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If you missed the Emmy red carpet, you might not have known that Reservation Dogs star D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai arrived with an important symbol on his face. However, during the opening by Eugene and Dan Levy, the camera panned to the actor as the father-son duo cracked a joke about the Television Academy "discovering" a well beloved comedy series that's being honored for the first time in the acting and series categories this year despite being critically-acclaimed since its freshman season.

Woon-a-Tai is up for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance as Bear Smallhill and he's using the moment to shine light on a very serious cause. The red handprint across his mouth represents solidarity with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women whose stories are not often told and who are largely ignored by the media and law enforcement.

Native Hope--an organization dedicated to "address[ing] the injustice...

Berlin Film Festival 2025 Dates

Next year’s Berlin Film Festival will run from February 13 to 23. The edition will be Tricia Tuttle’s first as festival head. Tuttle takes over from Executive Director Mariette Rissenbeek and Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian, who stepped down after the last edition. Rissenbeek and Chatrian have been jointly running the festival since 2019 under a dual management structure put in place following the departure of Berlinale long-time director Dieter Kosslick after 18 years at the helm. Tuttle was previously director of the London Film Festival.

Cannes Film Festival Selection Presser

The Cannes Film Festival will announce its official selection on April 11. Presiding over this year’s official competition is Barbie filmmaker Greta Gerwig. Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan will lead the Un Certain Regard Jury. High-profile films currently tipped for the Croisette include George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux has said he...

"Alaska Daily" was a crime drama that tackled the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Alaska, but it was unfortunately canceled before gaining momentum. The show struggled to balance the sensibilities of a network procedural and a more mature streaming show, but it provided valuable insights into the work of journalists reporting on marginalized communities. The talent of the cast, including Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, and other notable actors, was undeniable, adding to the potential of the series despite its tonal issues.

The cast of Alaska Daily includes popular television and film actors as well as a notable Oscar winner in its ensemble cast. Alaska Daily is an ABC crime drama that follows Eileen Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank), a New York journalist who comes to a small newsroom in Anchorage, Alaska to have a fresh start after personal and professional problems in NYC force her to leave. In Alaska,...

Integral Artists, the firm headed by longtime talent manager Nils Larsen, is expanding its team, adding Matt Gogal to its ranks.

Gogal, formerly of A3 Artists Agency and who is making his transition into management, is known for his work with up-and-coming talent. Gogal has cultivated the careers of such actors as Angus Cloud, the Euphoria actor who recently died, Star Wars: The Last Jedi breakout Kelly Marie Tran, Shakira Barrera (Glow), Griffin Matthews (The Flight Attendant) and Grace Dove (Alaska Daily), among others.

“When I started Integral Artists over three years ago, my mission was to return to my roots and establish an exclusive management company that was unstoppable in creating extraordinary opportunities for artists,” said Larsen in a statement. “Fueled by excellence, passion, creativity, and determination, my goal was to continue to work with remarkable talent to unlock their full global potential in all the different sectors of...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys

2023 Emmy Predictions:

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Weekly Commentary: Commentary to be added in the coming weeks.

Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Primetime Emmy predictions in the major categories.

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It's going to be one season and done for the ABC series Alaska Daily. Per Deadline, it's been revealed that the network has canceled the show with no plans to develop a second season. The news comes after the first season struggled to pick up in the ratings from its October 2022 debut to when the finale aired in March. For those watching, the show was pretty well received, pulling in an 86% audience score at Rotten Tomatoes with a 74% approval rating. Series star Hilary Swank would also be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role in the series. But despite the positive reception, there just weren't enough people watching for ABC to commit to season 2.

The series, developed for ABC by Tom McCarthy, was inspired by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica article series called Lawless: Sexual Violence in Alaska, which was first published in 2019. The coverage was spearheaded by reporter Kyle Hopkins,...

Network: ABC

Episodes: 11 (hour)

Seasons: One

TV show dates: October 6, 2022 -- March 30, 2023

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, Matt Malloy, Meredith Holzman, Grace Dove, Pablo Castelblanco, Ami Park, and Craig Frank.

TV show description:

A drama series, the Alaska Daily TV show was created by Tom McCarthy and is based on a real case.

In the story, Eileen Fitzgerald (Swank) is an award-winning investigative journalist and high-powered newspaper reporter in New York. Her reporting methods and abrasive personality are questioned after a high-profile story blows up in her face, and Eileen loses her job.

