{"id":544527,"date":"2026-07-26T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/544527\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:13:10","slug":"hudson-williams-goes-missing-in-the-yaga-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/544527\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Williams goes missing in the Yaga trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMC\u2019s updates out of SDCC 2026 show that the network is sticking with otherworldly beings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/amc-renews-interview-with-the-vampire-for-season-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having just renewed\u00a0Interview With The Vampire\u00a0for a fourth season<\/a>, which will center on the mighty Akasha (the equally mighty Sheila Atim). Today, AMC shared the first global look at\u00a0Yaga, a new mystery thriller starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/heated-rivalry-queer-sex-tv-raises-bar-hbo-max\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heated Rivalry<\/a>\u2018s Hudson Williams that reimagines the myth of Baba Yaga (who, we are obligated to note, is usually depicted as a woman in stories, though the \u00a0John Wick franchise decided to put a different spin on things).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The series comes from showrunner and writer Kat Sandler, who has adapted her own hit play. Yaga\u00a0follows a private investigator, Rapp (The Vampire Lestat and Schitt\u2019s Creek\u2018s Noah Reid), who shakes up a small coastal town when looking into the disappearance of local scion Henry Park (Williams, who, funnily enough, does look like Keanu Reeves a.k.a John Wick). Rapp butts heads with the local detective ends up partnered with (Venom: The Last Dance\u2018s Clark Backo) and has sexy run-ins (we assume) with a hot professor with a penchant for younger men played by Carrie-Anne Moss (these Reeves\/Wick connections keep writing themselves). That\u2019s to say nothing of the \u201clabyrinth of enigmatic suspects, secret lives, and ancient magic\u201d Rapp is drawn into by the mythical Baba Yaga.<\/p>\n<p>Like Heated Rivalry, Yaga is a Crave Original; it was acquired by AMC Global Media for distribution in the U.S. The show\u2019s\u00a0cast also includes Sheila McCarthy,\u00a0Megan Follows,\u00a0Ezra Franky,\u00a0Patrick Gilmore,\u00a0Katharine Isabelle, Hiro Kanagawa, Emilija Baranac, Georgia Acken\u00a0Anisa Harris, and\u00a0Sam Krochmal. The eight-episode half-hour drama premieres this October.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMC\u2019s updates out of SDCC 2026 show that the network is sticking with otherworldly beings, having just renewed\u00a0Interview&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-544527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}