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Prime Video has renewed Overcompensating for a second season. Benito Skinner will return to write, star and executive produce the series.
Starz has announced the co-leads for its prequel series Power: Origins. Spence Moore will play “Ghost,” and Charlie Mann will play “Tommy,” the younger versions of the characters originated by Omari Hardwick and Joseph Sikora in the original Power series. The prequel series will continue to explore the Power universe in fresh and compelling ways, delving into the action-packed origin story of fan-favorite characters Ghost and Tommy as ambitious young entrepreneurs on the rise, determined to make their mark on the streets of New York City. A fun, rambunctious exploration of a new time period in the “Power” franchise, “Power: Origins” will highlight the unbridled audacity of young men not just leveling up, but determined to become legends in the game. As previously announced, MeKai Curtis is set to reprise his role as Kanan Stark from Power Book III: Raising Kanan. It is the fourth spinoff in the hugely popular Power series.
Taylor Frankie Paul is stepping into the spotlight as leading lady for the 22nd season of The Bachelorette. After igniting “MomTok” and going viral for pulling back the curtain on Salt Lake’s soft-swinging scene in Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, the 31-year-old Utah native is ready to trade headline-making heartbreak for hometown dates as she begins making her mark on Bachelor Nation. The all-new season of The Bachelorette will debut in 2026, and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives returns November 13. As a single mother of three, Paul shares the highs and lows of her life with unfiltered candor. With humor, resilience and a fearless openness, she inspires others to embrace life’s chaos and own their story.
Season two of English Teacher premieres September 25 on FX. All episodes streaming on Hulu. The series stars Brian Jordan Alvarez as “Evan Marquez,” a high school teacher in Austin, Texas who often finds himself at the intersection of the personal, professional and political aspects of working at a high school. Evan wants to be a principled person but often runs into trouble because of it.
Season nine of Love Is Blind premieres October 1 on Netflix. Singles who want to be loved for who they are have signed up for a less conventional approach to modern dating, and will choose someone to marry without ever meeting them. Over several weeks, the newly engaged couples will move in together, plan their wedding, and find out if their physical connection matches their strong emotional bond developed in the pods. 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? Hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, this addictive 12-episode social experiment will uncover whether looks, race, or age do matter – or if love really is blind.
Season two of The Braxtons premieres October 10 on We TV. With weddings, career wins, deep rifts, and real healing, The Braxtons return to prove no one does drama, heart, and legacy like they do… bigger, bolder and realer than ever. Toni, Towanda, Trina, Tamar, and Ms. Evelyn reunite with hopes of healing after tragedy, but life throws more curveballs than ever before. While Towanda plans the wedding of her dreams, the family is rocked by medical emergencies, explosive emotional confrontations, and the fallout from a public scandal that threatens to divide them for good.
Eight episode limited series Murdaugh: Death in the Family premieres October 15 on hulu with the first three episodes. Maggie and Alex enjoy a lavish life of privilege as members of one of South Carolina’s most powerful legal dynasties. But when their son Paul is involved in a deadly boat crash, the family is faced with a test unlike any they’ve ever encountered. As details come to light and new challenges emerge, the family’s connections to several mysterious deaths raise questions which threaten everything Maggie and Alex hold dear. The series is inspired by the popular Murdaugh Murders Podcast. The series stars Jason Clarke as Alex Murdaugh, Patricia Arquette as Maggie Murdaugh, Johnny Berchtold as Paul Murdaugh, Will Harrison as Buster Murdaugh, Brittany Snow as Mandy Matney, J. Smith-Cameron as Marian Proctor.
Docuseries Victoria Beckham premieres on Netflix October 9. The series is from the makers of the docuseries Beckham.
Alex Guarnaschelli will return to defend her title as the most feared and accomplished competition cook in the country when the new season of Food Network’s Alex vs America premieres on October 7. Having outcooked more than 80 elite chefs from over 35 states including masters of over two dozen cuisines, and despite battling three chefs at a time, she’s never been eliminated in the first round. Host and chef Eric Adjepong will raise the stakes and bring in the most celebrated chefs, the winningest champions and Alex’s toughest opponents ever who will all join forces to take her down. In each episode, Alex will go up against three expert chefs in two cooking rounds where anyone can be sent home, including Alex. With ultimate bragging rights and $15,000 on the line, the chefs will battle to see if they have what it takes to beat Alex. With surprising all-star chefs around every turn, minds will be blown, friendships will be tested, and challenges will be won and lost.
