Television

Attention Stephen King fans! Prime Video is releasing an all-new eight-episode series adaptation of his debut horror novel, Carrie, which is set to premiere on October 7. All episodes will drop at once so get ready for a scary binge watch! The show was developed and is written by Mike Flanagan, and he also serves as executive producer. He is acclaimed for hits like The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. Stephen King himself serves as an executive producer and has publicly praised Flanagan’s script as “brilliant.” 

Do we need another Carrie? Well, this new series updates Carrie White’s story to the modern era. After being homeschooled, her sudden transition into public high school after her father’s death triggers a viral, online bullying scandal. Flanagan has chosen to explore book details that previous movie adaptations completely ignored. Specifically, the show will delve into the concept that Carrie isn’t entirely alone — introducing an ensemble “sorority” of other women who possess similar telekinetic gifts. He recently revealed that while season one is a self-contained arc, he has a “dream scenario” of mapping the story out across three seasons. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see!

Following an extensive casting search of nearly 1,500 actors, Summer H. Howell won the titular role. Playing Carrie’s mother, the iconic Margaret White, is Samantha Sloyan. The ensemble also features Matthew Lillard, Amber Midthunder, Katee Sackhoff, Siena Agudong, and Josie Totah. Alrighty … get the popcorn!

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There is something refreshing about Newlyweds, the new NBC comedy created by Jamie Lee Curtis and Gail Lerner. At the essence of the whole show is something we can all relate to: love. Finding it, losing it, rediscovering it and realizing that you are never too old—or too young—to still be figuring it all out.

Real-life married couple Téa Leoni and Tim Daly play Jeanie and James, two people who find love later in life and, after a whirlwind romance, get married. Leoni is incredibly relatable as Jeanie, a middle-school science teacher and mother of two. Daly’s James is a handsome philosophy professor who is upfront and self-aware—or at least trying to be. He may be more buttoned-up than Jeanie, but underneath it all he still has a wonderful grasp on the importance of connection and love. Their differences are where so much of the comedy comes from.

Curtis also plays Claudia, James’ ex-wife. She is such a natural comedian and Claudia adds another layer to the idea of love. That is what I really like about Newlyweds. These are people with exes, children, careers, friendships, baggage and history. Nobody arrives with a clean slate, because none of us do.

Newlyweds premieres Friday, October 23, 2026 on NBC.

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The ancient myth of Baba Yaga, a witch who eats children and lives in a chicken-legged house, is reimagined in a coastal town in new series Yaga.

Yaga is produced by Crave, the same company that put out this January’s smash hit Heated Rivalry, and one of the stars from that is making his comeback in this. Hudson Williams (Heated Rivalry, Tracker) plays the recently disappeared fishery heir Henry Park, inciting an investigator to begin a search for him. Along his way, he runs afoul of a local detective, a university professor, and a variety of suspects in the small fishing town where the story is set.

The cast of characters encompasses many of Canada’s best and brightest. Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix, Memento, Fido) appears as Katherine, a university professor with a ‘taste for younger men’. Clark Backo (Letterkenny, The Changeling, Venom: The Last Dance) plays young local detective Carson, who finds big-city investigative methods at odds with her own. And Noah Reid (Schitt’s Creek, Strange Days at Blake Holsey High, The Vampire Lestat) stars as investigator Rapp, whose logical sentiments fall short when confronted with the dark magic that seems to wrap around the tiny coastal town.

Yaga is based on a play by showrunner and creator Kat Sandler, who described her creation as “reclaiming the wicked witch and reshaping her as an incendiary feminist antihero for our time.”

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Jurek Walter is locked up. That’s supposed to be the good news. He’s a serial killer, a cunning one, and one of his victims has never been found. Jonah Lynn is a retired detective who left the city for a small Pennsylvania town to leave it all behind. (Small towns are where this genre sends people to be wrong about that.) Now the last missing victim drags him back in. Of course it does.

The save is the deep cast. Zazie Beetz plays FBI Agent Saga Bauer. Bill Camp, Rory Culkin, and Chrissy Metz fill out the town. But the face-off is the draw: Liev Schreiber is Jonah, and Stephen Graham is Jurek. I suspect they could swap parts and it would still be amazing casting. I’d have loved to be the fly on the wall when someone decided who got which part.

This psychological thriller is based on The Sandman, by “Lars Kepler,” the pen name of Alexander and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril. They are married Swedish writers who say they write every sentence together. “Empathy was the key,” they say, “because we didn’t want to create a monster, just an extremely lethal and manipulative human being.” Alexandra had nightmares “almost every night” while they wrote it.

So why do we keep signing up for these? Not for the blood. For the control. We watch a human with nothing left still running the room, and we stay.

Yes, we’ve seen this setup before: the retired cop brought back, the cell that doesn’t hold, the beautiful woman used as a decoy. The trailer didn’t change my mind. I’m going for the cast and smart acting to do that. Is the door locked?

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