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ABC likely has some high expectations for the new Alaska Daily TV series. The drama stars an Academy Award-winning actress and has been given a plum timeslot, following one of the network's highest-rated shows, Grey's Anatomy. Can Alaska Daily live up to expectations?  Will this new show be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. *Status Update Below.

A drama series, the Alaska Daily TV show stars Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, Matt Malloy, Meredith Holzman, Grace Dove, Pablo Castelblanco, Ami Park, and Craig Frank. Eileen Fitzgerald (Swank) is an award-winning investigative journalist and high-powered newspaper reporter in New York. Her reporting methods and abrasive personality are called into question after a high-profile story blows up in her face, and Eileen loses her job. Her former mentor, Stanley Cornik (Perry), approaches her about making a big move, and she goes to work for a struggling...

Eileen is looking for more than just redemption in the first season of the Alaska Daily TV show on ABC. As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Alaska Daily is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of Alaska Daily here. *Status Update Below.

An ABC drama series, the Alaska Daily TV show stars Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, Matt Malloy, Meredith Holzman, Grace Dove, Pablo Castelblanco, Ami Park, and Craig Frank. Eileen Fitzgerald (Swank) is an award-winning investigative journalist and high-powered newspaper reporter in New York. Her reporting methods and abrasive personality are called into question after...

Eileen's pursuit of the truth won't continue into the 2023-24 network season. ABC has cancelled Alaska Daily, so there won't be a second season.

A drama series, the Alaska Daily TV show stars Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, Matt Malloy, Meredith Holzman, Grace Dove, Pablo Castelblanco, Ami Park, and Craig Frank. Eileen Fitzgerald (Swank) is an award-winning investigative journalist and high-powered newspaper reporter in New York. Her reporting methods and abrasive personality are called into question after a high-profile story blows up in her face, and Eileen loses her job. Her former mentor, Stanley Cornik (Perry), approaches her about making a big move, and she goes to work for a struggling downsized Anchorage newspaper, the Daily Alaskan. Grudgingly, Eileen teams up with a young local reporter named Roz Friendly (Dove). Together, they begin investigating the murders of a...

ABC has canceled the drama series “Alaska Daily,” “Big Sky,” and “The Company You Keep,” Variety has learned.

Hilary Swank starred in “Alaska Daily” series as Eileen Fitzgerald, described as “a fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.”

In addition to Swank, the series starred Jeff Perry as Stanley Cornik, Matt Malloy as Bob Young, Meredith Holzman as Claire Muncy, Grace Dove as Rosalind “Roz” Friendly, Pablo Castelblanco as Gabriel Tovar, Ami Park as Yuna Park, and Craig Frank as Austin Teague.

McCarthy served as creator and executive producer on the show, and also directed the pilot. Swank, Melissa Wells, and Bert Salke executive produced along with Kyle Hopkins and Ryan Binkley of the Anchorage Daily News. Peter Elkoff served as showrunner and executive producers.

ABC has canceled Hilary Swank-led drama series Alaska Daily after one season. The news is not surprising as the freshman series was not able to establish itself and find a sizable following.

From Tom McCarthy, the series follows fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist Eileen Fitzgerald (Swank) who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.

As a reporter for a local metro newspaper, Eileen is investigating a cold case stacked with missing indigenous women with scarce details in desperate need of fresh eyes. The dark spaces where she has to investigate reveal the city’s seedy underbelly that could prove to be dangerous for Eileen as she begins to uncover secrets many would rather stay buried.

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SeriesFest has announced the official lineup for SeriesFest: Season 9, which will be held from May 5 to 10 in Denver. “RuPaul’s Drag Race” producers will be presented with the SeriesFest Impact in Television Award at the annual festival, Variety can exclusively reveal.

SeriesFest: Season 9 has slated a wide variety of screenings, panels, workshops and sneak peeks/television premieres at this year’s festival. The non-profit organization is committed to showcasing and uplifting rising talent and underserved communities through episodic storytelling.

This year’s Impact in Television Award will be presented to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” producers Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey and Tom Campbell, for their pioneering and creative developments in the world of television production. Barbato, Bailey and Campbell will also participate in a panel on Monday, May 8, where audiences can ask the creatives questions.

“We’re excited to celebrate this amazing content and embrace conversations about the ever-changing industry,” Randi Kleiner, co-founder and CEO of SeriesFest,...

The world trailer premiere of “Bones of Crows” has arrived.

