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“The Night Agent” has upped cast members Fola Evans-Akingbola, Ward Horton and Albert Jones to series regulars for its third season. The news comes just after the Jan. 23 release of Season 2.

Per the official logline, the series follows “low level FBI Agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), whose efforts to save the president (Kari Matchett) in Season 1 earn him an opportunity to become a ‘night agent’ in Season 2. But working in the secretive organization of night action will propel Peter into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.”

Evans-Akingbola, who plays secret service agent Chelsea Arrington, is repped by Hamilton Hodell and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Horton, who plays governor Richard Hagan, is repped by Amplified and Innovative Artists Agency. Jones, who plays FBI deputy director Aiden Mosley, is repped by SirenSong Entertainment, Iag and Peikoff Mahan.

“The Night Agent” was created by Shawn Ryan,...

Exclusive: Fola Evans-Akingbola, Ward Horton and Albert Jones are being promoted to series regulars for the upcoming third season of Netflix’s The Night Agent, Deadline can reveal.

On the action thriller series based on Matthew Quirk’s novel, Evans-Akingbola plays secret service agent Chelsea Arrington, with Horton as Governor Richard Hagan, and Jones as Deputy Director Aiden Mosely.

Shawn Ryan, the show’s creator, showrunner and executive producer, confirmed Evans-Akingbola’s Season 3 return in a recent interview with Deadline. A fan favorite, she returns to the series regular status she held in Season 1 after only making a cameo in the second season. Horton’s promotion was presaged by the Season 2 finale, which found his antagonist Hagan poised to become the next president. Looking ahead, the finale teased that the new mission of Night Agent protagonist Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) will be to probe Hagan’s links to shady information...

The red carpet premiere for Season 2 of Netflix’s hit action drama series The Night Agent has been canceled, the latest Hollywood event to be scrapped or postponed since wildfires broke out in Los Angeles a week ago, destroying neighborhoods, killing two dozen and displacing tens of thousands.

“In light of the current crisis in Los Angeles, the red carpet has been canceled,” the organizers wrote in an update.

The cast and creative team of The Night Agent had already gathered in New York, where the premiere was to take place tonight, Jan. 14. That is where most of Season 2 is set, with newly minted Night Action agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), joined by cyber security expert Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), racing to save the city from a terrorist attack.

Season 2 features new cast members Amanda Warren, Berto Colon, Louis Herthum, Arienne Mandi, Brittany Snow, and Teddy Sears.

Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk,...

Newly minted Night Action agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) gets plenty of action in the trailer for Season 2 of Netflix hit drama series The Night Agent, which also has released new photos. He is running, jumping into a river, shooting and engaging in hand-to-hand combat in the action-packed trailer that features two more familiar faces, cyber security expert Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), Peter’s charge in Season 1 who is back by his side, as well as Kari Matchett as President Michelle Travers whose life the duo saved last season.

The trailer introduces new Season 2 heroes and villains, most notably Peter’s new Night Action boss Catherine Weaver, played by Amanda Warren. It also showcases the Season 2 locations, New York, where most of Season 2 was shot, and Thailand, and introduces the big threat in the new installment.

“We have a mole selling leaked American intelligence to the highest bidder, and last...

Peter Sutherland is back, and he’s searching for a mole in the CIA who plans to blow up Manhattan.

Netflix debuted the Season 2 trailer of “The Night Agent” on Christmas morning, ahead of the streamer’s first-ever NFL games being livestreamed on the platform.

Gabriel Basso is back as FBI agent Peter Sutherland in Season 2 of the Netflix series, which will release on Jan. 23. After Peter saved the president in Season 1, he’s promoted by the secret organization Night Action to become a Night Agent. In the trailer, Peter is on the hunt for a mole in the CIA who is leaking top U.S. secrets after he’s betrayed on a mission. He goes rogue to find the leaker and worries that Night Action may be compromised. As his search continues, the mole is selling the top secret information to the highest bidder and gathering enough resources to...

Ring ring.

Night Agent is returning with season two and in the new trailer (below) that dropped on Christmas, Gabriel Basso‘s Peter Sutherland is on the run.

