Streaming News Roundup: ‘Hacks’ Season 3 Premiere and Teaser, ‘Poor Things’ Streaming, More
“Hacks” Season 3 Teaser, Premiere Date, and New Cast Additions
Almost two years after it began its second season, the stage is set for the return of Max’s “Hacks.”
Season 3 of the Emmy-winning comedy series will premiere on May 2 with Max running two episodes per week through May 23 and concluding the nine-episode season on May 30.
“Hacks” centers around the partnership between legendary Las Vegas comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and outcast 20-something comedy writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder), who is hired to bring Vance’s set into the 21st century. Season 3 will pick up after Deborah and Ava parted ways at the end of Season 2, with Deborah riding high from the success of her stand-up special and Ava searching for new work in Los Angeles. But the dysfunctional duo won’t stay apart for too long.
Watch the trailer for “Hacks” Season 3 Teaser below:
“Hacks” also features series regulars Paul W. Downs, Megan Stalter, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald, Mark Indelicato, Rose Abdoo, and Lorenza Izzo. Joining this season will be guest stars Helen Hunt, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Lloyd, George Wallace, Tony Goldwyn, and Dan Bucatinsky.
The first two seasons of the series won a collective six Emmys, including two Lead Actress in a Comedy Series wins for Smart.
Upcoming Season 3 of “Is It Cake?” Gets Trailer
Netflix’s favorite game of confectionary deception is back! The streamer has debuted the trailer for the upcoming third season of “Is It Cake?,” which will premiere at the end of this month.
Hosted by Mikey Day, the hit series returns with bigger cakes and higher stakes as a new batch of bakers push culinary boundaries to create hyperrealistic cakes to trick their way to the top.
Watch the trailer for “Is It Cake” Season 3 below:
This season’s guest judges include Jay Pharoah, Lauren Lapkus, London Hughes, Oscar Nuñez, Jillian Bell, Kamie Crawford, Dulcé Sloan, Chris Witaske, Liza Koshy, Michael Ealy, Heather McMahan, Beck Bennett, Sam Morril, Danielle Pinnock, Christina P., Sherry Cola, Adam Shapiro, Storm Reid, Emma Hernan, Justin Willman, Lana Condor, Taran Killam, Ego Nwodim, and Chris Kattan.
The eight-episode third season of “Is It Cake” will premiere on Friday, March 29.
Paramount+’s “Tulsa King” Will Make Linear Debut
Paramount+ “Tulsa King” will get a grand procession to CBS, where Season 1 of the streamer’s original series starring Sylvester Stallone will make its broadcast debut this summer before the series’ streaming-exclusive Season 2 premiere.
“Tulsa King” stars Stallone as New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi, who has just been released from prison after 25 years and sets up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after being unceremoniously exiled by his boss. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight builds a “crew” of unlikely characters to help him create a new criminal empire “in a place that to him might as well be another planet.”
After a similar dual promo of the Paramount+ Original “Yellowstone,” the linear debut marks the most recent example of Paramount Global’s plan to introduce more streaming originals to linear viewers that haven’t yet subscribed to a Paramount+ plan. Besides the Stallone appeal, it theoretically shouldn’t be that difficult to sell new audiences on “Tulsa King”: the series is the streamer’s second-most-watched series of all-time, only behind “1923,” also by creator Taylor Sheridan.
Watch the trailer for “Tulsa King” Season 1 below:
The first season of the series also stars Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza, Jay Will, and A.C. Peterson with appearances from Garrett Hedlund and Dana Delany.
The CBS premiere date and times will be announced soon, as will the Season 2 Paramount+ premiere date.
“Poor Things” Comes to Streaming Ahead of Oscars
Put on your dancing shoes: the 11-time Academy Award nominee “Poor Things” from Searchlight Pictures will make its streaming debut on Hulu next week on Thursday, March 7, ahead of Sunday’s ceremony.
The latest from Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Favourite,” “The Lobster”), “Poor Things” stars Emma Stone as Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by a brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). But “hungry for the worldliness she is lacking,” she runs off with slick lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo) on a debaucherous multicontinental adventure.
Watch the trailer for “Poor Things” below:
The dark comedy also features Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Suzy Bemba, Jerrod Carmichael, Kathryn Hunter, Vicki Pepperdine, and Margaret Qualley, among others. “Poor Things” is nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars
Paramount+ Releases “Little Wing” Trailer
Paramount+ has released the official trailer for its upcoming coming-of-age original feature “Little Wing,” starring Brooklynn Prince, Brian Cox, and more, which will premiere on the platform on Wednesday, March 13.
Inspired by the New Yorker article of the same name by Susan Orlean, the new Paramount+ Original film follows Kaitlyn (Prince), a teen who is reeling from her parents’ divorce and the pending loss of her home when she and her best friend (Che Tafari) steal a valuable racing pigeon in hope to solve her mother’s financial woes. Instead, Kaitlyn forms a bond with the owner that leads her to a new outlook on life.
Watch the trailer for “Little Wing” below:
Cox and Kelly Reilly also star in the coming-of-age feature with Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jeanine Jackson, Simon Khan, Lowell Deo, Parker Ina Chang, and more.
Hulu Releases “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told” Trailer
The ’80s and ’90s are back in style. Hulu has released the official trailer for its upcoming documentary “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told,” a celebratory exploration of Freaknik, the iconic Atlanta street party that drew hundreds of thousands of people over the two decades, helping put Atlanta on the culture map.
Executive produced by “Uncle Luke” Campbell, Jermaine Dupri, and 21 Savage, “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told” puts a spotlight on the boisterous times of Freaknik, which began as a Black college cookout and became at its height “a traffic-stopping, city-shuttering, juggernaut” that left an infamous legacy of legendary late-night parties that ultimately led to the festival’s downfall.
Watch the trailer for “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told” below:
Decades later, now a cult classic steeped in “nostalgia and a new generation’s longing for a care-free platform that celebrates and promotes Black excellence, joy and fortitude,” Freaknik gets its close-up in the documentary, which will feature appearances by 21 Savage, Lil Jon, Killer Mike, Jalen Rose, Too $hort, Shanti Das, former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, Erick Sermon, CeeLo Green, Rico Wade, Kenny Burns, and more.
“Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told” will premiere on Hulu on Thursday, March 21.