On Thursday, Elevation Pictures released the two-minute clip that will send chills down your spine as it recounts the life of Aline Spears (Grace Dove) from the Cree nation in Manitoba, Canada.

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“Bones of Crows” — Photo: Ayasew Ooskana Pictures “Bones of Crows” — Photo: Derek Rodgers

“Bones of Crows” is a “psychological drama told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch, Spears, as she survives Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism and sexual abuse,” as per the official synopsis.

“Bones of Crows” — Photo: Derek Rodgers “Bones of Crows” — Photo: Courtesy of Elevation Pictures “Bones of Crows” — Photo: Ayasew Ooskana Pictures “Bones of Crows” — Photo: Derek Rodgers

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Alaska Daily Season 1 Episode 10 Episode Description And Spoilers Alaska Daily Season 1 Episode 10 Photos Truth Is A Slow Bullet Thursday, March 23 10:01-11:00 p.m. Edt – Alaska Daily “Truth is a Slow Bullet” (110) Logline: While making progress on Gloria’s case, both Eileen and Roz are offered new career opportunities, leaving them to consider what may lie beyond Alaska. Meanwhile, Bob steps out of his comfort zone, and Austin’s custody agreement turns sour. (TV-14) Watch episodes on demand and on Hulu the day following their premieres. s01e10 1×10 1.10 s1e10 alaska daily episode From the mind of Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”), Alaska Daily stars Hilary Swank as Eileen Fitzgerald, a fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption. In addition to Swank,...

Alaska Daily Season 1 Episode 9 Episode Description And Spoilers Alaska Daily Season 1 Episode 9 Photos Rush To Judgement – Thursday, March 16 10:01-11:00 p.m. Edt – Alaska Daily: “Rush To Judgement” (109) Logline: When a new finding makes a familiar face the top suspect in Gloria Nanmac’s case, Eileen and Roz hustle to report first. Meanwhile, Austin and Claire follow Conrad Pritchard’s trail to figure out what he is really up to in Alaska. s01e09 1×09 1.09 s1e9 alaska daily episode Watch episodes on demand and on Hulu the day following their premieres. From the mind of Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”), “Alaska Daily” stars Hilary Swank as Eileen Fitzgerald, a fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption. In addition to Swank,...

Their stories are achingly similar. A young Native American woman goes to a house party, or drinks with friends, or just ventures out into the Montana night. She doesn’t come home. Law enforcement, after untangling questions of jurisdiction, conducts a search. Sometimes the bodies are recovered, the cause of death chalked up as “hypothermia.” Sometimes they’re never found at all.

The crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women (or Mmiw) has plagued Native communities since the age of European colonization — and it continues to this day, especially among...

HBO has released a first look at its upcoming limited series “The Palace,” starring Kate Winslet. The new series “tells the story of one year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel,” according to its official logline.

Directed by Stephen Frears and Jessica Hobbs, the new series also stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton and Hugh Grant. Will Tracy will serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner. Seth Reiss, Juli Weiner, Jen Spyra, Gary Shteyngart and Sarah DeLappe are writing alongside Tracy. Winslet, Frears, Hobbs, Frank Rich and Tracey Seaward also executive produce.

See the first-look image above.

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ABC announced “Alaska Daily” will return for its winter premiere on March 2 at 10 p.m. Et /9 p.m. Ct. The return episode, entitled “Enemy of the People,” will be followed by four consecutive episodes, with the season finale set...

We have some bad news for fans of ABC's Alaska Daily.

The Hilary Swank drama has been bumped from its planned February 23 return.

Instead, the back half of the season will resume Thursday, March 2, at 10 p.m.

The reason for the switcheroo?

ABC wants to air the remaining episodes across consecutive weeks, which is probably for the best.

With the network's revamped schedule, the series will return on March 2 and wrap up its freshman season on March 30.

Given the heavily serialized nature of Alaska Daily, having random breaks will not help the series build momentum.

Procedurals like NCIS and Law & Order can thrive with more than a few hiatuses because there's very little connective tissue between episodes.

Alaska Daily stars Hilary Swank as Eileen Fitzgerald, a fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily...

Exclusive: In a matter of days, one first-year ABC drama series has surpassed the other for the title of strongest series debut in two years among both the 18-49 demographic and total viewers.

Alaska Daily now holds the title, which was previously claimed by The Rookie: Feds. After 35 days of multi-platform viewing, the premiere episode of Alaska Daily has managed a 3.02 rating among the 18-49 demographic, which is a show-stopping 844% increase from its 0.32 live+same day rating.