The Sony Pictures TV and Shawn Ryan conspiracy series that was a mega-hit for Netflix in 2023 returns after almost two years with season two on Jan. 23, 2025. Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent‘s first season centered on Peter as a low-level FBI agent answering overnight calls for the secretive White House organization called Night Action. His heroic efforts (he saved the president) earned him a promotion to Night Agent by the end of the season. But, as the trailer shows, a mission outside of Washington, D.C. now puts a target on his back once again.

The trailer for the 10-episode new season dropped — literally — during the NFL’s Ravens vs. Texans Christmas game that aired live on Netflix.

Netflix’s The Night Agent is looking to boost its ranks.

Genesis Rodriguez (Lioness) is in talks to join the espionage drama for its third season. Netflix has already greenlit a third installment of one of its most popular shows, which stars Gabriel Basso as a low-level FBI agent who’s thrust into a far-reaching conspiracy.

Rodriguez is set to be a regular on season three, which is set to begin filming soon in Istanbul and continue in New York early next year. Details on her role are being kept quiet for now.

Netflix declined comment.

Season two of The Night Agent, meanwhile, is scheduled to premiere Jan. 23. It will find Peter Sutherland (Basso) getting a chance to work as a Night Agent after his actions in season one. But working in the secretive organization of Night Action propels him into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.

Ahead of the premiere of “The Night Agent” Season 2, Genesis Rodriguez could soon be joining Season 3.

Variety has learned from sources that Rodriguez is currently in talks for a role in Season 3, which was formally ordered at Netflix back in October. Exact character details are currently under wraps.

Reps for Netflix declined to comment.

This would be the latest spy thriller show in which Rodriguez will star. She currently appears in Season 2 of the Paramount+ series “Lioness” and recently starred in the Kevin Smith feature “The 4:30 Movie.” Her other recent credits include the shows “Neon,” “The Umbrella Academy,” “Time After Time,” and “Big Hero 6: The Series,” while her film credits include “Tusk,” “Casa de mi Padre,” “Man on a Ledge,” and “Run All Night.”

She is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Season 2 of “The Night Agent” is set to debut on Netflix on Jan.

A new glimpse at Doctor Who's upcoming 2024 Christmas special "Joy to the World" has been unveiled by the BBC, teasing Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor facing a terrifying prehistoric threat. Set in a hotel full of time-travelling rooms, the adventure is penned by former showrunners Steven Moffat and follows the events of season 14. While Gatwa's Doctor will be travelling alone following him parting ways with Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson), he will soon be joined by Bridgerton's Nicola Coughlan as guest companion Joy.

The official Doctor Who YouTube channel has shared a new clip from "Joy to the World" following it's premiere during the BBC Children in Need telethon event.

In the clip, The Doctor and Joy investigate a terrifying new contraption developed by Villengard from season 14's "Boom", though a surprise guest interferes...

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The latest season of Doctor Who introduces the Fifteenth Doctor,...

Netflix has shared the teaser trailer for The Night Agent Season 2 and announced that the new episodes will premiere on January 23, 2025.

The Night Agent Season 1 was the most-watched series in 2023 (by views) and currently ranks as the 7th Most Popular English series on Netflix of all time, with 98.2 million views in its first 91 days. In its first month, it was #1 in the Global Top 10 for four consecutive weeks and reached the #1 spot in the Top 10 for 87 countries.

Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low-level FBI Agent, Peter Sutherland, whose efforts to save The President earn him an opportunity to become a Night Agent in Season 2.

But working in the secretive organization of Night Action will propel Peter into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.

Shawn Ryan is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer with MiddKid Productions.

Gabriel Basso will return as Peter Sutherland in Netflix’s The Night Agent for Season 2 on January 23. The 10 new episodes were shot primarily in New York City with additional filming done in Thailand and Washington D.C. Watch the teaser above.

By the time Season 2 premieres, fans will have been waiting nearly two years for new episodes. However, they can rejoice that the Sony Pictures Television series— created, showrun and executive produced by Shawn Ryan— was renewed for a third season early last month. As Deadline previously reported, shooting is set to begin on Season 3 in Istanbul at the end of this year followed by a New York shoot in 2025.

Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent‘s freshman season follows low-level FBI agent Peter Sutherland who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does,...

“The Night Agent” Season 2 has set a January premiere date at Netflix.

The Gabriel Basso-led series is set to return to the streamer on Jan. 23, nearly two years after “The Night Agent” debuted its first season on March 23, 2023.

After Season 1 saw Peter Sutherland (Basso) rise from being a low-level FBI agent to a night agent through his efforts to save the president, Season 2 will see Peter propelled into a dangerous and untrusting world as he works with the secretive organization of Night Action.

In addition to Basso, Season 2 will see several new series regulars join the Netflix show, including Arienne Mandi, Louis Herthum, Berto Colon, Michael Malarkey, Keon Alexander, Brittany Snow, Teddy Sears, Navid Negahban and Rob Heaps.

Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, “The Night Agent” is created and executive produced by Shawn Ryan, who also serves as showrunner.

“The Night Agent” debuted to massive viewership, capturing...

The highly anticipated second season of “The Night Agent” has set its premiere date at Netflix.

Season 2 of the action thriller series will drop in its entirety on Jan. 23, 2025 on the streaming giant. Season 1 of the show premiered in 2023 and went on to become the most watched show of that year by views (defined as total hours viewed divided by total runtime) and also the seventh most-watched English language TV show in Netflix history with 98.2 million total views.

“The Night Agent” is based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk. Per the official logline, the show centers on “low level FBI Agent , Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), whose efforts to save The President in Season 1 earn him an opportunity to become a Night Agent in Season 2. But working in the secretive organization of Night Action will propel Peter into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.

The Night Agent viewers are ready to answer the call.

The action-thriller from Sony Pictures TV and Shawn Ryan became a breakout hit for Netflix when it released in March 2023. Now, fans of the Gabriel Basso-led spy series are finally finding out when the show will return.

Season two will release Jan. 23, 2025, slightly later than Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarandos predicted the show would return. The news came with a teaser announcement (below) showing Peter Sutherland (Basso) back on the run and calling the top-secret White House number of which he was initially on the receiving end.

Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent season one centered on then low-level FBI agent Peter, whose efforts to save the president now earn him an opportunity to become a Night Agent in season two. But working in the secretive organization of Night Action will propel Peter into a world...

Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in ‘The Night Agent’ season 2 (Photo Cr. Siviroon Srisuwan/Netflix © 2024)

The Night Agent fans have two reasons to celebrate. Netflix not only released the first official photos from the upcoming second season, the streamer announced the popular spy drama has been renewed for a third season.

Season two is targeting a winter 2025 premiere. Filming’s expected to begin on season three in Istanbul later this year. Production on the just-announced 10-episode third season will move to New York early next year.

The first season earned Netflix’s most-watched series of 2023 title and raked in more than 98 million views in its first 91 days. It currently stands as the streamer’s seventh most-watched English series.

“Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low level FBI Agent, Peter Sutherland, whose efforts to save The President in season...

From Sony Pictures Television, The Night Agent Season 2 will debut on Netflix in Winter 2025. A 10-episode third season has also received the green light and will begin production in Istanbul at the end of 2024 before returning to film in New York in 2025.

The Night Agent was the most-watched series in 2023 (by views) and currently ranks as the seventh most popular English series on Netflix of all time, with a staggering 98.2 million views in its first 91 days. In its first month, it was No. 1 in the Global Top 10 for four consecutive weeks and reached the #1 spot in the Top 10 for 87 countries.

Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low-level FBI Agent, Peter Sutherland, whose efforts to save the President in Season 1 earn him an opportunity to become a Night Agent in Season 2.

But working in the secretive organization of Night...

Netflix has given an early Season 3 renewal to its hit actioner “The Night Agent,” in advance of the show’s second season return in Winter 2025. The series, from Sony Pictures Television, is set to begin a production unit in Istanbul at the end of the year, and then will turn its attention back to filming in New York in 2025.

The streamer announced the additional pickup while sharing first-look images for “The Night Agent” Season 2. Gabriel Basso stars in the series, which comes from creator Shawn Ryan (“The Shield”) and is based on the novel by Matthew Quirk.

