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STREAMING NEWS

★After yesterday's Batgirl bombshell, viewers have noticed that HBO Max has quietly been removing Max Original films from the streaming service. So far six titles have disappeared: Moonshot, Superintelligence, The Witches, An American Pickle, Locked Down and Charm City Kings. In addition to the removals and the ditching of Batgirl and the Scoob! sequel, the reboot of the comedy House Party, which was set to debut July 28 had also been scrubbed from the schedule.

★Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy has confirmed the latest Disney+ Star Wars series will consist of two seasons. The final scenes of the last episode will tie directly into the Rogue One feature film.

★Disney+ has set Wednesday, September 28 as the premiere date for Season 2 of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers. In Season 2, after winning back the Mighty Ducks team name last year, the squad-with-heart and their coach Alex Morrow (Lauren Graham) take to the road to attend an intense summer hockey institute in California run by charming yet hardcore former NHL player, Colin Cole (Josh Duhamel). It’s a place for kids to get excellent at hockey — without school to get in the way. As our Ducks try to survive in this super-competitive environment, they’re faced with the question: Can you win summer?

★With yesterday's announcement of a reimagined Road House remake starring Jake Gyllenhall coming to Amazon Prime Video, an addition to the cast has been named: UFC champ Conor McGregor will make his acting debut in the film.

★RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 5 winner and recent All Stars All Winners runner-up Shea Couleé has landed a top secret role in the Marvel Disney+ series Ironheart. The series will star Dominique Thorne as Marvel character Riri Williams, a genius inventor and creator of the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man.

TV NEWS

★CBS will air an action-packed NCIS crossover as Season 20 of the flagship series unites with Season 2 of NCIS: Hawai'i in a two-hour premiere event Monday, September 19 starting at 9:00 PM.

★Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo will have a much-reduced role on the 19th season of the medical drama, appearing in just eight of the season's episodes. Pompeo will continue to narrate all of the episodes and serve as executive producer. The reason for her absence is due to a new role in Hulu's Untitled Orphan Project limited series, based on the stranger-than-fiction story of Ukranian-born Natalia Grace and her US adoptive parents who claimed that she was an adult 'sociopath' pretending to be a child.

★John Landgraf, chairman of FX, hinted that the fifth season of Fargo will being production this Fall and will lean more comedic than previous seasons. The season will also take place in 2019, the most contemporary setting yet for the series. Juno Temple, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh are the announced cast so far.

★Ovation TV will air Seasons 3 and 4 of The Doctor Blake Mysteries beginning August 11 at 8:00 AM. The first four Season 3 episodes will air August 11, with the second four on August 18. The first four Season 4 episodes begin August 25 at 8:00 AM, followed by the second four on September 1 at 8:00 AM.

★Spectrum Originals and AMC Networks' psychological thriller series Beacon 23, starring Lena Headey and Stephan James, has been picked up for a second season just three months into production on the first season. The plan is to film both seasons back to back. The series will originate on Spectrum with a second run across AMC Networks platforms.

MOVIE NEWS

★The Flight Attendant's Zosia Mamet has signed on for a role in Sony's Spider-Verse film Madame Web. Details on her role have not been disclosed.

★Sony Pictures' new animated Garfield movie, with Chris Pratt voicing everyone's favorite lasagna-loving feline and Samuel L. Jackson as a new character, has been dated for February 16, 2024. Two other films -- an untitled Marvel movie and an untitled Universal movie -- are also penciled in for that day.

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