The year ahead on TV

Sabina Graves covers genre television and film for Gizmodo, with a focus on animation, fantasy, sci-fi, superheroes, mythology, and horror. Its writers favor to keep the streamers attentive to equity with their creative collaborators to give the audience a better art that will represent many and will not be canceled after a single season. She also covers immersive entertainment, theme parks and interactive experiences that take you to your favorite fandom worlds. You can follow their coverage here.

The top story

Stranger Things The fifth season is expected to premiere this year and it will be interesting to see if the finale of the series will be a satisfactory one for the young Netflix with all the delays and the older cast members. If the show doesn’t stick the landing (reports Eddie), we expect to be distracted Wednesday the second season and maybe a look at Chopper ahead One piece the second season.

What we expect

As we call in another year in dystopia, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale has come to an end with its sixth season as it is all but coming to reality in the real world. Netflix The squid game 2 left us hanging in December with a shorter season meant to build the series’ final arc this year, as audiences wondered why there weren’t more games this time around, as if it were all the premise of the show and not the real thing. the dangers of late capitalism, indeed. Here’s hoping it gets released sooner rather than later.

The Xenomorphs return home to Noah Hawley’s house Alien: Earth on FX on Hulu. If only our UAPs could let us know how realistic chest bursters are on Reddit or if a mushroom can actually make you click. A lot of curses and hold even here with HBO The last of us return for the second season. Hey, at least the Apple TV+ Severity come back later this month!

There is something going on with Disney and BBC Studio; We look forward to announcing more Bluey season with Ludo Studio, although they will be without the creator Joe Brumm, who is hard at work on the Bluey feature film will be released in 2027 (slated to be his last work on the franchise). Will there be more minisodi this year? Or maybe just an announcement of the next season? It feels very unfathomable that there will be no more Bluey for two years.

The state of animation in television continues to be in flux as the industry works for a better deal in the face of AI taking jobs and creativity from the medium. The Cartoon Network website has shut down and for some strange reason Warner Bros. Discovery has stopped releasing new episodes of Gremlins: The Wild Batch and Tiny Toons Looniversity on Max abruptly in the fall of last year, which left fans in a cliffhanger of the Amblin movie spin-off and no Tiny Toons holiday special. Someone get Spielberg on the phone to fix this and check Tooned Out, His friend Robert Zemeckis, the live-action hybrid cartoon show that will also air this year on the streamer. At Disney, the studio faced scrutiny over the removal of a trans character and his story on the next Pixar. Win or lose seriously – it’s a shame and a big L that Disney and Pixar are taking on bigots.

On a more exciting Disney+ note, Andor season two is on the way for more Star Wars Rebel action versus fascism. Daredevil returns Daredevil: Born Againand so will be the fifteenth doctor of Ncuti Gatwa Doctor Who. DC will continue to tease its new universe Peacemaker the second season on Max, which will bring the characters introduced in the Creature commandos cartoon but in live-action, and will be released in July alongside James Gunn’s big screen Superman.

Show to follow

Stranger Things Season 5 – Netflix

Severity – Apple TV+

Harley Quinn Season 5 – Max

Doctor Who Season 2 (Episode 15) – Disney+

The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 – Hulu

Squid game Season 3 – Netflix

Peacemaker Season 2 – Max

Alien: Earth – FX on Hulu

Tooned Out – Max

Wednesday Season 2 – Netflix

win or lose – Disney+

Andor Season 2 – Disney+

The last of us Season 2 – Max

Daredevil: Born Again – Disney+

Wonder Man – Disney+

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man – Disney+

Welcome to Derry – Max

The Witcher Season 4 – Netflix

Cobra Kai (Final Episodes) – Netflix

Goosebumps: the escape – Hulu

Ironheart – Disney+

The eyes of Wakanda – Disney+

Marvel Zombies – Disney+

People to follow

The animators behind all your favorite shows need us now more than ever; the medium needs to be protected by AI (which could never think of the race Nosferatu gag from SpongeBob SquarePants)

Creator Tony Gilroy with actors Diego LunaStellan Skarsgård, and Adria Arjona in order Andor the second season

Wednesday the second season Jenna Ortega and Lady Gaga

Daredevil: Born again cast Charlie Cox, Jon Bernthaland Vincent D’Onofrio

James Gunnco-head of DC Studios and filmmaker

One piece The Straw Hat Crew: Iñaki Godoy, Emily Rudd, Mackenzie, Jacob Romero, Taz Skylar teasing the next season with creator Eiichiro Oda and the showrunners of the series Matt Owens and Joe Tracz

Company to watch

Warner Bros. Discovery should be put on alert if it continues to break up and sell off its scripted television properties piecemeal.

Netflix is ​​getting more into the immersive fan experience space to promote its shows and we can see it doing screenings of movie episodes for Stranger Things, Squid Game, Mercury, and One piece with Q&As.

Disney made bank Bluey meet and greets at Disney Parks and Disney cruises to keep fans: it won’t. He also needs to spend time with Jim Henson Studios thinking the Muppets future: stop bashing and give us more parodies. Imagine a The Muppets Die Hard with Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso, Shrinker) like Hans Gruber. Better yet, Goldstein comes up with an adaptation to face and star in.

A long bet

There are no more films in the franchise planned for direct streaming after the success of Moana 2.

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