Major Series Adaptation Renewals at Netflix, Prime Video

There’s more to come for two of TV’s biggest series adaptations!

Late last week, Prime Video announced a Season 2 renewal for its recent hit adaptation of “Fallout,” starring Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, and Walton Goggins. Based on the hit video game franchise of the same name, “Fallout” is set 200 years after the apocalypse, when “the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind…and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.”

The first season of “Fallout” premiered exclusively on Prime Video on April 10, and within its first few days post-launch, the series became one of the streamer’s top three most-watched titles.

The all-star cast also features Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan, and Xelia Mendes-Jones.

Watch the trailer for “Fallout” Season 1 below:

Over at Netflix, the acclaimed adaptation of “The Witcher” has received a Season 5 renewal, filming back to back with its now-in-production Season 4. However, the upcoming two seasons, which will adapt the remaining three books in the Andrzej Sapkowski fantasy series, will be the show’s last, marking an end to Geralt of Rivia’s time at the streamer.

As previously announced, the upcoming fourth season will feature new lead Liam Hemsworth, taking over the role of Geralt from Henry Cavill, who departed the series at the end of the third season. The Hemsworth-led Season 4 will follow Geralt, Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), and Ciri (Freya Allan), “who are faced with traversing the war-ravaged Continent and its many demons apart from each other. If they can embrace and lead the groups of misfits they find themselves in, they have a chance of surviving the baptism of fire and finding one another again.”

Watch the trailer for “The Witcher” Season 3 below:

In addition to Hemsworth, Chalotra, Allan, and Joey Batey, Laurence Fishburne will join the upcoming season with recurring ensemble members Eamon Farren, Anna Shaffer, Mimî M Khayisa, Cassie Clare, Mahesh Jadu, Meng’er Zhang, Graham McTavish, Royce Pierreson, Mecia Simson, Sharlto Copley, Danny Woodburn, Jeremy Crawford, Bart Edwards, Hugh Skinner, James Purefoy, Christelle Elwin, Fabian McCallum, Juliette Alexandra, Ben Radcliffe, Connor Crawford, Aggy K. Adams, Linden Porco, Therica Wilson-Read, Rochelle Rose, and Safiyya Ingar.

Paramount+ Announces “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” Season 9 Cast

Start your engines! Four days after the finale of “RuPaul's Drag Race” Season 16, the franchise has ru-vealed the lineup for its highly anticipated ninth season of “RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars” on Paramount+.

This season, which will begin streaming exclusively on the streamer with two all-new episodes on Friday, May 17, eight fan-favorite queens will return to compete for a supersized donation of $200,000 for a charity of their choosing. (This season will mark the first time in franchise her-story that the queens will compete for charity.)

The eight queens returning to compete and their respective charities are:

• Angeria Paris VanMicheals (Season 14), National Black Justice Collective
• Gottmik (Season 13), Trans Lifeline
• Jorgeous (Season 14), National Alliance of Mental Illness
• Nina West (Season 11), The Trevor Project
• Plastique Tiara (Season 11), The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)
• Roxxxy Andrews (Season 5, All Stars Season 2), Miracle of Love
• Shannel (Season 1, All Stars Season 1), Anxiety and Depression Association of America
• Vanessa Vanjie (Season 10, 11), ASPCA

Watch the “Meet The Queens of All Stars 9” video below:

Additionally, new episodes of the weekly behind-the-scenes series “RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: Untucked” will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ on May 17.

Roku To Expand “The Great American Baking Show” and “Honest Renovations” Franchises

Roku is making plans for even bigger bakes and better builds as the company recently announced plans to expand two of its biggest Original franchises: “The Great American Baking Show” and “Honest Renovations.”

The American iteration of “The Great British Bake-Off,” “The Great American Baking Show” will head back to the iconic tent with new amateur baking enthusiasts competing to be crowned the Best Amateur Baker in the United States. Roku has given a Season 3 renewal to the series and also ordered three new specials. Hosts Casey Wilson and Zach Cherry return as the series’ hosts with iconic judges Paul Hollywood and Dame Prue Leith back to deliver their sweet stances.

