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.
Peacock’s new mockumentary series is a bingeable crash course in the basics of community journalism.
Peacock’s spinoff of The Office starts streaming tomorrow — with all 10 episodes dropping at once — but today comes news that it’s already been renewed for season 2. No date has been announced, but Variety reports that the plan is to premiere the second season around the same time next year.
While Marvel has released TV-MA projects before, the new trailer for Marvel Zombies makes it look like the series is really going to earn that rating by piling on as much (animated) blood and guts as possible.
After months of teasing us all with snippets from It: Welcome to Derry, HBO has finally given the prequel series an October 26th premiere date.
Fable founder Edward Saatchi aims to gamify Hollywood’s pivot to AI — one prompt at a time.
While the Office spinoff was originally planned to stream new episodes weekly, Peacock now says that it will “drop all 10 episodes on its September 4th premiere date.” Good thing there isn’t anything else releasing that day...
The Duffer Brothers will still be able to oversee their in-development Netflix projects when their current contract with the streamer is finished next year. But Deadline reports that the Stranger Things creators are jumping ship to Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, after signing a new production deal.
Geoff brought out members of the cast and crew of Prime Video’s Fallout TV show to debut the teaser for season 2. (Although, the Ghoul’s Walton Goggins apparently couldn’t make it.) New Vegas looks slick both in its pre-war days and after the bombs fell and we’ll see more of the city and the show when season two premiers December 17th.
Now that Paramount and Skydance’s mega merger is complete, Paramount president Jeff Shell is letting the public know that a “painful” round of job cuts are coming in order to help the company save $2 billion in operating costs.
Charles already declared Alien: Earth “one of this year’s strongest new shows,” so I wasn’t shocked by how much I liked its debut. I was surprised by the scale of its sets, and this featurette has more detail about how they managed that by filming outside in Bangkok.
FX’s new Alien spinoff series is bursting with ideas about what really makes an apex predator.
As part of a One Piece Day event in Tokyo, Netflix shared a teaser for season two and the news that production on season three will start in South Africa later this year. One Piece season two will stream on Netflix in 2026 — here’s our review of season one.
It took two seasons for Apple TV Plus’ Invasion series to really start coming together and reveal what kind of extraterrestrial threat humanity was up against. But the new trailer for Invasion’s upcoming third season makes it feel like the show is going to be moving much more quickly as its human characters band together with a plan to take out the apex aliens’ mothership.
Paramount and Skydance are set to finalize their merger on August 7th, and Deadline reports that the new corporate entity will be headed up by CEO David Ellison (Skydance’s founder) and president Jeff Shell (the former CEO of NBCUniversal.
Production on the second season of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem adaptation is now underway, and the show has added Alfie Allen, Claudia Doumit, and Ellie De Lange to its cast.
The new show from BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg hasn’t actually premiered yet — it starts streaming on August 22nd — but Netflix has already confirmed it’ll be getting a second season. In the meantime, you can check out this new trailer that sets up the time-jumping family story.
There have already been two great seasons of Apple’s prehistoric nature documentary series, and the next will shift the focus to the Ice Age, exploring the period across five episodes. Tom Hiddleston will be swapping in for Sir David Attenborough as the narrator when the show premieres on November 26th.
Disney Plus’ Eyes of Wakanda animated miniseries was slated to debut on August 6th, but the streamer has just bumped the show’s premiere up to August 1st and decided drop all four episodes at once.
The HBO Max series is the last hangover from DC’s old universe, but it has to line up with the new world started by Superman. This trailer for season two hints at how that’ll happen, and if you guessed “multiverse” then you don’t get any prize because it was both obvious and inevitable.
Peacemaker returns with eight episodes from August 21st and, most importantly, will have an all-new dance number for the opening credits.
A Wolfenstein show is in development, reports Variety, and sounds like it could be based on MachineGames’ fantastic games that actually told stories rather than starting from scratch. Both MachineGames’ studio director Jerk Gustafsson and the showrunners of Fallout (which got the games right) Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan are attached. Showrunner here is Patrick Somerville; the show’s not official yet.
At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Nickelodeon revealed some new art featuring Pavi, the young Earthbender at the center of the new Avatar: Seven Havens animated series due out in 2027.
With a $1.5 billion five-year deal to lock the irreverent show down and take it away from HBO Max, the streaming service clearly thinks so.
Paramonut Plus is steadily gaining subscribers, but lags behind rivals when it comes to the most popular content, and securing South Park might just help. And hey, if it distracts from stories about its troubled Skydance merger and payouts to Trump, that can’t hurt either, right?
While Hulu took its time releasing the last two seasons of Futurama, the streamer announced today that every episode of season 13 will debut simultaneously on September 15th.
Apple announced that production is officially underway for the previously-revealed season 4 of Ted Lasso. There’s even a photo to prove it. More interesting, though, is the news that a bunch of the cast are joining Jason Sudeikis in returning to the show, including Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt. and Jeremy Swift.
