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T8 WHATS UP! April 3 - 9, 2022 BY RAYE SMITH TV Media WHAT'S NEW ON HULU "Woke" - Season 2 Stay in the know with the Season 2 release of "Woke," available on Hulu on Friday, April 8. Co-cre- ated by American cartoonist Keith Knight ("The Nib") and inspired by his works, the series follows Black cartoonist Keef (Lamorne Morris, "New Girl") as he hovers on the brink of commercial success. Having al- ways prided himself on keeping things light and avoiding con- frontational situations and opin- ions, Keef's life changes in an in- stant when he is the victim of ra- cial profiling at the hand of an overly aggressive police officer (Link Baker, "Riverdale"). Trau- matized by the incident, Keef can suddenly see and hear inani- mate objects interacting with him, often confronting and chal- lenging his lax opinions. With a new outlook on the world, Keef copes with the new voices in his ear as he becomes more attuned to the racism and everyday mi- cro-aggressions around him that he'd worked so hard to ignore. The end of the first season found Keef able to turn his pain into art, but his life takes another complicated turn when the offi- cer who started it all sues Keef for portraying him negatively in his work. Now subject to an an- gry police department and half- hearted apology, Season 2 is set to take more steps forward to healing and fighting for justice. Written by co-creators Knight and Marshall Todd ("Barber- shop," 2002), the series is direct- ed by Maurice Marable ("Brock- mire") and Chioke Nassor ("How to Follow Strangers," 2013). Blake Anderson ("Worka- holics"), T. Murph ("One Night Stand Up," 2016), Sasheer Zama- ta ("Home Economics"), Rose McIver ("The Lovely Bones," 2009), J.B. Smoove ("Spider- Man: Far From Home," 2019) and Marquita Goings ("American Soul") also star in the series. WHAT'S NEW ON PARAMOUNT+ "iCarly" - Season 2 Jump right back into the fun with Season 2 of the "iCarly" re- boot, premiering Friday, April 8, on Paramount+ with a special two-episode debut. New epi- sodes will stream weekly on Fri- days thereafter. Back nine years after the events of the original "iCarly," the reboot's first season saw Carly (Miranda Cosgrove, "Drake & Josh") move back to Seattle. For those who may have missed it, Carly's eccentric older brother, Spencer (Jerry Trainor, "Evolution," 2001), stumbled into life as a wealthy artist thanks to a sculpture that took the world by storm; Carly is liv- ing in an apartment with her friend Harper (Laci Mosley, "The Wedding Year," 2019), and Freddie (Nathan Kress, "Into the Storm," 2014) is back living with his mother after two divorces and a failed tech startup. Re- starting her once-popular web show, Carly gets help from Spen- cer, Freddie and her new friends. Heading into Season 2, Carly fo- cuses all her attention on friends and family — she's learning from Season 1's romantic com- plications — and she's working to boost the popularity of her channel with her friends and brother by her side. From origi- nal "iCarly" creator Dan Schnei- der, this series reboot is written by Danny Fernandez ("Love, Victor"), Nasser Samara ("The Candle," 2017) and new talents Kate Stayman-London and Jor- dan Mitchell. Jaidyn Triplett ("The Affair"), Mary Scheer ("The Penguins of Madagas- car") and Mia Serafino ("Crowd- ed") also star in the new season. WHAT'S NEW ON NETFLIX "Tiger & Bunny" The hit Tiger & Bunny anime franchise continues with its most recent, self-titled install- ment, "Tiger & Bunny," premier- ing its second season on Netflix on Friday, April 8. Following the events of "Tiger & Bunny: The Rising" (2014), this series fol- lows the heroes on their jour- neys in Sternbild City. A fiction- al re-imagining of New York City, Sternbild city sees ordinary people living alongside those with superhuman abilities, called NEXT (Noted Entities with eXtraordinary Talents). While using their abilities to maintain peace in the city, their super-suits are plastered with sponsorship logos and their ex- ploits are covered on a reality show in which the heroes fight for the annual title of "King of the Heroes." Two of these he- roes — Kotetsu T. Kaburagi, aka Wild Tiger (Hiroaki Hirata, "One Piece"), and Barnaby Brooks Jr., aka Bunny (Masakazu Morita, "Bleach") — are now veteran heroes in the city. But with the popularity of Stern- bild's reality show spreading around the world and more he- roes appearing in town, Tiger and Bunny have to work harder than ever to live up to their ex- pectations. Directed by Mitsuko Kase ("Glass Maiden") and writ- ten by Masafumi Nishida ("The Stand-In Theif," 2017), the series also voice stars Minako Kotobu- ki ("Doubutsu Sentai Zyuoh- ger"), Go Inoue ("Kuroko's Bas- ketball"), Kenjiro Tsuda ("Attack on Titan"), Taiten Kusunoki ("Black Lagoon"), Nobuhiko Okamoto ("My Hero Aca- demia") and Mariya Ise ("Hunt- er x Hunter") as the voice of Dragon Kid. WHAT'S NEW ON HBO MAX "Tokyo Vice" - Season 1 Get swept up in a new adventure with the HBO Max original crime thriller "Tokyo Vice," pre- miering on the streaming plat- form on Thursday, April 7. Based on the 2009 memoir of the same name by American journalist Jake Adelstein, the series re- counts the story of Adelstein's (portrayed by Ansel Elgort, "West Side Story," 2021) life as the first American journalist working for a major Japanese newspaper in the early 1990s. Taken under the wing of an old- er detective (Ken Watanabe, "In- ception," 2010) in the depart- ment's vice squad, young Adel- stein starts to explore Japan's underworld and the dark and dangerous activities of the Yaku- za. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton ("Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," 2021), Hikari ("27 Seconds," 2019) and Michael Mann ("The Insider," 1999), the 10-episode season is adapted by J.T. Rogers ("Oslo," 2021) and written by Naomi Iizuka ("The Terror"). Rachel Keller ("Fargo"), Ella Rumpf ("Raw," 2016), Shun Sugata ("Kill Bill: Vol. 1," 2003), Sho Kasamat- su ("Love You as the World Ends"), Masato Hagiwara ("We Couldn't Become Adults," 2021), Kosuke Toyohara ("Prescription Police"), Ayumi Tanida ("Down- town Rocket"), Noémie Nakai ("Army of Thieves," 2021), To- mohisa Yamashita ("Code Blue") and Koshi Uehara ("The Tunnel," 2021) also star in the se- ries. Blake Anderson, T. Murph and Lamorne Morris as seen in "Woke" 'Woke' up: Hulu comedy premieres second season STREAMING Dragon Kid from "Tiger & Bunny" Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe as seen in "Tokyo Vice"