TV Talk: Amazon announces ‘Pradeeps of Pittsburgh’ premiere date

Originally ordered as an Amazon Freevee series, when Pittsburgh-set “The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh” debuts all eight episodes Oct. 17 the show will stream on both Freevee and Amazon’s Prime Video.

Filmed last summer in Toronto, the half-hour comedy series was created by Vijal Patel (“Schooled,” “Black-ish”) and inspired by his experience growing up in Pittsburgh.

Produced by Sony Pictures Television, the series mixes comedy and mystery as Pradeep family members retell the often conflicting stories of their first few months in Pittsburgh during an interrogation. Those tales include clashes with their Penguins-jersey-wearing (Ethan Suplee, “My Name is Earl”) and Christian-proselytizing (Carnegie Mellon University grad Megan Hilty, “Smash”) Pittsburgh neighbors.

The Pradeep family is made up of realist matriarch Sudha (Sindhu Vee), patriarch dreamer Mahesh (Naveen Andrews, “Lost”), romantic daughter Bhanu (Sahana Srinivasan), favorite son Kamal (Arjun Sriram) and optimistic son Vinod (Ashwin Sakthivel).

Pete Holmes (“Crashing”) and Romy Rosemont (“Big Sky”) appear as special guest stars.

Kept/canceled

Netflix renewed “Emily in Paris” for a fifth season.

Apple TV+ canceled “Time Bandits” after a single season.

Channel surfing

Ratings for Sunday’s “76th Emmy Awards” rose 54% in total viewers (to 6.87 million viewers) compared to January’s “75th Emmy Awards” telecast. … Charlie Hunnam (“Sons of Anarchy”) will play serial killer Ed Gein in the next season of the Netflix Ryan Murphy-produced series “Monster.” … Peacock docu-series “Anatomy of Lies” (Oct. 15) retells the story of a “Grey’s Anatomy” writer who faked having cancer to gain empathy from co-workers and friends. … Cable’s Investigation Discovery, which has seen ratings success in the past year with celebrity-focused crime docu-series like “Quiet on the Set,” is in production on a new project about music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs amid allegations of violent behavior and illegal activity. … WWE’s “Saturday Night’s Main Event” returns to NBC and Peacock at 8 p.m. Dec. 14 in the first of a quarterly series. … Deadline.com reports Archie Panjabi (“The Good Wife”) will play the villain in the next season of Disney+’s “Doctor Who.”