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We may be living in a golden age of TV, but panning through all the dross to find that gold can be time-consuming and tedious. For every much-discussed hit like Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Bear, there are dozens of new original shows that barely tip the cultural needle. And with so many new streaming services competing with HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney Plus, it’s impossible to keep up with everything new to view. But The Verge’s TV section is ready to help. Our news, reviews, and interviews help you find the next Stranger Things or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in time to keep up with the cultural conversation. And our essays and analysis invite you to consider the deeper context of what you’re watching.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
HBO’s Harry Potter series premieres this Christmas.

HBO has released the first trailer for its upcoming Harry Potter series, which will help fund executive producer J.K. Rowling’s ongoing crusade against transgender people. In addition to dropping the trailer, HBO has also bumped the series’ premiere date up to December 25th 2026.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
It’s a big week for For All Mankind news.

The show returns for season 5 on Friday, and Apple just announced that it would be coming back for one last season after that. Now we have the first teaser trailer for Star City, a spinoff that shows the other side of the alternate reality sci-fi story. It starts streaming in May.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Wonder Man is coming back for a second act.

Though Disney almost put an end toMarvel’s Wonder Man series before it got a chance to stream, the studio is bringing it back for another season according to Variety.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
In the not too distant future you could be watching this long lost MST3K episode.

Episode K03, Star Force: Alien Fugitive II, from the show’s original run on Minnesota’s KTMA in 1988 was found at a garage sale in Minneapolis. It was then digitized and uploaded to YouTube by a fan. And now, you can enjoy it, in all it’s admittedly rough glory.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Bari Weiss is laying off another 6 percent of CBS News employees.

Though CBS News’ ratings have already plummeted in the wake of Bari Weiss’ big-brained plan to remake the division in her own image, she’s sticking to her guns and sending out pink slips to dozens of now-unemployed staffers.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
We’ve got Stranger Things at home.

Now that Stranger Things is overthe main series, anyways — you can finally own the whole thing on disc. Arrow Video is releasing a box set of the complete series on Blu-Ray and 4K UHD, which will be available in July. I hope the collection spans exactly 11 discs.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Rick Ellis, a TV reporter, says he turned down prediction market money.

Ellis says he was offered money to use a prediction market’s odds to write “a couple of stories each week,” and it was enough money that it was hard to turn down.“Taking money from a Polymarket to hype their gambling odds on a TV show is ethically the same as taking money from a network to write positive things about their programming.,” he wrote.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
A new batch of assassins.

Last year Netflix confirmed that its long-gestating Assassin’s Creed series was still happening, and now we have further proof of life thanks to a casting announcement. Noomi Rapace, Sean Harris, Ramzy Bedia, and Corrado Invernizzi have joined the cast, though there’s still no word on when it’ll start streaming.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Nathan Fillion says a Firefly cartoon is in the works.

Co-stars Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin, Sean Maher, and Summer Glau are all expected to reprise their roles. So is Adam Baldwin, who was significant in popularizing the antifeminist Gamergate movement, which targeted and harassed women throughout the gaming industry. Deadline also shared the exclusive concept art below:

Image: Deadline
Bespoke AI models are the next big thing in filmmaking

Ben Affleck’s AI startup, recently purchased by Netflix for around $600 million, has a different approach to gen AI.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The Handmaid’s Tale, but make it YA.

Hulu has dropped a trailer for its upcoming Handmaid’s Tale spinoff, The Testaments, and when the series premieres on April 8th, it looks like it will be a harrowing reminder of much violence the girls of Gilead were forced to endure.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
HBO’s Green Lantern series looks too grounded for its own good.

The entire point of HBO’s upcoming Lanterns series is to introduce new incarnations John Stewart and Hal Jordan — two superpowered space cops — to DC Studios’ cinematic universe. But Lanterns first teaser trailer makes it seem like the show might feel much more like True Detective when it premieres in August.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Take me down to the Star City.

With season 5 of For All Mankind streaming next month, Apple’s showing off a first look at its upcoming spinoff. Star City is shown from the Soviet Union’s perspective as it becomes the first country on the moon, offering an alternate view of this alternate history. It starts streaming on May 29th.

A still photo from the Apple TV series Star City.
A still photo from the Apple TV series Star City.
A still photo from the Apple TV series Star City.
A still photo from the Apple TV series Star City.
A still photo from the Apple TV series Star City.
A still photo from the Apple TV series Star City.
A still photo from the Apple TV series Star City.
A still photo from the Apple TV series Star City.
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Meredith Haggerty
We’re doing Pride and Prejudice again.

Jane Austen’s signature work is being adapted for Netflix. Think Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), but no zombies, so think the 2005 film starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, but a series, so think the 1995 miniseries starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.

It’s scheduled for release sometime later this year; Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden star.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
For All Mankind’s fifth season debuts in March.

The 10-episode season kicks off on March 27th on Apple TV. Based on a trailer, it looks like things will get tense between Earth and Mars.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Disney wouldn’t let Tony Gilroy say “fascism.”

Now that Andor has come to end, series creator Tony Gilroy is free to speak more openly about what it was like working for Disney, and in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter he says that the studio was very insistent on him not using the word “fascism” while talking about his show focused on fighting fascism.

The Pitt has a sharp take on AI

HBO’s medical drama has been teasing out a smart story about what makes gen AI so tempting and concerning.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
A dragon queen of the seven kingdoms.

Though HBO still hasn’t announced a firm release date for House of the Dragon’s upcoming third season, there’s a new trailer teasing out Rhaenyra’s plan to make her enemies pay using her squad of newly-tamed dragons. The new season drops some time in June.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Severance could have at least four seasons.

A big inside baseball article by Deadline reports that a fourth season of the show, of which Apple has currently aired two seasons, is a “lock.” A fifth would be at the discretion of executive producers Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller. Apple aims to start shooting season three this summer.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
This isn’t even Tony Tony Chopper’s final form.

There’s a lot to see in Netflix’s new trailer for the live-action One Piece’s upcoming second season, but the most surprising reveal here is a fresh look at Tony Tony Chopper’s (Mikaela Hoover) Walk Point form that turns him into a much more normal-looking reindeer. The show’s out March 10th.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
BOY.

Amazon’s live-action God of War series starring Ryan Hurst as Kratos has found its Atreus in Callum Vinson (Poker Face, Chucky.)

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Netflix’s drip feed of new Sesame Street episodes continues March 9th.

The next four episodes of Sesame Street are dropping soon on Netflix and will include a cameo from Miley Cyrus.

Will they also go back to having a Letter and Number of the Day and a proper ending song? I won’t hold my breath, but I’ll still be bitter.

How I Built the Star Trek control panel of my dreams

I used ESPHome and LVGL to make my living room a little bit more like the USS Enterprise

Ursa Wright
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
MST3K is coming back. Again.

Instead of Jonah Ray, Mike Nelson (from the show’s original run) will be donning the jumpsuit. Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett will also be reprising their roles as Servo and Crow. The focus of MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments will be on “classic bad” movies and it’s already blown past its Kickstarter goal.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Disney’s Eragon series is showing signs of life.

Todd Harthan and Todd Helbing have joined the series as co-showrunners and executive producers, along with Marc Webb and Rachel Moore as executive producers, as Variety reports. Author Christopher Paolini will also be executive producing the adaptation of his YA fantasy series at Disney Plus, which is also home to the hit adaptation of Percy Jackson.