FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 10/9/26)
CBS: Sheriff Country, Season 2 (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Fire Country, Season 5 (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: Boston Blue, Season 2 (Premiere) at 10pm
CRUNCHYROLL: A Certain Dark Item (Premiere)
CRUNCHYROLL: Firefly Wedding (Premiere)
DISCOVERY: Rocky Mountain Wreckers (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME MOVIE NETWORK: Dancing With the Devil (Premiere) at 8pm
NETFLIX: Haunted Hotel Season 2 (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Is It Cake? Halloween, Season 2 (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Take Charge of My Heart (Premiere)
OWN: Mothers & Daughters: Torn Apart With Iyania Vanzant (Premiere) at 9pm
PARAMOUNT+: Avatar: Seven Heavens (Premiere)
PBC: Great Musicians Of Our Time (Premiere) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 10/10/26)
CBS: 48 Hours, Season 40 (Premiere) at 10pm
CRUNCHYROLL: Horror Collector (Premiere)
CRUNCHYROLL: Paw & Palaces (Premiere)
CRUNCHYROLL: The Vermillion Mask (Premiere)
HALLMARK: The Spirit of Halloween (Premiere) at 8pm
LIFETIME: The Monster She Married (Premiere) at 8pm
NETFLIX: 100 Days of Deception (Premiere)
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Shane Gillis, Musical Guest: Rosalía at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 10/11/26)
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of Potomac Season 11 (Premiere) at 8pm
CRUNCHYROLL: Ace of the Diamond (Premiere)
CRUNCHYROLL: Full Clearing Another World Under a Goddess With Zero Believers (Premiere)
HBO: The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Her Only Way Out (Premiere) at 8pm
MGM+: Treasure Island (Premiere) at 10pm
Apple TV released the trailer for “Stick” Season 2, which premieres the first two of 10 episodes Nov. 4. The series stars Owen Wilson (“Loki”) and Peter Dager (“WITS Academy”) as a former pro golfer and his protégé.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“The Wolves of Real Estate: The Alexander Brothers,” a three-part documentary series about a trio of luxury real estate moguls who assaulted women in Miami and New York for more than a decade, is coming to Peacock Oct. 25.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Paramount+ set a premiere date for the British workplace comedy “It Gets Worse,” created by and starring Leo Reich. Episode 1 of the A24-produced series premieres in the US Nov. 6.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“The Altruists,” Netflix’s eight-part limited series about Sam Bankman-Fried (Anthony Boyle) and Caroline Ellison (Julia Garner), released a first-look trailer Thursday. The series premieres Nov.19.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Would you watch an AI-generated Harry Houdini? Fox Nation sure hopes so. A three-part series, “Houdini: Back from the Dead,” will premiere on the streaming service starting Oct. 14.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Emmy Award-winning documentarian Johnny Harris will release his next series, “The Human Element,” directly to YouTube Nov. 7.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HBO released a trailer for Season 2 of its original series “City of God: The Fight Rages On,” set to premiere this fall.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Food Network unveiled a season-long holiday programming slate kicking off Nov. 2 with “Holiday Baking Championship,” followed by the premiere of “Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking” Nov. 4.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Paramount+ dropped an official trailer and key art for “A Course Called Ireland,” a six-part documentary travel series loosely based on the book by bestselling author Tom Coyne, who co-stars in the series alongside Bill Murray (“Saturday Night Live”). The show premieres Oct. 25.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Bridgerton” matriarch Lady Violet is getting her own spinoff prequel series, Netflix announced Thursday. Violet is played by Ruth Gemmell (“Home Fires”) in the original series and Connie Jenkins-Greig (“Grace”) in the 2023 “Queen Charlotte” prequel. The new show will revolve around Violet’s courtship with the late Viscount Edmund Bridgerton, so it’s unclear whether either actor will star in the series beyond cameos
(Source: Cynopsis).
