Streaming News Roundup: ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Cast, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Streaming Date, More
“The White Lotus” Season 3 Announces New Cast Members
Rooms at “The White Lotus” are filling up!
The acclaimed HBO series created by Mike White has announced six new cast members for its highly anticipated third season. Joining the previously announced Natasha Rothwell, who will reprise her role of Belinda, Leslie Bibb, Dom Hetrakul, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, and Tayme Thapthimthong are joining the series for its junior season.
The upcoming season will be set in Thailand, with production scheduled to begin next month. Plot details are being kept under wraps but will follow a new group of guests at the White Lotus property.
Watch the trailer for “White Lotus” Season 2 below:
The cast of Season 2, which was set in Sicily, was led by F. Murray Abraham, Jennifer Coolidge, Adam DiMarco, Meghann Fahy, Beatrice Grannò, Jon Gries, Tom Hollander, Sabrina Impacciatore, Aubrey Plaza, Michael Imperioli, Theo James, Will Sharpe, Haley Lu Richardson, Simona Tabasco, and Leo Woodall. The season and series are currently nominated for 23 Emmy Awards, including Best Drama Series.
Season 3 of “The White Lotus” is expected to premiere on HBO and Max later this year.
Apple TV+ Renews “Slow Horses”
There’s no stopping “Slow Horses!” Following its Season 3 finale, Apple TV+ has announced a Season 5 renewal for the dark comedy spy series led by Gary Oldman.
The renewal comes a year and a half after the streamer announced it would be bringing back the dark comedy spy series for a third and fourth season. Season 3 premiered in late November 2023 with the fourth season anticipated to premiere by the end of December 2024.
Watch the trailer for “Slow Horses” Season 3 below:
“Slow Horses” follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who, thanks to career-ending mistakes, serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known unaffectionately as Slough House. Oldman stars as Lamb, “the brilliant but cantankerous leader of the spies…as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.”
According to Apple TV+, Season 5 will be steeped in suspicion “when resident tech nerd Roddy Ho has a glamorous new girlfriend, but when a series of increasingly bizarre events occur across the city, it falls to the Slow Horses to work out how everything is connected. After all, Lamb knows that in the world of espionage, ‘London Rules’ should always apply.”
The ensemble cast of “Slow Horses” includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Samuel West, Sophie Okonedo, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan, and Jonathan Pryce.
Hulu Debuts “Death and Other Details” Trailer
Devil and death are in the details of Hulu’s new whodunit series. The streamer has dropped the first trailer for “Death and Other Details,” starring Mandy Patinkin and Violette Bean.
Beane stars as Imogene Scott, who finds herself at the center of a murder mystery due to a mix of bad timing and her own actions while on a luxury ocean liner. To clear her name, Scott is forced to work alongside Rufus Cotesworth (Patinkin), the world’s foremost detective… and a despised familiar face.
Watch the trailer for “Death and Other Details” below:
Linda Emond, Jayne Atkinson, Lauren Patten, David Marshall Grant, Rahul Kohli, and more make up the ensemble cast of the locked-room murder mystery.
“Death and Other Details” will premiere on Hulu on Tuesday, Jan. 16.
Max Announce “Hacks” Season 3 Premiere
The stage is set for more “Hacks.” Max has announced Season 3 of the comedy series starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder will return this spring with an official date to be announced later.
Watch the trailer for Season 2 of “Hacks”:
Einbender stars as Ava Daniels, a young comedy writer hired to update the act of aging comedy legend Deborah Vance (Smart). The series also stars Carl Clemons-Hopkins as well as recurring cast members Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald, Jane Adams, Paul W. Downs, Poppy Liu, Rose Abdoo, Mark Indelicato, Meg Stalter, Angela E. Gibbs, Luenell, Johnny Sibilly, Joe Mande, Ally Maki, and Lorenza Izzo, Laurie Metcalf, Martha Kelly, Ming-Na Wen, and Susie Essman.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” Gets Streaming Premiere Date
Apple TV+ has announced the streaming premiere date for its best-of list-topping Original Film “Killers of the Flower Moon,” directed by Martin Scorsese. The $156 million box office earner will come to the streamer next Friday, January 12 after its theatrical run.
Lily Gladstone leads the cast of the Western epic as Mollie Burkhart, a member of the Osage Nation, tries to save her community from a spree of murders fueled by oil and greed. Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert De Niro costar with Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, Cara Jade Myers, and more.
Watch the trailer for “Killers of the Flower Moon” below:
Since its debut, “Killers of the Flower Moon” has been honored as the Best Film of the Year by the National Board of Review, has received 12 Critics Choice Award nominations and 7 Golden Globe Award nominations, and has been on multiple shortlists, including the BAFTAs.
Frndly TV Loses a Channel, Gains Two
It’s a bad news-good news week for Frndly TV subscribers. The live TV streamer has announced Circle would be stopping operations as of Dec. 31, 2023, and its channel would no longer be available for Frndly subscribers.
However, the platform will gain two new channels: the courtroom and crime-centric and the 24/7 comedy destination Laff.
The new channels are available now as part of Frndly TV’s packages of more than 40 channels.