Abbey Lee, Cherry Jones, Rob Delaney and Corey Stoll join Robert Langdon series (Photo Credits: Netflix, Todd Williamson/Getty Images, Lily Craigen, Eric Hobbs)
Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets continues to fill out its cast. The latest batch of actors who’ve joined the untitled Robert Langdon series includes Cherry Jones, Corey Stoll, Rob Delaney, and Abbey Lee.
The foursome joins previously announced series stars Morgan Spector as Langdon and Rebecca Hall as Katherine Solomon. Jones (Succession) will play Heide Nagel, Corey Stoll (The Better Sister) is on board as Everett Finch, Rob Delaney (Dying for Sex) is set to play Jonas Faukman, and Abbey Lee (Black Rabbit) will play Sasha Vesna.
“In Dan Brown’s thrilling novel, symbologist Robert Langdon races against ancient forces and time to rescue a missing scientist and her groundbreaking manuscript whose discoveries have the power to forever change humanity’s understanding of the mind,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “The series adaptation (currently untitled) will blend futuristic science with mystical lore, delivering on the heart-pounding suspense and international intrigue that has made the Langdon stories a global phenomenon.”
The series is based on Brown’s sixth book in the series, with the author involved as co-creator and executive producer. Co-creator Carlton Cuse (Bates Motel, Lost) is serving as showrunner, writer, and executive producer. Additional executive producers include Emma Forman and Zoe Robyn.
Expedition X will kick off its 12th season with an episode set in Nottingham and focused on the legend of Robin Hood. Discovery Channel’s new season will premiere on August 19, 2026, with new episodes airing on Wednesdays at 9pm ET/PT.
Adventurer Josh Gates, scientist Phil Torres, and paranormal investigator Heather Amaro return to investigate some of the strangest mysteries and potential paranormal occurrences around the world. In season 12, the team explores the Skinwalker legend and haunted battlefields. Season 12 wraps up with Jack Osbourne’s return for a Revolutionary War investigation.
Heather and Phil head to the archery range for their final showdown in ‘Expedition X’ (Photo credit: Discovery Channel)
Discovery Channel’s description of the new Expedition X season reads: “In a special two-part season premiere, Heather Amaro and Phil Torres travel to Nottingham, England – home to the famed Robin Hood legend – to explore if centuries of bloodshed have left behind a terrifying paranormal legacy. After reviewing reports of mysterious figures, ghostly apparitions, and unexplained phenomena, the team investigates several notorious hotspots including Nottingham’s centuries-old underground cave systems, medieval dungeons, Newstead Abbey, and the depths of Sherwood Forest itself. As evidence mounts, Amaro and Torres confront a haunting question: are the legends of Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest rooted in history, folklore, or something far more sinister?
Later this season, the team ventures into one of the Navajo Nation’s most notoriously cursed valleys to investigate chilling encounters with the elusive Skinwalker, joining forces with a local expert to explore a cave rumored to be the creature’s lair. They also uncover reports of aggressive paranormal activity across Guam’s historic World War II battlefields, where echoes of the island’s violent past still linger. Then, in a special mission honoring America’s 250th birthday, the team reunites with paranormal investigator Jack Osbourne to track Revolutionary War spirits believed to still roam the war-torn battlegrounds surrounding the Brandywine River.”
Investigation Discovery explores the controversial prank show Juiced starring O.J. Simpson in O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil. Simpson shot the hidden camera series a decade after the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murders, and the public—thankfully—wasn’t interested in watching Simpson pull pranks on unsuspecting people. Juiced never aired on broadcast television.
The four-part documentary series will air on Monday, September 7, and Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 9pm ET/PT.
“This September, the leading true crime network Investigation Discovery unlocks never-before-seen footage from the making of Juiced – the ill-fated hidden-camera prank show featuring O.J. Simpson. An extreme experiment in the reality TV genre during a time that fused shock value and celebrity culture at any cost, for Simpson, the show was a misguided and desperate attempt to rehabilitate his public image. But just as producers were about to launch this ill-fated attempt to blend reality television with the crime of century, a mystery saboteur brought the whole thing crashing down from within.
