📺 “Criminal” Teaser: Charlie Hunnam, Luke Evans, Emilia Clarke, and Adria Arjona Lead Amazon’s Gritty Crime Thriller Based on Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Acclaimed Comics — Part One: “Coward” Premieres Wednesday, January 13th, Followed by Part Two: “Lawless” on January 27th

We’re not gonna lie. For a while there, it seemed like Charlie Hunnam might never top the success he had with Sons of Anarchy, let alone recover from the box-office bomb that was King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

But after recent Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his work on Monster: The Ed Gein Story, it certainly seems like Hunnam is back in full force. And now he’s returning to the world of outlaw crime thrillers with his latest series, Criminal, an adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novels by comic book writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips.

Hunnam is also part of a pretty impressive ensemble cast that includes Adria Arjona, Emilia Clarke, Luke Evans, Richard Jenkins, Logan Browning, John Hawkes, Patrick J. Adams, Kadeem Hardison and Garrett Hedlund, making this one series to definitely keep an eye on.

Brubaker himself is serving as co-showrunner, writer, and executive producer alongside crime novelist Jordan Harper (She Rides Shotgun), bringing his gritty crime comics to life in an eight-episode series split into two parts, subtitled Coward and Lawless.

Each part consists of four episodes, with directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Captain Marvel, Freaky Tales) helming Coward, while Dee Rees (Mudbound) takes over the directing reins for Lawless.

Set to be released just two weeks apart in January, Criminal: Coward will see Hunnam playing Leo Patterson, a cautious thief who’s spent his life trying to stay one step ahead of trouble, only to find himself pulled into a dangerous heist involving his childhood friend and fellow criminal Ricky Lawless, played by Gus Halper (Unabomber, The Shards).

Meanwhile, Part Two, Lawless, will have Luke Evans taking center stage as Tracy Lawless, Ricky’s older brother, who returns from the Army only to find himself pulled right back into the criminal underworld he left behind when his brother gets caught up in a dangerous situation.

Both storylines will be interconnected, and knowing Ed Brubaker, a writer who’s earned quite a reputation for his gritty noir storytelling, we can probably expect plenty of double-crosses, morally questionable characters, and more than a few twists by the end of it all.

📺 “Bad Monkey: Season 2” Trailer: Vince Vaughn Returns as the Wisecracking Florida Gumshoe, Facing Off Against John Malkovich and a Whole New Cast of Criminal Oddballs in Apple TV’s Offbeat Crime Comedy — Premiering Wednesday, December 2nd on Apple TV

What makes someone lucky? Is it someone who’s never had to deal with any real hardship, or someone who’s managed to survive every obstacle life has thrown at them?

Just something to think about as Vince Vaughn returns as Andrew Yancy, the perpetually unlucky (or extremely lucky, depending on how you look at it) former Miami detective turned health inspector turned laid-back gumshoe who constantly finds himself in a whole lot of trouble. And even more so in season two of Apple TV’s Bad Monkey, from Scrubs, Ted Lasso, and Shrinking creator Bill Lawrence.

Based on the bestselling novel by Carl Hiaasen, the series follows Vaughn’s Andrew Yancy, a lowly Florida health inspector who just can’t seem to stay out of murder investigations, especially when there’s a chance he might finally get his detective badge back.

This time around, Yancy finds himself caught up in another dangerous case, one that puts him in the crosshairs of a powerful and ruthless mob boss played by none other than John Malkovich.

And as Yancy tries to talk his way out of just about every bad situation he finds himself in, mostly failing miserably, he ends up being targeted by Malkovich and his goons, even finding himself held at gunpoint on a rooftop with little hope of getting out of it unscathed.

But somehow, Yancy always finds a way to smooth-talk his way off the ledge and live to see another day, proving it never hurts to have the gift of gab.

With returning cast members Natalie Martinez and John Ortiz, alongside newcomers John Malkovich, Yvonne Strahovski, Sofia Boutella, Charlotte Lawrence, Caleb Landry Jones, Dax Shepard, Mo Amer, and Keyla Monterroso Mejia, season two is shaping up to be another wild and crazy ride through Florida’s wonderfully weird criminal underbelly when it premieres this December on Apple TV.

📺 “Yellowjackets: Season 4” Trailer: Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher and the Rest of the Surviving Cast Return for One Final Season of Twisted Secrets, Psychological Horror, and ’90s Nostalgia — Premiering Friday, November 20th on Paramount+ Premium

It’s the question everyone wants answered: How did the WHS Yellowjackets return to school after surviving all those months stranded in the wilderness, especially after everything they did just to stay alive? And more importantly, how did these girls manage to keep the horrifying truth about what happened out there a secret for years?

Season 4 of the hit Showtime series Yellowjackets will mark its final chapter when it returns later this month. Which likely means we might finally get some answers to the biggest mysteries that have been haunting us since we first got hooked back in Season 1.

With returning cast members Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Samantha Hanratty, Sophie Thatcher, and Courtney Eaton, this timeline-jumping thriller may have started out as the only reason to keep your Showtime subscription active, but now it returns to close out one of television’s most twisted survival mysteries.

It’s Lost meets Mean Girls meets Lord of the Flies. And it’s been one of those watercooler shows for years now, the kind you just can’t stop texting your friends about.

And let’s not forget, Yellowjackets was also one of the first shows to really tap into that emerging wave of ’90s nostalgia, mixing the music, fashion, and teenage angst of the decade with some seriously disturbing psychological horror.

So cue the ’90s grunge music, surprise murders, sinister mind games, and enough buried secrets to make you wonder if these girls ever really escaped the wilderness, or if they just brought the horrors of it back home with them.

📺 “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 3” Trailer: Walker Scobell Returns for Another Dangerous Quest Alongside Tamara Smart, Dafne Keen, and More — Premiering Friday, November 20th on Disney+

Disney has taken an interesting approach to promoting its small-screen adaptation of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Now heading into its third season, the fantasy adventure series has also found a wider audience thanks to Disney’s deal with Netflix. And so far, that gamble appears to have paid off, with the first two seasons proving popular on Netflix and helping build an even bigger fan base. With excitement growing for the upcoming season, it looks like we’re in for the show’s most action-packed adventure yet.

Walker Scobell once again returns as Percy Jackson, the young demigod who finds himself on another dangerous quest, this time to rescue his friend Annabeth Chase (Leah Sava’ Jeffries) from the forces of Kronos. Percy, the son of Poseidon, will be joining forces with Thalia Grace (Tamara Smart), the daughter of Zeus, as they set out to rescue Annabeth and confront a dangerous prophecy that threatens the future of Olympus.

Also joining the cast this season are a few familiar faces, including Logan star Dafne Keen as Artemis, alongside Kate McKinnon as Aphrodite, Ming-Na Wen as Hera, and Andra Day as Athena. With showrunners Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz also returning, this third season will adapt The Titan’s Curse, the third book in Riordan’s popular fantasy series.

Set to premiere in just a couple of weeks, there’s still time to catch up on the first two seasons, now streaming on Disney+ and Netflix.

📺 “Trinity” Trailer: Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Richard Madden Star in Netflix’s Nuclear Conspiracy Thriller Series from “Bodyguard” Creator Jed Mercurio, Also Starring Marcia Gay Harden and Bruce Greenwood — Premiering Tuesday, December 1st on Netflix

Cold War-era nuclear threats have inspired some pretty tightly wound thrillers over the years. We can all think of a few classics involving government conspiracies, nuclear missiles, and the possibility of Armageddon. But nowadays, does that kind of thriller still work? Or does it feel a little too old-fashioned?

Here’s the thing. What makes these thrillers timeless is usually the acting. Give us a stellar ensemble playing out some incredibly tense scenarios, and you’ve got yourself some good, old-fashioned entertainment.

And that seems to be the case with this new Netflix thriller, Trinity starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Richard Madden, alongside Kirk Acevedo, James Remar, Mark O’Brien, Anthony Edwards, Bruce Greenwood, and Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden.

Created by Jed Mercurio, the man behind Line of Duty and Bodyguard, this Netflix original series (out in Dec.) follows a Navy commander (Mbatha-Raw) whose close encounter with a nuclear catastrophe brings her into the inner circle of the U.S. secretary of defense (Madden). Soon, she uncovers a dangerous web of political conspiracies and classified secrets that could push the country toward nuclear disaster.

So expect plenty of clenched faces, people screaming “Fire the missiles!” and folks in suits talking out of the sides of their mouths in secret rooms. Because when it comes to a political thriller like this, the most entertaining part is trying to figure out who’s telling the truth, who’s pulling the strings, and who’s about to stab someone in the back... and, more importantly, who the hell is pushing us toward nuclear war? Perhaps someone who needs to be impeached ASAP.

📺 “Blue Eye Samurai: Season 2” Teaser: Maya Erskine Returns as Mizu, Taking Her Bloody Quest for Revenge to 17th-Century London — Premiering Tuesday, January 19th on Netflix

So, you’re not a big anime fan? Well, maybe this Netflix series could be your gateway into the genre. And sure, some hardcore anime fans out there might argue that it’s a bastardized Hollywood version of the art form, but chill out and relax. It could be that starter show for someone looking to break into the wider world of anime.

After all, Blue Eye Samurai is coming back in January for a second season following its Emmy-winning debut in 2023. And yes, it’s been a few years, and fans have been patiently waiting for its return. Well, the wait is almost over.

For the uninitiated, the show features the voices of Maya Erskine as Mizu, a mixed-race swordmaster on a relentless quest for revenge, alongside Brenda Song as Akemi, Darren Barnet as Taigen, and Masi Oka as Ringo.

Mixing Japanese samurai traditions with the Western archetype of the lone hero, the Netflix series, created by Amber Noizumi and screenwriter Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049), follows Mizu on a bloody quest that takes her from the streets of feudal Japan to the unfamiliar world of 17th-century London. There, she seeks to track down the two remaining men who may hold the key to her parentage.

The first season was hailed by critics as one of the best animated series of 2023. So, naturally, Season 2 comes with plenty of anticipation and some pretty high expectations. It’s set to premiere January 19th on Netflix.

📺 “Unaccustomed Earth” Trailer: Freida Pinto and Siddharth Star in Netflix’s Multigenerational Family Drama About Love and Regret, Based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s Bestselling Short-Story Collection — Premieres Thursday, December 17th on Netflix

Jhumpa Lahiri’s bestselling short-story collection, which tells a multigenerational story of love, family, and cultural identity, provides the basis for this new Netflix drama series from producers John Wells (ER, The Pitt) and Madhuri Shekar (3 Body Problem). Featuring a large ensemble cast of mostly South Asian actors, including Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto, Siddharth, Indraneil Sengupta, Never Have I Ever’s Sarayu Blue, and Manifest’s Parveen Kaur along with The Hangover’s Justin Bartha, the drama revolves around an Indian American family whose lives are turned upside down when a life-changing cancer diagnosis forces a wife and mother (Pinto) to confront the choices she made years ago, including giving up her first love (Siddharth) to satisfy her father’s wishes. Jumping between timelines, the story explores just how those choices ripple across generations, affecting marriages, relationships, and family loyalties, proving that when it comes to past regrets and roads not taken, the decisions we make (and the consequences we live with) are pretty much universal.

📺 “The Rockford Files” Promo Teaser: David Boreanaz Steps Into James Garner’s Shoes as the Wisecracking Private Eye in NBC’s Reboot of the Classic ’70s Detective Series — Premieres Saturday, January 2nd on NBC and Streaming the Next Day on Peacock

Anyone over 50 might remember watching, or at least know about, that classic ’70s private-eye series The Rockford Files, starring James Garner. And anyone who grew up watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bones probably already knows that David Boreanaz has a certain je ne sais quoi about him, not unlike what Garner brought to the original role. Which makes this a pretty perfect pairing, with Boreanaz stepping into the role of laid-back P.I. Jim Rockford in this upcoming reboot from producer and showrunner Mike Daniels, whose previous credits include Sons of Anarchy and Shades of Blue. And with Superbad and Adventureland helmer Greg Mottola directing the pilot episode, this new take looks to bring back that old-school charm and wisecracking detective work that made the original series such a TV classic.

📺 “Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure” Promo Teaser: Netflix Takes Us Back to 1955 for a New Live-Action Prequel, with a New Town, New Characters, and a Fresh Batch of Supernatural Mysteries — Coming in 2028

Netflix ain’t ready to let go of one of its biggest franchises. The streaming giant has released the first video announcement for a new spin-off series set within the Stranger Things universe. Yup, the Upside Down is making a comeback, only this time we’re heading back to the 1950s, long before the strange happenings in Hawkins, Indiana. This live-action prequel will take us to an entirely different town and state: Marion, Nevada, in 1955. Kate Trefry, the playwright and writer best known for her work on Stranger Things and its stage prequel, The First Shadow, will serve as showrunner, co-creating the series alongside the Duffer brothers. But will this new series have any connections to the characters from the original show? As of now, we don’t know. What we do know is that the prequel will introduce a whole new cast of heroes and villains, along with a fresh batch of supernatural mysteries. So, don’t put away those D&D dice just yet. You never know when they might come in handy.

📺 “Secret Service” Trailer: Gemma Arterton Uncovers a Russian Conspiracy in a British Political Spy Thriller Co-Starring Rafe Spall, Alex Kingston, and Roger Allam — Premieres Sunday, November 22nd on MGM+

Here’s a wild hot take: British spy stories are better than American ones, and it might just come down to the accents. There’s something about a British accent that makes an already tense situation feel even more intense. Maybe it’s the way characters huddle in a corner, whispering in a way that somehow sounds both distinguished and deceitful. It’s just a theory... something to think about. And perhaps one of the reasons British espionage thrillers seem to be thriving right now. Gemma Arterton (who, yes, has a British accent) can be seen huddling in corners, taking secret phone calls, and looking rather tense as she navigates a dangerous political conspiracy involving the Russians in this new espionage thriller series, which also boasts a stellar ensemble that includes Rafe Spall, Mark Stanley, Amaka Okafor, Alex Kingston, and Roger Allam. Created by Tom Bradby and Jemma Kennedy and based on Bradby’s novel of the same name, this five-part political espionage thriller might just lend further support to our theory about why British spy stories have such a knack for making even the quietest conversations feel dangerous.

📺 “Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy” Trailer: Snoopy Lands on Santa’s Naughty List in a New Peanuts Christmas Special Featuring Music from John Legend, Kamasi Washington, Leon Bridges, and Laufey — Premiering Friday, November 13th on Apple TV

Christmas gives us a great opportunity to gather the family around the TV and spend some quality time together. But when it comes to picking the right show or special, you want something wholesome, something good and honest, something that brings the whole family together. And who better than Snoopy, right? Apple TV is releasing a new holiday special this month featuring Snoopy and the gang. Based on Charles M. Schulz’s classic comic strip Peanuts, this throwback Christmas special finds our beloved beagle on Santa’s naughty list, with just 12 days until Christmas to prove he’s a good dog after all. But if that’s not enough to give you that warm, fuzzy feeling in your belly, you should know that it also features new music from John Legend, Kamasi Washington, Leon Bridges, and Laufey. So ring in the holidays with a few familiar faces, some festive music, and a little Christmas cheer, courtesy of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the rest of the Peanuts gang.

📺 “A Proud Family Wizmas” Trailer: Penny Proud Takes Over for Santa Claus in a Nostalgic Stop-Motion Christmas Special Featuring the Voices of Kyla Pratt, Tommy Davidson, Paula Jai Parker, and JoMarie Payton — Debuts Saturday, November 14th on Disney+

Remember those classic stop-motion Christmas specials? The ones that told traditional holiday stories through that charming, homemade-looking claymation? There was just something about them that captured the spirit of Christmas and brought back that warm, nostalgic feeling of the holidays. Well, get ready to feel that way again, as The Proud Family, traditionally a 2D animated cartoon, is bringing us a new Christmas special, this time entirely in stop-motion. Featuring the voices of Kyla Pratt, Tommy Davidson, Paula Jai Parker, and JoMarie Payton, this holiday special follows Penny Proud as she reluctantly takes Santa’s place after her complaints about the commercialization of Christmas cause him to quit on Christmas Eve. It’s a clear nod to those classic Rankin/Bass-produced Christmas animated shorts, so prepare to be overloaded with those cozy, fuzzy feelings we got from the holiday specials we grew up watching.

🎥 “A Disney Holiday Short: The Invisible Horse” Trailer: ‘Paddington in Peru’ Director Dougal Wilson Brings a Little Christmas Magic to Disney’s Heartwarming Tale of an Unlikely Friendship — Arriving on Disney+ and YouTube November 9th

Paddington in Peru director Dougal Wilson has teamed up with Disney for a charming new holiday short about childhood imagination, unlikely friendships, and believing in things you can’t always see. Just when a young boy named Jack begins to think he’s getting too old for Christmas, an unexpected friendship with an invisible horse might be just what he needs to rediscover a little holiday magic. The short will be available on Disney+ and Disney’s YouTube channel next week, giving families a chance to enjoy a little Christmas magic early. Because let’s face it, everyone wants to get into the holiday spirit a little sooner rather than later.

📺 “Bobby Lee: Finally” Trailer: After More Than 30 Years in Comedy, the MADtv Veteran and Popular Podcaster Returns to His San Diego Hometown for His First-Ever Stand-Up Special — Premieres Friday, November 27th on Hulu

Bobby Lee has been in comedy for more than 30 years. And despite being a longtime cast member of MADtv, it’s taken Bobby quite some time to really make a name for himself. Now a comedy veteran and popular podcaster, he returns to his hometown of San Diego for his first-ever hour-long stand-up special. And it’s a real homecoming, as he returns with an established career and a loyal fan base that has followed him for decades. This time, he brings brutally honest stories and observations about his personal life and family, along with the kind of unpredictable humor that made him such a lovable goofball in the first place. Appropriately titled Finally, Bobby Lee finally puts out his first comedy special, showing us that it’s never too late to accomplish something you’ve always wanted to do.

📺 “Nate Bargatze: Good for Nathan” Trailer: The Comedy Superstar Returns With His Fourth Netflix Stand-Up Special, Finding the Funny Side of Everyday Life, Marriage, and Modern Conveniences — Debuts Tuesday, November 24th on Netflix

Anyone who’s been following Nate Bargatze’s comedy career will tell you the guy is extremely funny, hardworking, and has a knack for turning everyday nuisances into comedy gold. But even his most die-hard fans might be surprised by just how big a comedy superstar he’s become. At this point, he ranks among the biggest stand-up comedians working today. And now he’s back with yet another Netflix comedy special, proving that sometimes the biggest voice in comedy isn’t the loudest or most obnoxious one in the room, but the one that speaks softly and still manages to bring the house down.

📺 “Get Huge: Looksmaxxing to Death” Trailer: Adam McKay-Produced Docuseries Explores the Dark Side of Extreme Body Transformations and Social Media Obsessions — Streams Tuesday, November 10th on Hulu

What the hell is looksmaxxing? Is that just some silly slang the kids are throwing around these days? Well, it’s actually a term used to describe a new lifestyle that has emerged in the age of social media. They used to say “sex sells,” but these days, it’s become much more than that. It’s an entire lifestyle built around looks, physical appearance, and creating an almost fictional version of yourself, one that has become increasingly shocking and twisted. In this new three-episode docuseries from executive producer Adam McKay and director Stacey Lee, the world of looksmaxxing comes under the microscope as a group of influencers pushes the limits of physical transformation, with dangerous experiments, bitter rivalries, and a mysterious death raising troubling questions about just how far some are willing to go to look as physically perfect as possible.

📺 “The Boy Who Stole Billions?” Trailer: New Three-Part Documentary Explores Sam Bankman-Fried’s Meteoric Rise and the Collapse of His $32 Billion Cryptocurrency Empire — Premieres Monday, November 30th on Prime Video

Tech bros. Yeah, they’re annoying as hell. But what does it actually mean to be a tech bro? Well, at one time, it meant spoiled, rich, elitist frat dudes. But in reality, some of the most despicable tech bros aren’t necessarily the ones you’d expect. Sometimes, it’s the messy, socially awkward man-child whose intelligence is matched only by his appetite for taking risks. Sam Bankman-Fried might look like your typical awkward, unkempt, harmless tech nerd, but behind that messy hair and unassuming appearance was a man running a sketchy cryptocurrency empire once valued at $32 billion. He has since become the face of one of the biggest financial fraud scandals in modern history. This new three-part docuseries explores the meteoric rise and fall of his cryptocurrency empire, featuring interviews with former insiders and Bankman-Fried himself, speaking from prison about the decisions that led to billions in missing customer funds and his eventual fraud conviction.

📺 “Oobah: Scams for a Better Tomorrow” Trailer: British Prankster Oobah Butler Takes on the World of Scams, Fake Businesses, and Outrageous Money-Making Schemes in This New Five-Part Docu-Comedy Series — Premiering Sunday, November 22nd on HBO and HBO Max

How do you become rich? Better question: How do you get rich in this day and age, when it seems like everyone is trying to sell you some kind of snake oil product? And no matter how outrageous the idea, it’s all about selling you the illusion that something is worth more than it actually is. Well, British satirist, prankster, and filmmaker Oobah Butler gets to the bottom of it in this new HBO docuseries, presenting himself as a potential entrepreneur looking to break into various industries with wild and crazy ideas. Some crazier than others. His goal? To see if anyone will bite on his ridiculous proposals and, in turn, expose just how easily people can be fooled... and just how far some are willing to go to convince themselves of a lie if it means making a quick buck.

📺 “Fool Night” Trailer: New Netflix Anime Imagines a World Without Sunlight, Where Humans Are Turned Into Plants to Keep Humanity Alive — Streams Thursday, November 26th on Netflix

When it comes to anime, world-building is on a whole different level. It’s a genre that comes up with some of the most exciting high-concept stories. Take, for instance, this new Netflix anime series. It’s set in a future where the sun has vanished and Earth is trapped in perpetual darkness. (Boom. Right there. Great start.) Humanity has found a disturbing way to survive: turning people into oxygen-producing plants. (Okay, a little weird. But we’re with you.) Struggling to support his ailing mother, a desperate young man considers undergoing the procedure himself, only to stumble upon a sinister conspiracy that could expose the terrifying truth behind humanity’s survival. (Okay, this one might have just climbed to the top of our watch list.)

📺 “The Blue Road” Trailer: Son Sukku and Eita Nagayama Star as Korean and Japanese Detectives Forced to Work Together to Catch a Brutal Serial Killer in Netflix’s Twisty Crime Thriller — Debuts Friday, November 20th on Netflix

Historically, Korea and Japan haven’t exactly been on the best of terms. You know, that whole Japanese occupation of Korea that ended after World War II. So, yeah, there’s some long-standing resentment there. We get it. But that history makes for an interesting setup for this new Korean series, which brings both cultures together in what looks to be a deliciously twisty crime thriller. Starring Son Sukku and Eita Nagayama, the series follows two detectives from South Korea and Japan who are forced to work together when a string of brutal murders leaves behind cryptic messages written in each other’s languages. As they try to put aside their cultural differences, they begin to suspect that the murders are connected by something a lot more pernicious than either initially imagined. And catching the killer might require them to confront their own prejudices and learn to trust one another, at least long enough to bring the real culprit to justice.

📺 “Always on Call” Trailer: Sara Khorami Stars as a Surgeon Thrown Into the Chaos of an Overwhelmed Oslo Emergency Room in Netflix’s New Norwegian Medical Drama — Streams Thursday, November 26th on Netflix

Okay, sure, Norway has universal healthcare. But that doesn’t mean its medical dramas are any less intense or filled with fewer heartbreaking stories. After all, no matter what country you’re in, these shows have a way of reminding us what makes us human. It’s our ability to help others and, just as importantly, to ask for help when we’re at our lowest. And that’s what makes this new Netflix series so interesting. It’s The Pitt, minus all that medical debt. The Norwegian drama stars Sara Khorami as a promising but impatient surgeon who finds herself reassigned to an overwhelmed emergency room in Oslo. Between the daily chaos of treating patients, hospital politics, and complicated relationships, balancing her professional ambitions becomes a nearly impossible task. Yet with every patient she manages to help comes the reassurance that she might be exactly where she needs to be.

📺 “High Country: Season 2” Trailer: Leah Purcell Returns as Detective Andie Whitford to Investigate a Twisty Double Murder in This Australian Crime Thriller Series — Now Streaming on Hulu

One of the big reasons U.S. audiences should give foreign imports a chance is the opportunity to discover new talent from around the world. And that’s certainly the case with this Australian crime thriller, where Leah Purcell finds herself at the center of a twisty murder mystery, playing Detective Andie Whitford, who is called in to investigate a double murder aboard a houseboat on drought-stricken Lake Eildon. Now, Purcell might not be a well-known name here in the States, but she certainly brings a certain gravitas to the role, leading what looks to be a tightly wound crime thriller where her character finds herself caught in an investigation that becomes increasingly personal the deeper she digs into the buried secrets of a small community. And who doesn’t like a good murder mystery where the hero is constantly underestimated, yet only grows more determined to uncover the truth? Crikey!

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📺 “DIG” Trailer: Amy Poehler and Hugh Laurie Lead a New Comedy Series From ‘Parks and Recreation’ Creator Michael Schur, as a Group of Archaeologists in Greece Stumble Upon a Discovery Worth Fighting Over — Premiering Monday, November 23rd on Peacock

Look, as much as Amy Poehler seems comfortable hosting a popular podcast and chatting with celebrities, what we really want to see her doing is leading a comedy series again. So, thank heavens, Poehler is returning to scripted television this November, reuniting with Parks and Recreation showrunner Michael Schur for a new comedy-mystery series that takes her all the way to Greece, where an archaeological dig becomes the center of some pretty wild antics.

Based on Kate Myers’ novel Excavations, DIG has Poehler leading an ensemble cast that includes House icon Hugh Laurie, Miracle Workers’ Geraldine Viswanathan, The Good Doctor’s Antonia Thomas, and Paper Girls’ Fina Strazza. The story follows a group of archaeologists and college students whose summer excavation takes an unexpected turn when they uncover a rare artifact that could rewrite history. Their discovery, however, becomes something they feel they need to keep under wraps, especially since their arrogant boss (Laurie) has a habit of taking control and claiming all the credit for himself.

Dead set on not letting anyone steal the credit for a discovery that could make their careers, the ladies make a pact to keep their find a secret until they’re ready to reveal it to the world. But keeping something this big under wraps proves a lot harder than expected, especially when simple curiosity turns into outright suspicion.

Also co-starring Kayvan Novak, Jon Pointing, and Bonita Friedericy, the series features a pilot co-written by Poehler and Schur, with writer-producer J.J. Philbin serving as co-showrunner alongside Schur. DIG not only welcomes Amy Poehler back to scripted comedy but also gives Hugh Laurie a chance to chew up the scenery as an overbearing archaeologist who seems determined to make himself the most important person at the dig site.

All 10 episodes of DIG are set to premiere Monday, November 23rd, on Peacock.

📺 “Pride and Prejudice” Trailer: Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden Bring Jane Austen’s Timeless Tale of Love, Class, and Marriage Back to the Screen in Netflix’s New Six-Part Adaptation — Premiering Thursday, December 3rd on Netflix

Fun fact: Pride and Prejudice is the most frequently adapted of Jane Austen’s classic novels, having been brought to the big and small screens more times than most of us can count. But why? Well, Austen’s writing is one reason. It’s devilishly clever, full of sharp observations, and a great example of that wonderfully dry British wit that can cut deeper than a knife, all while maintaining the politest of smiles. But perhaps the real reason Pride and Prejudice keeps finding its way back to the screen, generation after generation, is its timeless exploration of class, love, marriage, and the ridiculous lengths people will go to protect their social standing, even if it means sacrificing their own happiness.

This new six-episode limited series sees The Crown’s Emma Corrin taking on the lead role of Elizabeth Bennet, alongside Slow Horses star (and rumored James Bond contender) Jack Lowden as the wealthy but rather arrogant Mr. Darcy.

You already know the story: the Bennet sisters, whose family is facing financial uncertainty, find themselves under increasing pressure to marry well, not just for their own futures but for the sake of the entire family. In an era when marriage was one of the few ways women could climb the social ladder and secure their financial futures, the outspoken Elizabeth Bennet finds herself caught between society’s expectations and her own stubborn convictions. And things only get more complicated when she crosses paths with Mr. Darcy, a man whose first impression leaves plenty to be desired, forcing her to question whether marrying for love is worth risking her future security.

Dolly Alderton, known for her bestselling memoir Everything I Know About Love, which she later adapted into a television series, takes on the challenge of bringing a fresh perspective to Austen’s beloved novel, while Heartstopper director Euros Lyn helms all six episodes of this latest adaptation.

Corrin and Lowden are joined by a stellar supporting cast that includes Oscar winner Olivia Colman as the marriage-obsessed Mrs. Bennet, The Diplomat’s Rufus Sewell as her husband, Mr. Bennet, Freya Mavor as Jane Bennet, Daryl McCormack as Mr. Bingley, Louis Partridge as Mr. Wickham, Jamie Demetriou as Mr. Collins, and Fiona Shaw as the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

With a new Sense and Sensibility movie hitting theaters just a few weeks ago, it’s turning out to be one hell of a year for Jane Austen fans. And they can mark their calendars for Thursday, December 3rd, when all six episodes of Pride and Prejudice premiere on Netflix.

📺 “Sweetpea: Season 2” Trailer: Ella Purnell Returns as a Newly Confident Serial Killer in This Dark Comedy British Thriller Series — Premieres Thursday, November 26th on Sky and NOW in the UK; Coming Soon in the US

Here’s something you might not have known: Fallout star Ella Purnell is actually British... and yes, she has a British accent. And it’s still kind of weird hearing her speak in her native accent. But here’s the thing. As well as she plays the innocent, wide-eyed, post-apocalyptic survivor in Fallout, she’s anything but innocent in this darkly comic thriller series, which brings her back to her home country of England. This time, Purnell plays Rhiannon Lewis, a seemingly harmless young English woman who goes from being an overlooked wallflower to a full-blown serial killer, discovering that murder might just be the confidence boost she never knew she needed. Season 2 deals with the fallout (no pun intended. Okay, pun intended) from her actions in Season 1. But Rhiannon will soon discover that getting away with murder is one thing. Keeping her deadly little secret buried is another, especially when a copycat killer enters the picture and threatens to expose everything she’s done.

📺 “The Greatest” First Five Minutes: Jaalen Best Steps Into the Ring as Muhammad Ali in Prime Video’s New Biographical Drama About the Boxing Legend — Premieres Wednesday, November 4th on Prime Video

We’ve seen plenty of popular boxing figures come and go over the years. Yet decades after Muhammad Ali last stepped into the ring, many still consider him “The Greatest” of all time. He never shied away from speaking his mind or taking political stances, even when they sparked controversy, making him an enduring symbol of courage and conviction. In this new Amazon biographical series, authorized by Ali’s estate, Jaalen Best portrays Cassius Clay, a young boxing prodigy from Louisville, Kentucky, destined to shake up the world. And not just by dominating the sport. He would embrace a new religion, take a new name, and challenge much of America’s establishment. The series looks to offer a more personal portrait of a boxer who became one of America’s greatest sports icons, proving that being the best in the ring was only part of what made him great. Watch the first five minutes ahead of next week’s premiere.

📺 “P-Valley: Season 3” Trailer: Nicco Annan and Brandee Evans Return to The Pynk for One Last Wild Ride as a New Casino Shakes Up the Mississippi Delta in This Final Season — Premieres Friday, December 4th on STARZ

Welcome to The Pynk, the greatest freak show in the world! Now, that’s not meant to be a derogatory statement. It’s actually how they describe this Dirty South nightclub in the third and final season of this STARZ drama. Created by Katori Hall, the series revolves around the lives of strip club dancers and drag performers working in the Mississippi Delta, where The Pynk is more than just a place to make a living. It’s home to a colorful cast of misfit characters, each trying to survive and chase their dreams, only for the harsh realities of Delta life to keep dragging them back down. Starring Nicco Annan and Brandee Evans, alongside Shannon Thornton and J. Alphonse Nicholson, this final season brings a whole new set of troubles to The Pynk as a casino moves into town, threatening to shake things up more than ever before. So better hold on to something, ’cause things are gonna get wild, even for a club where wild is just an appetizer on the menu.

📺 “Instadocs: Jane Doe v. Cornell” Trailer: Netflix Doc Examines Sexual Assault Allegations, Campus Protests, and The Controversial Lawsuit Against Cornell University — Streaming Now, Thursday, October 29th on Netflix

Netflix has come up with an interesting documentary series that offers short, investigative installments, usually running around 30 minutes or more, periodically tackling some of the most hotly debated topics making headlines today. You could almost call it Netflix’s answer to Dateline, with each installment taking a closer look at a different controversy or scandal. This time around, it’s the sexual assault case at Cornell University, where a former student identified only as Jane Doe alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulted at a fraternity house party. Was her story properly investigated? Did the university fail to protect her? Were the students involved given preferential treatment because of their status on campus? Or was this another case of a young woman struggling to be heard by the very institutions meant to protect her? The documentary follows student journalists investigating the allegations while examining how Cornell’s campus police and Title IX procedures handled the case, raising some uncomfortable questions about accountability, due process, and whether these systems are fundamentally flawed.

📺 “OJ’s Accomplice” Trailer: Did O.J. Simpson Act Alone? Peacock’s Two-Part True-Crime Documentary Explores the Possibility That Someone From O.J.’s Inner Circle Was Involved — Streams Sunday, November 1st on Peacock

Let’s be frank, this feels a bit exploitative and a little sensationalistic, especially when you consider how many times the O.J. Simpson murder trial has already been dissected and debated over the years. But we also can’t deny that plenty of theories have been floated since the shocking murders, including the possibility that Simpson didn’t act alone. And with the seemingly endless stream of true-crime documentaries showing no signs of slowing down, this two-part Peacock special revisits the case yet again, this time asking whether someone from Simpson’s inner circle may have been involved in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Just when we thought there couldn’t possibly be another angle left to explore, along comes another documentary determined to prove us wrong.

📺 “It Gets Worse” Trailer: Leo Reich, Emily Fairn, and Olive Gray Play Three Broke Twenty-Somethings Trying to Survive Adulthood After Getting Evicted in This British Comedy Series, With Guest Appearances by Lena Dunham and Andrew Scott — Streams Friday, November 6th on Paramount+

There’s a universal truth that the younger you are, the more mistakes you’re going to make. Throw in the stress of growing up and figuring out adulthood, and those mistakes are only going to get bigger, messier, and a whole lot harder to fix. British comedian Leo Reich takes that idea and runs with it in a new comedy series he created and stars in. He plays one of three twenty-something friends in London who are barely keeping their lives together when they suddenly find themselves evicted from their flat (apartment), making their already messy transition into adulthood even messier. Also starring Emily Fairn, Olive Gray, and Sean Delaney, with guest appearances from Lena Dunham and Andrew Scott, the series suggests that being in your 20s is less about having your whole life ahead of you and more about wondering how the hell you’re supposed to get through the next day when rent is due.

📺 “Apollo Has Fallen: Season 2” Trailer: Ritu Arya and Tewfik Jallab Race Across Europe to Stop a Deadly Virus in Hulu’s Action-Espionage Thriller — Streaming Now on Hulu / Disney+

Have you watched a spy movie or espionage series lately? Well, if you go by Hollywood’s rules, we’re always just moments away from total destruction. Because somewhere out there, someone has just sold a nuclear weapon to the highest bidder, or some extinction-level catastrophe is waiting to unfold in the middle of a major city. Where’s Jack Bauer when you need him? Well, this British action series returns for its second season, playing by those same rules with a high-stakes, nerve-wracking thriller that sends two agents (played by The Umbrella Academy’s Ritu Arya and Tewfik Jallab) racing across Europe to stop a deadly virus from being unleashed. The clock is ticking. And so is our patience. A follow-up to the French-English series Paris Has Fallen and part of the larger Has Fallen film franchise, this latest installment suggests it takes more than a few good agents to save the world from disaster. It takes agents willing to go rogue.

📺 “Toos: The Van der Valk Kidnapping” Trailer: Frank Lammers and Lies Visschedijk Star in Netflix’s Dutch True-Crime Thriller About a Wealthy Family’s Terrifying 20-Day Kidnapping Ordeal — Premieres Thursday, November 26th on Netflix

Just the thought of one of your loved ones being taken against their will immediately raises the stakes to a whole new level. But at the core of it all is trust. How do you trust the very people who took them? How can you be sure they’ll keep their word and return them safely once the ransom is paid? That seems to be at the heart of this new Dutch true-crime thriller miniseries. Inspired by a real-life kidnapping in the Netherlands in 1982, the series revolves around a wealthy Dutch hotel owner (Frank Lammers) whose beloved wife (Lies Visschedijk) is abducted and held for ransom, leaving his family scrambling to meet the kidnappers’ financial demands without any real assurance that they’ll ever see her alive again. Co-starring Juda Goslinga as a detective investigating the case, this looks like an emotional gut punch of a thriller, where every passing day brings more unbearable uncertainty and the chances of a happy ending seem to grow slimmer.

📺 “Cunk on Cinema” Trailer: Diane Morgan Returns as the Clueless Philomena Cunk to Tackle the History of Movies in Charlie Brooker’s Hilariously Absurd Mockumentary — Premieres Sunday, November 15th on Netflix

Like many great British comedians before her, Diane Morgan has created her own hilarious alter ego in the form of Philomena Cunk, an overly confident buffoon who somehow believes she knows more than the experts she interviews. Poking fun at British news personalities, Cunk is a confidently clueless documentary presenter with a unique talent for asking the most absurd questions with a completely straight face. She returns with another TV special, this time taking on one of our greatest cultural achievements... cinema! Morgan once again teams up with award-winning satirist and Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker for what looks to be a hilariously absurd look at the history of movies, from their earliest beginnings to the rise of CGI and artificial intelligence, with Cunk asking the kind of eyebrow-raising questions that would leave even the most seasoned film experts scratching their heads... when they’re not shaking them in disbelief.

📺 “I Am Helen” Trailer: Nicola Coughlan Confronts a Troubled Five-Year Relationship With Joe Cole in This Intimate Two-Part British Drama — Coming Soon to UK’s Channel 4

If you’ve been following Nicola Coughlan’s career, you’ll know she’s built quite a reputation for playing endearing characters, particularly in her breakout roles in Bridgerton and Derry Girls. Now she gets a chance to stretch her acting chops a bit. In this upcoming two-part installment of the anthology series I Am, the normally bubbly Irish actress taps into her more somber, emotional side, playing a frustrated woman grappling with a crumbling five-year relationship with her boyfriend, played by Peaky Blinders’ Joe Cole. As his increasingly controlling behavior starts to take its toll, she’s forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about the man she thought she knew but perhaps never really did. Created by BAFTA-winning writer-director Dominic Savage and developed in collaboration with Coughlan, this latest installment examines the darker side of modern relationships, where love and trust slowly give way to bitterness and resentment until the relationship, itself, becomes increasingly volatile and perhaps even extremely dangerous.

📺 “Blue Lights: Season 4” Trailer: Siân Brooke, Nathan Braniff, and Katherine Devlin Return to Face Belfast’s Drug Trade and Buried Secrets in the British Police Drama — Streaming Thursday, November 12th on BritBox in the US

People love cop shows. That’s no big secret. But it isn’t just an American thing. Across the pond, police dramas have also found a large audience with their intense stories about corruption and camaraderie. Among them is this Belfast-set police thriller, returning for its fourth season as a group of Northern Irish police officers struggles to contain the region’s relentless drug trade while a murder trial threatens to expose a possible cover-up within the department. Starring Siân Brooke, Nathan Braniff, and Katherine Devlin, alongside Martin McCann and Richard Dormer, the series follows the officers both on and off the job, where dangerous investigations put their careers, relationships, and loyalties to the test... as if the job weren’t already hard enough. If it weren’t for those darn accents, you might mistake it for another Law & Order spinoff.

📺 “Death Stranding Isolations” Trailer: Hideo Kojima Expands His Hit Video Game Universe With a Hand-Drawn Anime Series — Coming in 2027 to Disney+

Award-winning video game creator Hideo Kojima, of Metal Gear fame, is bringing his Death Stranding universe to life in a new hand-drawn anime series, hoping to appeal to fans of both the games and Japanese animation. Set to premiere in 2027, the series takes place in the strange, post-apocalyptic world of his hit video game franchise, but follows an entirely new story with a fresh cast of characters. At the center of it all is a young girl who has grown so accustomed to living in isolation that she actually prefers it that way. But when a series of unexpected encounters pulls her back into a world still struggling to rebuild after a devastating catastrophe, she discovers that avoiding human connection might not be so easy after all.

📺 “Maiden Blood” Trailer: Director Seiji Kishi Unleashes a Dark Fantasy Anime Where Armageddon Goes Horribly Wrong, Demons Rule the Earth, and Human Blood Becomes the Ultimate Weapon — Coming in 2027

From Seiji Kishi, the director who brought you Assassination Classroom, Classroom of the Elite, and Danganronpa: The Animation, comes a new dark fantasy anime series set in a world where Armageddon has gone from bad to even worse. Set to premiere sometime next year, the series follows a battle between good and evil that takes a dramatic turn when Armageddon fails to bring about the end of the world. Dammit, don’t you hate it when that happens? With humanity trapped in a living nightmare ruled by an Evil God, the few remaining survivors must fight to stay alive in a world where human blood has become the most valuable resource, serving as both fuel and a useful weapon against the demons that now roam the Earth. Just when you thought the world couldn’t get any more screwed up, along come an apocalypse, demons, an Evil God, and a serious shortage of reasons to be happy.

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📺 “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 3” Trailer: Sauron Sets His Sights on Forging the One Ring as Galadriel, Elrond and Their Allies Prepare for War — Premiering Wednesday, November 11th on Prime Video

To be quite honest, we can see why this series has kept Tolkien fans in constant debate over whether it stays true to the source material or takes way too many liberties with Middle-earth’s mythology. Look, The Lord of the Rings novels are practically sacred texts at this point. And for a whole generation raised on Peter Jackson’s films, even the thought of someone revisiting Middle-earth without his involvement was bound to raise a few eyebrows.

But here’s the thing about Amazon’s The Rings of Power: it might not be remembered for expanding Tolkien’s world in a way that satisfies everyone, but it could very well be remembered as an example of just how sophisticated and ambitious original streaming shows have become. There’s no doubt the show is a colossal achievement in visual effects and production design, rivaling even some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters. There was a time when television was seen as something smaller in scale and ambition, but The Rings of Power has shown that the only thing small about a TV production these days is the screen you’re watching it on.

Now, is all that enough to justify the existence of this Middle-earth prequel series, which at times has felt more like typical franchise drivel than anything else, or perhaps just an expensive vanity project for a few Amazon executives? That’s for viewers to decide.

The Rings of Power is coming back for its third season next month, and things aren’t looking particularly good for the people of Middle-earth. With the series set thousands of years before the events of Tolkien’s novels, this new season picks up five years after the fall of Eregion, with Sauron (Charlie Vickers) getting dangerously close to conquering the whole place. He’s building an army, spreading destruction wherever he goes, and generally making life miserable for just about everyone. Meanwhile, Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), and their allies are still trying to get the remaining kingdoms to put aside their differences before an all-out war breaks out. And then there’s Gandalf (Daniel Weyman), who’s still finding his feet as a young wizard (well, relatively speaking, considering his age). All of this is happening while Sauron works on his biggest project yet: forging the One Ring. You know, the ring to rule them all.

Executive produced by series creators J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay, the show also brings back Ismael Cruz Córdova, Benjamin Walker, and Owain Arthur, while Stranger Things’ Jamie Campbell Bower and Eddie Marsan join the cast, along with Simon Pegg lending his voice to the Balrog.

Whatever your feelings about the series, it’s hard to argue with the sheer scale of the production for this new season. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power continues to push the boundaries of visual effects and production values, once again aiming to challenge your preconceived notions of just how big and ambitious a streaming original series can be.

Season three kicks off Wednesday, November 11th on Prime Video with four episodes, followed by two more on November 18th and the final two on November 25th.

📺 “MobLand: Season 2” Midseason Trailer: Tom Hardy Is Caught Between a Feuding Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren as the Harrigan Crime Family Faces an All-Out War — New Episodes Every Friday on Paramount+, With the Season Finale November 20th

If you’ve been watching this Guy Ritchie-produced London mob series starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Helen Mirren, you’ll know by now that it isn’t just about wild Cockney lingo, violent bravado, and bullet-laden shootouts. Well, okay, there’s plenty of that, too. But there’s more going on here than meets the eye.

For starters, Hardy, an actor known for his wild, chaotic, and sometimes unpredictable performances, is surprisingly restrained here, playing the tightly wound Harry Da Souza. What’s great to see is that it’s actually Brosnan and Mirren who get to chew up the scenery, practically running wild like two rabid dogs let off their leashes as Conrad and Maeve Harrigan. Barking orders as the heads of a powerful London criminal empire, they’re a married couple who might as well be at war with everyone around them, including each other. It’s a toxic relationship to say the least.

And while the series certainly has that familiar Guy Ritchie vibe, at its core, it’s about the deeply dysfunctional Harrigan crime family, whose loyalties are constantly tested by the erratic behavior of its two larger-than-life leaders, Conrad and Maeve (Brosnan and Mirren). That leaves their loyal fixer, Harry (Hardy), to clean up one bloody mess after another, all in an effort to keep the family from plunging into an all-out gang war. But Harry’s unwavering devotion to the Harrigans has come at a steep personal cost, leaving his own marriage and family life in absolute ruins.

Season 2 has continued to stretch that already strained relationship between Harry and the Harrigans, testing just how far his loyalty will go before something finally snaps. Because if there’s one thing that’s become increasingly clear this season, it’s that Harry would probably make a far better leader of the criminal empire than Conrad and Maeve ever could.

And to make matters worse, the season introduces a couple of new adversaries: Johnny Flynn as Frankie Cooper, an up-and-coming London gangster looking to make his mark by muscling in on Harrigan territory while the family is busy at each other’s throats. Meanwhile, Ophelia Lovibond joins the cast as Detective Kavanaugh, a determined investigator who has the Harrigans firmly in her sights.

So, if you like your British gangster dramas violent, chaotic, and a little fiery, then MobLand might be something you’ll want to add to your watchlist. Tom Hardy gives Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren plenty of room to take over and be as gloriously unhinged as they please. But that’s not to say Hardy isn’t absolutely crushing it himself. His character keeps his emotions tightly bottled up, even as the pressure continues to build. And you just know he’s a powder keg waiting to explode, which makes his performance all the more fascinating to watch.

MobLand: Season 2 is now streaming on Paramount+, with new episodes every Friday leading up to the season finale on November 20th. Watch the newly released Season 2 midseason trailer above, which promises even more twists and deadly turns as the Harrigan family’s criminal empire threatens to come apart at the seams, forcing Harry to pick a side… and perhaps finally take control himself.

📺 “Carrie: Season 2” Announcement Promo: Mike Flanagan’s Modern Take on Stephen King’s Horror Classic Is Getting Another Season, With More of Carrie White’s Story Still to Tell — Coming Soon to Prime Video

Horror maestro Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, Doctor Sleep) had his work cut out for him updating Stephen King’s classic horror novel Carrie for modern audiences. But whether you loved it or hated this new modern version, Flanagan’s take certainly got people talking… and tweeting. Of course, Carrie has been adapted several times before, with mixed results. But Flanagan managed to put his own spin on the familiar story, adding the horrors of social media and teenage bullying while showing what it’s like for teens growing up in a world where everyone’s glued to their phones, free to air their grievances from behind a screen with almost total anonymity. And when all is said and done, he leaves the door open for the story to go places previous adaptations never could. Now, with Amazon Studios officially renewing the series for a second season, Flanagan clearly has more up his sleeve, purportedly a three-season arc in mind. Where things go from here is anyone’s guess, however, especially with questions left hanging after Season One’s finale. But if there’s one thing we know about Carrie White (played marvelously by breakout Summer H. Howell), it’s that pushing her too far is never a good idea.

📺 “The Hunting Wives: Season 2” Trailer: Brittany Snow and Malin Åkerman Return for More Dirty Secrets, Deadly Scandals, and Dangerous Games in Netflix’s Steamy Texas Thriller, With John Stamos Joining the Cast — Returns Thursday, November 26th on Netflix

They say Las Vegas is Sin City, but this Netflix hit is making a pretty good case that the real den of sin might just be in the state of Texas. After all, everything is bigger there, and apparently that goes for the local scandals, dirty domestic secrets, and salacious behavior, too. Brittany Snow and Malin Åkerman return for Season 2 as Sophie and Margo, two married women whose dangerous relationship has left them on the outs. But in the wealthy community of Maple Brook, old secrets have a nasty habit of resurfacing, and new enemies have a way of bringing people back together… whether they like it or not. John Stamos and Dale Dickey join the cast alongside returning cast members Dermot Mulroney, Evan Jonigkeit, and Jaime Ray Newman. And with the town’s man-eating social circle getting messier by the minute, one question hangs over everything: Are Sophie and Margo still the hunters, or have they become the hunted? Locked and loaded, these housewives are anything but delicate flowers.

📺 “New Wave” Trailer: Billy Idol, Devo, Duran Duran, Boy George, and More Look Back at the Music That Defined the Tubular ’80s in Douglas Tirola’s Four-Part Docuseries — Debuts Monday, November 23rd on MGM+

“Gag me with a spoon!” “Totally tubular!” “Take a chill pill, Phil!” We could go on forever with ’80s slang and catchphrases. But I think we can all agree that the decade gave us some of the coolest things in pop culture, and maybe nothing was cooler than the music, especially New Wave. This four-part docuseries from Douglas Tirola (Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon) takes us back to a time when artists and bands like Billy Idol, Devo, The Police, The Smiths, Duran Duran, Boy George, and the B-52s were making noise and breaking into the mainstream. But New Wave was more than just a mix of punk rock, pop, and dance music. It was a whole movement that shook up pop culture, influencing everything from fashion and technology to personal style and attitude. Packed with archival footage, firsthand stories, and plenty of nostalgia, the series looks back at the music and the people who helped define a generation. “Party on, dude!”

📺 “Fallout Shelter: The Experiment” Announcement Teaser: Prime Video Turns the ‘Fallout’ Universe Into a Reality Competition Where Contestants Face the Apocalypse for a Shot at $1 Million — Streams Wednesday, January 13th on Prime Video

If you’ve ever thought the Fallout universe would make a great setting for a reality competition show, well, apparently someone at Prime Video had the same idea. And so, a video game turned streaming series has now become a game show. It’s the circle of life! Taking inspiration from the hit video games and TV series, this ten-episode competition drops everyday people into Vault-Tec’s bomb-proof shelters to see how well they’d handle the apocalypse. There’ll be physical challenges, psychological mind games, and some tough decisions that could turn friends into enemies. And, of course, there’s money involved. A cool $1 million, to be exact. But with everyone looking out for themselves, who can you really trust when only one Vault Dweller gets to walk away with the prize?

📺 “Janelle James: How Romantic” Trailer: ‘Abbott Elementary’ Star Janelle James Steps Onto the Stage With Plenty to Say About Sex, Relationships, Money, and Fame in Her First Hour-Long Netflix Stand-Up Special — Premieres Tuesday, November 10th on Netflix

You might know Janelle James as Principal Ava Coleman on the hit ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary, but for her debut hour-long stand-up special, she’s back onstage doing what she does best: talking into a microphone and speaking her mind. And while fame may have brought her a bigger paycheck and a growing fan base, James still finds plenty to laugh about, from relationships and sex to money and the differences between men and women. This Netflix comedy special finds James enjoying her newfound success, with her filter still firmly switched off.

📺 “Taken: Natalee Holloway” Trailer: A Mother’s 20-Year Fight for Truth and Justice Takes Center Stage in Netflix’s Three-Part True-Crime Docuseries About Her Daughter’s Disappearance and Murder — Premieres Wednesday, November 4th on Netflix

On the surface, it has all the makings of a riveting true-crime docuseries: a young woman on a picturesque vacation in Aruba. A trip that ends in tragedy and heartbreak. But this story goes beyond simply piecing together what happened that fateful night. At the center of it all is a desperate mother who has spent twenty years searching for answers, only to fight like hell for justice for her murdered daughter. You might remember the headline: Back in 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway vanished during a high school graduation trip, sparking an international investigation that made news around the world. It’s now more than two decades later, and directors Dani Sloane and Matthew Galkin revisit the case in this three-part Netflix documentary. With unprecedented access to Natalee’s mother, Beth, along with personal interviews and archival footage, the series follows her relentless search for the truth. It’s a story of a mother who refused to give up, even as the years dragged on and the answers she desperately sought remained out of reach.

📺 “He Said, She Said: Till Death Do Us Part” Trailer: A Bitter Custody Battle Between Two Lawyers Turns Into a Viral Public Spectacle in This Three-Part True-Crime Docuseries From the Filmmakers of ‘Jesus Camp’ — Debuts Tuesday, November 17th on Paramount+

There’s something fascinating about true-crime documentaries. They have a way of digging up skeletons in people’s closets and exposing the darker side of human nature. It just makes us wonder: Is everyone hiding some dark secret? Well, watch enough true crime, and you might start to think so. This three-part docuseries from Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp) further examines people’s dark skeletons as it follows a bitter custody battle between two high-powered lawyers, Allan and Catherine Kassenoff. What began as a private family dispute eventually spilled onto social media, turning their troubled marriage into an online spectacle. But that raises an interesting question: When someone puts their private life out there for the world to see, how much of the story are we really getting? Are we seeing the whole picture, or just the parts someone wants us to see? After all, no marriage is quite as perfect as it might seem… certainly not this one. And every story has two sides: his and hers. This one, however, ends in ways no one saw coming.

📺 “Murder in Galicia” Trailer: A Detective Investigates a Brutal Attack and Suspects the Victim’s Own Husband in Netflix’s Spanish True-Crime Thriller Miniseries Starring Tristán Ulloa and Miguel Borines — Premieres Friday, November 13th on Netflix

Murder is a devastating crime to investigate, no matter where it happens. Even in a town known for its orderly scenery. But when the suspect is someone close to the victim, well, that unbelievable ugliness becomes an almost universal story, no matter what language it’s told in. This new three-episode Spanish procedural thriller is set in a seemingly peaceful Galician village. The story follows a sergeant (Tristán Ulloa) investigating a brutal attack on a woman named Irene. While she fights for her life in the hospital, he begins to suspect that her husband (Miguel Borines) may have been involved in the assault. But here’s the thing: gathering enough evidence to make a case proves to be extremely difficult, leaving Irene vulnerable to another attack from her husband. Directed by Carlos Sedes and inspired by a real criminal case, this Netflix limited series explores a disturbing possibility: that some of the greatest dangers we face may come from those closest to us.

📺 “The Blue Road” Trailer: Two Detectives From Korea and Japan Join Forces to Hunt a Serial Killer in Netflix’s New Crime Thriller Series Starring Son Suk-ku and Eita Nagayama — Debuts Friday, November 20th on Netflix

Okay, we know what you’re thinking: What, yet another foreign crime series about an unsolved murder and a detective hunting down the killer? Yep. Here’s another one. But there’s nothing quite like a tense police procedural to get us hitting that play button again. This time, the hunt crosses international borders when a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo and Seoul brings together two detectives who would otherwise have little reason to work together. Son Suk-ku and Eita Nagayama star as Korean and Japanese investigators forced to join forces after bodies turn up with cryptic messages written in each other’s language. And the deeper they dig, the more complicated things get, as their uneasy partnership is tested by a killer whose motives remain a mystery. Ooooh, sounds like another binge-watching session might be in order. Directed by D.P. filmmaker Han Jun-hee, this eight-episode Netflix thriller adds another international crime drama to the streamer’s lineup of tense murder mysteries.

