Charles Pulliam-Moore

It’s still a little too early to tell whether the season as a whole is going keep performing as well as its debut episode. But according to Nielsen, HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us did very, very well this past weekend as pulled in 4.7 million viewers, and became the network’s second-largest series premiere of the past 13 years after House of The Dragon.

Hot off its wins at this year’s Golden Globes Awards, Quinta Brunson’s Abbott Elementary has been picked up for a third season at ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Bela Bejaria, Netflix’s vice president overseeing international original series, comes across as the consummate entertainment executive with a talent for cultivating hits in a sprawling new profile from The New Yorker.