The New Shows of the 2024 Fall TV Season

A new season of television is always exciting for returning shows, but give me a new series over a veteran series any day. The possibilities! The potential! The unknown! We all anticipate meeting our new favorite TV doctor, lawyer, or cop and learning about their messy personal life, or spending time with a workplace comedy at an office where no one seems to actually work or be qualified for their job. That's the dream of TV, baby! 

Last year, the actors and writers strikes for fair wages dried up the usual flow of new series, but the 2024 fall TV season is overflowing with fresh shows. From spin-offs of your favorite CBS dramas to spin-offs of spin-offs of your favorite CBS comedies, from another show by Ryan Murphy to another show by Greg Berlanti, from one show that's a clear knockoff of a hit on another network to another show that's a clear knockoff of a hit on a different network, here are all the major new series coming this fall season. Well, the ones that have promotional pictures, anyway.

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Brian Jordan Alvarez created and stars in this comedy that's like a cable-ready Abbott Elementary. Alvarez plays a high school English teacher in Austin, Texas, who loves his job but frequently gets stuck in the bureaucratic red tape that prevents him from being his true self. English Teacher humorously looks at freedom of expression, cancel culture, and innovators in their field who feel trapped by the rigid rules of civil service. It's like Dead Poets Society if the kids stared at their phones during class.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 2 at 10/9c on FX (FX's fall schedule)

Everyone loves it when Samuel L. Jackson points a gun in someone's face and curses up a storm while referencing the Bible. And that's exactly what happens in the opening scene of this '70s-set heist drama created by Shaye Ogbonna. Kevin Hart stars as Chicken Man, an Atlanta hustler who holds a huge bash to celebrate Muhammad Ali's return to the ring, only to see his get-together busted up by a bunch of armed crooks. In addition to Hart and Jackson, the cast includes Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard (Empire reunion!), Don Cheadle, and Chloe Bailey, all dressed up in groovy threads.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 5 on Peacock

You know how it is with rich people. They're always flying in their private jets, hogging up all the lakefront property, and getting involved in murder. TV's love affair with moneyed murder suspects continues with the limited series The Perfect Couple. An adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's novel, the show stars Nicole Kidman as a famous author whose son is the groom in Nantucket's biggest wedding of the season when the proceedings are interrupted by... a dead body. Kidman is joined by Liev Schrieber, Eve Hewson, Dakota Fanning, Meghann Fahy, Jack Reynor, and Billy Howle. 

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 5 on Netflix

Give the ol' brain a rest and snack on this Housewives-esque reality television series following a group of Mormon families in Utah who were thrust into internet fame after the influencer wives started #MomTok on TikTok, trying to dispel the idea of the stereotypical Mormon lifestyle. But they got even more famous when a post went viral after one mom admitted to being involved in a swinging lifestyle with the group. These ladies really wanted to be on a TV show, so they're getting one, and now we get to see all the D-R-A-M-A. Question: Is it really a "secret life" if you post it all over TikTok and make a TV show about it?

Premieres Friday, Sept. 6 on Hulu

Sometimes a show is so good that a documentary series about the guy who made it can be just as interesting. David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos, takes Tony Soprano's place on the psychiatrist's couch as filmmaker Alex Gibney interviews Chase about his life and the ins and outs of making the hit show, uncovering secrets that even the biggest fans of the crime drama never knew.

Premieres Saturday, Sept. 7 at 8/7c on HBO and Max

The newest animated comedy to join Fox's Sunday night lineup is Universal Basic Guys, which follows a pair of dudes who lose their jobs to automation and thrive on a universal basic income plan, using the money and free time to discover who they are. Which appears to be beer drinking buddies. 

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 8 at 8/7c on Fox (Fox's fall schedule)

The White Lotus' Natasha Rothwell co-created this comedy with Vera Santamaria about an employee at JFK (Rothwell) who has never been in love and decides to change her life after a near-death experience. The title makes it sound like a dour time, but it's actually a reaffirming series about living your life.  

Premieres Friday, Sept. 13 on Hulu

Lisa Taddeo's 2019 book Three Women detailed the sex lives of, uhhh, three real women from various parts of America, and became a New York Times bestseller. Obviously the next step was to make a TV show out of it, and Starz's version adds a road-tripping writer, played by Shailene Woodley, who is a stand-in for Lisa as she meets the trio on her adventures. There's Lina (Betty Gilpin), whose loveless marriage leads her to have an affair; Sloane (DeWanda Wise), who opens up her marriage and becomes intrigued with a new couple who enters her life; and Maggie (Gabrielle Creevy), a high schooler who accuses her English teacher of having an inappropriate relationship with her.

