WWE SmackDown’s return to a two-hour format has seemingly been confirmed

The January 3rd 2025 edition of WWE Smackdown was the launch of the show becoming three hours on a weekly basis. In February, it was reported by WrestleVotes Radio that people within WWE “strongly dislike the three-hour SmackDown format.”

While there have been conflicting reports about the show’s length potentially being changed, PWInsider.com is now stating that SmackDown will return to a two-hour format on July 4th 2025. Furthermore, USANetwork.com noted that the new series The Rainmaker will be airing on Friday nights at 10:00 PM Eastern time…

Court will soon be in session, as USA Network has released the first trailer for its upcoming legal drama The Rainmaker, based on John Grisham’s bestselling novel of the same name. Previously adapted into a Matt Damon-led movie in the ’90s, the new series changes up some details from the source material, and the new trailer teases an upbeat-but-dramatic, high-stakes show with shades of previous hit USA Network series.

The Rainmaker — which will premiere on August 15, 2025, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on USA Network, with episodes streaming on Peacock one week after they first air — stars Milo Callaghan as Rudy Baylor, a young law school grad. As the new trailer reveals, he gets fired on his first day working for the powerhouse lawyer Leo Drummond (Mad Men’s John Slattery), forcing him to get a job with Brusier (Once Upon a Time’s Lana Parrilla), a tough, talented, but not exactly reputable lawyer. (Her offices are located in what used to be a taco shop.) Rudy and Bruiser are joined by disheveled paralegal Deck (P.J. Byrne).