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2024 is half over and we have seen some brilliant and some not-so-brilliant TV shows by streaming services and cable networks. However, the sci-fi fantasy genre TV shows are proving to be the biggest ones this year with the release of shows like Fallout and 3 Body Problem. The sci-fi fans are having a great year and if TV shows weren’t enough we also got Dune: Part Two this year which is the most successful film 2024 so far. So, let’s check out the best new and returning sci-fi fantasy shows that came out this year.

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Sunny is a dark comedy sci-fi mystery thriller drama series created by Katie Robbins. Based on the 2018 novel The Dark Manual by Colin O’Sullivan, the Apple TV+ series follows Suzie, an American woman living...

Sunny, the Apple TV+ mystery thriller starring Rashida Jones, has been cancelled after one season, Screen has learned.

Sources close to the production confirmed that series, produced by A24, will not return following the 10-episode run that began in July and concluded with a cliffhanger on September 4. Screen has contacted Apple TV+ and A24 for comment.

The story starred Jones as Suzie Sakamoto, a US woman living in a futuristic Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic...

It took 13 puppeteers to bring AppleTV+’s titular robot “Sunny” to life.

Joanna Sotomura, the American performer who embodies the ominously helpful bot, flew to Tokyo where the series was filmed to meet the robotics team two weeks before filming began. “We had our robot dojo space. I would do the rehearsals and scenes as Joanna, and they would put tape on my stomach for Sunny’s eye line, and I’d be rigged in a helmet with a ring light. A monitor and camera tacked my facial expressions and projected to the robot in real-time,” says Sotomura.

“Sunny” follows Rashida Jones as Suzie Sakamoto, an American housewife living in Kyoto. The buddy mystery pairs Suzie with the title character, an intelligent “homebot” named Sunny that has been left to Suzie by her missing husband, Masa (Hidetoshi Nishijima).

Speaking with Variety, Sotomura explained how she spent much of the two...

From sports comedies to murder mysteries, there’s a TV show for everyone on Apple TV+.

To celebrate the return of Season 4 of “Slow Horses” and Gary Oldman to Apple TV+, it’s time to countdown the top seven TV shows streaming on the platform. From comedy fans to the murder-mystery-obsessed, to all the fellow outcasts relegated to their own Slough House, there’s a genre for everyone on this list. Plus, coming in at No. 1 is a TV show you don’t want to miss, led by a movie star who makes his triumph return to the persona that made him famous. So without further ado, here are the top seven TV shows streaming on Apple TV+.

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No. 7: Pachinko (2022) | Family Drama

No. 6: The Morning Show (2019) | Workplace Drama

No. 5: Sunny (2024) | Mystery-Thriller

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[The story contains mild spoilers from the season finale of Sunny.]

In less than five years of its existence, Apple TV+ has carved a niche out for itself as a home to evocative, well-made and interesting science fiction, and the streamer has delivered once more with Sunny, the dark Japan-set retrofuturist comedy that wrapped its first season this week.

Starring Rashida Jones, Sunny tells the story of Suzie Sakamoto, a taciturn American woman living in Kyoto, whose life is upended by tragedy after her husband Masahiko (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and son Zen (Fares Belkheir) disappear in a mysterious plane crash. Poleaxed by grief, Masahiko’s company sends Suzie a domestic robot named Sunny, with artificial intelligence attuned to her particular needs and feelings. As Suzie, reluctantly, begins to bond with Sunny, and eccentric new friend Mixxy (annie the clumsy), the great enigma surrounding the plane crash begins to unravel involving the yakuza and domestic Japanese politics.

As well as tackling weighty themes of grief,...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers for the entire first season of “Sunny,” now streaming on Apple TV+.

As a Japanese actor, Hidetoshi Nishijima often receives offers to play morally gray characters, such as samurais and yakuza members, who are defined by a particular profession and era. But then he was approached for the role of a roboticist whose mysterious disappearance leaves his wife (and the clever robotic companion he designed for her) at the center of a criminal conspiracy in “Sunny,” Apple TV+’s darkly comedic, sci-fi thriller that just wrapped up its first season. Nishijima — who starred in “Drive My Car,” the 2021 Japanese film that was nominated for best picture, and won the Academy Award for international feature — relished the opportunity to play an ordinary man who must wrestle with existential questions about what it means to be human.