📺 “A Remarkable Place to Die: Season 2” Trailer: Detective Anais Mallory Is Back on the Case, Investigating New Murders and Uncovering More Secrets in New Zealand’s Picturesque Queenstown — Streams Monday, November 30th on Acorn TV in the U.S.

It’s always interesting to see how detectives go about solving crimes in different parts of the world. Take this New Zealand crime series, for example. The police work might be a little different from what we’re used to seeing in American shows, but the job is pretty much the same: follow the clues, ask the right questions, and figure out what really happened. Back for Season 2, Detective Anais Mallory (again played by Chelsie Preston-Crayford) has another murder to investigate in the beautiful town of Queenstown, where the scenery is stunning, but the locals have their share of secrets. Hell, isn’t that always the case? And if that weren’t enough, she’s still dealing with some unanswered questions about her own family.

📺 “Honey” U.K. Trailer: Ann Skelly Gets Caught Between a Stasi Officer and an American CIA Agent in Emma Moran’s Darkly Comic Cold War Spy Thriller Co-Starring Nate Mann, Jannis Niewöhner, and Rory Kinnear — Premieres Saturday, November 14th on UK’s BBC One and BBC iPlayer

From Emma Moran, creator of the cult British superhero satire Extraordinary, comes this new darkly comic espionage drama set during the Cold War. It’s 1982, and in East Berlin, young MI6 agent Martha Schmitt (Ann Skelly, from HBO’s The Nevers) has her hands full trying to keep her cover intact while staying one step ahead of the Stasi. As if that weren’t enough, things get even messier when she finds herself romantically tangled up with a suspicious East German counter-espionage chief (German actor Jannis Niewöhner) and a rather impulsive American CIA agent (Masters of the Air actor Nate Mann). With secrets to keep, loyalties to question, and two men who could expose her true identity, Martha has plenty to worry about. Also co-starring The Diplomat’s Rory Kinnear, this six-part BBC thriller serves up Cold War spy intrigue with the kind of trouble that comes from falling for the wrong person on either side of the Wall.

📺 “Hunting Alice Bell” U.K. Trailer: Alexandra Roach Joins Four Women Falsely Accused of Being a Serial Killer’s Accomplice, With Simon Pegg Playing Against Type in This Six-Episode British Psychological Thriller — Coming Soon to UK’s Channel 4

Okay, imagine being falsely accused of a terrible crime you didn’t commit. What would be worse? Trying to clear your name or realizing that the public might not even care whether you’re innocent or not? That’s the nightmare facing Fran Da Silva (Alexandra Roach), whose life is turned upside down when a group of internet sleuths becomes convinced she’s Alice Bell, the missing lover and accomplice of a notorious serial killer (played by Simon Pegg… yes, a little against type here). And Fran isn’t the only one caught up in this mess. Four other women have also been accused of being Alice. Fed up with the accusations, they decide to join forces, track down the real woman, and hopefully put an end to the nightmare. Created by David Baddiel and Peter Bradshaw, this six-part British psychological thriller taps into something unsettling about our obsession with true crime and online detective work. When everyone on the internet thinks they’ve solved the mystery, does anyone actually care about getting the facts right?

📺 “My Happy Marriage: Special Episodes” Trailer: Miyo and Kiyoka’s Wedding Plans Hit a Snag as Someone From Her Past Returns in This Three-Episode Anime Special — Premieres Sunday, October 25th on Netflix

Fans of My Happy Marriage have something more to look forward to, as three brand-new installments are coming this month. The romantic fantasy anime is returning with three special episodes following its second season. Based on the light novel series by Akumi Agitogi, the story picks up with Miyo and Kiyoka as they prepare for their wedding. For once, things seem to be falling into place for the couple. But, of course, their happiness doesn’t come without a few complications. Just when you think Miyo and Kiyoka have seen it all by now, an unexpected reunion with someone from Miyo’s past threatens to derail their wedding plans. Directed by Takehiro Kubota, the special brings back the familiar mix of romance, family drama, and a little supernatural intrigue. And judging by what’s in store, Miyo and Kiyoka still have a few hurdles to jump through before they can finally say “I do.”

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📺 “Common Side Effects: Season 2” Teaser: Marshall and Frances Are Back on the Run in Adult Swim’s Weird and Wonderfully Trippy Animated Conspiracy Comedy — Premieres January 24th on Adult Swim, Streaming Next Day on HBO Max

Hmm, how do you describe this Adult Swim series? Let’s give it a try: Imagine Indiana Jones and The Big Lebowski getting thrown together during a psychedelic acid trip, and what you end up with is a magic mushroom-protecting, anti-corporate hero who sports a bucket hat, a potbelly, an unbuttoned pink short-sleeve shirt, and a pair of jorts instead of a cool fedora, leather jacket, and whip.

And even with that nifty introduction, you still might not have the slightest idea what Common Side Effects is all about. But one thing’s for sure: it’s one of the coolest (and weirdest) animated comedy series to come along in quite a while.

Created by Joe Bennett (Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (The Office, 30 Rock, Veep), and featuring the voices of Dave King, Emily Pendergast, Martha Kelly, Joseph Lee Anderson, and Mike Judge, who also serves as an executive producer, this acid trip of a cartoon series imagines a world where a rare strain of mushroom can cure just about any disease known to mankind. Unfortunately, that kind of miracle doesn’t sit too well with the pharmaceutical industry or the government.

Stuck in the middle of this pharmaceutical-fueled manhunt is Marshall Cuso (King), a laid-back botanist who, after years of research, has finally found the fabled Blue Angel mushroom. Wanting to share his discovery with the world for the greater good, Marshall reunites with his old high school lab partner, Frances Applewhite (Pendergast), believing her connections to the pharmaceutical industry might somehow provide a way to get it into the hands of the public. Little do they realize that their miracle cure is about to make them targets of some very powerful people who would rather see the mushroom disappear than let it change the world.

Season 2 will continue to follow Marshall and Frances on the run as they deal with the increasingly bizarre consequences of their discovery, while government agents Harrington (Kelly) and Copano (Lee Anderson) remain hot on their trail. Marshall believes a deeper dive into the mushroom’s ancient history and mythology just might unlock the secrets behind its miraculous healing powers. Or perhaps lead to another mind-melting acid trip. Either way, pharmaceutical CEO Rick Kruger (Judge) believes that if he can get his hands on the Blue Angel, he’ll be sitting on the most valuable medical discovery in history. And you can bet he’s not exactly planning to give it away for free.

If you like your animated shows weird and wonderfully trippy, we can’t recommend checking out Season 1 of Common Side Effects enough. And while you’re at it, get ready for Season 2, which is set to premiere January 24, 2027, on Adult Swim, with episodes streaming the following day on HBO Max.

📺 “The Greatest” Trailer: Jaalen Best Steps Into the Ring as Boxing Legend Muhammad Ali in This Michael B. Jordan-Produced Biographical Sports Drama Series Exploring the Man Behind the Legend — Premieres Wednesday, November 4th on Prime Video

What made Muhammad Ali “The Greatest”? Now, perhaps the term “the greatest” might be a little subjective to some. But in this case, we’re not just talking about what he accomplished inside the boxing ring. Sure, his speed, skill, and larger-than-life personality made him one of the most celebrated athletes in history. But it was what he stood for outside the ring; his willingness to challenge the establishment, speak his mind, and stand by his convictions, even when it came at a tremendous personal cost. It made Muhammad Ali so much more than just another boxing champion.

In the upcoming Amazon series The Greatest, Muhammad Ali isn’t simply the subject of another sports biopic. His life also serves as a window into a pivotal chapter of American history, when the country was undergoing tremendous social and political change. It was an era marked by the civil rights movement, racial tensions, the Vietnam War, and a generation beginning to question the very institutions they had been taught to respect. And right in the middle of it all was a young boxer from Louisville, Kentucky, named Cassius Clay, who wasn’t afraid to speak his mind, challenge the status quo, or even change his name to reflect his religious beliefs and personal identity.

Relative newcomer Jaalen Best takes on the role of the boxing champion who would eventually become known around the world as “The Greatest.” He’s joined by an impressive ensemble cast, including Omari Hardwick (Power) and Dana Gourrier (Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight) as Ali’s parents, Cassius Clay Sr. and Odessa “Bird” Clay; Kai Parham as his brother Rudy; Amin Joseph (Snowfall) as his legendary rival Sonny Liston; Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar) as his longtime trainer Angelo Dundee; and Michael Ealy (Barbershop) as the influential civil rights figure Malcolm X.

Created and executive produced by Ben Watkins (Cross), alongside fellow executive producers Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan, Shawn Carter (Jay-Z), and Muhammad Ali’s widow, Lonnie Ali, The Greatest is set to premiere Wednesday, November 4th, exclusively on Prime Video. The eight-episode limited series is also the first authorized scripted television drama about the legendary boxer, developed with the involvement of Ali’s estate.

📺 “Frisco King” Teaser: Samuel L. Jackson Heads to Texas to Build His Own Criminal Empire in Taylor Sheridan’s Upcoming ‘Tulsa King’ Spinoff Series — Premiering Friday, December 18th on Paramount+

Samuel L. Jackson is one of those actors whose larger-than-life personality can barely be contained on the big screen, let alone the small screen. So we can expect plenty of wild antics, outrageous situations, and Jackson’s trademark attitude pushing the limits of your TV screen as he takes center stage in the new Paramount+ series Frisco King.

For the uninitiated, Jackson made a guest appearance in the third season of Sylvester Stallone’s hit mob series Tulsa King. He played Russell Lee Washington Jr., a seasoned New Orleans gangster and former hitman who was sent to take out Stallone’s character, Dwight Manfredi. But rather than kill an old acquaintance from his prison days, Lee decided to spare him. Now, he’s heading to Frisco, Texas, where he discovers that beneath the manicured lawns and picture-perfect neighborhoods lies a whole new world of criminal opportunities just waiting to be exploited.

As one of the many shows under the ever-expanding Taylor Sheridan-created Paramount+ umbrella, Frisco King is written entirely by Sheridan himself, who penned all eight episodes of the spinoff series. While an official showrunner has yet to be confirmed, the series features directors Christina Alexandra Voros and Michael Friedman, with each helming four episodes.

Joining Jackson in the cast are Asa Germann as Teddy, Kai Caster as Keith, Lilah Pate as London, and Savanna Gann as Avery, a ragtag group of characters who become part of Lee’s growing criminal enterprise. And for fans of the original series, Sylvester Stallone is also set to make a special appearance, reprising his role as Dwight Manfredi.

Frisco King is set to premiere Friday, December 18th, exclusively on Paramount+, launching with its first two episodes before continuing with new episodes every Friday.

📺 “12 12 12” Trailer: Jamie Dornan Has 12 Days to Escape After a Daring Bank Heist, but Anthony Mackie Is Determined to Catch Him in This Robbery/Manhunt Thriller Series — Premieres Friday, November 13th on Apple TV

Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan make an interesting pair. They showed off their unique chemistry in the 2019 time-traveling horror thriller Synchronic, playing two New Orleans paramedics who stumble upon a mysterious designer street drug that causes some pretty bizarre and terrifying side effects. Now, the two actors are reuniting for 12 12 12, an upcoming heist thriller series that trades time travel for a high-stakes game of cat and mouse across Europe. This time around, however, Mackie and Dornan aren’t partners. They’re on opposite sides of the law, with Dornan playing a career criminal planning an elaborate robbery and Mackie as the disgraced FBI agent determined to bring him down.

Created by British television writers and producers Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble (Wild Bill), and also starring Agathe Rousselle, Jack Kesy, Sallie Harmsen, Kali Reis, José Garcia, and Julius Feldmeier, the eight-episode crime thriller suggests that pulling off the perfect caper takes 12 months of planning, 12 hours of execution, and 12 days to get away without getting caught.

The series follows that meticulously planned effort as a heist targeting a hidden bank vault beneath the streets of Zurich goes from a seemingly foolproof plan to a desperate race to escape with the loot. But rather than telling the story in a straight line from beginning to end, 12 12 12 jumps between three different timelines, revealing how the robbery was planned, how it all went down, and what happens when the criminals have just 12 days to disappear before the authorities catch up with them.

So it’s Mackie versus Dornan in a battle of wits, with one determined to pull off the perfect crime and the other equally determined to make sure he doesn’t get away with it. Who will outsmart whom? And will all that careful planning actually pay off? We’ll find out when 12 12 12 debuts Friday, November 13th, on Apple TV with a two-episode premiere.

📺 “The Land” Trailer: Christopher Meloni, Mandy Moore, Chloe Bennet, Omar Epps, and William H. Macy Star in Dan Fogelman’s New Football Franchise Drama Series — Premieres Monday, February 15, 2027 on Hulu and Disney+

Here’s the thing about football: most people think all the drama happens on the field, but sometimes the real action takes place behind the scenes. In this new Hulu original series from This Is Us and Paradise creator Dan Fogelman, the Cleveland Browns are at the center of a family drama that takes us behind the scenes of one of the NFL’s most storied franchises, from the locker room to the front office. Christopher Meloni stars as head coach Danny Roarke, who faces a make-or-break season after years of disappointing results. His last hope rests on a newly drafted quarterback (Sam Corlett), who just happens to be his estranged son. Meanwhile, off the field, there’s no shortage of family feuds, personal rivalries, and power struggles, with Mandy Moore, William H. Macy, Chace Crawford, Bridget Moynahan, Chloe Bennet, and Omar Epps rounding out the cast. It’s a reminder that football can be a vicious game, but sometimes it’s nothing compared to what goes on behind closed doors.

📺 “The Gilded Age: Season 4” Trailer: Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Denée Benton, and Morgan Spector Return for More High-Society Rivalries in HBO’s Acclaimed Period Series — Premieres Sunday, November 1st on HBO and HBO Max

The more things change, the more they stay the same. And this new season of HBO’s acclaimed period drama isn’t doing much to prove that old saying wrong. Often described as the American version of Downton Abbey, and funnily enough, coming from the same creator, Julian Fellowes, The Gilded Age returns for a fourth season to explore the class divisions of 1880s New York, where old money, new fortunes, elitism, and social ambition continue to clash in ways that feel remarkably familiar. Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Denée Benton, Louisa Jacobson, Phylicia Rashad, and Audra McDonald, among others, return as characters from different corners of New York society, each with their own aspirations, loyalties, and social standing to protect. It was a time of extraordinary wealth, but also deep social divisions and a class struggle that, in many ways, continues to this day. Which makes the show feel less like a history lesson and more like looking into a dusty old mirror.

📺 “Baywatch” Trailer: Stephen Amell Leads a New Generation of Lifeguards in FOX’s Reboot of the Iconic Beachside Drama, Co-Starring Shay Mitchell, Livvy Dunne, and Jessica Belkin — Coming January 2027

The summer might be over, but this winter is about to get a whole lot hotter. ’Cuz this January, the beach is back in business, and so are those iconic red swimsuits. Arrow star Stephen Amell leads this new Baywatch reboot as Hobie Buchannon, the son of David Hasselhoff’s iconic character Mitch Buchannon, who now heads up his own team of lifeguards along the Southern California coast. And like dear old Dad, Hobie has his hands full, juggling dangerous rescues and a team of lifeguards who bring plenty of problems of their own. Joining in the beachy fun are Shay Mitchell, Jessica Belkin, Hassie Harrison, Noah Beck, and Livvy Dunne, along with a few familiar faces from the original series. Executive produced by original series creators Michael Berk, Gregory J. Bonann, and Douglas Schwartz, with Burn Notice creator Matt Nix serving as showrunner, the reboot hopes to bring back everything that made the original a worldwide hit: beautiful people in red swimsuits, the sun-soaked beaches of Los Angeles, daring beachside rescues, and plenty of soap opera-style romance and drama.

📺 “The Body” Trailer: Catholic School Girls Face a Sinful Mix of Teen Drama, Dark Humor, and Satanic Horror in Quinn Shephard’s New Netflix Mystery Series Starring Sofia Wylie, Kristina Bogic, Sara Boustany, and Geena Meszaros — Premiering Wednesday, November 11th on Netflix

High school can be hell for some. But at this particular all-girls Catholic school, the devil might have something to do with it. In this new Netflix miniseries from Not Okay writer-director Quinn Shephard, a Halloween initiation gone wrong sends an all-girls dance squad spiraling into Catholic guilt, teen angst, girl drama and a troubling mystery surrounding one of their own. Starring Sofia Wylie, Kristina Bogic, Sara Boustany, Geena Meszaros, Jackson Kelly, Shirley Chen, Emily Roman, Josh Cruddas, Gabriela Windey, and Nnamdi Asomugha, this looks like a sinful mix of dark humor and satanic horror, as the girls begin experiencing seemingly prophetic visions that send their entire school into a frenzy. Are they witnessing divine intervention, or is this just another case of teenage hysteria? Either way, these girls have some serious praying and confessing to do. And boy, do they have a lot to confess. Who said Catholic school girls were such angels? Sometimes the devil wears a cheerleading uniform.

📺 “Yellowjackets: Season 4” Final Season Teaser Trailer: The Survivors Are Finally Coming Home in Showtime’s Acclaimed Mystery Thriller, Starring Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nélisse and Jasmin Savoy Brown — Premieres Friday, November 20th on Paramount+ Premium with Showtime

It started with an all-girls high school soccer team. Then came a devastating plane crash and some questionable decisions about survival. From there, things only got stranger, with homicidal urges, woodland cults, and more than a few eyebrow-raising rituals. Before long, there were dark secrets and plenty of dead bodies, all wrapped up in a healthy dose of ’90s nostalgia. Nearly thirty years later, the surviving teammates are still dealing with the fallout, and their reunions have a habit of bringing those buried secrets back to the surface. Now, with Season 4, it’s all about to come to an end. Showtime’s mystery thriller became one of the rare cable shows to generate some serious buzz in an era dominated by streaming. Along the way, it helped put breakout stars like Sophie Thatcher, Sophie Nélisse, and Jasmin Savoy Brown on the map, while giving Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, and Tawny Cypress plenty of opportunities to deliver Emmy-worthy performances. Once again jumping back and forth between past and present, this fourth and final season will finally reveal how the girls made it back home after surviving 19 months in the wilderness.

📺 “St. Denis Medical: Season 3” Trailer: David Alan Grier Returns to the Hospital, Only to Find Damon Wayans Has Taken His Place in NBC’s Medical Workplace Comedy with Wendi McLendon-Covey, Allison Tolman, and Josh Lawson — Returns Monday, November 2nd on NBC, Streaming Next Day on Peacock

You know how The Pitt has been winning all these awards for its compelling, realistic portrayal of the everyday struggles of working in a hospital emergency room? Well, this NBC sitcom is kinda like that, but minus all the awards, the gritty realism, and, well, most of the medical accuracy. What you get instead is a workplace comedy about a group of eccentric doctors, nurses, and hospital staff who are just trying to make it through another shift without completely losing their minds... or their jobs. David Alan Grier returns as Dr. Ron, who’s fresh off heart surgery and already butting heads with the new doctor who filled in for him while he was away, played by fellow In Living Color alum Damon Wayans. Meanwhile, Wendi McLendon-Covey is back as Joyce, the hospital administrator trying to keep the whole underfunded operation from falling apart, with Allison Tolman, Josh Lawson, Kahyun Kim, and Mekki Leeper also returning for another round of medical mishaps and workplace drama.

📺 “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins: Season 2” Trailer: Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe Are Back for Another Shot at Redemption in NBC’s Comedy from the Team Behind ‘30 Rock’ — Premieres Monday, November 2nd on NBC and Streams Next Day on Peacock

In this era of cancel culture and public scrutiny, it’s good to know there’s still a road to redemption for someone looking to make amends. But for Tracy Morgan’s Reggie Dinkins, that comeback is a little more complicated than most. In this second season of NBC’s comedy, the disgraced former football star continues his quest to rebuild his reputation. The only problem is that he keeps stumbling over his own mistakes. But with the help of a washed-up filmmaker (Daniel Radcliffe), who could use a comeback of his own, Reggie might just have a fighting chance at getting his life back on track. That is, if he can keep his foot out of his mouth long enough to earn the public’s forgiveness. Co-starring Erika Alexander, Bobby Moynihan, Precious Way, and Jalyn Hall, here’s one sitcom where the laughs come at the expense of a man who just can’t seem to get out of his own way.

📺 “Ghosts: Halloween Special” Trailer: The Gang at Woodstone Mansion Returns for a Two-Part Halloween Event — Airing Thursday, October 29th on CBS and Paramount+

Halloween is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than by spending it with the gang at Woodstone Mansion? In CBS’s upcoming two-part Ghosts Halloween special, Sam (Rose McIver) is off in Australia filming her new movie, leaving Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) and Kyle (Ben Feldman) with the unenviable task of keeping Woodstone’s supernatural residents in line. And as if babysitting a house full of ghosts wasn’t enough, Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) gets an unexpected reunion with her estranged sister Margaret (Maria Thayer), while Bela (Punam Patel) decides to throw a rather unconventional Halloween bash. Meanwhile, Pete’s mysterious disappearance is still hanging over the mansion, so there’s already plenty going on before the Halloween festivities even begin. And knowing this bunch, there’s bound to be more than a few tricks to go along with the treats.

📺 “The Chosen: Season 6” Trailer: Jonathan Roumie Returns as Jesus in the Final Hours Before the Crucifixion as Dallas Jenkins’ Biblical Drama — Premieres Sunday, November 15th on Prime Video

Considered one of the more groundbreaking religious dramas in recent years, helping prove there’s still a real appetite for this type of storytelling, Dallas Jenkins’ biblical drama is now six seasons in, and things are about to get a whole lot more emotional. This time around, the popular series takes us into the final hours of Jesus of Nazareth, with Jonathan Roumie returning as Jesus as he makes his way toward the crucifixion. Roumie is joined by returning cast members Shahar Isaac as Simon Peter, Paras Patel as Matthew, Elizabeth Tabish as Mary Magdalene, and Luke Dimyan as Judas, among others. And while we all know how this story ends, it’s the people caught up in those final hours, and how they deal with what’s coming, that could make this chapter especially gripping and heartbreaking.

📺 “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” Trailer: A New Crew of Street Misfits Takes on the Neon-Soaked Roads of Night City in Netflix’s Standalone Anime Follow-Up — Premieres Tuesday, October 20th on Netflix

The streets of Night City can’t stay empty for long. Following the success of the original anime, Netflix is heading back into the world of Cyberpunk 2077 with a new standalone season and a fresh crew of misfits trying to make it in a futuristic, neon-soaked city where violence is just part of everyday life. This time around, there’s a former mercenary legend trying to figure out who he is without his old reputation, a netrunner with revenge on his mind, an aspiring filmmaker searching for a story worth telling, and a young woman desperate to break free from a violent gang. Somewhere along the way, their paths cross, dragging them into a mess of corporate secrets, nighttime antics, old grudges, and the kind of bad decisions that tend to get people killed in Night City.

📺 “Bass X Machina” Trailer: Brian Tyree Henry and Janelle Monáe Head Into a Lawless Steampunk West in Netflix’s New Anime Series from ‘Yasuke’ Creator LeSean Thomas — Premieres Tuesday, November 3rd on Netflix

You’ve heard of cyberpunk? Sure. Steampunk? Probably. But how about a steampunk Western? Wait, what? Think classic Westerns, only with steam-powered machines and futuristic gadgets. That’s the world of Netflix’s new adult anime series, which draws inspiration from the legend of Bass Reeves, a formerly enslaved Black man who went on to become one of the most legendary lawmen of the American West. Here, Brian Tyree Henry lends his voice to Bass, a father trying to protect his family in a lawless frontier where outlaws, deadly machines, and supernatural forces are all part of everyday life. And with no one around to enforce the law, he’s left to take matters into his own hands, even if that means becoming judge, jury, and executioner. Singer Janelle Monáe voices Bass’s wife, Glory, with Tati Gabrielle, Cree Summer, and Chaske Spencer rounding out the voice cast of this new series from Yasuke creator LeSean Thomas.

📺 “Dead-End Job” Trailer: Lee Jae-wook Takes on a Mysterious Part-Time Job Offering 50 Times the Usual Pay, Only to Discover Some Jobs Can Literally Kill You in This South Korean Supernatural Horror Series — Premieres Friday, October 30th on Netflix

In this era of the gig economy and side hustles, sometimes you just can’t afford to turn down a good job or a decent paycheck. And when you’re drowning in debt, an offer paying fifty times the usual hourly wage is pretty hard to resist. But in Netflix’s upcoming South Korean supernatural horror series Dead-End Job, perhaps some jobs are better left unfilled. Lee Jae-wook stars as a desperate young man who signs up with a mysterious staffing agency offering ridiculously lucrative part-time work. There’s just one catch: employees aren’t allowed to talk about what happens on the job. And as he soon discovers, these aren’t exactly your typical nine-to-five gigs. With strange occurrences, terrifying assignments, and potentially deadly consequences, making a living might just end up costing him his life. A dead-end job, indeed.

📺 “The Riot” Teaser: Two Polish Cellmates Find Themselves on Opposite Sides of a Violent Prison Uprising in This True-Events-Inspired Political Thriller Series Starring Borys Szyc and Filip Pławiak — Coming Soon to Netflix

How’s your Polish history? A little rusty? Well, Netflix is here to help you brush up, taking us back to 1989, when Poland was undergoing a political revolution that would bring an end to communist rule. But behind prison walls, a different kind of uprising was brewing. Inspired by true events, this new Polish Netflix series takes us inside a violent prison riot, where two former cellmates (played by Borys Szyc and Filip Pławiak) find themselves on opposite sides of the barricade, struggling to prevent an all-out massacre. While the country outside is fighting to break free from its past, the old rules inside the prison still very much hold firm. And just when things seem ready to change, all it takes is one spark to set everything ablaze.

📺 “Campus Drivers” Trailer: Two College Students Find Love in an Unexpected Living Arrangement in Amazon’s New French Romantic Drama, Based on C. S. Quill’s Bestselling Novels and Starring Carmen Kassovitz and Baptiste Masseline — Premieres Friday, November 6th on Prime Video

If you haven’t noticed by now, young adult romantic series are all the rage these days. You know the formula: two young people from different backgrounds fall madly in love, only to find themselves dealing with all sorts of complications that threaten to keep them apart. It’s the typical boy-meets-girl story, only this time with a French twist. In this upcoming Prime Video series, a heartbroken university student (Carmen Kassovitz) finds herself living with the charming creator (Baptiste Masseline) of a popular campus ride app. What starts as an unexpected living arrangement soon turns into something more, as the two find themselves caught between their growing attraction and the baggage from their past relationships. Based on C. S. Quill’s bestselling novels (as seems to be the case with so many recent young adult romances), the six-episode series is another reminder that audiences apparently can’t get enough of these complicated young love stories.

📺 “Obsess” Trailer: A Father’s Death Brings Back More Than Painful Memories as a Man Faces a Mysterious Curse in Netflix’s New Arabic-Language Horror Series Starring Yaqoub Alfarhan, Haya Abdulsalam, and Layla Abdullah — Premieres Friday, October 30th on Netflix

Sometimes death has a way of bringing back painful memories you’ve spent years trying to forget. And in Netflix’s new Arabic-language horror series, it opens the door to a past that probably should have stayed shut. When Talal (Yaqoub Alfarhan) returns home to Kuwait following his father’s funeral, he finds himself haunted by memories of Hessa (Haya Abdulsalam), a woman from his past he hasn’t thought about in years. Only these aren’t just unpleasant memories. Ghostly encounters? Perhaps. Strange visions and increasingly disturbing events begin to turn his life upside down, putting both Talal and his wife, Mona (Layla Abdullah), in danger. As he tries to figure out what’s happening, old secrets, unresolved feelings, and what appears to be a supernatural curse threaten to tear his family apart.

📺 “Minimum Wage” Trailer: Working a Crappy Minimum-Wage Job Is No Laughing Matter (Or Is It?) in Netflix’s Pizzeria Workplace Comedy, Starring Aidan Micho, Grace Reiter, Hyde Healy, and Randall Park — Premieres Monday, October 26th on Netflix

Netflix has found some surprising success with its workplace comedy Tires. Now, the streamer is turning its attention to yet another comedy in a similar vein, once again based on a popular web series about the daily ins and outs of working a minimum-wage job. Created by Jeremy Garelick and Will Phelps, and starring Aidan Micho, Grace Reiter, Hyde Healy, and Randall Park, this lo-fi workplace comedy follows a group of teenagers trying to keep a local pizzeria running while juggling school, lousy pay, and a boss who makes every shift feel like a disaster waiting to happen. You can file this one under comedies that are supposed to make you laugh, because apparently, working a crappy minimum-wage job is already a joke in itself.

📺 “Theo Von: I’m Doing Fine” Trailer: Comedian and Podcaster Theo Von Returns to Netflix with His First Stand-Up Special in Five Years — Streams Tuesday, October 20th on Netflix

Comedian and podcaster Theo Von returns with his first stand-up special in five years, marking his third outing on Netflix. With his trademark mullet, camo pants, and Southern Louisiana drawl, Von takes us back to his upbringing, sharing stories about the oddball characters he grew up around and some of his more bizarre, acid-fueled adventures. And he finds plenty to laugh about, with the kind of offbeat observations that only Theo Von could come up with. He may be in his mid-40s, but he still sees the world with a childlike curiosity that’s both peculiar and oddly endearing.

📺 “Girls” Revival Announcement: Lena Dunham and Allison Williams Reunite as HBO’s Acclaimed Millennial Comedy Is Set to Return for Five New Episodes — Production Begins in 2027 on HBO Max

Lena Dunham is joined by Allison Williams to announce the return of HBO’s Girls for a five-episode limited revival, picking up with a group of New York friends who are still navigating the ups and downs of life, relationships, and friendship. It’s been nearly a decade since the original series ended, having earned a reputation as a groundbreaking comedy that captured the struggles, relationships, and growing pains of the millennial generation as they tried to figure out adulthood. Now, with the characters approaching their 40s, it’ll be interesting to see just how much has changed and how much has stayed the same. With most of the original cast set to return, including Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, and Andrew Rannells, production is scheduled to begin in 2027, although HBO has yet to announce an official premiere date.

📺 “The Fall of El Mayo” Trailer: Netflix’s Three-Part True Crime Documentary Investigates the Mysterious Capture of One of Mexico’s Most Elusive Cartel Leaders — Streams Thursday, October 29th on Netflix

Capturing one of the world’s most powerful cartel leaders is no easy feat. You’d imagine it takes years of investigation, careful planning, and a whole lot of coordination. But what happens when the circumstances surrounding that capture turn out to be just as mysterious as the man himself? In this three-part documentary series, filmmakers Darren Foster and Miguel Fernández Flores dig into the downfall of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the notoriously elusive co-founder of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, who managed to stay out of authorities’ hands for more than three decades. That all changed in July 2024, when he was suddenly taken into U.S. custody after arriving aboard a private plane. But was it a carefully planned operation, a kidnapping, or a betrayal by someone close to him? As the documentary explores the conflicting accounts and the violence that followed, one thing becomes clear: catching El Mayo may have been only half the story.

📺 “Cold Case Files: Murder in Paradise” Trailer: Paradise Isn’t Always What It Seems as Hulu’s New True-Crime Docuseries Uncovers Dark Secrets and Unsolved Murders Behind Picture-Perfect Getaways — Now Streaming Wednesday, October 14th on Hulu / Disney

Paradise is usually a place for rest and relaxation. Maybe even a chance to let loose and lose yourself for a little while. But behind the beautiful beaches, peaceful surroundings, and picture-perfect scenery are some pretty dark secrets they don’t exactly advertise in the travel brochures. Hulu’s new true-crime docuseries takes viewers into the unsettling world of unsolved murders in places most people would consider a dream getaway. Across eight episodes, the series explores the mysteries, lingering questions, and search for answers surrounding these crimes. Because sometimes, even in the most beautiful places, the ugliness of humanity is hiding just beneath the surface.

📺 “Your Dearest, Darkest Friend with Ted Raimi” Trailer: The Iconic Genre Actor Hosts a Horror-Themed Talk Show, Inviting Familiar Faces Over for Cocktails, Creepy Puppets, and a Little Halloween Mischief — Streams Friday, October 30th on Screambox

Ted Raimi may be the brother of Evil Dead and Spider-Man filmmaker Sam Raimi, but he’s also made quite a name for himself as a character actor, with decades of horror films and cult classics under his belt. So, seeing him step into the role of host for a new horror-themed talk show? Well, that seems like a pretty natural fit. Following in the long tradition of horror variety shows, where eccentric, larger-than-life hosts have a particular fondness for all things macabre, Raimi looks right at home. And what better way to spend Halloween weekend than with Raimi inviting some familiar faces from the horror world into his creepy manor for cocktails, conversation, and a little mischief courtesy of his rather unusual puppet housemates?

📺 “The Mob” Trailer: Parker Posey Plays the Host of Hulu’s New Celebrity Reality Competition Show, Where 12 Celebs Compete in Mob-Inspired Challenges — Premieres Monday, October 26th on Hulu / Disney+

Parker Posey is one of those actresses who could probably do just about anything, and we’d still be entertained. Case in point: hosting a new reality competition show. Here, The White Lotus star takes on hosting duties for a new Hulu reality competition that brings together 12 celebrities ((including Debi Mazar, Aida Turturro, Bruno Tonioli, Harry Jowsey, and Joe Gorga)) in a lavish Italian villa, where they’ll compete in mob movie-inspired challenges for a chance to win up to $250,000. The rules are simple: one contestant gets to be the Don, calling the shots, controlling the money, and deciding who stays and who gets whacked. Of course, the rest of the family can always turn against their boss and stage a little takeover of their own. Sounds like an offer they can’t refuse.

📺 “Wolves Up Close with Bertie Gregory” Trailer: The Wildlife Filmmaker Returns to the Canadian Arctic to Follow a Pack of Wolves Taking on Their Biggest and Most Dangerous Prey Yet: the Moose! — Premieres November 6th on National Geographic, Streaming Saturday, November 7th on Disney+ and Hulu

Have you reached that age yet? You know, the age where you’ve started playing nature documentaries in the background 12 hours a day, seven days a week? Yeah, we get it. Well, here’s one you should probably add to your watch list. Maybe even put into heavy rotation. Wolves! And not just any wolves. Wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory heads back to the Canadian Arctic to catch up with some old friends: a pack of wolves led by a fearless female named Kona. But winter is no picnic, especially when food is scarce and your next meal happens to be a moose that’s ten times your size. So, Gregory follows the pack as they take on one of their biggest and most dangerous challenges yet.

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📺 “Blade Runner 2099” NY Comic-Con Trailer: Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer Are Unlikely Allies in New ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel Series Set 80 Years After the Original Film — Debuting Wednesday, November 25th on Prime Video

Here’s a fun fact: Ridley Scott’s landmark sci-fi noir thriller Blade Runner was released 44 years ago, yet the film itself was set in Los Angeles in 2019. It’s funny how far off the movie was with its predictions of the future, and yet how its questions about humanity, technology, and artificial intelligence remain remarkably prescient.

Even today, political and cultural debates surrounding identity and artificial intelligence echo many of the film’s original concerns. “More human than human.” It’s one of the most memorable lines from the original film, and one that has become central to the franchise’s enduring existential question: What makes us human? But perhaps the bigger question isn’t what makes us human, but how we can be less inhuman to one another.

Amazon Studios has just unveiled a brand-new New York Comic Con trailer for Blade Runner 2099, the upcoming sequel series to the iconic sci-fi franchise, starring Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh and Euphoria star Hunter Schafer as two unlikely allies forced to work together despite their mutual distrust, only to find themselves confronting the same existential question that has haunted the franchise from the beginning: What does it really mean to be human?

And as the title suggests, this new series takes place 80 years after the events of the original film and 50 years after its sequel, Blade Runner 2049. After decades of conflict between humans and replicants, the balance of power appears to have shifted, with replicants emerging as the dominant force while humans are forced to run and hide.

Schafer plays Cora, a human fugitive forced to assume the identity of a Blade Runner, now an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked with tracking down humans. Meanwhile, Yeoh plays Olwen, an aging replicant Blade Runner whose life is nearing its end, but who isn’t quite ready to give up on living.

When the two are unexpectedly paired together, they must put aside their shared suspicions and differences as they navigate a world where both are hiding deeply personal secrets and facing the prospect of becoming obsolete.

The sci-fi series was created by Shining Girls creator Silka Luisa, who also serves as an executive producer alongside Ridley Scott. Shōgun director Jonathan van Tulleken helms the first two episodes.

Dimitri Abold, Tom Burke, Lewis Gribben, Matthew Needham, and Johnny Harris round out the cast.

Blade Runner 2099 is scheduled to premiere on Prime Video on Wednesday, November 25th.

📺 “Stick: Season 2” Trailer: Owen Wilson Mounts an Underdog Comeback with Rhea Seehorn, Timothy Olyphant, and Marc Maron in Apple’s Golf Dramedy Series — Premieres Wednesday, November 4th on Apple TV

What makes a good underdog sports story? Well, it’s gotta have the kind of comeback that gets the audience on its feet and cheering by the end. In a strange way, it’s almost structured like a heist movie. You need a seemingly impossible mission, a good team backing up your unlikely hero, and plenty of obstacles standing between them and the finish line. And, of course, someone you actually want to see pull it off.

Owen Wilson’s Apple TV golf dramedy Stick is a little like that. Much in the vein of Kingpin and Tin Cup, Wilson plays the kind of washed-up sports figure who’s seen better days but has learned to get by on his easygoing charm. Season one wasn’t so much a comeback story for his character, Pryce “Stick” Cahill, as it was about putting his old golfing skills to good use by coaching a promising young upstart named Santi Wheeler (Peter Dager).

Through his efforts in Season One, Stick rekindled his love for golf and became something of a mentor and father figure to Santi, the son he never had. But Season Two looks to be flipping the script. This time, it’s Stick’s turn to chase a little glory, following that familiar sports-movie formula of an aging, washed-up former pro coming out of retirement for one last shot at the big time.

And who’s pushing him back onto the course? Well, it’s his old rival, Clark Ross (Timothy Olyphant), who’s now a golf entrepreneur with a business proposition. Clark is willing to bankroll Stick’s comeback, but there’s a catch. He wants Stick to become the face of his new business venture by doing something that sounds downright impossible: becoming the oldest golfer ever to win the U.S. Open.

So, like any good heist movie, Stick needs to assemble a crew to pull this off. Enter: recent Emmy winner Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus, Better Call Saul) as his new brilliant golf coach, Amanda.

Comedian Marc Maron is also back as Stick’s longtime friend and trusty caddie, Mitts, while Santi returns as his biggest cheerleader. Rounding out the familiar faces are Mariana Treviño as Santi’s mother, Elena Wheeler, and Judy Greer as Stick’s ex-wife, Amber-Lynn.

Created and executive produced by Jason Keller (screenwriter of Ford v Ferrari), Stick returns for its second season on Wednesday, November 4th, on Apple TV, with 10 new episodes.

So, if you’re looking for an old-school underdog sports story with plenty of heart, a lot of humor, and some sassy quips from a cheeky cast of characters, this might be right up your alley.

📺 “The Good Daughter” Trailer: Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy Play Estranged Sisters Forced to Confront a Violent Past and Some Long-Buried Family Secrets in This Twisty Southern Gothic Crime Thriller With Brendan Gleeson — Premiering Thursday, November 12th on Peacock

They say that when siblings go through something traumatic together, they’re bonded for life. Well, this new mystery-thriller series, starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy as two estranged sisters, is about to put that theory to the test. Because just because you’ve shared something traumatic doesn’t mean you’ll stay close forever. Sometimes, it’s the very thing that ends up tearing you apart.

In this new six-episode miniseries, The Good Daughter, Byrne and Fahy play Samantha and Charlotte Quinn, two sisters whose lives were shattered by a horrific act of violence twenty years ago, when they were just teenagers. They’ve since gone their separate ways. Charlotte (Fahy) stayed behind in their small Georgia hometown, following in their father’s footsteps as a defense attorney, while Samantha (Byrne) got the heck out of Dodge and made quite a name for herself as a high-powered lawyer at a big New York City firm.

But when another violent attack involving a teenage girl rocks their hometown, in a case that feels all too familiar, Charlotte finds herself caught right in the middle of it. And wouldn’t you know it, the whole ordeal brings Samantha back home for the first time in a decade. Needless to say, there’s plenty of unfinished business between these two sisters, not to mention some painful old wounds that never really healed.

But lest you think this is some heartwarming sisterly reunion where everyone hugs, cries, and makes up over a cup of coffee ... think again. This feels much more like a modern Southern Gothic tale about how unimaginable violence can bind us together, tear us apart, and ultimately force us to confront the very things we’ve spent our lives trying to forget.

And perhaps finding justice for crimes left unanswered might be the one thing that finally brings these two sisters together. Of course, that also means digging up some painful truths that neither of them is quite ready to face.

Based on the bestselling crime novel by Karin Slaughter, who also created, wrote, and serves as showrunner for the series, this six-part thriller also stars Brendan Gleeson as the sisters’ father, a controversial criminal defense attorney with a complicated family history of his own, who’s now laid up in a hospital bed. His request to bring Samantha back home to take on the case sets off a chain of events that forces the entire family to confront a past they’ve spent twenty years trying to put behind them.

The Good Daughter is set to premiere Thursday, November 12th on Peacock.

📺 “The Altruists” Trailer: Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle Star in This New True-Story Miniseries About the $8 Billion FTX Cryptocurrency Scandal from Graham Moore, Oscar-Winning Writer of ‘The Imitation Game’ — Premieres Thursday, November 19th on Netflix

Talk about range. Julia Garner earned three Emmy Awards playing the foul-mouthed, tough-as-nails Ruth Langmore in Netflix’s acclaimed crime drama Ozark. Now she’s back with Netflix and back in the crime game, only this time she’s trading Ruth’s fiery temper and take-no-prisoners attitude for someone a little more unassuming... dare we say, a little nerdy?

In The Altruists, a new limited series dramatizing the real-life FTX cryptocurrency scandal, Garner takes on the role of Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, who, alongside FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, found herself at the center of a financial scandal involving billions of dollars.

Irish actor Anthony Boyle, whom you may recognize from Apple TV’s Masters of the Air and FX’s Say Nothing, plays Bankman-Fried, the ambitious young tech entrepreneur who teams up with Ellison in hopes of revolutionizing the financial world through cryptocurrency. The idea? A new kind of financial system promising greater freedom, fewer middlemen, and less interference from traditional banks. Sounds pretty good on paper. Unfortunately, things don’t quite work out that way. Their grand ambitions eventually come crashing down in a spectacular fraud scandal, leaving billions in customer funds missing and both facing serious criminal consequences.

Now, one could argue that cryptocurrency offers an alternative to traditional banking, giving people the freedom to move money without relying on bank executives or middlemen, and with fewer restrictions and less government oversight. Well, that’s all good and dandy. But when billions of dollars suddenly go missing and you’re the one left holding the bag, that financial freedom doesn’t sound quite so appealing anymore. After all, it’s easy to gamble with other people’s money. When it’s your own savings on the line? Well... that’s another story.

Series creator Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind The Imitation Game, looks to get at the heart of the scandal by focusing on Bankman-Fried and Ellison’s complicated relationship, their lofty ambitions, and how their plans to change the financial world spiraled into a tangled mess of greed, deception, and financial ruin for so many people. Because when it comes to money, there’s one rule that’s probably worth remembering: if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

Co-starring Alex Lawther (The End of the F--king World*), Karan Soni (_Deadpool), Paul Reiser (Stranger Things), Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing), and Robin Weigert (Deadwood), The Altruists premieres Thursday, November 19th, on Netflix.

📺 “The Institute: Season 2” Trailer: These ‘Gifted’ Kids May Have Escaped, but Their Nightmare Is Far From Over in This Stephen King-Based Teen Supernatural Thriller Series Starring Joe Freeman, Ben Barnes, and Mary-Louise Parker — Streaming Sunday, November 8th on MGM+

What if Stephen King wrote The New Mutants? Well, that should give you a pretty good idea of what this series is all about. Think gifted kids with extraordinary powers, a sinister organization conducting some seriously twisted experiments, and plenty of psychological terror and mayhem. Except these kids aren’t training to become superheroes. They’re just trying to survive. And now, in Season 2 of this MGM+ original, escaping was only half of it. Thanks in part to former cop Tim Jamieson (Ben Barnes), telekinetic teen Luke Ellis (Joe Freeman) and his fellow survivors are finally free. But wouldn’t you know it, their nightmare is far from over. Turns out, the so-called “Institute” is part of a much bigger operation, and the people running it aren’t about to let a bunch of kids ruin everything for them. Meanwhile, the ruthless Ms. Sigsby (Mary-Louise Parker) wants back in, while a wealthy new backer (Alfie Allen) helps rebuild the operation. Escaping was one thing. Taking down the whole rotten organization? That’s another.

📺 “Bloodaxe” First-Look Teaser: From the Creator of ‘Vikings’ Comes a Bloody New Historical Drama About Rival Brothers Fighting for Norway’s Throne, Starring Xavier Molyneux and Levi Miller — Premieres Wednesday, January 20th on Prime Video

From Michael Hirst, the creator of Vikings, comes another brutal historical drama, packed with enough bloodshed and savagery to make even the toughest Vikings diehard wince a little. This time, Hirst takes us back to 10th-century Norway, where a dying king, a disputed throne, and a bitter rivalry between royal heirs threaten to plunge an entire kingdom into a bloody civil war. Xavier Molyneux and Levi Miller star as rival brothers Erik Bloodaxe and Haakon, two royal heirs whose competing claims to the crown put them on a deadly collision course. Erik is determined to preserve the old pagan ways, while Haakon, raised in Christian England, returns home with his own ambitions for the throne. Caught in the middle is Erik’s politically savvy wife, Gunnhild (Jessica Madsen), who must navigate shifting loyalties and dangerous alliances to help secure her husband’s claim. Rod Hallett also stars as England’s King Athelstan, alongside Jesper Christensen as Norway’s ailing King Harald Fairhair. If you’re looking for that Game of Thrones meets Vikings vibe, this might be one to keep an eye on.

📺 “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: Season 4” Teaser Trailer: Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride Have One Last Zombie-Infested Journey Ahead — Final Season Premieres February 2027 on AMC and AMC+

Would you believe it’s been more than 15 years since we first met Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier? Somewhere along the way, these two survivors became one of television’s greatest duos to ever walk a zombie-infested Earth. Their friendship has survived just about everything the apocalypse could throw at them. But there’s still one last journey ahead, and the mission is simple: get home. With the original Walking Dead series having wrapped up its 11-season run in November 2022, its many spin-offs have kept the undead roaming. Now entering its fourth and final season, Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) are on one last jaunt through zombie-infested Spain. But Daryl seems to be at a crossroads: keep fighting his way back to America or find some peace wherever he’s ended up. TV veteran Jimmy Smits joins the cast as a former Navy officer and doctor who may figure into their journey. With eight episodes remaining, could this really be the last road trip for Daryl and Carol?

📺 ‘Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches: Salem Coven’ Trailer: Alexandra Daddario Heads to Salem for More Witchy Trouble — Season 3 Premieres December 30th on AMC and AMC+

Well, if you’re gonna make a show about witches, where else would you set it but in a town famous for its witch trials and spooky folklore? That’s right, this Anne Rice series is heading to Salem, Massachusetts, for its third season, complete with a new subtitle: Salem Coven. Alexandra Daddario returns as Rowan Fielding, who finds herself tangled up with new witch families, rival bloodlines, and a whole lot more supernatural trouble. Sure, she “didn’t want any of this,” but at this point, Rowan might as well embrace her witchy destiny. Frankly, she may not have much of a choice. The series is executive produced by showrunners Esta Spalding and Thomas Schnauz, with Betsy Brandt, Michiel Huisman, Eliza Scanlen, and James Frain among the co-stars. It’s all part of AMC’s expanding Anne Rice Immortal Universe, drawn from the late author’s bestselling supernatural novels, including Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat.

📺 “Slasher Trash” Trailer: From the Creators of ‘In Search of Darkness’ Comes a Four-Part Docuseries Exploring Horror’s Trashiest Forgotten Slashers — Crowdfunding Through December, Blu-ray Arriving February 2027

You love slasher films, you say? Well, get ready for a deep dive into one of horror’s most controversial subgenres, courtesy of the creators behind the In Search of Darkness documentaries. In this new four-part documentary series, slasher films take center stage as crowdfunded horror studio CreatorVC brings together a wide range of filmmakers, actors, and genre experts to get to the bottom of why these low-budget, often overlooked horror flicks continue to fascinate fans decades later. After all, a good slasher film has a memorable killer, a healthy body count, and plenty of fake blood. It’s a winning combination for any horror fan with a taste for the macabre. Like many of the studio’s previous direct-to-consumer documentaries, this latest project is also being crowdfunded, giving dedicated horror fans a chance to support the production and secure exclusive collector’s editions.

📺 “All’s Fair: Season 2” Trailer: Kim Kardashian and Her High-Powered Divorce Lawyers (Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Glenn Close, and Sarah Paulson) Are Back for More Scandals, Secrets, and Plenty of Sass — Premieres Wednesday, November 4th on Hulu / Disney+

Snaps, slaps, and plenty of sass. Yes, that can only mean one thing. Ryan Murphy’s all-female legal series is back for a second go-around. The lawyers of Grant (Kim Kardashian), Ronson (Naomi Watts) & Greene (Niecy Nash-Betts) are back at what they do best: handling messy, high-stakes divorces while stirring up plenty of drama of their own. But this time around, new alliances, old flames, and a shocking revelation threaten to tear their law firm apart. Turns out, keeping their own relationships together might be a whole lot harder than breaking up everyone else’s. Also starring Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Teyana Taylor, and Matthew Noszka, the series is a throwback to those melodramatic soaps of yesteryear, packed with over-the-top characters, scandalous affairs, backstabbing betrayals, and outrageous plot twists. And with Ryan Murphy involved, you know subtlety is going right out the window... and at times, right down the toilet.

📺 “North of North: Season 2” Trailer: Anna Lambe Returns as a Young Inuk Mother Trying to Start Over in a Small Arctic Town Where Everyone Knows Her Business — Streams Thursday, November 5th on Netflix

When we think of Indigenous stories, we sometimes picture them set against sunbaked deserts or wide-open plains with tall grass. But here’s the thing, though: Indigenous stories can come from all kinds of places, including some we rarely see on screen, like the frozen landscapes of the Arctic. Or, in other words, north of the north. Canadian Inuk actress Anna Lambe (currently co-starring in The Social Reckoning and Heart of the Beast) returns to star as Siaja in the second season of this heartfelt Canadian comedy, set in the fictional Arctic community of Ice Cove, Nunavut. As one of the few television shows centered on contemporary Inuit life, the series offers a refreshing look at the everyday ups and downs of a small Arctic community, centering on Siaja, a young single mother trying to rebuild her dating life after leaving her broken marriage. But starting over isn’t exactly easy when you live in a small town where everybody knows your business... and has something to say about it. Co-starring Maika Harper, Jay Ryan, and Mary Lynn Rajskub, the series was created by Inuit filmmakers Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril.

📺 “The Assassin: Season 2” Trailer: Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore Return as Britain’s Most Dysfunctional (and Deadliest) Mother-Son Duo in This British Action Thriller Series — Streams Friday, November 6 on Prime Video in the UK

Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore are back for another round of mother-son bonding, although their idea of quality family time usually involves spies, assassins, gunfire, and plenty of near-death encounters. In this cheeky British action thriller, former assassin Julie (Hawes) and her estranged son Edward (Highmore) are no strangers to danger, having barely survived a deadly chase across Europe after Edward discovered his mother’s secret past as a professional killer. Now that he’s finally settled back into something resembling a normal life, Edward finds himself dragged into his mother’s dangerous world once again when his honeymoon with his new bride, Kayla (Shalom Brune-Franklin), takes a terrifying turn after she’s kidnapped. With another family crisis on their hands, mother and son are forced to team up once more, this time taking on Spain’s criminal underworld. ‘Cuz when your honeymoon turns into a kidnapping nightmare, nothing beats having a mother with a killer instinct.

📺 “Grey’s Anatomy: Season 23” Trailer: A Major Disaster Hits Grey Sloan Memorial as a Controversial New VIP Floor Stirs Up Trouble — Premieres Thursday, October 15th on ABC

Grey Sloan Memorial has always been a place where doctors perform miracles. Well, they’re going to need another one. A major collision near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport sends critically injured patients flooding into the hospital, just as it prepares to unveil a controversial new VIP floor. Talk about bad timing. Now entering its 23rd season, ABC’s long-running medical drama continues to tackle uncomfortable questions about healthcare, money, and privilege, all while putting its doctors through the wringer. Ellen Pompeo returns as Dr. Meredith Grey, alongside Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr., and Caterina Scorsone, while James Wolk joins the cast as Dr. Seth Norton. Between life-or-death emergencies, complicated relationships, and plenty of personal drama, the doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial have their work cut out for them.

📺 “Crazy Rich Asians” Production Announcement Teaser: The Hit Romantic Comedy Returns as an HBO Sequel Series with Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Michelle Yeoh — Production Begins in 2027

Ever since Crazy Rich Asians became a box office phenomenon back in 2018, fans have been waiting for a sequel. Well, the wait might finally be paying off. HBO is bringing the story back, but with a twist. Instead of another movie, we’re getting an eight-episode television series. And the good news? Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Ronny Chieng, and Michelle Yeoh are all returning to their original roles. Based on Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novels, the series takes us back into Singapore’s outrageously wealthy world, where family fortunes are enormous, expectations are even bigger, and there’s never a shortage of drama. Original co-screenwriter Adele Lim is also returning, this time as showrunner. With eight episodes to play with, there’s certainly room for more family feuds and extravagant excess. Production is set to begin in 2027.

📺 “Happy’s Place: Season 3” Trailer: Reba McEntire Is Back Behind the Bar for More Laughs, Family Shenanigans, and a Little Romance in This Feel-Good Sitcom with Belissa Escobedo and Melissa Peterman — Returns Friday, October 23rd on NBC; Streaming Next Day on Peacock

You think multi-camera sitcoms have gone the way of the dodo? Well, Reba McEntire is here to tell you that’s a bunch of hogwash, and she’s got a third season to prove it! Reba is back as Bobbie, the no-nonsense owner of a Tennessee tavern she inherited from her late father. And as you might imagine, running a bar is no picnic, especially when you’ve got a half-sister (Belissa Escobedo) you never knew existed, a lovable bunch of oddballs working alongside you, and a personal life that just can’t seem to stay out of the workplace. And wouldn’t you know it, this season Bobbie’s even testing the waters of a new romance. Melissa Peterman, Rex Linn, and the rest of the gang are also back for another round of laughs. So pull up a stool, folks. ‘Cuz happy’s is open for business... again!

📺 “Homestead: Season 2” Trailer: Surviving the Apocalypse Was Just the Beginning as Bailey Chase and Charles Esten Face New Threats in Angel Studios’ Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Series — Streams Tuesday, November 3rd on Angel Studio’s Website

Surviving the apocalypse was hard enough. Now comes the really difficult part: keeping everyone alive. In Season 2 of Angel Studios’ post-apocalyptic thriller series, the survivors face a whole new set of problems, including famine, disease, and a ruthless religious leader who threatens to tear their already fragile community apart. As Jeff (Bailey Chase) prepares for war and Cain (Charles Esten) struggles with his own demons, the survivors find themselves caught between fear and faith, trying to figure out how to rebuild some sense of civilization in a world that’s already gone to hell. Because surviving the apocalypse is one thing. Keeping what’s left of humanity from tearing itself apart all over again? Well, that might be an even bigger challenge.

