Hulu's Fall/Winter 2019 Programming Slate
Newly announced: the return of "Castle Rock" on Wednesday, October 23.
[via press release from Hulu] HULU'S FALL/WINTER 2019 PROGRAMMING SLATE
UNTOUCHABLE
Documentary
Premiere Date: Monday, September 2
Trailer: https://youtu.be/b-1fKna9l38
Crew: Untouchable is directed by Ursula Macfarlane and executive produced by Lightbox's Simon Chinn & Jonathan Chinn.
Synopsis: The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquires and protects his power even as scandal threatens to engulf him. Former colleagues and accusers detail the method and consequences of his alleged abuse, hoping for justice and to inspire change.
WU-TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: Wednesday, September 4 (Weekly)
Trailer: https://youtu.be/w37TQZwnjXY
Cast: Ashton Sanders, Shameik Moore, Dave East, Siddiq Saunderson, Marcus Callender, Julian Elijah Martinez, Zolee Griggs, Erika Alexander, TJ Atoms, Johnell Young
Crew: Created and written by Alex Tse and The RZA and executive produced by Tse, The RZA, Brian Grazer, Method Man and Francie Calfo. Produced by Imagine Television.
Synopsis: Based on one of the most influential and important groups in hip-hop history, Wu-Tang: An American Saga is inspired by "The Wu-Tang Manual" and "Tao of Wu", and based on the true story of the Wu-Tang Clan. Set in early '90s New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, the show tracks the Clan's formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.
INTO THE DARK
PURE (Daughter's Day)
Episode 12, Season 1 Finale
Premiere Date: Friday, September 6
Cast: Jahkara Smith, McKaley Miller, Scott Porter, Annalisa Cochrane, Ciara Bravo, Jim Klock, T.C. Carter.
Crew: Hannah Macpherson directs the film and wrote the teleplay. Story is by Paul Fischer & Paul Davis and Hannah Macpherson.
Synopsis: In this female coming-of-age horror story, several teen girls perform a secret ritual at a Purity Retreat and, when one of them begins to see a supernatural entity, the terrifying question emerges, what is more dangerous: the demon they've unleashed, or the pressure to conform to their fathers' expectations.
LIGHT AS A FEATHER
Season 2, Part 2
Episode Count: 8
Premiere Date: All episodes Friday, October 4
Cast: Cast includes Liana Liberato as "McKenna," Brianne Tju as "Alex," Haley Ramm as "Violet," Jordan Rodrigues as "Trey," Brent Rivera as "Isaac," Dylan Sprayberry as "Henry," Katelyn Nacon as "Sammi," Adriyan Rae as "Peri," and Robyn Lively as "Deb."
Crew: Created and executive produced by R. Lee Fleming Jr. and produced by AwesomenessTV, Wattpad, and Grammnet.
Synopsis: Having doubled down by playing a new round of "Light as a Feather" that puts all their lives on the line, Season 2 continues as McKenna and friends are optimistic that they're finally done with the curse. But is the curse done with them? Tensions rise as the gang soon find themselves in a race to discover the game's origins before more lives are lost.
LETTERKENNY
Season 7
Episode Count: 6
Premiere Date: All episodes Monday, October 14 (Canadian Thanksgiving)
Cast: Jared Keeso, Nathan Dales, Michelle Mylett, K Trevor Wilson, Daniel Petronijevic, Dylan Playfair, Andrew Herr, Tyler Johnston, Evan Stern, Mark Forward and Tiio Horn
Crew: Jared Keeso (Executive Producer/Creator/Co-Writer), Mark Montefiore (Executive Producer), Jacob Tierney (Executive Producer/Director/Co-Writer). Produced by New Metric Media, in partnership with DHX Media and Playfun Games.
Synopsis: Letterkenny revolves around the dustups Wayne (Jared Keeso) and his buds get into with their small-town rivals. The Hicks, The Skids, and The Hockey Players get at each other about the most mundane things, often ending with someone getting their ass kicked. Key residents of Letterkenny are Daryl (Nathan Dales), Wayne's free-spirited younger sister Katy (Michelle Mylett), and Wayne's buddy, Dan (K Trevor Wilson) - all Hicks. Daniel Petronijevic stars as Hick McMurray while Dylan Playfair and Andrew Herr are hotshot Hockey Players "Jonesy" and "Reilly". Tyler Johnston and Evan Stern are Skids Stewart and Roald, Mark Forward is the temperamental Coach of the Letterkenny Irish, and Tiio Horn is the badass leader of The Natives, Tanis. In the upcoming seventh season the Hicks start an agricultural call-in show.
