{"id":596457,"date":"2026-08-17T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596457\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:24:08","slug":"daring-fireball-apple-tv-still-has-no-start-date-for-the-savant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596457\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring Fireball: Apple TV Still Has No Start Date for &#8216;The Savant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/show\/the-savant\/umc.cmc.aar44keiny3h54xvaakg260q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Savant<\/a> is a political thriller series starring Jessica Chastain <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/search\/chastain+savant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that was supposed to debut a year ago<\/a>. Apple \u201cpostponed\u201d it, apparently out of fear of upsetting extremist right-wing nut jobs because the show is about an undercover investigator (Chastain) hunting down extremist right-wing nut jobs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DO_V2EyEZmj\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chastain was not happy<\/a> about the show being delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Last we heard about the show was back in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/columns\/jessica-chastain-apple-tv-finally-release-the-savant-after-postponement-charlie-kirk-assassination-1236725384\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when Marc Malkin reported this for Variety<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore it was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re going to see it,\u2019 but<br \/>\nnow I can say, \u2018We\u2019re going to see it,\u2019\u201d Chastain told me<br \/>\nexclusively on Saturday at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony in<br \/>\nSanta Monica.<\/p>\n<p>As for when, sources tell me that Apple is planning for a July<br \/>\nrelease.<\/p>\n<p>Given that it\u2019s now the middle of August, I think that a July release is looking less and less likely by the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallprint\">\u2605 Monday, 17 August 2026<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Savant is a political thriller series starring Jessica Chastain that was supposed to debut a year ago.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-596457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}