“Of course, his profession is a big part of this project,...

Suzie (Rashida Jones) has no friends in Kyoto. When we meet her in the first moments of Apple TV+’s “Sunny,” her husband and son are missing and presumed dead when their airplane crashes; she has a testy relationship with her mother-in-law, and because of her dyslexia, she still hasn’t learned Japanese. There’s barely a reason to exit her fugue state until the delivery of an at-home assistant: the aptly named Sunny.

Designed by her husband, Sunny is at first a burden, then a sympathetic ear, and then, miraculously, a friend. But none of “Sunny” would work if we don’t buy the very real relationship that springs up between a human woman and a robot. And certainly Episode 9, which takes place solely in Sunny’s “mind” as she has an existential crisis and debates whether or not she deserves to be taken offline permanently, wouldn’t be...

It would be just like the creative team behind Sunny to use a question as the title of an episode. Lord knows the series has been nothing but one question after another.

While the endless inquiries have been aggravating, they have also been one of the series’ biggest draws.

Many science fiction shows will worry about losing audiences if they don’t spoon-feed viewers exposition. That’s certainly not the case with Sunny.

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The show wisely utilized so many secrets because now that we are approaching the end, all of the other shoes can drop.

It’s been a wild, wacky adventure, but this ride is ending. Sunny is finally answering some big questions as a parting gift.

And they are doing it with all the camp and comedy that an A24 series can deliver.

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We wanted answers, and the creative team behind Sunny has finally found a way to give them to us. And they’re doing it in the most acid-tripping way possible.

Secrets and mysteries have been the series’ cornerstone since its first episode.

Luckily, Sunny is one of those shows where the journey is more fun than the destination.

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However, the show wants to make sure the arrival is just as reality-bending as the trek has been.

For the entirety of Sunny Season 1, there has been question after question, with more introduced in every episode.

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Everyone knows Apple TV+ for Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, and Severance. There have been a few other popular TV shows sprinkled in over the last few years. Presumed Innocent starring Jake Gyllenhaal had some good buzz recently. Despite Apple TV+’s substantial investment into the TV business, it’s still looking for mainstream hits.

And, let me be clear. I am a fan of Apple TV+. I appreciate how many TV shows with huge stars the streamer is cranking out these days, but it’s just so odd that almost no one is talking about these great shows!

I put together a list of the four most underrated shows on Apple TV+ that you need to watch right now!

Pachinko

Pachinko is based on the book of the same name by Min Jin Lee, and it was developed for Apple TV+ by Soo Hugh. Kogonada and Justin Chon directed...

No, you’re not on acid or tripping hard on shrooms! Blame the break in reality on the latest episode of Sunny!

For whatever reason, I had convinced myself things couldn’t possibly get weirder on this fantastic series. I was oh so wrong in so many ways.

If there is one thing fans of the show have realized, it is that you should always expect the unexpected regarding Sunny.

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This series has weaved a well-balanced plot involving pure camp humor with thrilling moments of suspense and danger.

And while it’s been playing with the patience of its viewers, we finally have some answers!

Thank God, because Sunny has been exhausting in the best possible way.

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In this week’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast host Mike DeAngelo bonds with bots while discussing “Sunny.” The Apple TV+ series follows Suzie, an American woman in future Japan, and Sunny, a domestic robot, as they uncover the dark truth behind her husband and son’s recent mysterious plane crash disappearance. The show stars Rashida Jones, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, Hidetoshi Nishijima, and more.

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Even as the multi-tasking talent at the center of a dizzying genre blend, Rashida Jones has perspective.

In Apple TV+’s “Sunny,” the beloved “Parks & Rec” actor executive produces and stars as Suzie, a spit-fire American ex-pat suddenly living and grieving alone in a futuristic version of Japan. The series’ first two episodes, which started streaming Wednesday July 10 (new installments release weekly through September 4), introduce an investigation into a mysterious plane crash that forces Suzie to grapple with the shocking disappearance of both her young song and husband, Masa.

Created by Katie Robbins, this darkly funny sci-fi thriller simultaneously explores the shadowy innerworkings of a tech company where Suzie’s late spouse used to work. That plot casts our smart-mouthed outsider — who for better or worse hates robots — opposite an adorable, artificially intelligent home companion designed specifically for her by Masa. Part grief counselor, part detective sidekick, and one big question mark for Suzie,...