Premieres Friday, Sept. 13 at 10/9c on Starz

American Crime Story producers Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, and Brad Simpson expand the American Story franchise into the sports world with American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez. The first season of the proposed anthology dramatizes the truly wild story of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez (played by Josh Andrés Rivera), who was convicted in 2015 of the murder of Odin Lloyd. The series will follow Hernandez's rise as a high school football star under the strict guidance of his father, his life as a college athlete at the University of Florida, and his athletic apex as one of the most dominant tight ends in the NFL, all while he engaged in criminal activities and a secret sex life. 

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 10/9c on FX (FX's fall schedule)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Kaitlin Olson returns to broadcast TV (her Fox comedy The Mick was excellent, but was canceled after two seasons) in this adaptation of the French series Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (HPI), which follows a single mom with an unusual knack for solving crimes. You know what happens next: She starts working with the police, and her unconventional but effective methods drive her by-the-book partner (Daniel Sunjata) wacko.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 10/9c on ABC (ABC's fall schedule)

Don't let the quick divorce of Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner and Season 1 "winner" Theresa Nist sour you on ABC's newest addition to its popular reality franchise. Joan Vassos, a fan-favorite contestant and frontrunner for Gerry's heart on The Golden Bachelor who was forced to leave early for a family emergency, is the new prize, and she'll be picking from a stable of AARP-eligible men who will woo her. The winning formula shouldn't change too much: The earnest approach to love and the ticking clocks make the franchise's senior editions worth the watch.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 8/7c on ABC (ABC's fall schedule)

The Marvel machine may have slowed down, but it certainly hasn't stopped. One of the few releases from the superhero factory this year is this spin-off of arguably Marvel's best TV series, WandaVision, focused on its best character, nosy neighbor Agnes/Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn). This time, the witch Agatha is forming her own coven and getting ready to face the trials of Witches' Road. Whatever, it has Hahn in it, which is really all the motivation you need to tune in.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 18 on Disney+

Releasing a DC TV show the day after a Marvel show is a choice, but HBO is banking on one of Batman's most famous villains to steal some of Agatha All Along's magic. Colin Farrell reprises his role as Oz Cobb/The Penguin from 2022's The Batman, showing some layers to the character with Batman not hogging the screen all the time. In case you care: The Penguin is not expected to be part of James Gunn's new extended DC universe, however. Here's everything we know about The Penguin.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 19 at 9/8c on HBO and Max

The second season of Ryan Murphy's crime anthology — the first was the hit The Jeffrey Dahmer Story — focuses on the 1989 headline-making dual murders of José and Kitty Menendez, who were violently killed by their sons Lyle and Erik. Relative newcomers Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch (pictured) play Lyle and Erik, respectively, and Oscar-winner Javier Bardem and previous Murphy collaborator Chloë Sevigny play the parents. 

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 19 on Netflix

If you watched Scoop, the Netflix film based on the infamous 2019 BBC interview of Prince Andrew by Emily Maitlis regarding his connection to Jeffrey Epstein, and thought, "I'd like a show about that, please," then good news! Prime Video's A Very Royal Scandal, from the same team that delivered A Very British Scandal and A Very English Scandal, is coming. This time, Maitlis is played by Ruth Wilson and Prince Andrew is played by Michael Sheen. 

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 19 on Prime Video

Justice League director Zach Snyder may have finally found a medium that can handle his extravagant cinematic eye: adult animation. Snyder, Eric Carrasco, and Jay Oliva created this series based on Norse mythology, and Netflix promises that it's going to be strictly for grown-ups, so expect blood-spilling violence and sexy times.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 19 on Netflix

Add the 1980s and 1990s classic NBC and ABC legal drama Matlock to the list of shows that have been rebooted and gender-swapped, though to be fair, this one seems like less of a reboot and more of a "let's borrow the well-known name and do something only vaguely familiar." Kathy Bates stars as Madeline "Matty" Matlock, a woman in her 70s who, after time off, decides to rejoin the workforce at a law firm, where she helps a senior attorney (Skye P. Marshall) work on social justice cases. Maybe this isn't really like the original Matlock at all. Jason Ritter and Beau Bridges also star. There's more to the show — and Matty — than meets the eye, and with Jane the Virgin's Jennie Snyder Urman behind it, you know it won't be your grandma's Matlock.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 22 at 8/7c on CBS (special preview, returns Oct. 17 at 9/8c) (CBS's fall schedule)

