Young Rock In the Media

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[BetterButter]

 

Edited January 27, 2021 by BetterButter

[DanaK]

According to the Futon Critic, the finale (the 11th episode) is on May 4

[mtlchick]

The oldest of the Young Rocks is joining the original one on Black Adam. 

https://deadline.com/2021/04/black-adam-uli-latukefu-dwayne-johnson-young-rock-star-1234746794/

[DanaK]

Renewed https://www.tvinsider.com/996983/young-rock-kenan-renewed-season-2-nbc/

[bad things are bad]

You may encounter a paywall, but there's an article about this show in today's NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/magazine/young-rock-president.html 

[AnimeMania]

NBC Takes Page From British TV With Standalone Holiday Specials For ‘Young Rock’, ‘Kenan’ & ‘Mr. Mayor’

NBC announced today that it will air special standalone holiday episodes of its returning comedies Kenan, Young Rock and Mr. Mayor this coming holiday season.

[AnimeMania]

‘Young Rock’: Matthew Willig Upped To Series Regular On Dwayne Johnson’s NBC Comedy Series

Matthew Willig who plays André the Giant on Young Rock has been promoted to series regular for Season 2.

[AnimeMania]

Young Rock Season 2 Will Reportedly Add Even More Classic WWE Characters

Rumors suggest that Young Rock Season 2 might portray the following wrestlers and commentators, a recast Roddy Piper, Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler, Gene Okerlund, Big John Studd, Freddie Blassie, Haystacks Calhoun, Mr. Fuji, The Great Kabuki, Tommy Rich, and a young Bam Bam Bigelow.

Edited September 22, 2021 by AnimeMania

[Raja]

Hulk Hogan is still conspicuous in his absence. I wonder if it is money or personal?

[AnimeMania]

Holiday Special 

A Christmas Peril

Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m. ET/PT

Christmas Eve, 1982: An unexpected guest shows Dewey that this is the first in a long line of terrible Christmases. In 1987, Rocky and Dwayne take jobs as a mall Santa and elf. In 1993, Dwayne reluctantly spends a disastrous Christmas with Coach O.

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Joseph Lee Anderson, Stacey Leilua, Adrian Groulx, Bradley Constant, Uli Latukefu, Ana Tuisila, John Tui, Fasitua Amosa, Matthew Willig
Executive producers: Nahnatchka Khan, Dwayne Johnson, Jeff Chiang, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Brian Gewirtz and Jennifer Carreras

[AnimeMania]

Young Rock Season 2 will return on March 15.

Young Rock Season 2 will supposedly include Dwayne Johnson’s early professional wrestling career, featuring appearances by iconic WWE characters, like The Undertaker, Triple H, Roddy Piper, Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler, Gene Okerlund, Big John Studd, Freddie Blassie, Downtown Bruno Lauer and The Brooklyn Brawler.

[AnimeMania]

‘Young Rock’ Finds Its Dany Garcia, Dwayne Johnson’s College Sweetheart and Future Business Partner (EXCLUSIVE)

Arlyn Broche plays Dany Garcia, The Rock's college sweetheart-turned-ex-wife-and-business-partner. Dany is compassionate and caring while also being a disciplined athlete and future CEO. She starts as Dwayne’s college sweetheart at Miami, but soon becomes a guiding force in his life as he contemplates embracing the grind of professional wrestling.

[AnimeMania]

Sean Astin Joins ‘Young Rock’ Season 2 as Dwayne Johnson’s Childhood Nemesis (EXCLUSIVE)

Sean Astin joins “Young Rock” Season 2 in the role of Dr. Julian Echo, a chiropractor from Minnesota who was The Rock’s childhood nemesis who still holds a grudge and tries to ruin Dwayne Johnson's presidential campaign.

[DanaK]

2 episode finale May 24 https://tvline.com/2022/04/05/nbc-season-finale-dates-chicago-fire-this-is-us-svu/

[DanaK]

Renewed http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2022/05/12/nbc-orders-renewals-for-three-of-its-comedies-young-rock-american-auto-and-grand-crew-741111/20220512nbc02/

[DanaK]

NBC has announced its Fall schedule and Young Rock will premiere in November on Fridays at 8:30pm ET http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2022/05/16/nbc-builds-on-strong-fall-schedule-with-the-addition-of-new-series-quantum-leap-and-lopez-vs-lopez-to-its-winning-lineup-202114/20220516nbc01/

[DanaK]

New season premieres November 4 http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2022/06/29/nbc-announces-fall-premiere-dates-445510/20220629nbc01/

[AnimeMania]

NBC's Young Rock Recasting Multiple Wrestlers for Season 3

According to PWInsider, the likes of Roddy Piper, Mankind, The Undertaker, Fred Blassie, and Lou Albano will all be recast for Season 3. This is due to the show relocating production from Australia to the United States where filming is set to begin next month in Memphis, TN.

Season 3 will include The Rock's wrestling career throughout the 1990s.

Series co-creator Nahnatchka Khan said "Going to his life when he's trying to break into the WWF and it didn't go his way then either. There are so many twists and turns that Dwayne has told us about. Because everybody assumes, 'Oh, he got in, he became The Rock, and that's the end of the story.' The path that it took him to get there is really fascinating, so we really want to explore that more and meet a lot of those guys that he encountered in the '90s era and then go back to his childhood — back to Hawaii — back to everything at the beginning, and kind of switch it up a bit in the middle too. We've been talking about different forms of storytelling that might be exciting for the new season."

[AnimeMania]

[DanaK]

Whenever the show goes on its Fall hiatus, it returns January 6 http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2022/11/07/nbc-delivers-the-goods-for-midseason-with-returning-favorites-a-new-judge-on-the-comedy-case-and-dramas-that-inspire-and-charm-152115/20221107nbc01/

[DanaK]

The Futon Critic says the season finale is on February 24 http://thefutoncritic.com/listings/2023/02/24/premieres/

[DanaK]

In a press release on NBC’s Fall and midseason’s schedules, they indicated decisions are yet to be made on renewal for this and two other shows

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2023/05/12/nbc-anchors-fall-schedule-with-franchise-powerhouses-and-three-new-series-253113/20230512nbc01/

[DanaK]

Canceled https://www.givememyremote.com/remote/2023/06/09/nbc-cancels-grand-crew-canceled-young-rock/