The October episode also tallied 12.3M multi-platform viewers in the 35 days since its release. That’s another 8.7M people who have tuned in since the live broadcast.

Those numbers easily beat The Rookie: Feds, which had posted a 755% increase from its live+same day rating and an additional 7M total viewers.

Alaska Daily and The Rookie: Feds are now ABC’s two strongest MP35 gainers among all series debuts since November 2020’s premiere of Big Sky.

ABC’s “Alaska Daily” has cast “La Brea” actor Martin Sensmeier in a recurring guest role as Jindahaa, an Alaska Native PhD student and supportive boyfriend to Roz (Grace Dove), TheWrap has exclusively learned. He will first appear in Episode 6 of the Hilary Swank-starring journalist drama.

His character description is as follows: “Always willing to lend a sympathetic ear to Roz, he is happy to ditch his dissertation to help her with a story and attend a volunteer search for a missing local Indigenous woman.”

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From creator Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”), “Alaska Daily” follows Eileen Fitzgerald (Swank), a fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily newspaper in Anchorage. The story follows her journey en route to personal and professional redemption.

Billed as the first Indigenous and female-led produced, written, and directed drama about the residential school experience in North America, Marie Clements’ “Bones of Crows” is not afraid of making people uncomfortable.

“We should be squeamish about it,” the helmer tells Variety at Mipcom, addressing the show’s graphic scenes. A concurrent feature film is also in the works.

“I never felt it was too harsh or too violent, but violence towards Indigenous people is a fact. I wanted the audience to understand it, but also understand the release of that, the release of the past.”

Her decades-spanning story, told over the course of five episodes, focuses on Cree matriarch Aline as she survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system and then continues to fight against systemic starvation, racism and sexual abuse.

A CBC Original, “Bones of Crows” is produced by Ayasew Ooskana Pictures Inc, with Marie Clements Media,...

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What's This TV Show About?

A drama series airing on the ABC television network, the Alaska Daily TV show stars Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, Matt Malloy, Meredith Holzman, Grace Dove, Pablo Castelblanco, Ami Park, and Craig Frank. Eileen Fitzgerald (Swank) is an award-winning investigative journalist and high-powered newspaper reporter in New York. Her reporting methods and abrasive personality are called into question after a high-profile story blows up in her face,...

Will Alaska Daily be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned.

A drama series, the Alaska Daily TV show stars Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, Matt Malloy, Meredith Holzman, Grace Dove, Pablo Castelblanco, Ami Park, and Craig Frank. Eileen Fitzgerald (Swank) is an award-winning investigative journalist and high-powered newspaper reporter in New York. Her reporting methods and abrasive personality are called into question after a high-profile story blows up in her face, and Eileen loses her job. Her former mentor, Stanley Cornik (Perry), approaches her about making a big move, and she goes to work for a struggling downsized Anchorage newspaper, the Daily Alaskan. Grudgingly, Eileen teams up with a young local reporter named Roz Friendly (Dove). Together, they begin investigating the murders of a group of indigenous women. In a new locale, across the country, and in a very different world, Eileen...

Oscar winner Hilary Swank stars in ABC’s Alaska Daily as an investigative journalist who moves to Alaska to start over — but did this week’s premiere move you to add the new drama to your season pass list?

Swank plays Eileen Fitzgerald, who we meet as she’s hounding a source to hand over dirt on a five-star general who is in line to be the next Secretary of Defense. Eileen works for a Buzzfeed-esque news outfit called The Vanguard — one of those places that has screens up all over the office telling them which stories are getting...

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The TV creator’s equivalent of the trolley problem: A TV show is like a runaway trolley. Broadcast is still the best way to run over (or reach) the most people, and if you stay the course, you might reach (or run over) five people, but there aren’t any TV critics or Emmy voters in that direction. But if you pull the lever, you shift tracks and go down a cable or streaming direction and you may reach (or run over) only one person, but that person is really influential and might tell everybody that you’re making great art, which is bound to be gratifying (and means you didn’t kill five people, if you’re really stuck on the original analogy). As much as you might think you want to go down both tracks at once, you can’t.

Fine.

ABC’s new drama Alaska Daily is basically three different shows lurking under the same title. One is good, one is fine, and one is terrible.

Guess which one Alaska Daily spends the least amount of time on?

