TVLine Items: Invasion Renewal, SVU Vet to CW, Snowpiercer Trailer and More
The Invasion is not over at Apple TV+: The streamer has renewed the sci-fi drama for Season 2, ahead of the first season finale this Friday, Dec. 10, TVLine has learned.
The series, from co-creators Simon Kinberg (the X-Men and Deadpool films) and David Weil (Hunters), follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. The cast includes Golshifteh Farahani, Shamier Anderson, Shioli Kutsuna, Firas Nassar, Billy Barratt, Azhy Robertson, Tara Moayedi, Daisuke Tsuji and Sam Neill.
“I’m profoundly grateful to Apple for being so supportive every step of the way, and trusting us to make a deeply human, emotional alien-invasion story,” Kinberg said in a statement. “And most of all I’m thankful to our amazing fans, without whom we wouldn’t have this opportunity to continue the invasion. I’m super excited about what we’re planning for Season 2, expanding our universe in the most intimate and epic ways.”
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
* Stephanie March (Law & Order: SVU) has joined The CW’s upcoming superhero drama Naomi as Akira, who is originally from a planet far away, but is now hiding on Earth, our sister site Variety reports.
* Amazon Music and Prime Video will stream Kanye’s Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert, featuring special guest Drake, from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Thursday, Dec. 9 at 8 pm PT. The event aims to raise awareness about prison and sentencing reform.
* The American Film Institute’s Television Programs of the Year include Succession (HBO), Ted Lasso (Apple TV+), WandaVision (Disney+), Reservation Dogs (FX), The Underground Railroad (Prime Video), Hacks (HBO Max), Maid (Netflix), Mare of Easttown (HBO), Schmigadoon (Apple TV+) and The White Lotus (HBO).
* Chris O’Dowd (Get Shorty, The IT Crowd) will star in the Apple TV+ comedy The Big Door Prize, about “a small town that is forever changed when a mysterious machine appears in the grocery store, promising to reveal each resident’s true life potential,” per Variety.
* Brittany O’Grady (The White Lotus, Star) and Nat Wolff (The Stand) will star opposite Christoph Waltz in the dark comedy workplace thriller The Consultant for Prime Video, our sister site Deadline reports.
* The companies featured on CBS’ Undercover Boss this season are College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving (on Friday, Jan. 7), Fremont Street Experience (Jan. 14), The Vitamin Shoppe (Jan. 21) and Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard (Jan. 28). Later and in no particular order, Coco’s Bakery, Mayor of Fontana, Restoration 1, Round Table Pizza and UScellular will be featured.
* TNT has released a trailer for Season 3 of Snowpiercer, premiering Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 at 9/8c:
Which of today’s TVLine Items pique your interest?
Gotta admit I never, ever would have imagined Stephanie March on a CW superhero show! She’s wonderful, though, so now I’m thinking ‘Why not?’
I’m really surprised about the Invasion renewal. Most of the characters are annoying and can’t act.
It must be aliens taking over Apple silently that made them renew this show.
This show is so boring
Agree. Implies Apple is desperate for content, as this show was not received well by critics or viewers. I couldn’t make it through the second episode as I found myself strongly disliking everyone and not caring if the aliens wiped them out.
I love Stephanie March! But she is not your typical CW casting news.
I thought the invasion was repelled at the end?
I’ve been enjoying Invasion. It had a slow start, but I love those. Some of the characters are annoying and I’ve been anticipating seeing them killed, so.. fingers crossed. Otherwise, I’m glad for a Season 2. Now, if only one character would stop looking up into the sky or staring endlessly for minutes at a time at nothing, as if they’re in a deep shock. It’s very annoying.
Also – I’m still peeved at the red herring they gave us, unless one character shows up on the season finale.
100% – there’s nothing listed in IMDB so we will see.
But that just seemed like a waste of that person’s talent.
Snowpiercer looks awesome! I really like this show and can’t wait to see how Mike O’Malley gets out of the drawer.
A great show indeed.
Invasion is one of the worst shows I have ever seen.
I mean look don’t get mean wrong it’s cool and Yhea it is slow asf but hell at this point I don’t even care I hope season 2 would be a lot better but mitsuki bro she fine asffff
How in the world did Invasion get renewed? It’s the worst show on TV.
Lol. Walker, Station 19, Riverdale etc. are total brain fkk compared to Invasion. It`s bit of slow serie, but intresting still. I think the writers will get feedback and will act for S2.
I love science fiction, so I was thrilled when they announced Invasion, Foundation and Raised by Wolves.
I was shocked at how bad they are. They are very expensive shows to produce – I wish they would cancel them and spend the money on better shows.
Invasion – not great. Foundation – Awesome. Raised by Wolves – lots of potential. I hope they find it in the future.
Invasion was so slow. I hope S2 picks up the pace because I eventually liked the plot. They first severa episodes can be excised and it wouldn’t affect the plot.
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I just want to know what’s up with Hinata/not-Hinata in Space.
ohh invasion is boring like hell
Invasion – I’m surprised it’s been renewed as well. I found the first 8 episodes so slow. I mean, I like having character development which is sadly missing in a number of sci=fi series, but good Lord this was painfully slow. It definitely needed some action earlier than this, Though I have to admit, watching the last two episodes did pique my interest — the young boy who communicates with the aliens is an interesting character as is the Japanese communications expert; the father of Hinata; the soldier and the “almost a doctor” lady (tho I did want to put her son in the corner for the rest of the series….yes, I know, it was just his reaction to losing his father suddenly and violently).
I fast forwarded a lot of the first 8 episodes and watched all of the last 2. So now I’ll end up watching Season 2, tho, admittedly, still surprised they even got a 2nd season.