Surf's up! And so is an increased chance of finding yourself in a life-or-death situation in the unpredictable waves of the North Shore of Hawaii. It's a good thing the men and women of Rescue: HI-Surf are here to save the day. The procedural drama follows the tanned lifeguards who pull stragglers out of the ocean, and the turbulent lives they live when they're off duty. Robbie Magasiva, Arielle Kebbel, Adam Demos, and Kekoa Kekumano star.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 22 at 8/7c on Fox (Fox's fall schedule)

Zachary Quinto returns to NBC — where he broke out as supervillain Sylar in Heroes — to lead a new medical drama based on the life of renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks. The Greg Berlanti-produced series follows a group of doctors diving into the human mind while — you guessed it — dealing with their own relationships and mental issues. Tamberla Perry, Ashleigh LaThrop, and Alex MacNicoll also star.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 23 at 10/9c on NBC (NBC's fall schedule)

You'll never guess what Murder in a Small Town is about. The Canadian drama is based on L.R. Wright's Karl Alberg series of books and follows detective Karl Alberg (Rossif Sutherland) after he moves to a quaint coastal town to escape the hubbub of the big city, only to find that small towns have murders, too. Kristin Kreuk co-stars as his romantic interest, who probably won't get murdered. At least not until Season 12, anyway.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 8/7c on Fox (Fox's fall schedule)

While many teens get sucked into TikTok, 16-year-old Penelope (Megan Stott) feels the draw of the wilderness. Feeling disconnected from modern society, the title character makes tracks toward the woods, where she learns to forge her own life. The coming-of-age story was co-created by Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn and co-stars Austin Abrams, Krisha Fairchild, and Rhenzy Feliz.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 24 on Netflix

After a relatively short stint at Netflix that produced big hits like Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and The Watcher, Ryan Murphy is back at FX (via a deal with FX owner Disney) with Grotesquerie, a new horror drama starring Niecy Nash-Betts. Like with most Murphy projects, specific details are being kept in a heavily guarded underground vault somewhere, but what we do know is Betts plays a detective investigating heinous crimes in her small community who joins forces with a nun (Micaela Diamond) to figure out what's going on. Ghosts? Demons? Aliens? With Murphy, everything is on the table. Courtney B. Vance, Lesley Manville, and Travis Kelce — yes, Travis Kelce — star. 

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 10/9c on FX

Apple is promoting this Spanish-language drama as a cross between Grey's Anatomy and Breaking Bad, which has our full attention. Midnight Family follows a father and his children who own and operate a private ambulance in Mexico City to make ends meet as they speed around the vibrant metropolis saving lives. The series is based on the well-reviewed 2019 documentary of the same name. 

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 25 on Apple TV+

As the head of the WWE, Vince McMahon was one of entertainment's most powerful figures, and as often happens with those types of people, he crashed back down to Earth following years of scumbag behavior. The six-part docuseries Mr. McMahon from Tiger King's Chris Smith and podcaster Bill Simmons traces McMahon's rise to the top of pretend sports and fall from fame after resigning over sexual assault allegations.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 25 on Netflix

With a name like Doctor Odyssey, you'd expect this series to be about a time-traveling medic who goes through the multiverse helping out the Avengers or something, but instead it's a Ryan Murphy series starring Joshua Jackson as a doctor aboard a cruise ship. As with most Murphy shows, there are very few details out there, but you can expect Murphy's brand of over-the-top procedural as Jackson helps those in need in the middle of the ocean. Someone will definitely say, "Does this shrimp cocktail taste funny to you?" at some point in the season.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 26 at 9/8c on ABC (ABC's fall schedule)

A podcaster and a rabbi walk into a bar... is essentially the setup for this rom-com starring '00s breakouts Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) and Adam Brody (The O.C.). She runs a sex advice podcast, he's a man of faith, they're both not very good at relationships, and you know where this is going. Nobody Wants This is sorta based on creator Erin Foster's life, and emphasizes that good things in life are hard. And that everyone in Los Angeles is extremely witty.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 26 on Netflix

Kids and their phones! Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles) follows a group of teenagers from various schools in Southern California to see what makes them tick (and TikTok) when it comes to social media, revealing a perpetually online culture that reinforces negative body image issues, is polluted by cyberbullying, and creates addictive behavior. Greenfield's incredible access to these kids' lives and phone habits makes this one of the scariest things you'll see all year.   

