{"id":585255,"date":"2026-08-15T06:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585255\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T06:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:26:11","slug":"tv-news-dragon-rivalry-retrievals-chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585255\/","title":{"rendered":"TV News: Dragon, Rivalry, Retrievals, Chad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tv-news-dragon-rivalry-retrievals-chad.jpg\" data-caption=\"HBO\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tv-news-dragon-rivalry-retrievals-chad.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"tv-news-dragon-rivalry-retrievals-chad\"\/><\/a>HBO<\/p>\n<p>House of the Dragon<br \/>HBO\u2019s \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d spin-off \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d is reportedly averaging approximately 34 million viewers per episode across HBO and Max platforms, just slightly lower than the 35 million viewers per episode the second season brought in.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s still one of the biggest in the network\u2019s history and not far off the 37 million viewers per episode average the second season of \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d did for the network.  A fourth and final season of \u2018Dragon\u2019 is currently in the works. [Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/house-of-the-dragon-season-3-finale-ratings-1236834172\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Heated Rivalry<br \/>Edvin Ryding, Emily Hampshire, Robert Naylor, Sabrina Jalees, and Priyanka are all set to join the cast of the second season of HBO Max and Crave\u2019s gay hockey drama \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The group join original leads Conner Storrie and Hudson Williams and the two new co-leads, Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie.  The new season is slated to premier April 2027. [Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/heated-rivalry-season-2-cast-emily-hampshire-wyatt-hayes-1237032842\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The Retrievals<br \/>Emilia Jones (\u201cThe Running Man,\u201d \u201cTask,\u201d \u201cTony\u201d) has been cast in a lead role in the upcoming Netflix limited series \u201cThe Retrievals\u201d based on the New York Times and Serial Productions podcast.  Molly Smith Metzler serves as writer, executive producer and showrunner.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows an unlikely community of IVF patients who come together to crusade against Yale University after they are operated on without anesthesia \u2013 because a nurse stole their fentanyl.  Jones plays New Haven bartender Gabby Clemente whose life is upended by her traumatic egg retrieval surgery. [Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/emilia-jones-netflix-the-retrievals-podcast-1236833917\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Chad Powers<br \/>Hulu has premiered the trailer for the second season of its Glen Powell-led comedy \u201cChad Powers\u201d which returns on September 3rd.  In the second season, the lies of Russ Holiday\u2019s fabricated Chad Powers character are catching up to him and doubt is beginning to creep into everyone else\u2019s minds.  The only hope for Chad to lead the Catfish into the College Football Playoffs depends on Coach Ricky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO House of the DragonHBO\u2019s \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d spin-off \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d is reportedly averaging approximately 34&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[63746,146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-585255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}