TV Trailers of the Week: The Five Star Weekend, Ted Lasso: Season 4 and More
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📺 “The Five Star Weekend” Teaser Trailer: Jennifer Garner Heads to Nantucket With Chloë Sevigny, Regina Hall, Gemma Chan & D’Arcy Carden in Peacock’s New Limited Series — Debuts Thurs, July 9th on Peacock
Nothing says healing quite like inviting friends from every era of your life to one gorgeous Nantucket house and hoping nobody brings emotional baggage. Spoiler alert: they always bring emotional baggage.
Based on Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling novel, The Five Star Weekend brings Jennifer Garner to the New England coast as Hollis Shaw, a beloved food blogger, famed cook, and bestselling author whose life looks pretty close to perfect from the outside. But a closer look reveals something entirely messier underneath.
After Hollis suffers the devastating loss of her husband (Josh Hamilton), the polished surface of her life begins to crack open. Her daughter pulls away, her carefully curated world starts to feel hollow, and her desperate need for validation reveals just how fragile the image she’s built may have been all along. Thus begins a weekend away at her Nantucket home, where she invites four lifelong friends to gather for some much-needed five-star treatment, personal healing, and self-reflection.
Playing Garner’s closest friends in this heartfelt dramedy are Chloë Sevigny as Tatum McKenzie; Regina Hall as Dru-Ann Jones; Gemma Chan as Gigi Ling; and D’Arcy Carden as Brooke Kirtley.
But no emotionally loaded reunion is complete without a few wildcards to keep things interesting. As old friendships are tested, secrets rise to the surface, and boundaries get pushed, these women will be forced to confront the versions of themselves they’ve been carrying around for years. What begins as a luxurious coastal escape soon turns into a weekend of confessions and confrontations. But nothing a few glasses of wine can’t help soften before everything hits the fan.
Developed and executive produced by Bekah Brunstetter, whose producing and writing credits include This Is Us, Switched at Birth, and Maid, the limited series also costars Harlow Jane as Hollis’s daughter, Caroline Shaw; Timothy Olyphant as Jack, Hollis’s former teenage boyfriend; along with David Denman, Rob Huebel, and the always lovely Judy Greer, reuniting with Jennifer Garner after the two starred together in 13 Going on 30.
The Five Star Weekend debuts Thursday, July 9th on Peacock. So, watch it with a friend, preferably one who’s cool with all your unresolved emotional baggage.
📺 “Ted Lasso: Season 4” Teaser Trailer: Jason Sudeikis Returns to Coach a Women’s Football Team — Premieres Wed, August 5th on Apple TV
Welcome back, Coach… ya wanker!
After wrapping up what seemed like a perfectly lovely final lap, Ted Lasso is heading back to the pitch for season four. And because this show has never been shy about leading with heart before strategy, Ted’s latest challenge isn’t just about winning matches. It’s about taking a big swing with a whole new team... the women’s football team, that is.
In season four, comedian Jason Sudeikis returns to Richmond, where he finds his overly hopeful Ted Lasso coaching a second-division women’s football team from the ground up. That means we can expect to be introduced to a new roster of players, new pressure, and probably a whole lot of biscuits, locker-room pep talks, and emotional breakthroughs disguised as sports metaphors.
The new season follows Ted and the team as they learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would. Which, honestly, feels about right for a show built on relentless optimism, awkward honesty, and the radical belief that kindness can somehow survive professional sports.
Returning fan favorites include Emmy winners Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein, along with Juno Temple, Brendan Hunt, and Jeremy Swift. Season four also brings in new cast members Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern, and Grant Feely.
Emmy-winning writer-producer Jack Burditt, whose credits include Nobody Wants This, Modern Family, and 30 Rock, joins season four as an executive producer. Sudeikis returns as both star and executive producer alongside Joe Kelly, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee, and Bill Wrubel, while Goldstein is back as writer, executive producer, and recurring guest star as veteran footballer Roy Kent.
Developed by Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Kelly, and Hunt, based on the preexisting format and characters from NBC Sports through Doozer Productions, Ted Lasso: Season 4 is slated to premiere Wednesday, August 5th on Apple TV.
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📺 “The Witness” Trailer: A Father Fights for Justice After His 2-Year-Old Son Becomes the Sole Witness to a Brutal Murder in This 3-part British True-Crime Drama Starring Jordan Bolger — Premieres Thurs, June 4th on Netflix
A child sees what no child should ever see. Based on true events, this three-part Netflix drama follows Andrè (Jordan Bolger), the grieving partner of Rachel Nickell, as he tries to protect their 2-year-old son Alex after the boy becomes the only witness to her murder. As a flawed investigation, police failures, and relentless press scrutiny close in around them, father and son are left searching for justice in the aftermath of unimaginable loss.
📺 “You’re Killing Me” Trailer: Brooke Shields & Amalia Williamson Team Up to Solve a Murder in This New England Cozy Mystery Series — Debuts Mon, May 18th on Acorn TV
Small-town charm gets a body count in this cozy New England crime mystery. Brooke Shields stars as a bestselling novelist whose quiet life takes a deadly turn when a close friend is murdered in Founders’ Cove, pulling her into an amateur investigation alongside an aspiring writer and true-crime podcaster (Amalia Williamson). As more bodies pile up and the clues point toward darker secrets beneath the town’s picture-perfect surface, the pair find themselves clashing with a local detective (Tom Cavanagh). Literary curiosity is one thing, but chasing a real killer is a whole different draft.
