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T8 WHATS UP! July 10 - 16, 2022 BY RAYE SMITH TV Media WHAT'S NEW ON HULU "What We Do in the Shadows" - Season 4 Sink your teeth into a brand-new season of "What We Do in the Shadows," premiering its first two episodes on Hulu Wednes- day, July 13, with episodes airing weekly thereafter. Based on the 2014 comedy-horror mocku- mentary film of the same name from the dynamic and multi-tal- ented producing/writing/di- recting/acting team of Jemaine Clement ("Flight of the Con- cords") and Taika Waititi ("JoJo Rabbit," 2019), "What We Do in the Shadows" gives viewers a look into the nightly lives of a group of vampires who've lived together for over 100 years and currently haunt the citizens of Staten Island, New York. Filmed in the mockumentary style, the series follows vamps Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak, "Cruella," 2021), Laszlo (Matt Berry, "Toast of London") and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou, "Stath Lets Flats"), Nandor's hu- man familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén, "Reacher") and their energy vampire roommate, the always full-named Colin Robin- son (Mark Proksch, "The Of- fice"). Now heading into its fourth season, the series picks up with Colin Robinson as a baby, forced to grow up again. While the group is back on Stat- en Island after their worldly ad- ventures, Guillermo is faced with some tough decisions about his family traditions and his duty to his vampire masters. Created and written for televi- sion by Clement, with staff writ- ers Jake Bender ("Bless the Harts"), Zach Dunn ("Mr. Stu- dent Body President"), Shana Gohd ("Archer"), William Meny ("Our Flag Means Death") and Sarah Naftalis ("Silicon Valley"), the new season is directed by Yana Gorskaya ("Trial & Error"). WHAT'S NEW ON NETFLIX "Resident Evil" - Season 1 The iconic Japanese video game and film franchise rises once more in the new Netflix live-ac- tion series "Resident Evil," pre- miering on the streamer Thurs- day, July 14. In the newest install- ment of the survival horror fran- chise, the series is set in a post- apocalyptic world 14 years after a deadly virus ravaged the plan- et, following Jade Wesker (Ella Balinska, "Charlie's Angels," 2019) as she fights for survival in a world overrun by infected, mind-shattering creatures. Haunted by her past in New Raccoon City, her father, Albert Wesker (Lance Reddick, "John Wick," 2014), and the memory of what happened to her sister (Si- ena Agudong, "Upside-Down Magic," 2020), Jade vows to bring down those responsible, even if it means facing down the powerful and nefarious Umbrel- la Corporation. Directed by Ra- chel Goldberg ("Mayans M.C."), Rob Seidenglanz ("Chilling Ad- ventures of Sabrina"), Batan Sil- va ("Diablo Guardián") and Bronwen Hughes ("The Journey Is the Destination," 2016), the se- ries is written by "Ingobern- able's" Garett Pereda and Shane Tortolani, Mary Leah Sutton ("The Following"), Lindsey Vil- larreal ("Vida"), Kerry William- son ("Alex Cross," 2012), An- drew Dabb ("Supernatural") and Tara Knight ("Enigma," 2011). "Resident Evil" also stars Tur- lough Convery ("Sanditon"), Connor Gosatti ("3rd Night," 2017), Tetiana Gaidar ("Bosch: Legacy"), Lea Viver ("Dam"), Bjorn Steinbach ("Inside Man: Most Wanted," 2019) and Mpho Osei Tutu ("Black Sails"). "Persuasion" (2022) Get a second chance at love with "Persuasion," the new film pre- miering Friday, July 15, on Netf- lix. Inspired by Jane Austen's 1817 novel of the same name, the last book she wrote before her death, "Persuasion" is set in the early 19th century and follows Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson, "Fifty Shades of Grey," 2015), a young woman with modern sen- sibilities. When Fredrick Went- worth (Cosmo Jarvis, "Lady Macbeth," 2016), her former fi- ancé and man of humble origins whom she left at the insistence of her family, walks back into her life, Anne has a chance to em- brace true love once again. Now, she must learn to follow her heart in order to live the life she truly wants. Directed by Carrie Cracknell ("A Doll's House," 2012), the film features a screen- play by Ron Bass ("Rain Man," 1988) and Alice Winslow ("#BlueBoar," 2020). Henry Golding ("Crazy Rich Asians," 2018), Mia McKenna-Bruce ("Get Even"), Richard E. Grant ("Gosford Park," 2001), Lydia Rose Bewley ("The Royals"), Nikki Amuka-Bird ("Jupiter As- cending," 2015), Izuka Hoyle ("The Outpost") Nia Towle ("Rocketman," 2019) and Ed- ward Bluemel ("A Discovery of Witches") also star. WHAT'S NEW ON DISNEY+ "Zombies 3" (2022) Settle in for another musical year in Seabrook with the re- lease of "Zombies 3," coming to Disney+ Friday, July 15. Set in the fantastical post-apocalyptic world of Seabrook, zombies no longer pose any risk to humans as the two groups have come to live in peace over the course of the series' first two films. Now, zombie Zed (Milo Manheim, "American Housewife") and hu- man cheerleader Addison (Meg Donnelly, "American House- wife") are beginning their final year at Seabrook High. While Zed anticipates an athletic scholarship that will make him the first zombie to attend col- lege, Addison prepares for Seabrook's first international cheer-off. But when extraterres- trial beings suddenly appear in Seabrook with more than friendly competition in mind, Zed and Addison's plans for a perfect senior year are thrown off course. Directed by Paul Hoen ("Andi Mack") and writ- ten by David Light ("Sneakerel- la," 2022) and Joseph Raso ("Seed"), "Zombies 3" also stars RuPaul ("RuPaul's Drag Race"), Chandler Kinney ("Lethal Weapon"), Matt Cornett ("High School Musical: The Musical - The Series"), Kylee Russell ("Crushed," 2022), Trevor Tord- jman ("Bunk'd"), Emilia McCar- thy ("Zapped," 2014), Ariel Mar- tin ("Addison's Moonstone Mys- tery"), Tony Nappo ("Pretty Hard Cases"), Pearce Joza ("Mech-X4"), Marie Ward ("Suits") and Kingston Foster ("Emerson Heights," 2020). Harvey Guillén, Natasia Demetriou and Matt Berry in "What We Do in the Shadows" Fang-tastic TV: Staten Island vamps sink into new season 'In the Shadows' STREAMING Dakota Johnson, Izuka Hoyle, Nia Towle and Mia McKenna-Bruce in "Persuasion" Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly in "Zombies 3"