The third spin-off of the cult series "The Big Bang Theory" is launching in the coming weeks - alongside the reboot of an absolute series classic. But first, the younger Elle Woods embarks on new adventures and complications.
"Elle": Starting July 1 on Prime Video
The two "Legally Blonde" films from the early 2000s were major box office successes. The new prequel series "Elle", produced by "Legally Blonde" star Reese Witherspoon (50), now tells the backstory of the cult character.
Elle, now played by newcomer Lexi Minetree (25), moves from Los Angeles to Seattle as a teenager. There she encounters the grunge culture - a world that could hardly be further removed from her colorful outfits and optimistic outlook on life. The trailer for the Amazon series gives a first taste of this.
Producer Reese Witherspoon came up with the idea for "Elle" according to her own statement while watching the series "Wednesday". All eight episodes will be released at once on Prime Video. A second season has already been confirmed.
"Little House on the Prairie": Starting July 9 on Netflix
Netflix is releasing a reboot of the series classic "Little House on the Prairie", which originally aired in the U.S. from 1974 to 1983. The streaming service is once again adapting the book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957).
In the new series, the Ingalls family moves to the American West to make a fresh start in the town of Independence. There, father Charles (Luke Bracey, 37), mother Caroline (Crosby Fitzgerald), daughter Mary (Skywalker Hughes), and the self-confident Laura Ingalls, played by Alice Halsey, face a hard life far from established civilization.
In the reboot, Native Americans take on a greater significance than in the previous series. Cultural advisors are intended to help portray the Osage tribe appropriately. Netflix announces that it wants to illuminate "both sides" of the story. The new series is intended to be "part optimistic family drama, part dramatic survival story, and part insight into the origins of the American West". A second season has already been confirmed.
"Stuart Fails to Save the Universe": Starting July 24 on HBO Max
With "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe", the third spin-off of the cult series "The Big Bang Theory" is launching - after "Young Sheldon" and its spin-off/continuation "Georgie & Mandy".
In the adventure-sci-fi-comedy series "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe", supporting characters from "The Big Bang Theory" take center stage this time: comic book store owner Stuart (Kevin Sussman, 55), his girlfriend Denise (Lauren Lapkus, 40), quantum physicist and nuisance Barry Kripke (John Ross Bowie, 55), and Stuart's geologist friend Bert (Brian Posehn, 59). They must accomplish nothing less than restoring reality after a device developed by Sheldon and Leonard is destroyed, inadvertently triggering a multiverse Armageddon, according to the official description of the series.
The ten episodes of the premiere season of "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe" will be released weekly on HBO Max.
