TV & Streaming

Emmy Rossum will receive the Newport Beach Film Festival’s outstanding performance in television award for her role as an FBI agent in Hulu’s Furious. The Oct. 18 presentation will follow a career-retrospective conversation recorded before a festival audience for the Awards Chatter podcast.

Jack Reacher author Lee Child says he vetoed a third Tom Cruise-led movie and chose to take the character into streaming television instead. With Prime Video’s Reacher heading toward fifth and sixth seasons, Child calls the format’s longer running time a “fabulous luxury” that allows adaptations to retain more of each book’s story.

Taylor Sheridan made his professional acting debut as Vernon, a local drag racer, in the “Walker, Texas Ranger” Season 3 episode “War Zone.” The small role placed the future creator of the “Yellowstone” television universe in a Western series more than two decades before his later work.

Dave Annable made his professional acting debut in a 2002 episode of NBC’s “Third Watch,” playing arsonist Doug Maple Jr. The “Lioness” star appeared in Season 4’s “Firestarter,” in which his character sets deadly fires to get his father’s attention.

Marshals launches Season 2 and Tracker begins Season 4 on CBS as part of the October 4, 2026 television lineup. Lanterns, A Tale of Two Cities and High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam also reach their season or series finales.

Before starring as CIA special forces operator Cruz Manuelos in “Lioness,” Laysla De Oliveira played the light-wielding mutant Glow in three episodes of Fox’s “The Gifted.” The season 2 appearance marked her first recurring television role.

Dakota Johnson returns to host Saturday Night Live on October 3, 2026, with Turnstile as musical guest, capping a packed TV and streaming schedule. Other highlights include Julie Gonzalo’s Hallmark movie A Knight to Remember, the Crossroad Springs midseason finale, UFC 332: Silva vs. Wang and Day 2 of the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

Coven Academy creator Tim Federle unpacks the Disney+ drama’s Season 1 cliffhangers, from Miss Graves being revealed as Briar’s birth mother to McKenna’s werewolf bite and Jake’s dark magic. He also explains why a filmed kiss between Briar and Jake was withheld from the finale and shares ideas for a potential continuation.

Richard E. Grant accidentally told fellow contestants he was a Traitor moments after being selected alongside Maya Jama in the opening episode of the U.K. reality competition “Celebrity Traitors.” Joe Lycett helped frame the confession as a joke, allowing Grant to survive the episode despite what he called the “biggest mistake” of his life.

In a playful Saturday Night Live promo, returning host Dakota Johnson vows to “form a wall of death” for musical guest Turnstile, while comedian Ben Marshall declines to join the mosh pit. The Baltimore group will be the show’s first hardcore band since Fear performed in 1981.

American Horror Story season 13 star Seth Gabel says Cordelia Goode “could be dead” after episode six’s Coven cliffhanger, though the witches’ powers leave her fate uncertain. He also teases an “explosive” episode seven as Jeffrey Dahmer and James Patrick March’s assembled killers continue their war against the coven.

Peacock has greenlit the first Fast & Furious television series, with a premiere planned for 2028. Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman will write and co-run the Universal Television project, while franchise star Vin Diesel will executive produce.

Ray J was rushed to the hospital after suffering a medical emergency during a livestream from Fab Factory on Thursday, Oct. 1. Emergency responders treated him at the scene before he walked unassisted to a stretcher.

TV writer and producer Eric Weinberg has gone on trial on 23 counts of rape and sexual assault involving seven women. Prosecutors allege the former “Scrubs” and “Californication” writer posed as an amateur photographer to bring the women to his Los Feliz home before attacking them.

Netflix has landed American Royals for development, with Ted Malawer writing and executive producing the drama inspired by Katharine McGee’s bestselling young adult book series. The alternate-history story follows America’s royal family, including two princesses competing for the crown and two girls pursuing the prince’s heart.

Netflix is launching a collaboration with Filmin that will bring 10 films and documentaries curated by Filmin’s editorial team to members in Spain each month. The first collection, “October Mysteries,” arrives Thursday with titles including The Shrouds and Late Night with the Devil.

Tyler Perry’s The Oval ended its seven-season BET run with a cliffhanger-filled Season 7 finale rather than a clean resolution. Kareem was shot repeatedly, Eli was poisoned, Priscilla and Simone faced an explosion, and Victoria attempted to execute Jason, leaving their fates unresolved.

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Santa alongside Alan Ritchson in The Man with the Bag, streaming on Prime Video beginning December 2.

Edi Gathegi has joined Universal Pictures’ Miami Vice ’85 as a small-time criminal whose ambitions leave him in over his head. The big-screen adaptation stars Michael B. Jordan as Ricardo Tubbs and Austin Butler as James Crockett, with Joseph Kosinski directing.

Beta Film has sold “Rex – Vienna Calling” to broadcasters across Europe, Asia and Australia as production begins on six feature-length episodes for Season 2. Maximilian Brückner returns as Vienna detective Max Steiner alongside his German Shepherd partner, Rex.

Netflix has renewed Indian reality series Lock Upp: Sach Yaa Sazaa for a second season, with Riteish Deshmukh and Farah Khan returning as hosts. The renewal follows a breakout first season that reached No. 1 on Netflix’s TV shows list within two days and remained in the top 10 for seven consecutive weeks.