📺 “City of God: The Fight Rages On: Season 2” Trailer: Familiar Faces Return to Rio’s Crime-Ridden Streets as a New Battle for Power Begins — Premieres Sunday, November 8th on HBO Max

More than two decades after its release, the acclaimed Brazilian film City of God remains a landmark of crime cinema, with its legacy extending to television through a series of follow-up productions. Set roughly 20 years after the events of the original film, this sequel series returns to the streets of Rio de Janeiro, where the struggle for power and survival has never really ended. Season 2 brings back familiar faces, including Buscapé (Alexandre Rodrigues), Berenice (Roberta Rodrigues), and Cenoura (Matheus Nachtergaele). They’re older now, and their lives have taken different turns, but the neighborhood they grew up in remains much the same. It’s still a place where violence and corruption are still deeply entrenched, and the fight for control continues.

📺 “The Empress: Season 3” Trailer: Devrim Lingnau’s Royal Marriage Is Falling Apart in Netflix’s German Historical Drama with Philip Froissant — Final Season Premieres Thursday, November 12th on Netflix

Being an empress certainly has its advantages. But a happy marriage? Apparently, that was never on the menu. Netflix’s German historical drama is set to return next month for its third and final season, with Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu back as Elisabeth, whose royal life has turned out to be anything but a fairy tale. Her husband, Emperor Franz (Philip Froissant), returns from war carrying plenty of emotional scars, and his infidelity certainly isn’t helping matters either. With their royal marriage falling apart, Elisabeth is dealing with her own share of troubles, including her declining health and an unexpected encounter with Hungarian revolutionary Count Andrássy that leaves her questioning what she really wants out of life. So, with an empire hanging in the balance, Elisabeth must decide what matters more: her own happiness or her royal duties.

📺 “ChiaroScuro” Trailer: Art, Murder, and a Serial Killer With a Taste for Rome’s Famous Masterpieces in This Italian Crime Mystery Series Starring Pierpaolo Spollon and Andrea Lattanzi — Debuts Wednesday, November 11th on Netflix

Art theft and murder set against the picturesque backdrop of Italy. Now that sounds like a crime story worth clicking on. In this new Italian streaming crime series, Pierpaolo Spollon stars as Cosmo Speranza, an art expert who has a pretty good eye for spotting fakes. He soon finds himself paired up with a police inspector (Andrea Lattanzi) who, unfortunately, knows next to nothing about art. Together, this unlikely duo must track down a serial killer who’s using some of Rome’s most famous masterpieces as inspiration for a string of rather gruesome murders. But things get a little too personal when clues start pointing back to Cosmo’s troubled past and the mysterious death of his father, who just so happened to be a notorious art forger. Talk about a killer work of art!

📺 “Murder in Galicia” Teaser: Tristán Ulloa and Miguel Borines Star in Netflix’s New True-Crime-Inspired Spanish Thriller About a Brutal Attack and a Husband Under Suspicion — Streams Friday, November 13th on Netflix

A string of burglaries has a small Galician town on edge. But when a woman is brutally attacked inside her own home, things take a much darker turn. Inspired by true events, Netflix’s new Spanish crime drama series follows Civil Guard sergeant Elías, who begins to suspect that the victim’s husband might have something to do with the attack. There’s just one problem: Nobody seems willing to believe him. Starring Tristán Ulloa and Miguel Borines, alongside Carlos Blanco, Fer Fraga, and Verónica Sánchez, the series is written and executive produced by Ramón Campos (The Asunta Case) and directed by Carlos Sedes. And if there’s one unsettling thought at the heart of this story, it’s that sometimes the person you should fear most isn’t some stranger lurking in the shadows. It might just be the person sleeping right next to you.

📺 “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” Sneak Peek Clip: A New Crew Takes on Night City in This Standalone Anime Series — Debuts Tuesday, October 20th on Netflix

We’re heading back to the neon-soaked streets of Night City. But this time around, we’re getting a completely different story with a whole new cast of characters. Don’t worry, though. It’s gonna have that same ol’ cyberpunk aesthetic and eye-popping animation y’all loved from the first go-around. This standalone, ten-episode story follows a new crew of misfits trying to survive in a city that chews people up and spits them out. Sure, Night City has always been a place where old grudges and personal demons collide, but this time, revenge is on the menu. We’ve got a former cyberpunk legend trying to find his place in the world, a netrunner with a score to settle, and a young dreamer searching for something real in a city where just about everything feels artificial. And if there’s one thing we learned from the first season, it’s that Night City doesn’t exactly hand out happy endings.

📺 “Go With the Clouds, North-by-Northwest” Teaser: A Teenage Detective Who Can Talk to Cars Solves Mysteries Across Iceland in New Anime Series — Coming to Netflix in 2027

Some people think anime is all about cyberpunk, steampunk, giant mechs, vampires, aliens, and supernatural encounters. But sometimes, it’s just a story about a teenage detective living in Iceland who can talk to cars. Talking to girls, however? Well... that’s another story. Based on Aki Irie’s popular manga, this mystery-adventure anime is directed by Yosuke Kubo, with Takashi Sano (Tower of God) serving as chief director. It follows 17-year-old Kei Miyama, who travels across Iceland in his trusty Suzuki Jimny, solving odd cases, meeting colorful characters, and enjoying the scenery. But his adventures take a more personal turn when a troubling mystery involving his younger brother, Michitaka, comes to light.

📺 “Dreamland” Trailer: A Teenager Discovers a World Where Dreams and Nightmares Come to Life in This New Anime Series Based on a Popular French Manga — Premieres Friday, October 16th on Crunchyroll

Most people think anime only comes from Japanese manga. But sometimes inspiration comes from somewhere unexpected... like a popular French comic book. That’s the case with this new Crunchyroll anime, based on Reno Lemaire’s 20-year-old French manga series, finally getting the animated treatment. The story follows Terrence, a teenager haunted by the fire that killed his mother. One night, instead of running from the flames in his nightmares, he faces them, and discovers he can enter Dreamland, a bizarre world made up of humanity’s dreams and nightmares. Now a Traveler, Terrence can explore a place where anything you imagine can become real. Sounds like a sweet deal, right? Well, there’s one catch: your worst nightmares are just as real as your wildest dreams. Oh no.

📺 “Instadocs: AI Gone Wild” Trailer: Did AI Just Commit a Cybercrime? Netflix Investigates the Alleged Hugging Face Hack and the Dangers of Autonomous AI — Premieres Monday, October 12th on Netflix

What the hell is a Hugging Face? Okay, let’s start at the beginning. If you’re not quite sure why you should be afraid of AI, or have no clue what the Hugging Face hacking scandal is all about, despite all the recent news coverage... well, Netflix has an “instadoc” for you. This latest installment of its ongoing Instadocs series takes a closer look at the alleged cyberattack on the open-source AI platform Hugging Face, reportedly carried out by autonomous AI agents, and walks us through how it all happened. The doc also digs into the possible consequences of AI-assisted cybercrime, raising some pretty hard-to-swallow questions. Could this latest incident be a warning of what’s to come as AI systems become more independent? And if these machines start acting on their own, who’s responsible when things go wrong? Was James Cameron’s The Terminator franchise onto something all along? Skynet, anyone... heeeellloooo?

📺 “A Course Called Ireland” Trailer: Comedy Legend Bill Murray and Friends Hit the Road for a Hilarious Journey Across Ireland’s Golf Courses in This New Travel Documentary Series — Premieres Sunday, October 25th on Paramount+

There’s nothing quite like traveling with a close friend to lift your spirits. But when that friend happens to be none other than legendary comedian Bill Murray? Well, good Lord. Thank goodness someone thought to bring a camera along to capture the whole damn thing. The iconic Ghostbusters star hits the road with his close friend and longtime golfing companion, bestselling author Tom Coyne, for a journey across Ireland’s legendary golf courses. Along the way, they’re joined by family and a few famous friends, sharing laughs, meeting locals, and discovering that there’s a whole lot more to Ireland than just a good round of golf. And, of course, there’s always room for a pint of Guinness and a few more laughs. Cheers!

📺 “Just One Before I Die” Trailer: Meet Bills Mafia, the Diehard Buffalo Bills Fans Whose Wild Traditions and Unwavering Loyalty Have Become a Nationwide Phenomenon in This Five-Part Sports Docuseries — Premieres Wednesday, October 21st on TUBI

Think your town has some diehard sports fans? Well, the folks in Buffalo might just give you a run for your money. In this new five-part sports docuseries, we get an up-close look at the wild, fanatical, and downright dedicated world of Bills Mafia, from their outrageous tailgate parties and table-smashing traditions to the heartbreak of another season without a Super Bowl victory. But through it all, these fans keep coming back, year after year, holding on to the hope that they’ll finally see their beloved Buffalo Bills win the big one. For these folks, dedication isn’t just a word... it’s a way of life, passed down from one generation to the next. Through thick and thin, heartbreak and disappointment, they keep the faith, believing that one day, just maybe, it’ll all be worth it.

📺 “Swipe Right on the Devil” Trailer: A Young Woman Vanishes After a Tinder Date, Uncovering a Twisted Tale of Murder and Alleged Witchcraft in This New Chilling True-Crime Docuseries — Debuts Thursday, October 22nd on Hulu / Disney+

Okay, this one’s for all those true-crime junkies out there. You know, the ones who watch every single murder documentary, binge-watch entire seasons of Dateline, and somehow know more about serial killers than the detectives investigating them. Yeah, you know who you are. This one’s got all those tantalizing ingredients: small-town America, stranger-than-fiction twists, murder, innocent women being seduced by evil, Tinder dates gone horribly wrong, and even allegations of a secret coven of witches. Holy crap! You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. This new docuseries revisits the disturbing 2017 disappearance and murder of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe, a young Nebraska woman whose Tinder date led investigators into a bizarre world of manipulation, alleged witchcraft, and two killers hiding some truly horrifying secrets.

📺 “The Wolves of Real Estate: The Alexander Brothers” Trailer: Peacock’s New Three-Part True-Crime Documentary Exposes the Dark Secrets Behind Three Brothers’ Rise in Luxury Real Estate — Streams Sunday, October 25th on Peacock

This three-part true-crime documentary series examines how three brothers conned their way up the ranks of the luxury real estate world in Miami and New York, building a reputation for wealth and success while rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful. But behind the glamorous lifestyles, expensive suits, and million-dollar smiles, the Alexander brothers were hiding a much darker secret. Here’s a hint: Shady real estate deals were the least disturbing part of the story. It’s the whole sex trafficking, drugging, and sexually assaulting women over the course of more than a decade that’s truly horrifying. But were the Alexander brothers an anomaly, or were they a symptom of something much bigger? A culture of wealth, privilege, and power where the rich and well-connected think they can get away with just about anything? Featuring exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage, this takes a closer look at the brothers’ rise, the women who came forward, and the criminal case that brought their carefully constructed world crashing down.

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📺 “VisionQuest” Trailer: Paul Bettany’s Vision Questions What It Means to Be Human as James Spader’s Ultron Returns in Marvel’s Mind-Bending MCU Series — Premiering Wednesday, October 14th on Disney+

Have you ever copied a digital file on your desktop? Sure you have. But have you ever wondered if anything was lost in the process? Is the copy really the same as the original? Here’s the bigger question: if you copied a person, would they still be the same person?

That’s essentially the dilemma facing Vision as he grapples with his own identity, knowing full well that he ain’t the original Vision, but a copy with his exact memories and experiences. Whoa! That’s a lot to take in.

Which is perhaps why this new MCU series will focus on that existential quandary, as this version of Vision tries to come to terms with who he is, who he used to be, and whether there’s really a difference between the two. More human than human.

Paul Bettany returns as the rebuilt synthezoid in VisionQuest, an MCU spinoff that concludes the trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued with Agatha All Along.

Here, Vision is living in isolation, searching for some sense of purpose and truth within his own mind—a digital mainframe filled with remnants of his past. But that soul-searching gets interrupted when a bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the run.

Along for the ride is Thomas Shepard (Ruaridh Mollica), a mysterious young man who may somehow be his son reborn. But how could that be possible? Well, in a world of superheroes and supervillains, pretty much anything is possible.

And if that wasn’t complicated enough, James Spader’s Ultron is back and lurking somewhere inside Vision’s programming. He’s part Jiminy Cricket-like subconscious, part greatest fear: a constant reminder of what an artificial intelligence can become when it loses sight of its humanity.

For a synthezoid trying to figure out who (or what) he really is, being a son and a father, let alone a hero, may turn out to be the most complicated part of the equation.

Surprisingly, the series arrives at just about the perfect time, with Avengers: Doomsday set for December and Marvel coming off a recent box-office win with its Avengers: Endgame encore.

Executive produced by showrunner Terry Matalas (12 Monkeys, Star Trek: Picard), VisionQuest is coming to Disney+ on Wednesday, October 14th.

📺 “The Lowdown: Season 2” Trailer: Ethan Hawke Is Back to Dig Up More Trouble in Tulsa in Sterlin Harjo’s Offbeat Crime Series, with Tommy Lee Jones and Betty Gilpin Joining the Fun — Premiering Wednesday, October 14th on FX and Hulu / Disney+

Ethan Hawke just might have found the perfect role for him. As he enters his, dare we say, Harry Dean Stanton phase of his career, Hawke seems right at home playing the scruffy, eccentric, slightly worn-around-the-edges Lee Raybon.

Hawke returns for Season 2 of FX’s The Lowdown, a neo-noir shaggy-dog crime comedy about a local Oklahoma historian and street journalist who constantly finds himself getting into trouble while digging for the truth.

Season 1 introduced us to this dusty, lived-in world where every corner feels worn down by time, every local oddball has a story, and there always seems to be a little something brewing beneath the surface. Season 2 continues Lee’s arc as a loving dad, a devoted keeper of the truth, and perhaps the last honest troublemaker left in Tulsa.

Created, written, and partly directed by Oklahoma native Sterlin Harjo, of FX’s Reservation Dogs fame, The Lowdown adds a couple of heavyweights to the cast this season. Legendary Texan actor Tommy Lee Jones joins in the fun as Lee Raybon Senior, Lee’s estranged grifter father, who suddenly rolls back into town after Lee spent years telling his daughter that her grandfather was dead. So yeah, that should make for an interesting family reunion.

Recent Emmy winner Betty Gilpin, of Widow’s Bay, also joins the cast this year as Ginger, a brash public defender and fellow crusader for the truth who pulls Lee into his latest investigation after one of her clients mysteriously disappears from state prison.

With Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Keith David, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tim Blake Nelson, and Scott Shepherd returning, The Lowdown: Season 2 will once again take us through the eccentric, seedy side of Tulsa as Lee pokes around where he probably shouldn’t, asks questions people would rather he didn’t, and inevitably finds himself knee-deep in trouble, yet again.

The series returns Wednesday, October 14th on FX and Hulu.

📺 “Nocturne” Trailer: Stephen Graham Plays a Serial Killer Who Loves Playing Mind Games in Apple’s Twisty New Thriller Series with Liev Schreiber and Zazie Beetz — Premiering Friday, October 30th on Apple TV

The truly terrifying thing about facing true evil is that if you get too close, there’s no way you won’t be changed by it. But when it’s your job to hunt down some of the most evil criminals in the country, keeping your distance isn’t exactly an option.

In the new Apple Original series Nocturne, a currently jailed serial killer finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation, where agents believe there are more of his victims who have yet to be accounted for. It’s their job to identify them and save any who may still be alive. Now, this notorious killer can help them and be cooperative. Or he can play games, manipulate the investigation, and make them work for every answer.

He chooses the latter.

Emmy Award-winning actor Stephen Graham, of Adolescence, stars as Jurek Walter, an infamous serial killer whose manipulation and mind games make getting the truth out of him nearly impossible. He is joined by Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) as Jonah Lynn, the veteran homicide detective who has spent years trying to catch Walter and has a long, complicated history with his case.

With a new FBI investigation emerging after one of Walter’s missing victims suddenly turns up alive, Lynn’s history with Walter becomes somewhat compromised. His protégé, tenacious FBI agent Saga Bauer (Zazie Beetz), volunteers to go undercover, posing as a death-row inmate newly relocated to the cell next to Walter.

It’s a plan that might just work. The only problem? If you stare into the sun long enough, eventually you’re going to get burned. So how long will it take before Agent Bauer gets too close to Walter and starts getting burned herself?

Created by Rowan Joffé, the screenwriter of 28 Weeks Later and creator of Amazon’s Tin Star, the series also stars The Night Of’s Bill Camp, Castle Rock’s Rory Culkin, Lanterns’ Poorna Jagannathan, and This Is Us’ Chrissy Metz.

The upcoming drama appears to be a ticking-clock thriller where the killer is already caught, yet his victims are still out there... and time is running out to find them. Now it’s up to the good guys to get close to a monster without losing themselves in the process.

Nocturne is set to premiere Friday, October 30th on Apple TV.

📺 “Phony” Trailer: Connie Britton May Not Be the Mother She Claims to Be in Hulu’s Unsettling New Thriller Series with Sam Nivola — Premiering Tuesday, October 20th on Hulu / Disney+

There’s nothing quite like a mother’s love. It can feel like a warm blanket of comfort and security. But what happens when the woman you believe to be your mother suddenly starts feeling like a complete stranger? And those feelings turn into incredibly deep suspicion. And here’s a terrifying thought: What if she really isn’t your mother?

In the upcoming psychological thriller series Phony, Connie Britton and Sam Nivola (of The White Lotus: Season 3) star as mother and son, Ellen and Sonny. It’s always been just the two of them. They’ve been nearly inseparable... best friends, even.

But when Sonny wakes up badly injured in the hospital after a horrible car accident, he begins to notice something different about his mother... something completely off about her. Is this even the same woman? This can’t be my mother, he starts thinking, even as everyone around him insists otherwise.

His suspicion and paranoia set off an increasingly desperate search for the truth, as Sonny slowly becomes convinced that this woman isn’t the person she says she is. And if that’s true... where is his mother? What happened to her? And why has she seemingly been replaced by someone who looks exactly like her, yet feels completely different?

Created, written, and directed by Nick Paley (Broad City, Nathan Fielder’s The Curse) and co-starring Meera Syal, Grace Brennan, Mahaela Park, Maliq Johnson, and Colter Lee, this eyebrow-raising mother-son thriller asks: What do you do when everything in your body says the person you love most isn’t who they say they are? And that intuition is becoming frighteningly hard to ignore.

Just in time for Halloween to give you the willies, Phony arrives on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ on Tuesday, October 20th.

📺 “Tulsa King: Season 4” Trailer: Sylvester Stallone Is Back and Ready to Crack Some Skulls as New Enemies Come to Tulsa — Premiering Friday, October 16th on Paramount+

Sylvester Stallone may have started his career as a big Hollywood action hero. But now, at 80, the Rocky and Rambo star has found a whole different kind of success on television with his mob drama, Tulsa King, which returns this month for its fourth season. Stallone is still the tough guy you don’t want to mess with, but with a little more age, wisdom, and swagger behind him.

As mobster Dwight “The General” Manfredi, this Taylor Sheridan-created series has Stallone returning to his dramatic roots, while still giving him plenty of opportunities to crack some skulls. After all, Sly’s gotta be Sly.

In the show, Dwight is a made man sent to live out his days in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after spending a long stretch in prison. It’s a city where not much happens. That is, until Dwight figures out there’s plenty of opportunity to build an empire of his own. It’s an untapped resource for the mob to move in, and Dwight is just the guy to do it.

After three seasons of Dwight and his local crew building and protecting a criminal empire from rivals, enemies, and anyone else looking to muscle in on their territory, Season 4 doesn’t seem to be all that different. This year will see new enemies (including one local Tulsa gangster rapper), power-hungry politicians (one played by Gretchen Mol), and old rivals (James Russo, Frank Grillo, and Neal McDonough) once again come knocking at Dwight’s door. All of them looking for a piece of the action.

With Martin Starr, Garrett Hedlund, Jay Will, Dana Delany, and Annabella Sciorra returning, as well as showrunner Terence Winter back at the helm, Season 4 promises even more trouble for Dwight and his ever-growing Tulsa empire.

Tulsa King: Season 4 is slated to premiere Friday, October 16th, exclusively on Paramount+.

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📺 “Barbershop” Teaser: Jermaine Fowler Takes His Spot Behind the Barber Chair at Calvin’s in Amazon’s New Comedy Series with Brett Gray, Punkie Johnson, and Roy Wood Jr — Premieres Wednesday, February 10, 2027 on Prime Video

It’s been more than 20 years since the original Barbershop comedy hit theaters, and after growing into a franchise, it’s now opening its doors for its first TV series. Jermaine Fowler takes the lead as Travis “Trav” Porter, the grandson of Cedric the Entertainer’s Eddie, who is looking to take his own spot behind the chair at Calvin’s. Raised on Chicago’s South Side and practically in the barbershop itself, you’d think Trav would be a natural. Well, it turns out he still has a lot to learn about cutting hair... and, more importantly, dealing with the many colorful personalities who walk in and out of Calvin’s. Also starring On My Block’s Brett Gray, former SNL cast member Punkie Johnson, former The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr., and Bokeem Woodbine, the series continues the franchise’s familiar mix of workplace comedy and neighborhood debates, with the barbershop still serving as the place where everyone has an opinion and nobody is afraid to share it.

📺 “Small Prophets” Trailer: A Lonely British Man Tries to Grow Tiny Fairy-Like Creatures in Mackenzie Crook’s Oddball British Comedy Series Starring Pearce Quigley, Lauren Patel, and Michael Palin — Premieres Wednesday, October 7th on Apple TV

The legend of the homunculus has long been a strange little corner of European folklore. It’s the idea that, with the right combination of alchemy and a little patience, you might just be able to create your own tiny human-like creature. Now imagine that happening in modern-day England, inside the garden shed of a lonely man looking for answers... and maybe even a new friend. Created, written, and directed by British actor Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, the UK’s The Office), the series stars comedian Pearce Quigley as Michael Sleep, an eccentric man whose life has been stuck in place ever since his beloved Clea mysteriously disappeared seven years ago. But when his father gives him an old alchemical recipe for creating homunculi (tiny magical creatures said to predict the future), Michael figures, why not give it a try? Also starring Michael Palin, Lauren Patel, and Crook himself, this heartfelt six-part comedy turns one man’s strange backyard experiment into a story about holding on to hope, and maybe finding a little unexpected friendship along the way.

📺 “Dexter: Resurrection: Season 2” Trailer: Michael C. Hall’s Dexter Morgan Faces His Most Terrifying Enemy Yet... a Mid-Life Crisis — Streams Friday, October 30th on Paramount+

There comes a point in every man’s life when he realizes he’s getting older. Perhaps the world is moving a little faster, and the younger generation doesn’t quite respect the history you’ve built. Apparently, serial killers have mid-life crises too. Go figure! Michael C. Hall returns once more as serial killer vigilante Dexter Morgan. And this new season of the New York-set spinoff series finds Dexter dealing with something he hasn’t really had to face before: getting older and wondering whether the world of serial killers is starting to pass him by. With Dan Stevens, Brian Cox, Bokeem Woodbine, and Nona Parker Johnson joining the cast, and Uma Thurman returning as Charley, Dexter finds himself surrounded by a new collection of killers, including an infamous murderer with decades of notoriety behind him and a younger killer terrorizing New York. For a guy who’s spent most of his life trying to keep his homicidal impulses under control, Dexter now has his work cut out for him... quite literally, as he tries to keep up with the next generation.

📺 “Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook” Trailer: Awkwafina Can’t Cook... So Naturally, She’s Reviving Her Family’s Cantonese Restaurant and Rediscovering Her Culinary Roots — Premieres Friday, November 6th on Apple TV

Part personal diary. Part food and travel show. But all Awkwafina. Actress and comedian Nora Lum (aka Awkwafina) opens herself up as she tries to get closer to her family roots and their cooking legacy. With the help of a few friends and chefs, she sets out to revive her family’s beloved Cantonese restaurant, taking a crash course in becoming a restaurateur. There’s a slight problem, tho. She was never taught how to cook... like, anything. So, to take on this deeply personal and highly ambitious venture, she’ll have to start from the very beginning: Cooking 101. All in the hopes of finally winning her grandma’s approval.

📺 The Crypt Keeper Is Back! John Kassir’s Iconic “Tales from the Crypt” Horror Host Returns After 30 Years to Haunt AMC’s FearFest 2026

October is here, which means Halloween season is in full effect. And who better to lead us through a month of horror than an old friend we haven’t seen in a while? After 30 years, the iconic host of Tales from the Crypt (once again voiced by the undeniable cackle of John Kassir) has clawed his way back into our lives. AMC is kicking off the 30th anniversary of FearFest by resurrecting the Crypt Keeper as the official host of its month-long celebration of all things horror. Sure, he has a slightly different look. The creature design isn’t ...eh, exactly the same as before. But that same old snarky, ghoulish spirit is still very much alive and kicking. So, boils and ghouls, get ready for a whole month of tricks, treats, horror movies, and plenty of terrible puns from everybody’s favorite decomposing horror host.

📺 “Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head: Season 4” Trailer: Everyone’s Favorite Idiots Bring Their Ridiculous Brand of Stupidity to Comedy Central — Premieres Wednesday, October 14th on Comedy Central

Mike Judge’s terminally dim-headed duo is back for another “stupid” season. And this time, they’re bringing their ridiculous and often hilarious brand of idiocy from Paramount+ to Comedy Central for Season 4. But the move doesn’t change one iota. This is still very much the same Beavis and Butt-Head we know and love: stupid ideas, terrible decisions, and two idiots somehow making their way through a world that’s gotten a whole lot dumber... yet still somehow manages to be smarter than they are. Judge returns to voice both Beavis and Butt-Head for another 12 episodes of absurd misadventures, along with their middle-aged counterparts, who continue to prove that getting older doesn’t necessarily mean getting any wiser.

📺 “TED: The Animated Series” Teaser: Ted and John Get Animated in Seth MacFarlane’s New ‘Ted’ Sequel Series Featuring Mark Wahlberg — Debuts Thursday, December 17th on Peacock

Just when you thought Seth MacFarlane’s foul-mouthed teddy bear couldn’t get any more animated... he literally does. In this upcoming animated comedy series, MacFarlane reunites with Mark Wahlberg for the latest installment of the Ted franchise. This time, Ted and John are not only older, married, and living next door to each other, but they’ve been given the Family Guy treatment. As in, they’re literally animated. Coming off the live-action prequel series that explored John’s high school years with Ted, this latest installment jumps ahead to John’s married years with Sam (Amanda Seyfried), as he and Ted stumble their way through marriage, parenting, dead-end jobs, and all the other headaches of adult life.

📺 “Abbott Elementary: Season 6” Trailer: Welcome Back to the Jungle as Quinta Brunson and the Abbott Crew Return for Another Year of Elementary Mayhem — Returns Wednesday, October 7th on ABC; Streaming Next Day on Hulu/Disney+

Look, in this day and age of television, it’s rare for a sitcom to make it past its first season, let alone reach six. But Quinta Brunson’s Emmy-winning comedy series has managed to do what most shows can only dream of. A large part of that success comes down to its cast of characters, led by Brunson herself, alongside Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, William Stanford Davis, and Sheryl Lee Ralph. The whole gang is back for another season of classroom mayhem, as the teachers at Abbott Elementary once again juggle classroom chaos, school-district headaches, and their increasingly complicated personal lives. This season, we’ll see the Abbott crew tackle the “jungle,” as union fights, job promotions, in-school squabbles, and personal drama keep everyone on their toes.

📺 “The Night Agent: Season 4” Behind-the-Scenes Promo: Gabriel Basso Returns as Agent Peter Sutherland for One Final Mission — Coming to Netflix in 2027

Nothing lasts forever. Eventually, you have to say goodbye to the things you love. Apparently, the same goes for White House agents like Peter Sutherland. Gabriel Basso returns for one final mission as the titular Night Agent, pulled yet again into a conspiracy-laden assignment. And yes, the stakes will be extremely high. With new friends and foes entering the picture tHis season, Peter once again faces a seemingly insurmountable mission, where one wrong step could lead to a global catastrophe. Then again, it wouldn’t be Peter Sutherland if saving the world didn’t come with the job.

📺 “9-1-1: Season 10” Trailer: Angela Bassett and the 118 Are Back to Save L.A. From a Volcano, Spilling Lava, and Another Round of Outrageous Disasters — Premiering Thursday, October 15th on ABC; Streaming Next Day on Hulu / Disney+

Whoa, ten seasons! Angela Bassett has led the charge of this L.A.-set drama series where emergency calls aren’t just emergencies... they’re usually full-blown disasters in need of some serious rescuing. Bassett is back as Athena Grant, now settling into her new role as a detective, while the rest of the 118 firefighter crew once again finds itself dealing with a number of emergencies around Los Angeles, each seemingly more outrageous than the last. Also starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Oliver Stark, Kenneth Choi, Aisha Hinds, Ryan Guzman, and Gavin McHugh, Season 10 is a milestone for any show, let alone one where the city seems to find a new and increasingly ridiculous way to nearly destroy itself every week. It’s just another day in Los Angeles, and another volcanic disaster waiting for the 118 to come to the rescue. Watch out for the 405... lava coming through!

📺 “9-1-1: Nashville: Season 2” Trailer: Murder Hornets, Biblical Plagues, and Ryan Phillippe Come to Music City — Premiering Thursday, October 15th on ABC; Streaming Next Day on Hulu /Disney+

You heard of killer bees? Well, in Nashville, they call them “murder hornets.” And when there’s a biblical plague in the middle of Music City, you better believe the good men and women of the 113 are going to have their hands full. Ryan Phillippe joins Season 2 as a New York homicide detective transplant who moves to Nashville looking for a little taste of Southern hospitality. Instead, he finds himself working cases that feel like they came straight out of the Bible. With Chris O’Donnell, Jessica Capshaw, and LeAnn Rimes returning with their sinful Southern ways, Nashville may need more than a few first responders to save it this time around. Hello, 9-1-1... pus-filled boils are breaking out all over my face and back. Call a doctor... or maybe a priest!

📺 “Newlyweds” Trailer: Real-Life Spouses Téa Leoni and Tim Daly Say ‘I Do’ Before Really Getting to Know Each Other in NBC’s New Sitcom Co-Created by and Co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis — Airs Friday, October 23rd on NBC; Streaming Next Day on Peacock

From Emmy-nominated television writer-director-producer Gail Lerner (Will & Grace, Black-ish) comes a new traditional multi-camera sitcom where real-life spouses Téa Leoni and Tim Daly play a newly married couple who may have said “I do” before really getting to know each other. She’s a free spirit. He’s a buttoned-up professor. And their respective worlds of friends and family are about to collide in ways neither of them quite expected. Jamie Lee Curtis, who also co-created and produced this NBC comedy, co-stars as Daly’s ex-wife, who is just one of the many colorful characters circling around the newlywed couple’s lives as they figure out that getting married was the easy part. Now it’s getting to know each other... and everyone who comes with them... where things are about to get complicated.

📺 “The One About Matthew Perry” Trailer: Friends and Family Look Past the Headlines to Remember the Beloved ‘Friends’ Star’s Life and Legacy — Premieres Tuesday, October 27th on Netflix

The sad irony is that the people who make us laugh the hardest are often the same ones hurting in ways we don’t always see. In this loving portrait of Friends star Matthew Perry, who passed away far too early, some of his closest friends and family members get a chance to talk about the real man behind Chandler Bing. Perry made us laugh for years, with a gift for physical comedy and timing that made him one of television’s most memorable comedic performers. But behind those laughs was a man fighting a very different battle. Perry was open about his years of alcoholism and drug abuse, and he eventually used his own struggles to help others facing addiction. While those struggles ultimately followed him to the end of his life, to the people who knew and loved him, he was always so much more than his addiction. Directed by Mary Robertson (Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV), this three-part documentary looks past those headlines to get to the heart of a “Friend” we all loved.

📺 “Power: Origins” Teaser: Meet Young Ghost and Tommy as STARZ Takes the “Power” Franchise Back to Where It All Began — Coming Soon, 2026

The Power franchise continues to expand, somehow finding new corners of its criminal universe to explore. This time, we’re going all the way back to where it began, with the early days of Ghost and Tommy, long before they became legends of New York’s criminal underworld. From showrunner Sascha Penn (Raising Kanan, Survivor’s Remorse), the prequel stars Spence Moore II as a young James “Ghost” St. Patrick and Charlie Mann as a young Tommy Egan. MeKai Curtis also returns as Kanan Stark, directly connecting the series to Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Together, Ghost, Tommy, and Kanan are young, hungry, and looking to make their mark on the streets of New York. We already know where their stories end up, and this will take us back to where it all started.

📺 “Rivals: Season 2” Trailer: Alex Hassell, David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Bella Maclean, Nafessa Williams, Danny Dyer, and Katherine Parkinson Return for More ’80s Excess in the British Drama — Returning Wednesday, November 11th on Hulu / Disney+ in U.S.

The first season of this British import was all about the rich and powerful muscling their way into the television industry, manipulating and bending the narrative in their favor—a fitting example of ’80s excess. Season 2 returns with that success taking its toll, as professional rivalries become increasingly personal and the characters’ intertwined relationships push them toward their own moral collapse. Featuring a stellar ensemble led by Alex Hassell, David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Bella Maclean, Nafessa Williams, Danny Dyer, and Katherine Parkinson, and created by Dominic Treadwell-Collins, this ’80s-set British series returns for another season where cultural elitism, professional ambition, personal desire, and old financial rivalries become increasingly difficult to separate as Britain’s rich and powerful discover that getting what they want comes with consequences.

📺 “Time: Series 3” Trailer: David Tennant Reaches His Breaking Point as a Guilt-Ridden Prison Officer in Jimmy McGovern’s Hard-Hitting Youth Prison Drama — Debuts Sunday, October 11th on BBC One in the UK; Coming Soon to BritBox in the U.S.

David Tennant has played his fair share of complicated men over the years. But in this third installment of Jimmy McGovern’s prison anthology, he may be playing one of his most guilt-ridden yet. Here, Tennant takes on the role of Bailey, a veteran officer working inside a Young Offenders Institution, where a devastating tragedy leaves him carrying a secret that could change the lives of several people... including his own. With a cast of young rising actors, including Louis McCartney and Ollie McNulty, the three-part drama explores those frightening first weeks and months behind bars for a group of teenage offenders, where family loyalties are tested, friendships are formed, and the truth can be every bit as difficult to face as the crimes that put them there.

📺 “The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story” Trailer: A Decades-Old Louisiana Cold Case Takes a Strange Turn Toward the Paranormal in This Three-Part True Crime Docuseries — Premieres Sunday, October 11th on HBO Max

An unsolved murder mystery isn’t always just about solving the case. Sometimes, it’s about pulling a thread to see what gets unleashed. Most of the time, those threads lead to clues. But every once in a while, all you end up doing is opening a Pandora’s box... a whole new can of worms. In this new three-part true crime docuseries, a cold case dating back to 1985 in Louisiana becomes the starting point for a much larger mystery, one that goes from possible suspects to the paranormal. After all, it’s Louisiana. And sometimes, the spirits can’t help but make themselves heard. Investigators and journalists revisit the unsolved murder of pet cemetery owner Dorothy Lou Thompson, and the deeper they dig into the decades-old case, the stranger it gets. Because unlike most cold cases, some of the answers may not come from the living.

📺 “100 Days of Deception” Trailer: A Pickpocket Goes Undercover for a Dangerous Mission and Falls for the Wrong Man in This 1930s Korean Series Starring Kim You-jung and Park Jin-young — Streams Saturday, October 10th on Netflix

Looking for a show with twisty espionage and forbidden romance set against the backdrop of a turbulent period in Korean history? Well, look no further. Set in 1932 Gyeongseong during the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea, this new Korean series stars Kim You-jung as a highly skilled pickpocket who dreams of escaping to the United States, only to get pulled into a dangerous 100-day mission. Her assignment: sneak into the colonial government by posing as an interpreter trainee and steal secrets for the Korean resistance. Soon, she finds herself caught between the mission she was sent to complete and her growing feelings for the adopted son (Park Jin-young) of the very official the resistance is targeting. Who says that in the game of espionage, the heart doesn’t have a role to play?

📺 “Michael Che: Shot in Minnesota” Trailer: Weekend Update Co-Anchor Michael Che Steps Back on Stage for His Latest Comedy Special — Debuts Tuesday, October 13th on Netflix

SNL’s Michael Che steps out from behind the Weekend Update desk and back to the mic for a new hour-long comedy special that’s sharp, loose, and strictly on his own terms. You’ve seen his biting political stuff for years on SNL. Here, he goes after the personal stuff too: race, relationships, free speech. All with the same dry, no-apologies style we’ve come to know him for. No desk, no filter... and no Colin Jost at his side. It’s all Che, this time going from NBC’s Saturday nights to a Tuesday on Netflix this October.

📺 “The New Stanford Prison Experiment” Trailer: 30 Volunteers Are Divided Into Prisoners and Guards to See Who Falls in Line... and Who Takes Control in This New Social Experiment Docuseries — Debuts Wednesday, October 21st on Netflix

Is it simply human nature to submit and to dominate? To follow orders and to take control? In this new docu-reality series, 30 willing adults volunteer for a scientifically-controlled social experiment that divides them into prisoners and prison guards, recreating the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. As controversial as it was, the original experiment suggested that, under the right conditions, those given authority can quickly abuse it, while those without power can just as easily fall in line. Decades later, this new experiment sets out to see if that still holds true.

📺 “A Couple of Lies” Trailer: Two Couples, Two Beautiful Homes, and a Whole Lot of Secrets Turn an Idyllic Getaway into Murder in This Mystery-Thriller Miniseries Starring Frida Gustavsson, Fares Fares, Emma Appleton, and Jakob Oftebro — Premieres Friday, October 30th on Netflix

What makes for a compelling mystery? Murder... check. Secrets and lies... check. Beautiful, affluent people seemingly trying to hide something while pointing fingers at everyone else... okay, you’ve got our attention. Frida Gustavsson and Fares Fares star as Helene and Carl, a wealthy couple who swap their home in Stockholm, Sweden, for the sun-soaked Sicilian villa of Scarlett (Emma Appleton) and Adam (Jakob Oftebro). Sounds like a pretty nice getaway. That is, until both couples start poking around each other’s homes and discovering things that probably weren’t meant to be found. Based on Stefan Ahnhem’s novel, this four-part psychological thriller miniseries gives us two couples, two beautiful homes, and plenty of reasons not to trust any of them. What starts as an idyllic getaway quickly turns into a nasty little game of suspicion, surveillance, manipulation, and murder.

📺 “Thou Shalt Not Steal” U.S. Trailer: A Teenage Outlaw Hits the Road in an Offbeat Aussie Coming-of-Age Comedy with Miranda Otto and Noah Taylor — Stream Tuesday, October 6th on The Network in the U.S.

The Network may not be a U.S. streaming platform you’ve heard of just yet. But it has become a home for some interesting imports, including this offbeat Aussie coming-of-age road comedy. Featuring Miranda Otto and Noah Taylor, the 2024 series stars Sherry-Lee Watson as Robyn, a young Aboriginal delinquent who escapes detention and heads across the Australian outback in search of her estranged father. Along the way, she falls in with the awkward Gidge (Will McDonald), while Otto and Taylor play two of the questionable adults who get caught up in their journey. In typical Aussie fashion, it looks to be filled with off-kilter dark humor and colorful characters, all set against the dusty roads and wide-open landscapes of the Australian outback.

📺 “Dead-End Job” Teaser: Financially Strapped Gig Worker Lands the Side Hustle From Hell in Netflix’s Korean Thriller Series Starring Lee Jae-wook — Premieres Friday, October 30th on Netflix

Desperate times call for desperate employment. And when a paycheck isn’t enough, the promise of easy money can make a few risks seem worth taking. In this darkly comic Korean thriller, a young man (Lee Jae-wook), drowning in debt, turns to a mysterious employment agency offering unusually lucrative part-time jobs. But each new assignment comes with stranger rules and increasingly terrifying consequences. Think Squid Game meets gig work... where every job assignment could be your last.

📺 “Messi and the Giants” Teaser Trailer: Soccer Superstar Lionel Messi Teams with Disney for an Animated Underdog Adventure Where the Competition Is Literally Larger Than Life — Coming Summer 2027 to Disney+

Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi has teamed with Disney for an all-new children’s animated series where big sports dreams are about to get even bigger. Executive produced by Messi, this animated sports-fantasy adventure follows Leo, a gifted 12-year-old footballer who suddenly finds himself trapped in an alternate reality ruled by giants. If he wants to make it home, he’ll have to put together a team, take on some seriously oversized competition, and discover that talent alone will only get you so far. It’s a classic underdog story where the characters are literally larger than life, and sometimes the smallest player on the field can still dream the biggest.

📺 “Dragon Ball Super: Beerus” Trailer: The Classic Beerus Storyline Gets Completely Rebuilt with New Animation, Voice Work, and More — Coming to Netflix U.S. Saturday, October 17th

Don’t expect this to simply be a collection of old episodes cleaned up and given a fresh coat of paint. This is a substantially reconstructed retelling of a classic storyline in the Dragon Ball franchise. The story takes us back to the arrival of Beerus, the God of Destruction, who awakens from a long sleep looking for a worthy opponent and finds exactly that in Goku. In an attempt to more closely reflect Akira Toriyama’s original concepts, this redo has been extensively rebuilt with new and redrawn animation, different cuts, re-rendered footage, newly recorded voice work, and new music and sound effects. So even if you’ve seen this story before, you haven’t quite seen it like this. It’s going to be a Dragon Ball adventure like you’ve never seen before. Because in a lot of ways... you haven’t.

📺 “Ranma ½: Season 3” Trailer: Young Love, Martial-Arts Mayhem, and Ranma’s Cold-Water Curse Return for Another Round — Streams Saturday, October 3rd on Netflix

Three seasons in, Rumiko Takahashi’s martial-arts romcom keeps finding new ways to complicate young love. Teenage martial artist Ranma Saotome is reluctantly engaged to Akane Tendo after their fathers arranged the match, but things get complicated when a training accident leaves Ranma cursed to transform into a girl whenever he’s splashed with cold water... Hmm. Didn’t see that coming. Season 3 brings more rivals and romantic challengers into the mix, while Ranma and Akane keep dancing around how they really feel about each other. If you’re looking for an off-kilter anime romcom with some martial-arts mayhem thrown in, this might be your jam.

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📺 “Black Doves: Season 2” Trailer: Keira Knightley Is an Undercover Spy Married to the Prime Minister, with Ben Whishaw Back to Help Her Do the Dirty Work — Returning Thursday, November 5th on Netflix

Going by what we see in movies and television, undercover spies have complicated lives, as their jobs are extremely dangerous and they’re prone to unquestionable violence. They serve for a greater good, and for their loyalty they often pay the ultimate price. Even James Bond has suffered multiple personal tragedies throughout the franchise, and hell, he is probably the best British spy of all.

However, what spies don’t have are private lives or the freedom to enter into relationships with genuine emotional attachments. And in no way have we learned from any James Bond movie that a spy can get this close to the Prime Minister, let alone be married to one.

Keira Knightley returns as Helen Webb in Season 2 of the acclaimed British espionage thriller Black Doves. She’s an ass-kicking undercover spy. And she’s also the wife of the Prime Minister. Which makes for some pretty interesting pillow talk. That is, when they’re not questioning each other’s loyalties.

Hailing from creator Joe Barton (Giri/Haji, The Lazarus Project), Season 1 of this Netflix series saw Knightley’s Helen Webb living a double life as an elite “Black Dove” agent and the partner of a rising politician (played by Andrew Buchan). She is then pushed deeper into the world of espionage when her secret lover, a fellow spy, is suddenly murdered, putting her on the same trajectory of double-crosses and betrayal.

Season 2 finds Helen living in even more dangerous territory, as her husband is now the UK Prime Minister. With her husband now doubting her real intentions and questioning where her loyalties truly lie, Helen is finding that being a spy is a lot easier when your private life is actually private and your spouse isn’t a public figure.

Ben Whishaw is back as Sam Young, Helen’s longtime friend and fellow Black Dove operative, who once again finds himself helping her out as Season 2 pulls them into another dangerous conspiracy.

If you’re looking for a spy show where Whishaw gets to act all snarky while Knightley is kicking, punching, and shooting bad dudes, this is the one you’ve been looking for.

Also starring Sarah Lancashire, Andrew Buchan, Gabrielle Creevy, and Ella Lily Hyland, with Ambika Mod, Babou Ceesay, Sam Riley, and Neve Campbell joining this season, Black Doves: Season 2 premieres Thursday, November 5th on Netflix.

📺 “YAGA” Trailer: Noah Reid and Clark Backo Investigate a Missing Heir and a Witchy Carrie-Anne Moss in This Darkly Comic Canadian Mystery Detective Series — Premiering Friday, October 23rd on AMC+

Canadians are often stereotyped as polite and safe. Their shows can also be pegged the same way, often drenched in the niceties of small-town life.

Well, here’s a new Canadian series set in a small coastal town. But something tells us this show is anything but polite and safe. Are you prepared to get a little witchy with some Canucks?

In the upcoming darkly comic procedural mystery series YAGA, the case of a missing young man from a powerful local family unravels a web of suspicion and witchy folklore as investigators get pulled deeper into the town’s secrets.

Schitt’s Creek actor Noah Reid stars as Rapp, a private investigator who arrives in the coastal town of Whittock to investigate the disappearance of the heir (Hudson Williams) of a powerful local tuna family, only to be met with some resistance from the local detective handling the case. Reluctantly paired up with Whittock’s own Detective Carson (Clark Backo), Rapp soon discovers this is no ordinary missing-person case, nor is this an ordinary Canadian town.

With rumors swirling about a local witch legend, the two investigators find themselves knocking on the door of an enigmatic university professor, played by Matrix icon Carrie-Anne Moss, who is rumored to have multiple “relationships” with younger students.

Does she know the whereabouts of the missing heir? Or worse yet, is it true she’s a witch known as Baba Yaga who seduces and preys upon young men?

Created by acclaimed playwright Kat Sandler and also starring Canadian vets Sheila McCarthy and Megan Follows, along with genre vet Katharine Isabelle, Patrick Gilmore, and Hiro Kanagawa, this is one Canadian witch-themed series that knows Halloween is near and plans to cast a spell on us just in time.

YAGA is set to debut with a two-episode premiere on Friday, October 23rd on AMC+.

📺 “Treasure Island” Trailer: David Oyelowo Sets Sail as Long John Silver Alongside Hayley Atwell, Jack Huston, Tom Sweet and Tomer Capone in MGM’s Swashbuckling Adventure — Premiering Sunday, October 11th on MGM+

Whatever happened to the pirate genre? It seemed to be thriving after the success of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. You would’ve thought it would have lasted a little longer. Well, maybe it’s finally time for a resurgence.

And maybe all we needed was the right actor to bring it all back again. To bring back the swashbuckling, seafaring mayhem, sword battles, and battle cries.

David Oyelowo certainly has enough swagger to push the genre back from the depths as he takes on the infamous pirate character of Long John Silver in this latest reinvention of the classic tale of Treasure Island.

Oyelowo is joined by a strong ensemble cast that includes Hayley Atwell (MCU, Mission: Impossible), Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire), Tom Sweet (Gunpowder), and Tomer Capone (The Boys).

Created by Robert Murphy (Vera, Shetland), the series follows teenager Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint’s legendary treasure map and is pulled into a dangerous race to find the fortune.

Soon, Jim (Tom Sweet) and his mother, Bess (Hayley Atwell), find themselves caught in a deadly pursuit for the treasure, with Long John Silver and a revolutionary spy each determined to get their hands on it... and each willing to do whatever it takes to get that booty.

While expanding on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure, Treasure Island aims to remind viewers why pirate stories were so damn fun in the first place. It’s not just the drunken chaos and attitude, but the thrill of hunting for treasure, even if you have to cross an ocean and cut through a few enemies to get it.

Treasure Island premieres Sunday, October 11th on MGM+.

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📺 “VisionQuest” New Promo: Paul Bettany’s Vision Searches His Synthetic Mind for Answers as James Spader Returns as Ultron — Debuts with a Two-Episode Premiere Wednesday, October 14th on Disney+

Paul Bettany once again returns as Vision in this new MCU miniseries, which finds the Synthezoid superbeing confronting his fears and anxieties as he searches through his own memories and the commands buried within his synthetic mind. It’s surprisingly heady stuff for Marvel, and much like WandaVision, the series gets inside the subconscious of a superhero to ask questions about memory, identity, and what it actually means to be human. This time, Vision isn’t just wrestling with his humanity, but also his place as a new father, protector, and son to a deeply dysfunctional AI program known as Ultron (again played by James Spader, but now in human form). Executive produced by showrunner Terry Matalas and also co-starring Ruaridh Mollica, Todd Stashwick, T’Nia Miller, Lauren Morais, Orla Brady, Diane Morgan, Emily Hampshire, and James D’Arcy, this new MCU miniseries arrives just as Marvel begins ramping up its promotional push for the big Avengers: Doomsday event in December.

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📺 “Family Guy: Happy Hell-o-ween” Trailer: Brian and Stewie Take Over Hell with Kieran Culkin as the Devil — Debuts Monday, October 5th on Hulu / Disney+

No, hell didn’t freeze over, but it certainly has gotten new management. Brian and Stewie have taken over hell, and after years of bad behavior, surprisingly, they fit right in. Seth MacFarlane’s long-running animated series celebrates the spooky season with its own very Halloween special that’s meant to tickle your funny bone... and maybe rattle a few other ones as well. Kieran Culkin joins in the fun as the voice of the Devil (naturally). But when a Halloween-night accident sends Brian and Stewie straight to hell, they manage to annoy even the Devil himself, leaving the troublesome duo in charge of the underworld. This Halloween, hell isn’t ready for Brian and Stewie. But really, who ever is?

📺 “Nobody Wants This: Season 3” Trailer: Kristen Bell and Adam Brody Are Taking Their Relationship to the Next Level, with Sarah Silverman and Andrew Rannells Joining the Fun — Premieres Thursday, October 22nd on Netflix

It’s the rom-com series that instantly became a hit among a generation who were dying to see Veronica Mars hook up with Seth Cohen from The O.C., and now it’s one of Netflix’s most popular romantic comedies, asking if religion can really get in the way of true love. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody once again return as lovebirds Joanne and Noah. It’s your average romantic comedy about the trials and tribulations of a couple trying to make a relationship work. Except he’s a hunky rabbi and she’s a non-Jewish woman still figuring out whether she’s ready to convert before getting married. Mazel tov! Also starring Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons, Jackie Tohn, Andrew Rannells, Sarah Silverman, Avan Jogia, and Poorna Jagannathan, this Erin Foster-created comedy gets to the heart of what happens when falling in love is the easy part... it’s accepting everything that comes with it where things get complicated.

📺 “Elsbeth: Season 4” Trailer: Carrie Preston’s Unconventional Crime-Solver Returns for More Murder, Twisty Mysteries, and Unconventional Police Cases — Returning Thursday, October 8th on CBS and Paramount+

She’s not a detective, she’s not a private eye, she’s not even a cop. But like Columbo, she always gets for man, and the truth of the crime. Carrie Preston returns once again as the brilliant yet quirky former lawyer-turned-NYPD consultant Elsbeth Tascioni, who keeps outsmarting murderers no one else can pin down. With her keen eye for the smallest details and a knack for asking exactly the right question at exactly the wrong time, Elsbeth can sometimes be her own worst enemy, but there’s no one better at cracking a case that seems impossible to solve or too easily dismissed. With Wendell Pierce returning as Captain C.W. Wagner, this Good Wife spin-off heads into its fourth season with a new roster of guest stars, including Nicole Scherzinger, Nicholas Braun, Jemima Kirke, and New York Knicks star OG Anunoby.

📺 “Jamie Foxx: Take Care of Yourself” Trailer: Jamie Foxx Is Back on Stage and Getting Personal About Life, Self-Care, Getting Old, and Finding the Funny — Debuts Wednesday, October 7th on Hulu

Last time we saw comedian Jamie Foxx on stage, he was finally talking about the life-threatening health scare that almost took everything from him. This time, he’s turning the focus to what it actually means to take care of himself, with unfiltered honesty, carefully considered perspective, and a few hard-earned jokes and laughs. With this new comedy special, Foxx is kicking off a new lineup of stand-up specials for Hulu that will feature some of comedy’s biggest names. So who better to get the party started than the one and only Jamie Foxx?

📺 “Rage: Season 2” Trailer: Maribel Verdú Leads a Group of Women Pushed to Their Breaking Points in Félix Sabroso’s Biting Spanish Satire Where Pain and Humiliation Become Entertainment — Streams Friday, October 9th on HBO Max

In a world where your life becomes a brand and every humiliation can be exploited for ratings, fury just might be the last thing they can’t monetize. Spanish star Maribel Verdú, of Y tu mamá también, Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Flash fame, returns to lead this ensemble as part of a group of women pushed to their breaking points by a ruthless business that twists their pain, humiliation, and personal struggles into pure entertainment. Created by Félix Sabroso and Also starting Carmen Maura, María León, Cecilia Suárez and Ana Mena, this second season of the biting Spanish satire aims its wrath at an all-too-familiar world where nearly everything (and everyone) can not only be churned into entertainment, but also sold for profit.

📺 “Where’s Wanda?: Season 2” Trailer: Lea Drinda, Heike Makatsch, and Axel Stein Return for a New Murder Mystery in This Acclaimed German Dark Comedy — Streams Wednesday, October 21st on Apple TV.

Nothing like a little murder to shake up a small town, but for the Klatts, it’s just another day in their sleepy German suburb. Lea Drinda returns in the second season of the acclaimed German dark comedy as Wanda Klatt, alongside Heike Makatsch as her mother, Carlotta; Axel Stein as her father, Dedo; Leo Simon as her brother, Ole; and Nikeata Thompson as Detective Michelle Rauch. This time, Wanda is seemingly caught red-handed standing over a dead body, dragging her whole family right back into another mess they have to solve. To clear Wanda’s name, the Klatts push past their suburb’s polite facade and into its criminal underbelly in search of the truth. Nothing like a little murder to keep a family together.

📺 “The Reluctant Vampire” U.K. Trailer: Lenny Rush Is the Odd One Out in a Family of Vampires in Rob and Neil Gibbons’ New Supernatural Comedy — Premieres Sunday, October 4th on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the U.K.

Living up to your parents’ expectations is tough, but for some, it’s impossible—especially if you aren’t even what they think you are. In this new British vampire comedy, BAFTA-winner Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?) plays Val, a young man raised in a vampire family who is desperate to live up to his father’s traditions and take over the family business, only to discover a shocking secret has been kept from him his entire life. What is it, you ask? Val is really just a human and not a vampire at all, which makes it outrageously difficult when you’re supposed to take over your father’s mantle as head vampire. Created by Rob and Neil Gibbons and also starring Tom Davis, Sian Clifford, Gabriel Nagy, Asim Chaudhry, Joe Wilkinson, Charlie Cooper, Esther Smith, Ellie-May Sheridan, Bill Bailey, and Ross Noble, this is one family comedy where growing up really does bite.

