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With summer closing out and autumn on the way, it’s time to look ahead at the streaming TV landscape and see what the tail-end of 2021 has in store for us.
With Boba Fett getting his own Star Wars series, Dexter circling back for an encore, Y: The Last Man finally arriving after years in development hell, The Wonder Years getting rebooted, The Witcher finally returning for more monster slaying, and Jeremy Renner starring in Hawkeye for Disney+, the deck is super-stacked.
Read on or click through the gallery below to find a quick look at the notable new and returning series headed your way through December 2021, and for the shows airing on network or cable channels, you’ll find secondary streaming options for all the cord-cutters out there.
Q-Force: Season 1
Date: Sept 2
Where: Netflix
Summary: Will & Grace’s Sean Hayes executive produces, and provides a voice for, Q-Force, a new adult animated comedy about a group of undervalued LGBT super-spies as they try to prove themselves on personal and professional adventures. Stranger Things’ David Harbour, Gary Cole, Wanda Sykes, and Laurie Metcalf also star.
What We Do in the Shadows: Season 3
Date: Sept 2
Where: FX, and then FX on Hulu the morning after episodes air on FX
Summary: What We Do in the Shadows is back for a third season! After the shocking Season 2 finale, we’ll now find the housemates in a panic about what to do with Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) after discovering that he is a vampire killer. This season, the vampires are elevated to a new level of power and will encounter the vampire from which all vampires have descended, a tempting Siren, gargoyles, werewolf kickball, Atlantic City casinos, wellness cults, ex-girlfriends, gyms, and supernatural curiosities galore.
American Crime Story: Impeachment
Date: Sept 7
Where: FX, and then FX on Hulu the morning after episodes air on FX
Summary: The third season of FX’s anthology series American Crime Story stars Clive Owen and Beanie Feldstein as Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, and is based on Jeffrey Toobin’s book “A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President.” It also stars Ryan Murphy mainstay Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp, as well as Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton, Cobie Smulders as Ann Coulter, Margo Martindale as Lucianne Goldberg, and many more – including Billy Eichner, Mira Sorvino, Colin Hanks, and Kathleen Turner.
Kin
Date: Sept 9
Where: AMC+
Summary: Kin, starring Daredevil’s Charlie Cox and Game of Thrones’ Aiden Gillen, tells the story of a fictional Dublin family embroiled in gangland war and speaks to the enduring unbreakable bonds of blood and family. It also features Clare Dunne (Spider-Man: Far from Home), Ciarán Hinds (Game of Thrones), Emmett J. Scanlan (Peaky Blinders), and Maria Doyle Kennedy (Outlander).
Lucifer: Season 6
Date: Sept 10
Where: Netflix
Summary: The sixth season of Lucifer, starring Tom Ellis, follows the title character as he struggles with becoming God himself. This final season will pick up from the dramatic cliffhanger ending of Season 5 where Lucifer and Michael went head to head for God’s throne, with Lucifer coming out on top.
American Rust
Date: Sept 12
Where: Showtime (network and streaming subscription)
Summary: Jeff Daniels stars in American Rust, a new family drama told through the eyes of the complicated and compromised chief of police Del Harris of a Pennsylvania Rust Belt town full of good people making bad choices. Maura Tierney (E.R., NewsRadio) co-stars, as Del is forced to decide how far he’s willing to go when the son of the woman he loves is accused of murder.
Y: The Last Man
Date: Sept 13
Where: FX on Hulu
Summary: This FX on Hulu exclusive is based on the acclaimed comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, focusing on a post-apocalyptic world where a cataclysmic event instantaneously kills every mammal with a Y chromosome – except for one man, Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer). We follow Yorick as he traverses the new world as its survivors struggle with their losses and attempt to restore world society, led by Yorick’s mother and incumbent U.S. President Jennifer Brown (Diane Lane). Dredd’s Olivia Thirlby and Joan of Arcadia’s Amber Tamblyn also star.
The Premise
Date: Sept 16
Where: FX on Hulu
Summary: From the Office’s B.J. Novak (The Mindy Project) comes a bold and provocative half-hour anthology of standalone stories about the times we live in. Created and hosted by Novak — who is joined by actors Lucas Hedges, Kaitlyn Dever, Jon Bernthal, Ben Platt, Tracee Ellis Ross, Daniel Dae Kim, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Soko, Ed Asner, George Wallace, Beau Bridges, and more — the series will address everything from guns to social justice to sex.