📺 “Deli Boys: Season 2” Teaser: Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh & Poorna Jagannathan Return for More Dirty-Cash Chaos in Hulu’s Crime Comedy — Begins Streaming Thursday, May 28th on Hulu
Inheriting a criminal empire was apparently the easy part. Season 2 of this Onyx Collective crime comedy finds the Dar brothers buried under dirty cash, surrounded by Philly’s sketchiest crooks, and still trying to keep DarCo from blowing up in their faces. Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh, and Poorna Jagannathan return, with Fred Armisen stepping in as casino king and money launderer Max Sugar, Andrew Rannells playing an ambitious district attorney, and Kumail Nanjiani joining as a defense attorney pulled into the brothers’ hijinks. More money, more problems... and more deli-counter dysfunction.
📺 “It’s Not Like That” Trailer: Scott Foley Starts Over as a Widowed Pastor in This Warmhearted Family Drama Series with Erinn Hayes — Streams Fri, May 15th on Prime Video
Grief, parenthood, and maybe-romance make for complicated household chemistry in this warmhearted family drama from Ian Deitchman and Kristin Robinson. Scott Foley stars as a recently widowed pastor and father of three whose longtime family friend Lori (played by Erinn Hayes) is newly divorced and raising two teens of her own. As their once-close families navigate loss, single parenthood, and the awkward possibility of something more, the series leans into the messy, funny, deeply human business of starting over.
📺 “The WONDERfools” Trailer: A Ragtag Group of Accidental Superheroes Fumbles Into Action in Netflix’s Y2K-Era Korean Comedy Series — Premieres Fri, May 15th on Netflix
Saving the world is hard enough without having absolutely no idea what you’re doing. Set in 1999, this wild Korean action comedy follows a motley crew of ordinary Haeseong City residents who suddenly gain superpowers just as Y2K panic and rising evil begin to spread. Park Eun-bin stars as Eun Chae-ni, an unlikely new hero swept into chaos, while Cha Eun-woo plays a suspicious civic servant digging into a string of mysterious disappearances. Directed by Extraordinary Attorney Woo’s Yoo In-sik, this superpowered romp proves not every hero is born ready... some just trip into the job and hope for the best.
📺 “Untold UK” Trailer: Jamie Vardy, Liverpool’s Miracle of Istanbul, and Vinnie Jones Take the Spotlight in Netflix’s New UK Sports Anthology Docuseries — Premieres Weekly Beginning Tues, May 12th on Netflix
Three football stories. Zero respect for the odds. This Netflix sports anthology documentary series heads across the pond for a trio of candid, no-holds-barred films centered on Jamie Vardy, Liverpool’s legendary 2005 Champions League comeback, and Vinnie Jones’ bruising rise from football hardman to pop-culture fixture. Premiering weekly in May, the series digs into the grit, heartbreak, locker-room banter, and behind-the-scenes chaos that turned these football tales into something bigger than the final score.
📺 “The Roast of Kevin Hart” Trailer: Shane Gillis Hosts Netflix’s Live Comedy Smackdown as Kevin Hart Takes the Hot Seat — Streams LIVE Sun, May 10th at 8 PM ET/ 5PM PT
Kevin Hart has spent years firing off jokes at everyone else, so now Netflix is handing the microphone to the people ready to fire back. Hosted by Shane Gillis, this live comedy event puts Hart in the hot seat for a roast filmed during the final night of Netflix Is a Joke Fest at the Kia Forum. The guest lineup is still under wraps, but with Hart’s comedy circle running deep, expect a ruthless night of sharp jokes, bruised egos, and one very loud target trying not to crack first.
📺 “Lisa Ann Walter: It Was An Accident” Trailer: The ‘Abbott Elementary’ Star Takes on Feral Gen-Xers, Self-Loathing, and a Backsliding America in Her Debut Comedy Special — Premieres Fri, May 15th on Hulu/Disney+
Lisa Ann Walter steps up to the mic with the kind of no-filter perspective that only comes from surviving Gen-X childhood, adulthood, and whatever this current timeline is supposed to be. In her long-awaited debut comedy special, the “Abbott Elementary” star takes on feral upbringings, self-loathing, and a backsliding America through the eyes of a grown-ass woman who has clearly been paying attention.
📺 “Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano” Trailer: Two Women’s MMA Trailblazers Return for Netflix’s First-Ever Live MMA Broadcast — Streams LIVE Sat, May 16th on Netflix at 9 PM ET/ 6 PM PT
Two pioneers of women’s MMA step back into the spotlight for a combat sports showdown built on history, legacy, and a whole lot of unfinished business. Ronda Rousey returns for her first fight in nearly a decade, facing fellow trailblazer Gina Carano in a headline bout that turns Netflix’s first live MMA broadcast into a major crossover event.
