Need a new TV obsession to curl up to now that the evenings are getting longer? Luckily, October has plenty of big new TV shows to get lost in, from the ambitious East of Eden starring Florence Pugh to the third season of Nobody Wants This and a new series of The Celebrity Traitors. Here’s everything you need to watch:

East of Eden

One of our most anticipated shows, John Steinbeck’s classic novel East of Eden is being brought to the screen in a new seven-part adaptation starring Florence Pugh. She plays Cathy Ames, a fiercely independent and deeply complicated woman whose life becomes intertwined with brothers Adam and Charles Trask, played by Poor Things’ Christopher Abbott and Challengers’ Mike Faist. Set in early 20th-century California, the series explores the darker side of the American dream and, like Steinbeck’s noveL, spans multiple generations of the Trask and Hamilton families. It’s gotten plenty of buzz, thanks to Pugh being the lead, and East of Eden has shot to popularity on BookTok.

Read our East of Eden book review here
Available on: Netflix
Releases: 1st October

WAR

If you enjoy glossy legal dramas filled with power struggles and complicated relationships, WAR is definitely one to watch. This new eight-part Sky series comes from George Kay, creator of Lupin and Hijack, and stars Dominic West and Sienna Miller as a wealthy couple whose explosive divorce sets two of London’s most prestigious law firms against one another.

As firms Cathcarts & Sons and Taylor & Byrne fight for their respective clients, ambitious young lawyer Johnny Warren (Archie Renaux) finds himself drawn into their ruthless but lucrative world. Phoebe Fox, James McArdle, Nina Sosanya and Nick Mohammed also star. A second series, dealing with a different legal case and starring Marisa Tomei, is also in the works.

Available on: Sky
Releases: 1st October

Nobody Wants This Season 3

Joanne and Noah’s complicated romance is entering a new chapter in Nobody Wants This Season 3. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody return as the unlikely couple we fell for in that fire season, who finally appear to have overcome the obstacles that kept getting in the way of their relationship. This time around, the pair are moving in together, taking a big step forward in their lives as they get used to living in the same house. Meanwhile, Sasha and Morgan find themselves potentially starting a relationship of their own. Andrew Rannells, Keyla Monterroso Mejia and Sarah Silverman join the returning cast in what looks to be another season of comfort tv.

Available on: Netflix
Releases: 22nd October

The Celebrity Traitors

There wasn’t much doubt that the first celebrity edition of The Traitors would be a success, and now it’s back for another series of deception and murder. Claudia Winkleman once again welcomes a group of famous faces to the Scottish Highlands, where they must work together to complete challenges and build up a prize fund, all while trying to identify the Traitors hiding among them. The bumper new cast includes Richard E. Grant, Michael Sheen, Miranda Hart, James Blunt, James Acaster, Joe Lycett, Bella Ramsey, Maya Jama, Romesh Ranganathan, Ross Kemp, Sharon Rooney and more.

Available on: BBC One, iPlayer
Releases: 1st October

The Break Clause

If your current October watchlist feels heavy on prestige dramas and heavy-hitting thrillers, this fresh six-part British romantic comedy offers a grounded, laugh-out-loud change of pace. Created by Jess Bray and directed by Alice Snedden, the series follows a young couple whose relationship implodes on the very day they move in together. Locked into an unbreakable six-month tenancy, the exes are forced to live as flatmates while attempting to navigate modern dating, bitter heartbreak, and the absurd nightmare of London renting.

Available on: Channel 4
Releases: 1st October

Carrie

Stephen King’s iconic Carrie is getting a new adaptation on Amazon Prime, entrusting The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan to put his own spin on the story. Following several previous screen versions, Summer H. Howell stars as Carrie White, a bullied teenager whose sheltered upbringing and intensely religious mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan), have left her struggling to fit into high school. When her father dies, Carrie is forced further into the outside world, where bullying, social-media cruelty and the emergence of her telekinetic abilities begin to collide. It promises to be an updated version of the well-known horror story, fitting into a 2026 setting. Matthew Lillard, Siena Agudong, Alison Thornton and Amber Midthunder also star.

Available on: Amazon Prime
Releases: 7th October

Kill Jackie

Catherine Zeta-Jones leads Kill Jackie, a new eight-part revenge thriller based on Nick Harkaway’s novel The Price You Pay. Zeta-Jones plays Jackie Price, a wealthy former international drug smuggler who has spent two decades successfully hiding from her dangerous past. That peaceful, normal existence comes crashing down when she discovers that a group of elite assassins known as the Seven Demons have been hired to kill her. Rather than waiting for them to come after her, Jackie decides to embrace the badassery and turn the tables and hunt them down herself. Daniel Ings, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Ron Perlman and Bill Paterson also star.

Available on: Amazon Prime
Releases: 2nd October

Which show are you going to binge first?




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