Created by Spotlight director Tom McCarthy, the show begins with Eileen Fitzgerald, a celebrated reporter played by two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank. A big scoop, about the country’s proposed new secretary of defense, blows up in her face when her sourcing is challenged, and soon her only employment option is to...

Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight” is the single best film about journalism of our era. So while it comes as no surprise that the writer-director’s take on life at a daily paper for ABC is substantially better than the average 2020s network drama, it’s certainly good news.

On the McCarthy-created “Alaska Daily,” Hilary Swank plays Eileen Fitzgerald, a high-powered newspaper reporter whose reporting comes into question in the pilot’s early going; her losing her job is as much about the claims against her work as it is about the fact that her sudden vulnerability opens up a conversation about her habit of talking down to colleagues. Suddenly, she’s spinning her wheels, endlessly reporting a book that may never see daylight; the conditions are perfect for her to accept the offer of a former mentor to take a job in Anchorage.

Swank, who has not consistently been served well by television,...

In her last TV series, 2020’s Away, Hilary Swank played the commander of the first crewed spaceflight to Mars. With ABC’s new drama Alaska Daily, she’s another woman on a mission. Swank stars as hard-hitting New York journalist Eileen Fitzgerald, who comes under fire for an alleged error in her latest exposé — and for her brusque treatment of coworkers. A few months later, a former colleague, Stanley Kornik (Scandal’s Jeff Perry), offers her a job at his Anchorage newspaper. He hopes she’ll be able to break an important story about missing Indigenous women. The gig will be harder than Eileen thinks. She has to (gulp) work with someone — ambitious young reporter Roz Friendly (Grace Dove) — get locals to talk to an outsider and deal with a police department that’s iced out the paper. Here, Swank spills. (Credit: ...

ABC announced a slew of news regarding their fall programming at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on September 14, headlined by guest star announcements for the second season of recently-anointed Emmy-winner “Abbott Elementary.” Read below for a summary of ABC’s announcements from the TCA press conferences.

Guest Stars

Debuting on Wednesday, September 21, the second season of Quinta Brunson‘s hit show will feature recurring guest roles from actor Leslie Odom Jr., Lauren Weedman and Keyla Monterroso Mejia. Odom Jr. will play Draemond, the owner of a batch of charter schools in the area who visits Abbott. Weedman will play Kristin Marie, a hard-shelled teacher from a neighboring school that strikingly resembles one of Abbott’s own teachers. Monterroso Mejia plays a teacher’s aide whose lax personality contributes to classroom chaos at Abbott.

The show notched an Emmy award during Monday’s primetime ceremony, credited to Brunson for...

Cobra Kai fans have been asking for the past two seasons whether or not an appearance from Hilary Swank, reprising the role of Julie Pierce from The Next Karate Kid, could be in the cards. Following the release of the hit Netflix series’ fifth season with no Swank in sight, the speculation continues.

Swank addressed whether or not she’s keen to return to the Miyagi-verse while promoting her upcoming ABC series, Alaska Daily during the show’s TCA presentation on Wednesday.

“I was told that I’m supposed to only keep it to Alaska Daily, so I guess that question is for another time,” she told Deadline with a laugh.

The Academy Award-winner is stepping back into TV in a very big way as series star and executive producer of the ABC drama series, Alaska Daily. In it, she portrays Eileen Fitzgerald, an investigative journalist who is looking for...

ABC has set fall premiere dates for its new and returning series for the 2022-2023 season, including the new Hilary Swank drama “Alaska Daily” and a new primetime version “Celebrity Jeopardy!” Return dates have also been set for fan favorites “Abbott Elementary,” “Bachelor in Paradise” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”

The Quinta Brunson-led “Abbott Elementary,” ABC’s most popular comedy last season among adults 18-49, returns for its sophomore season on its new night, Wednesday, September 21 from 9:00-9:31 p.m. Et. The hit show joins Wednesday’s lineup of network comedy staples including “The Conners” (8:00-8:30 p.m. Et), “The Goldbergs” (8:30-9:00 p.m. Et) and “Home Economics” (9:31-10:00 p.m. Et). Also finding a new home on Wednesday nights is the thriller-mystery series “Big Sky,” which will run from 10:00-10:30 p.m. Et. The new season will also see the additions...

ABC has set fall premiere dates for its new and returning series, including a plum post-Grey’s Anatomy spot for the Hilary Swank starrer Alaska Daily from Oscar winner Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) and the debut of the newest primetime game show Celebrity Jeopardy!