O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil is the first documentary to chronicle and thoroughly investigate the making of Juiced, exposing the toxic collision of celebrity, media, and spectacle during an era when exploitation was increasingly packaged as entertainment. Drawing on unearthed footage and behind-the-scenes access, the docuseries traces the show’s evolution from audacious concept to troubled production, capturing the increasingly volatile atmosphere that unfolded both behind and in front of the cameras.
At the center of the story are revealing interviews with Simpson himself, providing context for how the project was shaped at the time and his endless pursuit of notoriety through entertainment – a fixation that remained with him until his death.
Featuring exclusive firsthand accounts from Juiced creators, producers, actors, and others involved in the project, alongside commentary from cultural experts, O.J. Unseen: Exploitation of Evil peels back the curtain on the forces that made this project a product of reality television’s most provocative era.
Over four gripping episodes, the series examines how Juiced became a flashpoint in a media culture increasingly willing to blur the lines between controversy, spectacle, and entertainment, raising provocative questions about society’s enduring fascination with scandal.”
Hopefully, the third and final season of Paramount+’s Colin From Accounts will finally answer the will-they-or-won’t-they question. And on the way to delivering that answer, expect there to be more roadblocks, misunderstandings, and continued commitment to one super adorable dog.
Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer created the series and star, write, and executive produce. The season three cast also includes Thomas Cocquerel, Nikki Shiels, Mark Trevorrow, Emma Harvie, Genevieve Hegney, and Michael Logo. Rounding out the cast are Helen Thomson, Darren Gilshenan, Virginia Gay, Annie Maynard, Celeste Barber, Justin Rosniak, and Tai Hara.
“Creatively it feels like the right time to say goodbye to Colin From Accounts after three seasons. We love everything about making this show. From writing all 24 episodes and producing with our amazing partners at Easy Tiger to acting on set with our brilliant cast and spunky crew to sitting in the edit with our wonderful post team, where we are currently wrapping things up,” commented Brammall and Dyer on wrapping up the series. “We’re going to miss making this show terribly, but we hope you love season three as much as we do. Thank you for watching; it means the world.”
Season three premieres on September 10, 2026.
Paramount+’s synopsis reads, “Season three of Colin From Accounts reveals the aftermath of the ill-fated proposal, but while Gordon and Ashley are determined to move on from past embarrassments, they can’t seem to shake their collective baggage. And even as life moves on, with challenges at work, ongoing family battles, and new friendship dramas, something keeps pulling this flawed, funny pair back into each other’s orbits. Do Gordon and Ashley belong together – or is their beloved dog Colin the only thing keeping their futures intertwined?”
NBC’s The Voice is switching things up, heading into production on The Voice: Celebrity. Keke Palmer (The ‘Burbs) is on board as host of what’s described as an “eventized season” of the popular singing competition.
Joe Jonas will make his coaching debut with the special season, joining coaches Queen Latifah (The Equalizer) and Riley Green (recently seen on Marshals) who will be taking seats in the red chairs for the first time with season 30. Kelly Clarkson and Adam Levine fill out the coaching roster for the 30th season, with Carson Daly returning as host.
The eventized season will premiere in 2027, with Daly involved as a producer.
NBC offers this description of what’s in store for the Celebrity edition:
“An extension of the longstanding series, this special season swaps undiscovered talent for a wide range of celebrities – actors, musicians, influencers, athletes, comedians, and reality television stars – competing to become the first Voice celebrity champion. These celebrity artists will be announced at a later time.
The Voice: Celebrity will offer unprecedented access to artists throughout the competition as viewers watch familiar faces step outside their comfort zones and reveal new sides of themselves. New features such as Voice Boot Camp give viewers a behind-the-scenes look as celebrities prepare for their fan-favorite Blind Auditions while the VIP Room brings artists together to watch their fellow celebrities take The Voice stage in real time.
Later in the competition, the Workroom offers another window into the process as artists strategize, rehearse, and ready themselves for the Battles.”
Filming’s officially underway on Netflix’s This Summer Will Be Different, based on Carley Fortune’s novel. Netflix released a photo of series stars Sophie Nélisse (Heated Rivalry), Francesca Reale (Stranger Things), and Roby Attal (The Haunting of Bly Manor) as production begins on Prince Edward Island.
