
White House Targets The View’s Joy Behar, Warns Daytime Talker Could Be ‘Next to Get Pulled Off the Air’
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‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 2 Release Date, Cast on Netflix, Adam Brody
Season 2 of Nobody Wants This will premiere on Oct. 23. The cast announced the news at Netflix’s FYSEE event in Los Angeles. Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan will take over as showrunners in Season 2. Series creator Erin Foster will also return as an executive producer. The rom-com stars Kristen Bell and Adam Brody.
Season 2 of the Netflix rom-com will premiere Thursday, Oct. 23, TVLine has learned. The cast announced the news at Netflix’s FYSEE event in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Along with the date, Netflix has released a video of the cast, including stars Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, playing with a Magic 8-Ball and asking it questions about what’s next for the show before revealing the Season 2 premiere date. (Watch the video below.)
Bell and Brody star as mismatched lovers Joanne and Noah, who overcome some pretty big differences — she’s an agnostic podcast host; he’s a rabbi — to find a genuine romantic connection. Justine Lupe (Succession) co-stars as Joanne’s sister Morgan, with Timothy Simons (Veep) as Noah’s brother Sasha and newly minted series regular Jackie Tohn (GLOW) as Esther.
Season 2 will also welcome a host of guest stars, including Brody’s real-life wife Leighton Meester (as Joanne’s middle school nemesis), along with Alex Karpovsky (Girls) and Arian Moayed (Succession). As previously reported, Girls veterans Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan will take over as showrunners in Season 2, with series creator Erin Foster returning as an executive producer.
What are you hoping to see in Season 2 of Nobody Wants This? Hit the comments to give us your thoughts.
Murderbot Renewed for Season 2 at Apple TV+
Apple TV+ has renewed Murderbot for Season 2. The news comes less than 24 hours ahead of the show’s Season 1 finale. No word yet on a timeframe for the return of the sci-fi comedy. The series is based on the first novella in Martha Wells’ Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning book series. It stars Alexander Skarsgård, Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian and Sabrina Wu.
The news comes less than 24 hours ahead of its Season 1 finale, which begins streaming July 11.
“We’re so grateful for the response that Murderbot has received, and delighted that we’re getting to go back to Martha Wells’ world to work with Alexander, Apple, CBS Studios and the rest of the team,” series creators/executive producers Chris and Paul Weitz said in a statement Thursday.
Added Apple TV+ head of programming Matt Cherniss: “Chris, Paul, Alexander and the entire Murderbot team have delivered a brilliantly original, addictive, witty and vibrant adaptation that has captured the imagination of audiences everywhere. We can’t wait to unveil what’s next for Murderbot and, of course, ‘Sanctuary Moon’ in Season 2.”
Based on the first novella in Wells’ Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning book series, Season 1 of Murderbot is described as “a sci-fi thriller/comedy about a self-hacking security construct who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable clients. Played by Skarsgård, Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe.”
In addition to Skarsgård, the Murderbot cast includes Noma Dumezweni (Presumed Innocent), David Dastmalchian (Oppenheimer), Sabrina Wu (Joy Ride), Akshay Khanna (Critical Incident), Tattiawna Jones (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Tamara Podemski (Outer Range).
No word yet on a timeframe for Season 2’s release, but TVLine will keep you posted as we learn more. In the meantime, hit the comments and let us know if you’re looking forward to the (eventual) return of Murderbot.
Save the Dates: Digman! Season 2, Minecraft on Max and More
Andy Samberg’s animated comedy Digman! will return for Season 2 on Wednesday, July 9 July 23 at 10:30/9:30c on Comedy Central. A Minecraft Movie will make its global streaming debut on Max Friday, June 20, and then debut on HBO linear Saturday, June 21 at 8/7c. Blumhouse and Universal Pictures’ The Woman in the Yard, starring Danielle Deadwyler (Till), Okwui Okpokwasili (Exorcist: The Believer) and Russell Hornsby, will premiere on Peacock June 27.
Andy Samberg’s animated comedy Digman! will return for Season 2 on Wednesday, July 9 July 23 at 10:30/9:30c on Comedy Central, following an all-new South Park, the network announced on Monday.
Samberg stars as archaeologist Rip Digman, who embarks on Indiana Jones-style adventures with his student Saltine, voiced by Mitra Jouhari (Clone High). The voice cast also includes Tim Robinson, Melissa Fumero and Tim Meadows.
Co-created by Samberg and Neil Campbell (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Digman! debuted in March 2023 with an eight-episode freshman season. Get a first look at Season 2 here:
In other recent scheduling news…
* A Minecraft Movie will make its global streaming debut on Max Friday, June 20, and then debut on HBO linear Saturday, June 21 at 8/7c.
* Tubi has acquired Zero Star: The Cam Ward Story — a docuseries chronicling Cam Ward’s journey from overlooked high school quarterback with a single Division I FCS offer to the leader of the Miami Hurricanes and No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft — to premiere in September.