New nights have also been set for Abbott Elementary and Big Sky while another season of Bachelor in Paradise — which is expected to fill the big Monday void left by Dancing with the Stars — will help launch The Rookie: Feds starring Niecy Nash-Betts.

A first-ever live episode of Shark Tank featuring all six original Sharks is also planned for Friday, Sept. 23 at 8 p.m. Et.

Here is ABC’S fall primetime schedule:

Wednesday, Sept. 21

8:00 p.m. The Conners

8:30 p.m. The Goldbergs

9:00 p.m. Abbott Elementary (new night)

9:31 p.m. Home Economics

10:00 p.m. Big Sky (new night)

Friday, Sept. 23

8:00 p.

Exclusive: Peter Elkoff has joined newly ordered ABC/20th Television drama series Alaska, headlined by Hilary Swank, as executive producer and showrunner. For the past two seasons, the seasoned TV writer-producer served as executive producer and co-showrunner on another 20th TV drama series, Fox’s The Resident. Fellow exec producer/co-showrunner Andrew Chapman will be the sole showrunner for the medical drama’s upcoming sixth season.

Alaska, created by Spotlight filmmaker Tom McCarthy, who wrote and directed the pilot, emerged as an early front-runner at ABC this pilot season, making the search for a showrunner a big priority for the studio. With The Resident on the bubble as renewal negotiations between Fox and 20th TV went down to the wire, Elkoff was approached about Alaska and took the job with the 20th TV’s blessing.

Fall 2022 Primetime TV Grid: No Fox (Yet) As Nets Play It Safe With Much More...

ABC announced its plans for the 2022-23 TV season on Tuesday.

Among those plans were new fall dramas Alaska and The Rookie: Feds, as well as midseason entry Not Dead Yet.

Alongside the announcements were teaser trailers for the above series.

Check out the teasers and loglines below.

The Rookie: Feds - Tuesdays at 10 p.m.

From the executive producers of flagship series “The Rookie” comes “The Rookie: Feds” starring Niecy Nash-Betts as Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy.

The spinoff was introduced as a two-part event during the current fourth season of The Rookie, where Officer John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) and the L.A. division of the FBI enlist the help of Simone Clark when one of her former students is a suspect in a terror attack.

The series stars Niecy Nash-Betts as Simone Clark, Frankie Faison as Christopher “Cutty” Clark and Felix Solis as Special Agent Matthew Garza.

ABC set its fall 2022 schedule Tuesday, revealing summer staple “Bachelor in Paradise” will be taking over the longtime Monday home of “Dancing With the Stars” as that series moves to Disney+. The “Bachelor” spinoff will also be airing on Tuesdays, marking four full hours of the dating show per week on ABC’s fall primetime slate.

Additionally, ABC has ordered “Celebrity Jeopardy!” to pair with “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” on Sunday nights; given Niecy Nash-Betts’ “Rookie” spinoff the “BiP” lead-out on Tuesdays; swapped in “Abbott Elementary” on the Wednesday fall comedy block; and set Hilary Swank’s new drama “Alaska” as the 10 p.m. show behind “Station 19” and “Grey’s Anatomy” on Thursdays.

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The new season of “Bachelor in Paradise” will be hosted by Jesse Palmer, with Wells Adams returning to tend bar.

“‘The Bachelor’ franchise has long had a presence on Monday and Tuesday nights,...

The alphabet network has cancelled and renewed several shows in recent days and has now announced some of the programs that will be helping to fill the 2022-23 schedule. Thus far, ABC has ordered to series four new shows -- Alaska, Avalon, Not Dead Yet, and The Rookie: Feds (above).

The Alaska drama series stars Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, Matt Malloy, Meredith Holzman, Grace Dove, Pablo Castelblanco, Ami Park, and Craig Frank. In the story, Eileen Fitzgerald (Swank) is a recently disgraced reporter. She leaves her high-profile New York life behind to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage, undertaking a journey to find redemption in both her personal and professional lives. Read More…...

The network upfronts are once again front-and-center for the television industry as major players gather in New York May 16-19 for the springtime ritual of presenting programming plans for the upcoming TV season.

The business has changed markedly in the three years since industry insiders last gathered in person at Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall and the like. The pandemic accelerated television’s embrace of on-demand streaming platforms and direct-to-consumer distribution models.

But broadcast TV still has its sway — just look at the list of top performing series on the largest SVOD platforms.

As content chiefs outline their plans for the 2022-2023 television season, here is a running list of new drama and comedy series orders handed out by ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW. This post will be updated throughout upfront week.

