Often streaming series are in the can for months before they show up on a streaming service — “American Rust,” which premiered on Amazon’s Prime Video earlier today, was locked in August 2023 — but post-strikes Paramount+ is really pushing the third season of filmed-in-Pittsburgh “Mayor of Kingstown,” announcing a June 2 premiere date even though filming won’t wrap until sometime in May.
A teaser trailer opens with a funeral scene — presumably for Dianne Wiest’s character; she’s not returning for season three — and then segues to all manner of violent mayhem as is this show’s wont.
The logline for season three reveals “a series of explosions rock Kingstown and its citizens, as a new face of the Russian mob sets up shop in the city, and a drug war rages inside and outside prison walls. The pressure is on Mike McLusky (Jeremy Renner) to end the war but things get complicated when a familiar face from his incarcerated past threatens to undermine the ‘Mayor’s’ attempts to keep the peace among all factions.”
The show’s third season will star Renner, Hugh Dillon, Taylor Handley, Emma Laird, Tobi Bamtefa, Derek Webster, Nishi Munshi, Hamish Allan-Headley and Michael Beach.
Season three marks Renner’s first series acting role since he was grievously wounded in a January 2023 snowplow accident.
Channel surfing
Starz renewed “Power Book III: Raising Kanan” for a fifth season while the show is in the midst of filming its fourth season. … Investigation Discovery will air a fifth episode of “Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” at 8 p.m. April 7 featuring new interviews with former child stars including Drake Bell. … WTAE will air Hearst’s new culled-from-the-archives wildlife series, “Jack Hanna’s Passport” hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro, at 12:30 p.m. Saturdays beginning April 6.