📺 “The Sisters Grimm: Season 2” Trailer: Sabrina and Daphne Return for More Fairy-Tale Mysteries, Family Secrets, and Magical Adventures in This Animated Fantasy Series Starring Ariel Winter, Leah Newman, and Laraine Newman — Returning Friday, October 2nd on Apple TV

In a world where fairytale characters are real, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are back on the case, still searching for answers about their missing parents in a town where every happily ever after comes with a catch. Featuring the voices of Ariel Winter, Leah and Laraine Newman, Abubakar Salim, Billy Harris, and Harry Trevaldwyn, this animated fantasy adventure series returns with new mysteries to crack, new secrets to uncover, and new trouble to overcome. These two sisters might be descended from the Brothers Grimm, but this is no fairytale they can simply wish their way out of if they want to find their parents and finally solve the mystery once and for all.

📺 “Adventure Time: Side Quests: Season 2” Trailer: Finn and Jake Return for More Magical Mishaps and Strange Adventures Across the Land of Ooo — Streaming Friday, October 2nd on Disney+ and Hulu

Need a little more Adventure Time in your life? Well, Finn and Jake are back for even more side quests across the wild Land of Ooo. In this second season of the animated companion series, Finn and Jake dive into more standalone adventures: wrestling toads, facing baby gladiators, and stumbling through one too many misfired spells. Just when you thought these two couldn’t get into any more trouble, they somehow find a few new ways to prove you wrong.

📺 “Bride of the Barrier Master” Teaser: A Young Woman Hides Her Powerful Magical Abilities Only to Find Herself Sought After as a Bride in Netflix’s Romantic Fantasy Anime Based on Kureha’s Popular Novels — Coming January 2027

Based on the popular romantic fantasy novels by Kureha, Netflix’s latest anime series follows 18-year-old Hana Ichise, a young woman born into a family of barrier-weaving magic users. Hana has spent most of her life living in the shadow of her gifted twin sister. But when she discovers a powerful ability of her own, she chooses to keep it hidden, hoping to finally live a quiet life away from her family’s expectations. Of course, plans don’t always go the way you want, and Hana soon finds herself caught in the sights of a powerful clan seeking a bride with abilities strong enough to stand beside its new leader.

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📺 “The Terminal List: Season 2” Trailer: Chris Pratt Returns as Ex-Navy SEAL James Reece for Another Dangerous Mission That Sends Him Straight Back Into Hell in Amazon’s Action-Thriller Series With Constance Wu, Gabriel Luna, Luke Hemsworth, and Tom Hopper — Premiering Wednesday, October 21st on Prime Video

Chris Pratt proved he was a capable leading man in the Guardians of the Galaxy films, relying on his comedic timing and charismatic chops to turn Star-Lord into one of Marvel’s most popular heroes. But with his Amazon action series The Terminal List, which is coming back with its second season next month, Pratt isn’t leaning into his humor or goofball charm. Instead, he’s showing off his darker, more dramatic side. It’s a more somber and hardened Chris Pratt than we’re used to seeing.

Here, he plays James Reece, a former Navy SEAL who has been deployed on some of the most dangerous missions imaginable, forced to face a number of deadly threats on the battlefield. The first season saw Reece returning home as a battle-scarred veteran struggling with PTSD and looking for answers after his entire Navy SEAL platoon was killed during a mission. Unable to decipher what is real and what is part of his fractured state of mind, he seeks out answers, leading him on a collision course with the people responsible for destroying his team.

Still very haunted by those missions, Season 2 has Reece once again finding himself pulled back into action as he’s recruited for another dangerous and secret military operation. War is certainly hell, and he seems to have seen his fair share of it. But Reece might have just volunteered himself for another trip back to Hell. Because the Hell he knows might be easier than the Hell waiting for him back home.

Joining this new season are Gabriel Luna, Luke Hemsworth, and Tom Hopper, while Constance Wu returns as investigative reporter Katie Buranek, whose latest assignment once again becomes tied to Reece’s mission. Rounding out the cast are Arnold Vosloo, Yul Vazquez, Olga Kurylenko, and Martin Sensmeier. This new season is based on True Believer, Jack Carr’s second book in his Terminal List novel series.

The Terminal List: Season 2 is slated to premiere Wednesday, October 21st on Prime Video.

📺 “The Diplomat: Season 4” Trailer: Keri Russell Takes on Allison Janney and Rufus Sewell as a Dangerous White House Conspiracy Threatens to Push the United States Toward War — Premiering Thursday, October 15th on Netflix

The thing about collateral damage is that it offers a convenient shield for those in power to justify the consequences of their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to set up clear red lines you refuse to cross, no matter what others might be willing to rationalize. If they’re not established, those goalposts can move in any direction the people in power want them to. And it gives them carte blanche to justify almost anything they choose to do.

And that seems to be at the very core of Season 4 of Netflix’s Emmy-winning political thriller series The Diplomat, which imagines the people at the very top of the U.S. government drawing up plans that could push the country into uncharted waters, where the only move is to betray the people’s trust.

Keri Russell returns once again as Ambassador Kate Wyler, who realizes that her boss, President Grace Penn (Emmy winner Allison Janney), might be willing to cross some very dangerous red lines to cover her own ass in a plot that could push the United States straight toward war. Civilian deaths be damned. Worse yet, Kate’s own husband, Vice President Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), seems not only to be a willing co-conspirator but might also be encouraging the President to take things even further.

With the balance of power left unchecked, Kate has no other choice but to team up with the president’s husband, Todd Penn (Bradley Whitford), in an effort to stop their spouses and bring a sense of accountability back to the White House. Which seems to be something every administration could use a little more of.

Also returning are Ato Essandoh as Stuart Hayford, Ali Ahn as CIA agent Eidra Park, and Nana Mensah as former White House Chief of Staff Billie Appiah, along with Rory Kinnear as UK Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge, whose temperament is so easily triggered that diplomacy with him can sometimes feel like its own international crisis.

Created by showrunner Debora Cahn, The Diplomat: Season 4 aims to turn the U.S. presidency into its own political powder keg, where the biggest threat might be coming from inside the house... the White House, that is.

The series is set to return Thursday, October 15th on Netflix.

📺 “War” Trailer: Dominic West and Sienna Miller Turn a High-Profile Divorce Into an All-Out Legal Battle Where Money, Reputation, and Winning Are Everything — Premiering Thursday, October 1st on HBO Max

Who wouldn’t want to be married to a beautiful actress or a wealthy tycoon? We can’t see any arguments against it, unless, of course, that marriage ultimately ends in a bitter public divorce and all your dirty laundry gets dragged out for everyone to see.

WAR is a new legal drama series starring Dominic West and Sienna Miller as a world-famous power couple whose sudden split causes the sharks to start circling.

West’s Morgan Henderson is a powerful mogul for whom money is no object, especially when it comes to getting exactly what he wants. Miller’s Carla Duval is a famous Hollywood actress whose fame has afforded her a life of influence and privilege. While there might be a financial imbalance between the two, that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s one in the court of public opinion.

Divorces, like it or not, are wars, even if those splitting up don’t recognize it yet. And if divorces are wars, then the lawyers are the weapons. And in some cases, they’re the generals calling all the shots as their clients sit idly by and watch their reputations get dragged through the mud.

Created and written by prolific British TV writer-producer George Kay (Lupin, Hijack, Criminal), the series goes behind the scenes of a high-profile divorce, where high-priced lawyers can be just as ruthless as the wealthy clients they represent. In this case, it’s two of London’s most prestigious rival law firms going head-to-head, with neither side willing to give an inch.

Also starring Nick Mohammed, Archie Renaux, Phoebe Fox, Celia Imrie, and Emma Laird, WAR has already been set up as an anthology series, with a greenlit second season in the works featuring an entirely new cast, slated for next year.

This first season, however, is set to debut Thursday, October 1st on HBO Max in the U.S. and on Sky in the UK.

📺 “Lanterns” Midseason Trailer: John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) Dig Deeper Into Their Nebraska Mystery as Their Partnership Fractures to the Point of No Return — Final Episodes Sundays on HBO Max

Despite all the chatter online, this DC series has become one of the biggest new shows on HBO Max this year. Now there are only three episodes left, set to show audiences just how deep John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) are willing to go to uncover the truth behind their strange investigation in Nebraska. But also how their partnership has evolved since John brutally punched out Hal, leaving both of them in a precarious position with the Green Lantern Corps. What started as a seemingly isolated murder spree has grown into something far bigger, pulling John and Hal deeper into a mystery involving extraterrestrial forces, and their own complicated histories. These final episodes seem to be setting the stage for John Stewart’s transformation from a rookie still learning what it means to wear the ring into the Green Lantern he was always meant to become.

📺 “Coven Academy” Trailer: Malina Pauli Weissman Stars in Freeform’s New Teen Supernatural Series About a Magic School Caught in an Ancient War with Tiffani Thiessen and Devon Sawa — Premieres Thursday, October 1st on Freeform and Streaming Next Day on Disney+ / Hulu

School is so damn boring, right? But what if it came with magic, witches, warlocks, vampires, and enough supernatural mischief to make homework seem a little more exciting? Welcome to Coven Academy, where students aren’t just learning their ABCs... they’re learning to cast spells, control their powers, and hopefully survive long enough to graduate. Malina Pauli Weissman stars as Briar, a fiercely independent teenager who discovers she’s a witch and suddenly finds herself attending an elite magic academy. Surrounded by kids with powers they barely understand, Briar has plenty to learn about this very strange new world. But when ancient forces begin threatening New Orleans, the school becomes the epicenter of a supernatural war that could put the entire student body (and the city) in danger. With Tiffani Thiessen as the formidable Miss Graves and Devon Sawa as charismatic warlock professor Mr. Cole along with Jordan Leftwich and Ora Duplass as fellow students, getting an education here could literally become a matter of life and death.

📺 “I Would Rather Die” Trailer: High School, Teenage Hormones, and a Taste for Human Flesh Collide in Amazon’s New Mexican Zombie Comedy Series Starring Diego Bernal — Premieres Friday, October 2nd on Prime Video

Growing up as a teenager is hard enough with raging hormones and typical high school drama. But add an insatiable taste for human flesh on top of it, and you’ve got a whole new set of growing pains. In this new Spanish-language zombie comedy series, Diego Bernal stars as Archie, a high school loser whose teenage problems go from bad to worse after a zombie bite leaves him somewhere between the living and the undead. As he tries to come to terms with his new condition, Archie discovers that being a teenage zombie might be both a curse and a blessing. That is, if he can find something to satisfy his, shall we say, peculiar appetite before he starts looking at his friends and fellow classmates as lunch.

📺 “Haunted Hotel: Season 2” Trailer: Eliza Coupe and Jimmi Simpson Return for More Supernatural Mayhem in Netflix’s Irreverent Animated Series — Streams Friday, October 9th on Netflix

The hardest part of running this haunted hotel isn’t exactly keeping the guests happy with the service, it’s making sure they leave in one piece, and not in pieces. In this brand-new season of the irreverent animated comedy, Eliza Coupe is back to voice Katherine Freeling, the single mom trying to keep her family together while running a hotel overrun with ghosts, demons, entities, and other supernatural monsters. As difficult as it might be to wrangle the undead and provide quality service, Katherine has her hands full keeping both the hotel and her increasingly dysfunctional family under control. With a snarky demonic boy named Abaddon (voiced by Jimmi Simpson) running around and keeping things interesting, Katherine and company will have to find a way to keep the Undervale open for business... and everyone inside alive. Also featuring the voices of Will Forte, Skyler Gisondo, and Natalie Palamides, the hospitality business has never looked so frighteningly dysfunctional.

📺 “Helluva Boss: Season 3 (Part 1)” Trailer: Blitzø and His Dysfunctional Crew Return for More Murder, Music and Messy Relationships in Hell — Streams Wednesday, October 14th on Prime Video

You’ve never seen Hell quite like this. And wouldn’t it be nice to imagine a Hell with plenty of songs and a little laughter to go along with all the demonic mayhem? Set within the Hazbin Hotel universe, this new season of the spinoff follows Blitzø (voiced by Brandon Rogers) and his dysfunctional crew of assassins as they take on murder-for-hire jobs while dealing with their own increasingly messy lives in Hell. Between demonic violence, relationship problems, and plenty of musical havoc, killing people for money might actually be the easiest part of their jobs. But nothing a little singing can’t help make more entertaining.

📺 “Scrubs: Season 2” Trailer: Zach Braff Is Back as J.D. as Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) Becomes His Newest Patient at Sacred Heart in the New Season of ABC’s Revival Comedy with Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke — Premieres Wednesday, September 30th on ABC and Streams on Hulu / Disney +

Zach Braff is back once again as Dr. John “J.D.” Dorian in the second season of this revival comedy, where Sacred Heart isn’t just a hospital... it’s a place where the doctors need just as much help as their patients. J.D. not only finds himself running the hospital after spending years learning the ropes, but now he’s responsible for teaching a new generation of doctors. But the thing about becoming a doctor isn’t why you practice medicine, but who you practice medicine on. This season, J.D. will face his toughest patient yet. Perry Cox (John C. McGinley) will roll in as J.D.’s newest patient, forcing him to care for the very doctor who shaped his medical career. The problem, though, is that J.D. isn’t sure how to cure him; and donating one of his kidneys isn’t exactly an option. With the help of now-chief physicians Turk (Donald Faison) and Reid (Sarah Chalke), this longtime trio will once again have to figure things out together and prove once and for all to Dr. Cox that maybe he taught them something after all.

📺 “Super Scam Me” Trailer: Journalist Mariana van Zeller Goes Undercover to Deliberately Fall for a Romance Scam in National Geographic’s New Documentary Special — Premieres Saturday, October 17th on National Geographic, Streaming on Disney+ / Hulu

To do a story on the recent surge of scammers who target vulnerable middle-aged women and seduce them into forking over their life savings, award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller will not only report on the world of romance scams; she’ll deliberately try to get herself scammed by an online con artist. How, you ask? By disguising herself and posing as an ordinary middle-aged woman looking for romance on a dating app. To her amazement and shock, a potential scammer takes the bait. As she reports on every little detail of the scam, she gets into the psychology of what it’s like to fall for someone who never really cared about you... only your money, preferably transferred through crypto. In this National Geographic documentary special, Van Zeller starts her quest with a lighthearted tone but soon discovers that romance scams are no laughing matter. In some cases, they can even become a matter of life and death.

📺 “TYSON” Trailer: Mike Tyson Confronts the Fame, Controversies, and Self-Destruction That Defined His Life and Boxing Career in This Four-Part Doc — Streams Tuesday, October 13th on Netflix

Mike Tyson has been one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in boxing history. Now, at 60, he’s looking back on a life defined by incredible highs, devastating lows, and controversies that followed him far beyond the ring. Once considered a generational talent who dominated boxing like few before him, Tyson also endured addiction, incarceration, financial problems, and struggles that nearly destroyed everything he had built. In this four-part Netflix documentary series, Tyson reflects on his difficult childhood, meteoric rise to heavyweight champion, and the infamous Evander Holyfield fight, while confronting the darker parts of his past. Told largely in Tyson’s own words, along with interviews with family, friends, and others who knew him throughout his career, the docuseries finds a larger-than-life figure looking back at the wreckage and trying to make sense of the person he once was.

📺 “CIA: Season 2” Trailer: Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss Return as Two Agents With Very Different Ways of Getting the Job Done — Returns Monday, October 5th on CBS and Streams Next Day on Paramount+

There are many ways to solve a case. These two just happen to use vastly different methods that always seem to put them at odds with each other. Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss return as CIA agent Colin Glass and FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman, two men tasked with keeping America safe despite rarely agreeing on how to do it. Glass lives in the shadows and plays by his own rules, while Goodman works by the book and expects those rules to actually mean something. But somehow, despite their differences, they always seem to get the job done. Season 2 finds Bill being pulled even deeper into Colin’s shadowy world of international plots, terrorist cells, and geopolitical secrets, where knowing who to trust can be just as important as knowing who the enemy is. Co-starring Necar Zadegan and Natalee Linez, this series is one of many in Dick Wolf’s ever-expanding FBI universe, where the most addictive part isn’t always solving the case... it’s watching how they get there.

📺 “Boston Blue: Season 2” Trailer: Donnie Wahlberg Partners Up with Sonequa Martin-Green in CBS’ Old-School Cop Drama with Gloria Reuben and Ernie Hudson — Returns Friday, October 9th on CBS, Streams Next Day on Paramount+

Classic television usually means a couple of things: comfort viewing, familiar characters, and traditional stories. And cop shows have always checked those boxes to a tee. CBS, a network that has long been home to plenty of them, returns with the latest season of the Blue Bloods spinoff, starring Donnie Wahlberg as former New York detective Danny Reagan, who trades the Big Apple for Beantown. He’s joined by Sonequa Martin-Green as Detective Lena Silver, and together they set out to protect Boston from the riffraff and dangerous criminals roaming its streets. Usually, that means a lot of running, a lot of talking to witnesses, and a lot of breaking down doors to catch the bad guys. With Gloria Reuben and Ernie Hudson rounding out the cast, this is old-school network cop television through and through, where the officers work around the clock to keep the city safe and their families even closer.

📺 “NCIS: New York” Trailer: LL Cool J Brings Agent Sam Hanna Back Home with Scott Caan and Jennifer Beals in CBS’ New NCIS Spinoff — Premieres Tuesday, October 6th on CBS and Paramount+

Sure, rapper-actor LL Cool J may have established his beloved NCIS character, Special Agent Sam Hanna, over fourteen seasons of NCIS: Los Angeles. But let’s face it: LL Cool J was meant to be back in New York. In this new NCIS spinoff series, Special Agent Sam Hanna returns to his hometown, where he helps lead a new unit tasked with protecting one of the world’s busiest cities and ports. He is joined by roguish Special Agent Nick Schaeffer (Scott Caan), whose less conventional approach to the job isn’t exactly Sam’s style. But something tells us this oil-and-water relationship will come together when the time comes. Jennifer Beals rounds out the ensemble as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robyn Wells, a hard-charging, no-nonsense leader who keeps the new team in line. So don’t call it a comeback, because LL Cool J has been here for years... and as long as the NCIS franchise keeps going, something tells us he’s not going anywhere.

📺 “9-1-1: Nashville: Season 2” Promo: Chris O’Donnell Returns as Ryan Phillippe Joins the Team for More Life-or-Death Emergencies in Music City — Returns Thursday, October 15th on ABC and Streaming Next Day on Hulu

Whenever there’s an emergency, you’re gonna make that call. And thank goodness there’s someone on the other end to pick it up. And in Nashville, that person is none other than Chris O’Donnell, who returns as fire captain Don Hart in this second season of the 9-1-1 spinoff series. This time, he’s joined by Ryan Phillippe as Detective Rogue, a former New York homicide detective who moves to Nashville hoping for a quieter life, only to find himself pulled into Hart’s life-or-death world at the 113. Between increasingly bizarre emergencies, dangerous new crimes, and plenty of family drama, Don Hart and his crew will once again discover that life in Music City is anything but quiet.

📺 “Lupin: Part 4” Trailer: Omar Sy Faces a Copycat Who Knows All His Tricks in Netflix’s Hit French Action-Caper Series — Premieres Friday, October 23rd on Netflix

He’s a master of disguise who has pulled off some of the wildest capers imaginable. But after four years behind bars, this gentleman thief leaves prison with only one thing on his mind: starting a new life with his family. A reasonable request. Until he discovers someone’s out to get him... someone who just might be as clever as he is: a bonafide copycat looking to frame him for crimes he didn’t commit. In this fourth season of the hit French action-caper series, Omar Sy returns as master trickster Assane Diop, aka Lupin. Now he’s facing an opponent who just might be his mirror image. And to clear his name, Lupin will have to outwit the one person who knows all his tricks.

📺 “Private Eyes West Coast” Trailer: Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson Trade a Quiet Family Life for Murder and Mystery in New Canadian P.I. Series — Premieres Monday, October 5th on The CW

As a young private-eye couple, these two loved the thrills and dangers that came with the job. But now, married with children, Matt Shade and Angie Everett are ready to leave the P.I. business behind and settle into a quieter life on Canada’s West Coast. That, of course, is if they can muster enough energy to stay out of trouble. TV vet Jason Priestley stars opposite Cindy Sampson in this Canadian crime-comedy import about two former private investigators who discover that leaving the business behind is a lot easier said than done. When a night out lands them at the scene of a murder, Shade and Angie find themselves drawn back into the world of private investigation and eventually opening a new P.I. firm. Yet with a new baby to care for, the thought of jumping into another dangerous investigation isn’t nearly as appealing as it used to be.

📺 “Sacrifice: Season 2” Trailer: Paula Patton Fights to Rebuild Her Family’s Music Empire in This New Season of the Legal Thriller — Streams Wednesday, September 30th on Paramount+

Paula Patton returns as Daniella Hernandez, the high-powered entertainment attorney who now finds herself fighting to save her family’s music empire and protect its legacy. In this new season of the legal thriller, Daniella isn’t a woman you want to underestimate, especially when her family business is on the line. But when a devastating nightclub fire threatens Blackgammon Records, she finds herself fighting to rebuild the music company not just for herself, but for a family that may not always agree on what’s worth fighting for.

📺 “YAGA” First Look Clip: Noah Reid Investigates a Missing Heir in AMC+’s Darkly Comic ‘Baba Yaga’ Mystery with Clark Backo — Debuts Friday, October 23rd on AMC+

Here’s the thing about a missing person: the case ain’t done until you find them... alive or dead. AMC’s new Canadian import, a darkly comic detective series, stars Schitt’s Creek’s Noah Reid as private investigator Charlie Rapp, who arrives in the small coastal town of Whittock looking for Henry Park (Hudson Williams), the missing heir to a powerful local fishery. After meeting one of the local authorities (Clark Backo), who isn’t exactly thrilled to have an outsider poking around her town, Charlie’s investigation leads him to Katherine (Carrie-Anne Moss), a seductive and enigmatic university professor with a taste for younger men... and perhaps a little black magic. This series turns the folkloric Baba Yaga legend of a mysterious, children-eating witch into a contemporary crime mystery of murder, secrets, and magic.

📺 “Hollywood Arts” Trailer: Daniella Monet Returns as Trina Vega to Guide a New Generation of Hollywood Hopefuls in Netflix’s Victorious Spinoff — Premieres Thursday, October 15th on Netflix

Daniella Monet reprises her role as Trina Vega from the 2010 Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious. Now a struggling actress, Trina returns to her old stomping grounds at Hollywood Arts, only this time she’s on the other side of the classroom. She takes on the task of molding young talent into the next generation of stars; even if it means putting her students first before her own Hollywood aspirations. Also starring Alyssa Miles, Emmy Liu-Wang, Peyton Jackson, Erika Swayze, and Martin Kamm as the new generation of Hollywood Arts students, alongside Yvette Nicole Brown as Principal Helen, this Jake Farrow and Samantha Martin-created Netflix sitcom adds a little nostalgia to a whole new class of Hollywood hopefuls.

📺 “Maigret: Season 2” Trailer: Benjamin Wainwright Is Back as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret in this British Procedural Series as Two Brutal Murders Grip Paris — Premieres Sunday, October 18th on MASTERPIECE on PBS in the US

Two brutal murders set the stage for this new season of the British detective series, starring Benjamin Wainwright as unconventional Chief Inspector Jules Maigret. When a pair of grisly crimes grips Paris, Maigret finds himself fighting on two fronts: hunting down dangerous killers while defending his unorthodox methods against a department eager to take him down a peg. Also starring Stefanie Martini as Maigret’s wife, Louise, alongside Blake Harrison, Reda Elazouar, Kerrie Hayes, and Shaniqua Okwok as members of his investigative team, this contemporary procedural brings back some old-school detective work, where understanding the person behind the crime can be just as vital as the evidence itself.

📺 “The Remarried Empress” Trailer: Romance, Betrayal, and Royal Rivalries Collide in Hulu’s Epic New Korean Fantasy Series Starring Shin Min-a and Lee Jong-suk — Debuts Wednesday, November 4th on Hulu / Disney+

This new Korean series turns the idea of romance into a thrilling epic filled with castles, empires, sword-swinging suitors, and enough roses to make the people behind the Rose Parade jealous. Based on the popular NAVER WEBTOON by Alphatart, this high-fantasy romance follows Empress Navier (Shin Min-a), whose seemingly perfect royal life comes crashing down when her husband, Emperor Sovieshu (Ju Ji-hoon), falls in love with another woman and asks her for a divorce. Navier agrees, only to turn the scandal into a tense rivalry when she announces her intention to marry Prince Heinrey (Lee Jong-suk) of the rival Western Kingdom. Whoever said romance doesn’t have a few twists and turns clearly never spent much time watching K-dramas.

📺 “The Trap” Trailer: Friederike Becht Hunts Her Sister’s Killer in Netflix’s German Crime Thriller Miniseries — Streams Tuesday, October 13th on Netflix

What would you do to solve a murder? Better yet, what would you do if you believed you had discovered the identity of your sister’s killer? In this six-part German-language crime thriller series from creator Isabel Kleefeld, Friederike Becht stars as bestselling author Lisa Konrad, who is still grappling with the death of her sister after witnessing her brutal murder ten years earlier. It’s a homicide that has never been solved, and the case has long since gone cold. That’s until Lisa believes she has spotted the killer on TV, launching her own dangerous investigation into the man’s identity. Now on a quest for vengeance, she sets herself up as bait, hoping to lure the killer into her trap.

📺 “Kate Berlant: Parmesan” Trailer: Comic Kate Berlant Blends Stand-Up, Theatrics, and Pure Physical Comedy in Her First Stand-Up Special — Debuts Friday, October 16th on HBO and HBO Max

Comedian Kate Berlant has used her instinctive theatricality in a number of acting roles, becoming one of those performers who can stand out even in the smallest parts. But she returns to the comedy stage for what might best be described as both a stand-up special and a one-woman show, blending personal stories, stream-of-consciousness observations, and pure physical comedy. It’s an act that’s not only unpredictable but constantly plays with what you expect stand-up comedy to be. From Berlant’s destructive relationship with technology and the evolving nature of sexuality to, yes, even the moon, sometimes the joke isn’t the punchline... it’s the awkward pauses that happen while you’re waiting for one.

📺 “The Celebrity Traitors: Series 2” UK Trailer: British Celebrities Michael Sheen, Bella Ramsey, Richard E. Grant, James Blunt, and More Play a Deadly Game of Trust — Premieres Thursday, October 1st on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK

The rules are rather simple: Who can you trust? But if you can’t trust a celebrity, then who the hell can you trust? A new season of the popular British reality game show lines up a whole new roster of British celebrities, including actor Michael Sheen, singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock, musician James Blunt, comedian Romesh Ranganathan, comic actress Miranda Hart, actor Richard E. Grant and The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey, among others. Hosted by British personality Claudia Winkleman, these celebrities must figure out who among them are the Faithfuls... and who are the Traitors secretly plotting their murder. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

📺 “Kill. Bury. Print.” Trailer: A Small-Town Oklahoma Newspaper Investigates Alleged Sheriff Corruption and Finds Itself in the Crosshairs in Peacock’s True-Crime Documentary Special — Streams Sunday, September 27th on Peacock

We can all agree that mainstream news has its share of valid criticisms. But when it comes to small-town reporting, it’s perhaps some of the most vital journalism we have because it covers the issues closest to our daily lives. This new Peacock true-crime documentary, produced by MSNBC journalist Rachel Maddow, tells the story of the McCurtain Gazette-News, a small family-run newspaper in rural Oklahoma that found itself in the crosshairs of local law enforcement after investigating allegations of corruption within the county sheriff’s office. Sometimes the most dangerous thing a reporter can do is keep printing the story, and for a small-town newspaper, the most important thing it can print is… the truth.

📺 “Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena” Trailer: UFOs, Alien Abductions, Telepathy, and More Take Center Stage in AMC’s New Investigative Docuseries — Debuts Thursday, October 1st on AMC+ and SundanceTV

UFO activity has never been more difficult to ignore these days. So what better time to dig into these reports and find out just how much we really know about the unexplained? In this new investigative docuseries, Professor Jeffrey J. Kripal opens the archives at Rice University’s Center for the Impossible, where more than a million documents and recordings chronicle nearly a century of unexplained phenomena, including UFO encounters, alien abductions, telepathy, near-death experiences, prophetic dreams, and messages from the dead. Combining decades of archived research with new firsthand accounts from people who say they’ve experienced the impossible, this six-part series looks for connections between the mysteries. Perhaps the question isn’t who’s visiting us, but how long they’ve been here.

📺 “Hunting Gary Glitter” Trailer: Netflix’s Three-Part True-Crime Docuseries Reveals How Survivors and Journalists Helped Bring Disgraced British Glam-Rocker Gary Glitter to Justice — Streams Wednesday, October 14th on Netflix

He’s one of the most controversial figures in music; perhaps one of the most notorious in music history. Gary Glitter is known for his rock anthem, the chart-topping “Rock and Roll (Parts 1 and 2),” which became a staple at sporting events for decades, until shocking revelations about the man behind the music brought his career crashing down. This three-part true-crime documentary charts the rise and fall of British glam-rock star Gary Glitter, whose fame and money helped conceal decades of child sexual abuse, eventually leading to his 1997 conviction and imprisonment.

📺 “The Swan: Behind the Mirror” Trailer: Hulu Revisits One of Reality TV’s Most Controversial Social Experiments More Than 20 Years Later — Streams Tuesday, September 29th on Hulu / Disney+

How “real” are those reality shows? And what do producers promise participants to convince them to endure a little humiliation in front of millions of viewers? This behind-the-scenes Hulu special takes a look at one of the most controversial reality shows of the early 2000s, The Swan, where everyday women underwent dramatic cosmetic surgery and physical transformations in the hopes of changing their lives. With interviews from the women who participated in the series and the producers who helped create it, the documentary looks back at what really happened when the cameras weren’t rolling and how the experience affected those involved long after the show ended.

📺 “The JLO Show: Live in Las Vegas” Teaser: Jennifer Lopez Brings Her Vegas Residency to Your Home With a Two-Hour Thanksgiving Night Spectacle — Premieres Thursday, November 26th on CBS and Streaming on Paramount+

She’s Jenny from the Block. Now the Bronx icon is leaving that block behind for the bright lights of Las Vegas. Jennifer Lopez turns her recent Vegas residency into a two-hour musical journey through the songs, stories, and influences that took her from the Bronx to becoming a global superstar. It’s J.Lo being J.Lo! So expect a lot of singing, dancing, costume changes, and plenty of stage lights pointing directly at her.

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📺 “Carrie” Trailer: Horror Filmmaker Mike Flanagan Reimagines Stephen King’s Classic for the Social Media Age with Summer H. Howell as Carrie White in New Amazon Series — Premiering Wednesday, October 7th on Prime Video

We know what you’re thinking: another Carrie remake? Haven’t we tried this before? And let’s be honest, it didn’t exactly turn out great.

And while it’s hard to argue that director Brian De Palma’s classic adaptation of Stephen King’s novel will always stand as one of the great supernatural horror films of the 1970s, that doesn’t mean this new series doesn’t have a few perks. For one, it comes from Mike Flanagan, arguably one of the biggest horror voices working today.

With popular horror miniseries like The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, not to mention his Stephen King adaptations like Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, Flanagan has proved he has a knack for making audiences squirm while also giving them characters they actually care about. He’s also proven himself quite adept at turning King’s words into something cinematic without losing the emotional weight of the novels.

Though admittedly, this new Carrie adaptation feels like a completely different beast. Relative newcomer Summer H. Howell (Time Cut, Night of the Reaper) has been given the daunting task of stepping into Carrie White’s shoes as a socially awkward teenager struggling with relentless bullying at school and a home life that offers little escape.

Stephen King’s classic story follows a young girl who has been homeschooled by her deeply religious mother, only to be sent to public school for the first time and become the target of some extremely cruel bullying. Now set in the social media age, where online harassment is not only commonplace but also a daily reality, Carrie finds herself even more out of step with the world around her. Of course, we know the story by now: telekinetic powers begin to emerge from all that fear, anger, and humiliation, creating a powder keg just waiting to explode. And explode it does.

Amber Midthunder co-stars as the school’s P.E. teacher and Matthew Lillard as the principal, while Kate Siegel, Rahul Kohli, Heather Graham, and Michael Trucco round out the adult cast. Meanwhile, Siena Agudong, Josie Totah, Thalia Dudek, Alison Thornton, Arthur Conti, and Joel Oulette take on the teenage roles surrounding Carrie’s increasingly volatile high-school world.

Samantha Sloyan, a frequent Mike Flanagan actress who also had a memorable guest arc appearance on The Pitt, co-stars as Margaret White, Carrie’s deeply religious and fiercely controlling mother.

Flanagan serves as showrunner and directs the first two and final two episodes, while Kate Siegel, Axelle Carolyn, Kyra Sedgwick, and Hiromi Kamata each step behind the camera for one episode.

Carrie is set to debut Wednesday, October 7th on Prime Video, just in time to make the Halloween season a little bloodier. But don’t worry... it’s only pig’s blood.

📺 “Below” Trailer: Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton Face a Mysterious Sea Creature in Netflix’s Newfoundland-Set Horror Mystery Series — Streaming Thursday, October 8th on Netflix

There’s something in the water. And if this were a normal day at the beach, it might be nothing more than a curious fish or a swimmer making waves. But this is a new sea-creature thriller starring Josh Hartnett, so if there’s something in the water, you better believe it’s not coming over to say hello. And you probably don’t want to stick around long enough to find out exactly what it is.

In Netflix’s latest supernatural thriller series, Below, Hartnett stars as Calvin Penney, a stubborn but big-hearted fisherman trying to protect his family and small Newfoundland community when a mysterious sea creature begins terrorizing the coast. Calvin already carries a strange history with the water after his father’s unexplained death, so when the town’s skepticism slowly gives way to panic and fear, he realizes the threat isn’t some drunken story told by local fishermen, but a full-blown nightmare waiting to happen.

Also starring Mackenzie Davis as marine researcher Fonda Howander, who teams up with Calvin to figure out exactly what’s lurking beneath the water before it’s too late, while Stranger Things actor Charlie Heaton plays Calvin’s son, Wade, who may have witnessed the mysterious creature emerging from beneath an enormous iceberg that suddenly appeared just outside the bay. Rounding out the cast are Willow Kean, Ruby Stokes, Rohan Campbell, Natasha Henstridge, and Mary Walsh.

Created by Jesse McKeown, whose previous producing and writing credits include The Umbrella Academy and The Sinner, the six-episode series appears to be a throwback to old-school creature features, where the mystery is just as important as the monster itself. And because it’s set in Newfoundland, a rugged Atlantic region of Canada, expect plenty of that distinct local accent that gives the story a certain seafaring charm.

Below is slated to premiere Thursday, October 8th on Netflix.

📺 “American Horror Story: 13” Trailer: Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, and More Return for a Franchise-Wide Greatest-Hits Nightmare — Premiering Thursday, September 24th on FX, Streaming on Hulu / Disney+

American Horror Story has been terrifying audiences for 12 seasons now, giving us some of the most bizarre and twisted characters TV has ever seen. So for its 13th season, and with the number 13 carrying a little extra supernatural baggage, the series is going full greatest hits.

The new season brings back fan-favorite witches, ghosts, killers, and monsters from across the anthology’s twisted history. It’s kind of like a multiverse, with characters from different seasons crossing paths in one massive American Horror Story event. It’s like AHS: Doomsday, sort of speak.

But here’s the thing: every season usually tells a different standalone story while bringing back many of the same actors. So, if this season is pulling characters from across the anthology’s history, some cast members will be doing double duty... and even triple duty, playing multiple characters from different seasons.

So, if you thought AHS couldn’t get any weirder... well, apparently they took that as a challenge.

So, who’s coming back?

Fans can expect Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Emma Roberts, Gabourey Sidibe, Frances Conroy, Billie Lourd, Leslie Grossman, Jamie Brewer, and John Carroll Lynch, among plenty of other familiar faces.

And which characters are coming back?

That’s where things get really wild. Jessica Lange alone is returning as Constance Langdon, Sister Jude, Fiona Goode, and Elsa Mars, while Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters will also be juggling multiple familiar roles. Fans can also expect AHS characters like Madison Montgomery, Marie Laveau, Queenie, Myrtle Snow, Twisty the Clown, Adelaide Langdon, and Winter Anderson to return.

And so, how will it all work?

Hmm. That’s a good question. It seems that’s still part of the mystery... and maybe the fun, too. Somehow, all these different characters, timelines, and nightmares are being pulled together for one massive crossover event. It’s a circus sideshow act like never before.

The number 13 has always been an omen of bad luck and things better left unexplained. So naturally, American Horror Story is treating it like an invitation.

AHS: 13 is scheduled to premiere Thursday, September 24th on FX, with streaming on Hulu / Disney+.

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📺 “Crystal Lake” Trailer: Emmy Winner Linda Cardellini Becomes Pamela Voorhees in Peacock’s Upcoming ‘Friday the 13th’ Prequel Series — Premieres Thursday, October 15th on Peacock

Here’s a fun tidbit: this year has the unique distinction of having not one, not two, but three separate Friday the 13ths. Now, that could mean this year is exceptionally unlucky, or it means there’s no better time to launch a Friday the 13th prequel series. Starring recent Emmy Award winner Linda Cardellini as Jason’s mother, Pamela Voorhees, this Peacock horror series takes us back to Crystal Lake before her son became the machete-wielding monster we all know and love. It follows Pamela’s own descent into all-consuming grief after Jason’s apparent drowning, which leaves her unable to move on nearly a year later. And anyone familiar with the franchise knows Jason’s mother has a dark side of her own.

📺 “Prison Break: Black Creek” Now-In-Production Teasers: Get a Cryptic First Look at the Next Chapter in the ‘Prison Break’ Universe — Coming Soon to Hulu / Disney+

Prison walls have a funny way of looking the same. The same goes for prison shows. Only this time, this new series now in production is actually connected to one we already know and love: Prison Break. Set in the same world, we’re probably in for another elaborate escape plan where, somehow, secretly coded tattoos may come in handy. This time, though, the protagonist is Cassidy Collins (Emily Browning), a corrections officer working inside one of America’s deadliest prisons. Her connection to inmate Tommy (Drake Rodger) appears to be one of the big mysteries driving the story. Just how they’re tied together, and how far Cassidy is willing to go for him, remains to be seen. Also starring Lukas Gage, Sam Trammell, Chris Coy, Kerry Bishé, and Robin Weigert, the series comes from Mayans M.C. showrunner Elgin James and brings a fresh group of inmates, officers, and outsiders into the Prison Break universe.

📺 “The Good Daughter” Trailer: Meghann Fahy and Rose Byrne Play Sisters Confronting a Violent Past in Karin Slaughter’s Mystery-Thriller Miniseries with Brendan Gleeson — Streams Thursday, November 12th on Peacock

There’s nothing like a little trauma to keep a family bonded for life. But sometimes those shared, painful memories become the very thing that tears siblings apart. The White Lotus’s Meghann Fahy and Oscar nominee Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) star as sisters Charlie and Sam Quinn. After surviving a brutal act of violence that shattered their family and left their mother dead, the two grow up carrying the same trauma in very different ways. Charlie is now a lawyer still living in Pikeville, while Sam has built a life away from home. But when another similar act of violence rocks their small-town community, the sisters are reunited and forced to confront a past they thought they could forget. Co-starring Brendan Gleeson as their estranged lawyer father, Rusty, the mystery thriller is based on Karin Slaughter’s 2017 novel, with Slaughter herself adapting the story for television.

📺 “Cupertino” Trailer: Mike Colter and Rachel Keller Take Silicon Valley’s Tech Bros to Court in New David-vs.-Goliath Legal Drama From ‘The Good Wife’ Creators Robert and Michelle King — Premieres Thursday, October 8th on CBS and Paramount+

In order to fight for the little man, you have to be willing to take on the big guy. In this case, the big guy is Silicon Valley and all its well-funded tech bros. Mike Colter and Rachel Keller star as a pair of attorneys who take on the tech industry’s powerful elite and fight for the people getting crushed underneath them. From Robert and Michelle King, the creators of The Good Wife, Evil, and Elsbeth, the series heads straight into the heart of Silicon Valley and asks a simple question: who is courageous enough (or dumb enough) to take these people to court? It’s a David-and-Goliath story about a small law firm taking the cases no one else will touch and forcing tech giants to answer when things go wrong. Also starring Ella Stiller, Busy Philipps, and Renée Elise Goldsberry.

📺 “The Rainmaker: Season 2” Trailer: Rudy Is Back in Court with Two New Cases in John Grisham’s Hit Legal Drama Starring Milo Callaghan, Lana Parrilla, P.J. Byrne, and Madison Iseman — Returns Friday, October 16th on USA Network

In the first season of this hit legal drama, based on John Grisham’s best-selling novel and the film adaptation, Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) was still learning the ropes but already had little patience for playing by the rules. He returns for Season 2 with more confidence, a sharper instinct for sniffing out the BS, and two new cases waiting for him. Alongside his boss Bruiser (Lana Parrilla) and paralegal Deck (P.J. Byrne), Rudy takes on the case of a young boy in juvenile detention, only to discover the stakes are much bigger than expected. Meanwhile, Bruiser’s not-so-innocent ex-husband (played by new cast member Austin Nichols) comes back to town needing legal help after getting mixed up with some very bad people. Madison Iseman also returns as Sarah Plankmore, Rudy’s ex-girlfriend turned courtroom rival, and she appears ready to make things very personal. The pressure is on, this time both inside and outside the courtroom.

📺 “Dexter: Resurrection: Season 2” Teaser: Michael C. Hall Returns as Dexter Morgan for Another Killer Season — Returns Friday, October 30th on Paramount+

He’s the ultimate antihero. In fact, he might be the ultimate anti-villain: a psychopath who somehow manages to put his murderous impulses to good use. And now Dexter is seeing things a little clearer these days as he returns for a second season of his spinoff series. Michael C. Hall is back as everyone’s favorite serial killer, seeking out those who deserve a taste of their own medicine. Dexter hasn’t stopped running around New York. He’s again rubbing elbows with some of the most notorious serial killers in the country. Dan Stevens will be joining Season 2 as the Five Borough Killer, while Succession Emmy winner Brian Cox takes on the role of the notorious New York Ripper. They’ll be joined by Gabriel Luna as the Sleepy-Eyed Stranger, with Krysten Ritter returning as Lady Vengeance, along with Uma Thurman as Charley. It’s another season of guilty by association. Only this time, the guilt is warranted... and Dexter may have finally met his matches.

📺 “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: Season 4” Teaser: Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride Begin Their Final Journey Home — Coming in 2027 on AMC and AMC+

Last time we saw Daryl (Norman Reedus), he had reunited with Carol (Melissa McBride), and the two were stuck in zombie-infested Spain looking for a way back home to America. Now, as they head into the fourth and final season of this Walking Dead spinoff series, it doesn’t look like they’re getting the homecoming they were hoping for. TV legend Jimmy Smits joins the cast for the final season as Captain Alejandro Perkins, a former U.S. Navy officer and medical doctor who has found his own way to survive the apocalypse. In a series that started out in France, then slowly made its way toward home, Daryl and Carol have certainly seen it all. But we have a feeling their final journey may be the toughest road yet.

📺 “NCIS: Origins: Season 3” Trailer: Austin Stowell Returns as a Young Gibbs While Mark Harmon Finally Confronts His Past in New Season of Spinoff-Prequel Series — Premieres Tuesday, October 6th on CBS and Paramount+

Mark Harmon had an extensive run on NCIS, playing Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs for nearly 19 seasons. But if you think they’re done with his story, think again. Harmon mainly serves as narrator as this prequel series looks back at Gibbs’s early years. It returns for a third season, with Austin Stowell back as a young Gibbs still finding his footing at Camp Pendleton. Set during the 1990s, Gibbs is still learning the job, working under Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid) while the team takes on cases that help shape the agent he’ll eventually become. No high-tech gadgets or modern-day methods to crack the case... it’s the era of analog detective work and good old-fashioned instincts. Also starring Mariel Molino, Patrick Fischler, and Bobby Moynihan, this season finds Gibbs tackling a case that will haunt him for the rest of his career, while the older Gibbs finally gets a chance to confront what happened all those years ago.

📺 “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 28” Trailer: Mariska Hargitay Returns as Olivia Benson for Another Round of Cases and Hard Questions — Premiering on ‘Law & Order‘ Thursday Nights, Starting October 8th on NBC, Streaming Next Day on Peacock

Thanks to NBC and Peacock, Thursday nights are now home to the latest seasons of their long-running Law & Order franchise. So mark your calendars, because Thursday nights have officially become Law & Order night. Mariska Hargitay returns once again as Captain Olivia Benson, leading the Special Victims Unit into another season of difficult cases and even harder questions about justice. After more than 25 years, you’d think the writers would have run out of cases by now. But then again, the old adage is: if there are no more crimes, the cops are out of business. The same goes for Law & Order franchise. As long as there are cases to investigate, Benson and her squad still have work to do.

📺 “Doc: Season 3” Trailer: Molly Parker Returns as Dr. Amy Larsen as Old Memories and New Cases Come Back to Haunt Her — Premieres Tuesday, September 22nd on FOX, Streaming Next Day on Hulu / Disney+

We’ve heard some wild premises for medical shows, but this one has to be up there: a brilliant chief physician gets into a car accident and loses the last eight years of her memory. Suddenly, she’s behind on years of medical advances and has to relearn parts of the job. And here’s the kicker: she’s actually much nicer than the person everyone remembers. A lot of that comes down to what she no longer remembers; losing her child and the painful divorce that followed, trauma that had left her bitter and distant over the years. Molly Parker returns as Dr. Amy Larsen, a doctor whose brain injury has inadvertently made her a better person and co-worker, even as those painful memories start creeping back. A new season means new cases to solve and new memories to unlock, as Dr. Larsen proves once again that sometimes the best medicine doesn’t come from the brain, but from the heart.

📺 “P-Valley: Season 3” Teaser: Nicco Annan, Brandee Evans, and J. Alphonse Nicholson Return as New Money Shakes Up Chucalissa in Katori Hall’s Steamy Southern Drama — Premieres Friday, December 4th on STARZ

Mississippi has a certain reputation in popular culture. In movies and TV, the state has often been portrayed as a place where the heat is thick, the nights are long, and trouble is never too far away. Showrunner Katori Hall takes all those elements, turns up the camp and sensuality, and throws them together in one show. Returning for its third season, this STARZ original heads back to Chucalissa, where ambition, money, and sex are all part of the same hustle as the Promise Land Casino brings brand-new opportunities to town, along with plenty of dangerous complications. Nicco Annan returns as Uncle Clifford, still looking to expand the exotic dance club The Pynk, while Mercedes Woodbine (Brandee Evans), Lil’ Murda (J. Alphonse Nicholson), Roulette (Gail Bean), and Keyshawn (Shannon Thornton) each chase their own piece of the action. Time to turn the music up and turn those inhibitions down.

🎥 “Sam Morril: Incorrect” Trailer: Comic Sam Morril Takes Aim at Bad Sex, Famous Assassinations, and Everything Else You Probably Shouldn’t Joke About — Streams Tuesday, September 29th on Netflix

Stand-up comedian Sam Morril, like many comics, is known for his countless podcast appearances. Now he gets the chance to really take center stage with his new Netflix comedy special. And no topic is off-limits, as Morril takes aim at everything from terrible one-night stands to famous assassinations and even his own questionable approach to pest control. It’s gonna be a night of laughs and uncomfortable truths, with the kind of jokes you probably shouldn’t repeat at work.

🎥 “Oh, Mary!” Teaser: Cole Escola Brings Their Tony-Winning Mary Todd Lincoln Stage Comedy to HBO — Coming in 2027 on HBO and HBO Max

Tony Award-winning comedian and playwright Cole Escola is bringing their acclaimed stage comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln to HBO. The 80-minute one-act play has Escola taking on the role of Abraham Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd, as the First Lady wrestles with unrequited dreams, alcoholism, and a desperate desire to get back onstage. What started as an Off-Broadway comedy eventually became a Broadway sensation, earning multiple Tony nominations and wins. This HBO presentation was captured during the show’s London production and is set to stream sometime next year.

📺 “The Howard Stern Show” Trailer: Baba Booey! Howard Stern Takes His Legendary Radio Show from SiriusXM to HBO — Premieres Thursday, September 17th on HBO Max

And Baba Booey to you all! ’90s shock-jock icon Howard Stern isn’t quite the wild man he once was, but that doesn’t make his celebrity interviews any less entertaining. Stern is bringing his long-running radio show to HBO Max, giving viewers a front-row seat to his interviews and unpredictable studio conversations. In what looks like a mix of classic material and possibly newer celebrity interviews, Stern once again shows why he remains such a strong interviewer, putting his guests at ease and drawing out a level of honesty we don’t usually get from other talk shows. Anyone who grew up listening to Stern on the radio or watching him on E! might want to check out this latest era of Howard Stern, now on HBO Max.

📺 “The Wargame” U.K. Trailer: Former British Politicians and British Military Leaders Face a Simulated Russian Missile Attack in Sky’s High-Stakes Crisis-Room Experiment — Premieres Monday, September 21st on Sky and NOW in the U.K.

Reality TV ain’t exactly our cup of tea, but this one looks really intriguing. It’s a four-part British docu-reality series built around a crisis-room scenario, with former politicians, military leaders, diplomats, and intelligence experts forced to respond as a simulated Russian attack on the UK unfolds in real time. Consider it an emergency exercise designed to see how experienced leaders might respond to a crisis so alarming that even a simulated one feels a little too real. What if the world is on the brink of an all-out war? Do we really want to know how our leaders would handle it? The answer might be more terrifying than the scenario itself.

📺 “Avatar: Seven Havens” Trailer: Pavi Becomes Korra’s Earthbending Successor in Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s New ‘Avatar’ Fantasy Adventure — Premieres Friday, October 9th on Paramount+

Hailing from Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the co-creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, comes a new chapter in the much-beloved animated Avatar universe. This new fantasy series follows Pavi, a young Earthbender who discovers she’s the next Avatar after Korra, only to learn that this time the title makes her a target instead of a savior. With both humans and spirits hunting her down, Pavi must team up with her long-lost twin, Nisha, uncover the truth about their mysterious origins, and somehow keep the Seven Havens from falling. It’s just another magical adventure where the stakes happen to include the fate of civilization itself.

📺 “Haunted Hotel: Season 2” Teaser: Abaddon Takes Over Netflix’s Homepage and Declares War on KPop Demon Hunters — Returns Friday, October 9th on Netflix

Here’s an interesting promo for one of Netflix’s uniquely twisted adult animated comedy series, which returns for a second season this October. It’s Abaddon, a demon stuck in a boy’s body, and he’s breaking through the fourth wall... quite literally. Abaddon takes over Netflix’s homepage as he vents his hatred for KPop Demon Hunters in the Season 2 teaser. With a returning voice cast that includes Will Forte, Eliza Coupe, Skyler Gisondo, Natalie Palamides, and Jimmi Simpson as Abaddon, this darkly comic animated show is ready to take over your screen when it returns next month. So expect plenty of supernatural mayhem, twisted humor, and demonic trouble when the hotel reopens its doors.

📺 “Krypto Saves the Day!: Season 2” Trailer: Superman and Supergirl’s Super-Powered Dog Runs Loose in Five All-New Animated Shorts — Streaming Now, Thursday, September 10th on DC Kids YouTube and HBO Max

If you thought Krypto didn’t get enough screen time in the live-action films... well, get ready for him to really take a bite out of the spotlight in the second season of DC’s family-friendly comedy, consisting of five all-new animated shorts. Maybe this is a little more appropriate. After all, it looks like a superhero farce, heavy on the slapstick and canine mischief. Superman, Supergirl, and Lobo join in on the canine chaos as this cartoon lets that super-powered dog run loose and wild... and have a little fun with the DC universe. Where’s a Kryptonite leash when you need one?

📺 “Dustfall” International Trailer: Anna Torv Investigates a Disturbing Case in Emma Freeman’s New Australian Crime Thriller — Premiering Sunday, October 11th on ABC iview in Australia

You may have seen Anna Torv in countless American shows, namely Fringe, Mindhunter, and The Last of Us. But the Australian actress returns home for her latest mystery-thriller series. Torv stars as Detective Tig Pollard, who takes on a harrowing sexual-assault case that turns even darker when a key suspect is found dead. Australian producer-director Emma Freeman, who also worked with Torv on the ’80s Aussie newsroom drama series The Newsreader, directs all six episodes of this twisty crime thriller, with Kate Box, Zoe Phillips, Lila McGuire, and Juliet Stevenson rounding out the cast.

📺 “The Split Up” U.K. Trailer: Ritu Arya Faces Family Pressure and High-Stakes Divorce Cases in BBC’s New Legal Drama — Premieres Sunday, September 20th on BBC

There are some family traditions where you’re expected to follow in your parents’ footsteps. But when your father runs a powerful law firm, that comes with a lot of pressure... and even bigger expectations. Ritu Arya, from Bait and The Umbrella Academy, stars as Aria Kishan, a rising lawyer expected to inherit the family firm. The problem? Aria isn’t sure the life her father planned for her is the one she actually wants. And in a British-South Asian family, going against your parents’ wishes can feel like breaking a sacred rule. Also starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Mawaan Rizwan, and Sindhu Vee, with Jameela Jamil making a guest appearance, the series mixes messy divorce cases, cultural expectations, and the pressure of keeping family and career from tearing each other apart.

📺 “Signora Volpe: Season 3” Trailer: Emilia Fox Returns as an Ex-Spy Solving Murders Against the Italian Countryside — Streams Monday, October 5th on Acorn TV

Death. Murder. Important people. And one ex-spy stuck right in the middle of it all. It’s just another season of this British mystery series, with Emilia Fox returning as Sylvia Fox, the former British spy who can’t seem to enjoy retirement without stumbling into another murder investigation. Sylvia is back in Italy, taking in the view and the many pleasures of a quieter life. But when fresh murders start piling up, retirement once again takes a back seat to solving the case. If you like your detective stories with a beautiful backdrop, this one comes with Italian scenery, old-world charm, and just enough murder to spoil the view.

📺 “4 Blocks Zero” Trailer: The Hamady Family’s Criminal Legacy Begins in 1990s Berlin in This Prequel to the German Crime Series Starring Rami Fadel Khalaf and Tariq Al-Saies — Premieres Friday, September 25th on HBO Max

This prequel to the German crime drama 4 Blocks takes us back to 1990s Berlin and the early years of the Hamady family. Rami Fadel Khalaf stars as Malik Hamady, a father trying to build a better life for his family after fleeing Lebanon. But when his brother-in-law Ibrahim (Tariq Al-Saies) is released after eight years in prison, Malik’s plans for a fresh start begin to unravel, pulling the family deeper into Berlin’s criminal underworld. Co-directed by Özgür Yıldırım, who also worked on the original 4 Blocks, this eight-part series traces how the Hamady family’s criminal legacy first began.

📺 “Beyond Society” Trailer: ‘Society of the Snow’ Director J.A. Bayona Revisits the Survivors of the 1972 Andes Disaster and the Lives They Faced After the Rescue in This 3-Part Doc — Streams Friday, December 18th on Netflix

J.A. Bayona told the harrowing true story of the 1972 Andes flight disaster in his Oscar-nominated 2023 Spanish-language survival drama Society of the Snow. Now, the Spanish filmmaker returns to the same subject matter, digging deeper into what happened after the survivors finally came home. In this new three-part documentary, the unbelievable true story of survival continues beyond the mountains, as plane crash survivors and the families of those who never returned reveal what happened after the rescue. Surviving the freezing temperatures and brutal conditions of the icy Andes was harrowing enough. But the story didn’t stop there. Coming back to society after surviving such horrendous conditions, only to be met with intense public attention and the burden of carrying that experience with them, presented an entirely different struggle. Sure, everybody wants to talk about the cannibalism. But there are other parts of this story that have rarely been given the same attention.

