Streaming News Roundup: ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Final Season Premiere, ‘Good Omens’ Renewal, More
“Good Omens” Renewed for Third and Final Season
Some good comes with some bad. Prime Video has announced a Season 3 renewal for its fan-favorite series “Good Omens,” starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen. However, the third season will be its last.
While the British comedy series was initially launched as a limited series, its popularity led to it being renewed for a second season, which premiered this past July. The story follows fussy angel and rare book dealer Aziraphale (Sheen) and fast-living demon Crowley (Tennant), who team up to form an unlikely alliance in an attempt to stop the approaching Armageddon.
Watch the trailer for “Good Omens” Season 2 below:
According to book and series creator Neil Gaiman, the forthcoming season will bring to life a conversation he and his co-writer, the late Sir Terry Pratchett, had nearly 35 years ago where they mapped out what happens next for their characters.
The final season of “Good Omens” will begin filming soon in Scotland to premiere on Prime Video at a later date.
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” Final Season Sets Premiere Date
It’s been a pretty, pretty, pretty good run for HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but the iconic comedy will make one final mess out of everything this February.
The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning “Curb” will return for its 12th season and final season on Sunday, Feb. 4. The series, which stars Larry David as an over-the-top version of himself, first debuted on the cabler in 2000 until 2011 before resuming in 2017.
Watch the trailer for “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Season 11 below:
Series regulars Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, Cheryl Hines, J.B. Smoove, Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, Vince Vaughn, and Tracey Ullman make close out the series with David.
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” will debut its 10-episode final season on Sunday, Feb. 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. New episodes will debut subsequent Sundays leading up to the series finale on April 7.
Peacock Releases Trailer for Season 2 of “The Traitors”
Peacock will soon be serving up a double dose of treachery and deceit when its psychological reality competition series “The Traitors” returns next month.
Hosted by stage and screen star Alan Cumming at an ancient castle in the Scottish Highlands, “The Traitors” pits some of entertainment’s most competitive reality stars and famous faces against each other in the ultimate murder mystery game. Contestants must work together on a series of missions to build a prize pot of up to $250,000, but hidden amongst the Faithful are the Traitors, who will pick off the Faithful one by one to claim the prize for themselves. If the Faithful contestants banish all the Traitors, they will share the prize fund, but if a Traitor (or Traitors) makes it to the end, they will steal all the money.
Amongst this season’s 21 new contestants are Janelle Pierzina (“Big Brother”), Kevin Kreider (“Bling Empire”), Maksim Chmerkovskiy (“Dancing with the Stars”), Peppermint (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”), Peter Weber (“The Bachelor”), Shereé Whitfield (“The Real Housewives of Atlanta”), and more.
Watch the trailer for “Traitors” Season 2 below:
The first three episodes of Season 2 will be available to stream on Peacock on Friday, Jan. 12, with weekly episodes released every Thursday at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT thereafter. This season will also feature “The Traitors Postmortem,” the official per-episode after-show featuring additional footage and interviews with eliminated contestants which will be available to stream on Peacock following new episodes.
Max Releases Oprah’s “Color Purple” Documentary Trailer
With 10 days until the movie musical adaptation of “The Color Purple” makes its theatrical debut, Max has released the trailer for its upcoming Original “Oprah and The Color Purple Journey.”
The new documentary special will see the multihyphenate and star of the original 1985 drama provide a behind-the-scenes look into the making of the new feature and the impact the story has had on our culture, taking viewers inside the four-decade history of the property and the ever-evolving conversation around it.
Watch the trailer for “Oprah and the Color Purple Journey” below:
“Oprah and The Color Purple Journey” will debut on Max on Dec. 28.
Apple TV+ Renews “Platonic” For Second Season
The bond between Apple TV+ and its recent comedy “Platonic” has gotten even stronger. After receiving critical acclaim and becoming one of the platform’s best-performing comedies, the streamer has renewed the series, starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, for a second season.
Watch the trailer for “Platonic” Season 1 below:
Co-created, directed, and co-written by Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco, “Platonic” follows a platonic pair of former best friends approaching midlife (Rogen and Byrne) who reconnect after a long rift and whose friendship becomes all-consuming.
Season 1 also starred Luke Macfarlane, Tre Hale, Andrew Lopez, Carla Gallo, and more. A release date for Season 2 will be announced at a later date.
Prime Video Orders “Obsession” to Series
Prime Video will bring Catherine Ryan Howard’s international best-selling “56 Days” to the small screen. The streamer has ordered “Obsession,” an adaptation of James Wan’s Atomic Monster, to series.
“Obsession” will follow Oliver and Ciara, who, after meeting randomly in a supermarket, fall for each other quickly and dangerously. But 56 days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed. Intercutting between past and present, the series blends crime, mystery, and psychological thriller.
Casting has not yet been announced, nor has a premiere date. “Obsession” will premiere exclusively on Prime Video.