Streaming on: Apple TV+

Episodes viewed: 10 of 10

There's nothing more human than grief, that searing loss which carves out your insides until there's nothing left but a void where your heart used to be. Yet there's something quite robotic about the numbness that hits first, and it's between these two extremes where a new Apple TV+ show explores what it actually means to be human.

This is a show that wants to be a lot of things all at once, multitasking like the robot that lends the series its name, and for the most part, it works very well. Across ten 30-minute episodes, creator Katie Robbins (The Affair) navigates big reveals, pithy put-downs, intriguing cold opens and yakuza antics with humour and pathos, all set in a semi-futuristic yet still recognisable Japan. It's a lot, granted, but a game cast ground this robot-filled world with much humanity, including Sunny herself...

Sunny is a dark sci-fi comedy series created by Katie Robbins. Based on the 2018 novel titled The Dark Manual by author Colin O’Sullivan, the Apple TV+ series follows the story of Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan as her husband and son suddenly disappear in a plane crash. Soon after she is given a domestic robot by the robotic company her husband worked at. Then, Suzie finds herself embroiled in a dangerous mystery surrounding her husband’s death. Sunny stars Rashida Jones in the lead role with Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, annie the clumsy, and Judy Ongg starring in supporting roles. So, if you love the dark tone, goofy comedy, and neon visuals in Sunny, here are some similar shows you could watch next.

Devs (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – FX

Devs is a sci-fi mystery thriller series created, written, and directed by Alex Garland. The FX...

Get ready for an unusual dark sci-fi comedy and mystery thriller from Apple TV+ in its latest series, Sunny. Created by Katie Robbins, the Apple TV+ series is an A24 production, and it is based on the 2018 novel titled The Dark Manual by Irish author Colin O’Sullivan. Sunny hooks viewers from the get-go with its incredible visuals and a dark yet comedic tone.

Sunny is set in Kyoto, Japan, and it follows the story of an American woman whose Japanese husband and son suddenly disappear in a plane crash. Sometime later, she is given a domestic robot by her husband’s robotics company, which was apparently created by her late husband. So, if you love Sunny’s dark tone, goofy comedy, and neon visuals, here are all the release dates for its upcoming episodes.

Sunny – Episode Guide (When Will the New Episodes Come Out?) Credit – Apple TV+

Sunny consists of ten episodes in total.

To celebrate the release of Sunny, the new series streaming on Apple TV+, we had the pleasure of chatting with the cast and crew for this unique and moving new show.

Sunny is the ten-episode mystery thriller with a darkly comic bent, will premiere globally with the first two episodes on Wednesday, July 10, followed by one new episode weekly through September 4 exclusively on Apple TV+. “Sunny” stars Emmy Award nominee, multi-hyphenate Rashida Jones as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company. Though at first, Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, gradually they develop an unexpected friendship. Together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to...

Suzie Sakamoto is struggling with loss. The American expatriate has called Kyoto home for over a decade, but after the mysterious deaths of her husband Masa and young son Zen in an apparent plane crash, she finds herself adrift.

Looking for answers, and with little left to ground her, Suzie turns to an unexpected source: Sunny, an advanced home robot gifted to her by Masa’s colleague from his work in robotics. As Suzie grows closer to Sunny, she discovers her late husband kept far more secrets than she ever realized.

This is the premise of the Apple TV+ series Sunny, created by Katie Robbins. The 10-episode, one-hour drama explores mystery and grief through the lens of robotics and modern Japan. Rashida Jones stars as Suzie, alongside Hidetoshi Nishijima as Masa in flashbacks. As Suzie investigates with Sunny’s aid, her understanding of her husband and life in Kyoto is turned upside down,...

Say this for Apple TV+’s originals: They tend to look great, and Sunny, its latest sci-fi dramedy, is no exception. Its Kyoto setting is replete with plush jewel tones and tasteful woods. Its characters are chic in Uniqlo-by-way-of-Her separates. Its robots are rendered in friendly bulbous figures and bright emoji-like expressions. A cool ’60s soundtrack completes the vaguely retro vibe.

But not all of the platform’s offerings feel as rich narratively as they look visually — and unfortunately, that’s true of Sunny too. It’s not a bad time, per se; a twisty mystery, a colorful ensemble and the occasional stylistic big swing keep its ten 30ish-minute episodes moving painlessly enough. It’s just a vaguely disappointing one, better at suggesting emotional and thematic depths than plumbing them.

