We may be living in a golden age of TV, but panning through all the dross to find that gold can be time-consuming and tedious. For every much-discussed hit like Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Bear, there are dozens of new original shows that barely tip the cultural needle. And with so many new streaming services competing with HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney Plus, it’s impossible to keep up with everything new to view. But The Verge’s TV section is ready to help. Our news, reviews, and interviews help you find the next Stranger Things or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in time to keep up with the cultural conversation. And our essays and analysis invite you to consider the deeper context of what you’re watching.
Netflix is working with A24 to develop a reality TV series based on the chaotic collaborative cooking game, according to a report from Deadline. The production is still in “early stages of development,” but I can already imagine the secondhand stress from watching contestants rush around a kitchen.
The latest season of Sesame Street debuts on Netflix on November 10th, and the streamer has just dropped a new trailer teasing what’s in store for the fuzzy monsters and their human friends.
Operation Space Station will air on November 5th and 12th, with the first part, High-Risk Build, focusing on the engineering and construction of the ISS. Part two, Science and Survival, will tell the stories of the astronauts who worked on the station and the challenges they faced, including several incidents that were nearly catastrophic.
Epic Games gave creator NickEh30 an early look Fortnite’s next season, which is themed around The Simpsons and will launch after an in-game event tomorrow.
The Netflix fantasy epic continues its downward spiral with a bloated and mostly boring new chapter.
The fifth and final season of Stranger Things kicks off next month, and in the meantime Netflix has a very dramatic new trailer to get you in an Upside Down mood.
It has been two months since Skydance bought Paramount for $8 billion, and — shocker — the newly merged megacorporation has already begun the process of laying off thousands of its workers. It’s almost like these big media consolidation deals invariably end up harming workers.
[The Washington Post]
History tells us that Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan to sell itself is probably going to end in disaster.
The Breaking Bad creator is dabbling in sci-fi again, years after getting his start on The X-Files.
Some kind of event is taking place on November 1st, and leaks from last week indicated that Homer, Marge, Bart, Ned Flanders, and Krusty the Clown might all appear in the game. El Barto has even defaced the header image for Fortnite’s X account.
Taylor Sheridan — the architect of Paramount Skydance’s wildly successful Yellowstone franchise — has reportedly signed a massive film / TV deal with rival entertainment giant NBCUniversal. According to Puck, Sheridan’s move was prompted by his dissatisfaction with the way Paramount Skydance’s new head David Ellison has been running the company.
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.
[The Hollywood Reporter]
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 It prequel series is a half-hearted attempt at crossing Stephen King’s opus with Stranger Things.
The Apple TV thriller returns for its second season, with eight episodes that kick off on January 14th, 2026. This time the setting shifts from an airplane to a train in Berlin. Hopefully they don’t end up in an Exit 8 situation.
Last week Marvel confirmed that a third season of the Disney Plus revival is in the works, but now we know when the second will arrive: Born Again will be born again on March 4th, 2026.
Following Barbie’s success, Mattel keeps trying to find ways to license out its properties for TV and film. Up next: M. Night Shyamalan is co-developing a series based on the magic 8-ball that’s described as a “high-concept, character-driven supernatural drama.” I just hope it’s part of the Servant connected universe.
The new season will have 10 episodes, with one dropping every Thursday between October 23rd and December 25th (an excellent Christmas gift if you ask me). The new season will feature appearances from Adventure Time favorites including Princess Bubblegum, Marceline and, of course, Finn the Human.
First, Yahya Abdul-Mateen showed up at the Fantastic Four: First Steps premiere, giving in-character interviews as Simon Williams — the star of Disney Plus’ upcoming Wonder Man miniseries. And now, Marvel has dropped a Wonder Man teaser that makes it seem like the show will be about an in-universe superhero movie reboot.
Ahead of the premiere of season 4 on October 30th — which, of course, introduces Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia — Netflix has released a new Witcher trailer. The new season has more of an ensemble vibe, with Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri all doing their own thing across the Continent.
This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs.
The digital avatar’s rollout feels like a stunt meant to normalize gen AI’s creep into Hollywood.
Apple just released a new trailer for its upcoming five-part documentary on legendary director Martin Scorsese, and it looks filled with an appropriate amount of drama. The series is helmed by director Rebecca Miller and starts streaming on October 17th.
Noah Hawley talks about turning Alien into a TV series following the season 1 finale.
