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Still thriving: ‘Drive to Survive’ rolls in for Season 5
WHAT’S NEW ON NETFLIX “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” - Season 5
Gear up and take your places for the Season 5 premiere of the smash-hit Netflix docuseries “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” when it launches on the streamer Friday, Feb. 24. Offering unprecedented access to the talented drivers and the hardworking teams that bring the races to life, “Drive to Survive” follows them through their racing season as they compete for the 2022 FIA Formula 1 world championship. With all-new rules that prove to be a gamechanging challenge for both teams and drivers, this season will prove to be anything but predictable. Featuring never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews, the series features Formula 1’s 2022 lineup of 22 athletes from around the world, including Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez for Red Bull Racing; Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz for Ferrari; George Russell and Lewis Hamilton for Mercedes; Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo for McLaren Mercedes; Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso for Alpine Renault; Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu for Alfa Romeo Ferrari; Sebastian Vettel, Lance Stroll and Nico Hulkenberg for Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes; Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher for Haas Ferrari; Pierre Gasley and Yuki Tsunoda for Alphatori; and Alexander Albon, Nicholas Latifi and Nyck De Vries for Williams Mercedes. The series is executive produced by James Gay-Rees (“Amy,” 2015) and Paul Martin (“Break Point”) for Box to Box Films.
WHAT’S NEW ON PRIME “The Consultant” - Season 1
This Friday, Feb. 24, Prime premieres its twisted new series, “The Consultant,” a darkly comedic workplace thriller based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Bentley Little. The series stars Christoph Waltz (“Django Unchained,” 2012) as Regus Patoff, a new consultant who is hired to improve the business at a mobile gaming company in Los Angeles. Exploring the sinister relationship between boss and employee, the series follows along as the employees on CompWare experience a new host of demands and challenges that put everything — including their lives — into question. Created and executive produced by showrunner Tony Basgallop (“Servant”), “The Consultant” is directed by Matt Shakman (“WandaVision”), Daniel Attias (“Homeland”), Charlotte Brändström (“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”), Alexis Ostrander (“Supergirl”), Karyn Kusama (“In Treatment”). Nat Wolff (“The Stand”), Brittany O’Grady (“Star”), Aimee Carrero (“The Menu,” 2022), Sydney Mae Diaz (“Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” 2021), Sloane Avery (“Purity Falls,” 2019), Michael Charles Vaccaro (“For All Mankind”) and Erin Ruth Walker (“Leverage: Redemption”).
WHAT’S NEW ON HULU “Snowfall” - Season 6
The sixth and final season of the FX crime drama “Snowfall” premieres Thursday, Feb. 23, on Hulu. Over the course of the series’ previous five seasons, “Snowfall” has chronicled the story of how an off-the-books CIA operation contributed to the destruction that rock cocaine leveled upon the vibrant community of South Central L.A. in the 1980s. Now, Season 6 catches back up with the cast in October 1986, as civil war threatens to destroy the Saint family. A desperate Franklin (Damson Idris, “Megan Leavey,” 2017) is forced to rob his Aunt Louie (Angela Lewis, “Top Five,” 2014) and Uncle Jerome (Amin Joseph, “To Live and Die and Live,” 2023) after being wiped out by former CIA officer Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson, “The Wilds”). Meanwhile, Louie has taken over Franklin’s role as Teddy’s sole buyer, undercutting her nephew and creating a competing empire in the process. As Franklin faces losing everyone he loves and everything he’s built for himself, he faces down the KGB, DEA, CIA and the corrupt, fully militarized LAPD C.R.A.S.H. units. Created for television by Eric Amadio (“Stuntmen,” 2009), John Singleton (“Boyz n the Hood,” 1991) and Dave Andron (“Justified”), “Snowfall” also stars Isaiah John (“All Day and a Night,” 2020), Sergio Peris-Mencheta (“Rambo: Last Blood,” 2019), Michael Hyatt (“True Detective”), Gail Bean (“P-Valley”), DeRay Davis (“21 Jump Street,” 2012), Evan Allen-Gessesse (“Raise Your Hand,” 2021), De’aundre Bonds (“Dope,” 2015), Christine Horn (“BMF”) and Taylor Polidore (“All American: Homecoming”).
WHAT’S NEW ON APPLE TV+ “Liason” - Season 1
Explore the endless possibilities of space and time with the new, contemporary thriller series “Liason,” when it premieres its first episode on Apple TV+ Friday, Feb. 24. Episodes air weekly on Fridays thereafter. Across the series’ six-episode premiere season, the story explores how the mistakes of our past have the potential to destroy our future. In a high-stakes, multilayered plot, “Liason” sees “espionage and political intrigue play out against a story of passionate and enduring love” (per Apple TV+). The first French and Englishlanguage Apple Original series, “Liason” comes from creator Virginie Brac (“Cheyenne & Lola”), with direction by Stephen Hopkins (“The Fugitive”). Vincent Cassel (“Black Swan,” 2010), Eva Green (“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” 2016), Peter Mullan (“Ozark”), Gérard Lanvin (“Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1,” 2008), Daniel Francis (“Stay Close”), Stanislas Merhar (“The Count of Monte Cristo”), Laetitia Eido (Fauda”), Eriq Ebouaney (“Rogue City,” 2020), Bukky Bakray (“Rocks,” 2019) and Thierry Frémont (“Das Boot”).
WHAT’S NEW ON DISNEY+ “The Low Tone Club” - Season 1
Pick up the tune and join in with the first season of the Colombian youth comedy-drama series “The Low Tone Club,” premiering Wednesday, Feb. 22, on Disney+. Amaranto Molina (played by Colombian singer-songwriter Carlos Vives, “Robarte Un Beso”) is an unconventional music teacher who takes up a job at a school that specializes in musical education. But much to Molina’s dismay, the school’s only priority is commercial success, rather than true musical education, passion or talent. Each year, the school’s principal, Eduardo Kramer (Julián Arango, “Metástasis”), chooses five students, nicknamed The High Tones, to be part of the school’s prestigious Teen Band. Molina, on the other hand, is put in charge of The Low Tones, a group of students whose talents do not meet the school’s standards. Using his own unique methods, Molina takes an eccentric approach to bring out the best of each student’s unique talents, allowing them to heal and bring out the best in themselves. Alongside Vives, the cast of “The Low Tone Club” is made up of a cast of talented young artists, including Catalina Polo (“Primate”), Kevin Bury (“The Queen of Flow”), Salomé Camargo Fadul (“Diomedes, el Cacique de La Junta”), Luis Fernando Salas (“Luna, la heredera”), Juan Manuel Lenis (“El Barón”), Juanse Díez (“Decisions: Some Win and Others Lose”), Tim Janssen (“El Barón”) and new talents Pitizion, Elena Vives, Maria Fernanda Marin, Brainer Gamboa, Juan Diego Panadero, Manuela Duque, Melanie Dell’Olmo, Gregorio Umana, Zoila Mariano, Sharik Abusaid, Giseth Mariano, Deisy Mariano and Juan Camilo Gonzalez.