In brief: ‘Proud Family’ renewed for season 4 and more
Good news for fans of the Disney show The ProudFamily: itrecently got the green light on season 4. While The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder season 4is set for a 2026 launch on Disney+, season 3 of the animated series will debut on Aug. 6. Season 3 finds Penny Proud (KaylaPratt) and her loyal crew embarking on “international escapades, wild adventures, and fantastical stops,” according to the logline. TommyDavidson and Paula Jai Parker will return as Oscar Proud and Trudy Proud, Penny’s parents …
Netflix has pulled the plug on two shows that only saw one season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Residence and Pulse have been canceled. Both shows premiered in the spring and had four-week runs in Netflix’s internal, worldwide top-10 rankings …
Comedy Central is pushing back the premiere of the second season of Digman! The news follows the network’s decision to move South Park‘sseason 27 premiere from July 9 to July 23. Digman! will now also premiere on July 23, directly after South Park. Season 2 of Digman!, the animated show about a world in which archaeologists are the real celebrities, will include guest voice appearance by KateWinslet, FredArmisen, MarkHamill and more …
Jenna Ortega in ‘Wednesday’ (Jonathan Hession/Netflix)
Much of the first part of the new season of Wednesday revolves around our pigtailed protagonist trying to figure out why her psychic powers are glitching, and there’s a lot of talk about how she needs a new “spirit guide” to help her solve the problem. Well, in the new trailer for the second part of the season, problem solved.
In the trailer we see that Wednesday’s in the hospital, in a coma following the events of part one. She wakes to find none other than Gwendoline Christie‘s Principal Weems — who died in the first season — in her hospital room. She’s not back from the dead but, surprise, she is Wednesday’s new spirit guide.
Also in the trailer, Wednesday finally tells her roommate Enid that she’s in danger from Tyler aka the monstrous Hyde, who escaped from the mental hospital in part one. There are also showdowns, explosions, dancing and even a little tease of the much-talked-about appearance of Lady Gaga.
Unseen in part one, the pop superstar is set to play Rosaline Rotwood, a “legendary teacher” at Nevermore, in part two. We don’t see her, but we hear her voice saying, “Beware. There will be a price to pay.”
The new episodes arrive Sept. 3. According to Variety, part one scored 50 million views in its first five days of streaming.
Anthony Carrigan is opening up about the deeply personal connection he has to Superman.
The actor plays Metamorpho/Rex Mason in the upcoming James Gunn-directed Superman film and told Good Morning America that Christopher Reeve, who starred as the DC Comics superhero in the 1978 Superman film and its sequels, helped him embrace his alopecia, with which he was diagnosed as a child.
“When I was a kid, my mom told me about all of these actors and people who had alopecia, and she told me about Christopher Reeve,” Carrigan said at the film’s premiere in LA on Monday night.
Carrigan continued, “That was really special, because I really figured, well, if Superman could have alopecia, then I can have alopecia.”
Reeve, who portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films, was diagnosed with alopecia areata as a teen. He opened up about the disease in an interview with The New Yorker in 2003 and also spoke about the condition in his 1998 autobiography, StillMe.
Reeve died in October 2004 at the age of 52.
Alopecia is a blanket term for hair loss. According to the National Institutes of Health, there are different types of alopecia, and experts believe some types occur when a person’s immune system inappropriately targets their own hair follicles, which stifles hair growth.
There is no cure for alopecia but there are treatments, including steroid injections and oral steroids or various immunotherapies. Red light therapy may have benefits for some patients with certain types of hair loss, but not all, according to research published in the journal Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, available on the National Library of Medicine’s website.
Carrigan said knowing about Reeve’s struggle with alopecia was “a big deal for me” growing up.
“So knowing that I’m now part of Superman, I’m now part of this legacy,” he added.
In Gunn’s Superman, Metamorpho, also known as The Element Man, has the power of manipulation. In production notes for the film, Carrigan said his character can “turn himself into whatever he wants” because of this power.
“So, it’s a blessing and a curse. He, I think, sees it more as a curse,” he said. “He does not like the way that he looks, which I can certainly relate to. You know, growing up with alopecia, that was something that I wished that I could change about myself back then, and it really affected my self-esteem. It affected the way that I moved through the world. And so, that’s certainly a kind of aspect of this character that I feel like I can really relate to. But since then, since accepting that, it really has become a kind of superpower of mine, this different, unique look of mine.”
Lily Collins as Emily in ‘Emily in Paris.’ Giulia Parmigiani/Netflix
Diego Borella, an assistant director on Emily in Paris, has died at the age of 47.
“We are deeply saddened to confirm the sudden passing of a member of the Emily in Paris production family,” a Paramount Television Studios spokesperson told ABC News in a statement. “Our hearts go out to the individual’s family and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time.”