Sunny‘s lonely heroine is Suzie (Rashida Jones), who begins the series drowning in grief over the loss of her husband,...

Are we on the verge of Hot TV Robot Summer?

This week on HBO, Julio Torres’ delightfully, defiantly weird comedy Fantasmas is finishing up its first season, and one of the main characters is Bibo, a helpful yet pushy household robot whose secret desire is to become an actor. Now comes Apple TV’s Sunny, where the chipper but potentially troublesome robot is the title character, and core focus of the plot. One more, and it’s officially a trend!

Adapted by Katie Robbins (The Affair) from Colin O’Sullivan’s book The Dark Manual,...

Companionship comes in many forms. What soothes one person could feel foreign to another, with people, pets, and inanimate objects bringing joy and solace to those affected by various traumas. When Suzie (Rashida Jones), a woman living in Japan, inherits Sunny (Joanna Sotomura), a domestic robot made by her husband’s company, they uncover dark truths about what happened to Suzie’s husband and son, trapping them in a spiral of violence, secrecy, and a war for power. I mean this sincerely: Sunny is my favorite TV series of 2024 so far. So, you can imagine my excitement when I was allowed to speak with members of the cast and creative team: Rashida Jones, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Annie the Clumsy, Judy Ongg, Jun Kunimura, Sunny creator Katie Robbins, and director Lucy Tcherniak.

During our discussions, Rashida and Hidetoshi reveal the secrets of their incredible on-screen chemistry, acting alongside a robot...

On shows like “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation,” the great strength of Rashida Jones has been her plainspoken relatability. Despite her glamorous lineage as the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton, Jones blends in with ensembles built for everyday quirks rather than large-scale gestures; on those NBC sitcoms, for example, her unfussy delivery style enhanced both the reality and the comedy of her scenes.

Jones tested herself a bit more as a leading lady in the Sofia Coppola movie “On the Rocks,” but her lower-key take on gilded-cage ennui wound up a comfortable fit for what was itself a lower-key Coppola picture of more modest moods and less spiritual distress. In the new Apple TV+ series “Sunny,” however, Jones must access a greater range of emotions — even when they’re supposed to be partially concealed. As Suzie, a woman living in near-future Japan whose husband Masa (Hidetoshi Nishijima...

A woman’s best friend is her robot? That’s the pitch being sold by the ImaTech Corporation in the futuristic Sunny from Apple TV+. Just try convincing Suzie (Parks and Recreation‘s Rashida Jones), an American expat in Japan, who thinks A.I. “homebot” companions are creepy—and she’s not wrong. We first encounter Suzie in a daze of devastated grief after losing her husband Masa, an ImaTech employee and covert robotics employee, and young son Zen in a plane crash where they’re presumed dead. Suzie is less than thrilled when she’s gifted a perky new model named Sunny (voiced by Joanna Sotomura) as a consolation offering. Sunny, presented in English and heavily subtitled Japanese, begins as an offbeat, tragedy-laced buddy comedy—“I was programmed for you,” the bot pleads with her big eyes ...

Statistically, you aren’t watching AppleTV+ — earlier this year, Matthew Belloni’s newsletter Puck reported that viewership on the platform is just 0.29 percent, according to Nielsen — so when I tell you its sitcoms are endemically friction-free, I realize you kind of have to take my word for it.

Having honed this opinion via immersion in, among others, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, Palm Royale, Loot and The Big Door Prize (linked above), enduring 10 episodes of Apple’s new “dark comedy” Sunny wasn’t exactly how I wanted to kick off my summer. I guess I can’t say it pleasantly surprised me, but I definitely was not expecting that (a) one of the world’s biggest computer companies has brought us such a prickly, unsettling vision of our possible future living with A.I., and (b) that Apple has made a new comedy that isn’t allergic to conflict.

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As might be expected at the height of the summer blockbuster season, July brings movie sequels galore. But each sequel is a little different in a batch that includes a long-in-the-works extension of the definitive Eighties action comedy, the third entry in an offbeat horror trilogy, and an action movie that seemingly shares little with its predecessor beyond bad weather. (And be on the lookout for a re-release of The Seven Samurai,...

