This Week in TV
Daredevil: Born Again will reportedly end with Season 3, while The Last of Us adds John Goodman, Ian Alexander and Laura Bailey. This week brings East of Eden and All American’s farewell.
Paramount Skydance reached a September 21 settlement with 12 state attorneys general over its proposed Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition. At a September 24 hearing, the judge held off approving the settlement and proposed consent decree, asking for more information; that leaves a major step unresolved.
Daredevil: Born Again will reportedly end with Season 3 on Disney+, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Showrunner Dario Scardapane is also leaving the series.
Netflix renewed The Beast in Me for Season 2 on September 24, with Claire Danes returning as Aggie Wiggs. Howard Gordon and Daniel Pearle will run the new season together.
NBCUniversal reported September 25 that The Traitors: New Blood’s two opening episodes averaged 6 million viewers across NBC and Peacock, including repeats and three days of viewing. That made it NBC’s strongest new unscripted premiere in six years among adults 18–49.
Ted Danson’s detective has one case left: Netflix says Season 3 of A Man on the Inside will be its last. Filming is underway in San Francisco, with Nick Offerman, Bernadette Peters and Stephen Root among the guest stars.
Netflix renewed Crew Girl for Season 2 on September 22, less than two weeks after its debut. Teagan’s rowing and romantic entanglements will continue, though Netflix has not announced a return date.
Paramount reported September 25 that South Park’s Season 29 premiere drew 4.2 million U.S. viewers across Comedy Central and Paramount+ in its first three days. Its Nielsen rating among adults 18–49 on Comedy Central rose 33% from the Season 28 premiere.
TheWrap reported September 26 that John Goodman, Ian Alexander and Laura Bailey have joined The Last of Us Season 3. Alexander and Bailey, who played Lev and Abby in the games, take different roles in the series.
Disney+ greenlit a new Darkwing Duck series on September 22, with Mark Hamill voicing Drake Mallard and Seth Rogen as Launchpad McQuack. A teenager named Duckie draws the masked hero back into action after decades trapped in an alternate world.
Season 4 concluded September 24 on Paramount+, with an Uhura-centered finale connecting the Enterprise’s present and future. Season 5 will be the show’s last.
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe wrapped its first season September 24 on HBO Max. The finale pushes its fourth-wall joke beyond the characters’ sitcom reality.
Florence Pugh plays Cathy Ames in Zoe Kazan’s adaptation of East of Eden, with all seven episodes arriving October 1 on Netflix. Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist join a family saga built around the damage one generation hands to the next.
J.D. turns to Turk and Elliot for help caring for Dr. Cox as the Scrubs revival starts Season 2. Two episodes air September 30 on ABC and stream the next day on Hulu.
Coven Academy opens with four episodes October 1 on Freeform. All 10 episodes reach Hulu and Disney+ on October 2, giving streaming viewers the whole season at once.
Dominic West’s tech mogul and Sienna Miller’s movie star turn their divorce into a battle between two elite London law firms in War. The HBO/Sky legal drama arrives October 1 on HBO and HBO Max.
Finn and Jake head back into the Land of Ooo in Adventure Time: Side Quests. Season 2 brings 20 new episodes to Disney+ and Hulu on October 2, all available at once.
Kayce Dutton trades ranch disputes for federal cases in Montana in Marshals, the Yellowstone spinoff starring Luke Grimes. Season 2 starts October 4 on CBS and streams on Paramount+.
Tracker’s fourth season picks up the unresolved Shaw-family mystery when it returns October 4 on CBS and Paramount+. Justin Hartley has also teased a larger role for Colter’s connection with Mel Day.
Daniel Ezra’s Spencer is at the center of All American’s September 28 series finale on The CW, as friends and family from Crenshaw and Beverly reunite. The episode ends the football drama’s eight-season run.
Lanterns reaches its Season 1 finale October 4 on HBO and HBO Max, concluding the eight-episode murder investigation led by Hal Jordan and John Stewart.
MrBeast and Jeff Housenbold join the Sharks for Shark Tank’s Season 18 opener, followed by an episode featuring Erin and Sara Foster. The two-episode premiere airs September 30 on ABC, with both episodes on Hulu the next day.
The Amazing Race launches Season 39 with a two-night premiere September 30 and October 1 on CBS, with streaming on Paramount+. Plan for both nights before the race settles into its weekly rhythm.
The Oval ends its seven-season run on September 30 on Paramount+ and BET. The finale closes the political soap’s 22-episode final season.
Big Brother’s “Time Trip” season reaches its finale October 1 on CBS, with Julie Chen Moonves announcing the Season 28 winner. Paramount+ Premium carries it live; all Paramount+ plans offer it the next day.
A childhood trip to a PG-13 movie with his brother comes back to haunt Fry’s future in “Final Ending: The Last Conclusion.” The episode closes Futurama’s 14th season September 28 on Hulu.