Premieres Friday, Sept. 27 at 10/9c on FX (FX's fall schedule)

Manu Bennett (Spartacus) hosts this new competition series that looks like it will put other shows' challenges to shame. The Summit pits regular competitors against a frickin' mountain, with each of them holding an equal share of a $1 million prize as they try to reach the summit. And yes, there will be twists and obstacles along the way, as if CLIMBING A GIANT MOUNTAIN wasn't enough. 

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 29 at 9 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on CBS (special preview, returns Oct. 16 at 9:30/8:30c) (CBS's fall schedule)

Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner stars as Joan Hannington, who operated as Britain's most notorious jewel thief in the 1980s. The six-episode crime drama will follow Hannington's rise from housewife to petty thief to criminal mastermind. She may just steal your heart next. Frank Dillane (Fear the Walking Dead) co-stars as Boisie Hannington, Joan's criminal husband.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 9/8c on The CW (The CW's fall schedule)

Remember how wild Perth was in the late 1970s? No? Well, learn about it in this eight-part series set against the backdrop of the Australian city in 1979, when it played host to the Miss Universe Pageant, was on the verge of losing electricity due to a strike, and saw a space station crash out in the suburbs. Even with all that going on, the dramedy focuses on the turbulent lives of three families during a cultural revolution.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 2 on Hulu (Everything coming to Hulu in October)

Created by Veep's Armando Iannucci, Succession's Jon Brown, and Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, The Franchise is going to do for superhero movie franchises what Veep did for the government. The showbiz satire follows the cast and crew of a blockbuster film as it faces challenges getting made, and with Iannucci on board, hopefully we'll get a lot of creative curses about spandex and capes. The excellent cast includes Himesh Patel, Aya Cash, Jessica Hynes, and Billy Magnussen.

Premieres Sunday, Oct. 6 on HBO (Everything coming to Max in October)

Netflix's love affair with professional sports continues as three NBA players with interesting personalities — Minnesota Timberwolves' Anthony Edwards, Miami Heat's Jimmy Butler, and Sacramento Kings' Domantas Sabonis — plus Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics and LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers are profiled during the 2023-2024 NBA season. Behold as they all have no idea what the play-in tournament is or what it's for!

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 9 on Netflix (Everything coming to Netflix in October)

The first of Prime Video's international spin-offs of the Russo brothers' action series Citadel comes from Italy and stars Matilda De Angelis as a spy embedded behind enemy lines several years after the timeline of Citadel. The problem? Her spy agency has been dismantled, and she's stuck. The other problem? After Prime Video made huge international plans for expanding Citadel, the original series was panned by critics and fans. A second spin-off, India's Citadel: Honey Bunny, is due out in November. 

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 10 on Prime Video (Everything coming to Prime Video in October)

Saw's James Wan uses Robert McCammon's 1988 sci-fi/horror novel Stinger as inspiration for this series about a group in rural Georgia facing something very, very scary. Peacock isn't telling us what that is, so we'll just have to watch to find out. Don't worry, you'll know why it's called Teacup by the end of the season. I hope. Yvonne Strahovski, Scott Speedman, Chaske Spencer, and Kathy Baker star.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 10 on Peacock (Everything coming to Peacock in October)

The video game icon whose pointy pixels ushered in a new type of hero back in 1996 and moved to the big screen with a trio of films gets her second TV series with Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft. This animated series continues the story of the trilogy of games recently released on consoles, and will see her — wait for it — do some tomb raidin'. Hayley Atwell voices Lara Croft. 

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 10 on Netflix (Everything coming to Netflix in October)

Ella Purnell, star of Prime Video's Fallout, Netflix's Arcane, and Showtime's Yellowjackets, continues her string of great — and twisted — role choices with this dark British comedy-drama that is tonally the polar opposite of its "sweet" title. Purnell plays Rhiannon, a woman who's constantly overlooked by society and hurt from being the victim of high school bullying. So, one day, she snaps and starts killing people. It's Dexter gender-swapped for today's crowd, as she gets more and more comfortable getting rid of human scum, but how far will she go? I hope you don't mind the sight of Purnell drenched in blood.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 10 at 8/7c on Starz 

Before we get to the plot of Disclaimer, let's talk about the cast and crew. Cate Blanchett, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kevin Kline, Lesley Manville, and Kodi Smit-McPhee star in this limited series drama written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Wowza. Based on Renée Knight's 2015 novel, it follows a female author (Blanchett) who discovers she's the main character in a book that threatens to expose a long-held secret of hers. 