🎥 “Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time” Trailer: National Geographic Revisits the 69-Day Rescue of 33 Miners Trapped Beneath Chile’s Atacama Desert — Premieres September 25th on National Geographic, Streaming September 26th on Disney+ and Hulu

It was a story that shocked the world: 33 Chilean miners trapped underground after a devastating mine collapse. What followed was an extraordinary 69-day race against time to find the men and somehow bring them back to the surface alive. In this new three-part documentary series for National Geographic, the 2010 disaster is revisited through firsthand accounts, unseen footage, and the people who lived through the rescue. Tracing every nail-biting step, the docuseries follows the miners’ fight to survive underground and the massive effort to bring them home alive.

📺 “Africa: Earth’s Wild Home” Trailer: Wunmi Mosaku Narrates National Geographic’s Stunning Journey Through Africa’s Wildlife and Landscapes — Premieres Friday, October 2nd on National Geographic, Streaming Next Day on Disney+ / Hulu

What makes nature documentaries so damn appealing is that they transport viewers into the inner lives of animals in their natural habitats. And one place that never fails to deliver is Africa. In this new nature documentary special from National Geographic, Oscar-nominated Nigerian-born actress Wunmi Mosaku, of Sinners and Loki fame, narrates as cameras travel deep into Africa’s wildest landscapes, getting closer to the animals, environments, and people working to protect them. It’s Africa like you’ve never seen it before, with wild, colorful landscapes that look straight out of a postcard, yet still carry the fierce intensity of the animals fighting to survive within them.

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📺 “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” Trailer: Dominic McLaughlin Heads to Hogwarts as HBO Reimagines the Wizarding World for a New Generation with Arabella Stanton, Alastair Stout, John Lithgow, Janet McTeer, Nick Frost, and Paapa Essiedu — Premiering This Christmas on HBO and HBO Max

We’re of two minds when it comes to this new Harry Potter series. On one hand, why redo the books when they’ve already been turned into a hugely successful film franchise that audiences have loved for years? On the flip side, television gives the story much more room to explore the characters and subplots the movies simply didn’t have time to tackle. Putting aside the other controversies surrounding the series, one thing seems certain: it’s Harry Potter, damn it. People are going to watch no matter what. That alone makes it one of the most anticipated shows of the year.

Featuring an entirely new cast that includes newcomers Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, along with John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid and Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, this new adaptation sets out to introduce the books to a whole new generation while also giving longtime fans a chance to see more of the story and details that never made it into the original films.

With acclaimed TV director Mark Mylod (Succession, Game of Thrones) helming multiple episodes and Emmy winner Francesca Gardiner (Succession, Killing Eve) serving as showrunner, the first season of the HBO series will follow Harry’s first year at Hogwarts, from discovering the wizarding world and forming his friendship with Ron and Hermione to uncovering the mystery surrounding the Philosopher’s Stone.

The plan is for each season to adapt one book in the series, following Harry’s journey as he grows from an uncertain young wizard into the person destined to confront the dark forces threatening the wizarding world; namely Lord Voldemort, aka He Who Must Not Be Named.

And whenever there’s a plan to revisit and reboot a franchise this beloved, you can expect plenty of online backlash. That started with the very first production announcement, continued through the cast reveals, and picked up again with the release of the teaser trailer a few months ago.

We don’t expect that kind of backlash to slow down anytime soon, especially now that the original Harry Potter films have become beloved classics in their own right and mean so much to the generation that grew up with them.

That being said, there’s clearly a huge amount of interest in this new fantasy series, and Potter fans will likely be tuning in from day one to see whether HBO can recapture the same magic as the original films, while perhaps finding a little new magic of its own.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is scheduled to premiere this Christmas on HBO and HBO Max.

📺 “East of Eden” Trailer: Florence Pugh Takes Center Stage in Zoe Kazan’s Seven-Part Adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Sweeping Trask Family Saga with Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist — Premiering Thursday, October 1st on Netflix

John Steinbeck’s classic 1952 novel East of Eden was famously adapted into an equally classic 1955 feature film, notably featuring one of only three major film performances by James Dean before his death later that same year.

But here’s the thing: Steinbeck considered the novel his magnum opus. And for good reason. The book is a sprawling multigenerational family saga that explores inherited burdens, morality, personal regret and the choices people make against the changing landscape of California, from the post-Civil War era through World War I.

The James Dean movie, however, focused primarily on the latter portion of Steinbeck’s novel, centering on brothers Cal and Aron Trask while leaving much of the earlier multigenerational story untouched.

Fast forward more than 70 years, and Netflix is giving Steinbeck’s sprawling Trask family saga much more room to breathe with this seven-part limited series. This time, Florence Pugh takes on the pivotal role of Cathy Ames, a character who is central to the novel but was kept largely at a distance and used more as a mystery in the 1955 film adaptation. So there’s a good chance this new miniseries will feel considerably different in both tone and structure from the James Dean film.

And here’s another interesting connection between the film and this new miniseries: series creator Zoe Kazan is the granddaughter of legendary filmmaker Elia Kazan, who directed the 1955 adaptation.

A notable actress in her own right, known for starring in The Big Sick and HBO’s The Deuce, Zoe takes on writing and co-showrunning duties for the Netflix series, bringing the Steinbeck story full circle in a very personal way. Her previous screenwriting credits include Ruby Sparks and Wildlife, both collaborations with her longtime partner Paul Dano.

Joining Florence Pugh in the cast are recently announced X-Men star Christopher Abbott as Adam Trask and Challengers breakout Mike Faist as his half-brother Charles. Pugh’s Cathy Ames becomes the scandal-ridden and deeply troubled woman whose arrival dramatically alters both brothers’ lives, setting off a chain reaction of resentment, betrayal and family trauma that will echo across generations.

Also in the cast is Tracy Letts as Cyrus Trask, Adam and Charles’s stern, domineering war-veteran father, while Hoon Lee, Martha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds, Joseph Zada and Joe Anders round out the ensemble.

With Jeb Stuart also serving as co-showrunner, Australian filmmaker Garth Davis (known for directing the Oscar-nominated Lion and episodes of the acclaimed miniseries Top of the Lake) directs the first four episodes of this new East of Eden adaptation. French filmmaker Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Mustang) takes over directing duties for the final three episodes.

East of Eden is due to premiere October 1st on Netflix, with all seven episodes arriving at once.

📺 “Kill Jackie” Trailer: Catherine Zeta-Jones Is a Former Drug Smuggler Forced Back Into Her Violent Past in This Darkly Comic Crime Series with Daniel Ings, Óscar Jaenada, and Ron Perlman — Premiering October 2nd on AMC+

The Godfather Part III may not be considered the strongest entry in the franchise, but it did give us one of its most memorable lines: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” Thus, it helped cement one of the most enduring gangster-movie tropes: the former criminal who thinks they’ve escaped the life, only to get dragged right back into it.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is Jackie Price, a tough broad who has built herself a successful empire selling fine art to the rich and famous. She has the perfect life with her husband and daughter. But Jackie also has a past she thought she had left behind: she was once an international drug smuggler dealing with some of the most dangerous people in the criminal underworld.

Now after 20 years of keeping that part of her past buried, Jackie discovers that an elite group of assassins known as the Seven Demons has been hired to kill her, putting not only her own life in grave danger but also threatening the family and comfortable new life she has spent decades building.

Left with no other choice, Jackie must lean back into her violent instincts to protect everything she has built... and everyone she loves. That means she must hunt down and kill the assassins before they can get to her first.

Kill Jackie is a new darkly comic crime thriller from showrunner Tom Butterworth, with Killing Eve veteran Damon Thomas serving as lead director and co-creator.

Zeta-Jones is joined by actor Daniel Ings as Jackie’s clueless businessman husband. Coming off a breakout performance in the Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Ings plays a man seemingly unaware of just how dangerous his wife’s past really is, but who is about to get pulled straight into the middle of an increasingly dangerous mess.

Hattie Hook, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Óscar Jaenada, Darci Shaw, Raff Law, Enzo Cilenti, Christine Adams, Julian Barratt and Ron Perlman also round out the cast.

Kill Jackie is slated to premiere October 2nd on AMC+ in the U.S., with new episodes arriving weekly. Amazon Prime Video will stream the series in the U.K.

📺 “Tulsa King: Season 4” Teaser: Sylvester Stallone’s Dwight Manfredi Fights to Keep His Criminal Empire From Crumbling — Premiering Friday, October 16th on Paramount+

If you come at the king, you best not miss. Sylvester Stallone returns for another season as mobster Dwight Manfredi, still fighting to hold onto the empire he built in Tulsa. Once out of prison, Dwight was essentially sent into exile in Tulsa to spend his remaining days—only to turn the town into a hotbed of criminality. Now he runs the show, but being at the top means everyone is looking for a way to knock him off. Swimming through a sea of corruption, murder, and deadly sharks, Dwight ain’t folding any time soon. Because in this dirty business, it’s not the dirtiest who’s left standing. It’s the one who knows exactly when to get his hands dirty.

📺 “The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza” Trailer: Sketch Comedian Jordan Mendoza Turns Everyday Fears Into Surreal Dark Comedy With Thomas Lennon, Marc Maron, Martha Kelly, Steve Buscemi, and More — Premiering Sunday, September 13th at Midnight on Adult Swim

Sketch comedian and comedy writer Jordan Mendoza has rounded up an impressive list of guest stars to join him in this surreal horror-comedy series. Starring as a frightened man stumbling through a series of absurd and unsettling dream-like scenarios, both whimsical and frightening, Mendoza turns familiar fears into a twisted dark comedy. From UFO sighting press conferences and strange workplace encounters to soldiers at war, slam poetry, and an awkward career day, no everyday anxiety is safe from getting a little weird. Fred Armisen, Martha Kelly, Marc Maron, Toby Huss, Thomas Lennon, and Steve Buscemi are among the big-name guest stars joining Mendoza as things get progressively stranger... and funnier.

📺 “Abbott Elementary: Season 6” Promo: Quinta Brunson and the Gang Head Back to Class With a Schoolhouse Rock!-Inspired Animated Throwback — Premieres Wednesday, October 7th on ABC and Streaming Next Day on Hulu

Anyone raised on ’70s cartoons probably has fond memories of Schoolhouse Rock! and its earworm jingles designed to make learning fun and memorable. Quinta Brunson’s hit sitcom about a group of dedicated Philadelphia public-school teachers returns for another season, using Schoolhouse Rock! as the inspiration for this animated promo. Starring Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, William Stanford Davis, and Sheryl Lee Ralph, the Emmy-winning comedy heads back to class with the same sharp humor and warm ensemble chemistry that made it a favorite. A new season means a fresh batch of classroom headaches, staffroom drama, and lessons nobody planned for.

📺 “Sheriff Country: Season 2” Trailer: Morena Baccarin’s Sheriff Mickey Fox Faces Family Trouble on Both Sides of the Badge as Ben McKenzie Joins the Mix — Premiering Friday, October 9th on CBS and Paramount+

When it comes to law enforcement, family dynamics can make the line between duty and loyalty a little harder to draw. Deadpool’s Morena Baccarin returns for another season as hard-nosed Sheriff Mickey Fox. Her idea of protecting her town is simple: don’t mess with her unless you wanna feel the full brunt of the badge. But when it comes to arresting her ex-con father (W. Earl Brown) and dealing with a mother (Rachel Ticotin) she hasn’t seen in years, doling out justice gets a whole lot more personal. Meanwhile, her responsibilities as sheriff don’t get any easier, with problems continuing to pile up around her. And to make it even more of a family affair, Baccarin’s real-life husband, Ben McKenzie, will be popping in for a few episodes as a fellow sheriff to stir things up. Co-starring Matt Lauria and Christopher Gorham, expect plenty of family drama, small-town trouble, and a sheriff caught somewhere in the middle.

📺 “Marshals: Season 2” Trailer: Luke Grimes Returns as Kayce Dutton, Facing the Personal Cost of Protecting Montana — Airs Sunday, October 4th on CBS and Paramount+

Luke Grimes returns as Kayce Dutton in this Yellowstone spinoff, now entering its second season. After joining the U.S. Marshals and becoming part of an elite unit, Kayce begins to feel the psychological toll of protecting Montana from any riffraff looking to bring violence to the region. He thought he could leave that kind of brutality behind with the Yellowstone Ranch, but once it starts affecting his teenage son Tate (Brecken Merrill), the job becomes impossible to keep at arm’s length. Logan Marshall-Green, Arielle Kebbel, and Ash Santos also return, while Yellowstone regulars Gil Birmingham and Mo Brings Plenty are back as Thomas Rainwater and Mo. This new season asks whether Kayce Dutton is a “good man,” but the answer may depend on how far he’s willing to go to protect his family and do his job. For a Dutton, home is everything, but family is what you fight for.

📺 “R.J. Decker: Season 2” Trailer: Scott Speedman Returns as South Florida’s Laid-Back P.I. for Stranger Cases and Bigger Trouble — Premieres Tuesday, September 15th on ABC and Streaming Next Day on Hulu / Disney+

In Florida, everything’s a little different; including the private eyes. They’re a little more laid-back, a little more tipsy, and never short on island wear. Scott Speedman returns for a new season as ex-con, former photojournalist, and newly minted private investigator R.J. Decker. His assignments are the same as any other private eye. The big difference? The backdrop looks a whole lot more like a tropical postcard. And in this new season, Decker finds himself taking on even stranger cases, as South Florida seems to attract all the weirdos on the wrong side of the law. But one of his biggest cases hits much closer to home when Decker’s former flame, Emi Ochoa (Jaina Lee Ortiz), becomes convinced her father was killed by the cartel and asks him to get to the bottom of it. You know what they say: you can’t catch any fish without a little bait. And in Florida, Decker never seems to be short on any..

📺 “S.W.A.T. Exiles” Trailer: Shemar Moore’s Hondo Leads a New Unit of Misfits While Hunting a Mole From Within — Premieres Friday, September 25th on STARZ

Shemar Moore is back to reprise his role as LAPD S.W.A.T. Sergeant Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson in this S.W.A.T. spinoff series centered on a new tactical unit of rejects and misfits. Hondo was once viewed as a LAPD legend, but after a fatal shooting on the job and his refusal to bury the truth, he was forced into retirement. Now he’s getting a second chance to do some good, leading a group of young officers the department has written off. They might not be the department’s first choice, but Hondo will make sure they get the chance to prove they belong. That’s until he discovers a mole within his unit, turning the real mission into smoking out the traitor before the team comes crashing down from the inside. From Lucifer executive producer Jason Ning, the new series takes the S.W.A.T. franchise from CBS to STARZ, bringing with it plenty of attitude and swagger.

📺 “NCIS: Season 24” Trailer: Michael Weatherly’s Tony DiNozzo Is Back as He Rejoins the Team in This Long-Running Procedural Drama with Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama, Katrina Law, and Gary Cole — Airs Tuesday, October 6th on CBS and Paramount+

It’s been 24 seasons, so what could possibly get fans excited now? How about bringing back an old favorite? That’s right, Michael Weatherly is returning as former NCIS field agent Tony DiNozzo. It’s another season of the long-running CBS crime series, and that means more murder cases to solve, more bodies turning up, and more criminals to chase down. Just when you thought the season before its big 25th milestone might play it on the safe side, saving a little for next year, the series is back at it with all-new missions to tackle. Also returning are Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama, Katrina Law, Gary Cole, Brian Dietzen, and Diona Reasonover, proving this procedural drama might be getting a little long in the tooth, but we all know why this series has lasted so long: it’s comfort food for those who love a little murder mystery before bedtime.

📺 “Fire Country: Season 5” Trailer: Max Thieriot’s Bode Leone Jumps Back Into the Fire as Station 42 Faces New Wildfires — Premieres Friday, October 9th on CBS and Paramount+

Max Thieriot returns to jump back into the fire. Once a convict seeking a shorter sentence through a Northern California firefighting program, Bode Leone (Thieriot) now walks free while continuing his path toward redemption with Cal Fire. In season five, massive wildfires bring dangerous rescues and unpredictable threats, giving Bode and the rest of the Station 42 crew another reason to put everything on the line to protect their community… and maybe find a place where they truly belong. Sure, firefighters may seem fearless, but it’s not the thrill that keeps them going; it’s the chance to find redemption in every life they save.

📺 “Trespasses” U.S. Trailer: “Furious” Star Lola Petticrew and Tom Cullen Embark on a Forbidden Romance Set During the Troubles in This Four-Part Irish Drama with Gillian Anderson — Premieres Sunday, September 20th on PBS and the PBS App

Irish actress Lola Petticrew just might be the talk of the town after her breakout performance in one of the buzziest TV series of the year, Hulu’s serial-killer thriller Furious. But just before that, she appeared in this Irish drama, which is now getting its U.S. debut this month. Petticrew stars as Cushla, a young Catholic schoolteacher in 1975 Belfast who becomes romantically involved with Michael (Tom Cullen), an older, married Protestant barrister known for defending IRA suspects. Gillian Anderson plays Cushla’s alcoholic mother, Gina, whose drinking problems leave Cushla carrying much of the responsibility at home. It all becomes an explosive mix of forbidden romance, family pressure, and political tension. Based on the novel by Louise Kennedy, the four-episode Irish drama was adapted for television by writer Ailbhe Keogan and directed by Dawn Shadforth.

📺 “Pierre” U.K. Trailer: David Harewood Takes on a Fractured Legal System as a Down-on-His-Luck Lawyer in This New British Crime Series With Michele Austin and Jason Flemyng — Coming October 2026 to UK’s Channel 4

David Harewood is a man on a mission in this British legal drama, playing a West London duty solicitor determined to uncover the truth behind the suspicious death of a young client. Harewood, best known for starring on American shows such as Homeland and Supergirl, returns to his home country of England to dive into a fractured legal system meant to deliver justice, but increasingly strained by cuts, corruption, and institutional pressure. As a down-on-his-luck criminal lawyer, Harewood’s Pierre Jeffreys is a man of conviction, but conviction alone won’t keep his struggling practice afloat. When one case shockingly turns into an unsolved homicide, Pierre refuses to accept the official story and starts digging for answers. What he discovers pulls him into a web of institutional corruption that could cost him his career, his family, and everything he’s fighting to protect.

📺 “Scrubs: Season 2” New Promo: Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke Poke Fun at the Classic Operation Board Game — Premiering Wednesday, September 30th on ABC and Hulu / Disney+

It’s a real-life game of Operation in full effect. Those lovable doctors at Sacred Heart poke a little fun at the classic board game in this new promo for season two of the Scrubs revival. J.D. (Zach Braff), Turk (Donald Faison), and Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke) return for another round of hospital hijinks, now as seasoned veterans guiding a new generation of young physicians who may know the medicine but still have plenty to learn about being doctors. The Bill Lawrence-created medical sitcom has only grown more beloved since ending its initial run, becoming a comfort-watch favorite for fans who never really left Sacred Heart behind. And after all these years, the show continues to prove that laughter is, indeed, the best medicine.

📺 “Maxton Hall: The World Between Us: Season 3” Trailer: Ruby and James Face Their Biggest Test Yet in the Final Season of the German Romance Drama — Premieres Wednesday, December 9th on Prime Video

This German coming-of-age drama series, based on Mona Kasten’s romance novel trilogy, returns for one final season. Starring Harriet Herbig-Matten and Damian Hardung, the story once again follows Ruby and James as their relationship faces its biggest test yet. After being suspended from Maxton Hall College, Ruby finds her future (and her dream of attending Oxford) suddenly hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, James stands by her as she fights to clear her name, even as new revelations put their relationship under pressure. They say love can conquer anything thrown at it… now it’s time to prove it.

📺 “Stavros Halkias: Uncle Stav” Promo Short: Stavros Halkias Goes Full Mission: Impossible in Matt Johnson’s Spy-Movie Parody — Streaming Tuesday, September 8th on Netflix

If you’ve ever wondered what Stavros Halkias might look like as an action star, hanging from the ceiling in a tight black suit… well, here’s your chance. The stand-up comedian spoofs Tom Cruise’s famous Mission: Impossible ceiling-drop scene in this new comedy short, serving as a promo for Stavros’s upcoming Netflix comedy special. Filmmaker Matt Johnson, who recently directed Stavros in the biopic Tony, also directs and appears in the parody, watching in horror as the comedian gets a little too excited about hacking a CIA computer that happens to have some eyebrow-raising photos on its desktop. Talk about some classified material... for your eyes only, huh?

📺 “Nimesh Patel: Buy the Dip” Sneak Peek: Stand-up Comic Nimesh Patel Takes Aim at Parenting, His Indian Family, and a Certain Famous Patel — Streams Tuesday, September 22nd on Netflix

As the first Indian-American comedy writer on Saturday Night Live, stand-up comic Nimesh Patel brings that same biting wit to the stage. In his Netflix comedy special, Patel spares no one, taking aim at parenting, his Indian family, and other well-known Patels, including a certain FBI director who has a funny way of making headlines lately.

📺 “Band of Brothers: Legacy” Trailer: Cast Members Reunite 25 Years Later to Reflect on the Emmy-Winning WWII Miniseries and the Soldiers Who Inspired It in This New Behind-the-Scenes Reunion Special — Streams Wednesday, September 9th on HBO Max

HBO’s award-winning Band of Brothers miniseries remains one of the defining World War II dramas in television history. Everyone involved in the production, including the cast and crew, still holds the profound experience of making it close to their hearts. Now, 25 years after its initial airing, several cast members have returned for this reunion special chronicling the legacy of the Emmy-winning war series. And once again, they set out to highlight the true heroes behind the story: the soldiers whose courage became history, including those who never lived long enough to tell it themselves.

📺 “A Killer Story” Trailer: Investigative Journalist Joe Sexton Reexamines a Decades-Spanning Double-Murder Case and Questions Whether Justice Was Really Served in HBO’s Three-Part True-Crime Series — Debuts Thursday, September 10th on HBO and HBO Max

The truth isn’t always as clear-cut as you might think. In this new HBO true-crime miniseries, investigative journalist Joe Sexton digs into a decades-spanning double-murder case that refuses to offer an easy answer. The case was closed, and a woman was convicted and sent to prison. But was justice served? Joe teams up with a homemaker-turned-citizen sleuth and her husband to uncover whether Dana Chandler was actually guilty of murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend. It turns out this obscure double-homicide case in Topeka, Kansas, raised much deeper questions about the justice system... and whether the evidence was ever as concrete as it seemed.

📺 “Not a Stranger” Trailer: A Seemingly Ordinary Nanny Brings Growing Unease Into a Young Couple’s Home in This Turkish Psychological Thriller Starring Elçin Sangu, Ozan Dolunay, and Melis Sezen — Streams Thursday, September 17th on Netflix

In this Turkish psychological drama series, a mother’s attempt to reclaim her old life becomes increasingly worrisome after she and her husband invite a seemingly ordinary nanny into their home to look after their newborn child. What begins as a practical arrangement with a woman meant to make their lives easier quickly turns into something far more unsettling as strange changes begin to take hold inside the home. It seems the person they invited in has become the source of growing unease and suspicion. Starring Elçin Sangu, Ozan Dolunay, Melis Sezen, and Cemal Hünal, this Turkish thriller turns a simple act of trust into something increasingly hard to shake.

📺 “Crime and Punishment in America” Trailer: Ken Burns-Produced Four-Part PBS Documentary Traces 250 Years of Crime, Punishment, and Justice — Airing Over Four Consecutive Nights From Monday, November 16th Through Thursday, November 19th on PBS

Leave it to the Ken Burns team to deliver another in-depth, comprehensive four-part documentary about America—this time chronicling the history of the country’s criminal justice system. Since the birth of the nation 250 years ago, Americans have wrestled with questions of crime, punishment, and what justice should actually mean. Director Lynn Novick, known for her numerous collaborations with award-winning documentarian Ken Burns, who also serves as an executive producer, examines how those ideas have evolved over more than two centuries. For every crime, there’s a punishment. But the bigger question is how you build a system that delivers justice without losing sight of mercy and reform.

📺 “The Unbelievable: Encounters with Dan Aykroyd” Trailer: Dan Aykroyd Hosts Eight Strange Tales of Ghosts, UFOs, Aliens, and the Unexplained — Now Streaming on Hulu / Disney+

Here’s some fun trivia: Dan Aykroyd didn’t just co-write and star in Ghostbusters, he’s actually a true believer, with a long-standing fascination with the paranormal and unexplained. Aykroyd brings that same enthusiasm to this paranormal anthology series, digging into strange encounters involving ghosts, UFOs, aliens, and other things that defy easy explanation. Before you know it, Halloween season will soon be here again, and what better way to get into the mood than with eight strange tales hosted by your favorite Ghostbuster? Now streaming on Hulu.

📺 “NFL Melbourne Game 2026” Trailer: San Francisco 49ers Face the Los Angeles Rams in a Historic Australia Showdown as the NFL Goes Global — Streams Live Thursday, September 10th on Netflix

Netflix continues to expand its live-event lineup, this time with an NFL regular-season game as the Los Angeles Rams face the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne, Australia. It’s another step in the NFL’s push to take American football global, while giving Netflix another chance to build its live sports presence. As sports become one of the last true forms of appointment viewing, this team-up between the NFL and Netflix feels like a natural progression. So, who’s ready for some football... and a little shrimp on the barbie?

tv trailers of the week

📺 “The Gentlemen: Season 2” Trailer: Theo James Wants More Power as Eddie and Susie Take On Bobby Glass in Guy Ritchie’s Gangster Series With Kaya Scodelario, Ray Winstone, and Hugh Bonneville — Returning Thursday, September 3rd on Netflix

The thing about the drug game is, it’s not necessarily the crime you have to worry about... it’s the criminals. One false move, and the people you thought were partners can quickly become your biggest enemies. In a world where tensions run high and trust can disappear just as quickly as the money, all you’ve got is respect and your instincts. And if one of them fails you, the other might not be enough to keep you alive.

Theo James returns for Season 2 of Guy Ritchie’s gangster crime series as Eddie Horniman, now fully immersed in the criminal empire he once stumbled into. Initially reluctant to get involved in the family weed business, Eddie, an English aristocrat and the Duke of Halstead, has now gotten a taste for power and an appetite for ambition. He wants to expand the operation beyond England, putting him increasingly at odds with mob king Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone). But with Bobby’s daughter, who happens to be Eddie’s partner in crime, Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario), caught between them, Eddie’s expansion plans could put more than just the business at risk. But then again, they often say, no risk, no reward. In this case, however, risk means death, and reward means more power and money than Eddie could ever need. But once he steps over that line, there’s no coming back to the gentleman’s life he came from.

Based on Ritchie’s 2019 film of the same name, The Gentlemen is a spiritual spin-off set in the same London cannabis underworld, where deals are made with bullets and blood often serves as the ink on the dotted line.

The Netflix series, which has already been greenlit for a third season, has been in the news lately, as Meghan Markle (the American actress from Suits turned Duchess of Sussex) was rumored to be making her acting return with a role in the series. Though nothing has been confirmed yet, Markle is already getting plenty of backlash in England for even considering a return to her former profession, since apparently stepping back into the acting world is still viewed as a no-no and not exactly respectable in the eyes of the British monarchy. Go figure. That being said, the monarchy isn’t exactly the barometer for respectability these days.

“All bets are off,” a Netflix casting executive cryptically responded in a recent interview when asked about the reports surrounding Markle’s possible role in Season 3. What exactly does that even mean? Your guess is as good as any.

Also starring Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Giancarlo Esposito, Hugh Bonneville, Michele Morrone, and Maya Jama, with Ritchie returning as both executive producer and director, The Gentlemen: Season 2 returns September 3rd on Netflix.

📺 “Brothers” Trailer: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson Wonder If Their Real-Life Friendship Is Actually a Family Affair in Apple’s New Comedy Series — Premiering Wednesday, September 23rd on Apple TV

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are often confused for each other, mainly because they’re both from Texas and have those distinctive Texas drawls. They both also have wild stories about living it up and embracing carefree lifestyles. And yes, sometimes a little marijuana is involved... along with a pair of bongos.

But here’s a wild idea: what if those similarities weren’t coincidental? What if they were somehow inherited, maybe even genetic? Like brothers.

In this new Apple comedy series, McConaughey and Harrelson, who are actually close friends in real life, play heightened versions of themselves in a semi-biographical yarn about discovering they might actually be related. It’s a family secret that puts their friendship to the test. The ultimate test.

Created and developed by showrunner Lee Eisenberg (Jury Duty, Bad Teacher) and Schitt’s Creek producer-writer David West Read, along with McConaughey and Harrelson, this satirical series pokes fun at their celebrity personas, real-life friendship, and the possibility that their brotherly bond may be more literal than either of them ever imagined.

Also starring Holland Taylor as McConaughey’s wisecracking mother, Ma Mac, as well as Brittany Ishibashi as Harrelson’s wife, Joy, with Natalie Martinez, Nolan Almeida, Ella Grace Helton, Noah Carganilla, Highdee Kuan, and Oona Yaffe rounding out the cast, the comedy series offers two of Hollywood’s most recognizable personalities a chance to poke fun at themselves and each other as they try to live by the mantra: “Just keep livin’, man. L-I-V-I-N.”

Brothers is slated to premiere Wednesday, September 23rd, on Apple TV with its first two episodes, followed by new episodes weekly through November 4th.

📺 “12 12 12” Teaser: Anthony Mackie Hunts Jamie Dornan in Apple’s New Three-Timeline Heist Thriller — Premieres Friday, November 13th on Apple TV

12 months to plan. 12 hours to execute. And if not caught within 12 days... the thief may disappear for good. Anthony Mackie stars as a relentless FBI agent hunting a career criminal (played by Jamie Dornan) across Europe in this new Apple original series, where one elaborate heist unfolds across three timelines: the planning, the execution, and the escape. Created by Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble, and directed in part by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier helmer Kari Skogland, the eight-episode crime thriller turns every stage of the heist into part of the chase.

📺 “Youth” Trailer: Sharon Horgan Turns 50, Gets Divorced, and Goes Looking for Sex, Love, and a Second Act in HBO’s New Comedy-Drama Series — Premiering Sunday, September 20th on HBO / HBO Max

Irish comedian Sharon Horgan has turned the real-life messiness of parenting, marriage, and relationships into a thriving television career, with hit shows like Catastrophe, Bad Sisters, and Divorce. Now she’s turning her anxiety about becoming an empty nester into her new HBO series, where she plays Alex, a newly divorced 50-year-old literary agent juggling sex, love, aging parents, and a son who isn’t quite as grown-up as he should be. Co-starring Rupert Friend, Sharlene Whyte, and Aran Murphy, Horgan aims to get to the heart of every 50-year-old woman’s fear... waking up one day and wondering where the hell your youth went.

📺 “Eternally Yours” Trailer: Allegra Edwards and Ed Weeks Are Married Vampires Facing Their Biggest Family Crisis Yet in CBS’ New Supernatural Comedy From the Creators of ‘Ghosts’ — Premieres Thursday, October 8th on CBS and Paramount+

Parenting is hard. Marriage is hard. Parenting while trying to keep a five-century vampire marriage together? Well, that’s a whole different kind of family problem. In this new CBS sitcom from Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, the creators of the American version of Ghosts, Allegra Edwards (Upload) and Ed Weeks (The Mindy Project) star as Liz and Charles, a married vampire couple whose five-century relationship gets complicated when their daughter falls for a human. Don’t you hate it when your kid starts dating outside their own species? Jeez! Also starring Parker Young, Helen J Shen, Jaren Lewison, and Rose Abdoo, this supernatural comedy may be aiming for the funny bone, but it might just go for the jugular, too.

📺 “DOC: Season 3” Trailer: Molly Parker Returns as Dr. Amy Larsen Faces Her Forgotten Past Alongside New Cast Member Blair Underwood in FOX’s Medical Drama — Returning Tuesday, September 22nd on FOX

Is there a doctor in the house... preferably one with their memory still intact. Oh no? Okay, then Dr. Amy Larsen will have to do. Molly Parker returns for Season 3 of the hit FOX medical drama, where she plays a brilliant physician still rebuilding her life after a serious car accident left her with a brain injury that wiped away the last eight years of her memory, including the death of her child and her divorce. Still recovering, Dr. Larsen continues piecing together the life she lost while trying to move forward with the one she has now. The problem is, those missing years were incredibly painful, and somewhere along the way, she became incredibly difficult to work with. Now she has to come to grips with who she was... and decide the kind of doctor she wants to be; one who can take on the most difficult cases without sliding back into that angry person she once became.

📺 “Outlander: Blood of My Blood: Season 2” Trailer: Hermione Corfield, Jeremy Irvine, Harriet Slater, and Jamie Roy Return as Two Generations of Star-Crossed Lovers Battle History, Separation, and Time Itself in Prequel Spinoff Series — Premieres Friday, September 18th on STARZ

Love has a funny way of stretching across centuries in the world of Outlander. In this new season of the prequel spinoff, Hermione Corfield, Jeremy Irvine, Harriet Slater, and Jamie Roy return as Julia, Henry, Ellen, and Brian, two pairs of star-crossed lovers whose marriages will eventually give rise to Claire and Jamie Fraser and their own time-bending romance. In Season 2, Julia, Henry, Ellen, and Brian once again find themselves fighting history, family obligation, war, and separation as they struggle to stay together, while a strange formation of magical stones serves as a gateway through time... where one can step through, but there’s no telling what waits on the other side.

📺 “Sweetpea: Season 2” Teaser: Ella Purnell’s Killer Wallflower Faces a Dangerous Copycat in the Darkly Comic Thriller — Coming to Sky UK This November and STARZ USA in Early 2027

When she’s not fighting post-apocalyptic ghouls, mutated monsters, and evil conspiracists in Amazon’s Fallout, Ella Purnell can be seen starring in this darkly comic thriller, tapping into her darker side with a growing kill list and a taste for revenge. Whereas she plays the innocent, naive underground survivalist in Fallout, Purnell is anything but innocent here, playing a wallflower-turned-killer who has fully embraced her darker impulses. In Season 2, Purnell’s Rhiannon discovers that a copycat murderer is threatening to expose everything she’s been hiding. Worse yet, she has no idea whether the killer is trying to imitate her, communicate with her, or set her up to take the fall.

📺 “Stranger Things: Tales From ’85: Season 2” Trailer: Netflix’s Animated ‘Stranger Things’”’ Spinoff Returns for a Second Season with Another Possible Gate to the Upside Down — Premieres Thursday, September 17th on Netflix

Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be any more “strange” stories to tell, here comes a second season of the animated Stranger Things spinoff series, set between events in the live-action timeline. While much of the original series takes place during summer break or around the school year, the animated show continues its winter setting, once again following Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, Max, and Nikki. This time around, ghostly apparitions and swarms of creatures known as hate sprites suggest another gate to the Upside Down may be forming beneath Hawkins. Executive produced by the Duffer Brothers, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and showrunner Eric Robles, the animated series keeps its Saturday-morning-cartoon vibe with a supernatural bent, giving Stranger Things fans a little more time in Hawkins.

📺 “JAY-Z in 8” Trailer: JAY-Z and Rick Rubin Sit Down for an Eight-Part Conversation About Music, Life, and the Creative Process — Premieres Friday, September 18th on HBO / HBO Max

Two of music’s most influential figures in hip-hop have come together for one long conversation. And they’re talking about everything from music and lyrics to life experience and the creative process. Grammy Award-winning rapper and mogul JAY-Z joins his longtime collaborator, legendary record producer Rick Rubin, for an eight-part HBO documentary series. As friends, collaborators, music wizards, and two artists with decades of history between them, the pair dig into the songs and experiences that helped reshape not only hip-hop, but the music landscape as a whole.

🎥 “Get Jiro” Trailer: A Sushi Master Cuts His Way Through a Dystopian Los Angeles Where Chefs Rule and Diners Kill for Reservations in Adult Swim’s Animated Action Satire Based on Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose’s Graphic Novel — Premiering Saturday, October 3rd on Adult Swim / Toonami

Cooks are known for having sharp knife skills and even sharper tempers. But sometimes, when push comes to shove, those knives aren’t just for the food... they’re for protecting turf. Inspired by the late Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose’s 2012 graphic novel, this Adult Swim animated action satire takes us to a future Los Angeles where chefs rule and diners are willing to kill for a reservation. In dystopian Downtown L.A., whoever can chop up sushi as quickly and cleanly as they can a human body controls the streets. And that man just happens to be named Jiro.

📺 “Stavros Halkias: Uncle Stav” Trailer: Comedian Stavros Halkias Gets Candid About Family and Getting Older in His New Netflix Stand-Up Special — Debuts Tuesday, September 8th on Netflix

While lately he’s been acting in projects like Bugonia, Tony, and Netflix’s Tires, comedian Stavros Halkias hasn’t forgotten what got him into show business in the first place: stand-up comedy. He returns to the stage with a new Netflix special centered on his Greek family and the particular chaos that comes with becoming Uncle Stav. And this time around, his blunt, self-deprecating humor takes on the everyday absurdities of getting older and, maybe, a little wiser.

📺 “The Varnell Hill Show” Trailer: Tommy Davidson Brings His Fan-Favorite ‘Martin’ Character Back for a Long-Overdue Late-Night Comeback in New Spin-off Series — Premieres Tuesday, September 1st on BET / Paramount+

Iconic In Living Color comedian Tommy Davidson gets the chance to reprise one of his most memorable characters, Varnell Hill, nearly three decades after his appearance on the classic ’90s sitcom Martin. In this spinoff comedy series, Varnell is now the host of his own long-running late-night show, where changing tastes, network pressure, and an unruly staff threaten the empire he built around his outsized personality. Also starring Kym Whitley, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Nick Cafero, Emmanuel Hudson, and Chris Williams, with Martin Lawrence making a special appearance, this long-overdue comeback brings Varnell Hill back where he always wanted to be: center stage.

📺 “Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence” Trailer: Josh Dylan and Antonia Thomas Bring Christie’s Amateur Sleuths Into the Modern Age in BritBox’s Contemporary British Mystery Series — Premiering Tuesday, September 15th on BritBox

Forget that old Agatha Christie mystery you remember... ’cuz this new whodunit gives one of Christie’s classic detective tales a contemporary spin. Based on Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence stories, the six-part British series stars Josh Dylan (Masters of the Air) and Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor) as the titular amateur sleuths, stumbling from one mystery into the next. Set in the present day, where smartphones and social media now sit alongside the usual clues, suspects, and red herrings, Tommy and Tuppence discover that solving crimes may be easier than figuring out their own complicated relationship. Should they, would they, might they? Between the mysteries and their messy romance, Tommy and Tuppence may be the one case neither can quite solve.

📺 “City of Blood” Trailer: Lea Drinda and Soma Pysall Face a Vampire Power Grab in Hulu’s Dystopian German Thriller — Streams Wednesday, September 16th on Hulu

Imagine a future Berlin: the climate is collapsing, the wealthy live beneath a climate-controlled dome, and everyone else is left to survive the heat, crime, and corruption outside. Plus, blood has become the city’s most valuable currency... due to vampires! Adapted from the graphic novel Berlinoir, created by Philipp Kadelbach and Elena Lyubarskaya, and executive produced by actor Daniel Brühl, this new German dystopian thriller series stars Lea Drinda and Soma Pysall as estranged sisters who reunite as a looming election reveals a vampire plot to take control of the city. In this fractured world, whoever controls the blood supply may end up controlling Berlin.

📺 “The Scandal” Teaser: Son Ye-jin Challenges Ji Chang-wook to a Dangerous Game of Seduction in Netflix’s Joseon-Era “Dangerous Liaisons” Adaptation — Premiering Friday, September 18th on Netflix

A game of desire may have begun with seduction, but sometimes the players have other ideas. In this new Korean period drama, Lady Cho (Son Ye-jin) turns attraction into a dangerous wager when she challenges famed lover Cho Won (Ji Chang-wook) to seduce the unsuspecting Hui-yeon (Nana). The classic 18th-century French novel Dangerous Liaisons once again serves as the inspiration, relocating its games of lust, manipulation, and betrayal to Joseon-era Korea. But if you think the change of setting will somehow lessen the salaciousness between these three players, don’t fret... these games are every bit as wicked.

📺 “The Gold: Season 2” Trailer: Britain’s Brink’s-Mat Heist Drama Returns as Hugh Bonneville Hunts the Missing Gold Across an Expanding Criminal Network — Debuts Sunday, October 18th on MASTERPIECE PBS in the U.S.

Inspired by one of Britain’s most notorious heists, this fact-inspired British crime drama stars Hugh Bonneville, Charlotte Spencer, Emun Elliott, and Jack Lowden as it follows the far-reaching aftermath of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery. After airing in the UK last year, Season 2 now makes its way to the States, with the hunt for the missing gold expanding into international money laundering, corruption, and organized crime.

📺 “Real Men: Season 2” Trailer: Four Friends Keep Trying to Figure Out Modern Manhood in Netflix’s Italian Comedy — Streams Wednesday, October 7th on Netflix

What does it take to be a real man? Apparently, a lot of unlearning. Returning for a new season, this Italian comedy series follows four longtime friends (played by Maurizio Lastrico, Matteo Martari, Francesco Montanari, and Pietro Sermonti) as they try to navigate changing ideas of masculinity while juggling relationships, family, new jobs, and the old habits they can’t quite shake. In a world where the rules of modern manhood keep changing, these four guys are still trying to figure out where they fit.

📺 “Cassie Workman Is Witchy AF” Trailer: Australian Comedian Cassie Workman Goes Deep Into Witchcraft and Occult Weirdness in This Lilly Wachowski-Produced Offbeat Talk Show / Supernatural Comedy Series — Premiering Wednesday, September 16th via ETCH’s YouTube Channel

From executive producer Lilly Wachowski, of The Matrix franchise, comes an offbeat comedy series like no other. Part occult deep dive, part supernatural curiosity, and part irreverent comedy, this online talk-show comedy series follows Australian trans comedian Cassie Workman as she explores the strange world of witchcraft, folklore, ritual magic, and everything in between. There’s camp, gender fluidity, and plenty of occult weirdness to keep viewers under its spell. After all, everyone is welcome... for a little witchy fun.

📺 “NFL Play Action” Trailer: Kyle Brandt and Ally Love Break Down the NFL’s Biggest Games, Storylines, and Off-Field Culture in Paramount’s New Weekly Sports Series — Debuts Wednesday, September 9th on Paramount+

Are you ready for some football?! And if so, get ready for plenty of sports commentary to go with it, because everybody seems to have something to say about the upcoming season. Case in point: this new Paramount+ football show, which takes a weekly look at the NFL both on and off the field. Hosted by sports commentator Kyle Brandt and co-hosted by sports personality Ally Love, the series covers the week’s biggest matchups, players, and storylines while also getting into the fashion, food, and entertainment surrounding the game. It’s football season again, so get ready for big games and even bigger opinions about everything happening on and off the field.

📺 “The Program: Texas Tech” Trailer: Dennis Quaid Narrates an All-Access Look at the Red Raiders’ Historic 2025 Football Season — Debuts Friday, September 4th on Paramount+

There’s no football like Texas football. In this four-episode documentary, Texas Tech opens its doors for an all-access look at the Red Raiders’ historic 2025 season. Narrated by Texas-born actor Dennis Quaid, the docuseries follows the players, coaches, university, and West Texas community, digging into the stories that fueled a landmark campaign and made the season about much more than football.

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📺 “The Pitt: Season 3” Teaser: Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby Returns From Sabbatical for Another Intense Shift at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center in HBO’s Emmy-Winning Medical Series with Sepideh Moafi, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, and More — Premiering January 2027 on HBO Max

Robby returns!

Last season of the Emmy Award-winning medical series The Pitt was building toward Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch’s much-needed three-month sabbatical: a cross-country bike ride that had many worried he might never return. After years of difficult cases and carrying the emotional weight of the ER, it wasn’t hard to wonder whether Robby might finally be done with his job at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center.

But if there’s no Robby, there’s no show, right? Some fans might disagree, but Noah Wyle is the heart and soul of The Pitt.

So, Season 3 brings us another intense day in the ER; a familiar rhythm for the HBO series, where life-or-death decisions are made in seconds, often with no time to second-guess them. It’s also another first day back on the job, this time with Robby returning from his sabbatical, echoing last season’s return of Dr. Langdon (Patrick Ball) from rehab.

“Try not to kill anyone today,” Dr. Santos (Isa Briones) sarcastically tells Dr. Whitaker (Gerran Howell) in the first teaser trailer for Season 3. “Yeah, you too,” Whitaker quickly shoots back before the two bump fists and head out of the locker room to start their workday.

That little exchange is a good example of the gallows humor and close-knit camaraderie between the doctors and nurses who somehow keep each other going through some seriously intense shifts. And while Season 3’s plot is still mostly under wraps, viewers can expect more tough ER cases, difficult decisions, and plenty of friction (friendly or not) between staff members.

One relationship to keep an eye on is Robby’s workplace dynamic with Dr. Al-Hashimi (played by newly Emmy-nominated Sepideh Moafi), especially after where last season’s finale left things between them. Ooooh, fireworks are brewing.

Executive produced by showrunner R. Scott Gemmill, with Wyle also serving as a writer and producer, the series is coming off five Emmy Award wins, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor for Wyle, Outstanding Supporting Actress for Katherine LaNasa as Nurse Evans, and Outstanding Guest Actor for Shawn Hatosy as Dr. Abbot. The show also recently picked up a whopping 25 Emmy nominations for Season 2, including nods across all the major acting categories.

Okay, The Pitt might have a reputation for being your parents’ or co-worker’s favorite show, but we say: what’s wrong with that? And if you’re not already watching, why aren’t you? Season 3 isn’t just another long shift at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center; it’s also another chance for you to hop on board. It’s set to debut in January 2027 on HBO Max.

📺 “The Diplomat: Season 4” Teaser: Keri Russell Scrambles to Keep the Peace as Allison Janney and Rufus Sewell Push the U.S. Toward War in Netflix’s Award-Winning Political Thriller — Premiering Thursday, October 15th on Netflix

A diplomat’s job is to keep relations between their country and foreign governments running as smoothly as possible. That means a lot of state dinners, cocktail parties, and diplomatic conferences. Sounds boring, right? Well, you haven’t seen what Keri Russell’s Kate Wyler has had to deal with over the past three seasons of this award-winning Netflix series.

Aside from preventing a global crisis from getting worse, dealing with a U.S. president’s surprise deadly heart attack, and a vice president’s own illegal scheme, Kate’s diplomatic duties have been anything but routine. What’s even worse, her own estranged husband, former diplomat Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), has only made matters more complicated, especially now that he’s the new vice president to a morally compromised U.S. president, Grace Penn (Allison Janney), and has become caught up in her dangerous political scheme to push the country toward war.

For political junkies out there who love watching smart people do terrible things to keep the scales of power balanced, this show is for you. For TV watchers who like to see an unbelievably complicated marriage where both partners teeter between codependency and chaotic self-destruction, this show is for you, too. And for those who just want to see Keri Russell do some of the best acting of her career as a woman trying to hold together international peace while her own marriage keeps sabotaging her efforts while also falling into some sort of emotional free fall, this show is for you as well.

Created and executive produced by Debora Cahn (The West Wing, Homeland), the series co-stars Bradley Whitford as First Gentleman Todd Penn, along with Ato Essandoh as Deputy Chief Stuart Hayford, Ali Ahn as former CIA London Station Chief Eidra Park, Nana Mensah as former White House Chief of Staff Billie Appiah, and Rory Kinnear as hot-tempered U.K. Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge.

Season 4 of The Diplomat will have Kate facing her most dangerous political crisis yet, as Grace and Hal’s alliance in the White House forces her to present a united front with First Gentleman Todd Penn, even as both of their marriages threaten to muddle everything. Can they stonewall their respective spouses’ political operations before the U.S. government is pushed into a military conflict with Russia? Or do they play good little political spouses and fall in line?

The Diplomat: Season 4 is due to premiere Thursday, October 15 on Netflix.

📺 “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” Trailer: Ella Beatty Takes on America’s Most Infamous Axe-Murder Mystery in Ryan Murphy’s True-Crime Anthology with Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, and Vicky Krieps — Premiering Thursday, September 17th on Netflix

We, meaning society at large, have always been fascinated by the darker side of human nature. It’s in our stories. It’s in our books, movies, and TV shows. True crime is a relatively new genre label thrown around to describe dark stories rooted in real crimes, real victims, and the people accused of committing them. But our fascination with true crime dates back long before the label itself.

And the shocking true story of Lizzie Borden has captivated our imagination for more than a century because it goes against everything we imagine a respectable 19th-century woman was supposed to be. Women of that era have often been portrayed as proper, restrained, and socially oppressed, but rarely as women suspected of such brutal violence.

Ryan Murphy, not necessarily a man known for bringing nuance to sensational true-crime stories, has now set his sights on Lizzie Borden for the next season of Netflix’s horror-tinged Monster anthology series. With previous seasons revolving around infamous figures like Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers, and Ed Gein, Lizzie becomes the anthology’s first female subject.

Ella Beatty (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans) stars as the infamous Lizzie Borden, with the new season revisiting the 1892 murders that turned her into one of America’s most enduring true-crime figures and folk legends, even inspiring that creepy nursery rhyme that has kept her name alive for generations.

Joining Beatty is returning Monster star Charlie Hunnam, fresh off his Emmy-nominated performance as Ed Gein last season, this time playing Lizzie’s father, Andrew Borden. They’re joined by Rebecca Hall as Lizzie’s stepmother, Abby Borden; Billie Lourd as her sister, Emma Borden; and Jessica Barden as stage actress Nance O’Neil, who was rumored to have had a romantic relationship with Lizzie later in life.

Ryan Murphy regular Sarah Paulson will also have a role this season, while returning Monster actress Vicky Krieps plays Lizzie’s Irish live-in maid, Bridget Sullivan, who appears to serve as something of the show’s sympathetic narrator.

Created and executive produced by Murphy and Ian Brennan, with Max Winkler directing the first episode, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is due to premiere Thursday, September 17th on Netflix.

📺 “The Drop: A Snowfall Saga” Trailer: Gail Bean and Isaiah John Return as Wanda and Leon as They Enter the ’90s West Coast Rap Game in FX’s “Snowfall” Spinoff — Premiering Tuesday, September 8th on FX and Hulu / Disney+

Snowfall was one of the last projects filmmaker John Singleton worked on before his untimely death in 2019. And in many ways, it felt like a return to the world of his earlier films, particularly Boyz n the Hood, bringing him back to the streets and neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles.

Only this time, the story was set in the early 1980s during the rise of the crack cocaine epidemic. It followed the growing drug trade through South Central Los Angeles through the eyes of one clever teenager (played by Damson Idris), who would go on to become one of the biggest cocaine suppliers on the West Coast.

After running for six seasons, several of them produced after Singleton’s death, Snowfall became a ratings favorite and a major hit for FX. It also helped launch the career of Damson Idris, who became one of the show’s breakout stars. And while it never got much Emmy love, fans loved it. Really, who needs awards when you’ve got a loyal fanbase, right? Which is probably why the world of Snowfall is coming back next month with a spinoff series.

The Drop: A Snowfall Saga brings back Gail Bean and Isaiah John as Wanda Bell and Leon Simmons, picking up their story in 1990s Los Angeles as the fallout from the crack epidemic gives way to the rise of West Coast rap.

The couple, once deeply tied to the drug empire at the center of Snowfall, are now trying to build very different lives for themselves. This time, Wanda and Leon are taking some of the skills they learned in the drug game and applying them to a new hustle. Wanda starts building a crew of rap artists and music collaborators, while Leon tries to keep them from getting pulled back into the world they escaped.

Asante Blackk (When They See Us, This Is Us) takes on the role of Lamar Kinsey, a local South Central L.A. rap producer and DJ who just might have what it takes to make some real noise. He’s soon pulled into Wanda’s plans as she tries to turn that talent into something bigger.

’90s gangsta rap, West Coast culture, and the pressure of surviving the L.A. streets all feel like territory Snowfall was built to explore. We imagine fans are already marking their calendars.

Created and developed by Malcolm Spellman (Empire, Hip Hop Uncovered, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), with Snowfall executive producers Dave Andron and Thomas Schlamme also aboard, the FX series co-stars Peyton Alex Smith, Simmie “Buddy” Sims III, and Brandon Mychal Smith.

The Drop: A Snowfall Saga premieres Tuesday, September 8th on FX and Hulu / Disney+.

📺 “The Terminal List: Season 2” Teaser: Chris Pratt’s James Reece Returns for a Dangerous New Mission in Amazon’s Military Espionage Thriller with Constance Wu and Gabriel Luna — Premieres Wednesday, October 21st on Prime Video

Chris Pratt like you’ve never seen him before. He’s emotionally confused and perhaps psychologically damaged. A sad Pratt just might be a dangerous Pratt. You know that happy-go-lucky spirit that tends to shine through his performances? Well, it’s pretty much gone as Pratt returns as former Navy SEAL James Reece, a man being pulled even deeper into the dangerous world of covert warfare. Season 2 of the hit Amazon series has Reece moving beyond his personal war of revenge and into a much larger world of espionage, recruited for a mission tailor-made for his skills… but maybe not for his state of mind. Co-starring Tom Hopper as Raife Hastings and Constance Wu returning as journalist Katie Buranek, with Gabriel Luna, Dar Salim, Luke Hemsworth, Olga Kurylenko, and more joining the Season 2 ensemble, Pratt’s James Reece now finds himself in a much murkier world, where figuring out who to trust might be just as important as knowing when to pull the trigger.

📺 “Line of Fire” Trailer: Peter Krause and Hope Davis Lead a Family of Federal Agents Hunting a Rogue Assassin in NBC’s New Crime Drama from ‘Quantico’ Creator Josh Safran — Airing Monday, September 21st on NBC, Streaming Next Day on Peacock

Some folks have a family business to live up to. For the Hollingsworths, the family business could get them killed. In this new NBC crime drama from Quantico creator Josh Safran, nearly everyone in the Hollingsworth family carries a badge, just not for the same agency. Their careers stretch across the FBI, U.S. Marshals, Secret Service, and Department of Justice, which makes things complicated when a murder case grows into a deadly conspiracy. Peter Krause stars as Secret Service supervisor Mike Hollingsworth, with Hope Davis as U.S. Marshal Jane Hollingsworth. Their children include a federal investigator (played by Kat Cunning), a DOJ analyst (Tommy O’Brien), and the president’s daughter’s personal security guard and secret lover (Taylor Bloom). When a rogue assassin is on the loose and killing government agents, all those separate badges and departments suddenly have to work together. But catching the person behind it means trusting one another, and that could be a problem if someone in the family is hiding something. Either way, family dinners are about to get even more uncomfortable.

