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.
The series will return to Netflix with six new episodes following a more than three-year-long wait. Blue Eye Samurai’s second season picks up where things left off, with Mizu’s vengeful search for her father bringing her to London.
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Overnight, a new surprise episode of the It prequel series dropped. No Pennywise in this one, though. “A Story of Derry” takes place hundreds of years ago and focuses on building out the lore, including introducing Maturin, the giant cosmic turtle that hasn’t made the cut in the feature films yet.
That’s the logline for Death Stranding anime Isolations, which just dropped its first short teaser. Produced by Hideo Kojima, the series releases on Disney Plus and Hulu some time in 2027. It’s separate from the live-action Death Stranding film from A24, which is set to start filming next year.
Alongside laying off 1,000 employees, Netflix has fired the heads of its film and content divisions this month. We’ve already explained the company can’t fire its way out of a slump that’s now hitting its engagement metrics, but Bloomberg recounts just why co-CEO Ted Sarandos thinks otherwise, and how he got here in the first place.
Amazon announced that its Fallout-themed reality show — which throws contestants into a Vault-Tec bunker — will start streaming on January 13th. It’s something of a spiritual sequel to the Squid Game competition on Netflix.
It was pretty obvious from the show’s finale, but now it’s official: Mike Flanagan is making a second season of his Carrie remake on Prime Video. “From the beginning, we imagined a story that goes far beyond the prom, and I’m incredibly grateful for Stephen [King]’s trust and support in exploring what comes next,” Flanagan said in a statement.
At Alza, the entertainment industry is trying to reinvent itself.
Cage will play Henry Logan, and Banderas will play Rai Garcia. The season will take place in Jamaica Bay, New York and beyond that, not much is known. The series is set to enter production in 2027, and showrunner Issa López will return after the reasonably well-received season four, Night Country.
Apple has confirmed that its extremely stressful thriller Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed is getting a second season, though there aren’t any details on when it might be streaming. Along with Margo’s Got Money Troubles, the series is part of a new trend of shows exploring platforms like OnlyFans from different perspectives.
The Greatest is an eight-episode series premiering November 4th that looks at the life of one of the greatest sportsmen to ever grace the Earth. Jaalen Best stars as Ali, and Michael B. Jordan is an executive producer.
The actor, best known for playing Walter White’s son Walt Jr. on the hit AMC series, was also a passionate disability rights activist; he shared a cerebral palsy diagnosis with his most famous character.
An investigation into Mitte’s death is on-going.
A four-episode Naruto x Ninkū crossover anime has been announced, supervised by both Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto and Ninkū creator Koji Kiriyama. There’s no release date, but it’s “now in production,” and you can check out the teaser trailer below. Kishimoto says he’s also working on a new Naruto manga called Shadow Rising, with more details coming in December.
At Comic-Con this weekend, it was revealed that Peacock’s adaptation is set to begin filming in 2027. Very little is known about the show, but Universal Global Television’s Kelsey Balance said more details are coming “very soon, within the next few weeks.”
This slightly longer look at the new Amazon series doesn’t offer much more info than the original teaser that dropped in July. It is certainly a moodier and darker trailer, though. The show has been in the works since at least 2022, but it’ll finally hit streaming on November 25th of this year.
Kevin O’Leary — AKA Mr. Wonderful — found himself in the crosshairs of SNL over his plans to build a massive data center in Utah called Stratos. Weekend Update has been on a tear so far this season, including this send-up of Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. Of course, these Silicon Valley supervillains make SNL’s job pretty easy.
The genre has become a tentpole across gaming, film, and television.
According to Variety, during a panel at New York Comic Con this weekend, Cage said:
“Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI … I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let him use AI on ‘Spider Noir.’ I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.”
The Altruists focuses on the relationship between former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Anthony Boyle) and former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison (Julia Garner). It debuts on November 19th.
During Marvel Television’s presentation at this year’s New York Comic Con, the studio announced that it is developing a live-action series titled Zodiac that will debut in 2028. The new show’s still a ways out, but we can expect to see the second season of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on January 13th, 2027.
The extremely brutal horror film Talk to Me is being turned into an immersive series called I Let You In. It’s coming to Meta headsets and VR glasses, will shift the setting from Australia to “the ultimate party in Ibiza,” and is expected to release next spring.
Sony, which acquired Crunchyroll in 2021, is launching a hub for the anime streaming service on the PS5 in spring 2027, as reported earlier by Variety. It’s still not exactly clear what this hub will look like, but Sony says it will allow players to explore anime series and games, as well as access the Crunchyroll app.
According to Deadline, one of the shows that Vin Diesel announced during NBC’s upfronts in May is going into production. There aren’t any details yet on the status of the other three F&F TV projects Diesel had mentioned, while the 11th movie in the series, Fast Forever, is still scheduled to hit theaters on March 17th, 2028.
The latest trailer for Disney Plus’ upcoming VisionQuest series gives use our best look yet at Ruaridh Mollica’s Tommy Shepherd — the reincarnated son of Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany’s Vision. It seems like he (and that curious accent) are going to be a big part of the show when it premiered on October 14th.
Mike Flanagan’s first Amazon series is a (mostly) excellent update of the classic Stephen King tale.
The latest episode of South Park — sorry, South America — is overrun by “billionaire weenies” and their data centers. Worse, it’s a dangerous new strain who “like to go on podcasts and get into public arguments with Mark Ruffalo.” This clip should give you an idea of the problem:
Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest will debut on June 6th, 2029, Variety reports. Owen Harris, an executive producer and director for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is set to direct the film.
It’s been a solid year for crime thrillers with the likes of Furious, and now Apple TV is entering the fray with Nocturne. It’s hard to gather too much from the new trailer — though Stephen Graham is shaping up to be a very fun serial killer — but the show starts streaming on October 30th.
He’ll play a character named Joey who wasn’t in the games. Ian Alexander, who voiced Lev in The Last of Us: Part II, will play opposite him as another original character, Paco. Laura Bailey, who voiced Abby in the game, will join the cast as Elizabeth, a leader of the Seraphites cult.
Your free streaming reruns app may look different now, with Pluto TV’s recently rolled-out update that shares tech with Paramount Plus and has a David Duchovny-starring “Escape to Pluto TV” ad campaign.
The new Home screen now blends live and on-demand content, but some users say it’s slower, makes channel surfing harder, and pushed the channel guide under Live TV. Paramount is already promising more tweaks, like bringing back Kids Mode and adding an in-player live channel changer.
