TVLine Asks: Will A.I. Replace Tracker Team? Is 2026 Voice Remix Messy? Did South Park PSA Give You The Willies? Match Game Qs Too Long? And More!
We've got questions, and you've (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we're lobbing queries left and right about Tracker, Dick Wolf show turnover, Trump vs. The View and more!
1 | Assuming Abby McEnany and Eric Graise's Tracker exits are a result of budget cuts and they don't add new series regulars to replace them, how do you anticipate Colter will find jobs and dig up pertinent information on suspects from here on out? Will Season 3 introduce some sort of convoluted A.I. to replace both Velma and Bobby?
2 | Why does NBC's Law & Order revival keep making so many changes to the Law ensemble — this time, it's Mehcad Brooks (aka Shaw) turning in his badge — when it's so clearly the Order side in need of a revamp? And if Wolf Entertainment is going to keep Octavio around in some fashion, why not have him fill Shaw's empty detective slot? Speaking of....
3 | With the amount of turnover on Dick Wolf's procedurals, should FBI, #OneChicago and the Law & Orders no longer waste a single line of dialogue explaining the latest exit, and instead just rotate in the new character without comment? ▼
4 | With all the other late night hosts joining The Late Show on Monday to support Stephen Colbert, wasn't Jimmy Kimmel's absence kind of conspicuous? We know he's on vacation, but couldn't he FaceTime in, at least?
5 | Of the eight Ted Lasso cast members not returning as series regulars for Season 4 — Phil Dunster (Jamie), Nick Mohammed (Nate), Anthony Head (Rupert), Toheeb Jimoh (Sam), Cristo Fernández (Dani Rojas), Kola Bokinni (Isaac), Billy Harris (Colin) and James Lance (Trent Crimm) — who will you miss most? And how do you think the show will justify Ted moving back to Richmond to coach a women's team after he made a point to return to Kansas City to be closer to Henry at the end of Season 3?
6 | Are the twists that The Voice rolled out for Season 29 so dizzying that you, too, were left feeling like you'd sat in one of those red swivel chairs for too long? Did we really need another reminder that the focus of the competition is the coaches rather than the contestants? And was anyone champing at the bit for the return of problematic-at-best CeeLo Green?
7 | Is anyone left on The Snake still falling for Kethryn's ploys? And how is host Jim Jefferies' elimination line for this show not "You've been snake-bitten!"?
8 | Are you happy Hulu has decided to hold Only Murders in the Building Season 5 — a show that typically returns mid-August, but has always felt like more of an autumn show — until September, so it can run well into the fall?
9 | Would Apple TV+'s recently renewed Stick get more attention with a better title? (If every headline has to specify that it's referring to the "Owen Wilson Golf Comedy," perhaps The Powers That Be should think about changing said title ahead of Season 2?)
10 | Is it conspicuous that The View did not share on socials, as they normally do, the Joy Behar clip that triggered the White House to threaten the talker with removal from the airwaves? Or was it more glaring that the next day's show didn't remark on said wrist slap?
11 | As much as we're living for the drama in the Big Brother house this week, is Jimmy trying way too hard to be catty and confrontational? And even though she wasn't there in person, were you happy to see Felicia back on your TV screen?
12 | On The Buccaneers, don't you think Nan or Guy could've run after the carriage — the one rolling at a snail's pace — that took Ginny away to an asylum? And will James be punished for murdering his brother, or will that man slither away without consequence yet again?
13 | Could you have gone your whole life without being exposed to South Park's rendering of President Trump's, um... "teeny-tiny" weeny? ▼ And seeing as how the episode referred to it as "Pro-Trump PSA 01 of 50," and Comedy Central just renewed the animated comedy for 50 more episodes, do you think we'll be getting a new PSA at the end of every episode?
14 | On The Real Housewives of Miami, was anyone else furiously trying to zoom in on Guerdy's big text reveal? And wasn't the reaction from the group a bit over the top considering no one batted an eye after Julia threw a water at Guerdy earlier this season?
15 | At what point should The Summer I Turned Pretty's Belly just download Hinge and forget about both Jeremiah and Conrad?
16 | Were you surprised to learn that Match Game's question rack is actually operated by the host and not some off-camera remote? ▼ Were you disappointed by how b-a-d Selena Gomez is at Match Game? And why were so many of the questions so damn long? (We died inside each time Martin Short had to repeat them for the panelists.)
17 | Did Press Your Luck contestant Kaycee have a downright preternatural ability to hit Whammys?
18 | Resident Alien fans: Now that we know this is the show's very last season, what do you hope to see in its final three episodes?
19 | Is anyone quietly having a bigger summer than Ted Lasso alum Sarah Niles, with roles in two of the biggest movies — Brad Pitt's F1 ▼ and now The Fantastic Four: First Steps?
20 | On The Chi, what's harder to believe: That Pastor Zeke would go on Papa's podcast and talk about his various marriage mistakes/relationship woes, or that Carolyn would be listening and hear his plea to her?
21 | Is it no coincidence that Allstate put into heavy rotation its "Kiss Cam" commercial right after the Coldplay concert incident? ▼
22 | Anyone else hoping... wishing... needing John Oliver to unpack the premise of the newly announced Air Bud movie when Last Week Tonight returns on Sunday?
Hit the comments with your answers and any TV Qs of your own!