LOOKING FOR ALASKA
Episode Count: 8
Premiere Date: All episodes Friday, October 18
Teaser: https://youtu.be/qo6Psg-RzNw
Cast: Charlie Plummer, Kristine Froseth, Denny Love, Jay Lee, Landry Bender, Sofia Vassilieva, Uriah Shelton, and Jordan Connor. Also starring Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) and Timothy Simons (Veep).
Crew: Created for television by Josh Schwartz, the series comes from Paramount Television and Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire. Savage and Schwartz will serve as executive producers, alongside Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, John Green, and Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner of Temple Hill. Fake Empire exec Lis Rowinski will co-executive produce. Sarah Adina Smith ("Hanna" and "Legion") directs the first episode.
Synopsis: Looking For Alaska is an 8-episode limited series based on the John Green novel of the same name. Set in 2005, it centers around teenager Miles "Pudge" Halter (Charlie Plummer), as he enrolls in boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life. He falls in love with Alaska Young (Kristine Froseth), and finds a group of loyal friends. But after an unexpected tragedy, Miles and his close friends attempt to make sense of what they've been through.
CASTLE ROCK
Season 2
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: Wednesday, October 23
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Paul Sparks, Yusra Warsama, Barkhad Abdi, Elsie Fisher and Matthew Alan.
Crew: The series is created and executive produced by showrunner Dustin Thomason and Sam Shaw. J.J. Abrams, Ben Stephenson, Vince Calandra, Stephen King and Liz Glotzer also serve as executive producers. Produced By: Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Series Synopsis: A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King's literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body and numerous short stories (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption) are set in there. Castle Rock is an original suspense/thriller - a first-of-its-kind reimagining that unites King's themes and worlds, and brings together the author's most iconic and beloved characters.
Season Synopsis: In Season 2, a feud between warring clans comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, Stephen King's nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.
DOLLFACE
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: All episodes Friday, November 15
Cast: Kat Dennings, Brenda Song, Shay Mitchell and Esther Povitsky.
Crew: The series created by Jordan Weiss, who serves as an executive producer alongside showrunner Ira Ungerleider; Margot Robbie, Brett Hedblom and Tom Ackerley for LuckyChap Entertainment; Bryan Unkeless and Scott Morgan for Screen Arcade; Kat Dennings; Nicole King and Stephanie Laing (Vice Principals). Matt Spicer (Ingrid Goes West) will executive produce and direct the first episode. Dollface is produced by ABC Signature Studios, part of Disney Television Studios.
Synopsis: Dollface follows Jules (Kat Dennings), a young woman who - after being dumped by her longtime boyfriend - must deal with her own imagination in order to literally and metaphorically re-enter the world of women, and rekindle the female friendships she left behind.
REPRISAL
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: All episodes Friday, December 6
Cast: Abigail Spencer, Rodrigo Santoro, Mena Massoud, Rhys Wakefield, Madison Davenport, Gilbert Owuor, David Dastmalchian, W. Earl Brown, Craig Tate, Wavyy Jonez, Shane Callahan, and Rory Cochrane.
Crew: Reprisal is created by executive producer and showrunner Josh Corbin and executive produced by Warren Littlefield, Barry Jossen and Jonathan Van Tulleken (101 director).
Synopsis: A hyper-noir story that follows a relentless femme fatale who, after being left for dead, sets out to take revenge against her brother and his bombastic gang of gearheads.
MARVEL'S RUNAWAYS
Season 3
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: All episodes Friday, December 13
Cast: The series stars Rhenzy Feliz, Lyrica Okano, Virginia Gardner, Ariela Barer, Gregg Sulkin, Allegra Acosta, Annie Wersching, Ryan Sands, Angel Parker, Ever Carradine, James Marsters, Kevin Weisman, Brigid Brannagh, James Yaegashi, Brittany Ishibashi, and Elizabeth Hurley.
Crew: Marvel's Runaways is executive produced by series showrunners/writers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (The O.C. and Gossip Girl) along with Marvel's Head of Television, Jeph Loeb (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Marvel's Cloak & Dagger) and Quinton Peeples. Marvel's Runaways is a co-production with ABC Signature Studios, part of Disney Television Studios. It is based on the Marvel comics created by the award winning-team of Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona.
Synopsis: The Runaways frantically search for their captured friends Chase, Gert and Karolina. The kids go head to head with an unstoppable enemy who has targeted Leslie - or more accurately, the child she's carrying. Nico draws them all into a dark realm where its ruler Morgan le Fay, played by Elizabeth Hurley, is much more nefarious than anyone the kids have yet to face.
