'I'm a TV writer and these are my 10 best TV and film picks for October'

It's autumn already, and arsenic we adjacent the tail-end of 2024, there’s a question of must-see caller films and shows connected the mode to support america engaged portion the acold upwind comes. There’s a spot of thing for everyone coming to the tiny surface successful October, with large names similar Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and Bruce Springsteen fronting immoderate apical titles.

This period sees the instrumentality of Netflix’s smash-hit romanticist comedy-drama, an intriguing intelligence thriller packed with Oscar-winning endowment and a raunchy caller British bid fronted by David Tennant. All of this comes from the likes of Amazon’s Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, Apple TV+ and Sky, each of which are disposable with a raft of money-saving deals.

Disney+ present costs arsenic small arsenic £4.99 a month, portion Netflix is escaped with Sky’s TV bundles. Telly fans tin effort Amazon’s Prime Video free for 30 days, portion Apple TV+’s stacked room tin beryllium enjoyed with a seven-day escaped trial.

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So, work connected for our prime of the champion caller films and shows heading to screens successful October.

Heartstopper: Season three

The smash romanticist dramedy is backmost with 8 caller episodes, picking up aft the affectional play 2 finale with Charlie (Joe Locke) anxious to archer Nick (Kit Connor) helium loves him and Nick holding connected to thing important helium has to accidental to Charlie. As the summertime vacation ends and the months contention on, they statesman to realise the schoolhouse twelvemonth volition travel with some its joys and its challenges.

As they larn much astir each different and their relationships, program societal events and parties and commencement reasoning astir assemblage choices, everyone indispensable larn to thin connected those they emotion erstwhile beingness doesn’t spell to plan.

Heartstopper play 3 premieres October 3 connected Netflix, get it escaped with Sky here.

Challengers

Zendaya stars successful this deed play arsenic erstwhile tennis prodigy turned manager Tashi Duncan. Married to champion connected a losing streak (Mike Faist), Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a astonishing crook erstwhile helium indispensable look disconnected against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor) – who happens to beryllium his erstwhile champion person and Tashi’s erstwhile boyfriend.

Challengers follows their emotion triangle implicit 13 years, from their amateur days done to the erstwhile friends’ last clash connected the court.

Challengers premieres October 4 connected Prime Video, try it escaped here.

Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol

Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon picks up aft Daryl (Norman Reedus) chose to enactment successful France, portion Carol (Melissa McBride) hops the pond to way him down. They some face aged demons portion she fights to find her person and helium struggles with his determination to enactment successful France, causing hostility astatine the Nest.

Additionally, Genet’s (Anne Charrier) question builds momentum, mounting Pouvoir connected a convulsive collision people with the Union of Hope successful the combat for France’s future.

Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol premieres October 4 connected Sky Max, get it here.

Sweetpea

Fallout and Yellowjackets prima Ella Purnell fronts this caller play billed arsenic a ‘deviously twisted coming-of-rage story’. Purnell stars arsenic Rhiannon, who doesn’t marque overmuch of an content – radical locomotion past her successful the thoroughfare without a 2nd glance, she’s continually overlooked for a promotion astatine work, the feline she likes won’t perpetrate and her dada is precise sick.

Then everything successful her beingness turns upside down arsenic she is pushed implicit the borderline and loses control. Suddenly the wallflower is gone and successful its spot is simply a young pistillate susceptible of anything, with Rhiannon’s beingness transforming arsenic she steps into a new, intoxicating power.

Sweetpea premieres October 10 connected Sky Atlantic, get it here.

Disclaimer

Five-time Oscar victor Alfonso Cuarón writes and directs this seven-part intelligence thriller starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Based connected the bestselling caller of the aforesaid name, it follows writer Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett), who has built her estimation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others.

When she receives a caller from an chartless author, she is horrified to realise she is present the main quality successful a communicative that exposes her darkest secrets. As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s existent identity, she is forced to face her past earlier it destroys her beingness and her relationships with her hubby Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their lad Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee).

Disclaimer premieres October 11 connected Apple TV+, try it escaped here.

Shrinking: Season two

Harrison Ford and Jason Segel prima successful the latest instalment of this drama created by Segel with Ted Lasso’s Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein. Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (Segel) who starts to interruption the rules and archer his clients precisely what helium thinks.

Ignoring his grooming and ethics, helium makes huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives – including his own.

Shrinking play 2 premieres October 16 connected Apple TV+, try it escaped here.

Rivals

Based connected the caller by Dame Jilly Cooper and starring David Tennant, this scandalous eight-part bid is packed afloat of romanticist entanglements, dastardly deals, enactment and wit. Rivals is acceptable against the backdrop of the drama, excess and shocking antics of the power-grabbing societal elite of 1980s England, with the raunchy bid delving headfirst into the ruthless satellite of autarkic television.

Alongside Tennant, Rivals boasts a stacked formed including The Boys’ Alex Hassell, Poldark’s Aidan Turner, Sex Education’s Bella Maclean, The Inbetweeners’ Emily Atack and EastEnders’ Danny Dyer.

Rivals premieres October 18 connected Disney+, get it here.

Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

This caller behind-the-scenes documentary sees Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band connection the astir in-depth look ever astatine the instauration of their legendary unrecorded performances, sharing fly-on-the-wall footage of set rehearsals and peculiar moments backstage – arsenic good arsenic proceeding straight from Springsteen connected the topic. Fans get the accidental to acquisition professionally changeable footage from the 2023/24 circuit for the archetypal clip ever portion pursuing the set done their one-of-a-kind mentation process and onto performances for tens-of-thousands crossed continents.

Road Diary premieres October 25 connected Disney+, get it here.

Wizards Beyond Waverly Place

Serving arsenic a spin-off and sequel to Wizards of Waverly Place, this caller drama bid follows an big Justin Russo (David Henrie), who has chosen to pb a normal, mortal beingness with his family. When Justin’s sister Alex (Selena Gomez) brings young Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) to his location seeking help, Justin realises helium indispensable particulate disconnected his magical skills to mentor the wizard-in-training portion besides juggling his mundane responsibilities – and safeguarding the aboriginal of the Wizarding World.

Wizards Beyond Waverly Place premieres October 30 connected Disney+, get it here.

The Diplomat: Season two

The Emmy-nominated bid is backmost for a 2nd season, arsenic a deadly detonation successful the bosom of London shatters US Ambassador Kate Wyler’s (Keri Russell) world. Struggling to rebuild the lives that broke and the squad that divided apart, Kate’s worst fears unfold: The onslaught that brought her to the UK didn’t travel from a rival nation, it came from wrong the British government.

As Kate chases the truth, her lone existent state is her astir ex-husband Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), precise overmuch live and precise overmuch involved. She faces a fraught marriage, a analyzable dynamic with British Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi) and a threatening sojourn from Vice President Grace Penn (Allison Janney).

The Diplomat play 2 premieres October 31 connected Netflix, get it escaped with Sky here.