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HBO has renewed the workplace drama Industry for a fifth and final season, bringing the series to a close after season five; season four has averaged about 1.7 million viewers per episode, and creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay will end the story with the upcoming final run. The ensemble cast includes Myha’la, Marisa Abela, Kit Harington, and Max Minghella.
HBO has renewed the financial drama Industry for a fifth and final season, with creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay saying they aim to end the series on an unparalleled high. Season 4 has posted rising global viewership (about a 30% lift from Season 3, with U.S. episodes averaging around 1.7 million viewers) and will conclude the story after this season. The show is a Bad Wolf production for HBO/BBC, starring Myha’la Williams, Marisa Abela, Kit Harington and a supporting cast, with executives and partners praising the network and production teams as they prepare a conclusive send-off.
Paramount+ moves forward with the Tulsa King spinoff, now titled Frisco King, which shifts the setting from New Orleans to Frisco, Texas. Samuel L. Jackson will reprise his Tulsa King role, and Taylor Sheridan will write all eight episodes of Season 1. Production starts late March in Fort Worth, with the Frisco setting expected to anchor the series while brief New Orleans visits are possible.
Taylor Sheridan’s Tulsa King spinoff has been renamed Frisco King and relocated from New Orleans to Frisco, Texas, with Samuel L. Jackson starring and Sheridan writing all eight episodes. Production is set to begin in late March in Fort Worth, casting is underway, and no new showrunner has been named after the departure of Dave Erickson.
Defector's Israel Daramola argues Season 4 of Industry is overstuffed and unfocused, with a maximalist, ADHD-like turn that dulls highs and makes character motivations hard to parse, even as a few performances (notably Minghella as the Epstein-like villain) land; expanding beyond Pierpoint and leaning on a shadowy puppet-master plot ultimately feels contrived and leaves the show with uneven momentum.
Stephen Colbert hosted the final live episode of The Late Show after President Trump’s State of the Union, opening with a Wicked parody and joking about the lengthy address, poking fun at Trump’s approval ratings and policies, and later welcoming John Dickerson for a closing on a high note.
The Los Angeles Times reviews ABC's Scrubs revival as a welcome return to form: Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, and Donald Faison reunite with the original energy, while a new cohort of interns and Vanessa Bayer’s Sibby inject fresh energy under showrunner Aseem Batra. JD is back as a concierge doctor drawn to Sacred Heart, reconnects with Dr. Cox and Turk, and the series combines fast-paced humor with the sentimental, surreal heart that defined the show, remaining accessible to both longtime fans and newcomers despite a shorter nine-episode run.
On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart ridicules FBI Director Kash Patel for celebrating Team USA's Olympic gold in the locker room, joking that Patel is a 'Make-a-Wish Man' as he skewers right-wing reactions to the hockey victory.
Ryan Coogler’s The X-Files reboot moves forward with a Hulu pilot order, with Danielle Deadwyler set to star; Coogler will write, direct and executive‑produce via Proximity Media, in a project from Onyx Collective and 20th Television that also involves Chris Carter as an executive producer while Disney holds a TV overall deal with Coogler’s team.
OutKick’s review of Paradise season two on Hulu notes the premiere flips expectations by focusing on Annie’s survival at Elvis’s Graceland instead of Xavier’s outside-world search, introduces a mysterious group arriving at Graceland, and sets up a dramatic, unpredictable season ahead (eight episodes planned; three streaming now).
Ryan Coogler’s long-gestating X-Files reboot has been greenlit for a Hulu pilot, with Danielle Deadwyler co-starring and Jennifer Yale on board as showrunner. Coogler will write and direct the pilot, produced by Proximity Media with Onyx Collective and 20th Television. The project marks the end of a multi-year push under Coogler’s Disney deal, and centers on two FBI agents who team up to investigate unexplained phenomena in a revived X-Files framework.
Winona Ryder has joined Wednesday Season 3 as a guest star, reuniting with Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton; the exact role is being kept under wraps, continuing Ryder’s Beetlejuice- Burton collaboration with the Netflix series.
Paradise returns for Season 2 with Shailene Woodley as Annie Clay, a survivor living amid the ruins of Graceland, as the premiere jumps ahead to a world undone by an Antarctic volcano, tsunamis, and a government failsafe that wipes electricity for non-bunker survivors while neutralizing nuclear weapons, setting up a tense, power-outage survival arc.
This week’s TV slate features Tracy Morgan as Reggie Dinkins in The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins on NBC, the return of Scrubs, and the 50th season of Survivor, plus Saturday Night Live hosted by Connor Storrie, covering Feb. 23–Mar. 1.
In Industry's penultimate episode, truth is a toxic asset as Whitney and Henry push a hostile Pierpoint takeover to salvage Tender, while Yasmin and Harper weaponize media and politics. Whitney is momentarily sidelined by a kidnapping-style pressure sequence, yet his performance at the Pierpoint meeting barely holds, only for Pierpoint to flip toward Temasek, collapsing Tender’s leverage and leaving Henry’s world in flux as Harper and Yasmin lean into a fraught, revelatory bond ahead of the finale.