In Season 1, low-level FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Basso) helped save the U.S. President’s life, earning him the chance to become a Night Agent. Per Netflix’s logline, in Season 2, “working in the secretive organization of Night Action will propel Peter into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.

“Night Agent” fans, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the action thriller starring Gabriel Basso has been renewed for a third season ahead of Season 2. The bad? Season 2 won’t be returning to Netflix until the winter of 2025.

The third season of the Netflix original will begin a production unit in Istanbul at the end of 2024. The series will then return to film in New York in 2025.

The streamer also shared first look photos of its upcoming second season:

Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in “The Night Agent” (Photo Credit: Christopher Saunders/Netflix) Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in “The Night Agent” (Photo Credit: Christopher Saunders/Netflix) (L to R) Amanda Warren as Catherine, Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in “The Night Agent” (Photo Credit: Christopher Saunders/Netflix) (L to R) Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin, Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in...

It’s a case of good news-bad news for The Night Agent fans. In a vote of confidence to the Shawn Ryan action-thriller, the series starring Gabriel Basso has received a 10-episode Season 3 renewal ahead of its Season 2 debut. As for Season 2, viewers will have to wait a little longer. Originally slated for a 2024 release, Season 2 will now premiere in winter 2025. That is almost two years after Season 1 dropped on March 23, 2023, becoming an instant breakout en route to 98.2M views in its first 91 day and a spot on Netflix’s Top 10 most popular English-language series of all time.

Fans won’t have to wait that long for Season 3 — like streamers typically do with their strongest performers, Netflix clearly had commissioned a writers room to work on the new installment as filming will begin very soon with a production unit in Istanbul at the end of 2024 followed by a New York...

Netflix will keep The Night Agent on call beyond its forthcoming second season.

The streamer has renewed The Night Agent for a third season, with the pickup coming several months before season two premieres. Netflix hasn’t set a specific date for the show’s return but says it will premiere in winter 2025 (which is slightly later than Netflix co-ceo Ted Sarando said the show would debut on an earnings call earlier this year).

Production on season three is set to begin late this year in Istanbul and continue in New York after the new year.

Created by Shawn Ryan and produced by Sony Pictures Television, The Night Agent was a breakout hit for Netflix last year. The show’s first season currently ranks seventh all time among English-language series in the streamer’s internal rankings (which measure viewing for 13 weeks after a show’s premiere). It was also the...

We have good news… and better news… for fans of The Night Agent.

For starters, the Netflix adaptation is set to release Season 2 on the 2025 side of this winter, the streamer announced on Tuesday, while also releasing a flurry of first photos (seen above and below).

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What’s more, The Night Agent has already been renewed for Season 3, TVLine can report. Production will get underway in Istanbul at the end of...

Netflix’s popular thriller series “The Night Agent” has revealed the actors rounding out its Season 2 guest cast.

Marwan Kenzari, Elise Kibler and Dikran Tulaine join returning series leads Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan. Additional previously announced cast members include Amanda Warren, Arienne Mandi, Louis Herthum, Berto Colon, Brittany Snow, Teddy Sears, Michael Malarkey, Keon Alexander, Navid Negahban and Rob Heaps.

The official description for the series reads, “Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, ‘The Night Agent’ is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office.”

In Season 2, Kenzari plays Reza, whose character description reads, “A decorated soldier, court marshalled for another man’s crime, Reza...

Netflix and Sony Pictures Television’s hit series “The Night Agent” has filled out its cast for Season 2 with Michael Malarkey (“The Vampire Diaries”) and Keon Alexander (“The Expanse”) as series regulars and Navid Negahban (“Homeland”) and Rob Heaps (“Station 11”) as recurring guest stars, opposite returning stars Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan.

Based on the best selling novel by Matthew Quirk, the first season of the show followed Peter Sutherland (Basso), an FBI agent recruited to monitor a rarely used phone in the basement of the White House for the mysterious Night Agent program. When cybersecurity expert Rose Larkin (Buchanan) calls the number one night, they’re both pulled into a twisty conspiracy that reaches to the top echelons of the U.S. government.

