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In Brief: ‘Disenchantment’ gets fifth and final season for Netflix, and more

By George Costantino Aug 2, 2023 | 7:30 AM

Apple TV+ has canceled Suspicion after one season, according to Deadline. The thriller series, a remake of Israeli drama series False Flag, followed five ordinary Brits accused of kidnapping the son of a prominent U.S. media mogul and embark on a desperate race against time to prove their innocence. Suspicion starred Katherine NewmanThe Big Bang Theory‘s Kunal NayyarThe Americans‘ Noah EmmerichBlack Mirror‘s Georgia CampbellScorpion‘s Elyes GabelAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s Elizabeth Henstridge and Dancing on the Edge‘s Angel CoulbyUma Thurman appeared in six of the episodes…

Netflix’s Disenchantment, the animated comedy from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has been renewed for its fifth and final season, debuting September 1. Set in the crumbling fairy tale world of Dreamland, Disenchantment features the voice of Broad City‘s Abby Jacobsen as a hard-drinking princess named Bean, The Descendants actor and screenwriter Nat Faxon as Elfo, Bean’s Elvish sidekick and Eric Andre as Bean’s “personal demon,” Luci. Netflix dropped a teaser trailer for the fifth season on Monday…

Comedian Hasan Minhaj appears to be the odds-on favorite to host Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, replacing Trevor Noah, who left the show in late 2022, sources tell Variety. However, the insiders add that a deal has not been finalized. Minaj is a former Daily Show correspondent who went on to host his own weekly Netflix program called Patriot Act

Marc Gilpin, who played the youngest son of Roy Scheider’s Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws 2, died Saturday in Dallas after a long battle with glioblastoma. His older sister, Frasier actress Peri Gilpin, broke the news, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Marc was 56. A year after Jaws 2, he guest starred on an episode of CHiPs, and followed that up with appearances on Fantasy IslandSilver SpoonsChina Beach and the ABC telefilm Surviving. Marc also appeared in the films The Legend of the Lone RangerEarthbound, and She’s Out of Control, before trading acting for a career as a software engineer…

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