Netflix set premiere dates for nine new or returning series and announced three renewals Wednesday at the Television Critics Association in Beverly Hills.
The streaming service set Nov. 25, Thanksgiving weekend, for the release of The Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, a return to the former WB and CW series that will consist of four 90-minute episodes, each set in a different season of a single year.
Renewed for second seasons due in 2017 are comedies Lady Dynamite, starring Maria Bamford; Real Rob, with Rob Schneider; and Chelsea, a three-times-a-week talk show that has been extended for 90 more episodes. And Netflix Wednesday also announced Ozark, a new drama series starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as a fianncial planner and his wife who move abruptly from Chicago to a Missouri summer resort, where the series "explores capitalism, family dynamics, and survival through the eyes of (anything but) ordinary Americans."
Among other new premiere dates:
- Chef's Table: France, the third installment in a cooking series (Sept. 2)
- Easy, an anthology series about a group of Chicagoans navigating "love, sex, technology and culture," including appearances by Orlando Bloom, Malin Akerman, Jake Johnson, Marc Maron, Dave Franco and Hannibal Buress (Sept. 22)
- The Ranch, a second season of the sitcom starring Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Sam Elliott and Debra Winger as a family of Colorado ranchers (Oct. 7).
- Black Mirror, a second six-episode season of the cult British anthology series featuring appearances by Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Bryce Dallas Howard (Oct. 21).
- Lovesick, a second, eight-episode season of a comedy previously known as Scrotal Recall. (Nov. 10)
- Beat Bugs, a kids series about five best friends, with each episode themed around a Beatles song. (Nov. 18). (Creator Chris Wakely also is working on a new Netflix kids series set to Motown music, in collaboration with Smokey Robinson).
- Captive, a docuseries that looks at hostage negotiations from multiple viewpoints. (Dec. 9)
- One Day at a Time, Norman Lear's remake of his 1975-1984 sitcom about a single mother, this time featuring a Cuban-American family, and starring Justina Machado and Rita Moreno. (Jan. 6).
