Carrie Brings Horror. Abbott Brings Relief.

Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode Carrie arrives October 7 on Prime Video, with the full season available at once. Stephen King’s telekinetic teenager gives a director skilled at slow-building dread an especially combustible subject.

Abbott Elementary starts Season 6 on ABC on October 7, with next-day streaming on Hulu. When the week’s horror gets too much, Philadelphia’s teachers offer a warmer kind of chaos.

Mackenzie Crook’s British comedy Small Prophets reaches U.S. viewers on Apple TV on October 7. Pearce Quigley’s lonely man tries to grow fortune-telling spirits to find his missing partner—a strange, tender premise with Michael Palin in the cast.

Below arrives October 8 on Netflix, sending Josh Hartnett’s fisherman up against a mysterious sea creature threatening his Newfoundland community. Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton co-star; coastal isolation makes a promising setting for a monster story.

Ted Lasso’s Season 4 finale arrives October 7 on Apple TV. It completes Ted’s return to Richmond as coach of a second-division women’s team, leaving all Season 4 episodes available to stream.

Avatar: Seven Havens opens with three episodes October 9 on Paramount+. Set after The Legend of Korra, the series follows a young Earthbender who discovers she is the new Avatar—but in a catastrophe-shattered world, people fear her as humanity’s destroyer.

Reasonable Doubt returns for Season 4 on Hulu on October 6 with three episodes. Emayatzy Corinealdi’s Jax Stewart faces the fallout of a brutal attack as a client’s media scandal threatens her shaken family and new law firm.

FBI moves an hour earlier on Mondays when Season 9 begins October 5 on CBS. CIA Season 2 and Harlan Coben’s Final Twist Season 2 follow; all three stream on Paramount+.

Fire Country Season 5, Sheriff Country Season 2 and Boston Blue Season 2 premiere October 9 on CBS, with streaming on Paramount+.

NCIS: New York premieres October 6 on CBS, with streaming on Paramount+, bringing LL COOL J’s Sam Hanna home alongside Scott Caan. It joins NCIS Season 24 and NCIS: Origins Season 3.

One Chicago returns October 7 on NBC: Med starts Season 12, Fire Season 15 and P.D. Season 14. All three stream the next day on Peacock.

Law & Order: SVU begins Season 28 on NBC on October 8, with next-day streaming on Peacock. It remains television’s longest-running U.S. primetime drama.

Eternally Yours premieres October 8 on CBS, about vampires whose 500-year marriage hits a fresh complication when their daughter dates a human.

Mike Colter and Rachel Keller lead Cupertino, premiering October 8 on CBS. Colter’s wronged lawyer teams with a young attorney to take on Silicon Valley companies.

The Kardashians returns for Season 8 on Hulu October 8, with new episodes weekly. The trailer puts Khloé’s tentative return to dating alongside renewed tension between Kourtney and her sisters.

The Real Housewives of Potomac starts Season 11 on Bravo on October 11, with next-day streaming on Peacock. Courtney Ajinça joins the cast, while Robyn Dixon and Monique Samuels return as friends.

Prime Video renewed Reacher for Season 6 on September 28, going beyond its already ordered fifth season. Amazon says Season 4 reached 66 million viewers globally in its first 28 days.

Prime Video renewed Neagley for Season 2 on October 1. Amazon says Maria Sten’s spinoff reached 40 million viewers globally in its first 13 days. The renewal expands Reacher into a continuing multi-series franchise.

CBS renewed Big Brother through Season 30 during its October 1 finale, locking in two more seasons.

Netflix renewed A Different World for Season 2 on October 2, eight days after its debut. The Hillman sequel is moving beyond the reunion: Deborah and her classmates get another school year, with no release date announced yet.

Russell T Davies’s Tip Toe began its U.S. run October 2 on Starz. Alan Cumming and David Morrissey play Manchester neighbors pulled apart by escalating homophobia—a tense drama about the danger that can grow right next door.

Catherine Zeta-Jones’s Kill Jackie began October 2 on AMC+ in the U.S., with Zeta-Jones playing an art dealer and former drug smuggler who turns the tables on the Seven Demons, a gang of seven elite assassins.

Netflix announced October 2 that The Watcher Season 2 is in production, with Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Margo Martindale and Isabel Gravitt returning. Four years after its first season, the suburban mystery is moving forward; Netflix has not announced a release date.

TheWrap reported October 1, citing NBC figures, that Line of Fire reached 8.6 million viewers across platforms and encore broadcasts. That was a 48% improvement for NBC’s Monday late-evening slot over last fall, with the network’s strongest three-day DVR lift for a drama premiere since Quantum Leap in 2022.