As TV networks celebrate their new season, streamers are ready to spoil their party. Again.
The networks try to be giddy about their new shows — which are scarce. This fall, CBS and NBC have three each, CW has one, ABC and Fox have zero.
By comparison? The list here (not exhaustive) has 41 shows arriving this fall on streamers or premium channels, 24 of them new. It has epic ones — adapting “Lord of the Rings” and “Percy Jackson” (shown here), re-adapting “Harry Potter — and basic ones, including new takes on Steinbeck and Ali.
To be fair, streaming networks have advantages. Their shows often settle for six to ten episodes a year; broadcast networks try for 22. And each streamer has only a few shows; this list includes 13 different networks.
But it’s an imposing bunch, for streamers that tend to dominate the Emmys. This list sticks to series or mini-series, not stand-alone movies. It’s chronological … and partial:
— Already here (Paramount+): The final season of “Colin From Accounts” cleverly wraps a three-season tale. It jumps ahead three years, with Ashley and Gordon (Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the husband and wife who also wrote this) still apart
— More already here: Brammall has opposite duty in “Last Seen” (Apple), desperately searching for a daughter who disappeared a decade ago … Peacock’s quietly clever “The Paper” returned, as did Britbox’s charming, modern version of “Tommy & Tuppence” mysteries, And arriving Sept. 16 were Amazon Prime’s “Neagley” (a Reacher” spin-off) and a new season of Apple’s “Slow Horses,” the British spy tale.
— Sept. 17 (Netflix): “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” tells about America’s most famous maybe-ax-murderer. It’s from Ryan Murphy — whose “American Horror Story” starts a new season Sept. 24 on Hulu.
— Sept. 18 (Starz): In the first season of “Outlaw: Blood of My Blood,” the young lovers fled toward happily-ever-after. But then the Scottish rebellion against Britain began; now Brian must return to the castle of his cruel father.
— Sept. 18 (Paramount+): “Mobland” starts its second season, with Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan running a British crime family. It’s from Guy Ritchie, whose “The Gentleman” this month had its second season on Netflix.
— Sept. 20 (MGM+): “American Hostage” has Jon Hamm as the real-life radio newsman who spent days on the phone with a kidnapper.
— Sept. 23 (Netflix): Willie Wonka has already been at the core of three movies, each of them terrific. Now comes “Wonka’s The Golden Ticket,”
a game show designed to look like Willie’s candyland.
— Sept. 23 (Apple): Strange things happen when Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey get together. Now they play fictional versions of themselves — McConaughey considering running for governor of Texas, Harrelson probing a hint that they are, as the show’s title says, “Brothers.”
— Sept. 24 (Netflix): “A Different World” was a “Cosby Show” spin-off, giving TV an amiable look at a historically Black college. Now two of the students in that show (Dwayne and Deborah) have a daughter there, in a show that bounces between comedy, drama and campus-style frenzy.
— Sept. 25 (Starz): “S.W.A,T.” just keeps going. It had two 1970s seasons on ABC, two movies, eight seasons on CBS and now “”S.W.A.T.: Exiles.” Hondo (Shemar Moore) assembles a new team of mostly rejects.
— Oct. 1 (Netflix): John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” gets its third film version.
It was a 1955 movie, with Elia Kazan directing James Dean, and a 1981 mini-series. Now Zoe Kazan, Elia’s granddaughter and a gifted director/actor, directs this version, with more emphasis on Florence Pugh as Cathy.
— Oct. 1 (HBO Max): In “War,” Dominic West and Sienna Miller play a tech titan and a film star, enmeshed in London’s biggest divorce suit.
— Oct. 1 (AMC+): “Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena” is a six-part documentary series based on Rice University’s Center for the Impossible. It talks with regular people who describe other-worldly events.
— Oct. 2 (Starz): Now that Alan Cumming is hosting two “Traitors” shows, we might forget he’s also a serious actor. In “Tip Toe,” he and David Morrissey are neighbors who exchange keys, then find secrets.
— Oct. 2 (AMC+): Catherine Zeta-Jones plays a former drug boss, living a lush, international life … until she learns that hitmen are after her. In “Kill Jackie” (from the “Killing Eve” producers), she vows to get them first.
— Oct. 5 (Acorn): When “Signora Volpe” began, a sleek British spy (Emilia Fox) visited her sister in Italy and was charmed. She bought a house there and quit work; then danger kept finding her. In the first of three movie-length mysteries, a winery owner feels someone wants to kill him.
