TVLine Items: ABC’s Maggie Moves to Hulu, del Toro’s Pinocchio and More
ABC’s Maggie has a new home: The romantic comedy, which was originally slated to air this season on the Alphabet network, is relocating to Hulu. According to our sister site Deadline, the decision to make the show a Hulu Original was the result of a lack of available timeslots on the broadcast net and a desire to get it in front of viewers. A premiere date has not been announced yet.
The series stars Rebecca Rittenhouse (The Mindy Project) as a young woman trying to cope with life as a psychic. Maggie regularly sees the fate of her friends, parents, clients, and random strangers on the street, but when she suddenly sees a glimpse of her own future, Maggie is forced to start living in her own present.
The cast also includes Nichole Sakura (Superstore), Angelique Cabral (Life in Pieces), Chloe Bridges (The Carrie Diaries), Kerri Kenney (Reno 911), David Del Rio (The Baker and the Beauty), Chris Elliott (Schitt’s Creek), Ray Ford (Grey’s Anatomy) and Leonardo Nam (Westworld).
Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets? Well…
* Hulu has given an eight-episode series order to an adaptation of Saint X, Alexis Schaitkin’s debut novel which “upends the girl-gone-missing genre” as it follows a young woman’s mysterious death during an idyllic Caribbean vacation.
* Netflix has given an eight-episode series order to Survival of the Thickest, a scripted comedy starring Michelle Buteau and based on her book of essays about being “Black, plus-size and newly single.”
* Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — a stop-motion, movie musical “reinvention” of Carlo Collodi’s classic tale, with Ewan McGregor voicing Cricket and David Bradley as Geppetto — will premiere in December on Netflix.
Get a peek inside the workshop with GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO. This stop-motion musical reimagining of the classic tale comes to Netflix this December. #PinocchioNetflix pic.twitter.com/aNR13cXyuM
— Netflix Tudum (@NetflixTudum) January 24, 2022
Which of today’s TVLine Items pique your interest?
Does ABC really not have any available time slots — or would they just prefer to air another 500 hours of “The Bachelor” franchise than this show?
The move gives the show the best chance of renewal. If it aired later in the TV season its not getting anything more than a 0.3-0.4(likely 0.3 average) before being quietly canceled.
Maybe a new script or Pilot came in that had better legs.
It’s more likely the powers that be liked what they saw and didn’t want the show to be dumped at the end of the season(Late May early June) and aired into the Summer with mediocre numbers.
I think it’s just part of the trend that has the focus move from network TV to streaming now that each one has a streaming platform. Stuff from NBC networks has been yoinked away to Peacock, same goes for TNT to HBO Max, and CBS to Paramount+.
Lack of available time slots? Seems Alphabet has time for reruns and Bachelor Nation XLs. Idol filler too. Wonder if ABC just doesn’t believe in Maggie.
Maggie didn’t have a compatible sitcom partner on the lineup, that was pretty much obvious. I think going to Hulu was honestly the best chance for its survival, sitcoms premiering late spring and in the middle of the summer typically don’t do well.
plus the premise sounds just wierd and streaming might give it a better a chance and frankly this sounds like a show that might get better traction on hulu
We STILL care about compatibility in 2022?! I thought we would’ve stopped by now, because perceived “Compatibility” with existing hit shows is what’s keeping new hit shows from being built. Could’ve put it on after The Goldbergs or Abbott Elementary (because Black-ish‘s final season will only have 13 episodes), or even cut Home Economics‘s second-season order short just to make room for Maggie.