News Brief: GAME OF THRONES: Season 8 Premiere Ratings, HUSTLERS’ Release Date, MANIFEST Renewed, & More

News Brief: Game of Thrones: Season 8 Premiere Ratings, Hustlers Release Date, Manifest Renewed, and More

In brief, new movie news and television show news has broken. Below you will find a brief rundown on all that news and their most significant segments, distilled down to the most salient information.

TV Show News

HBO Sets Return Year for Westworld, Insecure, and Curb Your Enthusiasm

Westworld, Insecure, and Curb Your Enthusiasm will return to HBO for a new TV season each on 2020. New TV series Run will premiere in 2020 on HBO.

Manifest Renewed for Season Two by NBC

Manifest has been renewed for second season by NBC. The episode count for the second season has not been determined yet.

The missing plane drama series has generated TV’s biggest viewership lift going from live+ same day to L+7, adding 6.1 million viewers through seven days of delayed viewing (6.5 million to 12.6 million). Counting 35 days of linear and projected non-linear viewership, Manifest grows to a 4.86 rating in 18-49, nearly quadrupling its next-day L+SD 1.25 rating.

Shrill Renewed for Season Two by Hulu

Shrill has been renewed for second season by Hulu. The episode count has been upped by two episodes to eight for the second season.

Y: The Last Man Showrunners Exit TV Series

Y: The Last Man showrunners Aida Mashaka Croal and Michael Green have exited the upcoming comic book adaptation over “creative differences.” The TV series is now looking for a new showrunner.

?@andmichaelgreen? pic.twitter.com/igNnghiatM

— Aida Croal (@mashaka74) April 15, 2019

Game of Thrones: Season 8 Premiere Ratings

The eighth and final season premiere of Game of Thrones was viewed by 17.4 million people, a new record for the George R.R. Martin-inspired TV series.

In addition, the HBO NOW streaming service saw a jump of approximately 50% in viewing when compared to last season’s finale and nearly doubled (97%) when compared to the seventh season premiere. Yesterday accounts for largest night of streaming activity ever for HBO.

The 9:00 P.M.  airing of the premiere was viewed by 11.8 million viewers, surpassing the season seven premiere of 10.1 million viewers and slightly behind the season seven finale of 12.1 million viewers. Game of Thrones‘ seventh season went on to average 32.8 million viewers per episode.

The Last of The Mohicans TV Series is being Developed

A The Last of The Mohicans TV series is being developed Cary Joji Fukunaga. The TV adaptation will be based on the book by James Fenimore Cooper.

The Last of The Mohicans‘ TV series plot synopsis: “a retelling of Cooper’s French and Indian War novel that re-centers the classic tale on the unlikely romance between Uncas, a young Mohican, and Cora, the mixed-race daughter of a British colonel.”

The book’s plot synopsis:

It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the sinister ‘Indian runner’, they find help in the person of Hawk-eye, the white woodsman, and his companions, the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas, his son, the last of his tribe.

Cooper’s novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples. Through the character of Hawkeye, Cooper raises lasting questions about the practises of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures.

Cary Joji Fukunaga and Nicholas Osborne are writing the screenplays for the TV series.

Movie News

Hustlers given Theatrical Release Date by STXfilms

The Jennifer Lopez and Cardi B-starring drama film Hustlers will be released in U.S. theaters through STXfilms on September 13, 2019.

 

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Thass right ???? SEPTEMBER 13. @hustlersmovie coming to a theater near you.????#BergdorfDelirium

A post shared by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo) on Apr 15, 2019 at 11:50am PDT

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s Current Runtime Released

The current runtime for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is ninety minutes. The current time is due to the film still being edited. This means that the current runtime will most-likely change.

How long will @StarWars Episode IX #TheRiseOfSkywalker be? @jjabrams tells @paulafaris it could be anywhere from five minutes to four hours. “Right now, its 90 minutes because we’re not done editing yet,” he says. @GMA pic.twitter.com/3gcWqCYNCA

— Clayton Sandell (@Clayton_Sandell) April 12, 2019

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