Streaming Heads-Up: Disney+ Greenlights SailGP Docuseries

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds’ first reunion since Deadpool & Wolverine is a new Disney+ docuseries about the Australian SailGP team they own, BONDS Flying Roos.

The untitled Maximum Effort series will go behind the scenes to capture “life inside one of the world’s most demanding sports leagues” as the Roos compete in a stadium-style championship where identical catamarans race up to 100 km/h in close-to-shore courses.

“This is our first collaboration since Deadpool & Wolverine and we once again anticipate action, comedy, heart but with a lot more water. And (fingers crossed) pirates. We hope there’s pirates in SailGP,” Jackman and Reynolds say in the press release announcing the production.

If the premise sounds familiar, it could be because Wrexham AFC Co-Chairman and Welcome to Wrexham executive producer Rob Mac serves in the same capacity through his More Better Productions banner.

In other streaming news:

➢➢ Disney+ has added to this month’s slate the June 17 premiere of Pixar’s Hoppers, about an animal lover who uses a groundbreaking technology to “hop” her consciousness into a lifelike robotic beaver, uncovering a hidden animal world shaped by its own rules.

➢➢ HBO has released the official trailer for season three of House of the Dragon, which debuts exclusively June 22 on HBO Max and rolls out weekly until August 10.

➢➢ X-Men ’97 returns July 1 for its second season on Disney+ — S1 was one of the most-watched Disney+ Original animated series (based on hours streamed globally).

➢➢ Apple TV has released the trailer for S2 of neo-noir detective drama Sugar (premieres June 19), in which Colin Farrell returns as the iconic LA private eye and film connoisseur to investigate the disappearance of an up-and-coming boxer’s older brother.

➢➢ Apple TV’s also revealed six-part Australian thriller Last Seen will premiere on September 9 starring Colin From Accounts’ Patrick Brammall as a former detective who’s working as a police dispatcher when he receives a distress call from a young woman he’s convinced is his daughter 11 years after she disappeared.

➢➢ S2 of Off Campus, which Prime Video reports was viewed more than any other debut season after The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Fallout, will spotlight the romantic relationship between Allie Hayes (Mika Abdalla) and Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn) — but the producers promise Hannah and Garrett will still be integral to what happens next.

➢➢ Here’s the teaser trailer for Prime Video’s prequel to The Boys, Vought Rising, which is set in the 1950s and premieres next year.