Streaming News Roundup: ‘The Sympathizer’ Trailer, New ‘Quiet on Set’ Episode, More
“Quiet on Set” Docuseries to Launch New Episode
The gripping Investigation Discovery docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” will release one more episode next month.
The recent four-episode unscripted series details the toxic culture behind some of the most iconic children’s shows of the late 1990s and early 2000s at Nickelodeon, including “The Amanda Show” and “Drake & Josh,” and at the hands of TV producer Dan Schneider.
The surprise fifth episode will reportedly feature new interviews with earlier subjects, including Drake Bell and “All That” cast members Giovonnie Samuels, to build off the revelations from the first four episodes. The episode will also feature new interviewee and “All That” cast member Shane Lyons, who will be interviewed by journalist Soledad O’Brien for a discussion about where the industry can next.
Watch the trailer for “Quiet on Set” below:
According to ID, the first four episodes of “Quiet on Set” have been watched by 16 million viewers since their debuts on March 17 and 18, reaching the largest audience for an unscripted series since Max’s rebrand and relaunch in May.
The episode will launch on Sunday, April 7 on ID and stream on Max.
Max’s “The Sympathizer” Limited Series Gets Trailer
Park Chan-wook’s “The Sympathizer” has received a trailer ahead of its much-anticipated premiere this coming month.
Produced by A24, the new black dramedy limited series, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, is set near the end of the Vietnam War when “a spy who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to gather intelligence and report back to the Viet Cong.”
Hoa Xuande leads the cast opposite Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Duy Nguyễn, Vy Le, Alan Trong, and recent Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr.
Watch the trailer for “The Sympathizer” below:
The ensemble also features Sandra Oh, Kieu Chinh, Kayli Tran, VyVy Nguyen, Ky Duyen, Scott Ly, and Marine Delterme, among others.
Best known for his work on the big screen including “Oldboy,” “The Handmaiden,” “Decision to Leave,” “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance,” and more, this is Park’s first television project as a writer and only his second as a director behind 2018’s “The Little Drummer Girl.”
“The Sympathizer” will premiere on April 14 on Max.
“Mayor of Kingstown” Releases Season 3 Teaser, Announces Premiere Date
Roll out the red carpet for the “Mayor of Kingstown!” The drama series will make its Season 3 return on Sunday, June 2 in the United States and Canada (Monday, June 3, in other markets), Paramount+ has announced.
The premiere announcement came with a teaser trailer for the highly anticipated third season, which will see the return of Jeremy Renner as Mike McLusky. Per the official season description, “a series of explosions rock Kingstown and its citizens, as a new face of the Russian mob sets up shop in the city, and a drug war rages inside and outside prison walls. The pressure is on Mike to end the war but things get complicated when a familiar face from his incarcerated past threatens to undermine the Mayor’s attempts to keep the peace among all factions.”
Watch the teaser for “Mayor of Kingstown” below:
Renner leads the cast opposite series regulars Hugh Dillon, Taylor Handley, Emma Laird, Tobi Bamtefa, Derek Webster, Nishi Munshi, Hamish Allan-Headley, and Michael Beach. Previous cast members include Dianne Wiest, Pha’rez Lass, and Kyle Chandler.
“Welcome to Wrexham” Shifts Season 3 Premiere Date
The home opener is coming a little later than planned. Previously scheduled to premiere on April 19, Season 3 of FX’s “Welcome to Wrexham” will now debut on Thursday, May 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX, followed by its streaming premiere the next day on Hulu.
“Welcome to Wrexham” follows “It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia” star/co-creator Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds (“Deadpool”) as they navigate running the third oldest professional association football club in the world, based in the working-class city of Wrexham in North Wales. The pair purchased the club in 2020, and the series, which recently won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, made its debut on FX in 2022.
Watch the for “Welcome to Wrexham” Season 2 below:
With their players taking place in the EFL Championship, Season 3 will for the first time give “unprecedented access on the pitch, bringing viewers inside the locker room and alongside the players, while the action is unfolding in some of the biggest matches Wrexham AFC has ever played.”
“Welcome to Wrexham” will premiere with its first two episodes, followed by a new episode available every Thursday through June 13.
“The Jinx - Part Two” Teaser Out Now
The harrowing story continues. Nine years after the (intended) conclusion of the groundbreaking docuseries “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” HBO has released the teaser for “The Jinx - Part Two.”
The six-episode continuation will see filmmakers Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, and Zac Stuart-Pontier continue their investigation in the following eight years since Part One’s debut, uncovering hidden material, Durst’s prison calls, interviews with witnesses who had not come forward until recent years, and more.
Watch the teaser for “The Jinx - Part Two” below:
The original docuseries broke up the true-crime docuseries genre when Durst was arrested on first-degree murder charges the day before its finale aired. During the series’ final moments, Durst was caught admitting to his crimes on a hot mic from the bathroom.
“The Jinx - Part Two” will debut on Sunday, April 21 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with new episodes debuting weekly on HBO and Max.