Season 2 will follow Sutherland as he begins his career as a full-time Night Agent, while maintaining a relationship with Larkin.

Malarkey — who followed his role as Lorenzo “Enzo” St.

We may know where Peter was headed when he jetted off in the Season 1 finale of The Night Agent.

Filming has begun on the second season of Netflix’s hit thriller drama, with the streamer’s start-of-production announcement unveiling that shooting of the new season will take place primarily in New York City with additional filming in Thailand and Washington D.C.

Season 1 of The Night Agent was set in and around Washington D.C. and filmed in Vancouver.

Given that we last saw Peter (Basso) taking off from D.C. in a private jet on his first mission as a Night Action spy, it is safe to assume that he is going to Thailand or a nearby country. That would answer one of the finale’s biggest questions.

Other major questions The Night Agent showrunner Shawn Ryan expected the show to address in Season 2 back in March include, What does it mean that Peter would be a night agent? Now that Rose is going back to California to try to restart her tech career, where does that leave Peter and Rose?

Season 2 also is moving the center of the action from the nation’s capital to the Big Apple as the series is rewarded for its big success in Season 1 — which ranks as the sixth most popular season of an English-language series on Netflix — with more expensive filming locations.

Basso and Luciane Buchanan return alongside previously announced new cast members Amanda Warren, Arienne Mandi, Louis Herthum, Berto Colon, Brittany Snow and Teddy Sears.

The Night Agent is on a very tight schedule as Netflix announced last week that Season 2 will premiere in 2024. Getting a 10-episode season of an elaborate action drama series ready before end of the year will be a major feat, especially given the fact that series on a global streamer like Netflix take longer to release because they also have to undergo dubbing/subtitling for the various territories.

The Night Agent is a character-based, action-thriller whose first season centered on a low-level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast-moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads to the Oval Office.

The series is created, showrun and executive produced by Shawn Ryan through his MiddKid Productions banner. David Beaubaire, Seth Gordon, Julia Gunn, Marney Hochman, Paul Neinstein, William Sherak, Nicole Tossou, James Vanderbilt, Paul Bernard and Munis Rashid also executive produce. The Night Agent is produced by Sony Pictures Television.

We’ll be seeing more of Powell in the final season of S.W.A.T. Anna Enger Ritch, who has heavily recurred as the character since Season 5, has been promoted to series regular for the 7th and final season, Deadline has confirmed.

In the season 7 premiere, which airs February 16, the team heads to Mexico to escort a fugitive back to the States when things go awry and Hondo (Shemar Moore) has to save an old witness tied to the case.

Inspired by the television series and the feature film, S.W.A.T. stars Moore as a former Marine and locally born and raised S.W.A.T. sergeant tasked to run a specialized tactical unit that is the last stop in law enforcement in Los Angeles. Torn between loyalty to where he was raised and allegiance to his brothers in blue, Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson strives to bridge the divide between his two worlds.

Alex Russell, Jay Harrington,...

More good news for S.W.A.T. The series, which just got a renewal for a seventh and final season by CBS, also has a new streaming home. Netflix has made a substantial deal with lead studio Sony Pictures TV for the first five seasons of the action drama starring Shemar Moore, which will begin streaming in the U.S. on May 17. The current sixth season of the series is expected to join them on the platform in the fall.

As part of CBS’ deal for S.W.A.T. (and its other shows), current seasons of the network’s series are available on Paramount+ for their duration and a few months after they end their broadcast run. S.W.A.T.’s first three seasons are also currently on Hulu.

The pact with Netflix closed about a month or so ago, in the midst of Sony TV’s difficult renewal negotiations with CBS. Series’ executive producer/showrunner...

After a week of behind-the-scenes drama, it’s fantastic to know going into this first part of a two-part season six finale that S.W.A.T. isn’t going to end prematurely. CBS announced the series had been canceled, despite the ratings growing year-over-year, and then quickly reversed their decision after fans – and Shemar Moore – made their displeasure known. The network confirmed there will be a shortened season seven. (Read all about it here).

Back to season six… Episode 21, “Forget Shorty,” was directed by Paul Bernard from a script by Kent Rotherham and will air on Friday, May 12, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt. Part two of the season (and thankfully not the series) finale will air on May 19th.

