TV Q&A: Is it bon voyage for ‘Emily in Paris?’

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: I am wild about “Emily in Paris,” the series on Netflix. Will there be any more seasons? It left us hanging. It’s ripe for more seasons. Help!!!

A: Not long after its second season arrived in December 2021, Netflix announced that the Lucy Collins series would be back for both a third and a fourth season. The third season appeared in December 2022. That might make you think the fourth season is around the corner, only the show stalled because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes. With the strikes now settled, Variety reported in November that “Emily” production will begin in January. But Variety also says the show and others are going to have to move swiftly because of the Olympics coming to Paris this summer, which will include bans on productions shooting in the city from June to September.

Q: In the “In Plain Sight,” episode when the lead female character is shot and critically wounded, the last scene shows her lying in a hospital bed. Who is the group singing the background song? It is not familiar to me, but the song is very haunting and beautiful.

A: That’s part of “The Lightning Strike” by Snow Patrol, a 16-minute epic on its 2008 album “A Hundred Million Suns,” and later in an edited form on the band’s greatest-hits collection. It was used in the “In Plain Sight” Season 2 finale, “Don’t Cry for Me, Albuquerque,” in 2009. The series, which originally aired in 2008-2012, starred Mary McCormack as a federal marshal working in witness protection.

Q: Did the Jay Leno version of “You Bet Your Life” get canceled, or was it just postponed due to the Hollywood strikes? I know that before the strikes it was originally renewed for a third season.

A: The TVNewsCheck website reported in August that the daytime game show is done. As a longtime member of the Writers Guild, Leno put his show on hold in solidarity with striking writers. Apparently unwilling to wait for it to resume, the distributor, Fox, canceled the show.

Q: After watching an episode from this season’s “Bob Hearts Abishola” on CBS, I wanted to watch the entire series from the beginning. My cable provider only offers prior seasons as purchases, so I thought I could watch them on Paramount+. Curiously, all previous seasons of current sitcoms like “The Neighborhood” and “Ghosts” are offered, but not “Bob Hearts” or even “Young Sheldon.” Why are some current shows completely available and some aren’t?

A: While it’s easy to think of Paramount+ as corporate sibling CBS’s streaming home, or Peacock as NBC’s, a show’s broadcast home does not always determine its streamer.

Sometimes the location depends on who made the show — and whether that company has its own streaming companion to promote. “Bob Hearts Abishola” and “Young Sheldon” come from the Warner Bros. studio, part of Warner Bros. Discovery. Another part of that company is Max (formerly HBO Max), and that is where the two shows you sought are streaming.

Tribune News Service

 

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