Beth Gallagher, and Lizzy Caplan as the mistress Alex Forrest. Toks Olagundoye appears in a recurring role. It is set to premiere on April 30. All in all, with Mayor of Kingstown picking up for Tulsa King and 1923 back in a few weeks, it’s quite a packed first third of 2023 for the service on just all this alone.
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