The three new specials are:

• “The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday Special”: back for its third iteration as celebrities compete with holiday treats for charity
• “The Great American Baking Show: Big Game Special”: viewers will join fan-favorite athletes and celebrity football fans in the iconic tent as they prepare special bakes for America’s biggest sporting event of the year
• “The Great American Baking Show: Sweet Summer Special”: celebrities and comedians compete to make the best sweets and treats of summer

Watch the trailer for “The Great American Baking Show” Season 1 below:

“Honest Renovations,” which debuted this past August, stars Jessica Alba and Lizzy Mathis as they go into the homes “of deserving families to pull them out of their ruts and purify their spaces,” bringing about “life-changing renovations that not only transform the home but the families, as well.”

Roku has greenlighted a brand-new special “Honest Renovations: A Holiday Makeover,” which will follow Alba and Mathis as they meet the Pauls, a family of 10, and help transform their home just in time for their annual holiday party.

Watch the trailer for “Honest Renovations” Season 1 below:

The second seasons of both “The Great American Baking Show” and “Honest Renovations” will premiere later this year on the Roku Channel.

New Comedy Specials At Prime Video, Netflix, Max

Multiple streamers have set the stage for laughs in the past week, announcing stand-up specials from some of the world’s most beloved comics.

On Tuesday, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias inked a deal for two new specials at Netflix. The first new special will be filmed at Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida between July 12 and 14. The two new specials will be Iglesias’ fourth and fifth for the streamer, following his record-breaking 2022 hour-long set “Gabriel Iglesias: Stadium Fluffy,” where the comic made history as the first to headline and sell out Dodger Stadium as part of Netflix Is a Joke Fest. His previous specials include 2016’s “Gabriel Iglesias: I’m Sorry For What I Said When I Was Hungry” and 2019’s “Gabriel 'Fluffy' Iglesias: One Show Fits All.”

Watch the trailer for 2022’s “Gabriel Iglesias: Stadium Fluffy” below:

HBO has also announced its second hour-long comedy special from Nikki Glaser. “Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die” will debut on Saturday, May 11 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on the cabler and will also be available for streaming on Max. The special, which was taped in front of a sold-out audience at the Moore Theater in Seattle, Washington, last December, sees the comedian discuss a wide variety of topics, from not wanting kids to the harsh realities of aging and plans for her own death. It’s the latest for Glaser and HBO, following 2022’s “Good Clean Filth.” She is currently on tour through September with her global stand-up tour “Nikki Glaser: The Good Girl.”

Watch the trailer for Nikki Glaser’s “Someday You’ll Die” Below:

Finally, at Prime Video, “The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show” creator Iliza Shlesinger has struck a new deal for her first comedy special with the streamer and her seventh overall. The new special will tape at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday, Nov. 2, as part of her recently announced The Get Ready tour, which will kick off in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday, Aug. 2. The special, which will see Shlesinger “bring back her familiar, physical, fast-paced style peppered with characters, animals, and insights, from stripper heels to gorilla wives to a lesson for Gen Z,” is expected to premiere in 2025.

“The Iron Claw” Comes To Max Next Month

A24’s critically acclaimed wrestling drama “The Iron Claw” is set to make its streaming debut next month at Max.

Written and directed by Sean Durkin, the sports biopic tells the true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. “Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.”

Watch the trailer for “The Iron Claw” below:

Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, and Harris Dickinson lead the cast opposite Stanley Simons, Maura Tierney, Holt McCallany, Stanley Simons, Lily James, Maxwell Friedman, and more. The film has been widely acclaimed, holding a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes since its premiere on Dec. 22, 2023.

“The Iron Claw” will make its streaming debut on Max on Friday, May 10, followed by its linear debut on HBO on Saturday, May 18 at 8 p.m. ET.

“Welcome to Wrexham” Season 3 Trailer Out Now

Welcome back to Wrexham! After a delayed premiere, FX’s Emmy Award-winning non-scripted series “Welcome to Wrexham” has released the trailer for its third season, now debuting on Thursday, May 2, and on Friday, May 3, on Hulu.

In Season 3, club owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds continue to navigate running the third oldest professional association football club in the world, based in working-class Wrexham, North Wales. According to the official season description, the new season will, for the first time, take audiences inside the locker room and alongside the Men’s Team players for unprecedented access on the pitch as the team takes their place in the English Football League (EFL) as the action unfolds in the some of the biggest matches Wrexham AFC has ever played.

Watch the trailer for “Welcome to Wrexham” Season 3 below:

On the Women’s Team side, fresh off an undefeated season that saw them promoted to the Welsh Adran Premier League, the team welcomes new players on a new pitch and a whole new level of competition as they plan their path toward continued domination and a name for themselves at the top of the League.

Season 3 of “Welcome to Wrexham” premieres on FX on May 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.