Sex Education: Season 3
Date: Sept 17
Where: Netflix
Summary: It’s a new year, as Sex Education’s third season finds Otis (Asa Butterfield) is having casual sex, Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and Adam (Connor Swindells) are official, and Jean (Gillian Anderson) has a baby on the way. Meanwhile, new headteacher Hope (Jemima Kirke) tries to return Moordale to a pillar of excellence, Aimee (Aimee Lou Wood) discovers feminism, Jackson (Kedar Williams-Stirling) gets a crush, and a lost voicemail still looms.
Chicago Party Aunt: Season 1
Date: Sept 17
Where: Netflix
Summary: Half-hour adult animated comedy Chicago Party Aunt follows Diane Dunbrowski, aka the “Chicago Party Aunt” (voiced by Superstore alumna Lauren Ash, as she stays true to her mantra, “If life gives you lemons, turn that shit into Mike’s Hard Lemonade.” Other voices include RuPaul Charles, Jill Talley, and Ike and Jon Barinholtz.
The Morning Show: Season 2
Date: Sept 17
Where: Apple TV+
Summary: Picking up after the explosive events of Season 1, The Morning Show team emerges from the wreckage of Alex (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley’s (Reese Witherspoon) actions and into a new UBA and a world in flux, where identity is everything and the chasm between who we present as and who we really are come into play.
Ordinary Joe
Date: Sept 20
Where: NBC, and Peacock the morning after episodes air on NBC
Summary: Exploring the three parallel lives of the show’s main character, played by Watchmen’s James Wolk, after he makes a pivotal choice at a crossroads in his life. The series asks the question of how different life might look if you made your decision based on love, loyalty or passion. Also starring Natalie Martinez (Under the Dome), Charlie Barnett (Arrow, Russian Doll), and Elizabeth Lail (YOU).
The Big Leap
Date: Sept 20
Where: Fox, and Hulu the morning after episodes air on Fox
Summary: Felicity and Scandal’s Scott Foley stars in this new series about a group of underdogs from all different walks of life who compete to be part of a competition reality series that is putting on a modern, hip remake of Swan Lake. Covert Affairs’ Piper Perabo and Meet the Parents’ Teri Polo also star, along with Mallory Jansen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Kevin Daniels (Council of Dads), and Ser’Darius Blain (Charmed).
NCIS: Hawaiʻi
Date: Sept 21
Where: CBS and the CBS App
Summary: The NCIS franchise expands to the Aloha State, where the first female Special Agent in Charge of NCIS Pearl Harbor, Jane Tennant (Vanessa Lachey), has thrived and risen through the ranks by equal parts confidence and strategy in a system that has pushed back on her every step of the way. Together with her unwavering team of specialists, they balance duty to family and country while investigating high-stakes crimes involving military personnel, national security, and the mysteries of the sun-drenched island paradise itself. Also starring Yasmine Al-Bustami (The Originals), Jason Antoon (Claws), and Noah Mills (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Brave).
FBI International
Date: Sept 21
Where: CBS and the CBS App
Summary: Debuting in a crossover episode of FBI and FBI: Most Wanted next season, this new offshoot follows the FBI’s International Fly Team as they travel the world with the mission of tracking and neutralizing threats against American citizens wherever they may be. Starring Luke Kleintank (The Man in the High Castle), Heida Reed (Poldark), Vinessa Vidotto (Lucifer), Christiane Paul (Counterpart), and Carter Redwood (The Long Road Home).
Star Wars: Visions
Date: Sept 22
Where: Disney+
Summary: This upcoming Japanese anime anthology series is a collection of animated short films presented through the lens of the world’s best anime creators, that offer a fresh and diverse cultural perspective to Star Wars. These 10 short films explore all the imaginative potential of the Star Wars galaxy through the unique lens of anime.