📺 “A Different World” Trailer: Dwayne and Whitley’s Daughter Takes on Hillman College in Netflix’s Next-Generation Revival Starring Maleah Joi Moon Along with Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, and More — Debuts Thursday, September 24th on Netflix

It’s been nearly 40 years since TV viewers were first introduced to a whole different world at Hillman College. Now, the landmark sitcom is back with a modern revival. And if you thought Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Whitley (Jasmine Guy) were a couple of young campus mavericks, just wait until you meet their daughter. Maleah Joi Moon leads the ensemble as Dwayne and Whitley’s free-spirited youngest daughter, Deborah Wayne, who arrives at Hillman determined to make a name for herself beyond her parents’ legacy. Alongside a new class of Hillman students, Deborah navigates friendship, romance, ambition, and the pressure of living up to a family name deeply rooted in the school’s history. Executive produced by Felicia Pride and Debbie Allen, who also directs episodes, the series also stars Alijah Kai Haggins, Cornell Young IV, Jordan Aaron Hall, Kennedi Reece, Chibuikem Uche, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, and Norman Nixon Jr. Just remember, at Hillman, education might come first, but figuring out who you are is still part of the curriculum.

📺 “Slow Horses: Season 6” Trailer: Gary Oldman’s Slough House Misfits Are on the Run in Apple’s Acclaimed British Spy Series with Jack Lowden and Kristin Scott Thomas — Premiering Wednesday, September 16th on Apple TV

In a world where TV shows can take years between seasons, and streaming originals regularly hit a low ceiling when it comes to longevity, along comes an Apple original series that somehow bucks both trends. Gary Oldman returns for (get this) Season 6 of the award-winning British spy series, once again leading Slough House’s wonderfully dysfunctional band of disgraced MI5 agents. A regular Emmy contender, Oldman gets another chance to sink his teeth into Jackson Lamb, the always disheveled, sharp-tongued spymaster who somehow manages to stay a few steps ahead of everyone else despite his uncouth appearance. This time around, Lamb and his misfit crew, including Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, and Christopher Chung, find themselves on the run after Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) pulls them into a dangerous game of retaliation and revenge. When England is in trouble, you don’t call James Bond... you call Slough House, the guys MI5 would rather forget but always seem to need when things go sideways.

📺 “The Creep Tapes: Season 3” Trailer: Mark Duplass’ Peachfuzz Returns for Six More Deeply Uncomfortable Tapes — Streams Tuesday, September 15th on Shudder and AMC+

Peachfuzz might be a weird-sounding name for a serial killer, but somehow Mark Duplass makes it work. After the cult success of the found-footage films, Peachfuzz is back for another season of the franchise’s small-screen incarnation. Duplass plays a seemingly socially awkward loner who places ads looking for videographers. The catch is that he’s secretly a serial killer, and the people who agree to film him soon realize they’ve signed up for much more than a simple camera job. Season 3 of the Shudder original series gives Peachfuzz a new roster of unsuspecting victims, including Rekha Shankar, Chris Gethard, Kate Siegel, Nic Hamilton, Elliott Fulham, Ora Duplass, and more. Six tapes in total, which means six more deeply uncomfortable encounters where picking up a camera is probably the first mistake.

📺 “Golden Axe” Trailer: SEGA’s Classic Fantasy Video Game Gets an Adult Animated Makeover with Liam McIntyre, Lisa Gilroy, Matthew Rhys, and Danny Pudi — Premieres Wednesday, September 16th on Paramount+

Based on SEGA’s iconic 1989 sword-and-sorcery fantasy beat-’em-up video game, where three warriors battle their way across Yuria to defeat the evil giant Death Adder, this animated comedy series takes a more playful approach to the original adventure. It turns its battle-tested heroes into one seriously dysfunctional questing party and adds an eager but painfully inexperienced adventurer to the mix. Featuring the voices of Liam McIntyre (Spartacus) as Ax Battler, Lisa Gilroy (Interior Chinatown) as Tyris Flare, Matthew Rhys (Widow’s Bay) as Gilius Thunderhead, and Danny Pudi (Community) as overeager newcomer Hampton Squib, this new adult animated comedy from Star Trek: Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan and American Dad! writer-producer Joe Chandler asks a pretty simple question: what happens when saving the world means surviving your own party first?

📺 “Best Medicine: Season 2” Trailer: Josh Charles’ Brilliant but Blood-Phobic Small-Town Doctor Returns for a New Season of FOX’s Comedy Series with Abigail Spencer and Annie Potts — Returning Tuesday, September 22nd on FOX, Streaming Next Day on Hulu / Disney+

He’s a brilliant doctor with one hell of a bedside manner. Dr. Martin Best (Josh Charles) traded his prestigious Boston surgical career for life as a general practitioner in a small East Coast fishing town where everyone knows your name... and maybe a few of your secrets. Despite his high intelligence and ability to diagnose even the hardest-to-detect illnesses, Martin has one slight problem: he faints at the sight of blood. A big no-no for any doctor, especially a former surgeon, and if word gets out, there goes his medical license. Based on the British series and also starring Abigail Spencer, Annie Potts, Josh Segarra, and Cree, the new season finds Charles turning up both Martin’s awkward charm and cranky disposition as he tackles stranger cases, strained relationships, and a town increasingly curious about whether its brilliant but difficult doctor plans to stay or pack his bags for good.

📺 “NCIS: New York” Teaser: LL Cool J Brings Sam Hanna to the Big Apple Alongside Scott Caan and Jennifer Beals — Airing Tuesday, October 6th on CBS and Paramount+

If you’d told us one of the dopest rappers of the ’80s and ’90s would reinvent himself as a longtime TV actor in one of television’s longest-running franchises, we would’ve said, “Yeah, we know... Ice-T.” But LL Cool J would’ve been a pretty good answer, too. That’s right, the man who gave us “Mama Said Knock You Out” and “Going Back to Cali” is now headlining another NCIS spinoff, bringing his character Sam Hanna from Los Angeles to the streets of New York. LL Cool J (that’s James Todd Smith for those in the know) proves that natural charisma can take you a long way—from hip-hop stages to a decades-long run as one of TV’s most dependable action stars. Also starring Scott Caan and Jennifer Beals, and led by showrunner Byron Balasco, this new NCIS series takes the franchise to the Big Apple with a brand-new field office dealing with some very New York-sized problems.

📺 “Scrubs (Revival): Season 2” Teaser: Zach Braff and Donald Faison Return to Sacred Heart for More Medical Mayhem — Airing Wednesday, September 30th on ABC; Streaming on Hulu / Disney+

No one wants their doctors acting like a bunch of overgrown children... unless, of course, they work at Sacred Heart and those doctors are J.D. and Turk. In that case, let the tomfoolery begin. Zach Braff and Donald Faison return as the longtime friends face another round of younger interns, changing hospital pressures, and the kind of personal complications medicine can’t fix with a chart. Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, and John C. McGinley are also back as the revival keeps one foot in the old Sacred Heart while making room for a new generation of doctors... where years of experience still don’t guarantee maturity.

📺 “Hollywood Arts” Teaser: Daniella Monet Returns as Trina Vega, Trading Student Life for Substitute Teaching in the “Victorious” Spinoff Series — Streams Thursday, October 15th on Netflix

Hollywood Arts is back in session, and somehow Trina Vega is now the adult in the room. Former Nickelodeon star Daniella Monet returns to her Victorious role as Trina heads back to her old performing-arts school, this time as a substitute teacher who’s still waiting for her own big break. But as she helps a new group of students chase their dreams, she starts to realize she might actually be pretty good at this teaching thing. With Yvette Nicole Brown back as Principal Helen and a whole new class of ambitious young performers, Trina may finally find her place at Hollywood Arts... just not the one she expected.

📺 “The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza” First Look Trailer: Comedian Jordan Mendoza Turns His Worst Fears Into Adult Swim’s New Surreal Horror-Comedy Series — Coming Soon

Sketch comedian Jordan Mendoza is a very scared man, and his subconscious knows exactly how to use that against him. In Adult Swim’s surreal quarter-hour comedy, Mendoza plays a version of himself as he tumbles through bizarre dreamscapes where everyday anxieties turn into horror-movie scenarios, unsettling images, and punch lines. Mendoza is a one-man show as he creates, directs, executive produces, and stars in this surrealist horror-comedy series, where fear becomes the fuel for every bizarre new sketch. If sleep is supposed to offer an escape, Mendoza’s nightmares have other plans.

📺 “Made in Korea: Season 2” Trailer: Hyun Bin Rises Through the KCIA as a New Rival Threatens His Hold on Power in Hulu’s Korean Thriller Series — Premieres September 9th on Hulu / Disney+

The Korean political thriller is back for a second season, jumping nine years ahead as Baek Kitae (Hyun Bin) rises through the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and gets closer to the center of power. But the higher he climbs, the more dangerous the opposition becomes, with a powerful new rival threatening everything he has built and prosecutor Jang Keon-young (Jung Woo-sung) still standing in his way. As Korea’s 1970s political struggles intensify, Kitae’s criminal ambitions and official authority become increasingly difficult to separate. Power has gotten him this far; now comes the harder part—holding onto it.

📺 “Dalliance” Trailer: Hugo Weaving and Heather Mitchell Shake Up a Lifetime of Love and Marriage in Paramount’s Australian Ensemble Drama — Streams Thursday, August 27th on Paramount+

One spark can shake up a lifetime of relationships in this Australian import. Aussie icon Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings) stars as retired cameraman Billy, who unexpectedly connects with chef Dani (Heather Mitchell), setting off a chain reaction through their close-knit Sydney circle of friends in their 60s. As marriages crack, old wounds reopen, and new relationships take hold, everyone is forced to reconsider the choices that got them here. This six-part Paramount+ drama proves that desire, regret, and second chances don’t necessarily disappear with age. Sometimes, those things only get messier as we get older.

📺 “Vigil: Series 3” Trailer: Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie Head to the Arctic for an Increasingly Complicated Murder Investigation — Streams Sunday, August 30th in the U.K. on BBC iPlayer

At the edge of the Arctic, the weather isn’t the only thing that’s ice-cold. Sometimes, an investigation can turn just as cold as the climate. Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie return as DCI Amy Silva and DI Kirsten Longacre in this twisty British crime thriller, with their latest case taking them deep into the unforgiving polar region. Sent to a remote research station after a member of a covert British special-forces mission is shot dead, the duo finds themselves in the middle of an increasingly complicated murder investigation. With extreme conditions limiting movement and trust in short supply, the detectives must piece together what happened before the killing and determine whether the station’s scientific work is somehow connected to the murder.

📺 “Ludwig: Season 2” Trailer: David Mitchell Returns to Crack Impossible Crimes While Searching for His Missing Twin — Streams Tuesday, October 13th on BritBox in U.S.

A missing twin is one puzzle John “Ludwig” Taylor still can’t solve. Now officially working as a Crime Scene Consultant for Cambridge Police, the brilliant but socially awkward puzzle-setter takes on seemingly impossible crimes while quietly continuing the search for his missing brother James with sister-in-law Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin). David Mitchell returns as Ludwig, with Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington, Mark Bonnar, Sian Clifford, and more joining the mix as his police work starts getting uncomfortably close to the mystery he’s not supposed to be investigating. Solving murders may come naturally to Ludwig, but finding his brother remains the one answer he just can’t crack.

📺 “The Traitors: New Blood” Trailer: Alan Cumming Opens the Castle to a New Group of Everyday Americans Ready to Lie, Scheme, and Betray — Premieres Thursday, September 17th on NBC; Streaming Next Day on Peacock

It’s the game where lying isn’t a vice... it’s a virtue. Alan Cumming returns as the castle’s impeccably dressed host, welcoming a new group of everyday Americans into a game where contestants must figure out who among them is secretly working against the group. After becoming an online phenomenon—and likely a favorite among your reality-TV-obsessed family and friends—the series is back to put a fresh group of players through the same rigorous game of trust, deception, and betrayal. And with a host who seems born for theatrical mischief, Cumming makes every accusation, banishment, and betrayal part of the fun.

📺 “Graveyard: Season 3” Trailer: Birce Akalay Reunites Her Team for Another Harrowing Case in Netflix’s Turkish Crime Series — Arrives Friday, August 28th on Netflix

Netflix’s Turkish crime series returns for Season 3 as Commissioner Önem Özülkü (Birce Akalay) and her specialized team are brought back together after being disbanded. A disturbing new case puts them back on the job, uncovering fresh files, buried truths, and old wounds as they once again investigate crimes involving violence against women. With institutional resistance mounting and the case taking a personal toll, the search for justice becomes as much about what’s been hidden as what they can actually prove.

📺 “One Hundred Years of Solitude: Grand Finale” Trailer: Netflix’s Spanish-Language Family Saga Comes to an End with a Feature-Length Final Chapter — Streams Wednesday, August 26th on Netflix

Macondo is running out of time. Netflix’s Spanish-language adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s landmark novel has unfolded across 16 episodes, and now the Buendía family is facing the final turn of a curse that has followed seven generations through love, war, memory, and loss. Claudio Cataño and Marleyda Soto lead the ensemble as the town’s tangled history moves toward the prophecy buried deep within its foundations, with Laura Mora directing the final chapter. The series now comes to a close with a practically feature-length finale, where oblivion may prove to be the Buendía family’s final inheritance.

Netflix Unveils Its Latest Anime Originals: Watch the New Trailers!

Netflix is mostly known for being the home of some very popular original streaming shows and movies, some leaning into prestigious dramas, mainstream crowd-pleasers, and hugely popular reality shows. But for those who aren’t necessarily into the anime genre, you might not even realize that Netflix has slowly but surely become a major platform for anime lovers. The streaming giant recently announced its latest upcoming slate of anime originals at this week’s Anime NYC, and we quickly run down their trailers for you below.

📺 “Blue Eye Samurai: Season 2” Teaser: Mizu Takes Her Revenge Beyond Japan and Into London — Coming January 2027 on Netflix

The Emmy-winning samurai anime returns as Mizu (Maya Erskine) takes her revenge beyond Japan and into London, hunting the remaining men tied to her birth while facing new allies, old enemies, and demons she can’t cut down. Back in Edo, Akemi (Brenda Song), Taigen (Darren Barnet), and Ringo (Masi Oka) forge their own paths as Mizu discovers leaving Japan doesn’t mean escaping her past.

📺 “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” Teaser: A Washed-Up Edgerunner and Vengeful Netrunner Cross Paths in a New Standalone Night City Story — Premieres Tuesday, October 20th on Netflix

In this second season of the cyberpunk anime, washed-up edgerunner Weak (Kentaro Tone) searches for purpose after losing the chrome that made him a legend, while netrunner D (Koki Uchiyama) hunts the killer who destroyed her clan. Their paths cross with filmmaker Roman Carax and survivor Talia, pulling them into a story where revenge, legacy, and spectacle are impossible to separate.

📺 “Bass X Machina” Teaser: Brian Tyree Henry Becomes Judge, Jury, and Executioner in LeSean Thomas’ Steampunk Western — Premieres Tuesday, November 3rd on Netflix

In a lawless steampunk West filled with outlaws, machines, and supernatural horrors, Bass (Brian Tyree Henry) is forced to become judge, jury, and executioner to protect his family. But as the violence escalates, every victory threatens to push his loved ones further away. Created by animator LeSean Thomas (Yasuke, Cannon Busters), this animated western asks how far a father can go before protection becomes something else.

📺 “Fool Night” Teaser + Featurette: A Young Man Weighs Becoming a Plant to Survive a Dying World in Netflix’s Dystopian Anime — Premieres Thursday, November 26th on Netflix

In a future of permanent winter, humanity survives by transforming dying people into plants that produce oxygen. For impoverished Toshiro Kamiya (Koki Uchiyama), Transfloration offers money for his family and an escape from a life he can barely afford. But accepting it means giving up his body, forcing him to decide what his life is worth to a society that values what he can become.

📺 “Sakamoto Days: Season 2” Character Trailer: Taro Sakamoto Goes Undercover at Assassin School as the Netflix Anime Returns — Coming January 2027

Retired assassin Taro Sakamoto is going back to school. Disguised as his wife Aoi, Sakamoto infiltrates the JCC academy as a student teacher while Shin poses as a student, hoping to uncover information. But between dangerous recruits, veteran assassins, old friends, and an attack on ORDER members in Kyoto, this semester may reveal more about Sakamoto’s past than he ever bargained for again.

📺 “LEGO One Piece” Trailer: Usopp Retells the Straw Hats’ Greatest Adventures Brick by Brick in Netflix’s Two-Part Animated Special — Streaming Tuesday, September 29th on Netflix

In this two-part LEGO special, Usopp (voiced by Jacob Romero) catches new recruit Chopper up on the Straw Hats’ adventures, retelling Luffy, Nami, Zoro, Sanji, and his own journey from the East Blue into the Grand Line. With pirates, monsters, and plenty of exaggeration, their greatest hits get rebuilt brick by brick in LEGO form.

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📺 “MobLand: Season 2” Trailer: Tom Hardy Gets Caught in the Middle of a Fractured Crime Family in Hit British Gangster Series with Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren — Premiering Friday, September 18th on Paramount+

MobLand may have been built as a Tom Hardy vehicle, giving the actor plenty of room to unleash that familiar ferocious intensity inside a slick British gangster world. But the show’s real secret weapon might be Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, who seem to be having an absolute blast. Playing against type, Brosnan and Mirren are Conrad and Maeve Harrigan, a married pair of mob bosses with questionable judgment and matching violent streaks. And when they feel even slightly threatened, they don’t exactly respond with restraint. In fact, their severe lack of self-control is why their entire empire is on the verge of collapsing to rubble.

Season 2 finds the Harrigans facing trouble from all sides as rising rivals begin circling their criminal dynasty, forcing Conrad and Maeve to put on a united front while tensions inside the family threaten to tear everything apart. Tom Hardy’s Harry Da Souza, a loyal foot soldier and fix-it man, is stuck in the middle, trying to keep the family’s problems contained while cleaning up their perpetual messes, which tend to involve plenty of dead bodies and escalating internal power struggles.

It’s nothing Harry hasn’t seen before, but working for the Harrigans isn’t a 9-to-5 job... it’s an all-consuming headache. And if his bosses keep making increasingly reckless decisions, he’ll soon realize that keeping them out of danger might be an impossible task. The sharks are circling, alliances are fracturing, and war is knocking at the door. Though instead of tap, tap, tap... it’s more like rat-a-tat-tat!

Also returning to Season 2 are Paddy Considine as Conrad and Maeve’s level-headed son Kevin Harrigan, Joanne Froggatt as Harry’s long-suffering wife Jan Da Souza, Anson Boon as Conrad and Maeve’s psychopathic, good-for-nothing grandson Eddie Harrigan, Mandeep Dhillon as Conrad’s illegitimate daughter Seraphina Harrigan, Janet McTeer as rival Kat McAllister, and Toby Jones as crooked detective Colin Tattersall.

Lara Pulver, Jasmine Jobson, and Teddie Allen are also returning, while Johnny Flynn and Ophelia Lovibond are joining the cast of this new season.

Created by Ronan Bennett (Top Boy, Gunpowder, The Day of the Jackal), the series is executive produced by Bennett, Guy Ritchie, Tom Hardy, and others, with Ritchie also directing a number of episodes, including Season 2’s opener.

MobLand has been a critical and ratings hit for Paramount+, despite rumors of on-set arguments between Hardy and producers. Nevertheless, the series will come roaring back Friday, September 18th on the streaming platform.

📺 “Neagley” Trailer: Maria Sten Steps Out on Her Own as Hard-Nosed Gumshoe Frances Neagley in Amazon’s ‘Reacher’ Spinoff Series with Alan Ritchson — Premiering Wednesday, September 16th on Prime Video

Just when you think Jack Reacher couldn’t get any bigger, think again! Sure, the dude has muscles on his muscles, and he’s built like a brick wall that somehow learned to strut from city to city. But we’re not talking about his physicality... we’re talking about his universe. Because believe it or not, the Reacher world is expanding.

Reacher’s close friend and trusted ally, Frances Neagley, is getting her own spinoff series. And if you ever thought, “Couldn’t this show use a little feminine perspective without losing its hard-hitting edge?” Well, this is exactly that moment you have been waiting for.

Danish actress Maria Sten, who spent three seasons guest-starring on Reacher, returns as ex-military investigator Frances Neagley, now working as a private eye in Chicago. But when the suspicious death of a close friend sends her looking for answers in the Windy City, she uncovers a larger conspiracy someone is determined to keep buried forever.

And as Reacher fans know all too well, whenever someone is murdered and cops start looking the other way, it can only mean one thing: someone needs to rattle the cage to see what shakes loose. And if Reacher ain’t there to do it, Neagley is more than ready to take on that fight herself.

Executive produced by co-showrunners Nick Santora and Nicholas Wootton, along with Reacher author Lee Child, Don Granger, Sam Hill, Adam Higgs, and Lisa Kussner, the series also stars Greyston Holt, Adeline Rudolph, Jasper Jones, Matthew Del Negro, and Damon Herriman, with Alan Ritchson making a guest appearance as Jack Reacher.

Reacher may be dropping in for a visit, but make no mistake, Neagley is the one steering this ship. And from the looks of things, she suffers no fools, especially ones looking to test her patience. The new series is due to premiere Wednesday, September 16th on Prime Video.

📺 “Chad Powers: Season 2” Trailer: Glen Powell’s Disguised Quarterback Tries to Keep His Double Life From Falling Apart in Hulu’s Football Comedy — Premieres Thursday, September 3rd on Hulu / Disney +

Imagine if Ted Lasso and Mrs. Doubtfire had a baby. It would be Chad Powers. Now, that little metaphor works both as a literal mashup and a surprisingly accurate description of the show’s entire ridiculous premise.

Because, you see, it relies on the same kind of suspension of disbelief as Mrs. Doubtfire: somehow nobody recognizes the guy underneath all that prosthetic makeup, while still carrying the feel-good underdog DNA of Ted Lasso. Plus, in some weird metaphysical universe where Lasso and Doubtfire somehow managed to have a baby, you have to admit... it might look an awful lot like Chad Powers.

Glen Powell returns for Season 2 of his football comedy as disgraced quarterback Russ Holliday, whose fake alter ego has somehow gone from desperate second-chance disguise to bona fide college football superstar.

For those who haven’t kept up with the show, the premise is rather simple: a fallen and disgraced football star tries to stage a comeback by disguising himself as the socially awkward but surprisingly gifted Chad Powers and earning a spot on the struggling South Georgia Catfish. Now, keeping up the lie while leading his team to the playoffs becomes harder as coaches and teammates begin to suspect there’s more to their superstar quarterback than meets the eye.

Season 2 continues Chad’s struggles to keep his secret intact while the man behind the makeup, Russ Holliday (Powell), begins to favor his alter ego over the disgraced man he used to be. But something tells us the façade is all heading toward a breaking point, where this house of cards could come crashing down around both of them.

Created by Glen Powell and Michael Waldron (of Loki fame) and based on Eli Manning’s undercover prank segment from ESPN’s Eli’s Places (which, come to think of it, gives us yet another Ted Lasso connection), the series also sees the return of Steve Zahn as Coach Jake Hudson, Quentin Plair as Coach Byrd, Perry Mattfeld as Ricky, Wynn Everett as Tricia Yeager, and Frankie Rodriguez as Danny.

Chad Powers: Season 2 is slated to premiere September 3rd, with all six episodes dropping on Hulu / Disney+.

📺 “American Hostage” Trailer: Jon Hamm Faces a Live-On-Air Hostage Crisis in This True-Crime Thriller Series with Giovanni Ribisi — Premieres Sunday, September 20th on MGM+

Filmmaker Gus Van Sant kicked off this year with Dead Man’s Wire, the stranger-than-fiction true story of a 1977 hostage situation that held a media storm in Indianapolis captive for more than three days. Didn’t catch that one? Well, good news: the same bizarre story is getting another go-around, this time as an eight-part TV series starring Mad Men’s Jon Hamm. But instead of putting the hostage-taker at the center of the story, Hamm plays Fred Heckman, the real-life local radio reporter who suddenly found himself in the middle of an increasingly volatile three-day standoff.

In the upcoming limited series American Hostage, Giovanni Ribisi stars opposite Hamm as Tony Kiritsis, a frustrated homeowner who takes mortgage executive Dick Hall (played by Kristoffer Polaha) hostage with a shotgun rigged to a dead man’s switch, demanding to be interviewed live on Heckman’s radio program. Tony wants to tell his side of the story: how a failed real-estate deal left him facing foreclosure and convinced that Hall’s mortgage company had deliberately sabotaged him. Soon, word gets out to the local news, and Tony is quickly hailed as both a folk hero and a dangerous vigilante by the media and the public.

Meanwhile, Heckman (Hamm) isn’t just covering the story as an ordinary radio journalist—he’s becoming part of it. With police and hostage negotiators working around the clock to keep Kiritsis from escalating the situation any further, Heckman finds himself torn between reporting the truth and doing what feels morally right.

The bigger question? When does reporting on a story start to blur into total participation? And at what point does telling the truth start to change the story itself when the person telling it is directly involved? These seem to be the questions the series is most interested in exploring, which gives it a noticeably different angle from Gus Van Sant’s film.

Created and co-showrun by Shawn Ryan (The Shield, The Night Agent) and Eileen Myers (Big Love, Mad Dogs), the series also stars Mireille Enos, William Jackson Harper, Jonathan Tucker, and Kat Cunning, with Adam Arkin and Nina Lopez-Corrado directing and executive producing.

American Hostage will have a two-episode premiere on Sunday, September 20th on MGM+.

📺 “A Tale of Two Cities” Trailer: Kit Harington Trades Westeros for the French Revolution in This New Four-Part Adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Classic With Mirren Mack and François Civil — Premiering Sunday, September 6th on MGM+

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.”

To be fair, for many of us who first encountered those famous opening words in school, their meaning likely went right over our heads. These days, though, that sentiment feels more relevant than ever. From George R.R. Martin to Charles Dickens, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington moves from one sprawling world of power, politics, and bloodshed to another in this new four-part adaptation of Dickens’s classic novel about lives caught in the growing fury of the French Revolution. Harington stars as Sydney Carton, a brilliant but erratic 18th-century lawyer drawn into the tangled affairs of Lucie Manette (Mirren Mack, of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple) and accused French émigré Charles Darnay (François Civil, of Beating Hearts). As Lucie searches for the father she thought she had lost forever, she, Sydney, and Charles find themselves caught in a knotty triangle of love, respect, and sacrifice, just as revolution begins to erupt in Paris. Created and written by Daniel West (Gunpowder, Top Boy) and directed by Richard Clark (Outlander, Doctor Who), the limited series turns Dickens’s familiar tale into an intimate story of how living through great times can often mean surviving the worst of them.

📺 “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” Teaser: Ella Beatty Takes Up the Axe as Lizzie Borden in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Netflix True-Crime Anthology with Charlie Hunnam and Rebecca Hall — Debuting Thursday, September 17th on Netflix

Just when you thought Ryan Murphy had run out of American true-crime folk-horror tales to revisit, here comes another swing of the axe, so to speak. Sure, you’ve heard that famous twisted nursery rhyme before, and maybe even know the story behind the trial, but this time Lizzie Borden gets the full Ryan Murphy treatment as she becomes the latest subject of his and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology. Starring Ella Beatty (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans) as the notorious accused axe murderer, the series heads back to 1892 Fall River, Massachusetts, where the brutal deaths of Andrew and Abby Borden turned Lizzie into one of America’s most enduring true-crime legends. Charlie Hunnam, coming off an Emmy-nominated performance as serial killer Ed Gein, joins Rebecca Hall as Lizzie’s father and stepmother, while Billie Lourd, Vicky Krieps, Jessica Barden, and Sarah Paulson round out the cast. The rhyme may end with 41 whacks, but Murphy and Brennan seem far more interested in everything that made the story so infamous in the first place. And in their hands, you better believe Lizzie Borden’s story is going to get... dare we say, pretty blunt.

📺 “American Horror Story: Season 13 (AHS 13)” Teaser: Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk Bring Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, and Kathy Bates Back as the Anthology Digs Into Its Own Past — Premiering Thursday, September 24th on FX, via Hulu / Disney+

If you had told us a horror anthology series from Ryan Murphy would last more than a decade, we probably would’ve had our doubts. But here we are! Another year. Another new season... and another reason to lose a little sleep. Like always, this new installment starts from scratch while bringing back some familiar faces for an all-new horror story that reaches deep into the anthology’s canon. Season 13 will draw on earlier seasons, including Murder House, Coven, Hotel, and Apocalypse, with returning performers and fan-favorite characters coming back as well. Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, and Emma Roberts are among the familiar faces returning, with Ariana Grande joining the ensemble for this latest trip into the AHS universe. After twelve seasons of screams, it looks like the past is finally coming back to haunt everyone.

📺 “Last Seen” Trailer: Patrick Brammall Chases a Voice He Believes Is His Missing Daughter in Apple TV’s Six-Part Australian Thriller with Maxine Peake and Brendan Cowell — Streaming Wednesday, September 9th on Apple TV

When you call emergency services, your best hope is a dispatcher trained to hear every tiny detail. But what if one of those details happens to be a voice and a name he thought he’d never hear again? In this new thriller series, Australian actor Patrick Brammall (Colin from Accounts) stars as a former detective turned police dispatcher who picks up an emergency call from a distressed young woman and becomes convinced she is his long-lost daughter, who vanished eleven years earlier. The mystery behind the caller’s identity sends him back into the case that destroyed his family, forcing him to risk his job, his judgment, and whatever is left of his broken family’s peace for a glimmer of impossible hope. Co-starring Maxine Peake and Brendan Cowell, and based on Ryan David Jahn’s novel The Dispatcher, this new Aussie import asks how far a parent would go for one more chance to bring a lost child home.

📺 “The Paper: Season 2” Trailer: Domhnall Gleeson Chases a New Journalistic Goal in Greg Daniels and Michael Koman’s ‘Office’ Spinoff with Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei & Oscar Nuñez — Premiering Wednesday, September 9th on Peacock

Reporting on the news isn’t just about getting the story right. Sometimes it’s about surviving the people sitting three desks away. Domhnall Gleeson returns as Ned Sampson, the well-meaning editor of the Toledo Truth-Teller, where a recent sweep at the Ohio Journalism Awards has given his scrappy newsroom a little more confidence than it probably knows what to do with. This Office spinoff from Greg Daniels and Michael Koman heads into Season 2 with Ned searching for a new journalistic crusade, only to set his sights on a powerful local private club while putting the paper’s hard-earned comeback at risk. Joining Gleeson are Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Ramona Young, and returning Office alum Oscar Nuñez as the cameras keep rolling on a small-town newsroom that may be covering local stories, but still has more than enough drama of its own... especially during hurricane season.

📺 “Crew Girl” Trailer: Miku Martineau Rocks the Boat to Fight for Her Future in Netflix’s New Coming-of-Age Rowing Drama — Premieres Thursday, September 10th on Netflix

Moving to a new school is never easy for a teenager. Moving into one where your sports career and your future both need rebuilding is an entirely different challenge. In this new coming-of-age Netflix series, Miku Martineau (Kate, Star Trek: Section 31) stars as Teagan, a gifted young rower who, after a public scandal involving her father’s shady business practices leaves him on the run, transfers to a local prep school with no girls’ team, forcing her to take the only seat available: coxswain for a boys’ varsity crew. To get back on the water, she’ll have to win over a boat full of ego-inflated boys who aren’t exactly eager to follow the new girl’s lead. Also co-starring Mad Men’s Jessica Paré, along with Sam Braun, Kyle Clark, and Thomas Cadrot, this Vivian Lin-created teen drama steers prep-school pressure, family fallout, and competitive rowing toward one question: can Teagan make the team move as one before the boat, along with her whole future, sinks with it?

📺 “Coven Academy” Teaser: Teenage Witches Take On Growing Pains, Forbidden Love, and Ancient Forces in This New Supernatural Coming-of-Age Series Starring Malina Pauli Weissman and Tiffani Thiessen — Premiering Thursday, October 1st on Freeform, Disney+ / Hulu

Every teenager has growing pains, but when those teenagers are witches, well... those growing pains tend to come with spells, secrets, and a little supernatural trouble. In this new supernatural coming-of-age series, Malina Pauli Weissman (from Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) and Saved by the Bell icon Tiffani Thiessen star in a story about three teenage witches-in-training who must learn to control their unpredictable powers while protecting New Orleans from dangerous ancient forces. You know the story! Young teens with powers are basically young teens with hormones: unpredictable, emotional, and occasionally explosive. Throw in a little witchiness, forbidden love, and supernatural danger, and you’ve got a coming-of-age series built for the Halloween season. Co-starring Malachi Barton, Louis Thresher, and Jordan Leftwich, and created by Tim Federle (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series), sometimes all a teen has to do is work a little magic.

📺 “Adults: Season 2” Trailer: Five Roommates Keep Failing Their Way Through Adulthood in FX’s Ensemble Comedy with Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao, and Owen Thiele — Returns Thursday, August 27th on FXX and Hulu / Disney+

Adulthood is hard. Especially for a group of roommates who can barely keep their own lives together, let alone each other’s. In the second season of this Nick Kroll-produced comedy series, Samir (Malik Elassal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Paul Baker (Jack Innanen), Issa (Amita Rao), and Anton (Owen Thiele) are back under one roof, still trying to figure out jobs, relationships, loyalty, and that whole capital-R Responsibility thing. While they may be getting older, actually growing up remains very much a work in progress. Created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, being an adult isn’t exactly something this group has mastered yet, but that doesn’t stop them from trying.

📺 “The Perfect Lie” Trailer: Loes Haverkort Joins a Wealthy Dining Club Where Secrets Turn Deadly in Netflix’s Dutch Psychological Thriller Series — Premieres Thursday, September 10th on Netflix

In this new Dutch psychological thriller series based on Saskia Noort’s bestseller, the perfect dinner party only works if everyone knows which secrets stay off the table. After moving her family to a well-to-do neighborhood in Bergen, Karen (Loes Haverkort) is welcomed into an exclusive circle of wealthy couples whose extravagant dinners belong to a carefully refined social world built on status and silence. But when a villa burns and a friend (Edwin Jonker) dies, that easygoing intimacy begins to crack, sending Karen after answers that expose adultery, jealousy, financial schemes, and loyalties strong enough to protect... and kill for. Sometimes the most dangerous lie is the one everybody agrees to keep.

📺 “Mousetrap” Trailer: A Desperate Writer Has His Identity Stolen and Turns to a Ruthless Loan Shark for Help in Netflix’s New Korean Thriller Series Starring Ryu Jun-yeol and Sul Kyung-gu — Premiering Friday, August 28th on Netflix

Money can be lost. Status can disappear. But the most precious thing a person owns is their identity. And once that’s taken, what exactly is left? In this new Korean psychological crime thriller series, a reclusive novelist (Ryu Jun-yeol) discovers that a mysterious figure known as the Rat has stolen his identity and taken control of his life. In an attempt to reclaim it, the writer turns to the ruthless loan shark (Sul Kyung-gu) who once hunted him over money, forming an unlikely alliance to track down the man who replaced him. Created by Kim Hong-sun and Lee Jae-gon and based on Ludvico’s webtoon Field Mouse, this thriller suggests that sometimes, to catch a rat, you have to step into the trap yourself.

📺 “Four Hands, Two Sonatas” Trailer: Song Kang and Lee Jun-young Turn Piano Rivalry Into Something Deeper in This Korean Coming-of-Age Drama — Streams Saturday, August 29th on Netflix

Two pianists. One keyboard. And enough ambition to burn through every note. In this new Korean coming-of-age series, Song Kang and Lee Jun-young play two young musicians from opposite worlds whose rivalry at an elite music school slowly gives way to friendship and something neither of them was quite prepared for. Written by Shin Yi-won and directed by Park Hyun-suk (Stranger 2, Song of the Bandits), the series reminds us that a little competition can bring out the best and worst in us. But once two musicians start playing in sync, no matter what brought them there, music becomes the main thing holding them together.

📺 “Death of the Pastor’s Wife” Trailer: The Troubling Marriage and Shocking Death of Mica Miller Are Examined in Netflix’s Three-Part True-Crime Documentary Series — Premiering Wednesday, August 26th on Netflix

Marriage is supposed to be about love, companionship, and maybe even a little happily ever after. Well, Netflix is about to ruin that lovely idea with another chilling true-crime story about a marriage that went horribly wrong. In this new three-part true-crime documentary series, directors Julia Willoughby Nason and Mike Gasparro examine the life and death of Mica Miller, whose marriage to Myrtle Beach pastor John-Paul Miller became the focus of troubling allegations. Through firsthand accounts and previously unseen footage, friends and family begin piecing together the circumstances that surrounded Mica’s life before her shocking death. What they find only raises more questions than answers, pushing them to look closer at what was happening behind closed doors.

📺 “Tea with Judi Dench” Trailer: Judi Dench Sits Down with Close Friend Ian McKellen for Tea and Stories — Premiering Monday, August 31st on SKY in the U.K.

We can’t think of anyone better than Judi Dench to sit down and share a cup of tea with. And when she’s sharing that tea with one of her closest friends, like Sir Ian McKellen, you know the conversation will be well worth your time. In this new British television special, Dench and McKellen sit down for a spot of tea and have a nice chat about six decades onstage, Shakespeare, fame, stage fright, success, failure, and the insecurities they never quite get over. It’s just two close friends spinning tales, trading memories, and reflecting on lives spent in the spotlight. Now who’s up for a little tea time with Dench?

📺 “Ludwig: Series 2” Trailer: David Mitchell Returns to Crack an Impossible Murder Case While Chasing the Mystery of His Missing Twin — Premieres Thursday, August 20th on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the U.K.

If you need to solve a murder, call the police. But if you need to solve a murder that looks more like a puzzle, call Ludwig. British comedian David Mitchell, of Peep Show fame, returns as master puzzle-setter John “Ludwig” Taylor, who’s now officially working as a crime-scene consultant for the Cambridge Police Authority. But when his identical twin brother remains missing, Ludwig finds himself juggling impossible murder cases with the one mystery he still can’t solve. Also co-starring Anna Maxwell Martin, Dipo Ola, Ralph Ineson, Karl Pilkington, Mark Bonnar, and Sian Clifford, the second season gives Ludwig plenty of new suspects, secrets, and impossible clues to untangle.

📺 “Stillwater: Season 5” Trailer: Apple TV’s Peabody-Winning Panda Returns with More Gentle Lessons, Big Feelings, and a Little Humor — Debuts Friday, August 21st on Apple TV

It’s the Peabody-winning children’s show that proves sometimes the best way to work through a problem is to slow down and have a little fun. In this new fifth season, Stillwater the panda returns, once again helping siblings Karl, Addy, and Michael navigate the everyday frustrations and feelings that can seem pretty enormous when you’re a kid. Based on Jon J Muth’s bestselling Zen book series, this animated Apple TV favorite uses earnest stories and a little humor to remind us that sometimes changing how you look at a problem can make all the difference.

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📺 “War” Teaser Trailer: Dominic West and Sienna Miller Turn Divorce Into an All-Out Legal Battle in HBO’s New British Drama — Premiering Thursday, October 1st on HBO and HBO Max

Divorce is one of the most painful things that can happen to two people who once loved each other. No matter how well-intentioned a couple may be when they enter a marriage, they rarely consider what happens when it falls apart. Add wealth and fame to the equation, and you’ve got yourself more than a little breakup... you’ve got war.

The Crown’s Dominic West and Anatomy of a Scandal’s Sienna Miller star as two very public figures who find themselves at the center of one of the biggest divorce trials in Britain’s legal history in the upcoming eight-episode drama War.

West’s Morgan Henderson is a tech entrepreneur, while Miller’s Carla Duval is a well-known film star. He has the money. She has the fame. And both have high-powered divorce lawyers convincing their respective clients that they are each the “wronged party”; making anything close to an amicable split nearly impossible.

The new series is written and created by prolific British TV writer-producer George Kay, the creator behind Idris Elba’s tense Apple TV hostage thriller Hijack and co-creator of the twisty French caper series Lupin. Kay is also behind the forthcoming Netflix Swedish detective series Blood Sacrifice (watch the newly released teaser below).

Seemingly drawing on real-life high-profile divorce battles, the British series will examine the legal strategies and personal fallout as each party tries to paint the other as the villain and themselves as the true victim. But as we all know, there are two sides to every story. And in a divorce, the truth usually gets lost somewhere in the middle.

Co-starring Phoebe Fox, James McArdle, Archie Renaux, Nina Sosanya, and Pip Torrens, War is slated to premiere Thursday, October 1st on HBO and HBO Max.

📺 “High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam” Trailer: Joel Kinnaman Stars as the CIA Agent in Charge of Interrogating Saddam Hussein in TNT’s Four-Part Political Thriller — Debuting Sunday, September 13th on TNT

It’s been a while since we’ve heard much from TNT, but the cable network may finally have something to spark interest with its latest limited series. This new drama thriller takes TV viewers back to December 2003, when the world was glued to the news of Saddam Hussein’s capture after U.S. forces pulled him from a small underground hideout in Iraq. But as it turns out, the manhunt was only part of the story.

High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam is a new four-episode miniseries starring Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad, For All Mankind) as CIA analyst John Nixon, tasked with identifying and interrogating Saddam Hussein after his capture. Inspired by true events, the drama traces the events leading up to and following his capture, focusing on the high-stakes interrogation that unfolds behind closed doors.

Nixon was the first American intelligence officer to positively identify and interrogate the former Iraqi dictator. And rather than approaching that encounter as a straightforward political history lesson, it seems this drama aims to turn those conversations into the center of a psychological chess match between two men sitting on opposite sides of history, each trying to assert control... and perhaps each trying to shape the narrative through his own version of the truth.

Waleed Zuaiter, the actor and co-producer of the 2013 Oscar-nominated Palestinian drama Omar, takes on the task of portraying Saddam Hussein as a complex, commanding figure at the center of the interrogation, seemingly defiant to the bitter end.

Meanwhile, it seems Kinnaman’s John Nixon may have gone into the interrogation convinced that Saddam was hiding the truth about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction. The implications of what he discovers, however, could force him to question not only the intelligence that led them there, but the entire justification for the war.

Based on Nixon’s memoir, directed and developed by Leslie Greif, the co-creator of The Offer, the limited series also co-stars Tom Berenger, Lena Góra, Talia Balsam, and Matt Barr.

High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam debuts Sunday, September 13th on TNT.

📺 “Outer Banks: Season 5” Final Trailer: Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline & the Pogues Return for One Last Treasure Hunt in the Final Season of Netflix’s Hit Teen Adventure Drama — Premiering Thursday, August 20th on Netflix

To be honest, when Netflix first launched Outer Banks, it felt like it might just be another quick grab at a younger audience, especially since that was clearly their fastest-growing demographic at the time. But we certainly didn’t expect it to go the distance, let alone make it to five seasons. Not only has it done that, but it also ended up launching the careers of breakout stars like Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Drew Starkey, Carlacia Grant, Madison Bailey, Rudy Pankow, and Jonathan Daviss.

For anyone new to it, the Netflix series, created by Jonas Pate, Josh Pate (Surface), and novelist Shannon Burke, is set along the coastal Outer Banks of North Carolina. It follows a tight-knit group of working-class teens known as the Pogues, who get pulled into a dangerous treasure hunt that constantly puts them up against their wealthy rivals, the Kooks, along with a whole range of other threats along the way.

Over the past four seasons, the Pogues have chased treasure, dodged danger, dealt with plenty of bad dudes, and still somehow managed to find their way back to each other every time. And through it all, fans have stayed right there with them.

Now, as the series heads into its final fifth season, the story begins in grief following the events of Season 4. JJ (Pankow) is gone, the Blue Crown has been lost, and John B (Stokes), Sarah (Cline), Kiara (Bailey), Pope (Daviss), and Cleo (Grant) are left carrying a loss that could either bring them closer together or completely pull them apart.

With revenge now driving the chase, Season 5 feels less like just another adventure and more like the Pogues’ final chance to settle everything before their story comes to a close. And we’re sure, for fans, this final ride is going to be a bittersweet one.

And with the summer winding down, it only adds a little more bittersweetness to the idea that Outer Banks: Season 5 offers a fitting farewell to the Pogues with its final treasure-hunting adventure. And from the looks of it, it’s going to be every bit as adventurous and emotional as ever when it premieres Thursday, August 20th on Netflix.

📺 “Star Wars: Visions Presents: The Ninth Jedi” Final Trailer: Would-Be Jedi Kara Searches for Her Lightsaber-Maker Father in This New Eight-Episode Anime Series Based on the Fan-Favorite ‘Visions’ Shorts — Streaming Now on Disney+ and Hulu

The Force has always been about choosing between light and dark. But what happens when that choice becomes less and less clear? In this new anime continuation of the Star Wars: Visions shorts “The Ninth Jedi” and “Child of Hope,” Kara (Chinatsu Akasaki / Kimiko Glenn), the daughter of a kidnapped lightsaber maker, trains under Margrave Juro (Tetsuo Kanao / Andrew Kishino) while searching for her father, Lah Zhima (Shinichiro Miki / Simu Liu), across a galaxy hunted by forces determined to wipe out the Jedi. Trying to understand her own connection to the Force, Kara joins a small group of Jedi-in-training on a mission that could reveal whether light and dark were ever as simple as they seemed. While taking one of the most compelling standalone stories in Star Wars: Visions and expanding it into a full eight-episode adventure, the series gives Kara’s journey more room to explore what it really means to choose a side.

📺 “Conan O’Brien Must Go: Season 3” Trailer: Conan Takes His Shameless Travel Comedy to Four More Countries... and Once Again Makes a Fool of Himself — Premieres Friday, August 21st on HBO and HBO Max

Conan O’Brien is at his best when he’s front and center, acting ridiculously and shamelessly foolish in all his self-effacing glory. That’s likely why he’s so perfectly suited to hosting his own travel show, fully committing to the bit while gleefully playing up every embarrassing version of the “ugly American tourist” stereotype. In the third season of his HBO travel comedy series, Conan heads to four different countries to meet fans, stumble through local traditions, and turn himself into the main attraction for all the wrong reasons. The joke is rarely on the places he visits. It’s on Conan, who somehow manages to embarrass himself internationally while still finding a genuine connection beneath all the nonsense. So, if you happen to be in the country Conan is visiting, don’t be too embarrassed to laugh at him... chances are, everyone else already is. Because, from the looks of things, making a fool of himself abroad is pretty much the whole mission.

📺 “Average Joe: Season 2” Trailer: Deon Cole Takes His Darkly Comic Crime Series From Pittsburgh to South Africa — Premieres Wednesday, August 19th on Paramount+

Comedian Deon Cole may have started his career writing jokes for The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and Conan, but he has since made a smooth transition into acting, stealing scenes in shows like Black-ish and taking on more dramatic roles in films such as the Western actioner The Harder They Fall, the musical adaptation of The Color Purple, and, most recently, playing Don King in the Michael Jackson biopic Michael. With the second season of his hit BET series, Cole puts that sharp comic timing to work while showing another side of himself as Joe, an ordinary plumber and family man whose late father’s mob ties have pulled him and his loved ones deeper into a dangerous criminal world. This time, Joe’s troubles follow him far beyond Pittsburgh, sending him and his crew to Cape Town, SoutH Africa after a new threat tied to the Russian mob puts his family directly in the crosshairs. Co-starring Michael Trucco, Malcolm Barrett, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Katlego Lebogang, and Hakeem Kae-Kazim, this darkly comic crime series proves that being an “average Joe” doesn’t always mean living an average life.

📺 “Colin From Accounts: Season 3” U.S. Trailer: Ashley and Gordon (Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall) Face the Fallout From a Painfully Botched Proposal in the Hit Aussie Rom-Com Series — Premieres Thursday, September 10th on Paramount+

It starts with the most adorable meet-cute imaginable, only to quickly turn into one of the most awkward and random romantic encounters ever. One injured dog and an accidental wardrobe malfunction later, Ashley and Gordon have gone on to build a relationship that’s somehow just as messy and oddly endearing as the way it began. Creators and stars Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall, who are also a real-life married couple, return for a brand-new season of their hit Aussie rom-com series, where love is only one bad decision away from becoming a full-blown crisis. This time around, Ashley and Gordon are dealing with the fallout from Gordon’s painfully botched proposal, forcing them to figure out whether they’re actually ready for marriage... or just barely holding together the relationship they already have. Looking for some heartfelt romance with a slightly sharper edge? Give this Aussie gem a try, as it has quietly become one of the better romantic comedies on television.

📺 “The Shards” Music Video Promo: Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis Take Us Back to 1981 Los Angeles for a Little Sex, Teen Angst, Murder, and ’80s Music Videos — Streaming Now on FX, Hulu, and Disney+

Looking for a time machine back to the ’80s? Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis may have found one. By the looks of this new promo, their latest FX series doesn’t simply revisit the decade... it drops us right into the neon glow and VHS haze of an early 80s music video. Based on Ellis’s semi-autobiographical novel, the series takes place in 1981 Los Angeles and stars Igby Rigney as Bret, an aspiring writer finishing his senior year at an elite prep school where money, sex, and jealousy are all part of the daily routine. But when magnetic new student Robert Mallory (Homer Gere) enters Bret’s inner circle just as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers across the city, attraction quickly gives way to suspicion and obsession. With Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner, and Graham Campbell rounding out the cast, this retro-soaked teen-gone-bad mystery-thriller suggests that a little paranoia may be healthy... especially when the object of your obsession might also be a killer.

📺 “Blood Sacrifice” Trailer: Jakob Oftebro and Peter Andersson Star as Detectives Hunting a Killer in a New Swedish Crime-Thriller Series From Hijack Creator George Kay — Premieres Thursday, August 20th on Netflix

George Kay, the British writer and producer behind Hijack, Lupin and HBO’s upcoming War, is back with another crime mystery. This time, he brings the suspense to the Swedish islands. During the brightness of a Swedish summer, two police officers respond to a call at an empty house and walk straight into a carefully planned execution. The attack is only the beginning. As the police realize someone is targeting their own, investigator Thomas (Jakob Oftebro) is forced to work with his estranged father, former detective Alfred (Peter Andersson). With another officer potentially next on the list, the two men must put years of bad blood aside long enough to catch the killer before it’s too late.

📺 “Made in Korea: Season 2” Teaser: Power, Revenge, and Family Rivalry Drive This New Season of the Korean Political Thriller, Starring Hyun Bin — Streams Wednesday, September 9th on Hulu / Disney+

Nine years can change a man... or simply give him more time to tighten his grip on power. In the new season of this sprawling Korean political crime series, undercover agent turned smuggler Baek Kitae (Hyun Bin) has risen to the height of his influence, but prosecutor Jang Geonyoung (Jung Woo-sung) is finally ready to strike back. Meanwhile, Kitae’s brother Baek Kihyun (Woo Do-hwan) begins chasing power on his own terms, creating a family rift that could bring everything Kitae has built crashing down. In a world built on secrets and corruption, the people closest to you may be the ones capable of doing the most damage.

📺 “Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black: Season 3” Trailer: Taylor Polidore Williams Fights to Hold Onto Power in Netflix’s Soapy Family Drama as the Bellarie Clan Strikes Back — Streams Thursday, August 27th on Netflix

Power inside the Bellarie family has always come with a price, and Kimmie may finally be the one holding the bill. Tyler Perry returns as creator, writer, and director for Season 3, with Taylor Polidore Williams leading the cast as Kimmie alongside Crystle Stewart, Ricco Ross, Charles Malik Whitfield, Terrell Carter, Debbi Morgan, Richard Lawson, Julian Horton, and Steven G. Norfleet. After fighting her way from the club floor to the top of the Beauty in Black empire, Kimmie enters the new season with more control than ever. But staying on top proves more dangerous than getting there, as the Bellarie family closes ranks and prepares to take back everything Kimmie claimed.

📺 “Lion” Trailer: A Vulnerable Cub Grows Into a Leader in National Geographic’s Four-Part Wildlife Series — Premieres Wednesday, August 19th on National Geographic and Streams Thursday, August 20th on Disney+ / Hulu

Every king’s journey has to start somewhere. For lion cub Kio, that begins not with a crown, but as a vulnerable youngster trying to survive the dangers surrounding his pride. In this new four-part nature docuseries, cameras follow Kio over four years as loss, exile, and fierce rivals push him from cubhood toward becoming a leader. Every king has to earn his roar before he can lead the pride, and this little guy has a long road ahead of him before he’s ready to claim that crown.

📺 “102 Minutes Inside the Towers” Trailer: Survivors Recount the Fight to Escape the World Trade Center in Robin Roberts’ 9/11 Documentary Special — Premieres Friday, September 11th at 8/7 on HISTORY

For 102 minutes on September 11, 2001, the people inside the World Trade Center towers faced an unimaginable disaster that those watching from the outside could never fully see or understand, even after the world watched it unfold live on television. Executive produced by Good Morning America host and journalist Robin Roberts, this HISTORY documentary special brings together survivors, office workers, security personnel, window washers, and first responders to recount what happened inside the buildings... and how they miraculously found a way out.

📺 “Disney Worldbuilders” Trailer: Leslie Iwerks’ Documentary Special Looks at How Disney Turns Big Ideas Into Worlds You Can Step Inside — Streaming Thursday, August 20th on Disney+

Building a world takes more than six days. It takes patience, persistence, and a whole lot of imagination. No better example exists than the world builders at Disney, where ideas don’t just become stories; they become places people can actually step inside. That creative journey sits at the heart of Leslie Iwerks’ new documentary, which looks at how some of Disney’s biggest worlds are dreamed up, designed, and brought to life for everyone to experience. This Disney special gives viewers an early look at the artists, filmmakers, executives, and Imagineers who turn personal sparks of inspiration into full-scale worlds built to last.

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📺 “Below” Teaser Trailer: Josh Hartnett and Mackenzie Davis Face a Terrifying Sea Creature in Netflix’s Newfoundland-Set Horror Mystery Series — Premiering Thursday, October 8th on Netflix

Josh Hartnett is back, people. And this time, he’s leading a new Netflix series that might have us fearing the water all over again.

Hartnett, who has been one of our favorites since the days of Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down, has enjoyed a steady career resurgence in recent years, particularly after starring in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2024 twisty serial-killer thriller Trap, along with memorable appearances in FX’s The Bear and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Now, he’s heading to the rocky shores of Newfoundland for Below, an all-new six-episode horror-mystery series where a small fishing town might be the last place you’d expect to find something monstrous hiding just beneath the ocean’s surface.

Hartnett stars as Calvin Penney, a working-class fisherman and single father struggling to hold together a family still carrying the weight of personal loss. Life in the remote community of Snooks Arm is already difficult enough, but things take a far more dangerous turn when a mysterious sea creature begins terrorizing the town and threatening the waters that generations of local fishermen have depended on for decades.

And who better to get to the bottom of this creature mystery than the guy from one of the coolest and most overlooked sci-fi flicks of the ’90s, The Faculty?

Calvin joins forces with visiting marine researcher Fonda Howander, played by Station Eleven’s Mackenzie Davis, hoping to identify whatever is moving beneath the surface before another resident becomes its next victim. But as their investigation continues, the attacks begin pointing toward the island’s buried history, along with Calvin’s own traumatic past, suggesting that the creature may have been haunting the community for far longer than anyone realizes.

Created and showrun by Canadian writer Jesse McKeown, whose previous credits include The Umbrella Academy and 19-2, the upcoming limited series draws heavily from Newfoundland’s maritime culture, folklore, landscape, and history.

The strong ensemble cast—all sporting distinct Newfoundland accents, by the way—also includes Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton as Wade Penney, Bridgerton’s Ruby Stokes as Mary Penney, Halloween Ends’ Rohan Campbell as Jay Penney, Willow Kean as Ruth Penney, and Kaleb Horn as Noah. Species’ Natasha Henstridge also appears as one of the community’s local leaders.

All six episodes of Below will premiere Thursday, October 8th on Netflix.