Plot: Set in Japan, the series follows Suzie who recently lost her husband and son in a mysterious plane crash. As consolation, her husband’s company gives Suzie a robotic home assistant with a sunny disposition–aptly named Sunny. A begrudging relationship forms between the two as they set out to figure out what really happened to Suzie’s family.

Review: Love or fear them; robots have been a part of popular culture for over a century. As technology develops, so do the various interpretations of sentient machines. From Metropolis and Star Wars to M3GAN and Optimus Prime, robots are interpreted as everything from comic relief to villainous killers bent on the destruction of mankind. The new AppleTV+ series Sunny takes a darkly funny look at the potential balance between love and hate for robots in a great example of mature storytelling combined with an original take on a timeless genre.

Adapted from Colin O’Sullivan’s novel The Dark Manual, Sunny is the quintessential Apple TV+ series. Not just because it depicts the sort of future—filled with user-friendly devices housed in white cases with soft, round edges—that could have been designed by Steve Jobs himself, but because like so much of the streamer’s content, Sunny is a handsomely made series featuring A-list talent that amounts to a little less than the sum of its parts.

Created by Katie Robbins, the 10-episode series takes viewers to a near-future version of Kyoto where a grief-stricken woman named Suzie (Rashida Jones) is trying to process the loss of her husband, Masa (Nishijima Hidetoshi), and their son in a mysterious plane crash. A glimmer of hope arrives in the glowing digital display of a three-foot android, Sunny (Joanna Sotomura), that’s gifted to Suzie by the robotics company that her husband used to work for.

Apple TV+ has announced the programming that will be added to the streaming service next month. The Apple TV Plus July 2024 lineup includes the thriller series Sunny, the family series Me, the limited series Lady in the Lake, the docuseries Omnivore, the comedic adventure series Time Bandits, and the crime drama Women in Blue (“Las Azules”).

Apple’s production Fly Me to the Moon, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, will also be released in theaters in July by Sony Pictures and will later be available on Apple TV+.

Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment. It is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens.

Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung,...

Netflix has dropped a trailer for the final season of “Vikings: Valhalla,” which is set to release on July 11. The series is created by Jeb Stuart and is a sequel to Michael Hirst’s “Vikings” from MGM Television.

The official logline reads, “Set in the early 11th century, ‘Vikings: Valhalla’ chronicles the heroic adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived, Leif Eriksson, his sister, Freydis and the Norwegian prince Harald Sigurdsson. Season 3 finds our heroes seven years after the conclusion of Season Two. Freydis is now the undisputed leader of pagan Jomsborg, and Leif and Harald have achieved glory in Constantinople. But greater challenges lie ahead in order for each to reach their ultimate destiny.”

Returning cast members include Sam Corlett, Frida Gustavsson, Leo Suter, Laura Berlin, David Oakes and Bradley Freegard. Executive producers are Stuart, Morgan O’Sullivan, Michael Hirst, Sheila Hockin, Steve Stark, James Flynn,...

Apple TV+ has debuted the trailer for the darkly comedic mystery series ‘Sunny.’ The ten-episode thriller is set to premiere globally with the first two episodes on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through September 4.

The show stars Rashida Jones as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company. Though at first, Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, gradually they develop an unexpected friendship, as together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family, becoming dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed.

Created by Katie Robbins, who also serves as showrunner, and executive producer and director Lucy Tcherniak, “Sunny” stars Emmy Award nominee,...

"What are you hiding from me?" Yep, I'm intrigued. Apple TV has unveiled the official trailer for a new sci-fi mystery series titled Sunny, ready for a streaming debut this summer in July on Apple TV+. Yet another clever sci-fi series from this streamer! Love it. "There's no manual for investigating your missing family. But there is Sunny." Based on Colin O'Sullivan's novel "The Dark Manual", the series follows Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan. It also stars Sunny, a domestic robot made by her husband's company, which is gifted to her after his death. Together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie's husband and son who disappeared in a mysterious plane crash, becoming dangerously enmeshed in a world that she never knew existed. Rashida Jones stars as Suzie, along with Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura as Sunny, Judy Ongg, You as Hime, annie the clumsy as Mixxy,...