The Wonder Years
Date: Sept 22
Where: ABC, and Hulu (the morning after episodes air on ABC)
Summary: ABC’s reboot of the classic 80s/90s series starring Fred Savage is a coming of age story set in the late 1960s, centered on a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama, and is told through the point-of-view of imaginative 12-year-old Dean (Elisha “EJ” Williams). Narrated by Don Cheadle, as an older Dean, The Wonder Years also stars Dulé Hill (Suits, Psych), Saycon Sengbloh (In the Dark), and Laura Kariuki (Black Lightning).
Doom Patrol: Season 3
Date: Sept 23
Where: HBO Max
Summary: Doom Patrol, which is now an HBO Max exclusive, returns for a third season in September. Brendan Fraser, Matt Bomer, Timothy Dalton, Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby, and Joivan Wade will all be back for Season 3, with Michelle Gomez (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) is also joining the cast for Season 3 as Madame Rouge.
Creepshow: Season 3
Date: Sept 23
Where: Shudder
Summary: Creepshow’s third season is already here! That’s twelve new stories (over six episodes), including one written by Joe Hill (entitled “Mums”). Other story titles include “Meter Reader”, “The Last Subaraya,” “Drug Traffic, and “Queen Bee” – which takes a look at what happens when some kids try to get shots of a pop idol’s new baby to sell to the tabloids.
Foundation
Date: Sept 24
Where: Apple TV+
Summary: When revolutionary Dr. Hari Seldon predicts the impending fall of the Empire, he and a band of loyal followers venture to the far reaches of the galaxy to establish The Foundation in an attempt to rebuild and preserve the future of civilization. The 10-episode first season of Foundation, based on Isaac Asimov’s seminal sci-fi novel trilogy, will debut globally on Apple TV+ on September 24 with the first three episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday. Foundation stars Jared Harris and Lee Pace, and is executive produced by David S. Goyer (Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy).
Midnight Mass
Date: Sept 24
Where: Netflix
Summary: From The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep’s Mike Flanagan comes Midnight, which tells the tale of a small, isolated island community whose existing divisions are amplified by the return of a disgraced young man (Zach Gilford) and the arrival of a charismatic priest (Hamish Linklater). Flanagan players Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas, and Rahul Kohli return along with Annabeth Gish, BSG’s Michael Trucco, and more.
Locke & Key: Season 2
Date: Sept 24
Where: Netflix
Summary: The first season of Locke & Key was the story of the kids — Tyler (Connor Jessup), Bode (Jackson Robert Scott), and Kinsey (Emilia Jones) –learning that they’re the new Keepers of the Keys. Season 2 will deepen the characters and explore what that responsibility means.
La Brea
Date: Sept 28
Where: NBC/Peacock
Summary: When a massive sinkhole mysteriously opens in Los Angeles, it tears a family in half, separating mother and son from father and daughter. When part of the family find themselves in an unexplainable primeval world, alongside a disparate group of strangers, they must work to survive and uncover the mystery of where they are and if there is a way back home. La Brea stars Natalie Zea (Justified), Eoin Macken (The Night Shift), Jon Seda (Chicago P.D.), Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor), Veronica St. Clair (13 Reasons Why), and Jack Martin (All Rise).
MAID
Date: Oct 1
Where: Netflix
Summary: Inspired by the best-seller “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive” by Stephanie Land, MAID stars real-life mother/daughter pair Andie MacDowell and Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and follows the story of Alex (Qualley), a single mother who turns to housekeeping to — barely — make ends meet as she escapes an abusive relationship and overcomes homelessness to create a better life for her daughter.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Returns
Date: Oct 3
Where: AMC and AMC+
Summary: The second and final season of this Walking Dead event series, World Beyond, finds the teens all working to survive after the big reveal involving Annet Mahendru’s Huck. With Hope (Alexa Mansour) now in the clutches of the CRM, who don’t realize she needs adopted sister Iris (Aliyah Royale) to fully embrace her genius, everyone else learns the dire fate of the Campus Colony.
CSI: Vegas
Date: Oct 6
Where: CBS/Paramount+
Summary: Original CSI stars William Petersen, Jorja Fox, and Wallace Langham are back for this brand new chapter in Las Vegas, the city where the CSI franchise began. Facing an existential threat that could bring down the entire Crime Lab and release thousands of convicted killers back onto the neon-lit streets of Vegas, a brilliant new team of investigators led by Maxine Roby (Paula Newsome) must enlist the help of old friends, Gil Grissom (Petersen), Sara Sidle (Fox) and David Hodges (Langham).