ABC Drama

Alaska (20th Television)

Logline: After a reporter is “cancelled” she reinvents herself and...

The broadcast networks are looking ahead to the 2022-23 TV season.

After some shocking cancellations.

We'll start with the latest round of ABC pickups.

Niecy Nash will remain in The Rookie universe after a successful two-episode backdoor pilot for a spinoff since The Rookie: Feds has landed a formal series order.

Nash plays Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy in the new series.

Also starring are Frankie Faison as Christopher "Cutty" Clark and Felix Solis as Matthew Garza.

Nash-Betts, Mark Gordon, Nathan Fillion, Michelle Chapman, Bill Norcross, and Corey Miller executive produce alongside creators Alexi Hawley and Terence Paul Winter for Entertainment One and ABC Signature.

The Rookie has been a moderate hit for ABC, drawing decent ratings when all metrics are factored in.

ABC wants a new franchise, and all signs are pointing to The Rookie being that franchise.

Meanwhile, Hilary Swank has an exciting new drama coming to the air.

ABC has made its new series orders.

The Disney-owned network has picked up Hilary Swank-fronted drama Alaska (fka Alaska Daily News), The Rookie spinoff The Rookie: Feds and comedy Not Dead Yet to series.

It comes on a busy day for the network ahead of its Upfront presentation next week; it renewed Big Sky for a third season, A Million Little Things, for a fifth season, and comedies The Conners, for season five, Home Economics, for season three and The Wonder Years, a second season as well as a slew of unscripted renewals.

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Alaska, which scored a pilot order in September, stars Swank as Eileen Fitzgerald, a recently disgraced reporter who leaves her high-profile New York life behind to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.

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ABC has picked up “The Rookie” spinoff starring Niecy Nash-Betts as well as the drama “Alaska” starring Hilary Swank and the comedy “Not Dead Yet” starring Gina Rodriguez for the 2022-2023 broadcast season.

“The Rookie” spinoff aired as a two-part backdoor pilot during “The Rookie’s” fourth season. The spinoff is titled “The Rookie: Feds.” Nash-Betts stars as Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy. The cast also includes Frankie Faison as Christopher “Cutty” Clark and Felix Solis as Special Agent Matthew Garza.

“The Rookie” creator Alexi Hawley co-created the spinoff with Terence Paul Winter, with both executive producing. Mark Gordon, Nash-Betts, “The Rookie” star Nathan Fillion, Michelle Chapman, Bill Norcross and Corey Miller are also executive producers. The show is a co-production between Entertainment One and ABC Signature.

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ABC has picked up “Not Dead Yet,” a new comedy starring “Jane the Virgin” alum Gina Rodriguez.

The network also picked up the drama “Alaska,” starring Hilary Swank, and “The Rookie” spinoff “The Rookie: Feds,” starring Niecy Nash-Betts, for the 2022-23 television season.

In “Not Dead Yet,” Rodriguez plays Nell Stevens, a broke and newly single self-described disaster, working to restart the life and career she left behind 10 years ago. When she lands the only job she can find – writing obituaries – Nell starts getting life advice from an unlikely source.

The series, from creators and executive producers David Windsor and Casey Johnson, is adapted from the book “Confessions of a 40-something F**k Up” by Alexandra Potter. Dean Holland directed the pilot.

Alongside Rodriguez, the show stars Joshua Banday as Dennis and Angela Gibbs as Cricket.

Rodriguez and Wonderland Sound and Vision’s McG, Mary Viola and Corey Marsh are also EPs.

Loretta Todd has been making documentaries for three decades but in 2020, she's opening another chapter in her filmmaking career: feature film director.

Monkey Beach is an adaptation of Eden Robinson's acclaimed book about a young woman named Lisa, the mesmerizing Grace Dove, who returns home to Kitamaat to save her brother who she believes is about to suffer a tragic fate.

A mix of magical realism and an exploration of Aboriginal traditions, Monkey Beach is the kind of film that captures a culture in a way only an insider can, bringing to life a beloved novel and introducing the material to an entire new audience.

Like so many independent productions, the movie's journey to the screen was long and arduous but Todd's pe...

Monkey Beach, a supernatural thriller by writer-director Loretta Todd and starring Suicide Squad star Adam Beach and Grace Dove, is set to open a pandemic-era Vancouver Film Festival.

The Canadian indie, receiving a world premiere, has Dove playing a young woman with powers that foretell death and who faces the disappearance at sea of her brother, a potential Olympic swimmer.