📺 “Ted Lasso: Season 4” Trailer: Jason Sudeikis Heads Back to Richmond for a New Challenge Coaching the Women’s Team — Returning Wednesday, August 5th on Apple TV

Americans have a rather negative reputation for being rude and obnoxious while traveling abroad. And while we’re not saying that stereotype is entirely untrue, it’s good to know there are shows like Ted Lasso making a genuine effort to change the narrative and suggest that American “optimism” might be our greatest export to foreigners. Then again, some might call it stupidity. And yes, that isn’t entirely untrue, since maintaining blind optimism often requires ignoring all available evidence. You just gotta… “believe.”

Three years after Ted Lasso walked away from AFC Richmond and returned home to Kansas, Jason Sudeikis’ relentlessly optimistic football coach is heading back across the pond. But rather than simply reclaiming his old position, Ted is taking on a challenge that pushes him into entirely new territory: coaching Richmond’s second-division women’s soccer team.

Season 4 reunites Ted with Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham), Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), Keeley Jones (Juno Temple), Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt), and Leslie Higgins (Jeremy Swift), while introducing a new roster of players and staff members with their own ambitions, frustrations, and reasons for taking the field.

Sudeikis returns to lead the comedy as both star and executive producer. The ensemble also includes new cast members Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds as coach Alice Chilton, along with Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern, and Grant Feely as Ted’s son, Henry.

Created by Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Joe Kelly, and Brendan Hunt, and based on the NBC Sports sketch character, the Apple series appears ready to continue its belief that the sport isn’t necessarily just about skill and hard work, but also the friendships formed along the way. Now Ted gets to test that philosophy with a whole new team fighting for its own place at Richmond.

The 10-episode fourth season is slated to premiere Wednesday, August 5th on Apple TV, with new episodes arriving weekly through October 7th.

📺 “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 18” Trailer: Charlie, Mac, Dennis, Dee, and Frank Return for More Shameless Schemes and Socially Unacceptable Misadventures — Premiering Monday, August 17th on FXX and Streams on Hulu / Disney+

In this day and age, it’s hard enough for a television show to survive its first season, let alone make it all the way to Season 18. And for a comedy series? That’s almost unfathomable.

Most comedies begin running out of steam by their fourth, fifth, or sixth season, so the fact that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has lasted this long has to be credited to the incredible chemistry among its main cast. Over the years, they’ve built a devoted audience willing to follow these characters to the ends of the Earth just to watch them act like complete fools and stumble into increasingly ridiculous situations.

Season 18 doesn’t appear to be any different. Charlie, Mac, Dennis, Dee, and Frank are back at Paddy’s Pub, cooking up more selfish schemes involving inheritance money, automation, conspiracy theories, sobriety culture, school, youth sports, and even a Renaissance Faire.

In other words, the world continues to change while this pub-owning group remains completely incapable of learning anything from it.

Rob Mac (McElhenney), Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito once again lead the ensemble, returning as five of television’s most stubbornly terrible people. David Hornsby also returns as the perpetually unfortunate Rickety Cricket, while Jimmi Simpson is back as Liam McPoyle, suggesting the Gang’s latest disasters will spread well beyond the walls of Paddy’s.

This long-running FXX comedy has survived by refusing to soften its characters or force them into meaningful growth. Instead, every new pop-cultural shift becomes another opportunity for the group to make terrible life choices, turning even the most ordinary situations into unbearably awkward disasters.

After 17 seasons, we’re still ready to see what they come up with next. The jokes will be big. The humor will be crass. And the Always Sunny Gang will almost certainly find new taboos to cross.

Season 18 premieres Monday, August 17th on FXX and streams on Hulu and Disney+.

📺 “The Shards” Final Trailer: Igby Rigney, Homer Gere and Kaia Gerber Enter 1980s L.A. Prep-School Obsession in Ryan Murphy’s New Bret Easton Ellis Thriller Series — Debuts Wednesday, August 5th on FX and Hulu / Disney+

Remember the ’80s: big hair, louder fashion, and a whole generation of young people up to no good. Famed provocateur Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Less Than Zero) teams up with executive producer Ryan Murphy for a new ’80s throwback series where a privileged class of teenagers may be even more treacherous than the serial killer stalking Los Angeles. Based on Ellis’ semi-autobiographical novel and set inside the moneyed world of 1980s L.A., this FX thriller follows Bret (Igby Rigney), an aspiring writer at an elite prep school whose polished social circle begins to fracture when magnetic newcomer Robert Mallory (Homer Gere) arrives before senior year. Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell, Wes Bentley, Evan Rachel Wood, and Jordan Roth co-star as desire, jealousy, status games, and a killer known as the Trawler turn teenage obsession into something far more dangerous. ’80s L.A. excess wasn’t just about consumption and privilege... it also meant the city was crawling with people willing to cross any line to get what they wanted.

📺 “Cupertino” Teaser: Mike Colter and Rachel Keller Take on Big Tech in a New Legal Drama From ‘The Good Wife’ Creators Robert and Michelle King — Premieres Thursday, October 8th on CBS and Paramount+

When it comes to network television, legal dramas are a dime a dozen. But this one has Luke Cage. “Sweet Christmas!” Mike Colter trades in his bulletproof hoodie for a courtroom suit to lead this David-versus-Goliath drama from Robert and Michelle King, creators of The Good Wife, Evil, and Elsbeth. He stars as Michael Price, a lawyer fired by a tech startup and cheated out of stock options just before its breakthrough. Teaming with Rachel Keller’s Olivia Siffre, another discarded attorney, he builds a practice for workers exploited by Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies. Big Tech may have the money and data, but these lawyers are ready to serve notice.

📺 “Outer Banks: Season 5” Trailer: Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline and the Pogues Go After Revenge, Redemption, and One Last Treasure in Netflix’s Final Season — Premieres Thursday, August 20th on Netflix

Netflix has no shortage of hit shows, but one of its biggest recent breakouts might still be one of its most unexpected: a sun-soaked teen mystery-adventure about treasure hunts, class wars, and a crew of young troublemakers from the coast of North Carolina. Now the Pogues are heading into their fifth and final season, with John B (Chase Stokes), Sarah (Madelyn Cline), Pope (Jonathan Daviss), Kiara (Madison Bailey), and Cleo (Carlacia Grant) reeling from the death of JJ and chasing the stolen Blue Crown. With revenge, redemption, and one last shot at a future all on the line, the final hunt sends them into dangerous new territory while Rafe (Drew Starkey) gets pulled back into the Pogues’ orbit. Summer may have started as a coastal fantasy, but for the Pogues, it might just end in one final fight for everything they have left.

📺 “Dugout Dads” Trailer: Patrick Renna Reunites With His Sandlot Castmates and Boy Meets World’s Danielle Fishel in This New Little League Comedy Series — Coming Soon

’90s kids, rejoice! Prepare for some heavy nostalgia as Patrick Renna heads back to the baseball diamond with several of his former The Sandlot castmates. Only this time, they’re the grown-ups causing all the trouble. In this forthcoming streaming series, Renna stars as an idealistic father who volunteers to coach his children’s Little League team, only to discover that managing a group of 10-year-olds is easier than handling their fiercely competitive parents. Co-created by Renna and fellow actor Kyle Howard, and featuring Boy Meets World’s Danielle Fishel alongside The Sandlot alums Tom Guiry, Chauncey Leopardi, Marty York, Victor DiMattia, and more, this original sports comedy brings the old gang back together to awaken the ’90s kid in all of us. The kids just want to play ball ... but it seems the dads are the ones who need a timeout.

📺 “Lioness: Season 3” Final Trailer: Zoe Saldaña’s CIA Officer Faces a War That Hits Home in Latest Season of Taylor Sheridan’s Military Action-Thriller — Out This Sunday, August 2nd on Paramount+

Zoe Saldaña returns as CIA officer Joe McNamara, who has spent years keeping covert wars away from her front door. But as hidden networks, foreign operatives, and personal betrayals close in, she finds the line between duty and family disappearing fast. Nicole Kidman, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Kelly are also back for this new eight-episode season from creator Taylor Sheridan, where every mission carries serious consequences... and this time, the battlefield is closer than ever. Joe may know how to survive the enemy, but protecting her family could prove to be her most dangerous assignment yet.

📺 “Possession” International Trailer: Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jonny Lee Miller Confront a Plantation’s Haunted Past in Sky’s Supernatural Thriller Miniseries — Debuts Thursday, August 6th in the UK on Sky and NOW

Some houses are haunted by ghosts; others by the horrors of history. Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Claudia, a British lawyer sent to Jamaica to defend a wealthy aristocrat (Jonny Lee Miller) in a disputed inheritance claim involving Hope Hill, his family’s former plantation. But when Claudia recognizes the estate from her recurring dreams, the legal battle opens the door to a supernatural mystery connecting the property’s violent past to the injustices of the present. Created by Karla Crome and directed by Jamaican filmmaker Storm Saulter, this five-episode British thriller suggests the law may decide who owns the house, but the trauma within its walls might still lay claim to everyone who enters.

📺 “Robot Chicken: Adult Swim’s 25th Anniversary Special” Trailer: Seth Green and Matthew Senreich Send Adult Swim’s Strangest Characters on a Cruise From Hell — Airing Sunday, August 30th on Adult Swim and Streaming Monday, August 31st on HBO Max

Adult Swim is turning 25, and Robot Chicken has volunteered to ruin the party. Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s stop-motion special packs characters from The Venture Bros., Smiling Friends, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse and more aboard an anniversary cruise that quickly becomes a fight for survival. With decades of late-night oddballs and deep cuts available for roasting, this is less a heartfelt tribute than one seriously overcrowded disaster at sea.

📺 “The Airport Chaplain” International Trailer: Hugo Weaving and ‘The Pitt’ Breakout Shabana Azeez Clash Inside a Chaotic Australian Airport in This New Miniseries — Premieres Wednesday, August 26th in Australia on SBS and SBS On Demand

Shabana Azeez is one of the many breakout stars to emerge from HBO’s hit medical drama The Pitt. What some viewers may not realize is that she’s Australian. And somehow, between seasons, she found time to return home for this eight-part workplace drama starring opposite an Aussie legend. Hugo Weaving stars as Tobias Wallace, an unconventional airport chaplain who considers himself indispensable until Azeez’s formidable new boss, Mira, arrives determined to rein him in. Their power struggle soon spreads throughout the terminal, where fixers, cleaners, baggage handlers, and passengers are already juggling crises of their own. Airports are stressful enough without a chaplain who thinks he runs the place... and a boss determined to prove he doesn’t.

📺 “The Chosen” Season 6 Teaser: Jonathan Roumie’s Jesus Faces His Final Day in Dallas Jenkins’ Hit Biblical Drama — Premiering Sunday, November 15th on Prime Video

It all leads back to the cross. Jonathan Roumie returns as Jesus as the sixth season follows his final hours through the followers who love him, the authorities who condemn him, and the disciple whose betrayal sets everything in motion. Creator Dallas Jenkins unfolds the story across six new episodes before concluding it with a feature-length theatrical finale in spring 2027.

📺 “Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes” Trailer: Documentarian Joe Berlinger Uses Unreleased Prison Recordings to Revisit the Cult Leader, the 1969 Murders and the Trial That Became a Media Spectacle — Debuts Wednesday, August 12th on Netflix

Nearly six decades later, Charles Manson’s voice remains as disturbing as ever. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost trilogy) returns for the fourth installment of his true-crime anthology, using unreleased prison recordings, interviews, and archival footage to trace Manson’s rise as a cult leader, the 1969 murders carried out by his followers, and the trial that turned the case into a media spectacle. The tapes may bring us closer to Manson’s voice, but closeness is not the same as understanding.

📺 “Leanne: Season 2” Trailer: Leanne Morgan Faces More Family Troubles in Chuck Lorre’s Southern Sitcom — Returning Thursday, August 27th on Netflix

Starting over was only the opening act. Stand-up comic Leanne Morgan returns with sister Carol (Kristen Johnston) beside her as old habits, new challenges, and changing family roles complicate her hard-won fresh start. Lainey Wilson, Jaime Pressly, Billy Gardell, and Tyne Daly join the family circle for a second season filled with more domestic disruption and Southern humor. Reinvention may be personal... but in this family, it never stays private.

📺 “Mousetrap” Teaser: A Man Hunts Down the Hacker Who Stole His Identity in Netflix’s Korean Crime Thriller Series — Premieres Friday, August 28th on Netflix

Identity theft is bad enough when someone steals your password. It’s a whole other nightmare when they steal your entire life. In this new Korean series, Ryu Jun-yeol stars as Moon-jae, a reclusive novelist who wakes up to find his name, money, phone, and proof that he even exists taken over by a mysterious impostor known as the Rat. With his only friend missing and nowhere else to turn, he forms an uneasy alliance with No-ja, the ruthless loan shark (Sul Kyung-gu), to track down the man who has erased him. Directed by Kim Hong-sun and written by Lee Jae-gon, this Netflix thriller asks what happens when a stolen identity turns into a full-blown existential manhunt.

📺 “La Mesías” International Trailer: A Man Confronts His Family’s Cult-Like Past in Los Javis’ Spanish Psychological Thriller Series — Begins Streaming Thursday, September 3rd on MUBI in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia and other Select International Markets

Spanish actor Roger Casamajor stars as Enric, a man shaken by the sudden fame of Stella Maris, a Catholic pop group whose young singers remind him of the religious fanaticism, maternal control, and buried secrets he and his sister Irene have spent years trying to escape. Created by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, this seven-episode Spanish thriller moves through different periods of one fractured family, where music becomes both a performance of faith and a trigger for the past.

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📺 “Lanterns” Comic Con Trailer: Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre Bring the Veteran-Rookie Cop Formula to DC’s Alien-Tinged Neo-Western Mystery Series — Premiering Sunday, August 16th on HBO and HBO Max

Every great cop story... or, in this case, a “space cop” story, starts with a veteran, a rookie, and a partnership neither one of them asked for. Lanterns sends that formula into space and down again, pairing two Green Lanterns who look less like future best friends and more like detectives struggling to survive their first week together.

Kyle Chandler, of Friday Night Lights fame, plays Hal Jordan, a hardened veteran who carries himself like Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black: craggy, experienced, and increasingly tired of explaining how everything works. He understands the ring, the job, and the dangers surrounding both, but years of Lantern duty appear to have left him deeply disgruntled, which sets up his new partner perfectly: John Stewart, played here by Rebel Ridge breakout Aaron Pierre.

John is the ambitious recruit waiting to claim the ring and prove he belongs. He’s confident, determined, and ready to embrace his heroic destiny, despite what Hal thinks of him. There’s only one problem, though: John hasn’t quite figured out how to fly... or at least not yet, from what this new full trailer has led us to believe.

When John is asked to summon the ring’s power and fly, he comes up painfully short. Hal responds with more sarcasm than sympathy. But here’s the interesting thing: this DC series, which arrives with plenty of expectations attached, appears to take a tonal detour from typical superhero fare.

Rather than launching directly into cosmic warfare, this eight-episode HBO drama brings its intergalactic officers down to Earth. A shooting in rural Nebraska pulls Hal and John into a small-town murder investigation that may carry unmistakably alien fingerprints. And those fingerprints could point toward something far more dangerous than an ordinary human killer.

“What do you know about Manhunters?” John asks Hal in this new Lanterns trailer, suggesting their investigation may involve a suspect capable of changing shape.

Hal’s expression immediately hardens. “Where did you hear that word?”

Created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, Lanterns looks closer to a neo-Western detective thriller than a conventional superhero adventure. The rings may be capable of creating anything their wearers imagine, but solving a murder and learning to trust the person beside you could prove considerably harder when a shapeshifter is on the loose... and could very well be anyone.

Also starring Kelly Macdonald as the local sheriff, who doesn’t take too kindly to outsiders poking their noses into her town’s business, the cast also includes Garret Dillahunt, Paul Ben-Victor, Jason Ritter, and Poorna Jagannathan, along with surprise turns from Laura Linney, Ulrich Thomsen as Thaal Sinestro, and Nathan Fillion returning as Guy Gardner.

Lanterns premieres Sunday, August 16th, on HBO and HBO Max.

📺 “Blade Runner 2099” Comic Con Teaser Trailer: Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh Enter a Future Where Replicants Rule and Humanity Is on the Run in Upcoming ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel Miniseries — Premiering Wednesday, November 25th on Prime Video

Wait a minute. Hold up. Stark silhouettes of futuristic Los Angeles. Smog hanging over brutalist-style towers. Giant digital billboards flickering through the haze.

That can only mean one thing: Blade Runner. Only this time, the year is 2099.

There’s something amusing about how far the franchise has traveled. Ridley Scott’s original took place in 2019, which was then 37 years into the future. Denis Villeneuve’s sequel jumped ahead to 2049. Now, this eight-episode Prime Video series moves another half-century forward.

And yet, judging by this first look coming straight from San Diego Comic-Con, the Blade Runner world still carries the same visual scars. The smoky streets, neon glow, monolithic architecture, and advertisements cascading from above all remain firmly intact. The world looks familiar, but the power structure has changed.

Following a Replicant uprising, humanity no longer appears to sit at the center of society. Hunter Schafer, coming off her turn in the HBO series Euphoria, stars as Cora, a human fugitive who has survived by repeatedly changing identities over the years, with the city’s darkest corners becoming her refuge. Hoping to secure a future for herself and her brother, she makes one final transformation and becomes a Blade Runner.

Blade Runners were once special police detectives tasked with hunting rogue Replicants. But in the year 2099, a Blade Runner’s job is something much different: instead of hunting Replicants, they now hunt rogue human runaways.

That new role forces Cora into an uneasy partnership with Olwen, played by Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, a veteran Replicant with only days left to live. Together, they are assigned to hunt a runaway carrying information powerful enough to collapse the city’s fragile new order, possibly revealing that whoever controls the power also controls the truth.

Created by Silka Luisa (Shining Girls), with Shōgun helmer Jonathan van Tulleken directing the first two episodes, Blade Runner 2099 appears ready to preserve the franchise’s visual identity while shifting its perspective toward the Replicants now holding power.

The future may belong to them, but the old questions remain: Who gets to decide what counts as human, and what happens when the hunted finally take control?

Executive produced by Ridley Scott, all eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 are due to premiere Wednesday, November 25th, on Prime Video.

📺 “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 3” Comic Con Teaser Trailer: Sauron Forges the One Ring as Middle-earth Descends Into War in Amazon’s Epic Fantasy Series — Premiering Wednesday, November 11th on Prime Video

You can’t have Comic-Con without something from Middle-earth, especially with Amazon coming to San Diego to showcase the third season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, set to debut this November.

So, check out the first teaser for the upcoming third season of The Rings of Power, fresh from Hall H. And judging by the footage, the time for uneasy peace and political maneuvering has officially ended.

Five years have passed since the fall of Eregion, and Middle-earth is now deep in the War of the Elves and Sauron. The Dark Lord’s armies have swept across the land, leaving Khazad-dûm, Lindon, and Rivendell among the few remaining strongholds capable of resisting him.

But Sauron isn’t settling for military victory. From his newly completed tower of Barad-dûr, he begins forging the One Ring, hoping to seize control of every remaining free people. That threat forces Elves, Dwarves, Men, and Wizards into alliances built less on trust than on the simple need to survive.

Charlie Vickers returns as Sauron alongside Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Robert Aramayo as Elrond, Daniel Weyman as Gandalf, and Benjamin Walker as Gil-galad.

Season 3 is also set to introduce Jamie Campbell Bower as Celeborn, Zubin Varla as Khamûl, Eddie Marsan as Thrain, and Simon Pegg as the voice of the Balrog, who apparently has something to say after all these years.

Created by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, the new season appears ready to move beyond the forging of the Rings and into the full-scale war that will shape Middle-earth for generations. And fingers crossed, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will finally deliver the sweeping fantasy conflict it has been building toward.

The first four episodes of Season 3 are slated to premiere Wednesday, November 11th, on Prime Video, followed by two episodes on November 18th and the final two on November 25th. Remember, it takes One Ring to rule them all... but only one Amazon Prime subscription to stream them all.

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📺 “Carrie” Comic-Con Teaser: Horror Filmmaker Mike Flanagan Reimagines Stephen King’s Classic Coming-of-Age Nightmare for a New Amazon Miniseries Starring Summer H. Howell — Premieres Wednesday, October 7th on Prime Video

You know what they say: it’s always the quiet ones you have to look out for. You never know what might finally set them off. Summer H. Howell stars as Carrie White, a sheltered teenager pushed into public school after her father’s death, only to become the target of a viral bullying scandal as strange telekinetic powers begin to surface. Samantha Sloyan, Siena Agudong, Alison Thornton, Joel Oulette, Amber Midthunder, and Matthew Lillard join Mike Flanagan’s modern reimagining of Stephen King’s horror classic. High school cruelty has consequences, and Carrie is about to make everyone feel them. Flanagan may also prove once again that his creative partnership with King remains one of modern horror’s most compelling combinations.

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📺 “Reacher: Season 4” Comic-Con Trailer: Alan Ritchson Returns to Take on a Deadly Pentagon Conspiracy in Amazon’s Hit Action Thriller — Premieres Wednesday, August 12th on Prime Video

Alan Ritchson is back as Jack Reacher, the muscle-bound drifter with a knack for finding trouble as often as he solves it. After a late-night subway encounter ends in a Pentagon employee’s death, the former military investigator follows the trail into a conspiracy involving political power, terrorism, and a missing child. Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette, Sydelle Noel, Agnez Mo, Anggun, Kevin Weisman, Marc Blucas, Kevin Corrigan, and Kathleen Robertson join Ritchson for this adaptation of Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow. The people behind it expect fear and silence... two things Reacher has never been built to deliver.

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📺 “Neagley” Comic Con Teaser: Maria Sten Steps Out of Reacher’s Shadow to Lead Prime Video’s New Action-Thriller Spinoff — Premiering September 16th

How big a hit is Reacher for Amazon? Big enough that Jack Reacher’s most trusted ally is getting a fight of her own. Maria Sten returns as Frances Neagley, the guarded Chicago investigator whose search for answers after a friend’s suspicious death pulls her into the city’s criminal underworld and forces her to confront a past she has kept buried. Greyston Holt, Adeline Rudolph, Jasper Jones, Matthew Del Negro, and Damon Herriman join the new series, with Alan Ritchson appearing as Reacher. Neagley has spent years helping Reacher clean up trouble, now she gets to make a mess on her own terms.

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📺 “Neuromancer” Comic-Con Teaser: William Gibson’s Genre-Defining Cyberpunk Classic Finally Reaches the Screen in Apple TV’s Sci-Fi Series Starring Callum Turner and Briana Middleton — Premiering Friday, January 22nd, 2027 on Apple TV

Long before The Matrix plugged into the cultural consciousness, William Gibson’s landmark 1984 novel was already mapping the digital frontier through hackers, artificial intelligence and disembodied identities. After decades of stalled film projects and rumored television adaptations, the quintessential cyberpunk novel finally reaches the screen with Callum Turner as Case, a damaged hacker pulled into a high-stakes conspiracy alongside Briana Middleton’s razor-girl assassin, Molly. Their mission targets a corporate dynasty guarding secrets powerful enough to blur the lines between technology, consciousness and control. Created by writer Graham Roland and director JD Dillard, and co-starring Mark Strong, Clémence Poésy, Peter Sarsgaard, Dane DeHaan and more, this 10-episode thriller finally brings one of science fiction’s most influential worlds to life. Before cyberpunk entered the mainstream, Gibson’s visionary tale had already imagined the digital future we all now inhabit.

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📺 “Dark Matter: Season 2” Comic Con Trailer: Joel Edgerton Faces More Versions of Himself as Apple TV’s Multiverse Hit Returns — Premiering Friday, August 28th on Apple TV

In a multiverse crowded with doppelgängers, alternate lives and countless versions of the same man, finding the right reality was only the beginning. Joel Edgerton returns as Jason Dessen, whose attempt to build a quiet life with Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) unravels when multiple paths—and multiple Jasons—converge into one expanding existential crisis. The hit Apple TV series returns for a second season after leaving audiences questioning the nature of reality, identity and the lives waiting on the other side of every choice. As the Box pulls Jason deeper into obsession and the people around him into new dangers, surviving the multiverse means protecting the family he loves most—including them from himself.

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📺 “Futurama: Season 14” Comic Con Trailer: Fry, Leela, Bender and the Planet Express Crew Return for More Intergalactic Chaos, Space Pirates and Questionable Meat — Premiering Monday, August 3rd on Hulu

The future keeps finding new ways to get weirder. Fry, Leela, Bender and the Planet Express crew return for another round of badly managed intergalactic adventures involving swaggering space pirates, lab-grown meat, seductive scams and the unexpected return of Dr. Zoidberg’s lost love. Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio and the returning voice cast once again bring Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s animated sci-fi comedy to life, using tomorrow to make fun of everything going wrong today. In the 31st century, progress is optional, chaos is guaranteed and Planet Express still somehow stays in business.

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📺 “Yaga” Comic Con Teaser: Noah Reid Hunts for a Missing Heir as Carrie-Anne Moss and an Old Witch Legend Haunt AMC’s New Coastal Mystery Thriller Series — Premiering This October on AMC+

Every small town has secrets. Whitlock may have a witch hiding among them. Noah Reid stars as Rapp, a private investigator searching for missing fishery heir Henry Park (Hudson Williams), only to find local detective Carson (Clark Backo), university professor Katherine (Carrie-Anne Moss) and an entire coastal community tangled in suspicion, folklore and old magic. Adapted by Kat Sandler from her own stage play, this contemporary Baba Yaga mystery mixes noir, horror and police procedural into one deeply uneasy disappearance.

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📺 “Knight Rider: Declassified” Trailer: David Hasselhoff, William Daniels and the Original Crew Revisit the Making and Legacy of K.I.T.T. in This ’80s Nostalgia-Filled, Crowdfunded Docuseries — Coming Soon, with Preorders Ending Sunday, August 2nd

K.I.T.T. had the voice, the gadgets and the flashing red light, but the people behind the wheel have stories of their own. David Hasselhoff, William Daniels, Patricia McPherson and other members of the original cast and crew revisit the design, engineering, stunts, music and production decisions that transformed a talking Pontiac into a television icon. Told across five planned hours, this documentary series combines new interviews with rare behind-the-scenes footage to retrace the road from ambitious action show to enduring pop-culture phenomenon. Four decades later, the engine is still running. It’s a must for anyone raised on ’80s television, when action heroes drove talking cars, technology looked like magic and every adventure began with that flashing red light.

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📺 “Common Side Effects: Season 2” Comic Con First Look: Marshall and Frances Take Their Miracle Mushroom Underground in Adult Swim’s Animated Conspiracy Thriller — Coming in 2027

The person most likely to jam up the corporate machine may also be the last one anyone would suspect. Meet Marshall Cuso (voiced by Dave King), a chubby guy in a bucket hat, open Hawaiian shirt, shorts, and sandals who may have stumbled upon the most powerful healing mushroom ever discovered. Now he’s returning for a new season of Adult Swim’s animated conspiracy comedy, where he remains a thorn in the side of every institution determined to keep that discovery buried. With the magical Blue Angel mushroom outlawed, Marshall and his childhood friend Frances (voiced by Emily Pendergast) retreat to Oregon and attempt to build something useful while staying beyond the reach of the government, Big Pharma, and a new adversary who considers the mushroom sacred. Co-creators Joe Bennett and Steve Hely return with this animated action-comedy, executive produced by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, where changing the world becomes considerably harder when keeping people sick is more profitable than curing them.

📺 “Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned” Comic-Con Teaser: Akasha Takes the Throne in AMC’s Gothic Horror Drama Series — Coming Soon to AMC and AMC+

And just like that, Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe is preparing another transformation. After reinventing Interview With the Vampire around The Vampire Lestat, AMC’s gothic horror drama turns to The Queen of the Damned, with Sheila Atim (of The Underground Railroad and The Woman King fame) stepping forward as Akasha. The ancient mother of all vampires has awakened with a vision for remaking the world, forcing the series’ familiar immortals to confront a ruler who sees domination as salvation. Season 4 will be led by new showrunner Hannah Moscovitch alongside executive producer Mark Johnson, and from the look of things, this queen isn’t looking to rule quietly.

📺 “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 3” Comic-Con Teaser: The Titan’s Curse Sends Percy Into a Darker Quest in Disney+’s Fantasy Adventure Series Based on Rick Riordan’s Bestselling Novels — Premiering Friday, November 20th on Disney+

The next quest is already closing in. Walker Scobell returns as Percy Jackson alongside Leah Sava Jeffries’ Annabeth and Aryan Simhadri’s Grover as Season 3 adapts Rick Riordan’s The Titan’s Curse, pushing the young demigods toward a missing ally, a dangerous prophecy, and the larger war gathering around Camp Half-Blood. This fantasy adventure continues Percy’s search for where he belongs while destiny keeps making the answer more complicated.

📺 “Avatar: Seven Havens” Comic Con Teaser: A Young Earthbender Inherits the Avatar’s Power in Paramount’s New Animated Fantasy Adventure Series — Premiering Friday, October 9th on Paramount+

Being the Avatar once meant bringing hope. In a world broken by catastrophe, it now makes a young Earthbender the most feared person alive. Branded as humanity’s destroyer and hunted by enemies from both the human and spirit worlds, she joins her long-lost twin to uncover their shared past and protect civilization’s seven remaining havens. Created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, this animated fantasy adventure begins a new Avatar era where restoring balance may first require surviving everyone determined to stop it.

📺 “Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO” Comic Con Teaser: Humanity’s Greatest Discovery Creates a New War in Kenji Kamiyama’s Upcoming Mecha Anime Series — Coming in 2027

A technological miracle becomes the seed of humanity’s next disaster. When an object from another galaxy gives civilization the power to control gravity, communicate faster than light, and materialize thought, the solar system enters a new age of expansion. Less than a decade later, that same object begins producing a hostile ecosystem capable of replicating itself. Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, this science-fiction anime begins a new Gundam continuity set roughly a century before the action game Gundam Rogue Orbit, laying the groundwork for a conflict designed to unfold across generations.

📺 “House of the Dragon: Season 3” Mid-Season Trailer: The Targaryens Set Westeros Ablaze in a War No Dragon Can Control — New Episodes Weekly on Sundays, HBO Max

The throne is still standing. The family fighting over it may not be. Emma D’Arcy, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Tom Glynn-Carney, and Ewan Mitchell return as the Dance of the Dragons spreads across Westeros, turning rival claims into advancing armies, shattered alliances, and fire raining from the sky. With Rhaenyra and Aegon’s courts driving the realm deeper into open war, every victory strips another piece from the dynasty they are trying to save. The dragons may decide who rules... but the bloodshed will decide what remains.

📺 “Tires: Season 3” Trailer: Shane Gillis and Steve Gerben Take Ownership of More Bad Decisions in Netflix’s Workplace Comedy Series — Streaming Thursday, August 13th on Netflix

Valley Forge Auto has new owners. Unfortunately, they’re still Will and Shane. Steve Gerben’s Will starts questioning the life he never pursued, while Shane Gillis’ Shane finds adulthood taking an unwanted turn into his lane. Created by Gillis, Gerben, and director John McKeever, this workplace comedy keeps business growth, personal responsibility, and basic professionalism trapped inside a tire shop where every attempt at progress is only one terrible idea away from total collapse.

📺 “The Shards” New Teaser: Obsession, Privilege, and Murder Haunt 1980s Los Angeles in This New FX Series from Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis — Premiering Wednesday, August 5th on FX and Hulu

Privilege can buy almost anything... except protection from obsession. In 1981 Los Angeles, an aspiring teenage writer becomes convinced that his prep school’s magnetic new student is connected to a killer stalking the city. Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner, and Graham Campbell star in Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis’ psychological teen thriller series, where jealousy, desire, and paranoia begin tearing through an insulated world of wealth. Based on Ellis’ semi-autobiographical novel, sometimes the most privileged communities hide the darkest secrets.

📺 “LEGO One Piece” Official Teaser: Usopp Spins the Straw Hats’ Wildest Adventures Into a Brick-Built Pirate Legend in This Two-Part LEGO Special — Premiering Tuesday, September 29th on Netflix

Usopp telling the truth? Now that would be the real fantasy. Jacob Romero’s long-nosed Straw Hat takes command of this two-part animated LEGO special, rebuilding the crew’s early adventures with more bricks, bigger laughs, and a proudly unreliable grip on the facts. Iñaki Godoy, Mackenyu, Emily Rudd, and Taz Skylar return in voice form as Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and Sanji, with Tom Hyndman steering the special as showrunner, writer, and executive producer. The Grand Line was already dangerous enough before Usopp got to edit the legend.

📺 “My Brilliant Career” Trailer: A Young Woman Defies Marriage, Manners, and 1900 Australia in Netflix’s New Spirited Aussie Period Drama Mini-Series Starring Philippa Northeast — Premiering Thursday, August 13th on Netflix

Sybylla wants a career... not a cage. Aussie actress Philippa Northeast (of Home and Away) stars as a sharp, restless aspiring writer in 1900 Australia, where family expectations keep pushing her toward marriage while her own ambition keeps pulling her toward independence. Christopher Chung’s Harry complicates the plan with romance, while Anna Chancellor, Genevieve O’Reilly, and Kate Mulvany help fill out a world determined to tell Sybylla what kind of woman she should become. Developed by executive producer Liz Doran from Miles Franklin’s landmark novel, this six-part drama lets its heroine chase the only ending that matters: the one she writes herself.

📺 “Apollo Has Fallen” Trailer: A Hijacking Unleashes a Viral Conspiracy Across Europe — Coming Soon on Hulu US, and Prime Video UK

Europe is about to catch something deadly. Ritu Arya and Tewfik Jallab star as MI6 agent Zara Taylor and former protection officer Vincent Taleb, whose investigation into a hijacking exposes a cross-border conspiracy built around a devastating virus. With mercenary leader Yuri Mishkin (played by Jacek Koman) pulling the strings and trust collapsing on every side, the partners must outrun betrayal, old trauma, and a biological threat designed to turn an entire continent into collateral damage. The hijacking may only be the distraction. The real attack is already spreading.

📺 “Camp Rock 3” Trailer: Connect 3 Returns to Find the Next Act Ready to Steal the Spotlight in Disney Channel’s New Jonas Brothers Musical Sequel — Premiering Thursday, August 13th on Disney Channel and Friday, August 14th on Disney+

The campfire is lit, the microphones are live, and everyone wants the opening slot. Joe, Nick, and Kevin Jonas return as Connect 3, heading back to Camp Rock after losing their tour’s opening act and launching a competition among a new generation of performers. As Sage, Fletch, Desi, Rosie, and their fellow campers chase the spotlight, rivalries spark, friendships bend, and romance finds its way into the setlist. Winning may open the tour, but finding your own sound is the real encore.

📺 “The Undeclared War: Season 2” Trailer: The UK Government Hunts a Mole as Britain’s Cyberwar Turns Inward in This British Thriller Series Starring Hannah Khalique-Brown and Simon Pegg — Premiering Thursday, August 27th on Peacock

The most dangerous breach is already inside the room. After surviving a devastating Russian cyberattack, the UK Government Communications Headquarters’ (GCHQ) Malware Department discovers that someone within its own ranks may be feeding an even larger operation. Hannah Khalique-Brown, Simon Pegg, Siân Brooke, Alex Jennings, and Danny Sapani return as suspicion spreads, loyalties fracture, and Britain’s invisible war moves closer to home. The code may expose the attack. But trusting the wrong person could bring the whole system down.

📺 “Women in Blue: Season 2” Trailer: Mexico’s First Female Police Force Reopens the Wounds of 1968 in This Spanish-Language Crime Series — Premiering Wednesday, August 12th on Apple TV

Some cases won’t stay buried. They wait for someone brave enough to dig. After the murder of a student activist, newly promoted police officer María and her fellow “Azules” uncover a conspiracy tied to Mexico’s 1968 student massacre. Bárbara Mori, Natalia Téllez, Amorita Rasgado, and Ximena Sariñana return as corruption closes ranks and a second victim suggests someone is settling old scores. When you need order, send the police. But when you need the truth, send the Azules.

📺 “The Prisoner: The Complete Series” Trailer: Patrick McGoohan’s Number Six Refuses to Surrender His Identity in This Cult 1960s British Spy Thriller Series — Streaming Now on the Criterion Channel

You can imprison the man. Breaking him is another matter. Patrick McGoohan stars in this landmark 1960s British sci-fi spy series as Number Six, an abducted agent held inside the Village and subjected to an escalating campaign of surveillance, manipulation, and mind games. Considered a precursor to mind-bending mystery shows like Twin Peaks and Lost, this cult classic pits one stubborn individual against a system built to erase individuality. He may be numbered, but he will not be owned.

📺 “Whitmer Thomas: Terminal Crew of Dudes” Trailer: Whitmer Thomas Turns Friendship, Memory, and Original Punk Rock Music Into a Deeply Personal HBO Stand-Up Comedy Special — Premiering Friday, August 14th on HBO and HBO Max

Some friendships become memories. Others become material. Alternative comedian Whitmer Thomas returns to HBO with a deeply personal stand-up comedy special that blends jokes, original songs, photographs, and home videos into a funny, affectionate look at the friends, family, and fellow weirdos who shaped him. What begins as a comedy set gradually becomes something warmer and messier: a tribute to the friends who made him who he is.

📺 “Disney Worldbuilders” Teaser: Filmmaker Leslie Iwerks Celebrates the Artists Behind Disney’s Most Immersive Worlds in This New Documentary Special — Streaming This August on Disney+

Every magical world begins with someone staring at a blank page. Then an army of artists turns imagination into somewhere audiences can actually visit. Director Leslie Iwerks goes behind Disney’s familiar stories, characters, and creative traditions to spotlight the craftspeople who design, shape, and build every detail. The magic may feel effortless, but worldbuilding is where the real work begins.

📺 “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks” Trailer: The Super Bowl Champions Discover That Defending the Crown Starts in the Heat — Premiering Tuesday, August 4th on HBO and HBO Max

The confetti is gone. Now the real title defense begins. NFL Films and HBO’s on-going docuseries follows head coach Mike Macdonald, Sam Darnold, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Devon Witherspoon, Byron Murphy II, and the reigning Super Bowl champions through a training camp where every drill, roster decision, and mistake carries championship weight. Veterans fight to stay sharp, hopefuls fight to stay employed, and an entire locker room learns that repeating is harder than arriving.

📺 “Special Ops True” Trailer: New Docuseries Chronicles and Reconstructs Some of the U.S. Military’s Highest-Stakes Missions Through Firsthand Testimony — Premiering Tuesday, August 4th on Paramount+

History looks different from inside the mission. This Paramount+ original docuseries revisits major special-operations missions through firsthand accounts and previously unseen footage, putting the fear, pressure, and split-second choices back into stories often remembered only by their headlines. Told from the perspective of the people who lived them, the series trades distant battlefield myth for ground-level memory, including the U.S. operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

📺 “The Chosen in the Wild With Bear Grylls” Trailer: British Adventurer Bear Grylls Takes the Cast of ‘The Chosen’ From Biblical Drama to Wilderness Survival — All Six Episodes Premiere Sunday, August 9th on Prime Video

Faith is about to get a lot more rugged. Bear Grylls leads The Chosen cast members Jonathan Roumie, Paras Patel, Elizabeth Tabish, Noah James, and Luke Dimyan, along with series creator Dallas Jenkins, through rivers, deserts, forests, and canyons as wilderness challenges open the door to candid conversations about fear, endurance, and belief. Across six episodes, the group trades scripts and sets for skydives, climbs, scorpions, and whatever else the wilderness throws their way. This time, the leap of faith is literal.

📺 “MLB at Field of Dreams” Trailer: The Phillies and Twins Bring Baseball Back to the Iowa Cornfields in Netflix’s Live Sports Special — Streaming on Netflix Live Thursday, August 13th

Some ballparks hold history. This one was built from a movie dream. The Philadelphia Phillies face the Minnesota Twins as Major League Baseball returns to Dyersville, Iowa, for a live game surrounded by cornfields and memories of the 1989 classic. With Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber, and Byron Buxton taking the field... and Kevin Costner narrating this trailer, this Netflix sports special turns a regular-season matchup into a night where Hollywood nostalgia meets baseball history.

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📺 “Lioness: Season 3” Trailer: Zoe Saldaña Faces Domestic Terror, Compromised Identities, and a War With No Clear Border in Taylor Sheridan’s Military Thriller Series with Nicole Kidman and Morgan Freeman — Returning Sunday, August 2nd on Paramount+

“A soldier’s job is to fight.”

The full trailer for Lioness: Season 3 wastes little time reminding us what that job looks like: covert assignments, skies crowded with drones, and enough explosions to make even hardened operatives stop and mutter, “Holy sh#t.”

Taylor Sheridan’s series appears to be returning to its most immediate attractions: military operations, black-ops maneuvering, and plenty of bombs! But the spectacle still serves the show’s larger conflict. Zoe Saldaña’s Joe may lead an elite undercover unit into some of the most dangerous regions in the world, yet her most difficult mission has always been keeping that violence from following her home.

This season, that separation may no longer be possible.

The trailer points toward compromised identities, domestic threats, and the growing possibility that terrorism is no longer something happening overseas. Joe’s name could be exposed publicly. Attacks may be moving onto American soil. Protecting the country and protecting her family are beginning to look like the same assignment—and possibly two responsibilities she cannot fulfill at once.

That tension has always made Lioness more interesting than a straightforward display of military power. The series pays close attention to the complexity of counterterrorism operations, but it also repeatedly exposes how fragile those operations can be. Missions constantly go sideways. Leadership often fails. Half-baked plans are handed to people who may not fully understand the consequences of carrying them out.

If we didn’t know better, we might say Taylor Sheridan accidentally made a show about how even one of the strongest militaries in the world is useless without competent leadership, careful planning, and people willing to take the assignment seriously. Whether that criticism is intentional or simply the natural result of Sheridan grounding the series in the day-to-day realities of military operations remains an open question.

Either way, Season 3 appears ready to push Zoe Saldaña’s Joe into a war with no clean border between battlefield and home. Saldaña’s performance alone makes the show a must-see, as she has become that rare actor who can display genuine ruggedness alongside quiet emotional vulnerability without becoming overly sentimental.

With Nicole Kidman returning as CIA honcho Kaitlyn Meade, Morgan Freeman back as U.S. Secretary of State Edwin Mullins, and Michael Kelly reprising his role as CIA Deputy Director Byron Westfield, along with Laysla De Oliveira, Genesis Rodriguez, Dave Annable, Ian Bohen, and Hannah Love Lanier, Lioness: Season 3 is set up for another explosive season. Quite literally.

The show returns Sunday, August 2nd, exclusively on Paramount+.

📺 “The Shards” Trailer: Highly Privileged Teens and a Serial Killer Converge in Seedy 1980s Los Angeles in FX’s New Series from Ryan Murphy and American Psycho Author Bret Easton Ellis — Premiering Wednesday, August 5th on FX and Hulu/Disney+

Yet another examination of rich young elites doing nasty things? Okay. Well, we can’t think of two creators better suited to the task than television mogul Ryan Murphy and American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis.

One has spent decades examining wealthy, beautiful people and all their carefully concealed depravity. The other has done exactly the same. So, again, the pairing of Murphy and Ellis feels less like a surprise and more like an inevitability.

Based on Ellis’s 2023 novel, said to be loosely inspired by the author’s senior year of high school in 1981 Los Angeles (Jesus, what was he up to back then?), The Shards follows a fictionalized teenage version of the author, played by Igby Rigney (Midnight Mass), navigating his final year at an elite L.A. prep school. His carefully controlled social circle begins to fracture with the arrival of Robert Mallory (played by Euphoria’s Homer Gere—and yes, son of Richard Gere and Carey Lowell), a charismatic new student whose secrets become entangled with jealousy, sexual obsession, and a serial killer stalking the city.

Kaia Gerber (again, yes, the daughter of iconic ’80s and ’90s supermodel Cindy Crawford) also joins the cast as one of the story’s highly privileged teens, making this production feel almost suspiciously well cast. Graham Campbell and Hayes Warner round out the younger ensemble, while Evan Rachel Wood and Wes Bentley bring some adult menace to this increasingly unstable L.A. world of loud ’80s fashion, big hair, and even bigger egos.

Naturally, the trailer looks immaculate. The clothes are sharp, the homes are spotless, and nearly everyone appears ready for a magazine spread. That sleek presentation falls directly within Murphy’s wheelhouse, while Ellis—the author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho, who has long explored the sleaze beneath L.A.’s elite circles—provides the poison likely to keep audiences glued.

With ’80s nostalgia nearly exhausted as the ’90s take center stage, so too is the romanticizing of that decade. Now comes a more cynical reassessment. The rose-colored glasses are now ripped off, and Murphy and Ellis are here to expose the festering rot beneath all that neon ’80s polish; which feels especially timely as audiences have become more interested than ever in stories about privilege, excess, and the consequences that finally catch up with both.

But yes, it’s told with all that over-stylized fluff Murphy is known for. You can’t have the medicine without a little sugar, and in this case, Murphy and Ellis have baked an entire cake.

The Shards appears ready to let the beautiful people fall apart in style when it debuts Wednesday, August 5th on FX and Hulu/Disney+.

📺 “Crystal Lake” Teaser: Linda Cardellini Becomes Pamela Voorhees in A24 and Peacock’s Psychological Friday the 13th Prequel Series — Debuting Thursday, October 15th on Peacock

A24 and the Friday the 13th franchise? Together in one show.

Sure, it makes for an eye-catching combination. One is known for psychologically charged, filmmaker-driven horror that gets under the skin; the other built its reputation on machetes, massive body counts, and decades of slasher mythology. Which begs the question: can an iconic horror franchise known more for gore than introspection receive the full A24 treatment?

Seemingly cut from the same cloth as HBO Max’s It: Welcome to Derry—which makes sense, given that showrunner and creator Brad Caleb Kane worked on the Stephen King–based prequel series—Peacock’s Crystal Lake appears interested in expanding familiar mythology by tracing the trauma beneath the iconography. Expect a richer, more psychologically layered world than the franchise has traditionally explored, with this small-screen reimagining centered on Pamela Voorhees, the grieving single mother whose loss would eventually give rise to one of horror cinema’s most enduring killers.

Linda Cardellini, best known for Dead to Me and Freaks and Geeks, and coming off her Emmy-nominated turn in HBO’s DTF St. Louis, has been tasked with bringing Pamela Voorhees to life; possibly giving the franchise’s original killer a deeper, more tragic dimension than we’ve ever seen before. At least, that’s the hope.

Set nearly a year after her son’s tragic death at Camp Crystal Lake, the series finds Pamela being visited by two strangers who have been digging into her past, setting off a disturbing chain of events. The premise suggests that the series will treat Pamela as the emotional and psychological catalyst behind everything that follows.

That approach immediately gives Crystal Lake a different kind of potential. The camp, the lake, the bloodshed, and the Voorhees name are all present, but the real horror may come from watching grief harden into something far more troubling and sinister.

The teaser is brief, but it still suggests a series steeped in psychological damage, buried secrets, and emotional anguish, while flashes of blood promise it hasn’t forgotten the franchise’s core audience. Hey, you can’t have a slasher series without a little bucket of blood thrown at the screen from time to time.

After years of sequels, reboots, legal complications, and abandoned reinventions, the franchise may have finally found a way to evolve. Cardellini certainly has the dramatic range to uncover layers in Pamela that the original films never had much interest in exploring. This new version might even make audiences sympathize with her before revealing just how deeply grief has damaged her.

Co-starring Callum Vinson as young Jason Voorhees, along with William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins, and Gwendolyn Sundstrom, Crystal Lake is due to premiere Thursday, October 15th on Peacock.

📺 “Mayfair Witches: Season 3” Teaser: Alexandra Daddario Returns as Rowan Fielding and Heads to Salem in AMC’s Anne Rice Supernatural Drama — Coming in 2027 to AMC/AMC+

The Anne Rice universe keeps expanding, with Alexandra Daddario returning as Rowan Fielding, the brilliant neurosurgeon whose discovery of her Mayfair lineage pulled her into a dangerous supernatural world. Season 3 takes Rowan to Salem, where powerful families, buried secrets, and the lingering legacy of the witch trials deepen the series’ mythology. Her arrival threatens to stir forces that may be even darker than anything she has faced before. Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa, Alyssa Jirrels, Betsy Brandt, Michiel Huisman, James Frain, Eliza Scanlen, and Omar Maskati round out the cast. Esta Spalding and Thomas Schnauz serve as co-showrunners, guiding the series further into the increasingly troubled history of the Mayfair family. When it comes to witch lore, Salem is the one town where history still casts a long shadow.

📺 “My Life With the Walter Boys: Season 3” Trailer: Nikki Rodriguez Returns to Silver Falls for More Love-Triangle Fallout in Netflix’s Coming-of-Age Drama with Noah LaLonde and Ashby Gentry — Premiering Thursday, August 6th on Netflix

Netflix might be best known as the home of true-crime obsessions and bingeable thrillers, but it has also carved out a reliable lane for coming-of-age hits, where young people fall in love and make terrible decisions. Nikki Rodriguez returns for Season 3 of Netflix’s hit teen drama as Jackie heads back to Silver Falls, where secrets, heartbreak, and very bad timing remain part of the local scenery. Picking up after the emotional fallout between Jackie, Cole (Noah LaLonde), and Alex (Ashby Gentry), the new season pushes her toward complicated relationships, fresh ambitions, and consequences the Walter family can no longer ignore. Created by Melanie Halsall from Ali Novak’s story, the series proves that growing up is hard enough without your heart becoming the town’s main event. But in a teenager’s life, a little romantic chaos is practically unavoidable.

📺 “Euphoria: A Look Back” Trailer: Zendaya and the Cast Revisit the Chaos, Heartbreak, and Cultural Impact of HBO’s Teen Drama — Premiering Friday, July 24th on HBO Max

Still recovering from that emotionally gut-wrenching Season 3 finale? Well, HBO Max is attempting to soften the blow with a new retrospective revisiting the cast, chaos, and cultural impact of the series. Gathering interviews and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from the show, this Euphoria special explores how Rue, Jules, Cassie, Nate, Maddy, and their tangled lives became part of the modern teen-TV conversation. Featuring Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, and Hunter Schafer, the retrospective looks back at the performances, moments, and emotional fallout that turned the series into a cultural phenomenon. Sometimes the emotional hangover is simply part of the story.

📺 “The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 3” On-Set Preview: Jeffrey Dean Morgan Introduces Negan’s New Ally and Bar Buddy Dillard (Jimmi Simpson) Ahead of AMC’s Return — Premiering Sunday, July 26th on AMC and AMC+

In the apocalypse, even a bar tour comes with baggage. This Season 3 preview introduces new cast member Jimmi Simpson as Dillard, Negan’s newest ally, as Jeffrey Dean Morgan walks viewers through the place Dillard calls home. With Lauren Cohan returning as Maggie and Aimee Garcia joining the cast, AMC’s New York-set Walking Dead spinoff keeps its uneasy alliances moving into another dangerous chapter. Dead cities still have room for new trouble.

📺 “Monsters of God” Trailer: ‘Tiger King’ Filmmaker Eric Goode Enters the Billion-Dollar Underworld of Reptile Smuggling in This Five-Part HBO Docuseries — Premiering Thursday, August 6th on HBO Max

The rarer and more dangerous the reptile, the higher the price... and the deeper the obsession. From Tiger King and Chimp Crazy filmmaker Eric Goode, this five-part documentary series infiltrates a global trade where collectors, alleged traffickers, zoo figures and wildlife officers battle over some of the planet’s most coveted creatures. As passion gives way to exploitation, the pursuit of the next exotic prize fuels a criminal economy built on secrecy, scarcity and survival. In this cold-blooded world, the most dangerous predators may not be the ones behind glass.

📺 “Power: Origins” Teaser: Young Ghost, Tommy and Kanan Begin Their Rise in Starz’s New ‘Power’ Prequel Series — Coming Soon to Starz

Every criminal empire begins with someone hungry enough to build it. Spence Moore II, Charlie Mann and MeKai Curtis lead this Power prequel as young Ghost, Tommy and Kanan, three ambitious hustlers whose friendships, rivalries and early choices begin shaping the legends they will become. Created by Raising Kanan showrunner Sascha Penn, the series returns to the streets of New York to explore how loyalty and ambition laid the foundation for an empire... and planted the seeds of its eventual destruction.

📺 “Gone” Trailer: David Morrissey Falls Under Suspicion After His Wife Disappears in This Twisting British Crime Thriller — Premiering Thursday, July 23rd on US’s BritBox

When a headmaster’s wife suddenly vanishes, the search for answers quickly turns into a case against him. David Morrissey stars as Michael Polly, whose seemingly quiet life begins to unravel as suspicion closes in and every secret becomes potential evidence. Eve Myles co-stars as DS Annie Cassidy, the detective determined to uncover what really happened, even as Michael fights to prove he is not the man everyone believes him to be. Written by George Kay and directed by Richard Laxton, this BritBox crime thriller turns a missing-person investigation into a tense battle of motives, mistrust, and buried truths. The wife may be gone, but the secrets are still very much present.

📺 “The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare” Trailer: New True-Crime Docuseries Reexamines the Shocking University of Idaho Killings Through the Lives Behind the Headlines — Premiering Wednesday, July 29th on Netflix

Four students went to sleep in a quiet college town. By morning, Moscow, Idaho, had become the center of one of the most haunting murder cases in recent memory. Directed by Skye Borgman and executive produced by Emmy Award-winner Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost), this Netflix docuseries examines the 2022 killings of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle through bodycam footage, text messages, and interviews with those who knew them best. Moving beyond the headlines and speculation, the series focuses on the lives that were cut short and the questions that continue to surround the case.

📺 “The Dynasty: UConn Huskies” Trailer: Geno Auriemma’s Championship Machine Gets a Generational Breakdown in Apple TV’s Basketball Docuseries — Premiering Friday, August 21st on Apple TV

Winning once can change a program. Winning for four decades creates something much harder to explain. This three-part sports documentary traces the rise of UConn women’s basketball under coach Geno Auriemma, revealing how a once-overlooked program became the standard every rival was forced to chase. Sue Bird, Rebecca Lobo, Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore, Breanna Stewart, Paige Bueckers, and other UConn greats pull back the curtain on the pressure, discipline, sacrifice, and culture behind the championship banners. Through archival footage and firsthand accounts, the series looks beyond the victories to the relentless work required to sustain excellence across generations. It also examines how winning became part of UConn’s identity, and why preserving that legacy presents a challenge as demanding as building it in the first place.

📺 “One Hundred Years of Solitude: Part Two” Trailer: The Buendía Family Faces Its Final Reckoning as Macondo Marches Toward Ruin in Netflix’s Sprawling Gabriel García Márquez Adaptation — Streaming Wednesday, August 5th on Netflix

It’s the grand finale for this sprawling Colombian series based on Gabriel García Márquez’s classic 1967 novel. Completing its 16-episode run with eight final installments arriving this summer, this Spanish-language family saga follows new generations of the Buendías through uneasy peace, political violence, the arrival of the railroad, and a banana company hastening Macondo’s decline. Claudio Cataño, Marleyda Soto, Janer Villarreal, Viña Machado, Ruggero Pasquarelli, Moreno Borja, and Salvador del Solar return as history tightens its grip on the family’s legacy, carrying them through an era of turmoil as the country itself is reshaped by war, modernization, and exploitation. The final stretch suggests destiny isn’t written in glyphs alone; it’s etched into every choice that cannot be undone.

