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| 'Law & Order: Organized Crime' canceled, no Season 6 | Law & Order: Organized Crime won't return for a sixth season. Deadline reported Thursday that the crime drama series starring Christopher Meloni has been canceled after five seasons. Variety confirmed the show won't be getting a Season 6. Organized Crime was a spinoff of Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU featuring Meloni as Det. Elliot Stabler. The series aired its first four seasons on NBC and was shown on both NBC and Peacock for Season 5. Mariska Hargitay made guest appearances as Stabler's SVU partner Det. Olivia Benson during the show's run. In late 2024, reports surfaced that John Shiban would become the fifth showrunner to leave the series in four years. The Season 5 finale aired in June 2025. |
| Burgess, Kemper, Harris to voice beloved Mo Willems characters | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt stars Tituss Burgess and Ellie Kemper will voice the title characters in The Elephant & Piggie Show! The new animated series for Paramount+ is based on Mo Willems' beloved picture book series. Tony- and Emmy-winner Neil Patrick Harris will play the bus driver in a separate cartoon comedy called The Pigeon Show! Starring The Pigeon, which is also inspired by Willems' best-sellers. The shows are expected to premiere on the streaming service in 2027. |
| Lana Del Rey releases 'First Light,' song for James Bond video game | Lana Del Rey surprised fans Thursday by releasing a song for an upcoming James Bond video game. The Grammy-winning singer, 40, released "First Light," the theme song for the game 007 First Light. The title hails from IO Interactive, the studio behind Hitman. "First Light" was written by Del Rey and David Arnold, a composer who wrote the score for five Bond films. "It's a joy to watch two extraordinary talents like Lana Del Rey and David Arnold combine forces, the result feels instantly 'Bond' while still bringing a fresh identity for 007 First Light," IO Interactive said in a statement. 007 First Light tells "a fully original, reimagined origin story" of the famous spy. |
| Starz offers 1st look at S2 of 'Outlander' prequel 'Blood of My Blood' | Starz has released the first teaser for Season 2 of its Outlander prequel, Blood of My Blood, which is set to premiere this fall. Based on the books of Diana Gabaldon, the show is set in 18th century Scotland and 20th century England and stars Hermione Corfield, Jeremy Irvine, Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy as the parents of Outlander's star-crossed lovers Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan). "In Season 1, Claire's parents Henry and Julia, began a romance through the letters they exchanged from the war-torn battlefields of WWI, but were tested in new ways when an unexpected journey back in time left them lost and separated in the sweeping highlands of 18th century Scotland," a synopsis said. |
| John Krasinski coaxed back into the spy game in 'Jack Ryan' trailer | Prime Video dropped the first full-length trailer for its movie, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War, Thursday. Starring John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce and Michael Kelly, the film was directed by Andrew Bernstein and is set to premiere on the streaming service May 20. "Jack Ryan is reluctantly thrust back into the world of espionage when an international covert mission unravels a deadly conspiracy, forcing him to confront a rogue black-ops unit, and the clock is ticking," a synopsis said. |