Charles Pulliam-Moore

Rather than waiting for Sunday, HBO now plans to drop It: Welcome to Derry’s second episode on October 31st just in time for the end of spooky season.

Though Apple TV has had time for a surprise rebrand, the streamer still hasn’t released The Savant, its indefinitely postponed crime thriller about domestic terrorism. Apple’s site keeps changing to say that the show could debut “soon” or at some point in 2025. But with the year almost over, “soon” feels unlikely.

Deadline reports that Netflix has tapped I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun to write and direct an adaptation of Charles Burns’ comic, Black Hole. Like the comic, the new series will tell the story of a town where a virus turns sexually active teens into strange monsters.

Bill Block, the former CEO of Miramax, has plans to build out his new micro-drama streaming platform called GammaTime thanks to a fresh round of funding from investors including Alexis Ohanian, Kris Jenner, and Kim Kardashian. Perhaps Quibi was just too ahead of its time.

The latest Predator: Badlands trailer features a bunch of new shots of the deadly planet a young Yautja and his synth companion will find themselves stranded on, but the strangest thing going on here is all that fancy finger work with what appears to be a laser bow weapon.