Having already brought us the likes of Sugar, The Afterparty, Bad Sisters, and the imminently dropping Presumed Innocent, Apple TV has gained itself quite the reputation for original, compelling mystery series. And if the set-up for Katie Robbins' upcoming ten-episode darkly comic mystery series Sunny is anything to go by, then the streamer's hot streak won't be ending anytime soon. Set in Kyoto, Japan, the show — an A24 production based on Irish author Colin O’Sullivan's The Dark Manual — sees Rashida Jones' Suzie teaming up with the titular domestic droid to investigate her family's inexplicable disappearance. Check out the intriguing new trailer for the series below;

Okay, first thing's first, where do we get a Sunny? Seriously, between this and the new The Wild Robot trailer, it's been a great week to be a bot lover. But also, this just looks great, both in terms of Apple's customarily eye-catching production values,...

Apple TV+ has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming series, “Sunny,” which will star Rashida Jones, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, You, annie the clumsy, and Jun Kunimura.

Based on the book, “Dark Manual” by Colin O’Sullivan, the show is created by Katie Robbins with episodes directed by Lucy Tcherniak and is set to be a ten-episode mystery thriller with a “darkly comedic bent.”

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The show will be co-produced by Apple Studios and A24, which will be the second time the two studios have worked together to bring a project starring Rashida Jones to life, with the first being the Apple Original Film “On the Rocks,” which co-starred Bill Murray and was directed by Sofia Coppola.

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Updated, 3 Pm with trailer: Rashida Jones becomes enmeshed with a robot in an effort to solve the mysterious disappearance of her family in Apple TV+’s Sunny. The streamer has dropped the first trailer for the darkly comedic drama starring and exec produced by Jones. Check out the trailer above and details of the series below,

Previous, April 18: Apple TV+ has slotted a summer premiere date for Sunny, a half-hour darkly comedic drama, starring and executive produced by Rashida Jones. The 10-episode mystery thriller will launch with the first two episodes Wednesday July 10, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through September 4.

Created by Katie Robbins, Sunny is based on the book Dark Manual by Japan-based award-winning Irish writer Colin O’Sullivan. Jones stars as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash.

Rashida Jones needs a friend in her new Apple TV+ series… and she’ll settle for a synthetic one.

The Parks and Recreation veteran plays a lonely woman who befriends a robot in the sci-fi mystery Sunny, which premieres Wednesday, July 10 on the streamer. Apple TV+ has also released a new trailer, which you can watch above.

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Rashida Jones is taking on sentient robots. At least this one is helpful in finding her family…

Jones stars in and executive produces Apple TV+ series “Sunny,” which follows Suzie (Jones), an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash.

Per the official synopsis, as a ‘consolation,’ Suzie is given domestic robot Sunny, who was made by her husband’s electronics company. Though at first, Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, gradually they develop an unexpected friendship. Together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family and become dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed.

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, You, annie the clumsy, and Jun Kunimura also star in the series based on the book “Dark Manual” by Japan-based award-winning Irish writer Colin O’Sullivan.

Sunny is coming to Apple TV+ this summer. The streaming service has announced the premiere date for the series starring and executive produced by Rashida Jones. The series was ordered in February 2022, and 10 episodes have been made for the comedy-thriller.

The Sunny series, based on Colin O'Sullivan's Dark Manual novel, stars Jones, Joanna Sotomura, You, Annie, Judy Ongg, and Jun Kunimura. It tells the story of a woman (Jones) living in Japan who is gifted a robot after her husband and son disappear in a plane crash.

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Today, Apple TV+ announced that Sunny, its 10-episode mystery thriller with a darkly comic bent, is set to premiere globally with the first two episodes on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through September 4.

Created by Katie Robbins, who also serves as showrunner, and executive producer and director Lucy Tcherniak, Sunny stars Emmy Award nominee multi-hyphenate Rashida Jones.

Jones also serves as executive producer, along with stars Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, You, Annie the Clumsy, and Jun Kunimura.

Sunny stars Jones as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation,” she’s given Sunny, which is one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company.

Though Suzie initially resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, they gradually develop an unexpected friendship.

Apple TV+ has debuted a set of first-look images alongside announcing that ‘Sunny,’ its ten-episode mystery thriller with a darkly comic bent, is set to premiere globally with the first two episodes on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through September 4.

The show stars Rashida Jones as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company. Though at first, Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, gradually they develop an unexpected friendship, as together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family, becoming dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed.

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Created by Katie Robbins,...

