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We may be living in a golden age of TV, but panning through all the dross to find that gold can be time-consuming and tedious. For every much-discussed hit like Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Bear, there are dozens of new original shows that barely tip the cultural needle. And with so many new streaming services competing with HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney Plus, it’s impossible to keep up with everything new to view. But The Verge’s TV section is ready to help. Our news, reviews, and interviews help you find the next Stranger Things or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in time to keep up with the cultural conversation. And our essays and analysis invite you to consider the deeper context of what you’re watching.

San Diego Comic-Con 2024: all the biggest trailers and news

Check out all of The Verge’s coverage of San Diego Comic-Con 2024.

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The Vampire Lestat is headed for superstardom.

Interview With the Vampire’s second season finale closed out on Lestat (Sam Reid) getting together a band, and it looks like the group’s going to be the subject of a documentary when the show returns for season three.


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Philippa Georgiou is ready for her close-up.

The pandemic and arrival of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds put the kibosh on a Paramount Plus series built around Michelle Yeoh’s Philippa Georgiou. But the Mirror Universe empress is back in the first trailer for Star Trek: Section 31Olatunde Osunsanmi’s upcoming film that will dig deeper into her dark past.


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The Penguin is for the streets.

Max has finally given The Penguin a September 19th release date, and the series’ latest trailer pits Oswald Cobblepot (Colin Farrell) against Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) in a war for Gotham’s streets.


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The end of Lower Decks is near.

The fifth — and final — season of the animated Star Trek spinoff hits Paramount Plus on October 24th. Meanwhile, season 3 of Strange New Worlds starts streaming next year, and you can check out an early clip right here.


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The world of AMC’s The Walking Dead trudges on.

Ahead of the season two premiere of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon — The Book of Carol in September, AMC has renewed the spinoff for third installment. The Walking Dead: Dead City, which debuts in 2025, has also been renewed for a second season, and a new trailer for the series teases how Maggie Green (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) reunite.


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James Gunn’s Creature Commandos looks like some sort of monstrous suicide squad.

Technically speaking, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) not allowed to run her typical Task Force X in Max’s new animated Creature Commandos series. But monsters like the Bride (Indira Varma), Eric Frankenstein (David Harbour), Nina Mazursky (Zoë Chao), and Weasel (Sean Gunn) aren’t technically human, which is why you’ll be seeing them going on suicidal missions this winter.


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Solar Opposites’ fifth season will rip ass, apparently.

It’s hard to believe that Solar Opposites has been running for four years, but Hulu’s new trailer for the show’s upcoming fifth season (due out August 12th) is a showcase of how far Korvo (Dan Steven) and Terry (Thomas Middleditch) have come.


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Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects include diarrhea, paranoia, and immortality.

Big pharma doesn’t want the public to know the truth in Adult Swim’s new animated comedy Common Side Effects from co-creators Joe Bennett (Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (Veep). And the truth very much seems to be a plant-based key to immortality in this early clip from the show, which is due out in 2025.


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Invincible has a new suit and a fourth season on the way.

When Amazon’s Invincible series returns for its third season, Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) is going to be rocking some new blue threads that might become his signature look as the show continues into its just-announced fourth season.


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Joy is coming to Doctor Who this Christmas.

It’s probably going to be a while before we see some of Disney Plus’ new Doctor Who spin-off series, but Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor will be back this winter in a new Christmas special featuring Nicola Coughlan.


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Invincible Fight Girl said “square up!”

With shows like My Adventures with Superman and Rick and Morty: The Anime, Adult Swim has been pretty covered on the superhero and sci-fi fronts. But the programming block is about to get more sporty with Juston Gordon-Montgomery’s Invincible Fight Girl — a new wrestling / action series that looks sick as hell in this preview clip.


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Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles looks ready to rock.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’s grimy, sketchy aesthetic was one of the coolest things about the film. And judging from the opening sequence of Paramount Plus’ new Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the spin-off’s take on the film’s visual language is going to be just as inspired.


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Pokémon Horizons is ready to level up.

Ahead of a new batch of Pokémon Horizons episodes debuting on August 9th, Netflix has dropped a new trailer for San Diego Comic-Con teasing just how much more intense the series’ battles are about to get.


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Jeff Goldblum is the father of all jealous and vengeful gods in Kaos’ new trailer.

We’ve all seen Jeff Goldblum lean into his quirkiness, but the menacing regality of his take on Zeus is what really jumps out in the first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming series Kaos due out August 29th.


Apple’s Sunny imagines a cozy future where screens fade into the background

The murder mystery was a chance for showrunner Katie Robbins to imagine a different kind of sci-fi vision.

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Apple’s new docuseries is about drug cartels and horse racing.

Cowboy Cartel, which debuts on Apple TV Plus on August 2nd, is a four-part documentary show about a rookie FBI agent who took down the leaders of the Los Zetas drug cartel by tracking their money as it was laundered through a US horse racing enterprise.


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The Emmys might basically be a streaming awards show this year.

There will be plenty of traditional television series like Shōgun and The Bear in the running at the 76th Emmys in September. But given how many Netflix, HBO, Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, and Amazon projects were just nominated for awards, this year’s competition seems like it could easily go to the streamers.


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Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.

That’s a new limited series coming to Netflix from Haley Z. Boston and Upside Down Pictures (the production company launched by Stranger Things co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer).

“According to the logline, the series will follow a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated wedding,” says Netflix. “And obviously, it’s not a spoiler to share that not all goes right with the nuptials.”


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Another day, another round of layoffs at Warner Bros. Discovery.

Though it’s smaller than previous waves, Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. Discovery is laying off another round of employees across its “production, business affairs and finance” arms as it continues to find ways to cut its spending.


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The Stranger Things cast is looking real grown up ahead of season five.

We all knew the Stranger Things kids would look a bit older for the show’s fifth and final season, but seeing them all back in Hawkins High in this new behind the scenes video really emphasizes how the show’s last chapter can’t get here fast enough.


Fantasmas’ vision of the future is a dystopian dreamland

In Julio Torres’ series Fantasmas, survival in the future is an intricate, corporate-owned game of feeding your identity to the machine.

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Christmas in July.

It may be summer, but anime powerhouse Science Saru is teasing something decidedly winter-y with Sanda, an upcoming series that depicts “Santa Claus hero action like you’ve never seen before.” There aren’t many other details, but it’s supposedly “coming soon.”