Netflix’s synopsis reads, “This Summer Will Be Different, based on the beloved novel by Carley Fortune, is a simmering, sun-soaked romance set across multiple summers on Prince Edward Island about Lucy, a young woman navigating her 20s and her first real love with her best friend’s brother, the one person she was never supposed to fall for.”
New recurring cast members include Jordan Rodrigues as Miles Lam, Jude Wilson as Zach, Natalie Brown as Christine, James Tupper as Ken, Tom Barnett as Peter, and Celia Owen as Joy.
Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart created the series and serve as showrunners of the first 10-episode season. Clark, Stewart, author Carley Fortune, Jennifer Kawaja, Elise Cousineau, and Sam Levine executive produce. Karen Maine, Jasmin Mozaffari, and Fab Filippo are the directors.
This Summer Will Be Different is produced by Sphere Media.
Netflix’s next installment in the Monster anthology, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, has set a September 17, 2026 premiere date. The date announcement came with the release of the first batch of photos, including one of a bloody Ella Beatty as the titular character.
The eight-episode series also stars Vicky Krieps as Bridget Sullivan, Rebecca Hall as Abby Borden, and Charlie Hunnam as Andrew Borden. Billie Lourd, Joey Pollari, Sarah Paulson, and Jessica Barden round out the cast. Ian Brennan created the series and serves as writer and executive producer.
“I am so excited for viewers to experience our exploration of Lizzie Borden’s story and the questions that her life animates to this day,” said Beatty in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum. “It has been a dream come true to investigate this complicated person’s psychology and to examine an American crime that feels almost mythic in proportion. This season gives us our first female Monster and delves into female rage and repression, which I’ve found to feel strikingly relevant, and I cannot wait to share it with the world.”
Monster‘s fourth installment is executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Max Winkler, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Louise Shore, Nissa Diederich, Todd Kubrak, Carl Franklin, and Tanase Popa. Winkler and Sarah Adina Smith are the directors.
Netflix offers this synopsis:
“When the repressed daughter of a wealthy New England family and her rebellious maid find themselves trapped in a house built on humiliation and cruelty, they escape into a fantasy of sex, power, and revenge. The gruesome unsolved murders that follow don’t just shock the world—they give birth to an icon who refuses to live imprisoned in a cage, choosing instead to forge her own legend: shocking, monstrous, and gloriously free.”
A scene from Eli Roth’s ‘Ice Cream Man’ (Photo Credit: The Horror Section)
In 1995, cult actor Clint Howard (brother of the more-famous Ron Howard) starred in a straight-to-video horror comedy called Ice Cream Man about a group of kids who think that their local ice cream man is a serial killer.
Modern horror icon Eli Roth’s new movie of the same name is not a remake of that movie. But it does share some common ground.
Ice Cream Man is about a town called Baleen Bay where, suddenly on a summer morning, all of the children start acting crazy and murdering the adults. A group of children who have not joined in on the carnage figure out that what is causing the frenzy is the frozen treats that have been provided by the titular Ice Cream Man (Orphan Black’s Ari Millen). It’s up to the unaffected kids to save what’s left of the town from the clutches of the evil sweet-dealer.
Eli Roth goes for the throat with Ice Cream Man. It’s simultaneously brutal and heartwarming, both an extreme horror film and a coming-of-age comedy. There’s blood spilling, spraying, and splattering all around these kids, and even though they’re mostly flat, cookie-cutter characters, the audience really roots for them to save their little town. In terms of Roth’s earlier works, this is Hostel-meets-The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Kid power with a lot of entrails.
The big commonalties between Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man and the 1995 movie are twofold – there’s a murderous ice cream man, and there are some kids who are on to him. But that’s where the similarities end. Roth’s movie is more of a Pied Piper-meets-Greek Mythology tale, as well as a clever Living Dead zombie movie crossed with a kindertrauma flick.
While that may sound like a lot of influences to soak up, that’s just scratching the surface. Roth has always been a student of cinema, and Ice Cream Man features visual and thematic nods to just about every horror movie imaginable. The overall arc feels like Weapons or Cooties, the deeper story hints at The Children and A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Roth lifts visual gags from The Burning, The Ring, and I Saw the TV Glow, just to name a few. There’s even a sideways glance towards Ridley Scott’s Hannibal.
