A couple tough chick shows with Neagley and Furious, while Furious edges out Neagley the latter was a decent spinoff in the Reacher world. I also finished the first season of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which I liked more than the other spinoffs for its originality, though I didn’t find enough of a story in each episode to really pull me in. I have now started an Apple TV round and lots to do there.
On the movie side, Best of the Best was cute enough though I am sometimes pained by the plot contrivances, I thought the leads and dance were fun. I also appreciated By Design probably more than I enjoyed it but for a very weird movie it kept me engaged. And I thought Backrooms was disappointing, an interesting horror take but again narratively not sure what they were doing.
- Private Eyes West Coast (CW) Series Premiere, Monday 10/5, 8pm – Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson reprise their Private Eyes investigators, now married with a baby and relocated from Toronto to Victoria, British Columbia, I’m sure this isn’t great but I like these fluffy detective type shows.
- Thou Shalt Not Steal (The Network) Series Premiere, Tuesday 10/6 – Robyn breaks out of juvenile detention and sets off across the Australian outback, in a series that ran on Stan back in 2024 and is only now reaching the US, with Miranda Otto.
- NCIS: New York (CBS) Series Premiere, Tuesday 10/6, 9pm – LL Cool J’s Sam Hanna returns to his hometown and partners with a roguish agent played by Scott Caan, with Jennifer Beals as the field office director, I don’t do these but am for some reason pleased to see LL Cool J keep going.
- Small Prophets (App+) Series Premiere, Wednesday 10/7 – A six-episode British comedy, looks very weird but is already getting good buzz from its BBC run.
- Carrie (Am) Series Premiere, Wednesday 10/7 – Mike Flanagan reinvents Stephen King’s debut novel as a series, I could see how this could be an interesting modernization as a series but we shall see.
- Her Baby (BET) Series Premiere, Wednesday 10/7, 10pm – A psychological thriller about a surrogate, produced for the vertical format.
- Leonard & Hungry Paul (Wonder) Series Premiere, Thursday 10/8 – Two board-gaming friends in their thirties, a children’s encyclopaedia writer and a part-time postal worker, in a six-part Northern Irish comedy narrated by Julia Roberts.
- Eternally Yours (CBS) Series Premiere, Thursday 10/8, 8:30pm – From the Ghosts team, two vampires married 500 years contend with the human dating their daughter, looks dumb but I like Ghosts quite a bit so there’s hope.
- Cupertino (CBS) Series Premiere, Thursday 10/8, 10pm – Robert and Michelle King’s Silicon Valley legal drama, with Mike Colter as a lawyer cheated out of his stock options by his former startup, who opens a firm to fight back, a big fan of the Kings so worth a watch.
- Treasure Island (MGM+) Series Premiere, Sunday 10/11, 10pm – A new adventure series built from the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, I don’t get MGM so this isn’t top of my list but David Oyelowo as lead is promising.
- This Is Not a Murder Mystery (Acorn) Series Premiere, Monday 10/12 – In 1930s England, a houseful of Surrealist painters including a young Dali and Magritte are trapped in a mansion with a killer and Scotland Yard at the door.
- VisionQuest (Dis+) Series Premiere, Wednesday 10/14, 9pm – Marvel’s Vision gets his own series, closing the trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued through Agatha All Along, I might need to look up the story here to dive back in.
- Crystal Lake (Pea) Series Premiere, Thursday 10/15 – The Friday the 13th prequel series, from Peacock and A24, Linda Cardellini steps in as Jason’s grieving(?) mother.
- Abbott Elementary (ABC) Season Premiere, Wednesday 10/7, 8:30pm – Back for a sixth season and glad for a great comfort comedy.
- Elsbeth (CBS) Season Premiere, Thursday 10/8, 9pm – Carrie Preston’s Elsbeth Tascioni returns for a fourth season, I enjoy her quirks and the crime solving.
- The Lowdown (Fx) Season Premiere, Wednesday 10/14, 9pm – Ethan Hawke’s truthstorian returns for a second season, the first season of this was great, here’s to avoiding a sophomore slump.
- The Diplomat (Net) Season Premiere, Thursday 10/15 – Keri Russell’s ambassador returns for a fourth season, this show stresses me out but I can’t stop watching, so good.
The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST, please check your local listings.
