TV Bits: Female Marvel ABC Show, ‘Room 104’ Renewed, Robert Zemeckis Heads To TV, And More
In this edition of TV Bits:
Here’s the teaser of my new@AmazonVideoseries@JCVanJohnson! JCVJ got picked up! Coming soon to Prime Video!#JCVD#JCVJ#PrimeVideopic.twitter.com/tNr9BYtAEz
— Jean-Claude Van Damme (@JCVD)July 16, 2025
Here’s the teaser forJean-Claude Van Johnson, the new Amazon series in which ’90s action movie starJean-Claude Van Dammeplays a heightened version of himself – he’s an assassin who uses his film career as a cover, allowing him to go to Eastern European countries not to make crappy movies, but to kill his targets. Sounds like fun, and now the show has officially been picked up.
A Marvel TV executive recentlyrevealedthat Marvel is working with ABC on a female-focused series that’s described as “Jessica Jones-esque.” Based on what we know ofThe Inhumansso far (read: that it looks abysmal), they’ll have to forgive me for not being excited about another Marvel show being developed for a traditional broadcast network.
I haven’t had a chance to check out the Duplass Brothers' new HBO anthology seriesRoom 104yet, but here’s some good news for those of you who dig it:Varietyreports that HBO has officially ordered a second season. The show has a cool concept – each episode is set in the same location, but features a different cast and scenario – so I’m excited to catch up with this and see what they do in season 2.
Back to the FutureandWho Framed Roger RabbitdirectorRobert Zemeckisis heading to the small screen. He’ll executive produce a TV series for NBC calledManifestfrom creatorJeff Rake, and the high concept series has shades ofLostandThe Leftovers:
Look who dropped in to#Riverdalefor a visit! Worlds colliding!! Can a crossover be far behind??pic.twitter.com/E8Jf7UW3L2
— RobertoAguirreSacasa (@WriterRAS)July 12, 2025
Don’t get too excited just yet. While this image seems to indicate aSupergirl/Riverdalecrossover is on the way,ScreenCrushpoints out that it’s more likely that it’s just a promo for The CW, the home network of both shows.
Entertainment Weeklyhas four new photos from the upcoming third season of Starz’sOutlander. I don’t watch this series, but the caption that accompanied this photo makes it seem like there’s a hell of a lot going on here:
Netflix has been more inclined to cancel series lately, but they’ve renewed their football reality seriesLast Chance Ufor a third season. The storywill movefrom Mississippi to a community college in Kansas.
Amazon hasrenewedits award-winning original seriesTransparentfor a fifth season. CreatorJill Sollowayand the whole Pfefferman family cast are coming back. Production begins next year and is being eyed for a 2018 debut. In a statement, Solloway said:
“We are extremely grateful to Amazon Studios for their continued trust and support and to our audience for their warm embrace of the Pfeffermans. We look forward to another season of comedy and drama, love and weirdness, God and sex – in the service of community and in pursuit of peace, joy, freedom and human rights for all.”
We’re practically drowning in renewals over here. Not one to be left out, Epix has renewed its freshman crime seriesGet Shorty(based on the Elmore Leonard novel) for a second season. 10 brand new episodes will debut sometime in 2018.
And we’ll leave you with new trailers for the second seasons ofDirk Gently’s Holistic Detective AgencyandThe Shannara Chronicles, respectively:
Dirk Gentlyreturns to BBC America onOctober 14, 2017, andShannaraseason 2 moves from MTV to Spike TV onOctober 11, 2017.