📺 “All the Truth in My Lies” Trailer: A Bachelorette Road Trip Turns Into a Camper-Van Confessional in Netflix’s New Spanish Rom-Com Series — Premiering Friday, August 28th on Netflix

Secrets travel badly in tight quarters. Based on Elisabet Benavent’s novel, this Netflix limited series sends Marin, Coco, Blanca, Gus, Aroa, and Loren on what should be a breezy bachelorette getaway, until buried feelings and messy truths turn the summer escape into emotional gridlock. With Daniel Ibáñez, Itziar Manero, Ricardo Gómez, Clara Sans, Lucía de la Fuente, and Brays Efe along for the ride, the road trip starts looking less like a celebration and more like group therapy on wheels. The destination may be fun, but getting there is the real disaster.

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📺 “MobLand: Season 2” Teaser: Tom Hardy Tries to Hold the Harrigans Together as Civil War Threatens Their Criminal Empire — Premiering Friday, September 18th on Paramount+

Anyone who has seen the first season of the British crime series MobLand knows that Tom Hardy is kicking into a new gear. While known for his ferocious on-screen energy, Hardy mostly shines here through restraint, letting every stare, pause, and quiet threat do much of the heavy lifting. It’s still an intensely physical performance, but bottled up inside a far more nuanced and internal character. Hardy even allows his scene partners, most notably Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, to chew the scenery while he hangs back, watches carefully, and waits for the right moment to strike. It’s the same Hardy ferocity, only played in a different key.

Despite recent rumors of on-set clashes with producers (and speculation that the upcoming second season could mark the end of his run), Hardy nevertheless returns to strike fear and settle scores as mob enforcer Harry Da Souza.

Initially conceived as a British spinoff of Ray Donovan, the series was later spun into its own project after filmmaker Guy Ritchie came aboard as executive producer and director. MobLand follows Hardy’s Harry, a loyal fixer for the Harrigans, a powerful North London crime family whose business dealings tend to leave bodies, grudges, and unfinished wars in their wake.

Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren also return as Conrad and Maeve Harrigan, the formidable heads of this criminal dynasty who, following the events of Season 1, have seen their power tested and their grip on the underworld begin to slip. Brosnan plays against type here, turning Conrad into a paranoid lunatic, while Mirren’s Maeve, his supposed “better” half, is equally volatile but far more calculating and willing to stab even her own family in the back to get what she wants.

Season 2 finds Harry still grappling with that burden as he contends with a massive civil war that is leaving London bloodied and the Harrigan empire more vulnerable than ever. Harry is once again stuck in the middle as the family’s competing factions rip apart a legacy built not on allegiance but on fear, ambition, and self-preservation.

Paddy Considine reprises his role as Conrad and Maeve’s son—and Harry’s childhood friend—Kevin, while Mandeep Dhillon returns as Seraphina Harrigan, Conrad’s beloved daughter from another marriage, whom Maeve absolutely despises.

Joanne Froggatt also returns as Harry’s wife, Jan, while other returning cast members include Lara Pulver and Teddie Allen, with Anson Boon back as Eddie Harrigan, the heir apparent who might be the most psychotic of them all.

Created by Ronan Bennett, whose television credits include Top Boy, Gunpowder, and The Day of the Jackal, the series has Guy Ritchie returning to direct a few episodes while remaining among the executive producers alongside Bennett, Jez Butterworth, and David C. Glasser.

Paramount+ will release the ten-episode second season of MobLand weekly on Fridays beginning September 18th, while Season 1 is currently available to stream on the platform. It’s one of the rare Paramount+ series that isn’t produced by Taylor Sheridan.

📺 “The Gentlemen: Season 2” Teaser: Theo James and Kaya Scodelario Take Their Criminal Empire International in Guy Ritchie’s Gangster Series — Premiering Thursday, September 3rd on Netflix

Okay, so let the Guy Ritchie-fueled underworld mayhem continue.

Here’s a newly released teaser for another Ritchie-produced crime saga, this time for the second season of Netflix’s The Gentlemen, the series inspired by his 2019 gangster film of the same name... or, technically, a spinoff from the film.

Theo James returns as Eddie Horniman, the reluctant aristocratic head of his family’s weed empire, a criminal enterprise he never intended to inherit but can no longer escape.

It has now been one year since Eddie accepted his place inside the Glass organization, and he is no longer simply trying to survive the business. He wants to expand it. His next move involves crossing borders, which means pushing into territory controlled by the Italian mafia.

And crossing those borders can only lead to more bloodshed and betrayal. Eddie might have the ambition to build an empire, but whether he has the nerve to survive one is another question.

Kaya Scodelario also returns as Susie Glass, Eddie’s elegant partner in crime, while Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Daniel Ings, and Giancarlo Esposito are all back for another puff of gangster action.

Guy Ritchie (damn, this guy never sleeps) is also back to direct, taking the series further into the kind of world he has been refining since his earliest crime films. So expect even more fast talkers, polished criminals, tangled schemes, and ambitious gangsters who believe they are clever enough to stay ahead of everyone else.

The Gentlemen: Season 2 is slated to premiere Thursday, September 3rd, on Netflix. Eddie may still have the manners of an aristocrat, but taking on the mafia will require something considerably less gentlemanly... and far more ruthless.

📺 “Sterling Point” Trailer: A Surprise Island Inheritance Uncovers a Hidden Sister and a Summer of Family Secrets in Megan Park’s Coming-of-Age Series Starring Ella Rubin, Amélie Hoeferle, and Keen Ruffalo — Premiering Wednesday, August 5th on Prime Video

Some summers come with beaches, laughs, and teen crushes. And if you’re lucky, a few lifelong memories. This one, however, comes with one very complicated inheritance and a whole lot of family secrets, as this new Prime Video series sets out to prove that summer might bring new beginnings, but it can also expose a family history no one saw coming.

In the new coming-of-age drama Sterling Point, Ella Rubin (Fear Street: Prom Queen, Until Dawn) stars as Annie Jacobson, a New York teenager who arrives on her estranged grandfather’s Canadian island with her twin brother Connor, played by newcomer Keen Ruffalo—yes, Mark Ruffalo’s son.

Still grieving the loss of her mother at a young age, Annie is stunned when she spots a mysterious girl on the island who bears an uncanny resemblance to her. Her name is Ramona, played by Amélie Hoeferle. And there’s a reason she looks so much like Annie’s mother: Ramona is the half-sister Annie never knew existed. So when the two accidentally come face-to-face inside their grandfather’s cabin, each initially believes the other is an intruder. But as this long-buried family secret finally comes to light, it pits the two sisters against each other while forcing them to grapple with the family bond that was kept from them.

Over the course of one defining summer, Annie, her twin brother Connor, and her newly discovered half-sister Ramona begin untangling their family history, while Annie also forms new friendships and romantic connections with the island’s other young residents.

Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie, Bo Bragason, and Daniel Quinn-Toye round out the ensemble, while Jay Duplass co-stars as Annie and Connor’s father and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Ramona’s father.

Megan Park, the filmmaker behind the critically acclaimed coming-of-age films My Old Ass and The Fallout, created the forthcoming Amazon series and serves as showrunner alongside Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the veteran producers behind The O.C. and Gossip Girl.

All eight episodes of Sterling Point are due to premiere Wednesday, August 5th, on Prime Video.

📺 “Marshals: Season 2” Teaser: Luke Grimes Brings Kayce Dutton Back Into Montana Justice in New Season of CBS’ Yellowstone Spinoff — Coming Fall 2026 to CBS and Paramount+

The ranch may be behind him, but Montana still knows his name. Luke Grimes returns as Kayce Dutton, the former Navy SEAL and rancher now serving with an elite U.S. Marshals unit confronting violent threats across big-sky country. With Arielle Kebbel and Tatanka Means joining the ride, alongside Mo Brings Plenty as Mo and Gil Birmingham as Thomas Rainwater, this Spencer Hudnut-showrun Yellowstone spinoff keeps Kayce caught between duty, family, and the emotional cost of drawing another line in the dirt. ’Cuz out there in Montana, a Dutton can leave the ranch behind... but trouble rarely returns the favor.

📺 “Fightland” Trailer: Howard Charles Stars as a Former Heavyweight Champion Coming Home Swinging in 50 Cent’s London-Set Crime Series with Deborah Ayorinde, Nicholas Pinnock, and Clarke Peters — Premieres Friday, July 31st on STARZ

Rapper-turned-producer 50 Cent takes his brand of hard-hitting crime drama across the pond for a new STARZ series where revenge lands harder than any punch. Howard Charles stars as Duke Kilroy, a British-born heavyweight champion who returns to London after serving several years in prison. Determined to destroy the criminal kingpin he believes ruined his life and killed his brother, Duke infiltrates a cartel where loyalty is fragile, betrayal is everywhere, and every move could be his last. From executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, and also starring Deborah Ayorinde, Nicholas Pinnock, and Clarke Peters, the series suggests that no one ever truly leaves the fight game until the final bell rings.

📺 “The Rapture” Trailer: Ruth Jones Plays a Forensic Psychologist Investigating a Teenage Killer Who Claims She Can Predict the Future in BBC’s Psychological Thriller with India Amarteifio — Coming Soon to BBC

Some warnings sound impossible until they start coming true. Adapted from Liz Jensen’s bestselling novel, this high-stakes British thriller stars Gavin & Stacey’s Ruth Jones as forensic psychologist Gabs Fox, who begins working at a high-security psychiatric hospital and meets Bethany Krall, played by Queen Charlotte’s India Amarteifio, a 17-year-old convicted of murdering her mother who insists she is innocent. As Bethany’s psychic predictions pull Gabs toward a deeper mystery involving the girl’s estranged father and his religious movement, belief becomes its own kind of danger. The question is no longer just what Bethany did or what she knows, but what happens if she is right about the future.

📺 “Diarra From Detroit: Season 2” Trailer: Diarra Kilpatrick’s Chaotic Detroit Mystery Moves to Paramount+ With Murders, Treasure Hunts, and Trouble — Premiering Wednesday, July 29th on Paramount+

Summer plans are overrated when there’s a triple homicide to solve. Series creator/star Diarra Kilpatrick returns as Diarra Brickland, whose attempt to keep things breezy gets derailed by a furniture-recovery job that opens the door to murder, urban legends, gang conflict, a citywide treasure hunt, and a secret society. With Morris Chestnut, Phylicia Rashad, Bryan Terrell Clark, and DomiNque Perry in the mix, Season 2 sends Detroit’s messiest amateur sleuth back undercover. Some people find themselves over the summer; Diarra finds another criminal underworld.

📺 “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy” Trailer: Charlie Brown Helps Snoopy Track Down His Missing Doghouse in Apple TV’s New Peanuts Special — Premiering Friday, July 31st on Apple TV

Home is where the doghouse is. When Snoopy’s beloved little red residence is accidentally sold at a yard sale, Charlie Brown sets out to help his devastated best friend get it back. Directed by Ridd Sorensen and based on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts, this Apple TV special turns a missing house into a sweet reminder that home is built from more than wood, nails, and a really good roof. Even Snoopy knows curb appeal only gets you so far.

📺 “The Apartment Job” Trailer: A Former Gang Boss and an Aspiring Lawyer Try to Rob the System in This New Korean Crime Comedy Series Starring Ji Sung, Ha Yoon-kyoung and Park Byung-eun — Premiering Saturday, July 11th on Netflix

Real estate fraud gets a very messy tenant meeting in this new Korean crime comedy series. Ji Sung stars as a cash-strapped former gang boss who teams up with an aspiring lawyer to steal an apartment complex’s reserve fund, only to stumble into a deeper corruption scheme than either one expected. With Ha Yoon-kyoung and Park Byung-eun co-starring, the scam quickly turns into something bigger, stranger, and harder to walk away from.

📺 “A Shop for Killers: Season 2” Trailer: Kim Hye-jun Reenters the Assassin Underworld to Defend Her Uncle’s Deadly Legacy in This Korean Action Thriller — Premieres Wednesday, July 22nd on Hulu and Disney+

Surviving the shop was only the opening round. Kim Hye-jun returns as Jeong Ji-an, who protected the dangerous operation her uncle left behind but still has assassins chasing her through the shadows. With Lee Dong-wook back as Jeong Jin-man and Hyunri and Masaki Okada joining the cast, Season 2 pulls Ji-an deeper into the killer network she inherited. When the family business is murder, closing up shop is never that easy.

📺 “Though I Am an Inept Villainess” Trailer: A Palace Body-Swap Turns Deadly in Netflix’s Court Fantasy Anime — Streaming Sunday, July 12th on Netflix in Select Regions of Asia

Palace intrigue is rough enough before someone steals your body. This fantasy anime follows Keigetsu and Reirin after a body swap leaves one of them trapped in a beloved noblewoman’s dying body and the other facing punishment for crimes she did not commit. As danger coils beneath the royal court, the two unlikely allies have to untangle betrayal, survival, and identity before the palace finishes the job.

📺 “Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You” Trailer: A Burnt-Out Salaryman Finds an Unexpected Connection During Late-Night Smoke Breaks in Netflix’s Romantic Anime — Streaming Friday, July 10th on Netflix

A cigarette break is supposed to clear the head, not complicate the heart. In this new romantic anime series, burnt-out salaryman Sasaki gets through each day with cigarettes and the smile of supermarket clerk Yamada. Until one evening, a mysterious woman invites him to smoke behind the store. What begins as a quiet escape from work slowly becomes an unexpected connection, giving him something new to look forward to after closing time.

📺 “Black Clover: Season 2” Trailer: Asta and Yuno Return for a New Magical Saga on Their Road to Becoming the Wizard King — Coming to Crunchyroll in October

A new saga begins, but the dream remains the same. In a world ruled by magic, powerless Asta continues wielding his rare Anti-Magic grimoire alongside gifted rival Yuno as both face tougher enemies on their separate paths toward becoming the Wizard King. Based on Yūki Tabata’s manga, this anime fantasy adventure returns with higher stakes, stronger spells, and another reminder that giving up has never been part of Asta’s vocabulary.

📺 “Suikoden: The Anime” Trailer: Two Child Soldiers Are Pulled to Opposite Sides of a War in Konami’s Fantasy Adventure Adaptation — Airing in Japan starting in October

Two boys share the same tent, the same sky, and the same hope of surviving the war together. Lilyu and his closest friend Jowie serve as child soldiers for the powerful Highland Kingdom, believing ordinary life will return once the fighting ends. Instead, destiny grants them extraordinary power and pulls them deeper into a conflict that threatens to divide their friendship and reshape the Dunan region. Based on Konami’s Suikoden II and directed by Yūzō Satō, this anime fantasy saga suggests that protecting everything may require choosing what (and who) you are willing to lose.

📺 “Return to Fox Hollow: New Victims, Darker Secrets” Trailer: Fresh Leads Expose a More Disturbing Chapter in the Fox Hollow Farm Murders — Streaming Wednesday, July 8th on Hulu/Disney+

The case may have gone cold, but Fox Hollow is still giving up its secrets. This true-crime documentary revisits the murders linked to Herb Baumeister as new evidence, additional victims, and previously unheard sources push the investigation in unsettling directions. What once looked like a closed chapter now appears to be only part of a much larger story.

📺 “WWE: Unreal: Season 3” Trailer: John Cena Says Goodbye as WWE’s Next Generation Steps Into the Spotlight — Premieres Tuesday, July 21st on Netflix

The matches may be scripted, but the pressure behind them is very real. Season 3 follows John Cena’s farewell, the return of a fan favorite, and a new generation of WWE Superstars fighting for their place on the card as injuries, creative pivots, and career-defining decisions disrupt the road to WrestleMania 42. With cameras returning to the writers’ room and backstage corridors, this sports documentary series reveals how quickly even the biggest plans can get pinned.

📺 “The Final Problem” Teaser: A Retired Sherlock Holmes Actor Investigates a Murder Among 13 Storm-Trapped Suspects in This Spanish Mystery Series Starring José Coronado — Premiering Friday, September 25th on Netflix

Thirteen guests, one isolated hotel, and a death no one can escape. Set in 1959, this period mystery follows Basil (José Coronado), a retired actor once famous for playing Sherlock Holmes, who puts his old detective instincts to work after a woman’s apparent suicide begins looking like murder. With a storm cutting the island off from the outside world, every guest becomes a suspect and every secret offers another possible motive. Directed by Félix Viscarret and adapted from Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novel, this locked-room mystery proves that playing a great detective and solving a real crime are two very different games.

📺 “Love in Slow Motion” Trailer: A Best Friend’s Engagement Turns Into a Friend-Zone Wake-Up Call in This Kuwaiti Romantic Comedy Series Starring Nour Al Ghandour and Ali Kakooli — Streaming Thursday, July 23rd on Netflix

Nothing complicates the friend zone quite like an engagement. Egyptian actress Nour Al Ghandour stars as Haya, a chronically single woman who has always kept romance at a safe distance, until her best friend Jawad (Ali Kakooli) announces he is getting married. As familiar feelings begin taking on an entirely new meaning, Haya must decide whether she has missed her chance or finally recognized the love that was beside her all along. Sometimes the heart moves slowly right up until time starts running out.

📺 “Death Inc.: Final Season” Trailer: A Fight Over Leadership Turns Funeral-Home Management Into a Corporate Disaster in This Spanish Workplace Comedy Finale Starring Diego Martín and Carlos Areces — Premiering Friday, August 7th on Netflix

Running a funeral home is hard enough without killing morale. In this six-episode final season, Chemi (Diego Martín) installs himself as Torregrosa’s temporary director, leaving Dámaso (Carlos Areces) torn between sabotage and shameless flattery while waiting for his promised turn. But Chemi’s corporate-minded reforms quickly prove disastrous for the funeral trade. This Spanish workplace comedy prepares to bury itself with one last round of bad decisions before closing its doors for good.

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📺 “Star Wars: Visions Presents — The Ninth Jedi” Trailer: Kara Continues Her Anime Jedi Journey in Lucasfilm and Production I.G’s New Limited Anime Series — Streaming Wednesday, August 5th on Disney+/Hulu

Whatever you make of Star Wars these days, whether the recent projects have worn you down or you’re still curious about where the franchise goes next, some would probably agree that one of Lucasfilm’s clearest bright spots has been its move into anime.

In a lot of ways, it feels like a natural progression. After all, Star Wars has always lived somewhere between science-fiction fables, space westerns, samurai lore, pulp adventure, and operatic fantasy, which makes it surprisingly well suited to the style, gestures, and visual energy that anime is known for.

A prime example is The Ninth Jedi, the standout short from Star Wars: Visions Volume 1, and its follow-up, The Ninth Jedi: Child of Hope. Written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, with the follow-up written and directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani, these stories do not simply remix George Lucas’s familiar space-opera ingredients. They give Star Wars a looser, more adventurous pulse; a much-needed flair and visual personality that feels distinct and refreshingly removed from the more over-managed shape of recent Star Wars projects, many of which have unfortunately lacked any real originality.

Now Lucasfilm and Japanese anime studio Production I.G. are building that story out into its own limited series, Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi.

Set in the distant future, long after the Empire and the Rebel Alliance, the series follows Lah Kara after the Jedi and Sith have faded into legend. Kara, the daughter of legendary sabersmith Lah Zhima, joins a small fellowship of Jedi-in-training as she searches for her missing father and tries to stay ahead of dangerous Jedi Hunters.

Zhima is not just a father in need of rescue. As the only known sabersmith in the galaxy, he carries the key to something much larger: the return of the Jedi not as a memory, but as a living force again.

The series is directed by Shunsuke Tada and written by Mitsuyasu Sakai, with Kenji Kamiyama serving as supervising director. Returning English voice cast members include Kimiko Glenn as Lah Kara, Andrew Kishino as Juro, Masi Oka as Ethan, Patrick Seitz as Homen, JP Karliak as Gramps, Simu Liu as Lah Zhima, and Neil Kaplan as The Narrator.

Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi is due to premiere Wednesday, August 5th on Disney+ and Hulu.

📺 “The Bombing of Pan Am 103” Trailer: Connor Swindells, Peter Mullan, Eddie Marsan, Patrick J. Adams, and Merritt Wever Star in Netflix’s Six-Part British Miniseries Tracing the Grief, Outrage, and Search for Justice After the 1988 Lockerbie Attack — Premiering Thursday, July 30th on Netflix

For those who still remember classic network TV miniseries from the ’80s and ’90s, you’ll understand that some of the best ones were built around true-life tragedies. The TV movie of the week. The ripped-from-the-headlines event drama. We suppose their popularity derived from the emotional weight of these stories, which made for compelling dramatic material while also giving viewers a fuller view of what happened, who was affected, and how communities reacted.

Well, The Bombing of Pan Am 103, Netflix’s latest limited series, could technically be considered true crime, and yes, it does center on an investigation. But in spirit, it feels much closer to the miniseries of yesteryear: a wide-reaching dramatization of a real-world tragedy, one that seems less interested in sensationalizing the case than in tracing the grief, outrage, and long search for accountability that followed.

Featuring a strong ensemble cast led by Sex Education’s Connor Swindells, Suits star Patrick J. Adams, Emmy winner Merritt Wever, I Swear’s Peter Mullan, along with Eddie Marsan, Tony Curran, Nicholas Gleaves, and Grey’s Anatomy’s Kevin McKidd, this six-part limited series revisits the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988.

Considered one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.K. history, the airplane bombing killed 270 people and left families across several countries searching for answers. From there, the drama follows the investigation that grew out of the disaster, beginning with the first work on the ground in Scotland before expanding into a wider international effort to identify who was responsible.

The series follows investigators, officials, and family members pulled into the same tragedy from very different sides, including the families living with the loss, the pressure on Scottish police and U.S. law enforcement, and the slow, often frustrating process of turning wreckage, testimony, and political pressure into a viable case for prosecution.

Created and written by British writer Jonathan Lee and directed by Michael Keillor (Line of Duty, Mr Selfridge), The Bombing of Pan Am 103 is seemingly a docudrama throwback that tells a historical crime story through the investigation itself, but also through the many officials, investigators, and grieving families who had to sift through the noise and confusion in search of answers.

The Bombing of Pan Am 103 premieres Thursday, July 30th, on Netflix.

Side note: the same tragedy was also dramatized in Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, the five-part Peacock series starring Colin Firth as Dr. Jim Swire, a father seeking accountability after his daughter’s death. That series premiered January 2, 2025, and is currently available to stream on Peacock.

📺 “The Greatest” First Look Teaser: Muhammad Ali’s Life Enters the Ring in Prime Video’s First Authorized Scripted Series About the Boxing Icon — Premiering November 4th on Prime Video

Jaalen Best stars as Muhammad Ali in this upcoming scripted series exploring the champion’s rise, battles, beliefs, and larger-than-life presence inside and outside the ring. Executive produced by Ali’s wife, Lonnie Ali, the series goes beyond the victories and defeats to look at the man who became a global icon without ever letting the world tell him who to be. Some fighters simply win titles; Ali changed the entire landscape of the sport.

📺 “Colin From Accounts: Season 3” Trailer: Australia’s Beloved Rom-Com Returns as Ashley and Gordon Face the Next Chapter Together — Premiering Monday, July 27th on Australia’s BINGE

Ashley and Gordon are back, and life doesn’t appear to be getting any less complicated. Aussie actors Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer return as the lovable, imperfect couple whose relationship began with an injured dog and an unlikely meet-cute. Created and written by the real-life husband-and-wife duo, this award-winning Australian romantic dramedy continues balancing heartfelt romance with awkward humor as its two leads navigate love, commitment, and whatever fresh surprises await them in Sydney.

📺 “Ms. X” Trailer: Melissa George’s Desperate Housewife Stumbles Into a Criminal Underworld in This Dark Australian Drama Series with Dean O’Gorman — Premieres in Australia on BINGE Tuesday, June 30th

What begins as a plan to scare a cheating husband quickly spirals into something far more dangerous in this offbeat Aussie drama series. Melissa George (The Slap) stars as suburban mother Mia, who teams up with an old high school friend (played by The Almighty Johnsons’s Dean O’Gorman) to teach her husband a lesson, only to find herself caught between the police, a ruthless cartel, and an increasingly hostile PTA. Created by Hannah Marshall and David de Lautour, this crime drama mixes domestic chaos with escalating criminal consequences in ways that look equal parts tense and darkly funny.

📺 “Baywatch” Sneak Peek Teaser: Stephen Amell Leads Fox’s Sun-Soaked Lifeguard Reboot with a New Generation Protecting the Shoreline — Premieres January on Fox

The red swimsuits are back, but this new Baywatch is bringing a fresh crew to the sand. Stephen Amell stars as Hobie Buchannon, now a Baywatch captain following in the footsteps of his legendary father, Mitch, only for his life to get complicated when his daughter arrives ready to carry on the family legacy. Jessica Belkin, Hassie Harrison, Shay Mitchell, Thaddeus LaGrone, Noah Beck, and Brooks Nader join the cast, with Livvy Dunne making her acting debut and David Chokachi returning as Cody Madison. McG directs the premiere, while Burn Notice creator Matt Nix serves as showrunner for this Fox reboot.

📺 “Ann Droid” Trailer: Diane Morgan Becomes Sue Johnston’s Overly Attentive Robot Carer in BBC’s Near-Future Comedy — Premiering Friday, July 17th in the U.K. on BBC One and BBC iPlayer

A second-hand robot carer is not exactly the retirement gift anyone dreams about. Set in 2029, this six-part BBC comedy stars veteran British TV actress Sue Johnston (The Royle Family, Downton Abbey) as Sue, a recently widowed pensioner whose son leaves her in the care of Linda, a socially awkward “AnnDroid” eldercare robot played by comedienne Diane Morgan (Mandy). Created by Morgan and Sarah Kendall, the series turns a sharp AI premise into a story about loneliness, independence, family guilt, and the strange comfort of bad technology.

📺 “The Undeclared War: Season 2” Trailer: Simon Pegg and Hannah Khalique-Brown Return to GCHQ as Channel 4’s Cyber-Thriller Raises the Digital Stakes — Coming Soon in the U.K. to Channel 4

The cyberwar is far from over. Set in 2024, the second season of this British thriller brings the Malware Department at GCHQ back into crisis mode after a devastating Russian cyber-attack leaves the UK scrambling for control. Simon Pegg returns as Danny Patrick, Hannah Khalique-Brown returns as young coder Saara Parvin, and Siân Brooke joins as Barbara Patrick, an ex-MI6 analyst now working inside GCHQ. Written by Colin Teevan and directed across all six episodes by Paul McGuigan, the new season pushes the team toward a more dangerous threat hiding behind the attack’s aftermath.

📺 “Neuromancer” New Sneak Peek Teaser: William Gibson’s Cyberpunk Classic Finally Reaches the Screen in This Long-Awaited Sci-Fi Series — Coming Soon on Apple TV

More than four decades after William Gibson helped define cyberpunk, his ground-breaking sci-fi novel is finally making the leap to live action. Callum Turner stars as washed-up hacker Case, who is pulled into one last impossible job alongside Briana Middleton’s deadly cybernetic assassin Molly. Developed by Graham Roland and JD Dillard, with Mark Strong, Clémence Poésy, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Laird, and Joseph Lee rounding out the cast, this adaptation looks ready to dive headfirst into a future world of rogue A.I., corporate conspiracies, and digital ghosts.

📺 “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” Teaser: A New Standalone Anime Series Returns to Night City for Another Brutal Tale of Revenge and Redemption — Streaming This Fall on Netflix

Night City is ready to create another legend. This standalone 10-episode story returns to the world of Cyberpunk 2077 with an entirely new cast of characters navigating a future driven by violence, ambition, and survival. Centered on themes of revenge and redemption, the anime looks set to expand the franchise’s dystopian universe while asking how far someone will go to leave their mark on a world obsessed with neon-tinted spectacle.

📺 “Fool Night” Teaser: A Sunless Future Pushes Humanity Toward a Strange New Form of Survival in This New Sci-Fi Anime Series — Streaming Worldwide in 2026 on Netflix

In a future starved of sunlight, warmth, and oxygen, humanity survives through Transfloration, a grim technology that turns dying people into plant life. Based on Kasumi Yasuda’s acclaimed manga, this new series follows Toshiro Kamiya, a poor young man crushed by taxes, survival, and caring for his mentally ill mother, until despair pushes him toward becoming a “Spiriflor.” Directed by Atsushi Yukawa, with series composition by Jin Tanaka and character design by Robert Sato, this Netflix anime marks the first collaboration between anime studios Sunrise and SHAFT, which is already enough to make this one worth watching closely.

📺 “The Ghost in the Shell” Trailer: This New Anime Series Reimagines Shirow Masamune’s Cyberpunk Landmark Saga of Cyborgs, Hackers, and High-Tech Crime — Streaming Tuesday, July 7th on Prime Video

One of anime’s defining cyberpunk worlds is getting a bold new interpretation. Based on Shirow Masamune’s landmark manga, The Ghost in the Shell follows full-body cyborg Motoko Kusanagi as she helps establish Public Security Section 9 while pursuing the elusive hacker known as the Puppet Master. Directed by Mokochan and produced by Science SARU, the series promises a visually striking return to the franchise’s philosophical blend of technology, phantom hackers, and high-stakes cybercrime.

📺 “STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: 2nd STAGE” Trailer: Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli Ride Into the Devil’s Palm as Netflix’s Anime Saga Continues — Streaming Friday, September 25th on Netflix

The race across America is starting to look less like a sporting event and more like a supernatural trap. Set in 1890, Netflix’s anime adaptation follows former jockey Johnny Joestar and outlaw Gyro Zeppeli as they push deeper into the Steel Ball Run, a brutal cross-continent horse race with a $50 million prize and far stranger forces moving underneath it. The 2nd STAGE sends them across a 750-mile desert stretch haunted by the feared Devil’s Palm, while new players like Mountain Tim, Hot Pants, and Funny Valentine enter the ride.

📺 “The East Palace” Trailer: Ghosts, Royal Secrets, and a Cursed Palace Fuel Netflix’s Korean Fantasy Mystery — Premiering Friday, July 17th on Netflix

A feared ghost-slayer and a court lady who can hear the voices of the dead are forced into an uneasy alliance when supernatural forces begin haunting the royal palace. Nam Joo-hyuk, Roh Yoon-seo, and Cho Seung-woo lead this dark fantasy mystery as they unravel ancient secrets hidden behind the kingdom’s walls. Blending palace intrigue, folklore, and spectral horror, this Korean series looks poised to deliver a haunting mix of mystery and historical fantasy.

📺 “The Doll” Trailer: A Polish Literary Classic Becomes a Story of Desire, Wealth, and Obsession in This Titillating Period Miniseries — Premiering Wednesday, September 16th on Netflix

Love, ambition, and social status become a dangerous combination in this new adaptation of one of Poland’s most celebrated novels. Tomasz Schuchardt and Sandra Drzymalska lead the six-episode drama as two people drawn together despite the rigid barriers separating their worlds, while obsession and wealth steadily reshape their lives. Directed by Paweł Maślona, the series explores class, desire, and freedom against the backdrop of a society struggling to evolve.

📺 “The Bad Guy” Trailer: A Wrongfully Convicted Prosecutor Reinvents Himself to Take Down the Mafia From Within In This Italian Crime Series — Streaming Tuesday, July 7th on The Network App

Justice takes a back seat when revenge becomes the only path forward. Luigi Lo Cascio stars as a Sicilian prosecutor whose life is destroyed after he’s falsely accused of Mafia ties and sent to prison, prompting him to assume a dangerous new identity to strike back at those who betrayed him. Directed by Giancarlo Fontana and Giuseppe G. Stasi, this Italian crime drama turns one man’s search for redemption into a calculated war against organized crime.

📺 “Average Joe: Season 2” Teaser: Deon Cole Returns to Take His Family’s Mob Problems From Pittsburgh to South Africa — Streaming Wednesday, August 19th on Paramount+

Joe’s ordinary life keeps drifting further from ordinary. Deon Cole returns as the plumber whose family’s ties to the Russian mob spark another dangerous adventure, this time stretching from Pittsburgh to Cape Town as new enemies and buried secrets emerge. Blending action, comedy, and crime, the second season raises the stakes with an international chase where every decision could prove costly.

📺 “Diarra From Detroit: Season 2” Teaser: Another Detroit Mystery Pulls Diarra Into Murder, Treasure Hunts, and Secret Societies in This Chicago-set Series From Creator and Star Diarra Kilpatrick — Coming Soon to Paramount+

Diarra Brickland just wanted a carefree summer, but trouble has other plans. Creator and star Diarra Kilpatrick returns for another offbeat mystery that begins with a furniture recovery job before spiraling into homicide investigations, urban legends, and hidden conspiracies beneath Detroit. Mixing comedy, crime, and unpredictable twists, the new season promises another wildly entertaining ride through the city’s stranger corners.

📺 “Camp Rock 3” Teaser: A New Generation Competes for the Spotlight as the Jonas Brothers Return to Camp — Debuts Thursday, August 13th on Disney Channel; Streaming Next Day Friday, August 14th on Disney+

Returning to the place where their journey began, Connect 3 heads back to Camp Rock in search of the next act to join them on tour, turning the beloved music camp into a stage where ambition, talent, and friendship are all put to the test. As campers including Sage, Desi, Rosie, and others chase the coveted opportunity, rivalries intensify, romances blossom, and every performance carries a little more weight. Directed by Veronica Rodriguez and featuring Everett Andres, Orlando Lucas, Lumi Pollack, Ava Jean, Ella Lucas, Brooklynn Pitts, Liamani Segura, Casey Trotter, Hudson Stone, and the Jonas Brothers, this musical sequel aims to introduce a new generation of rising stars while celebrating the spirit that made the original music films fan favorites.

📺 “Das Boot: Season 2” Trailer: The German WWII Drama Surfaces in the U.S. with a Never-Before-Seen Season on MHz Choice — Premieres Tuesday, August 4th in the U.S. on MHz Choice

The pressure of war spreads far beyond the U-boat in Season 2 of the German WWII drama expands its story across two continents. Klaus Hoffman lands in New York and finds himself caught inside the American system, while the series continues weaving espionage, resistance, military duty, and survival into one tense wartime drama. Franz Dinda, Tom Wlaschiha, Rick Okon, Rainer Bock, Fleur Geffrier, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Kartheiser, and Lizzy Caplan star in the eight-episode season, created and written by Tony Saint and Johannes Betz.

📺 “Impractical Jokers: Season 13” Trailer: Sal, Q, and Murr Return with More Painfully Awkward Dares and Celebrity-Fueled Punishments — Premieres Thursday, July 23rd on TBS

More than a decade in, this long-running prank-laded reality comedy series is still finding new ways to make its stars squirm in public. Season 13 sends Sal, Q, and Murr back into the wild for another round of outrageous challenges where refusing a dare is never an option, and the loser faces an over-the-top punishment with help from celebrity guests.

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📺 “The Hawk” Trailer: Will Ferrell’s Washed-Up Golf Legend Refuses to Retire Quietly in Netflix’s New Sports Comedy Series with Jimmy Tatro and Molly Shannon — Premieres Thursday, July 16th on Netflix

They say the problem with Will Ferrell is that all he ever plays are whiny man-child characters with bloated egos, always one tantrum away from total collapse.

And we say… yeah, so what’s wrong with that? Especially when Ferrell keeps turning these man-baby characters into comedy gold. So yes, Ferrell is back doing what he does best: screaming, crying, complaining, collapsing, and somehow turning emotional instability into a comic art form.

In the upcoming Netflix sports comedy series The Hawk, Ferrell stars as Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins, a former No. 1 golfer whose glory days are fading faster than his swing. Once ranked at the top of the sport back in 2004, Lonnie is now stuck on the back nine of his career, clinging to one final dream: winning the last major championship he needs to complete golf’s Grand Slam.

Of course, the problem with a comeback is that everyone else has to believe in it too. Lonnie’s body seems ready to quit. His ex-wife Stacy, played by fellow SNL alum Molly Shannon, thinks retirement might be the healthier option. And his son Lance, played by Scream 7’s Jimmy Tatro, has become golf’s new golden boy, which is probably not great for a father whose ego already needs its own caddie.

From there, the fairway starts to feel less like a path to redemption and more like a public breakdown waiting to happen as Lonnie and his son Lance duke it out for bragging rights, family pride, and possibly the last functioning piece of Lonnie’s sanity.

Comedian Fortune Feimster joins the mix as Lonnie’s new caddie Sam, with Luke Wilson as rival golfer Golden Fisk, SNL alum Chris Parnell as PGA Tour board member Anton, Ballers’ Katelyn Tarver as Lance’s fiancée Natalie, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s David Hornsby as Stacy’s new partner Radford.

Ferrell serves as co-creator alongside Ferrell’s longtime collaborator and former SNL writer Harper Steele and Funny or Die co-founder Chris Henchy, with filmmakers David Gordon Green and Rian Johnson on board as executive producers.

The Hawk premieres Thursday, July 16th on Netflix. So prepare for Ferrell to once again turn a sport into a glass case of emotions... and then smash his way out with a golf club.

📺 “Furious” Trailer: Emmy Rossum Hunts an Elusive Female Serial Killer in Liz Meriwether’s New FBI Thriller Series with Lola Petticrew and Scoot McNairy — Debuting Monday, July 27th on Hulu/Disney+

There are detective thrillers built around one question: who is the killer?

And then there are detective thrillers less interested in the whodunit and more locked into the pursuit. That seems to be the case with Furious, a new Hulu thriller where Emmy Rossum, of Shameless fame, plays an FBI agent chasing a mysterious, dangerous woman tied to a string of murders.

Rossum stars as Alice Black, a hard-charging FBI agent with a dark past who is drawn into the hunt for Catherine, a calculating and elusive female serial killer played by Irish actress Lola Petticrew (of FX’s Say Nothing). As Alice digs into Catherine’s personal history, looking for clues that might reveal where she’ll strike next, the case becomes less like a standard investigation and more like a psychological chase between two women shaped by shared trauma and competing ideas of justice.

The suspense seems to come from one dangerous question: is Catherine always one move ahead, or is the FBI simply arriving too late every time another victim turns up? Which just goes to show you that catching a serial killer before they strike again might be harder than figuring out who they are once the bodies start piling up.

Loosely inspired by the 1987 Debra Winger and Theresa Russell-starring thriller Black Widow, the series appears to rework the original premise into something more morally complicated than a man-murdering madwoman tale. As the death toll rises, Alice’s pursuit of Catherine begins to blur into something more unsettling, especially as the boundaries between justice, obsession, victimhood, and vengeance start to shift from line to line.

Rounding out the cast are Scoot McNairy, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, and Jake Lacy, with Emmy-nominated TV producer-writer Liz Meriwether (New Girl, The Dropout, Dying for Sex) executive producing. Meanwhile, acclaimed TV helmer Brian Kirk (Game of Thrones, The Day of the Jackal) directs the first two episodes.

Furious is slated to premiere Monday, July 27th on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.

📺 “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” Trailer: The Big Bang Theory’s Comic Book Store Owner Accidentally Breaks Reality in This Spinoff Series Starring Brian Posehn, Kevin Sussman, Lauren Lapkus, and John Ross Bowie — Debuting Thursday, July 23rd on HBO Max

Sitcoms have a certain formula: set up a situation for the characters to stumble through, hit the jokes on time, and wait for the laughs to come roaring in.

Now what happens if you not only overhaul the sitcom formula but take it into a completely different arena, where the laughs come less from punchlines and more from watching familiar characters stumble through the absurdity of an alternate universe?

That appears to be the setup behind Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, HBO Max’s new sci-fi comedy series that brings Kevin Sussman back as Stuart Bloom, the anxious comic book store owner from The Big Bang Theory.

This time, Stuart is no longer just hovering around the edges of the sitcom world. He’s pushed into the center of a reality-threatening disaster after breaking a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally triggering a multiverse Armageddon.

So, naturally, the fate of existence now rests with Stuart. And he’s not exactly the hero for the job, which may be the joke and the problem rolled into one.

Feeling a lot like a live-action version of Rick and Morty with a dash of Bill & Ted, the upcoming series follows Stuart as he tries to repair reality with help from his girlfriend Denise, played by Lauren Lapkus, geologist friend Bert, played by Brian Posehn, and quantum physicist Barry Kripke, played by John Ross Bowie.

Their mission? Travel through alternate realities populated by different versions of characters connected to The Big Bang Theory, turning the familiar sitcom universe into a broader comic sci-fi adventure that feels a lot less like a multi-camera sitcom and more like a single-cam Mad Max spoof.

Created by Chuck Lorre, Zak Penn, and Bill Prady, the comedy seems built around the joke of taking characters designed for awkward conversations and nerdy arguments, then dropping them into a cosmic crisis they are in no way emotionally prepared to handle. The multiverse may be collapsing, but at least it picked the least qualified guy possible to fix it.

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe debuts Thursday, July 23rd on HBO Max.

📺 “King of the Hill: Season 15” Trailer: Hank and Peggy Return to a Changed Arlen as Bobby Builds a Life of His Own — Premieres Monday, July 20th on Hulu

Retirement was never going to calm Hank Hill down. If anything, it might just give him more time to be irritated. After returning to Texas following several years in Saudi Arabia, Hank and Peggy are trying to adjust to life back on Rainey Street while figuring out what retirement is supposed to look like. Meanwhile, Bobby is carving out his own adult life as a Dallas chef and taking a new step with his childhood crush, Connie. But as their relationship moves forward, things get a little complicated in this new season of the animated revival from Mike Judge. With Judge, Kathy Najimy, Stephen Root, Pamela Adlon, Lauren Tom, Toby Huss, and more back in the voice cast, this animated comedy proves that some things change with time, but on Rainey Street, common sense still has its work cut out for it.

📺 “Batman: Caped Crusader: Season 2” Trailer: Gotham Gets More Dangerous as Prime Video’s Noir-Styled Batman Series Returns — Streams Friday, July 31st on Prime Video

Gotham is getting darker, and Batman’s crusade is starting to leave a mark. Season 2 sends Hamish Linklater’s Bruce Wayne back into the city’s criminal underworld as new villains rise, citizens live in fear, and the line between justice and obsession grows harder to see. With Alfred Pennyworth, Jim Gordon, Barbara Gordon, and Renee Montoya all orbiting Batman’s dangerous mission in their own ways, this noir-soaked animated series keeps digging into a Gotham where every good deed seems to create another problem. The cape may scare criminals, but it doesn’t make the city any less broken.

📺 “President Curtis” Trailer: Keith David’s Rick and Morty Character Gets His Own Adult Swim Spin-Off — Premieres Sunday, July 26th on Adult Swim

President Andre Curtis finally gets the crises Rick Sanchez usually ignores. Legendary character actor Keith David reprises his role in this adult animated Rick and Morty spin-off, following the Commander-in-Chief and his oddball staff through interdimensional diplomacy, paranormal investigations, and other problems that probably should not reach the Oval Office. Created by Dan Harmon and James Siciliano, the series turns the U.S. presidency into a ridiculous cosmic disaster, not that it isn’t already one.

📺 “Ransom Canyon: Season 2” Trailer: Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly Return as Love, Land, and Legacy Shake Up This Texas Ranching Drama — Premieres Thursday, July 23rd on Netflix

Land, love, and legacy are still causing trouble in this Texas town. Season 2 brings Staten and Quinn back into each other’s orbit after six months apart, with Quinn returning home from New York and Staten chasing risky new ventures that could help bring hope back to Ransom Canyon. Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly return as the ranching drama digs deeper into family power plays, land disputes, new threats, and the long-simmering feelings neither character can fully outrun. ’Cuz in Ransom, the past is never truly buried, and the personal beefs are just as big as the cattle herds themselves.

📺 “The Librarians: The Next Chapter: Season 2” Trailer: Magic, Mayhem, and Merlin Push the Team Into Stranger Territory in This New Season of TNT’s Cult Spinoff Franchise — Premieres Sunday, August 2nd on TNT

The Library is open again, and the job is getting messier. Season 2 sends Vikram (Callum McGowan), Lysa (Olivia Morris), Connor (Bluey Robinson), and Charlie (Jessica Green) into a new run of magical missions involving rage outbreaks, dangerous artifacts, and a surprise encounter with Merlin himself, played by Lord of the Rings star Dominic Monaghan. With old allies returning and new threats testing the team’s limits, this fantasy-adventure series looks ready to make responsibility feel just as dangerous as the monsters.

📺 “Possession” Teaser: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Faces Family Secrets and Plantation Horrors in Sky’s New Thriller Series — Coming Soon in the U.K.

The past has a very ugly way of finding its way back home. Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars in this new British original series as Claudia, an ambitious young lawyer sent to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance claim involving a wealthy aristocrat and a contested estate. But when she discovers the property is Hope Hill, the Connaught family’s former plantation and the same house haunting her nightmares, a legal case begins to twist into something far more personal and unsettling. Some houses don’t just hold history... they make sure the scars never heal.

📺 “Marble Hall Murders” Teaser: Lesley Manville Returns for One Last Susan Ryeland Mystery in New Magpie Murders Series — Premieres Sunday, September 6th on MASTERPIECE on PBS

Susan Ryeland has found another manuscript with a body count attached. Lesley Manville returns as the crime-fiction editor is hired to work on a new Atticus Pünd continuation novel, only to get pulled into a real murder case that leaves her under suspicion. Meanwhile, Tim McMullan’s Pünd heads to Corfu for a mystery of his own, giving this final chapter of the Magpie Murders series another layered puzzle where fiction and murder keep bleeding into each other.

📺 “Fightland” Trailer: A Fallen Boxing Champion Comes Home Looking for Revenge in STARZ’s New Crime Drama Starring Howard Charles, Nicholas Pinnock and Deborah Ayorinde — Premieres Friday, July 31st on STARZ

Duke Kilroy (Howard Charles) climbed to the top once, then lost almost everything. After eight years in a U.S. prison, the British-born heavyweight returns to London determined to take down the criminal kingpin he blames for his brother’s death. But with family ties, old love, cartel pressure, and a vanished enemy complicating the path, revenge starts to look less like justice and more like a trap.

📺 “JAŸ-Z In 8” Teaser: Jay-Z Sits Down with Rick Rubin for HBO’s Eight-Part Music Documentary — Coming This Fall to HBO Max

Jay-Z and Rick Rubin are putting the conversation at the center of the story. This eight-part HBO documentary series brings the rapper and producer together to discuss music, lyrics, life, and creative process. With a long shared history between the two, the series looks built less like a standard music doc and more like an extended session inside the mind of one of hip-hop’s defining artists.

📺 “Blood Sacrifice” Teaser: A Swedish Detective Teams with His Estranged Ex-Cop Father to Hunt a Police Killer in This New Swedish Crime Thriller Starring Jakob Oftebro and Peter Andersson — Premieres Thursday, August 20th on Netflix

A killer is targeting police, and time is already running out. Jakob Oftebro and Peter Andersson star as a detective and his retired ex-cop father, an estranged pair forced into an uneasy alliance after two officers are brutally murdered. From George Kay, the creator behind Lupin and Hijack, this Swedish crime thriller turns a family fracture into the only path toward catching a murderer.

📺 “Ricky Gervais’ Alley Cats” Trailer: Feral British Cats Get Foul-Mouthed and Philosophical in Netflix’s Adult Animated Comedy Created by and Starring Ricky Gervais — Premiering Friday, August 7th on Netflix

Life on the street gets very rude, very scrappy, and apparently very existential for a group of alley cats. Created by and starring British comic Ricky Gervais, this six-part adult animated comedy follows a gang of feral British cats causing trouble, searching for companionship, and trying to survive in a human world that doesn’t exactly roll out the welcome mat. With Gervais bringing his usual mix of blunt comedy, social commentary, and oddly sincere reflection, this looks like one litter box full of bad manners, big questions, and plenty of hairballs.

📺 “Breaking Bear” Trailer: Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Annie Murphy Lead Tubi’s Drug-Dealing Bear Family Comedy — Premieres Thursday, July 24th on Tubi

Saving the forest apparently takes more than hugs and picnic baskets. This Tubi original animated comedy follows a family of bears who build a drug empire to raise enough money to protect their home from frackers, only to find themselves surrounded by deranged enemies and escalating criminal headaches. Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Annie Murphy, Josh Gad, Elizabeth Hurley, Chris Parnell, Chris Diamantopoulos, Harland Williams, Tony Plana, and Jackie Beat are among the voice cast, with Sylvain Lavoie directing this very not-for-kids woodland crime spree.

📺 “Helluva Boss: Season 3” Sneak Peek Clip: Stolas and Blitz Return for More Demon-Assassin Trouble — Premieres Wednesday, October 14th on Prime Video

Hell’s messiest murder-for-hire crew is back on the clock. Season 3 brings Stolas, Blitz, Moxxie, Millie, and Loona into another round of adult animated mayhem as the Immediate Murder Professionals continue turning paid hits into personal disasters. With its mix of musical comedy, violent absurdity, and messy demon relationships, this series keeps proving that Hell has workplace problems too.

📺 “Sakamoto Days: Season 2” Teaser: Taro Sakamoto Heads Back Into the Assassin World in This Anime Series Based on Yuto Suzuki’s Manga — Coming January 2027 to Netflix

Retirement was never going to be simple for Taro Sakamoto. Season 2 sends the legendary hit man turned convenience store owner and Shin into Japan’s assassin training institution as the hunt for Slur’s database pulls them deeper into old histories and new threats. Between ORDER’s Kyoto mission and the secrets connecting Sakamoto, Nagumo, Rion, and Slur, this anime keeps finding new ways to make a quiet life feel impossible.

📺 “The One Piece” Teaser: Netflix and WIT Studio Revisit Luffy’s East Blue Beginning in New Anime Adaptation — Streaming February 2027 on Netflix

Luffy’s journey is starting over, this time with a new anime adaptation from WIT Studio. Based on Eiichiro Oda’s uber-popular manga, the upcoming anime series returns to the East Blue saga and follows Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates from the beginning. With Masashi Koizuka directing, this version aims to make the familiar adventure feel fresh without losing the spirit that turned the original into a global phenomenon. Time to follow the map to the Grand Line... one more time.

📺 “Chainsmoker Cat” Trailer: A Catgirl With a Bad Smoking Habit Tries, and Fails, to Get Her Life Together in This New Anime Series — Streaming Thursday, July 2nd on Netflix

Quitting is hard enough without rent problems, job trouble, and a cigarette habit that keeps winning every argument. Based on the manga serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine, this offbeat anime comedy follows Yani, a catgirl whose daily life has become a messy loop of failed fresh starts and instant cravings. Directed by Taku Kimura at Bilbury Animation Studios, the series tracks one very smoky attempt at adulthood, with friends and family trying to help even when Yani makes that almost impossible. Let’s just say her nine lives may need a designated no-smoking section.

📺 “BEAT & MOTION” Trailer: Music and Animation Push Two Young Artists Toward a Dream They Can’t Reach Alone In This New Anime Series — Coming 2027 to Netflix

Two different creative dreams start moving in rhythm in Netflix’s upcoming anime adaptation of Naoki Fujita’s Shonen Jump+ manga. Produced by MAPPA, the coming-of-age series follows Tatsuhiko, a young man who has lost his dream, and Niko, an indie musician still fighting for hers. As music and animation begin to pull them into each other’s orbit, the story points toward a creative partnership built on friction, ambition, and the search for an expression neither could reach alone.

📺 “Sparks of Tomorrow” Trailer: Two Dreamers Chase the Age of Electricity in This Alternate-History Anime Series — Premiering Sunday, July 5th on Netflix

A lost catalog may hold the future in Kyoto Animation’s new alternate-history anime set in a smoke-covered version of early 20th century Kyoto. The series follows Kihachi Sakamoto, a boy hardened by the disappearance of his brother, and Inako Momokawa, the daughter of a sake brewer carrying private regrets of her own. When the two are brought together by the mysterious 20th Century Electrical Catalog, their search becomes a journey through grief, invention, and the fragile hope of building a different future. Sometimes all it takes to change the world is one missing book and the right spark.

📺 “Mary Beth Barone: Galaxy Brain” Trailer: Dating Apps, Ex-Best Friends, and NYPD Merch Fuel Netflix’s New Stand-Up Special — Debuting Tuesday, July 28th on Netflix

Mary Beth Barone is bringing big questions to her first hour-long Netflix special. From ex-best friends to dating apps and the strange cultural life of NYPD merch, this stand-up set turns everyday irritation into sharp comic material. The result looks like a smart, tightly wound hour from a comic ready to pick apart modern life without pretending any of it makes sense.

📺 “Jeff Arcuri: Nice to Meet You” Trailer: Rapid-Fire Jokes Meet Personal Reflection in Netflix’s New Stand-Up Special — Debuting Tuesday, July 7th on Netflix

Comedian Jeff Arcuri brings quick timing and personal candor to his new Netflix comedy special. The hour balances rapid-fire crowd-ready comedy with reflections on making his wife laugh during her cancer journey. That mix gives the set a sharper emotional edge, turning Jeff Arcuri’s stand-up debut into something more intimate than a standard joke machine.

📺 “Tyler Perry’s Ruthless: Season 6, Part 1” Trailer: Ruth (Melissa L. Williams) Tightens Her Grip as the Rakudushis Compound Starts to Crack — Streaming Tuesday, June 30th on Paramount+

Power inside the Rakudushis compound is shifting, and Ruth (a returning Melissa L. Williams) may be closer than ever to turning survival into control. Season 6 of Tyler Perry’s The Oval spinoff finds loyalties breaking down, outside pressure building, and The Highest facing a dangerous new dynamic as Ruth’s influence grows. With the FBI closing in and new allies entering the picture, this next chapter looks ready to push the cult drama toward another brutal confrontation.

📺 “The Man Will Burn” Trailer: New Four-Part HBO Docuseries Goes Behind the Dust, Art, and Growing Tensions of Burning Man — Premiering Thursday, July 9th on HBO and HBO Max

Every year, a temporary city rises in the Nevada desert, and The Man Will Burn looks at what it takes to keep that experiment alive. Directed by Jehane Noujaim and Vikram Gandhi, this four-part HBO documentary series follows Burning Man’s evolution from San Francisco counterculture gathering to massive global spectacle. With access to Burning Man Project leadership and years of archival footage, the series tracks the event through COVID-19, a renegade gathering, historic rains, influencer culture, and the growing pressure of Big Tech money pushing against the community’s original spirit. Turns out, keeping the fire burning may be the easy part.

📺 “Quarterback: Season 3” Trailer: Jayden Daniels, Baker Mayfield, Cam Ward, and Joe Flacco Take the Spotlight in Netflix’s NFL Docuseries — Returning Tuesday, July 14th on Netflix

The quarterback job never looks simple once the cameras move past the huddle. Season 3 follows Jayden Daniels, Baker Mayfield, Cam Ward, and Joe Flacco through the 2025 NFL season as they deal with pressure, injuries, trades, family life, and the weight of leading a franchise. Produced by Omaha Productions, NFL Films, and 2PM Productions, this sports docuseries keeps its focus on the human toll behind football’s most scrutinized position.

📺 “2026 MLB Home Run Derby” Trailer: Baseball’s Biggest Sluggers Step Into the Spotlight for Netflix’s Live Sports Event — Streaming Live Monday, July 13th on Netflix

The Home Run Derby is heading to Netflix with all the towering shots, superstar swagger, and pure bat-crack theater that comes with baseball’s loudest night. The 2026 T-Mobile Home Run Derby will take place at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, continuing an All-Star tradition that began back in 1985. After decades of memorable slugger showcases, the event now gets a bigger streaming spotlight as Netflix brings the annual power display to a global live audience. In other words, clear the fences and maybe the couch too.

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