With content pipelines under scrutiny amid ongoing labor conflicts between Hollywood studios and streamers, Amazon unveiled plans to split the second season of the animated series Invincible Invincible
into two chapters.
Revealed during a panel on the show at San Diego Comic-Con, Amazon said the series, based on creator Robert Kirkman’s comic book of the same name, will return on Nov. 3 for the first of four episodes in an eight-episode sophomore series. New episodes will be streaming weekly, and the second half of the superhero title will have a date set early in the year 2023.
Amazon declined to comment on the decision, which comes as Hollywood is paralyzed by a historic double strike between the Writers Guild of America and the screen actors union SAG-AFTRA over issues such as the use of artificial intelligence and streaming fragments. With few to no scripted episodes currently in production, both networks and streamers will have to extend previously completed shows, as it’s unclear when the guild and the Alliance of Film and Television Producers (representing studios and streamers) will return to the negotiating table.
Invincible
was last broadcast earlier 21. The adult-themed animated series, voiced by Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, Zazie Betz and Seth Rogen, rolled out its first three episodes before switching the first episodes of its remaining five seasons to a weekly run.
At SDCC, Kirkman also announced that EVE TO Atom,
an original series featuring the character, will premiere in July 21 and be screened at the same day event.
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