📺 “Pop Culture Jeopardy!” Trailer: Colin Jost Hosts Netflix’s Team-Based Twist on the Classic Quiz Show — Streams Weekly Starting Mon, May 11th on Netflix
What is: a beloved quiz show getting a pop-culture remix? Hosted by Colin Jost, this Netflix game show brings Jeopardy!’s classic answer-and-question format into the fast-moving world of movies, music, TV, sports, internet culture, and whatever else contestants think they know until the buzzer proves otherwise. With teams competing tournament-style for a grand prize and ultimate bragging rights, this spin on the iconic trivia format turns casual fandom into serious competition.
📺 “Welcome to Wrexham: Season 5” Trailer: Rob McElhenney & Ryan Reynolds Chase Bigger Stakes as Wrexham AFC Climbs Into League One — Premieres Thurs, May 14th on FX on Hulu/Disney+
The underdog story keeps leveling up. Season 5 of FX’s hit sports docuseries follows Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds as Wrexham AFC enters EFL League One after back-to-back promotions, bringing higher stakes, tougher competition, and the kind of rising costs that make fairy-tale football feel very real. As the club continues climbing the English football pyramid, the dream gets bigger, the pressure gets heavier, and the margin for error gets a whole lot smaller.
📺 “Soccer Meets America” Trailer: A New Docuseries Explores How the Beautiful Game Found Its Footing in the United States — Streaming Free Sun, May 3rd on The Roku Channel
Soccer didn’t suddenly arrive in America. The audience was already here, waiting for the rest of the country to catch up. This new docuseries tells the untold story of the sport’s rise in the United States through the people who lived it, tracing the key moments, cultural shifts, and hard-earned breakthroughs that helped turn America into a growing global soccer force. This one looks ready to remind us that the beautiful game’s U.S. story has been building for a lot longer than some folks think.
📺 “The A List” Trailer: Fifteen Asian and Pacific Diaspora Voices Reflect on Identity, Culture, and Belonging in HBO’s New Docuseries — Premieres Wed, May 13th on HBO Max
Fifteen voices, fifteen stories, and one deeply personal question: what does it mean to be Asian or Pacific Islander in America? This HBO docuseries brings together influential and insightful perspectives from across Asian and Pacific diasporas, exploring identity, culture, belonging, and the lived experiences that shape a community too often treated as a single story.
📺 “Surviving Earth” Trailer: NBC’s Landmark Docuseries Revisits 450 Million Years of Prehistoric Survival — Debuts Thurs, June 11th on NBC
Life finds a way, even when Earth keeps trying to wipe the slate clean. This epic docuseries travels back 450 million years to explore how creatures survived, adapted, and thrived through some of the planet’s most catastrophic environmental crises. Using cutting-edge CGI, the series brings ancient worlds roaring back to life, from giant sea scorpions to mammoths and sabertooths, across landscapes shaped by meteor strikes, volcanic eruptions, plunging sea levels, and scorching heat storms.
📺 “The Map of Longing” Teaser: Alícia Falcó Finds Love, Grief, and a New Path Forward in Netflix’s New Spanish Miniseries Based On Alice Kellen’s Best-Seller — Premieres Fri, July 17th on Netflix
Grief leaves behind a road map in this tender Spanish romantic miniseries about a young woman searching for herself after losing the sister she believed she was born to save. Alícia Falcó stars as Greta, whose life is upended when Lucy (Georgina Amorós) leaves her one final gift: a mysterious game designed to push her through heartbreak and toward a future of her own. Along the way, she meets Will, an enigmatic young man (Pablo Álvarez) whose own troubled past makes the journey even more complicated. Based on Alice Kellen’s best-selling novel, this limited series asks whether love can truly begin before self-acceptance does.
📺 “Murder Mindfully: Season 2” Trailer: Tom Schilling Gets in Touch With His Inner Child While Running a Mafia Family in Netflix’s German Dark Comedy Series — Premieres Thurs, May 28th on Netflix
Self-care gets suspiciously lethal in the second season of this German dark comedy, as Björn Diemel returns to prove that mindfulness and mob management remain a deeply unhealthy combination. Tom Schilling is back as Björn, who must juggle the ongoing tensions of his mafia activities while therapist Joschka Breitner (played by Peter Jordan) pushes him toward his most difficult confrontation yet: his inner child. Old wounds, buried patterns, and unresolved needs come bubbling up fast, and unfortunately for everyone else, Björn’s path to healing may still involve making people disappear.
📺 “Thank You, Next: Season 3” Trailer: Serenay Sarıkaya Stops Running and Starts Healing in Netflix’s Turkish Romantic Drama — Premieres Fri, May 8th on Netflix
No more running, no more romantic damage control. Season 3 of this Turkish romantic drama finds Leyla facing the fallout of a life-shattering relationship as she finally decides to approach love, life, and her own past on her terms. Serenay Sarıkaya returns for the new season, with creator and scriptwriter Ece Yörenç and director Bertan Başaran guiding Leyla through emotional turning points and the unexpected closeness that may force her to stop dodging what still hurts.
Deli Boys and Murder Mindfully 1st seasons were good. Looking fwd to the new seasons.