Earlier this year, NBC debuted Suits: L.A., a revival of the hit USA Network series Suits that became an even bigger blockbuster on Netflix. Now, NBC is looking to revive another USA series, Royal Pains, with the show’s original star Mark Feuerstein slated to return.
Royal Pains debuted on USA in 2009 and featured Feuerstein as Henry “Hank” Lawson, a former ER doctor in New York who unjustly lost his job. After moving to the Hamptons with his brother, Hank was recruited to run his own concierge medical practice for the rich and powerful. However, he also established a free clinic for people who couldn’t afford the health care that they needed. The show ran for eight seasons before concluding in 2016.
According to Deadline, Feuerstein has signed on to star in and executive produce the new series, which will be set several years after the previous show’s conclusion. Hank is reportedly “searching for a new purpose in life” and “about to embark on his biggest project yet.” The original show also featured Paulo Costanzo, Reshma Shetty, Jill Flint, Campbell Scott, and Brooke D’Orsay among others. However, Feuerstein is the only cast member currently confirmed to return.
Royal Pains co-creator Andrew Lenchewski and writer/director Michael Rauch will reunite on the new series as writers and executive producers. The original show was a modest hit for USA, but the series didn’t come anywhere close to the streaming success of Suits. In fact, Royal Pains is currently unavailable to stream, but that will probably change if the new show goes forward.
NBC has yet to commit to a second season of Suits: L.A., although some of the first show’s stars have returned. Another USA show, White Collar, is reportedly in development for a reboot series of its own with most of the major cast members returned. That revival doesn’t currently have a network or a streamer attached to it.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.