“Hacks” is back, and Max has revealed the official trailer and key art for the show’s long-awaited Season 3. The new installment of “Hacks,” which Variety chronicled in this recent feature, returns on Thursday, May 2, with two episodes on Max. The nine-episode season will continue with two episodes each week, up until the season finale on May 30.

Here’s this season’s logline: “A year after parting, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) is riding high off the success of her standup special while Ava (Hannah Einbinder) pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles.”

Smart and Einbinder star along with Paul W. Downs, Megan Stalter, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald, Mark Indelicato, Rose Abdoo and Lorenza Izzo. Guest stars this season include J. Smith-Cameron, Helen Hunt, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Bucatinsky, George Wallace, Tony Goldwyn, and Aristotle Athari.

Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky are the show’s exec producers.

Apple TV+‘s upcoming dark comedy Sunny, starring and executive produced by Rashida Jones, has rounded out its cast with five more additions, including Barry star Joanna Sotomura. According to Deadline, Sotomura will be joined by Judy Ongg (Doctor-x), Jun Kunimura (Kill Bill), You (Nobody Knows), and singer-songwriter annie the clumsy (Miss Osaka). The series, written by Katie Robbins (The Affair), is based on the book Dark Manual by Japan-based Irish author Colin O’Sullivan. Sotomura will play the titular Sunny, an emotionally sophisticated domestic robot given to Jones’ Suzie after her husband, Masa (Hidetoshi Nishijima), and their son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. While Suzie initially resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, they gradually develop an unexpected friendship and together uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family. Ongg will play Masa’s mother, Noriko Sakamoto, a wealthy housewife from an old Kyoto family,...

Exclusive: Apple TV+ has rounded out the ensemble cast for Sunny (fka Dark Manual), a half-hour darkly comedic drama, starring and executive produced by Rashida Jones. Joanna Sotomura (Barry) stars in the titular role, along with annie the clumsy (Miss Osaka), You (Nobody Knows), Judy Ongg and Jun Kunimura (Kill Bill) join Jones in the series from Katie Robbins (The Affair, The Last Tycoon) and A24. Lucy Tcherniak (Station Eleven, The End of the F***ing World) is attached to direct.

Written by Robbins, Sunny is based on the book Dark Manual by Japan-based award-winning Irish writer Colin O’Sullivan.

Jones stars as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny (Sotomura), one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s (Hidetoshi Nishijima) electronics company. Though...

The Burned Over District: "After a fatal car accident causes him to lose his wife. Will is left to pick up the pieces in his new small-town home. The grieving man soon becomes overwhelmed by a dark presence that surrounds him, and he soon discovers that the seemingly quiet town he and his wife fell in love with is hiding a very terrifying dark secret. Now he must find a way to overcome his grief and fight back against the darkness that has consumed the town and its people before it consumes his soul.

The Burned-Over District refers to a large area in Western and Central New York. During the 19th century religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements took place during the Second Great Awakening. During this time evangelical religious fervor swept the country, and found its way to the Burned-Over District via the Erie Canal. From...

If you think you know the tale of the Headless Horseman, think again. Because you’ve never seen a Headless Horseman tale quite like the one that Shipwrecked Comedy has created. Headless, premiering today, is the latest series from the production company who, in their words, are “committed to creating dynamic, funny, and intelligent content for the digital spaces and beyond.” Founded in the summer of 2013 by Sean Persaud and his twin sister, Sinead (The Only Podcast Left – Daybreak), the group has produced numerous shows that marry both history and literature in humorous, engaging ways, ranging from a Clue-inspired murder mystery dinner party to a noir film. Its newest offering is a twist on the famous Legend of Sleepy Hollow story that has enthralled and haunted audiences for decades, starring both Persaud siblings as well as Mary Kate Wiles, Joanna Sotomura (Barry), Curt Mega (Glee), Krystina Arielle (Star Wars: ...

Hey, "NCIS: Los Angeles" fans. We hope you guys are having a fantastic weekend. We are indeed back with a brand new spoiler article for you. This one is for the next, new episode 5 that's due out next week. Thanks to the wonderful CBS folks, we were able to get our hands on a couple of teaser descriptions for episode 5 via their new, episode 5 press release. So, we will definitely be referencing it for this spoiler session. To get things started, episode 5 has been given an official title. The producers are calling it, "Provenance." It sounds like episode 5 will feature some action-filled, very scandalous and interesting scenes. In this new episode 5, a very valuable painting is going to get stolen. This particular painting is so friggin valuable that it's worth a whopping $40 million dollars! That's right, guys. This painting is no joke. What's worse is there will be some...

