Top 7 new shows premiering on Netflix, Apple TV, and more (Oct 14-20)

Top 7 new shows premiering on Netflix, Apple TV, and more (Oct 14-20)

This week, streaming services such as Netflix and Apple TV Plus, as well as broadcast and cable TV channels, are sprinkling new TV shows faster than the autumn leaves

This week's lineup of new shows includes the fan-anticipated return of “Shrinking” Season 2 and “The Lincoln Lawyer” Season 3 In addition, the “NCIS” series is joined by the prequel series “NCIS: Origins” and an old game show tries a new trick in “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity” Here are the top new shows to check out this week

CBS' flagship drama is alive and well Its newest installment takes us back in time, not to another city, but to a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs as an up-and-coming agent, narrated by Mark Harmon, who played Gibbs for years on the OG series, with Austin Stowell as the young Gibbs In 1991, Gibbs is a She begins her career at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton field office, building her place on a burly, burly team led by the legendary Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid) [The production is based on her one-woman Off-Broadway show Bloom muses about birth, death, and cosmic uncertainty These are issues that came to a head during a pandemic in which she lost her longtime musical collaborator, Adam Schlesinger, to COVID and simultaneously welcomed her first child While the content is certainly heavy-handed, Bloom has a talent for finding humor in the most serious of topics

Premiering on Netflix on Tuesday, October 15 at 3:00 am ET

The popular game show “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Contestants will rely on a classroom full of comedy, movie, and sports stars to answer 11 questions on a variety of topics culled from the elementary school curriculum in hopes of winning $100,000 in prize money Hosted by Kansas City Chiefs tight end and Taylor Swift's boyfriend, Travis Kelce, the contestants will tackle the final question at the sixth-grade level

Premieres Wednesday, October 16 at 12 am ET on Prime Video

One of my favorite shows of 2023 returns for a second season of therapy-related humor and hijinks Therapist Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel) is still grieving the loss of his wife, but he and his daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell) are on a tentative truce He is trying his hand at telling clients exactly what he thinks, much to the annoyance of his colleague Paul Rhodes (Harrison Ford) Paul is facing his own problems, including worsening Parkinson's disease Meanwhile, another colleague, Gabby (Jessica Williams), must deal with her feelings for Jimmy

Premieres Wednesday, October 16 at 12 am ET on Apple TV Plus

This time it's personal problems for attorney Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) At the end of Season 2, Mickey learned that his former client Gloria Days (Fiona Rene), who helped him with the Jesus Mendez case in Season 1, is dead Now he is on a mission to find her killer Mickey is wracked with guilt and wonders if he could have done something to save her His personal connection with Gloria makes this his most important and at the same time dangerous case

Premieres Thursday, October 17 at 3 am ET on Netflix

Jilly Cooper's soapy “bonkbuster” books were a huge UK They were big hits in the UK in the 1980s and '90s This adaptation of Cooper's second novel harkens back to the days of Dynasty, Dallas, and Desperate Housewives The protagonists' rivals are politician Rupert Campbell Black (Alex Hassell) and television executive Sir Tony Badham (David Tennant) Although they hide their venom behind calm, aristocratic expressions, the two men harbor an absolute hatred for each other

Available on Hulu on Friday, October 18 at 12 am ET

Every generation thinks their children are doing wrong But sometimes the generational divide can lead to hysteria Peacock's new thriller is set in the late 1980s, when the “Satanic Panic” gripped the United States In a small Michigan town, the disappearance of a volleyball quarterback fuels fears, and three teenage dropouts in a floundering heavy metal band find they can capitalize on the growing interest in the occult by rebranding themselves as a Satanist metal band But a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reports of “supernatural activity” trigger a witch hunt targeting them

Premieres Friday, October 18 at 3am ET on Peacock

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