TV Shows

Apple announced that it’s dropping the latest episode of Pluribus a bit early this week, and it’ll be streaming on Wednesday. Now there’s something for Carol to be happy about for once.

After two seasons of sleuthing, Peacock has cancelled its version of Poker Face starring Natasha Lyonne. But Deadline reports that series creator Rian Johnson is already in the process of shopping around a straight-up reboot that would see Peter Dinklage take on the role of Charlie Cale. What a concept.

Lucy and the Ghoul have started warming up to each other in the new trailer season two of Amazon’s Fallout series. And the duo’s hunt for Lucy’s father, Hank has them trekking to a very bleak and mutant-filled New Vegas.

Hideo Kojima’s two games are getting an anime series, Death Stranding Isolations, on Disney Plus in 2027.

What was once a department store inside of the King of Prussia Mall has become a new (and now open) Netflix House entertainment venue where you can “explore more than 100,000 square feet of immersive experiences” inspired by some of the streamer’s shows like Wednesday, One Piece, and Squid Game.

Gorilla Grodd — DC Comics’ gorilla supervillain who has longstanding beef with the Flash — is set to be the focus of DC Crime, a new HBO Max “true” crime docuseries hosted by Daily Planet reporter Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo). No premiere date yet, but Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault are attached to write / showrun the project.

It’s a good day to stay home: the first two episodes of Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus are now on Apple TV, while Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is on Netflix after a brief theatrical run. And if you’re looking for more after you watch, here are my interviews with Gilligan and Frankenstein creature designer Mike Hill.

The traditional late-night TV space has been in something of a dire spot lately, but in all of the chaos, Google and YouTube see an opportunity to get more people watching streaming talk shows like Hot Ones, Good Mythical Morning, and Brittany Broski’s Royal Court.

Netflix is working with A24 to develop a reality TV series based on the chaotic collaborative cooking game, according to a report from Deadline. The production is still in “early stages of development,” but I can already imagine the secondhand stress from watching contestants rush around a kitchen.

The latest season of Sesame Street debuts on Netflix on November 10th, and the streamer has just dropped a new trailer teasing what’s in store for the fuzzy monsters and their human friends.

Operation Space Station will air on November 5th and 12th, with the first part, High-Risk Build, focusing on the engineering and construction of the ISS. Part two, Science and Survival, will tell the stories of the astronauts who worked on the station and the challenges they faced, including several incidents that were nearly catastrophic.

Epic Games gave creator NickEh30 an early look Fortnite’s next season, which is themed around The Simpsons and will launch after an in-game event tomorrow.

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things kicks off next month, and in the meantime Netflix has a very dramatic new trailer to get you in an Upside Down mood.

It has been two months since Skydance bought Paramount for $8 billion, and — shocker — the newly merged megacorporation has already begun the process of laying off thousands of its workers. It’s almost like these big media consolidation deals invariably end up harming workers.

Some kind of event is taking place on November 1st, and leaks from last week indicated that Homer, Marge, Bart, Ned Flanders, and Krusty the Clown might all appear in the game. El Barto has even defaced the header image for Fortnite’s X account.

Taylor Sheridan — the architect of Paramount Skydance’s wildly successful Yellowstone franchise — has reportedly signed a massive film / TV deal with rival entertainment giant NBCUniversal. According to Puck, Sheridan’s move was prompted by his dissatisfaction with the way Paramount Skydance’s new head David Ellison has been running the company.

Rather than waiting for Sunday, HBO now plans to drop It: Welcome to Derry’s second episode on October 31st just in time for the end of spooky season.

Though Apple TV has had time for a surprise rebrand, the streamer still hasn’t released The Savant, its indefinitely postponed crime thriller about domestic terrorism. Apple’s site keeps changing to say that the show could debut “soon” or at some point in 2025. But with the year almost over, “soon” feels unlikely.

Deadline reports that Netflix has tapped I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun to write and direct an adaptation of Charles Burns’ comic, Black Hole. Like the comic, the new series will tell the story of a town where a virus turns sexually active teens into strange monsters.

Bill Block, the former CEO of Miramax, has plans to build out his new micro-drama streaming platform called GammaTime thanks to a fresh round of funding from investors including Alexis Ohanian, Kris Jenner, and Kim Kardashian. Perhaps Quibi was just too ahead of its time.