TV Bits: ‘Sabrina’, ‘Daybreak’, ‘Sneaky Pete’, ‘Castlevania’ And More
By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 2, 2018 4:00 am EST
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the Netflix series inspired by the Archie Comic of the same name (which is in turn inspired by Sabrina the Teenage Witch) now has a very appropriate premiere date. The spooky series will debut October 26, 2018 on the streaming service – just in time for Halloween binge-watching. Last October, Netflix had Stranger Things season 2, but the third season of that hit show won’t arrive until 2019. In the meantime, Sabrina will hopefully provide viewers with enough creepy-based entertainment for October. The series – which is said to be in the same vein as Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist – stars Kiernan Shipka as the teenage witch. Netflix says the show is a “dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft.” I want to see this immediately.Kenya Barris, creator of black-ish, grown-ish and more, is apparently leaving his ABC deal behind to sign with Netflix. Deadline reports “The reasons behind Barris’ exit from ABC Studios are complex. According to sources, there has been growing frustration with ABC, which did not pick up to series any of Barris’ pilots since black-ish, didn’t even make a pilot for the comedy with a straight-to-series order he had at the network this past development cycle, and last year moved black-ish away from its cushy post-Modern Family slot.” Barris will remain as executive producer on all his ABC shows, but is likely to be signing a very lucrative deal with Netflix as well.
Netflix has ordered a series based on the graphic novel Daybreak. The show will be an “apocalypse dramedy”, based on the graphic novel by Brian Ralph. Here’s the synopsis:
The 10-episode series hails from co-creators Aron Eli Coleite, who is working on Netflix’s Locke and Key, and Brad Peyton, director of Rampage.
Above you can see one of the first images from Little Drummer Girl, the new AMC series helmed by Oldboy director Park Chan-wook. The series, based on the novel by John le Carré, boasts one killer cast: Florence Pugh, Alexander Skarsgård, and Michael Shannon. Here’s the synopsis:
In addition to the image above, you can check out several other images below. Little Drummer Girl debuts on AMC in November.
In “The Little Drummer Girl” brilliant young actress Charlie (Pugh) strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent that his intentions are far from romantic. The man is Becker (Skarsgård), an Israeli intelligence officer, who entangles her in a complex and high stakes plot which unfolds as she takes on the role of a lifetime in the ’theatre of the real’. Set in the late 1970s, yet sharply contemporary, “The Little Drummer Girl” weaves a dynamic and exciting story of espionage and international intrigue; of love and betrayal.
Castlevania is returning for a second season on Netflix this October, and in the Facebook post above, executive producer Adi Shankar confirmed the new season will introduce a familiar character from the game series. That character is Hector, “the protagonist of Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. He is a former general of Dracula who had decided he had enough of killing and fled. A woman Hector had later found contentment with was killed by his old comrade Isaac and he enters Dracula’s domain in the game with the intent of avenging himself upon Isaac.” Castlevania returns October 26, 2018.