Other indie films booked into Vancouver include Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Viggo Mortensen’s Falling, Francois Ozon’s Summer of 85 and Tracey Deer’s Beans. On Thursday, Vancouver festival organizers unveiled plans for a 14-day mainly digital festival.

Only select film titles will physically screen ...

Monkey Beach, a supernatural thriller by writer-director Loretta Todd and starring Suicide Squad star Adam Beach and Grace Dove, is set to open a pandemic-era Vancouver Film Festival.

The Canadian indie, receiving a world premiere, has Dove playing a young woman with powers that foretell death and who faces the disappearance at sea of her brother, a potential Olympic swimmer.

Other indie films booked into Vancouver include Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Viggo Mortensen’s Falling, Francois Ozon’s Summer of 85 and Tracey Deer’s Beans. On Thursday, Vancouver festival organizers unveiled plans for a 14-day mainly digital festival.

Only select film titles will physically screen ...

Suicide Squad star Adam Beach and Grace Dove (The Revenant) have landed on Monkey Beach, a supernatural thriller by writer-director Loretta Todd.

The Canadian indie, which is shooting in the indigenous settlement of Kitamaat and Vancouver, is based on Eden Robinson’s novel of the same name. Dove, who also stars in Netflix's How It Ends, plays Lisa Hill, a young woman with powers that foretell death who faces the disappearance at sea of her brother, a potential Olympic swimmer. Beach plays Uncle Mick.

Nathaniel Arcand, Stefany Mathias, Glen Gould, Joel Oulette and Tina Marie Lameman round out the cast.

The co-production ...

Suicide Squad star Adam Beach and Grace Dove (The Revenant) have landed on Monkey Beach, a supernatural thriller by writer-director Loretta Todd.

The Canadian indie, which is shooting in the indigenous settlement of Kitamaat and Vancouver, is based on Eden Robinson’s novel of the same name. Dove, who also stars in Netflix's How It Ends, plays Lisa Hill, a young woman with powers that foretell death who faces the disappearance at sea of her brother, a potential Olympic swimmer. Beach plays Uncle Mick.

Nathaniel Arcand, Stefany Mathias, Glen Gould, Joel Oulette and Tina Marie Lameman round out the cast.

The co-production ...

"Now matter what happens we're going to make it! Okay?" Netflix has launched one final trailer for an intense end of the world movie titled How It Ends, the latest from filmmaker David M. Rosenthal. How It Ends is a post-apocalyptic survival thriller, where they're not sure what exactly is happening and/or what exactly the apocalypse is. The plot involves a desperate father trying to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious event turns everything to chaos. Theo James stars, along with Forest Whitaker, Kat Graham, Kerry Bishé, Mark O'Brien, Nicole Ari Parker, and Grace Dove. This is available on Netflix today, so they're giving it one big push in hopes some of you want to watch this. Or maybe no one wants to escape to an apocalyptic story when it's already so bad. Enjoy. Here's the second & final trailer for David M. Rosenthal's How It Ends,...

A mysterious apocalypse causes the spread of misinformation and violence in the new trailer for Netflix's How It Ends. Forest Whitaker stars alongside Theo James in the intense trailer, which teases that there's something else going on under the surface. Extreme natural disasters are occurring as Whitaker's Tom and James' Will race across the country to save Will's pregnant wife, who is also the daughter of Tom. The blockbuster for the small screen is intense and looks like it would fit in with any other of the popcorn movies currently in theaters.

Forest Whitaker is in full on action mode for How It Ends as a hard ass father-in-law, who knows his way around firearms and insane automobile stunts. The tough guy approach comes off well in the recently released trailer, while Divergent series star Theo James' Will character comes off as a bit timid at the start. By the end of the trailer,...

"There's a lot to be afraid of out there..." Netflix has debuted an official trailer for an indie film titled How It Ends, the latest from filmmaker David M. Rosenthal. How It Ends is a post-apocalyptic survival thriller, one of those where they don't really explain the apocalypse or what happened. The plot involves a desperate father trying to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos. Theo James stars, along with Forest Whitaker, Kat Graham, Kerry Bishé, Mark O'Brien, Nicole Ari Parker, and Grace Dove. This pretty much came out of nowhere, so I'm not sure what to make of it. It seems like there's some cool things going on here, but I really don't have a good feeling. It's worth a look just to check out another Netflix film. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for David M. Rosenthal's How It...