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American Idol judges Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Carrie Underwood will all be returning for the upcoming 25th season, and 10th on ABC. Host Ryan Seacrest will also be back for the upcoming season, having served as host every season.
YAGA premieres on AMC+ October 23 with the first two episodes. The series is based on the play by Kat Sandler. It follows Rapp (Noah Reid), a private investigator who arrives in the small coastal town of Whittock, to investigate the disappearance of a young heir to a powerful fishery, Henry Park (Hudson Williams). He finds himself at odds with an apprehensive local detective, Carson (Clark Backo), a charismatic university professor with a taste for younger men, Katherine (Carrie-Anne Moss), and a labyrinth of enigmatic suspects, secret lives, and ancient magic.
The Family Guy Halloween special premieres October 5 exclusively on hulu. Brian and Stewie find themselves in Hell – not an annoying day, the actual underworld – paying for 24 seasons’ worth of bad behavior. When they manage to annoy even the Devil himself, they end up in charge. Kieran Culkin will portray the Devil.
The English dub of Overgeared will premiere September 27 on Crunchyroll alongside the Japanese version. Youngwoo Shin is a deadbeat in real life, working odd jobs to barely pay off his loans. Even his family has written him off as a hopeless video game addict. But when he logs in to the massively popular VR game Satisfy, Youngwoo becomes Grid the Warrior…who is also painfully mediocre. Everything changes when he stumbles across a tome containing the lost knowledge of a legendary blacksmith. The catch is, using it resets all his levels! In order to survive after being forced back to square one, Grid will need to hone his skills and gather reliable allies…or not! Who needs all that when you’re decked out in god-tier items?!
David Oyelowo and Viola Prettejohn will lead The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The series based on Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” novels will see Oyelowo star as journalist Mikael Blomkvist alongside Prettejohn as Lisbeth Salander, bringing the iconic characters to life for a new generation. The eight-part mystery thriller is a timely evolution of one of the world’s most celebrated literary thriller franchises, with the “Millennium” novels having sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. Bringing the story into the present day, the series retains the characters, gripping mystery and investigative DNA of Larsson’s novels, while exploring how power, secrecy and misogyny take on new and insidious forms in an ever more connected digital world. It follows cancelled star journalist Mikael Blomkvist and uncompromising hacker Lisbeth Salander as they investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, who vanished more than three decades ago from the secluded island home of one of Sweden’s most powerful industrial dynasties. As they delve deeper into the Vanger family’s buried past, their investigation draws them closer to a chilling threat unfolding dangerously close to them in the present.
Peter Sarsgaard has joined the cast of Paramount+’s Laird. He will star alongside Kenneth Branagh. Sarsgaard will star as “Peter Bergstrom,” a ruthless, self-made tech titan and land magnate whose influence spans continents. He is not simply building wealth, but power – shaping land, industry, and people as extensions of his ambition. Set in the modern Scottish Highlands, Laird is an epic family saga in which a proud Scot defies a shadowy American billionaire (Peter Sarsgaard) hellbent on buying up the glens. Amidst family feuds, buried secrets and star-crossed romances, the Laird of Castle Drummoch (Kenneth Branagh) remains determined to protect his ancestral lands from oligarchical land grabbing.
Microdrama series Who Billionaire? Me Billionaire. will return for a second season September 27. during The Tonight Show‘s first post-Sunday Night Football episode of the season. Additional episodes will be released following the Sunday broadcast and on Monday, September 28. When we last left the engagement party at the end of season one, interloping billionaire Doug (John Stamos) had stolen the fortune of Chaiston (Jimmy Fallon), putting Chaiston’s engagement to Kinsleigh (Rose Kelso) on the rocks. As the heat turns up in season two, Chaiston becomes increasingly unhinged, his best friend Brax (Kasey Esser) becomes suspicious that Prestina (Delaney Rowe) may be having an affair and it all ends with someone in a coma.
This October, Pluto TV is turning Friday nights into “fright nights” with a special Halloween lineup of Double Feature Fridays, its weekly movie night experience in partnership with Entertainment Tonight. Every Friday at 8 p.m. ET on Pluto TV Spotlight, audiences can settle in for two films back-to-back, featuring thrilling thematic pairings of modern favorites alongside indie films making their free streaming debut on the platform, offering some familiar tricks and new treats for audiences this Halloween.
Tyson Fury (36-2-1, 25 KOs) and Anthony Joshua (30-4, 27 KOs) will finally meet in one of the most anticipated heavyweight boxing events of this generation, streaming live globally on Friday, December 11 from Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. It will stream live on Netflix globally. The event will also feature a star-studded undercard with marquee fighters from around the world, further underscoring the global scale of the event. Undercard bouts will be announced at a later date.
AMC Global Media heads back to New York Comic Con’s Main Stage with an impressive lineup of standout panels for its compelling new and returning fan-favorite series. On Friday, October 9, attendees will get a special preview of two new AMC+ series, including Kill Jackie, starring and executive produced by Catherine Zeta-Jones, and the mysterious, witchy YAGA, as well as a first look at the spellbinding new season of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches and the fourth and final season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Additionally, on Saturday, October 10, audiences are invited to join Shudder’s Season of Screams with the streamer’s annual panel, titled “Shudder Is Here To Scare The S*** Out of You,” featuring filmmakers from some of Shudder’s upcoming films and series, and a panel celebrating a decade of The Boulet Brother’s Dragula.
Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” will make its world premiere during the 2026 MTV Music Video Awards (VMAs). Hosted by Snoop Dogg, the VMAs will air Sunday, Sept. 27 (7:30-9:30 PM, ET/4:30-6:30 PM, PT) on CBS.
On September 30, MTV’s The Challenge: Cutthroat turns up the heat when former two-time UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko arrives in Thailand to put the Challengers to the ultimate test. Shevchenko catches the players off guard with a surprise Trial By Combat, putting the fate of the teams in jeopardy. This new chapter of The Challenge Cutthroat, takes place entirely in the vibrant, lush landscape of Thailand, bringing together a mix of legendary veterans and fearless newcomers for the franchise’s most intense game yet. Each test pushes the fierce titans past their breaking points in a ruthless battle for a share of the $500,000 grand prize. In this bold new era, the Challengers are divided into three teams and the only way to take home a share of the cash prize, is to cross the finish line together as a unit. To win, nominated captains must balance their hunger for dominance with the need for loyalty, or risk losing their power while solo players must prove they can be team players or lose their chance at the winnings.
Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? premieres October 22 on Netflix. Once hailed as a legendary actor “known by every Japanese person,” Gen Takasegawa returns to Japan only to face the shocking reality that 99% of the country – and even his own family – has completely forgotten who he is. Convinced everyone has some kind of mass amnesia, he’s stunned to be written off by officials as a senile old man. Stripped of his pride, Takasegawa is forced into a brutal restart from zero, muscling his way into other people’s auditions and film sets in a desperate bid to reclaim his former glory – clawing his way back up, one background role at a time.
Oxygen, the home of high-quality, true-crime programming, will debut three chilling shows this fall. Expanding the Snapped franchise, Snapped: Killer Moms (October 18) uncovers the lengths of just how far a mother will go when pushed to the bloody edge. Catfish Murders (October 18) serves up how deception turns deadly when dealing with deceit. Plus, Homicide For The Holidays (November 14) returns to expose the gruesome real-life tales of the not-so-festive killings right in time for the holidays.