Kurukshetra premieres October 10 on Netflix. Kurukshetra presents the Mahabharata like never before – through an immersive narrative that captures the emotional intensity and moral complexity of the epic’s greatest moments. The series unfolds through the perspectives of 18 key warriors, each navigating their inner dilemmas, personal vendettas, and the devastating cost of a war that pits brother against brother. Bringing the greatest Indian story ever told to life through the learnings of the Dharmayudh (righteous war), the show will be launched in two parts of 9 episodes each.
ESPN is re-signing national NFL analyst Seth Walder to a multi-year contract extension. Walder has been with ESPN since 2017. Walder covers NFL free agency and trade grades, including recently grading the Green Bay Packers – Dallas Cowboys trade involving star defensive end Micah Parsons. Additional work includes topics ranging from season projections to player analysis based on NFL Next Gen Stats. He writes for ESPN.com and makes regular appearances across ESPN studio programming, mainly ESPN BET Live.
Cristela Alonzo: Upper Classy premieres September 23 on Netflix. Cristela Alonzo returns to Netflix in her third stand-up special. Cristela is in the pursuit of happiness. Whether finding out she’s doing better than her high school bully, visiting a spa and getting too much self-care, or taking her family on their first vacation ever, Cristela teaches her family (and herself) how to enjoy life, whether they like it or not.
Fall brings the series premiere of cutthroat game show Celebrity Weakest Link, hosted by Jane Lynch.  The series returns with this all-celebrity edition, but for the first time in broadcast history, on FOX! A rapid-fire quiz show in which eight celebrities compete to win up to one million dollars for the charity of their choosing, these celebs will answer general knowledge questions and bank money as a group across multiple rounds. At the end of each round, the contestants vote out who they perceive to be the weakest link, and the host sends them off with the infamous farewell, “You are the Weakest Link. Goodbye.” The two who make it to the final round will battle it out to determine who wins the banked money for their charity.
Into the Void: Life, Death & Heavy Metal premieres on hulu September 22 with all eight episodes. The docuseries explores the epic struggles and the cultural impacts made by Heavy Metal’s most compelling artists. Their intensely personal stories about finding success offer an intoxicating combo of volume and distortion delivered via pulsating tales of murder, addiction, rebellion and redemption.
All three episodes of Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel premiere September 25 on Prime Video. The series tells the cautionary tale of convicted drug trafficker Owen Hanson, detailing Hanson’s rise from modest beginnings, to unexpectedly walking on to the powerhouse USC football team, to illegal sports bookmaking, and eventually smuggling cocaine. After graduation, with his superstar friends making millions in the NFL, the lure of fast money soon becomes too much to resist, as Owen parlays his small-time criminality into a risky alliance with a powerful Mexican drug lord, intertwining his quest for wealth with the deadly world of organized crime. When his harebrained money laundering scheme loses millions of the cartel’s cash, Owen is caught in a web of dangerous debt, absurd criminal mishap, and thrilling FBI investigation. Fueled by the insights of people who lived all sides of the case, including Hanson himself, shocking archival, and stylish dramatization, the series details Owen’s unbelievable journey from celebrated athlete to cocaine kingpin at the pinnacle of the drug world… with only one direction left to go.
New seasons of Homestead Rescue and Hustlers, Gamblers, Crooks premiere September 23 on Discovery Channel. Homestead Rescue returns with the deadliest hurricane to hit mainland US in two decades, with Hurricane Helene obliterating a generational homestead and their 100 year-old farmhouse. A family of six go from 90% self-sufficient homesteaders to having nothing, and the Raneys are called on an entirely new and extremely dire mission: revive a fourth-generation homestead destroyed in an instant by Mother Nature and make it fully self-sustainable in just one week. Hustlers, Gamblers, Crooks dives into high-stakes true stories and gut-wrenching moments, told by underdogs who risked everything to change their futures.