Ghosts
Date: Oct 7
Where: CBS and the CBS App
Summary: iZombie’s Rose McIver returns to supernatural TV with a single-camera comedy about a struggling young couple whose dreams come true when they inherit a beautiful country house, only to find it’s both falling apart and inhabited by many of the deceased previous residents. Utkarsh Ambudkar (Brockmire, The Mindy Project) and Brandon Scott Jones (The Good Place) also star.
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Date: Oct 10
Where: The CW
Summary: Cristela Alonzo hosts this reimagining of the Nickelodeon game show, now featuring adults as contestants. The new take will bring back fan-favorite elements, including the Moat Crossings, the Steps of Knowledge, and the Temple Run. The team names — Purple Parrots, Blue Barracudas, Orange Iguanas, Red Jaguars, Silver Snakes, and Green Monkeys — will also remain unchanged. Plus, Dee Bradley Baker returns as the voice of Olmec.
Chucky
Date: Oct 12
Where: Syfy/USA
Summary: The Child’s Play/Chucky franchise continues on, after over three decades, still written by creator Don Mancini, with a TV series that serves as a follow-up to 2017’s Cult of Chucky. With Chucky now in a small town, still voiced by Brad Dourif, new folks wind up dying as the infamous Good Guys doll “befriends” an outcast teen. Devon Sawa, Lexa Doig, and Zackary Arthur star – along with original franchise performers Jennifer Tilly, Alex Vincent, Fiona Dourif, and Christine Elise McCarthy!
Dopesick
Date: Oct 13
Where: Hulu
Summary: From Danny Strong (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and based on the non-fiction book “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America” by Beth Macy, limited series Dopesick stars Michael Keaton, Rosario Dawson, Kaitlyn Dever, Peter Sarsgaard, and Will Poulter in a dark look at the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction and a dive into how this entire epidemic started.
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Date: Oct 15
Where: Amazon Prime
Summary: Based on the 1973 Y/A horror novel by Lois Duncan, which also became a hit movie franchise that began in 1997 (pictured above), Amazon’s I Know What You Did Last Summer series will follow a group of teenagers who find themselves bound together by a dark secret and stalked by a brutal killer one year after a fatal car accident derailed their graduation night.
Queens
Date: Oct 19
Where: ABC, and then Hulu the morning after the episode airs
Summary: Hip-hop/R&B icons Eve and Brandy join Naturi Naughton (Power) and Nadine Velazquez (My Name Is Earl) for a drama about four women in their 40s, estranged and out-of-touch, who reunite for a chance to recapture their fame and regain the swagger they had as the Nasty Bitches, their ’90s group that made them legends in the hip-hop world.
Invasion
Date: Oct 22
Where: Apple TV+
Summary: From Simon Kinberg (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Sherlock Holmes) and David Weil comes a new sci-fi series about an alien invasion seen through the different perspectives of various people on different continents across the world. Jurassic Park’s Sam Neill stars along with Wynonna Earp’s Shamier Anderson and Extracton’s Golshifteh Farahani.
4400
Date: Oct 25
Where: The CW
Summary: A reboot of the USA Network series about 4400 people who all return one day after having mysteriously vanished in the 1940s, the new 4400 stars Joseph David-Jones (Arrow), Brittany Adebumola (Grand Army), Jaye Ladymore (Chicago P.D.), and Amarr Wooten (American Housewife) in a similar story about 4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who’ve vanished without a trace over the last hundred years who all return in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them.
The Wheel of Time
Date:: November TDB
Where: Amazon Prime
Summary: Based on based on Robert Jordan’s book series, Amazon’s The Wheel of Time follows Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), a member of the Aes Sedai, a powerful all-female organization of magic users, as she takes a group of five young people on a journey around the world, believing one of the five might be the reincarnation of the Dragon, a powerful individual prophesied to save the world or destroy it. The series has already been picked up for a second season.
The Shrink Next Door
Date: Nov 2
Where: Apple TV+
Summary: Headlined by Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd, and adapted from a podcast by Joe Nocera, this limited series tells the story of a psychiatrist who begins to implant himself into the life of one of his patients. Kathryn Hahn and Casey Wilson also star, with Michael Showalter (The Big Sick, Search Party) directing.