Newly announced: the return of "Castle Rock" on Wednesday, October 23.
[via press release from Hulu] HULU'S FALL/WINTER 2019 PROGRAMMING SLATE
UNTOUCHABLE
Documentary
Premiere Date: Monday, September 2
Trailer: https://youtu.be/b-1fKna9l38
Crew: Untouchable is directed by Ursula Macfarlane and executive produced by Lightbox's Simon Chinn & Jonathan Chinn.
Synopsis: The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquires and protects his power even as scandal threatens to engulf him. Former colleagues and accusers detail the method and consequences of his alleged abuse, hoping for justice and to inspire change.
WU-TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: Wednesday, September 4 (Weekly)
Trailer: https://youtu.be/w37TQZwnjXY
Cast: Ashton Sanders, Shameik Moore, Dave East, Siddiq Saunderson, Marcus Callender, Julian Elijah Martinez, Zolee Griggs, Erika Alexander, TJ Atoms, Johnell Young
Crew: Created and written by Alex Tse and The RZA and executive produced by Tse, The RZA, Brian Grazer, Method Man and Francie Calfo. Produced by Imagine Television.
Synopsis: Based on one of the most influential and important groups in hip-hop history, Wu-Tang: An American Saga is inspired by "The Wu-Tang Manual" and "Tao of Wu", and based on the true story of the Wu-Tang Clan. Set in early '90s New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, the show tracks the Clan's formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.
INTO THE DARK
PURE (Daughter's Day)
Episode 12, Season 1 Finale
Premiere Date: Friday, September 6
Cast: Jahkara Smith, McKaley Miller, Scott Porter, Annalisa Cochrane, Ciara Bravo, Jim Klock, T.C. Carter.
Crew: Hannah Macpherson directs the film and wrote the teleplay. Story is by Paul Fischer & Paul Davis and Hannah Macpherson.
Synopsis: In this female coming-of-age horror story, several teen girls perform a secret ritual at a Purity Retreat and, when one of them begins to see a supernatural entity, the terrifying question emerges, what is more dangerous: the demon they've unleashed, or the pressure to conform to their fathers' expectations.
LIGHT AS A FEATHER
Season 2, Part 2
Episode Count: 8
Premiere Date: All episodes Friday, October 4
Cast: Cast includes Liana Liberato as "McKenna," Brianne Tju as "Alex," Haley Ramm as "Violet," Jordan Rodrigues as "Trey," Brent Rivera as "Isaac," Dylan Sprayberry as "Henry," Katelyn Nacon as "Sammi," Adriyan Rae as "Peri," and Robyn Lively as "Deb."
Crew: Created and executive produced by R. Lee Fleming Jr. and produced by AwesomenessTV, Wattpad, and Grammnet.
Synopsis: Having doubled down by playing a new round of "Light as a Feather" that puts all their lives on the line, Season 2 continues as McKenna and friends are optimistic that they're finally done with the curse. But is the curse done with them? Tensions rise as the gang soon find themselves in a race to discover the game's origins before more lives are lost.
LETTERKENNY
Season 7
Episode Count: 6
Premiere Date: All episodes Monday, October 14 (Canadian Thanksgiving)
Cast: Jared Keeso, Nathan Dales, Michelle Mylett, K Trevor Wilson, Daniel Petronijevic, Dylan Playfair, Andrew Herr, Tyler Johnston, Evan Stern, Mark Forward and Tiio Horn
Crew: Jared Keeso (Executive Producer/Creator/Co-Writer), Mark Montefiore (Executive Producer), Jacob Tierney (Executive Producer/Director/Co-Writer). Produced by New Metric Media, in partnership with DHX Media and Playfun Games.
Synopsis: Letterkenny revolves around the dustups Wayne (Jared Keeso) and his buds get into with their small-town rivals. The Hicks, The Skids, and The Hockey Players get at each other about the most mundane things, often ending with someone getting their ass kicked. Key residents of Letterkenny are Daryl (Nathan Dales), Wayne's free-spirited younger sister Katy (Michelle Mylett), and Wayne's buddy, Dan (K Trevor Wilson) - all Hicks. Daniel Petronijevic stars as Hick McMurray while Dylan Playfair and Andrew Herr are hotshot Hockey Players "Jonesy" and "Reilly". Tyler Johnston and Evan Stern are Skids Stewart and Roald, Mark Forward is the temperamental Coach of the Letterkenny Irish, and Tiio Horn is the badass leader of The Natives, Tanis. In the upcoming seventh season the Hicks start an agricultural call-in show.
