8 new TV Shows to Watch This Weekend on Netflix, Prime Video, and HBO (October 9-11)

Published Oct 9, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT

More friendly horror offerings include Netflix’s adult animated series Haunted Hotel, which follows a single mom who inherits a haunted hotel and must learn how to run it while also raising her kids and living with the ghost of her annoying brother. There’s also a new NCIS spin-off and Eternally Yours, a vampire comedy series.

The Avatar we know and love is also back. Avatar: Seven Havens takes us back to the Four Nations and introduces us to a new Avatar: a young girl named Pavi, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world that no longer respects the Avatar’s powers and influence.

Happy watching.

1 Carrie

• Available on Prime Video
• Genre: Horror
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Summer H. Howell, Samantha Sloyan, Sienna Agudong

Carrie’s imprint looms large, whether we’re talking about the book, which launched Stephen King’s career, or the movies, which include Brian De Palma’s Academy Award-nominated turn, Kimberly Pierce’s lackluster adaptation, and a sequel that no one likes to think about. Flanagan makes Carrie his own, modernizing the text for the Gen-Z era, filling his school hallways with smartphones that magnify Carrie’s (Summer H. Howell) humiliation. While he largely sticks to the source material, Flanagan takes some notable detours and lends a sympathetic eye to some of the stories' most villainous characters, like Carrie’s radically religious mom Margaret White (Samantha Sloyan), and one of King’s most memorable bullies, Chris Hargensen (Alison Thornton).

Per our Polygon review:

Carrie, which arrives as an eight-episode binge next week on Prime Video, manages to walk that microscopic line between faithful adaptation and unique reinvention. Flanagan updates the story for our terrible 2020s to explore the modern high school experience where online bullying and school shooting drills are the norm, all told through the naive perspective of Carrie's wide eyes. While the show drags at times on its way to the climactic ending we all know is coming, it's still a gripping story that Flanagan fans (and even some of his haters) will gleefully devour.

2 Avatar: Seven Havens

• Available on Paramount+
• Genre: Animation
• Episode count: 26
• Cast: Saheli Khan, Aishu Devan, Ashkay Khanna

It’s a good time to be an Avatar fan. After the release of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, the world created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino is back with a new TV show, this time set hundreds of years into the future. Avatar: Seven Havens follows Pavi, a young earthbender who discovers she’s the Avatar. Unlike Aang and Korra, though, who were considered the world’s saviours, the Avatar is linked to the destruction of the world, something that will surely complicate Pavi’s path.

Per our Polygon preview:

The next animated series in the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe takes place approximately 225 years after the end of The Legend of Korra. That’s almost exactly three centuries after Aang defeated Fire Lord Ozai. The jump is so significant that the world of Seven Havens looks almost unrecognizable, mainly because, due to some sort of cataclysm, civilization has collapsed. The original four nations built around each type of bending and their cultures have dissolved over time. In their place are seven isolated strongholds, called Havens. The new Avatar, Pavi (Saheli Khan), must navigate a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk fantasy, complete with hoverboards and motorcycles driven right out of either Tron or Batman’s garage.

3 Below

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Thriller
• Episode count: 6
• Cast: Josh Hartnett, Charlie Heaton, Mackenzie Davis

Set in a small coastal town in Canada, Below follows a fisherman (Josh Hartnett) who must protect his family and community from the rise of a mysterious sea monster. He partners up with a marine researcher (Mackenzie Davis), with the two hoping to understand the creature better before it’s too late and it hurts more people in the town.

Per our Polygon preview:

In the pre-release material for Below, McKeown [showrunner Jesse McKeown] has made sure to acknowledge his influences. Jaws is a big one, of course, but it also owes a stylistic debt to John Carpenter. "I grew up on [movies] in the '70s and '80s that were a certain old-school handcrafted sort of genre movie that I love," McKeown says. "John Carpenter was the king of that, with movies like The Fog and The Thing. Those were a big influence when I was writing this.

4 Haunted Hotel

• Available on Netflix
• Genre: Animation
• Episode count: 8
• Cast: Will Forte, Jimmi Simpson, Eliza Coupe

If you’re looking for a spooky animated series for adults, Haunted Hotel is your answer. Created by Matt Roller (Rick and Morty) the comedy follows Katherine (Eliza Coupe), a single mom of two who inherits The Undervale from her recently deceased brother Nathan (Will Forte). She soon learns that the place is haunted by many quirky ghosts, including Nathan’s, who offers to help her run the business.

5 NCIS: New York

• Available on Paramount+
• Genre: Action
• Episode count: 20
• Cast: LL Cool J, Scott Caan, Jennifer Beals

NCIS is back with a new spinoff. NCIS New York follows Sam Hanna (LL Cool J), who was featured in NCIS: Los Angeles. The series picks up with Hanna returning home to New York and working on the area’s NCIS unit, introducing a new cast of characters and stories to the long-running franchise.

6 Eternally Yours

• Available on Paramount+
• Genre: Comedy
• Episode count: 20
• Cast: Ed Weeks, Allegra Edwards, Helen J. Shen

What if you take a married couple stuck in a rut and make them vampires? That’s the premise of Eternally Yours, a new comedy series following Charles (Ed Weeks) and Liz (Allegra Edwards), a once-passionate couple who’ve lost their shine 500 years into their marriage. They’re forced to confront their relationship when their daughter (Helen J. Shen) brings home her earnest human boyfriend (Jaren Lewison).

7 Cupertino

• Available on Paramount+
• Genre: Drama
• Episode count: 20
• Cast: Rachel Keller, Busy Phillips, Mike Colter

Developed by TV law experts Michelle and Robert King, Cupertino takes aim at the personalities in Silicon Valley, following a pair of lawyers (Mike Colter and Rachel Keller) who run a law firm that stands up for people who have been hurt by tech billionaires and their inventions, ranging from drones to chatbots.

8 The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story

• Available on HBO
• Genre: Documentary
• Episode count: 3
• Cast: Dorothy Lou Thompson, Detective John Doran

Lastly, if you’re looking for a documentary, HBO Max has a new three-part series following the 1985 disappearance and murder of Dorothy Lou Thompson, a woman who owned a pet cemetery and whose body was found bound in chains in the Mississippi River. The investigation lasted decades, with the documentary following the unexpected turns the story takes.