TV Talk: Cable and streaming won’t run out of scripted originals this fall
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While broadcast channels mostly are lacking in scripted originals this fall, cable and streaming services tend to work further ahead, so there will still be a bounty of scripted series premiering over the next three months.
On Monday, Amazon Freevee revives the daily Australian soap “Neighbours,” which aired from 1985 to 2022. The revival will roll out episodes Monday- Thursday each week.
Three-part series “The Continental: From the World of John Wick” (Friday, Peacock) is set at the hotel-for-assassins in the “John Wick” movies in 1970s New York City. Mel Gibson co-stars.
Amazon Prime Video hit “The Boys” gets a college-set spin-off, “Gen V” (Sept. 29).
Writer Mike Flanagan, who created the excellent “Haunting of Hill House” and “Midnight Mass,” delivers an eight-episode limited series, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (Oct. 12, Netflix), based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe about siblings whose family members start dying.
Former NBC series “Frasier” gets a 10-episode revival on Paramount+ (Oct 12) as Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) moves from Seattle back to Boston. No other “Frasier” or “Cheers” characters are series regulars, but Bebe Neuwirth and Peri Gilpin guest star in one episode each. (The first two episodes will also air back-to-back on CBS at 9:15 p.m. Oct. 17.)
R.L. Stine’s “Goosebumps” is back as a 10-part series on Disney+ and Hulu (Oct. 13) about five high schoolers investigating the death of a teenager decades earlier.
Brie Larson (“Captain Marvel”) stars in Apple TV+’s adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ period drama “Lessons in Chemistry” (Oct. 13) about Elizabeth (Larson) and her dream of becoming a scientist in 1950s America.
Based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, writer Ron Nyswaner (“Philadelphia”), who grew up in Clarksville, Greene County, adapts “Fellow Travelers” as a limited series spanning four decades. Premiering Oct. 27 on Paramount+ (9 p.m. Oct. 29 on Showtime), Carnegie Mellon University grad Matt Bomer (“White Collar”) stars as a political operative who falls in love with a young man (Jonathan Bailey, “Bridgerton”).
“Black Cake” (Nov. 1, Hulu) is another series based on a best-seller, this time author Charmaine Wilkerson’s family drama/murder mystery set in Jamaica, Italy, Scotland and Southern California.
“All the Light We Cannot See” (Nov. 2, Netflix), again based on a novel, is a limited series about a blind French girl and her father who flee Paris with a diamond during World War II.
Taylor Sheridan’s latest Western for Paramount+, “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” (Nov. 5), stars David Oyelowo as the title character as he journeys from enslavement to become the first Black U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi.
Edith Wharton’s “The Buccaneers” (Nov. 8, Apple TV+) gets an eight-episode re-do chronicling young American women in 1870s London.
FX-produced limited series “A Murder at the End of the World” (Nov. 14, Hulu) follows sleuth Darby Hart (Emma Corrin, “The Crown”) as she investigates a murder during a retreat staged by a mysterious billionaire (Clive Owen).
The Please Don’t Destroy comedy collective from “Saturday Night Live” — Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall — star in the Peacock film “The Treasure of Foggy Mountain” (Nov. 17) as three childhood friends turned slacker co-workers who seek a priceless treasure that brings them in contact with park rangers (Meg Statler and X Mayo) and a cult leader (Bowen Yang).
Netflix debuts “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” (Nov. 17), an eight-episode animated spin-off of the 2010 live-action movie “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.” Scott (voice of Michael Cera) meets the girl of his dreams, but there’s a catch: He must fight her seven exes before he can date her.
Disney+ ends the year with a series adaptation of author Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” fantasy book series in “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” (Dec. 20). It’s the story of 12-year-old modern demi-god Percy (Walker Scobell) and his friends.
Returning shows include “American Horror Story” (10 p.m. Sept. 20, FX) “The Morning Show” (Sept. 13, Apple TV+), “All Rise” (9 p.m. Sept. 16, OWN), “Sex Education” (Sept. 21, Netflix), “Castlevania: Nocturne” (Sept. 28, Netflix), “Lupin” (Oct. 5, Netflix), “Chucky” (9 p.m. Oct. 4, Syfy, USA), “Loki” (Oct. 6, Disney+), “Rick and Morty” (11 p.m. Oct. 15, Adult Swim), “Wolf Like Me” (Oct. 19, Peacock), “Bosch: Legacy” (Oct. 20, Amazon Freevee), “Elite” (Oct. 20, Netflix), “Upload” (Oct. 20, Amazon Prime Video), “American Horror Stories” (Oct. 26, Hulu), “The Gilded Age” (9 p.m. Oct. 29, HBO), “Invincible” (Nov. 3, Amazon Prime Video), “Fargo” (10 p.m. Nov. 21, FX) and “Virgin River” (Nov. 30, Netflix).