LOOKING FOR ALASKA
Episode Count: 8
Premiere Date: All episodes Friday, October 18
Teaser: https://youtu.be/qo6Psg-RzNw
Cast: Charlie Plummer, Kristine Froseth, Denny Love, Jay Lee, Landry Bender, Sofia Vassilieva, Uriah Shelton, and Jordan Connor. Also starring Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) and Timothy Simons (Veep).
Crew: Created for television by Josh Schwartz, the series comes from Paramount Television and Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire. Savage and Schwartz will serve as executive producers, alongside Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, John Green, and Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner of Temple Hill. Fake Empire exec Lis Rowinski will co-executive produce. Sarah Adina Smith ("Hanna" and "Legion") directs the first episode.
Synopsis: Looking For Alaska is an 8-episode limited series based on the John Green novel of the same name. Set in 2005, it centers around teenager Miles "Pudge" Halter (Charlie Plummer), as he enrolls in boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life. He falls in love with Alaska Young (Kristine Froseth), and finds a group of loyal friends. But after an unexpected tragedy, Miles and his close friends attempt to make sense of what they've been through.
CASTLE ROCK
Season 2
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: Wednesday, October 23
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Paul Sparks, Yusra Warsama, Barkhad Abdi, Elsie Fisher and Matthew Alan.
Crew: The series is created and executive produced by showrunner Dustin Thomason and Sam Shaw. J.J. Abrams, Ben Stephenson, Vince Calandra, Stephen King and Liz Glotzer also serve as executive producers. Produced By: Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Series Synopsis: A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King's literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body and numerous short stories (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption) are set in there. Castle Rock is an original suspense/thriller - a first-of-its-kind reimagining that unites King's themes and worlds, and brings together the author's most iconic and beloved characters.
Season Synopsis: In Season 2, a feud between warring clans comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, Stephen King's nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.
DOLLFACE
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: All episodes Friday, November 15
Cast: Kat Dennings, Brenda Song, Shay Mitchell and Esther Povitsky.
Crew: The series created by Jordan Weiss, who serves as an executive producer alongside showrunner Ira Ungerleider; Margot Robbie, Brett Hedblom and Tom Ackerley for LuckyChap Entertainment; Bryan Unkeless and Scott Morgan for Screen Arcade; Kat Dennings; Nicole King and Stephanie Laing (Vice Principals). Matt Spicer (Ingrid Goes West) will executive produce and direct the first episode. Dollface is produced by ABC Signature Studios, part of Disney Television Studios.
Synopsis: Dollface follows Jules (Kat Dennings), a young woman who - after being dumped by her longtime boyfriend - must deal with her own imagination in order to literally and metaphorically re-enter the world of women, and rekindle the female friendships she left behind.
REPRISAL
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: All episodes Friday, December 6
Cast: Abigail Spencer, Rodrigo Santoro, Mena Massoud, Rhys Wakefield, Madison Davenport, Gilbert Owuor, David Dastmalchian, W. Earl Brown, Craig Tate, Wavyy Jonez, Shane Callahan, and Rory Cochrane.
Crew: Reprisal is created by executive producer and showrunner Josh Corbin and executive produced by Warren Littlefield, Barry Jossen and Jonathan Van Tulleken (101 director).
Synopsis: A hyper-noir story that follows a relentless femme fatale who, after being left for dead, sets out to take revenge against her brother and his bombastic gang of gearheads.
MARVEL'S RUNAWAYS
Season 3
Episode Count: 10
Premiere Date: All episodes Friday, December 13
Cast: The series stars Rhenzy Feliz, Lyrica Okano, Virginia Gardner, Ariela Barer, Gregg Sulkin, Allegra Acosta, Annie Wersching, Ryan Sands, Angel Parker, Ever Carradine, James Marsters, Kevin Weisman, Brigid Brannagh, James Yaegashi, Brittany Ishibashi, and Elizabeth Hurley.
Crew: Marvel's Runaways is executive produced by series showrunners/writers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (The O.C. and Gossip Girl) along with Marvel's Head of Television, Jeph Loeb (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Marvel's Cloak & Dagger) and Quinton Peeples. Marvel's Runaways is a co-production with ABC Signature Studios, part of Disney Television Studios. It is based on the Marvel comics created by the award winning-team of Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona.
Synopsis: The Runaways frantically search for their captured friends Chase, Gert and Karolina. The kids go head to head with an unstoppable enemy who has targeted Leslie - or more accurately, the child she's carrying. Nico draws them all into a dark realm where its ruler Morgan le Fay, played by Elizabeth Hurley, is much more nefarious than anyone the kids have yet to face.
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