How many episodes will there be of Outlander: Blood of My Blood? The finale already has a title and a date
Starz published the whole season 2 schedule before the premiere aired, down to the closing episode's title. That makes this one of the rare ongoing shows where the end of the run is a matter of public record rather than guesswork.
Vigil series 3: where was it filmed? Suranne Jones says there were reindeer outside the breakfast room
The BBC thriller has spent two series faking its settings convincingly — a nuclear submarine, then a Middle Eastern desert. For the third, the production stopped faking it.
The Simpsons end date: Bart's voice actress just named a season — the showrunner sees it differently
Nancy Cartwright has voiced Bart Simpson since 1987 and was asked a direct question about how much longer the show runs. She gave a direct answer, and almost nobody else involved agrees with it.
When does Adventure Time: Side Quests take place? Finn's new voice actor is the biggest clue
Cartoon Network dropped 20 new episodes into a universe that already spans a thousand years and two separate spin-offs, and never once put a date on screen. The answer is sitting in the credits.
American Dad: every episode where Steve sings — Scott Grimes had a recording career before the show, and it's never gone to waste
Scott Grimes had a major-label album and a charting single before he ever voiced a fourteen-year-old. The writers figured that out early and have been spending it for twenty-two seasons.
MasterChef season 3: where are they now? The 2012 finalists, and the cooks who nearly beat them
MasterChef's third American season ran from 4 June to 10 September 2012 and produced the finale the show still leans on in its own promos. Fourteen years later, its top ten have ended up in kitchens, classrooms, real estate offices and, in one case, a Barbie-themed pop-up.
Where is Best Medicine filmed? Port Wenn's harbour is real — it just isn't on the ocean
Port Wenn is written as a Maine fishing village on the Atlantic. The water in nearly every exterior shot is fresh, tidal, and about ninety minutes north of Manhattan.
NCIS: what happened to Jimmy's wife? Brian Dietzen was told before the writers wrote it
There is no episode where Breena Palmer dies. The show skipped the scene entirely, which was the point, and the actor who had to carry it knew it was coming long before a script existed.
How many seasons will Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation have? The novels finished years ago, so the maths can actually be done
Most long-running anime can't answer this question, because nobody knows how much source material is still coming. This one can, because the source material stopped six years ago.
NCIS: Origins: what happened to Lala? Gibbs never once mentioned her in the original show — the prequel is explaining why
CBS's prequel gave 1991 Gibbs a partner the flagship series never acknowledged in twenty seasons. Two years in, the show has answered the question about her survival and left the bigger one alone.
