Variety reports that the series showrunner Albert Kim has stepped down from the show. In Kim’s place, executive producers Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani will be taking over. According to insiders, after the multi-year development process of Airbender, he decided to pursue a different opportunity with Disney to work on the Percy Jackson series.

This isn’t the first snag that ATLA has caught in its developing process. Originally, the show had creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko attached, but the two decided to leave the project after creative differences.

If anything, the show looks to be in good hands. Boylan herse;f has worked on great series like Poker Face with Rian Johnson. Raisani, on the other hand, was a VFX supervisor and has worked on shows like Stranger Things and Game of Thrones. He’s also directed episodes of Airbender and Lost in Space which also starred Gordon Cormier.

We don’t know exactly how Airbender is expected to change moving forward, but we do know that a lot of people weren’t happy with the exposition and writing. Hopefully the learn from their mistakes and manage to give better characterization for everyone in the following seasons.

No release date has been set for the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Check out the trailer for Poker Face:

The official synopsis reads:

Poker Face is a 10-episode “mystery-of-the-week” series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.

With Knives Out and Glass Onion being murder-mystery movies themselves, I’m wondering how Johnson will make Poker Face feel different, but I think it would have something to do with the ‘investigator’ characters. Benoit Blanc may be a fantastic detective, but he still has to sift through the lies of the characters around him in order to get to the truth; Charlie, on the other hand, may not be so good at deduction, but she can always tell who’s lying—which could mean a different approach with these mystery stories.

I’ll admit, I am kind of worried that Johnson is starting to put himself in a specific genre box, but as long as the movies are entertaining, I’m going to check them out. I just hope he has time to work on his Star Wars trilogy because I’ve been a huge fan of his since Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Catch Poker Face when it premieres on Peacock on Jan. 26.

Just in, Peacock has dropped the first look at Poker Face which is set to come out in January. Check this out:

Here’s the official description:

Poker Face is a 10-episode “mystery-of-the-week” series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.

Besides Lyonne being at the center of the series, the show also includes a lot of other famous faces like Adrien Brody, Ron Perlman, Stephanie Hsu, and Tim Blake Nelson. Even long time Johnson collaborator Joseph Gordon-Levitt is part of the cast.

I have to say, the premise pretty much sounds like it could have Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc as the main character, but I guess Johnson is reserving him for the movies. With this series pretty much sounding like a Knives Out spinoff, I can’t help but wonder if Johnson actually had a bunch of ideas he couldn’t use for Glass Onion, and instead decided to just put them all in an alternate series.

Poker Face is set to start streaming on Peacock on Jan. 26, 2023. Catch Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery when it hits Netflix on Dec. 23.