— Oct. 7 (Prime): The Halloween season starts early, with a remake of “Carrie,” Stephen King’s tale of a bullied teen.
— Oct. 8 (Netflix): We’re beyond sharks now. In “Below,” a sea monster terrorizes a Newfoundland village; a fisherman (Josh Hartnett) fights back.
— Oct. 14 (Disney+): The brilliant “WandaVision” series had Vision (Paul Bettany), an android, thinking he was in a TV sitcom. There was a spin-off (“Agatha All Along”) and now Disney says it’s wrapping up the trilogy with “VisionQuest.” Grasping for his identity, Vision careens through worlds.
— Oct. 14 (Hulu): The first season of “The Lowdown” turned a crusading journalist (Ethan Hawke) into a local hero. Now, of course, he crumbles.
— Oct. 15 (Peacock): More Halloween, this time with the “Crystal Lake” mini-series arriving on Peacock in one messy and involving bunch. It’s a prequel to the “Friday the 13th” films, showing us a loving mom (the terrific Linda Cardellini) who turned bloody.
— Oct. 15 (Netflix): Two “West Wing” stars are key to this season’s “The Diplomat.” Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford play a president and her husband; he links with Kate (Keri Russell) to try to stop a war.
— Oct. 20 (Hulu): Don’t you hate it when you wake up from a car accident and find that an impostor is pretending to be your mom? That happens in “Phony,” starring Connie Britton.
— Oct. 23 (AMC+): Hudson Williams of “Heated Rivalry” is back, in another mini-series from the “Rivalry” producer. But in “Yaga,” he’s missing, in a town with tales of black magic.
— Oct. 30 (Apple): Just before Halloween, “Nocturne” offers more darkness, without the supernatural part. Liev Schreiber plays the cop, trying to catch a small-town killer (played by Stephen Graham of “Adolescence”).
— Oct. 30 (Paramount+): Here’s one more moment of pre-Halloween chills: “Dexter: Resurrection” returns.
— Nov. 1 (HBO Max): “The Gilded Age” returns, bringing classy drama to the ruling class of early America.
— Nov. 4 (Prime): “The Greatest” tells the story of young Cassius Clay, before he became champion Muhammad Ali. Producers include his widow Lonnie Ali and actor Michael B. Jordan.
— Nov. 4 (Apple): It’s the second season of “Stick,” with Owen Wilson as a golfer grasping for a comeback. Timothy Olyphant plays his nemesis.
— Nov. 11 (Prime): Here’s the third season of the epic “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”
— Nov. 12 (Peacock): Two sisters (Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahey) must confront a long-ago trauma in “The Good Daughter.”
— Nov. 13 (Apple): Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan star in a heist drama that’s called “12 12 12” … and really should air on Dec. 12.
— Nov. 19 (Netflix): Four years ago, “The Dropout” had the true story of a young genius whose start-up devolved into failure and deception. Now comes another such story: “The Altruists” has Anthoy Boyle and Julia Garner as leaders of the crypto scheme that fell apart.
— Nov. 20 (Disney+): The third season begins for the beautifully crafted “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Now Annabeth (shown here, left) has been taken and the “Great Prophesy” looms.
— Nov. 20 (Paramount+): It’s the final season for “The Yellowjackets.” That means the flashback portions can finally show the rescue.
— Nov. 23 (Peacock): As a showrunner, Mike Schur has given us intelligent comedies “The Good Place” and “Parks and Recreation.” Now he has “Dig,” with Amy Poehler, the “Parks and Rec” star. On an archaeological dig in Greece, four women have a life-changing discovery.
— Nov. 25 (Prime): The first two “Blade Runner” movies saw replicants (artificial near-humans) being increasingly powerful. Now, in “Blade Runner 2099,” they’ve taken over. (Isn’t that why they’ve been warning us about AI?) A human (Hunter Schafer), posing as a replicant, links with a replicant (Michelle Yeoh) who’s near her end date.
— Dec. 3 (Netflix): Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” gets a fresh mini-series, shortly after her “Sense and Sensibility” is in movie theaters.
— Dec. 8 (Hulu): “Only Murders in the Building” isn’t really confined to the building, you know. Now it’s in London, adding Englishmen David Tennant and Martin Freeman.
— Dec. 25 (HBO Max): And maybe this is the big one — a new “Harry Potter” series. It takes the same stories we saw in the movies, but can give each one some extra time.