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Prime Video has renewed Reacher for a fourth season. The third season is set to debut in 2025. Prime Video recently announced a series order for a Reacher spinoff, The Untitled Neagley Project, starring Maria Sten. In the third season of the action-packed drama series starring Alan Ritchson, based on the seventh book in Lee Child’s series, Persuader, Reacher must go undercover to rescue an informant held by a haunting foe from his past. As previously announced, Maria Sten will return for season three, joined by Anthony Michael Hall, Sonya Cassidy, Brian Tee, Johnny Berchtold, Robert Montesinos, Daniel David Stewart, and Olivier Richters. 

Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler have been cast in HBO’s Lanterns. Pierre will play John Stewart while Chandler plays Hal Jordan. The series follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland. 

Season three of The Sex Lives of College Girls premieres November 21 on Max. The series follows a group of college students at New England’s prestigious Essex College. Series regulars are Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Christopher Meyer, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Renika Williams, Gracie Lawrence, and Mia Rodgers. Previous series regular Reneé Rapp will be departing the series during the upcoming season. 

The Day of the Jackal premieres November 14 on Peacock with the first 5 episodes, followed by episodes weekly and a double-episode finale on December 12. An unrivaled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake. 

Max has canceled Velma after two seasons. The animated series is a reimagining of the Scooby-Doo franchise which unravels the origins of Mystery, Inc. as told by the gang’s beloved bespectacled detective. The series recently wrapped with a Halloween special episode Velma: This Halloween Needs to be More Special! 

Dark comedy series The Sticky inspired by the true story dubbed the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist” will premiere on Prime Video December 6 with all six episodes. The series follows Ruth Landry, a tough, middle-aged maple syrup farmer who turns to crime when the bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves. She teams up with the hot-tempered Bostonian mobster, and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard to carry out a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec’s maple syrup surplus. The series stars Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos, Guillaume Cyr, with guest star Jamie Lee Curtis. 

Nate Bargatze returns to Netflix with a two special stand-up special deal. The first special, Your Friend, Nate Bargatze, premieres December 24. Nate Bargatze brings his humor to discuss wanting a second dog, how much pizza to order for guys night, his wife being the responsible one, and more. 

ESPN and ABC will offer exclusive coverage of the 2024 WNBA Finals Presented by YouTubeTV, featuring two teams looking to make history. The No. 1 seed New York Liberty, in pursuit of the franchise’s first championship title, will face off the No. 2 seed Minnesota Lynx, who is looking to become the first franchise in the league’s history to win five championships. Action for the best-of-five series tips off with Game 1 when the Liberty host the Lynx, on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN. The 2024 edition of the WNBA Finals Presented by YouTube TV will mark the 28th consecutive season of WNBA Finals on ESPN platforms. ESPN Deportes will provide exclusive, Spanish-language coverage, starting with Game 1. Games 2 and 3 of the Finals will air on Sunday, Oct. 13, and Wednesday, Oct. 16, respectively. The if-necessary Games 4 and 5 will be played on Friday, Oct. 18, and Sunday, Oct. 20. 

An Italian adaptation of Love Is Blind is coming soon to Netflix. Italian singles will have a new opportunity to get involved and find their soulmate on Love Is Blind: Italy. The series represents a real social experiment, a less conventional approach to modern dating. A group of singles who want to be loved for who they are will have the opportunity to search for their soulmate without the distractions of the outside world and will choose someone to marry without ever meeting them face-to-face. When their wedding day arrives, will real-world realities and external factors push them apart, or will they marry the person they fell blindly in love with? 

All twelve episodes of the English dub of My Deer Friend Nokotan will debut on Crunchyroll October 10. Koshi Torako has everyone fooled. Her classmates see her as the perfect honor student, unaware of her secret delinquent past. But her new picturesque school life is thrown into chaos when she bumps into Shikanoko Noko, a girl with antlers! Mayhem seems to follow this strange doe-eyed girl. Who, or what, is she? The English dub previously streamed on Prime Video. 

Ariana Grande is set to host Saturday Night Live October 12. Stevie Nicks will serve as musical guest on the late night NBC series. 

The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox premieres October 23 on Netflix. The series revisits one of the greatest comebacks in sports history when the Boston Red Sox overcame a 3-0 series deficit to defeat their archrivals the New York Yankees, en route to winning their first World Series title in 86 years and breaking the infamous “Curse of the Bambino.” The three-part documentary series celebrates the 20th anniversary of the team’s groundbreaking postseason run with new, exclusive interviews featuring key players and figures including: Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, Kevin Millar, Terry Francona & Theo Epstein, among many others. 

Four part docuseries Breath of Fire premieres on HBO October 23. In 2013, Katie Griggs, a millennial YouTube astrologer, rose to fame as the face of Kundalini yoga, opening the RA MA Institute in Los Angeles, donning a white turban, and reinventing herself as Guru Jagat. It explores Guru Jagat’s evolution while chronicling the shocking secret history of Kundalini through its origins in the 1960s to its expansion in the United States and its presence in wellness circles today. Based on the Vanity Fair story by Hayley Phelan, “The Second Coming of Guru Jagat,” it illuminates the culture of modern spirituality revealing complicated themes of cultural appropriation and the dangers of self-proclaimed gurus. 

Season three of Fabulous Lives vs Bollywood Wives premieres October 18 on Netflix. With these fabulous women, kalesh is always around the corner. Brace yourselves. 

Rebus and Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter are set to premiere on Viaplay in November. All six episodes of Rebus premiere November 7. Set in Edinburgh, the crime thriller reimagines the iconic character John Rebus as a younger Detective Sergeant, drawn into a violent criminal conflict that turns personal when his brother Michael, a former soldier, crosses the line into criminality. Rebus finds himself torn between protecting his brother and enforcing the law to bring Michael to justice. Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter premieres November 21 with all six episodes. The enchanting, coming-of-age story follows the adventures of a young girl born into a band of robbers set in and around a fortress in medieval Scandinavia. As Ronja grows up, she braves the mystical forest teeming with both enchanting and fearsome creatures like the wile-wings and gray dwarfs. When Ronja befriends the young boy Birk from a rival gang of robbers, a vicious family feud ignites.

Barney’s World premieres October 14 on Max and October 18 on Cartoon Network. The first episode will debut early on Barney’s YouTube channel on October 11. It is a fresh take on the beloved, iconic series that introduced the world to their favorite purple dinosaur, Barney, in 1988.The theme song is a nod to the original tune viewers know and love, but with an updated melody and lyrics. Each episode will tap into these pillars and strive to have a positive impact on the next generation. 

Lee Arvoy
Lee Arvoy joined the TV Source team in the summer of 2020 as a TV Writer.

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