Dexter: New Blood
Date: Nov 7
Where: Showtime (network and streaming subscription)
Summary: Picking up years after the original Showtime run, Dexter: New Blood follows the former Miami-based killer in his new low-key life in a rustic small town called Iron Lake, New York. Hiding his identity under the name of Jim Lindsay, a local shopkeeper, Dexter fears that his “dark passenger” return after a string of incidents around town awaken his bloodlust. John Lithgow, from Dexter’s fourth season, will return as “Trinity Killer” Arthur Mitchell, as well as Jennifer Carpenter as Dexter’s adopted sister, Deb. Obviously, those aforementioned guest stars can’t be in their – ahem – original forms.
Hawkeye
Date: Nov 24
Where: Disney+
Summary: Jeremy Renner will reprise his role as Clint Barton for Marvel’s Hawkeye, a series that will introduce Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop and (presumedly) bring back Florence Pugh as Black Widow’s Yelena Belova. What’s more, Vera Farmiga (The Conjuring, Bates Motel) will play Eleanor Bishop: Kate’s mother, Tony Dalton (Better Call Saul) is in as “The Swordsman” Jack Duquesne, and Alaqua Cox will portray Maya Lopez — aka Echo — deaf Native American who can perfectly copy another person’s movements.
The Book of Boba Fett
Date: Dec TBD
Where: Disney+
Summary: Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen return as Boba Fett and Fennec Shand for the new Star Wars series The Book of Boba Fett, which continues following the franchise’s most famous bounty hunter following his reintroduction in The Mandalorian. Directors for the series include Mandalorian faves Jon Favreau (also EP), Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Rodriguez, and Dave Filoni (also EP). No other cast is known at this time.
Cobra Kai: Season 4
Date: Dec TBD
Where: Netflix
Summary: Cobra Kai, which just got renewed for a fifth season months before its fourth season airs in December, will return at the tail end of the fall season as both Daniel and Johnny find themselves in an uneasy alliance, uniting their Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang schools, for a showdown against Kreese and the dastardly kids at Cobra Kai. But can their combined strength be enough to topple Kreese and the return of Karate Kid Part III’s Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith)?
The Witcher: Season 2
Date: Dec 17
Where: Netflix
Summary: Henry Cavill is back as Geralt of Rivia as the story picks up with Geralt taking Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan) to his childhood home of Kaer Morhen, where he will task himself with protecting Ciri from the mysterious power she possesses within while the Continent’s kings, elves, humans, and demons strive for supremacy outside the walls of the castle, located within the Kingdom of Kaedwen.
New cast additions for season 2 include Cassie Clare (Brave New World) in the role of Phillippa Eilhart, Liz Carr (Silent Witness) as Fenn, Graham McTavish (Outlander) as Dijkstra, Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey) portraying Ba’lian, Simon Callow (A Room with A View) as Codringher, and Chris Fulton (Bridgerton) in the role of Rience, a major antagonist in the Witcher book series.
Inside Job: Season 1
Date: Fall TBD
Where: Netflix
Summary: Inside Job is an adult animated comedy about the shadow government– and the dysfunctional team whose daily grind is committing the world’s conspiracies. From convoluted coverups to secret societies to masked orgy etiquette, navigating office culture at Cognito Inc. can be tricky, especially for anti-social tech genius Reagan Ridley (Lizzy Caplan). Even in a workplace filled with reptilian shapeshifters and psychic mushrooms, she’s seen as the odd one out for believing the world could be a better place. From Gravity Falls’ Shion Takeuchi and Alex Hirsch, Inside Job also stars Christian Slater, Clark Duke, Andrew Daly, Tisha Campbell, and Bobby Lee.
Pieces of Her: Season 1
Date: Fall TBD
Where: Netflix
Summary: Based on the hit novel by Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her follows the story of Andrea (Bella Heathcote) who is caught in a deadly mass shooting at a local diner. Moments later, she witnesses her mother Laura (Toni Collette), violently eliminating the threat with such ease. As Andrea begins to unravel her mother’s actions on that very day, her perspective on their entire familial relationship takes a new turn. LOTR’s David Wenham. Lost’s Terry O’Quinn, Power’s Omari Hardwick, and Game of Thrones’ Joe Dempsie also star.