Premieres Friday, Oct. 11 on Apple TV+

Call it Young Leroy. This prequel to the unfathomably popular NCIS dives into the formative years of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, played famously by Mark Harmon in the original NCIS and by Austin Stowell here. Set in 1991, it follow Gibbs as a new agent in the NCIS Camp Pendleton office, where he works under the legendary Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid). Harmon will narrate the series. Here's everything we know about the show.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 14 at 9/8c on CBS (CBS's fall schedule)

The CW ain't what it used to be, he said, while chewing on a piece of hay and looking out over the pasture. The network once devoted to genre programming will air The Wranglers, a docuseries about young staff members at a dude ranch in Montana. It takes the place of The Librarians: The Next Chapter, which will now be moved to TNT.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 14 at 9/8c on The CW (The CW's fall schedule)

Familiarity seems to be CBS's plan for the season, with the majority of its new fall shows coming from known franchises: NCIS: Origins, Matlock, and this spin-off of Young Sheldon (which, of course, is a prequel to The Big Bang Theory). Montana Jordan and Emily Osment return as the titular couple in Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, which follows them as they start a family in Texas. Bazinga, y'all!

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 17 at 8/7c on CBS (CBS's fall schedule)

This charming sitcom in the vein of Fresh Off the Boat follows a family from India that immigrates to Pittsburgh, where American culture hits them like a big ol' pickup truck flyin' the stars and bars. The whole series is anchored by somewhat mysterious interrogation sessions of the Pradeeps at the U.S. immigration office — we don't know why they are there — where we see how their lives have been in the two years they've spent in America through flashbacks, each embellished by the family member telling the story. Naveen Andrews and Sindhu Vee star.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 17 on Prime Video (Everything coming to Prime Video in October)

As the wise poet the Fresh Prince once said, "Parents just don't understand." This was never more obvious than in the '80s, when Reagan supporters warned the heavy metal-loving youth of the decade that their damn rock music would allow Satan into their lives. Hysteria!, set in the late 1980s, follows a high school metal band who capitalizes on that fear by adding a devilish facade to their style until a string of murders and supernatural activity turns the community against them. If you were hoping Eddie Munson from Stranger Things had his own TV show, this might be it. Julie Bowen, Anna Camp, Emjay Anthony, Chiara Aurelia, Kezii Curtis, and Nikki Hahn star. Street cred check: Bruce Campbell has a guest role.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 18 on Peacock (Everything coming to Peacock in October)

It'll be the horniest show of the season! Rivals, based on the steamy novel by Dame Jilly Cooper, charts the rise of independent television in 1980s England, and all the romance, power-grabbing, and sex that followed. It's just the type of soapy TV that will keep you warm this fall. Alex Hassell, David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Nafessa Williams, and Katherine Parkinson star. 

Premieres Friday, Oct. 18 on Hulu (Everything coming to Hulu in October)

Reba McEntire returns to television in this half-hour comedy about a woman who inherits a bar and restaurant after her father passes away. A bigger challenge than keeping the place clean is working with the half-sister (Belissa Escobedo) she never knew she had. Also in the show are Melissa Peterman, Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk, and Rex Linn.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 18 at 8/7c on NBC (NBC's fall schedule)

Max's new late-night series is like Drunk History, except it would seem that most of the people in the stories recreated by popular comedians are also drunk, because, well, it's all about bizarre tales that happened in Florida. From the producers of The Righteous Gemstones and featuring the tagline "Too Stupid Not to Be True," It's Florida, Man. stars a rotating cast that includes Sam Richardson, Anna Faris, and Juliette Lewis, and follows stories like a guy who was asked to cut off and eat the toes of a stranger on Craigslist. That's Florida, man!

Premieres Friday, Oct. 18 at 11/10c on HBO and Max (Everything coming to Max in October)

It's a family affair in this half-hour comedy starring Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr., as the father-son duo play a legendary talk show host named Poppa and his dreamer son. The generation gap grows wider for Poppa at work, where a new female co-host (Essence Atkins) challenges his views.  