A modern reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," Kevin Sluder's directorial debut, Heartless, explores one woman's violent journey through the bloodthirsty corporate world. With Heartless currently enjoying a well-received run on the festival circuit, we've been provided with a look at the short film's chilling trailer for Daily Dead readers to experience.

You can watch the Heartless trailer below, and we also have insights on the making of the short film from executive producer Jennifer Sluder and writer/director Kevin Sluder.

"Synopsis: Shelby Lattimore (played by Stacy Snyder), is an overlooked executive who struggles to complete a corporate presentation while a horrific secret that gnaws on her conscience.

Coming up in Sept, Heartless will screen the Horrible Imaginings Festival on Sept 2nd, Genre Blast Film Festival Sept 2nd, FilmQuest Festival on Sept 13th and Nola Film Festival Sept. 20th. Heartless will also screen Women...

A handful of YouTube stars, Twitch streamers, and other creative types are involved in a new project on Instagram, but no video is involved. Instead, creators like Meghan Camarena appear in a series of high-quality photos, which together form a superhero whodunit dubbed #SpideyMurderMystery.

As its title suggests, the #SpideyMurderMystery takes place in the Marvel universe, with characters from the Spider-Man canon battling one another. Their struggles are photographed by Michael Becker across daily sets of nine images.

The mystery will unfold during the week of October 26th, with each daily photo set focusing on a specific character. Up first is Gwen Stacy, portrayed by Camarena; she’ll be followed by Yu Komori (stuntman Yoshua Sudarso), Silk (Joanna Sotomura), Mary Jane (Ashlyn Pearce), and Peter Parker (Twitch streamer Wesley Johnson). While the same set of nine captions remains the same across all characters, the changing nature of the images themselves...

The biggest headline from StyleHaul’s presentation at the 2015 Newfronts concerned its partnership with Amazon, where several of its fashion, beauty, and style experts are offering product recommendations. At the same time, the network aimed at young women also discussed several other projects, including Vanity, the first series to be produced by Bernie Su and David Tochterman’s new digital studio, Canvas.

Su announced Vanity at Stylehaul’s presentation, just one day after he first lifted the curtain on Canvas. He described the series to Tubefilter as “a revenge drama set in the world of beauty and fashion. It centers around orphan Lily (Alex Frnka) as she tries to discover her identity while injecting herself into the world of designer Marion Bellerose (Denise Richards) and her fashion influencer and muse Vanessa Ivy (Karrueche Tran).” The supporting cast include a few other notables, including StyleHaul partner Allie Marie Evans and Joanna Sotomura,...

Recently, ABC released the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Revenge" episode 16 of season 4. The episode is entitled, "Retaliation," and it turns out that we're going to see some very intense and dramatic drama go down as Margaux tries to destroy anyone who gets in her way, Victoria and Emily get served shocking firework action, and more! In the new, 16th episode press release: The fourth of July is going to lead to unplanned fireworks for both Emily and Victoria. Press release number 2: Determined to flaunt her new fortune in Victoria's face, Natalie will throw a giant Fourth of July bash and invite David to be her date. In the meantime, Margaux will step up her plans to take down anyone who stands in her way. Guest stars feature: Sebastian Pigott as Lyman Ellis, Gina Torres as Natalie Waters, Ed Quinn as James Allen, Sarah Lancaster as April,...

1. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. A runaway success that sparked a veritable wave of web adaptations of romantic novels and stories, this Emmy-winning series is inventive, romantic, and beautifully executed. Ashley Clements and Daniel Vincent Gordh (particularly the former) handled their iconic Lizzie/Darcy roles with aplomb, and the series pulled a particular coup by casting Mary Kate Wiles as Lydia and reshaping her story as that of a party girl who gets hurt and slowly grows up over the course of the series. The interactions between sisters Lizzie, Lydia, and Jane (Laura Spencer), are warm and real and the highlight of the series along with the slowly-built-up Darcy/Lizzie romance.

The main flaw in the series is that it’s too long – the first 50 episodes chronicle every event that happens in the book, and while book purists might call this praiseworthy, this is a web-series not a BBC adaptation, and...