All these tributes and homages aside, Ice Cream Man is definitely an Eli Roth movie. No one can combine the grotesque with the campy quite like Roth, and both his horror and his humor are on full display. The violence is gory and graphic, to the point where it crosses over the line to become humor. A fine example of this is a passing shot of a little schoolgirl making snow angels in the spilled blood from one of her slaughtered teachers. Roth seems to delight in this kind of carnage, and the audience delights right along with him.
The violence and brutality in Ice Cream Man cannot be overstated. Every kill is more gruesome and over-the-top than the last. And the fact that it is children committing these atrocities makes what’s onscreen all the more shocking. There is very little child-on-child violence – the affected children don’t harm each other, they just try to feed ice cream to the unaffected in order to get them to join in. But when the kids go after the grown-ups, all bets are off. And even the most mundane of schoolyard accessories becomes a weapon of adult destruction.
Ice Cream Man feels like Eli Roth’s love letter to all of those killer kids movies of the seventies. It never takes itself too seriously, so it’s a fun ride. Inventive? No. But fun, nonetheless. This is modern B-movie campiness in its purest form.
Eli Roth is an acquired taste, and even some horror fans dislike his work. Those folks should stay away from Ice Cream Man. Because this is Eli Roth being Eli Roth. Next to Thanksgiving, this may be the most Eli Roth movie that Eli Roth has ever made. And he’s not even sorry.
GRADE: B
Release Date: August 7, 2026
Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes
Apple TV’s critically acclaimed sci-fi neo-noir detective series Sugar finishes a strong second season on Friday, August 7, 2026 with episode eight, “Like Sugar.” The upcoming season finale’s description warns something big’s in store for the titular character, who’s spent season two helping a drug-addicted boxer and going after crooked cops.
Colin Farrell stars as John Sugar, Jin Ha is Danny, Raymond Lee plays Ji, Tony Dalton is Vega, Laura Donnelly is Charlotte, and Sasha Calle stars as Val. Shea Whigham guest stars as Tom Flyberg.
Episode 8 Plot: Sugar attends an event that shakes him to his core.
Colin Farrell and Laura Donnelly in ‘Sugar’ season 2 episode 8 (Photo Credit: Apple TV)
Sugar Season 2 Synopsis:
Sugar is a contemporary, unique take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, motion picture, and television history: the private detective story. Season two ushers in the return of Los Angeles’s iconic private detective and film connoisseur John Sugar, played by Colin Farrell, who stayed on earth in hopes to find his sister as he takes on a new missing persons case – searching for the older brother of an up-and-coming local boxer. As the investigation expands into a sinister, city-wide conspiracy, Sugar must reckon with himself to answer the question—how far will he go to do what’s right?
Sam Catlin is the showrunner and serves as an executive producer along with Colin Farrell, Audrey Chon, Simon Kinberg, Scott Greenberg, and Chip Vucelich.
Colin Farrell in the season 2 finale (Photo Credit: Apple TV)Colin Farrell and Shea Whigham in the season 2 finale (Photo Credit: Apple TV)James Cromwell in the season 2 finale (Photo Credit: Apple TV)Jin Ha in the season 2 finale (Photo Credit: Apple TV)Sasha Calle and Colin Farrell in the season 2 finale (Photo Credit: Apple TV)
Shudder’s set a September 15, 2026 premiere date for season three of The Creep Tapes. The new season will kick off with two episodes, followed by new episodes of the six-episode season on Tuesdays on Shudder and AMC+.
Mark Duplass returns to star and serves as co-writer and executive producer along with Patrick Brice. Announced guest stars include Kate Siegel (Carrie), Nic Hamilton (IT), and Elliott Fulham (Terrifier 2, Terrifier 3). Duplass’ daughter, Ora (Coven Academy), guest stars in a throwback episode.
Shudder’s synopsis reads, “Season three continues to expose a collection of video tapes from the secret vault of the world’s deadliest and most socially uncomfortable serial killer (Duplass). Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.”
Mel Eslyn, Jay Duplass, and Chris Donlon also serve as executive producers, and John Baker is a producer. The series is produced by Duplass Brothers Productions and Shudder.
The popular horror series is based on 2014’s Creep and 2017’s Creep 2. The Creep Tapes premiered in November 2024. Season two, which sits at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, followed in November 2025.