See-Saw Films (“Slow Horses”) is teaming up with fellow Mediawan subsidiary Miraculous Corp on a live-action version of the hit animated franchise “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.” Writer Emme Hoy (“Sweetpea”) is attached to adapt the series.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season 4 of Peyo Productions’ “The Smurfs” cartoon is currently in production, the company announced at MIPCOM this week. The new season will consist of 52 11-minute episodes, half of which will air in 2027 and the other half in 2028.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A+E Global Media is massively expanding its microdrama slate with three new original vertical films for the Lifetime mobile app, along with seven that were adapted from previous titles. The goal is to add new titles every two weeks, some of which will come from vertTV. A+E Global Media has also adapted nearly 200 existing TV series from its library for third-party distribution, including “Cold Case Files,” “Hoarders” and “Married at First Sight.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season 3 of “Odd Squad UK,” a children’s series following the adventures of kid agents investigating life’s oddities, is currently in production. The series is co-produced by Sinking Ship Entertainment and BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions. Fred Rogers Productions will handle distribution in the US.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Peacock is developing a new drama from “Good Girls” creators Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs. Called “Pimp,” the series is about a couple who turn to sex work as a way to reignite their marriage.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC ordered a pilot for an American adaptation of “Ludwig,” the BBC series about a puzzle maker who solves mysteries. The US version, “Rabbit,” is written by Megan Ganz and Humphrey Ker (“Mythic Quest”).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Nickelodeon’s 2026 Kids’ Choice Awards will air Nov. 14, featuring YouTuber and Grammy Award-nominated musician Alex Warren as host. TV shows “Wednesday,” “SpongeBob SquarePants,” “Stranger Things,” “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” and “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place” were represented among the nominations.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) released the names of the Gold & Silver Circle Society inductees for this year’s 53rd Daytime Annual Awards, which will be streamed live on the NATAS YouTube channel Oct. 30. Honorees include Byron Allen, Patrika Darbo, Francesca James, Meredith Vieria, Stephen Brown and Rubin Ervin.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“The Land,” director Dan Fogelman’s upcoming family drama series about a soon-to-retire NFL coach, will debut its first two episodes on Hulu Feb. 15, just hours after the Super Bowl ends.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Lanterns” is officially one of the top five most-watched HBO series launches of all time. The DC series ended its first season on Sunday with 10.5 million global viewers and 7.2 million US viewers, according to data from Nielsen and Warner Bros. Discovery.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Meanwhile, NBCUniversal’s decision to move “The Traitors” from Peacock to prime time with “New Blood” is paying off. The network’s internal data suggests that the series has brought more than 7 million cross-platform viewers to the franchise within the first two weeks, expanding its reach by roughly 45%.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” reached 2.66 million total viewers the week of Sept. 28, when it featured a week of live shows from Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House. The ratings represent a double-digit percentage growth in viewership compared with last year’s Brooklyn week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” slightly edged out “Neagley” for most total minutes viewed during the week of Sept. 21, according to Nielsen’s Top 10 Streaming Originals List. Both premiered the week prior; Prime Video’s “Neagley” on Sept. 16 and Netflix’s “Lizzie Borden” on Sept. 17.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Other Mommy – Jessica Chastain, Jay Duplass, Arabella Olivia Clark, Karen Allen, Arian Moayed, Dichen Lachman
The Social Reckoning – Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Strong, Betty Gilpin, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Nelson Franklin, Kelley Pereira, Aiden Laprete, Bill Burr, Wunmi Mosaku
Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother – Mahershala Ali, John Cho, Giancarlo Esposito, Abubakr Ali, Laith Nakli, Adia, Jahleel Kamara, Tiffany Boone, Trammel Tillman
Treasure Trekkers (Animated) – Wyatt Bowen, Meredith Bull, Greg Cipes, Scott Cleverdon, Alan Cumming, John DiMaggio, Nika Futterman, David Kaye, Jack McBrayer
Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry – Stephen Curry, Jon Batiste, Viola Davis, Rick Rubin, Patti Smith
STREAMING
Animals (Netflix) – Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Steven Yeun, Adriana Paz, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Christopher Woodley, Jacob Estrada
Matchbox: The Movie (Apple TV) – John Cena, Jessica Biel, Arturo Castro, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, Danai Gurira, Silas Timberlake
BROADWAY
Upcoming and Announced Broadway Shows
https://playbill.com/article/schedule-of-upcoming-and-announced-broadway-shows
NYC STREET FAIRS
https://nycstreetfairs.com/event-schedule/
https://cititour.com/NYC_Events/2026-New-York-City-Street-Fairs/33756
https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/festivals
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $364 million.
(One ticket costs $5.00 as of April 2025)
You can now play in 43 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. NYLottery.NY.gov
POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $519 million.
(One ticket costs $2.00)
Powerball is played in 43 states.
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