Swat season six stars Shemar Moore as Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, Alex Russell as Jim Street, Jay Harrington as David “Deacon” Kay, Kenny Johnson as Dominique Luca, David Lim as Victor Tan, Patrick St. Esprit as Commander Robert Hicks,...

CBS’ drama Swat will live for one more season after the network reversed course on canceling the series.

Three days after announcing Swat would end with its sixth season, which wraps on May 19, the network on Monday picked up a final season. The series, a co-production between Sony Pictures TV and CBS Studios, will now get a seventh and final season on CBS. It will run for 13 episodes.

Swat would likely have gone down as the most watched network show to get the axe this season (Fox is saying goodbye to 911, which draws a larger audience, but that series will live on at ABC). The cancellation on Friday stirred outcry among the show’s viewers and star Shemar Moore, who called the move “a fucking mistake” in an Instagram video over the weekend.

“We have listened to our viewers and their outpouring of passion for Swat and we have reached...

“S.W.A.T” has been renewed for Season 7 at CBS, which will also be the show’s last. The move marks a stunning reversal of the network’s decision to cancel the show just three days ago.

According to sources, talks continued between CBS and series co-producer Sony Pictures Television over the weekend following the cancellation announcement. The show has been a solid performer for CBS in its Friday night timeslot, with the decision ultimately coming down to the show’s financials. In addition to the renewal, series star Shemar Moore will serve as an executive producer on the final season.

“We have listened to our viewers and their outpouring of passion for ‘S.W.A.T.’ and we have reached an agreement to renew it for a final season of 13 episodes to air during the 2023-2024 broadcast year,” said CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach and Sony Pictures Television Studios president Katherine Pope in a joint statement.

In the highest-profile cancellation so far this upfront, CBS has opted not to renew S.W.A.T. for a seventh season. Its upcoming Season 6 finale will serve as a series finale.

Related: ‘S.W.A.T.’ Star Shemar Moore Shares Frustration About Drama’s Cancellation: “We’ve Done Nothing Wrong. We Did Everything That Was Asked For”

Inspired by the 1975 TV series and the feature film, S.W.A.T., starring Shemar Moore, was the most established — and most expensive — CBS scripted series still on the bubble. Its demise illustrates the harsh economic realities of the broadcast business as S.W.A.T. has done what was asked of it this season — it has been a rare TV series to rise in linear viewership year-to-year by double digits following its move to Fridays, where the drama has flourished. It may be the most watched broadcast series to get the axe this season.

A co-production between Sony Pictures TV and CBS Studios,...

“S.W.A.T.” has been canceled after seven seasons at CBS.

The procedural drama starred Shemar Moore as Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, a S.W.A.T. sargeant tasked to run a specialized tactical unit that is the last stop in law enforcement in Los Angeles. Torn between loyalty to where he was raised and allegiance to his brothers in blue, he strives to bridge the divide between his two worlds. The cast also included Rochelle Aytes as Hondo’s girlfriend Nichelle, Jay Harrington as David “Deacon” Kay, Kenny Johnson as Dominique Luca, David Lim as Victor Tan, and Alex Russell as Jim Street.

Season 6, which is currently on the air, is averaging 6.8 million total viewers and a 0.7 rating among adults 18-49 according to Nielsen’s Live + 7 data from late April.

The Season 6 finale, titled “Legacy,” will air on May 19. Per the logline, the team works with the DEA and their iron-jawed leader, Mack Boyle (Timothy Hutton...

CBS is canceling its crime drama Swat after six seasons.

The show, an update of the 1970s cop show that stars Shemar Moore as LAPD Sgt. Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, will air its final episode on May 19. Swat is a co-production of Sony Pictures TV and CBS Studios.

“For six seasons, the amazing talents of the Swat cast led by Shemar Moore, the writers, producers and crew guided by executive producers Shawn Ryan, Andy Dettman and Aaron Rahsaan Thomas brought us compelling, action packed episodes that also addressed important social issues and contributed to the success of our primetime line up,” said CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach in a statement. “We sincerely thank them for their incredible work and passion and also thank our dedicated fans who tuned in every week.”

