ABC is bringing back the lion's share of its series for next season, including "black-ish," "A Million Little Things" and "The Rookie."
They are among the 19 shows that will return in the 2020-21 season, the network said Thursday, adding to a list of previously announced renewals.
New series debuting next season include "Big Sky," a thriller from writer-producer David E. Kelley ("Big Little Lies," "Boston Legal"), the comedy "Call Your Mother" and game show revival "Supermarket Sweep" with host Leslie Jones ("Saturday Night Live").
As with other networks facing the uncertainty of an industrywide, coronavirus-caused production halt, ABC is releasing its plans later than usual and piecemeal. Its schedule has yet to be announced.
Among the ABC series that won't be back: sitcoms "Bless This Mess," "Schooled" and "Single Parents," the drama "Emergence," and "Kids Say the Darndest Things," a reality show hosted by Tiffany Haddish.
Decisions on "The Beauty and the Baker" and "For Life" have yet to be announced.
More returning shows are: "American Housewife"; "The Bachelor"; "The Conners"; "Dancing with the Stars"; "The Goldbergs"; "mixed-ish"; "Shark Tank"; "Stumptown"; "20/20"; "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"; "America's Funniest Home Videos"; "American Idol"; "The Bachelorette"; "The Good Doctor"; "Grey's Anatomy"; "Station 19."
Jennifer Kent On Why Her Feature Directing Debut, “The Babadook,” Continues To Haunt Us
"The Babadook," when it was released 10 years ago, didn't seem to portend a cultural sensation.
It was the first film by a little-known Australian filmmaker, Jennifer Kent. It had that strange name. On opening weekend, it played in two theaters.
But with time, the long shadows of "The Babadook" continued to envelop moviegoers. Its rerelease this weekend in theaters, a decade later, is less of a reminder of a sleeper 2014 indie hit than it is a chance to revisit a horror milestone that continues to cast a dark spell.
Not many small-budget, first-feature films can be fairly said to have shifted cinema but Kent's directorial debut may be one of them. It was at the nexus of that much-debated term "elevated horror." But regardless of that label, it helped kicked off a wave of challenging, filmmaker-driven genre movies like "It Follows," "Get Out" and "Hereditary."
Kent, 55, has watched all of this — and those many "Babadook" memes — unfold over the years with a mix of elation and confusion. Her film was inspired in part by the death of her father, and its horror elements likewise arise out of the suppression of emotions. A single mother (Essie Davis) is struggling with raising her young son (Noah Wiseman) years after the tragic death of her husband. A figure from a pop-up children's book begins to appear. As things grow more intense, his name is drawn out in three chilling syllables — "Bah-Bah-Doooook" — an incantation of unprocessed grief.
Kent recently spoke from her native Australia to reflect on the origins and continuing life of "The Babadook."
Q: Given that you didn't set out to in any way "change" horror, how have you regarded the unique afterlife of "The... Read More