Premieres Monday, Oct. 21 at 8:30/7:30c on CBS (CBS's fall schedule)

Our fixation on serial killers is frankly disgusting, but I will give you sickos this: They do make for fascinating true crime documentary subjects. This Is the Zodiac Speaking looks at a new theory on the identity of the infamous Zodiac Killer, one of the most famous unsolved murder cases in history. Could he have been this former elementary school teacher? Could he have been you? Could he have been me!?!?

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 23 on Netflix (Everything coming to Netflix in October)

The four-part docuseries Breath of Fire examines the corruption within Kundalini yoga across decades, from the alleged abuse by its founder Yogi Bhajan to the cultural appropriation by Guru Jagat, an American millennial YouTube astrologer and influencer who claims to be the second coming of Bhajan. Surprise! The wellness industry is full of dirtbags. 

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 9/8c on HBO and Max (Everything coming to Max in October)

Tyler Perry's first series for Netflix under his new deal with the mammoth streamer follows Kimmie (Taylor Polidore Williams), a woman struggling to get by, and Mallory (Crystle Stewart), a successful businesswoman. Though their lives may seem miles apart, they become messily tangled in a web of deception, sex, and high-stakes risks. This is the soapy Perry series you love him for. 

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 24 on Netflix (Everything coming to Netflix in October)

G'day, Yellowstone! This Australian drama sounds a lot like America's big neo-Western hit: When the world's largest cattle station is left without a clear successor, everyone scrambles for a piece of the pasture, including rival cattle barons, Indigenous neighbors, developers, and more. 🤠🤠 Anna Torv, Michael Dorman, and Robert Taylor star.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 24 on Netflix (Everything coming to Netflix in October)

Sega's Yakuza video game franchise has been around for nearly 20 years, giving gamers a peek into the deadly lifestyle of Japan's Yakuza, the violent organized crime syndicate that rules the country's underworld. Prime Video is hoping the hot trend of video game adaptations continues with Like a Dragon: Yakuza, which will explore some of the characters' stories in a live-action drama. Let's hope it also retains the video games' surprising trademark absurdity, like summoning crawfish, aluminum can recycling, and adult babies. Hey, not all Yakuza are boring stiffs!

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 24 on Prime Video (Everything coming to Prime Video in October)

Apple TV+'s description of Before includes the words and phrases "atmospheric," "psychological thriller," "supernatural," "mystery," and, surprisingly, "Billy Crystal." The comedian appears to be going out of his comfort zone by playing a child psychologist who works with a young boy who has an unusual connection to his past. Judith Light also stars.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 25 on Apple TV+

This might be the greatest reality TV series of all time. In Finding Mr. Christmas, Hallmark sets out to find its next Christmas movie hunk from a group of hunks who compete against each other in Hallmark Christmas movie challenges. The prize? A starring role in a Christmas movie, which will air shortly after the conclusion of Finding Mr. Christmas.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 31 on Hallmark+ (Hallmark's Christmas movie schedule)

The 1989 novel (and 1992 film) Like Water for Chocolate gets adapted for Max, transforming the world of magical realism and culinary escapes created by author Laura Esquivel into digestible episodic nuggets on streaming. The story follows a woman whose forbidden love for a man leads her to the kitchen, where she finds refuge against oppression in Mexico.

Premieres Sunday, Nov. 3 on Max

Amazon and the Russo brothers came to the conclusion that Citadel was going to be so big, it needed multiple international spin-offs, so they went for it and ordered several before the incredibly expensive mothership series had ever aired. Honey Bunny is the Indian arm of the franchise and, like the original, mixes up spy action and a love story in a thriller about a secret international spy agency that keeps world peace. However, this one is set in the 1990s (another spin-off, Citadel: Diana, hails from Italy and is set in 2030). Varun Dhawan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu star.

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 7 on Prime Video

Taking inspiration from the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth and the 1973 film adaptation directed by Fred Zinnemann (and maybe the 1997 Bruce Willis movie?), Peacock's The Day of the Jackal stars Eddie Redmayne as the lone assassin known only as the Jackal and Lashana Lynch as the British intelligence agent trying to stop him. Expect some cat-and-mouse games where neither side is sure who is the cat and who is the mouse.

