What To Watch This Week: 40+ Premieres, Finales And More
To help you navigate the best of broadcast, cable and streaming TV, TVLine offers curated daily, weekly and monthly What to Watch columns, along with an overview of every new TV show premiering in 2025.
This week, you'll find a dozen series premieres (including Boston Blue, The Chair Company and DMV), 18 returning shows (including The Diplomat, Loot and Matlock) and three finales (including The Rainmaker and the very last episode of Solar Opposites).
SUNDAY, OCT. 12
๐บ 8:30 pm Matlock Season 2 (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐บ 9:30 pm Elsbeth Season 3 (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐บ 10 pm The Chair Company (HBO)
Tim Robinson plays a man who finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy following an embarrassing incident at work.
๐ฅ 8 pm Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Buried at C (Hallmark Channel movie)
Gethsemane (Tamera Mowry-Housley) and her trusted ghost friend Eamon (Risteard Cooper) investigate the unexplained death of a sea captain.
MONDAY, OCT. 13
๐บ Solar Opposites final season (Hulu, 10-episode binge)
๐บ 8 pm The Neighborhood final season (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐บ 8 pm TV We Love (The CW)
The eight-part docuseries celebrates TV classics, beginning withย I Love Lucyย and continuing withย The Brady Bunch,ย The Love Boat,ย The Honeymooners,ย Happy Days,ย Dynasty,ย Cheersย andย Touched by an Angel.
๐บ 8:30 pm DMV (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
Harriet Dyer leads the single-camera workplace comedy set at the place everyone dreads going most.
๐บ 9 pm FBI Season 8 (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐บ 10 pm Watson Season 2 (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐ฅ Sharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home (Peacock documentary)
This intimate film follows the final three years of Ozzy's life as he and Sharon plan a return home after 25 years in L.A. and prepare for the ultimate farewell gig.
TUESDAY, OCT. 14
๐บ Beyond Paradise Season 3 (BritBox)
๐บ Guts & Glory (AMC+ and Shudder, two-episode premiere)
Competitors are thrust into an immersive horror experience full of unexpected,โฏgenre-themed challenges.
๐บ Obituary Season 2 (Hulu, six-episode binge)
๐บ Splinter Cell: Deathwatch (Netflix, eight-episode binge)
Pulled back into action, Sam Fisher (voiced by Liev Schreiber) must help a new recruit unravel a global conspiracy.
๐บ 8 pm NCIS Season 23 (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐บ 9 pm NCIS: Origins Season 2 (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐บ 10 pm NCIS: Sydney Season 3 (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐ฅ 9 pm Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (PBS documentary)
This American Masters installment chronicles Matlin's life โ including her turbulent relationship with co-star William Hurt and her struggle to overcome addiction.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15
๐บ Electric Boom Part 2 (Disney+, four-episode binge)
๐บ Loot Season 3 (Apple TV+, two-episode premiere)
๐บ Murdaugh: Death in the Family (Hulu, three-episode premiere)
Jason Clarke and Patricia Arquette play Alex and Maggie Murdaugh in this true-crime drama based on theย Murdaugh Murders Podcast.
THURSDAY, OCT. 16
๐บ Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (Peacock, eight-episode binge)
The true-crime drama weaves in heartrending stories of Gacy's victims; Michael Chernus plays the titular serial killer.
๐บ The Diplomat Season 3 (Netflix, eight-episode binge)
๐บ Karen Pirie Season 2 finale (BritBox)
๐บ Starting 5 Season 2 (Netflix, eight-episode binge)
๐บ 8 pm Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage Season 2 (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐บ 8:30 pm Ghosts Season 5 (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐บ 9 pm Matlock Episode 2/time slot premiere (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐บ 10 pm Elsbeth Episode 2/time slot premiere (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐ฅ I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) (Netflix)
FRIDAY, OCT. 17
๐บ The Chosen Adventures (Prime Video, 14-episode binge)
The animated offshoot follows nine-year-old Abby and her best friend Joshua as they navigate life in the ancient city of Capernaum; voices include Paul Walter Hauser, Yvonne Orji and Jonathan Roumie.
๐บ Hollywood Hustler: Glitz, Glam, Scam (Prime Video, three-episode binge)
The docuseries chronicles the meteoric rise and catastrophic fall of aspiring actor Zach Horwitz as he orchestrates one of Hollywood's most audacious financial frauds.
๐บ Mr. Scorsese (Apple TV+, five-episode binge)
The docuseries grants audiences unprecedented access to Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
๐บ 8 pm Fire Country Season 4 (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
๐บ 8 pm Mistletoe Murders network premiere (Hallmark Channel, two episodes per week)
๐บ 9 pm Sheriff Country (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
Morena Baccarin's Sheriff Mickey Fox โ stepsister of Fire Country's Sharon Leone โ patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater.
๐บ 10 pm Boston Blue (CBS, next day on Paramount+)
The Blue Bloods universe expansion sees Donnie Wahlberg's Detective Danny Reagan leaving New York City โ and his family โ to take a position with the Boston Police Department.
๐บ 10 pm The Rainmaker Season 1 finale (USA Network)
๐ฅ Downey Wrote That (Peacock documentary)
The hour-long film explores the sketches, contributions and enduring influence of Jim Downey, one of the most impactful comedy writers in the history of Saturday Night Live.
๐ฅ The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix documentary)
Using bodycam footage from dozens of police visits, the film bears witness to a tight-knit community navigating one neighbor's relentless harassment. But her hostility takes a sinister turn when it escalates into a fatal crime.
๐ฅ R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead (Tubi movie)
In this YA feature inspired by Stine's The Haunting Hour, teenager Sam thinks moving to Redhaven is the worst part โ until his brother Finn vanishes and no one, not even their mom, remembers he existed.
๐ฅ The Twits (Netflix movie)
Margo Martindale, Natalie Portman and Emilia Clarke lend their voices to this animated adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic.
๐คฃ 9 pm An Intimate Evening With Adam Pally (HBO comedy special)
SATURDAY, OCT. 18
๐ 8 pm A Christmas Prayer (Great American Family movie)
A children's book illustrator (Shae Robins) rediscovers her creativity and faith while unknowingly answering a widowed father's (Christopher Russell) Christmas wish for love and healing.
๐ 8 pm A Royal Montana Christmas (Hallmark Channel movie)
A princess (Fiona Gubelmann) escapes to a Montana ranch and falls for a rugged guide (Warren Christie).
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