‘Designated Survivor’ Rescued by Netflix for Season 3

Designated Survivor is, well, surviving for another season thanks to Netflix. The Kiefer Sutherland-led drama was cancelled recently by ABC after two seasons, but Netflix has ordered a third of 10 episodes to air in 2019. The series follows Sutherland's character Tom Kirkman, an unassuming politician who becomes president after the elected POTUS and everyone else in the line of succession is killed in an attack that he must then solve. The pickup is interesting for two reasons: One, since Netflix has ramped up its slate of original productions, it has not been in the business of "saving" …

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