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 7 on Peacock

People will compare this new half-hour mockumentary to Abbott Elementary, and... yeah, it's basically that, but set in an underfunded Oregon hospital instead of an underfunded Philadelphia school. If you're going to crib from something, it may as well be from the best. The cast is excellent, with Wendi McLendon-Covey, David Alan Grier, Allison Tolman, Josh Lawson, Kahyun Kim, Mekki Leeper, and Kaliko Kauahi starring.

Premieres Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 8/7c on NBC (NBC's fall schedule)

Amazon's Prime Video is for the dads. Its latest dad show based on a dad book character — following the likes of Reacher and Bosch — is Cross, starring Aldis Hodge as Washington, D.C. detective Alex Cross, who is on the trail of a sadistic serial killer. Isaiah Mustafa, Ryan Eggold, and Alona Tal also star.

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 14 on Prime Video

Say Nothing is an international limited series based on the best-selling book of the same name by Patrick Radden Keefe, about the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the 1970s and the ripple effects of the Troubles decades later. Lola Petticrew and Anthony Boyle star.

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 14 on Hulu

A scary series that comes out two weeks after Halloween would normally be an odd business decision, but The Creep Tapes is a new TV show on Shudder, the horror-centric streaming service that serves up frights year-round. In the small-screen follow-up to the two Creep films, Mark Duplass once again stars as a serial killer who lures videographers to their deaths. Hey, any reason to make found-footage horror works for us.

Premieres Friday, Nov. 15 on Shudder

The latest from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is Landman, a Texas-set drama starring Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore, Jon Hamm, Ali Larter, and Andy Garcia. Thornton plays a crisis management executive at an oil company during a boom in the oil business that has roughnecks and billionaires getting their hands dirty. The series, which is based on the podcast Boomtown, has reportedly already been renewed for a second season. Here's everything we know about Landman.  

Premieres Sunday, Nov. 17 on Paramount+

They'll never run out of Dune lore. HBO's new Dune prequel series, inspired by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's novel Sisterhood of Dune, is set a whopping 10,000 years before the events of Frank Herbert's novel (and Denis Villeneuve's films) and explores the origins of the Bene Gesserit. Emily Watson, Travis Fimmel, Olivia Williams, Mark Strong, and Jodhi May star. Here's everything we know about the show.

Premieres Sunday, Nov. 17 at 9/8c on HBO and Max

Based on Charles Yu's 2020 novel, Interior Chinatown stars Jimmy O. Yang as a background actor on a police procedural looking for his share of the spotlight. But when he becomes a witness to a crime in real life, he uncovers family secrets and a vast criminal underground in Chinatown. Ronny Chieng and Chloe Bennet also star.

Premieres Tuesday, Nov. 19 on Hulu

Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe, Selma Blair, and Sarah Michelle Gellar's late-'90s teen psycho-sexual thriller has remained in pop culture consciousness probably longer than it deserves to be, with a pair of film sequels and a failed television continuation at NBC, but now it gets the proper reboot treatment with relative newcomers Sarah Catherine Hook, Zac Burgess, Sara Silva, and Khobe Clarke. This time, stepsiblings Caroline (Hook) and Lucien (Burgess) bring their depraved games to the Greek system at a Washington, D.C., college. 

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 21 on Prime Video

Netflix will find itself in a very good place this fall with a The Good Place reunion: Creator Mike Schur and star Ted Danson are teaming up for A Man on the Inside, a comedic take on the Oscar-nominated documentary The Mole Agent, which follows an older man (Danson) who is hired by a private detective to be a mole in a nursing home. Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Stephanie Beatriz also star.

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 21 on Netflix

Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings) makes his TV debut with this five-part miniseries about a former Scotland Yard detective (Tamara Lawrance) who goes back to her home country of Jamaica to solve missing persons cases. Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones' Gendry) also stars.

Premieres Monday, Nov. 25 at 9/8c on HBO and Max

In the eight-episode limited series The Madness, Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo plays a media pundit who must fight for survival and clear his name after coming upon a murder in the Poconos. 

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 28 on Netflix

If you're going to remake something, it might as well be something that was great. The French thriller The Bureau (Les Bureau des Légendes), one of the best espionage TV shows ever made, gets adapted in The Agency. This version moves the action to England, where a covert CIA agent (Michael Fassbender) is asked to abandon his undercover post and work at London Station, where he reconnects with a past flame who makes things very complicated. Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Richard Gere also star. 

Premieres Friday, Nov. 29 on Paramount+ with Showtime

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