Ratings are not to blame for Swat’s end: The series actually grew its total audience over last season, averaging...

Translators introduction: This article by Mireille Latil Le Dantec, the second of two parts, was originally published in issue 40 of Cinématographe, September 1978. The previous issue of the magazine had included a dossier on "La qualité française" and a book of a never-shot script by Jean Grémillon (Le Printemps de la Liberté or The Spring of Freedom) had recently been published. The time was ripe for a re-evaluation of Grémillon's films and a resuscitation of his undervalued career. As this re-evaluation appears to still be happening nearly 40 years later—Grémillon's films have only recently seen DVD releases and a 35mm retrospective begins this week at Museum of the Moving Image in Queens—this article and its follow-up gives us an important view of a French perspective on Grémillon's work by a very perceptive critic doing the initial heavy-lifting in bringing the proper attention to the filmmaker's work.

Passion...

The world is all out of whack: multiple Dutch tilts are on display in Voyage sans espoir (1943), an unbelievably glossy poetic realist proto-noir from Christian-Jaque: the film actually begins with railway tracks viewed from the front of a speeding train, upside down, as the camera drunkenly rolls upright and titles come flying towards us, slapping flat across the frame like flies hitting a windshield.

The plot is convoluted but crisp—chance encounters tie together Jean Marais, fleeing his job at a bank to see life and settle in Argentina, with an escaped jailbird of psychopathic demeanor (Paul Bernard) and his girlfriend, the radiant Simone Renant. There's also a likably crooked ship's captain carrying a torch for Renant, a sinister ethnic-type sailor (Ky Duyen), and a pair of hard-drinking but eternally sober detectives who resemble nothing more than the Thompson Twins from Tintin. The French had a nifty way with...

Above: L'amour d'une femme.

Edinburgh International Film Festival, under the direction of Chris Fujiwara, has ended for the year, and with it the Jean Grémillon retrospective, Symphonies of Life. Gathering most of the features (saving a few for-hire assignments) and all the surviving shorts, the season afforded an overview rarely possible with this neglected filmmaker.

Though the shorts were not my favorite Grémillons, they do illuminate the rest of his body of work. Documentaries on alchemy and astrology expose the filmmaker's fascination with the esoteric sciences, a major part of his life, which informs the tarot scenes in Lumière d'été and Maldone, where the cards indeed know all. Grémillon's sonorous, dreamy tones probably make him the greatest director-narrator outside of Orson Welles, and his self-penned music may be the finest outside of Chaplin's. The festival also played, at a fascinating symposium, the player piano score Grémillon wrote for a lost silent short,...

A father, worried sick that his wife may be dead, walks his son and daughter across a rain-slicked square, while a long line of black-clad children from an orphanage snakes past them in the other direction. The bars of a castle-shaped birdcage, which has been the backdrop for a bitter quarrel between an aristocrat and his middle-aged mistress, gives way to a shot of a mountaintop hotel crisscrossed by countless panes of glass. A man and woman on the verge of an affair walk through an empty seaside house that evokes both their waning marriages and the life they will never have together.

Those are three moments from the three movies in Eclipse's set, Jean Grémillon During the Occupation: Le ciel est à vous, Lumière d'été and Remorques. This DVD release marks an extraordinary stroke of luck for those who, like me, had barely heard of this director. How often does anyone encounter,...

Introduction

In Laissez-passer [Safe Conduct], the film that the French director Bertrand Tavernier made in 2002, we see the French film industry of the Occupation years as a ruined and almost shut-down institution that is highly dependent on the factor of chance. In his story, Tavernier exculpates one of the key figures of the occupation cinema, Henri-Georges Clouzot, from the accusation of collaborating with the Nazis. He pictures Clouzot as a man whose Jewish wife has been held hostage by the Nazis and, and against all odds, he finishes Le corbeau about the vicious and nasty people of a small town in France, where someone is sending poison pen letters to its "honourable" citizens. Le corbeau became a very popular box-office hit during the Occupation, and, at the same time, the underground press attacked it for showing France as a land of the degenerate and perverted people, a view that, according to accusers,...