* Season 2 of Kiff and Season 1 of StuGo, both of which aired on Disney Channel earlier this year, will begin streaming on Disney+ Wednesday, July 23 and Wednesday, July 30, respectively.
* Blumhouse and Universal Pictures’ The Woman in the Yard, starring Danielle Deadwyler (Till), Okwui Okpokwasili (Exorcist: The Believer), Peyton Jackson (Nobody’s Fool) and Russell Hornsby, will premiere on Peacock Friday, June 27.
* Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+, a continuation of the hit series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, premieres Monday, July 21 at 9 am ET on Disney Jr. (and streams all 10 episodes the next day on Disney+). Check out the new theme song:
Pulse Cancelled at Netflix After 1 Season
The medical drama has been cancelled after just one season. Its April 3 freshman finale now doubles as its series finale. The series followed the doctors and surgeons at Miami’s Maguire Medical Center. Justina Machado (One Day at a Time), Jessie T. Usher (The Boys) and Jack Bannon (Pennyworth) were among the cast members on the show. It was also the first season for Uzo Aduba-led murder mystery The Residence.
TVLine has reached out to the streamer for confirmation. (Its Uzo Aduba-led murder mystery The Residence has also been axed after one season.)
Pulse followed the doctors and surgeons at Miami’s Maguire Medical Center, namely the complicated relationship between colleagues-turned-lovers Danny Simms (Reacher‘s Willa Fitzgerald) and Xander Phillips (The Originals‘ Colin Woodell). As the rest of the ER staff was left to process the fallout of Danny and Xander’s illicit romance, they balanced their own personal and professional challenges while working under the pressure of life-or-death stakes.
The series’ ensemble also included Justina Machado (One Day at a Time), Jessie T. Usher (The Boys), Jack Bannon (Pennyworth), Jessy Yates (Me), Chelsea Muirhead (Warrior) and Daniela Nieves (Vampire Academy).
Though Pulse did tie up many of its loose storyline ends in the Season 1 finale, a few were left dangling: Rather than keep Natalie Cruz (Machado) in charge of both surgery and the ER, the hospital opted to divvy up those leadership roles, promoting ER attending doctor Patrick Sanchez (Manifest‘s J.R. Ramirez) to chair of emergency medicine — and he and Cruz didn’t see eye-to-eye. Case in point: Although Cruz endorsed Danny for the role of chief resident, Sanchez decided to go a different way, naming Dr. Elijah (Usher) chief resident in the finale instead.
TVLine readers gave Pulse‘s first (and now only) season an overall average grade of “C.” How do you feel about the show’s fate? Weigh in below!
White House Criticizes Joy Behar, Threatens to Take ‘The View’ Off Air
The White House released a statement attacking The View co-host Joy Behar. It was in response to a bit Behar did on President Donald Trump’s apparent envy of former President Barack Obama. The White House said Behar is “an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome” It also suggested that Behar “should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump’s historic popularity’ before her show is the next to be pulled off air” The View is not commenting on the White House’s statement. The statement comes less than a week after CBS announced that The Late Show would be entering its farewell season.
Said missive/veiled threat comes less than a week after CBS announced that The Late Show would be entering its farewell season, soon after host Stephen Colbert said on-air that parent company Paramount’s recent $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump was tantamount to “a bribe.” (Paramount Global is waiting on Trump’s FCC to approve a lonnnnng-in-the-works merger with Skydance Media.)
With its statement (e-mailed to EW.com), the White House was responding to a Wednesday bit that Behar did on Trump’s apparent envy of former President Barack Obama. Trump this week circulated a fake, AI-generated video of Obama being arrested in the Oval Office for being, um, “sedacious.”
“First of all, who tried to overthrow the government on Jan. 6?” Behar began, alluding to the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. “Let me think, who was that again…? That was not Obama.
“The thing about [Trump] is he’s so jealous of Obama,” she continued, “because Obama is everything that he is not. Trim. Smart. Handsome. Happily married…. And Trump cannot stand it. It’s driving him crazy. Jealous is not–, green is not a good color.”
The White House — an official institution of the United States federal government, I need to remind you — said in its very official statement that “Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
The statement, sent by White House assistant press secretary Taylor Rogers, goes on to say, “It’s no surprise that The View‘s ratings hit an all-time low last year” — though here in reality, the daytime talker is up 5% in audience year-over-year, and is enjoying its most-watched summer in four years.
In closing, the statement quite pointedly suggests that Behar “should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump’s historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off air.”
The View is not commenting on the White House’s statement.
Following Behar’s aforementioned bit on Wednesday’s The View, fellow co-host Sunny Hostin jumped in to echo the sentiment, saying, “Obama still lives rent-free in [Trump’s] head, I think Michelle Obama still lives rent-free in his head, the fact that [daughter] Malia graduated from Harvard…. It’s the very swagger that Obama has, that he will never have.”