The 22 TV Shows We’re Most Hyped About in Fall 2022

Release Date: September 1
Streaming Service: Prime Video
Cast: Morfydd Clark, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Markella Kavenagh
Why We’re Hyped: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is quite literally the most expensive television show ever made. Set thousands of years before the events of the original Lord of the Rings, this lavish prequel series will tell the backstory of Gollum’s precious. Expect sumptuous visuals and lots of elf ears, all available to you with that membership you have for free overnight shipping.

Release Date: September 4
Streaming Service: Adult Swim
Cast: Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, Sarah Chalke
Why We’re Hyped: Rick and Morty has one of the most obsessive fan bases in animation, full of a few strange men who enjoy having temper tantrums in fast food restaurants over a promotional sauce and a ton of other very normal, nice people. So it’s great for all types of Rick and Morty fans that Decider’s Kayla Cobb is calling Season 6 “Rickier and Mortier” than ever before.

Release Date: September 9
Streaming Service: Netflix
Cast: William Zabka, Ralph Macchio, Tanner Buchanan, Peyton List
Why We’re Hyped: Cobra Kai is a unicorn of a show. It’s a reboot of a classic ‘80s property that both celebrates what made the original IP — that’s an industry term — great, while examining the psychology of its villains and heroes. It’s also hecking hilarious, full of amazing action scenes, and winsome callbacks to the Karate Kid. We’re just stoked to watch Zabka and Macchio once more give a crane kick to the Netflix Top Ten.

Release Date: September 11
Streaming Service: Starz
Cast: Samantha Morton, Liv Hill, Ludivine Sagnier
Why We’re Hyped: Ever get sucked into the CW’s Reign? Well, Starz’s The Serpent Queen is a darkly comic and pulpy take on that same story, but from villainess Catherine de Medici’s perspective. We watch as smart, but homely Catherine gets sold to the French royal court. The problem is Catherine actually falls hard for her intended, Henry, and he’s already enmeshed in an illicit affair with a much older woman. What’s a girl to do? Burn it all down. (Metaphorically speaking. But maybe she does burn something.)

Release Date: September 15
Streaming Service: FX for broadcast, next day on Hulu
Cast: Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, LaKeith Stanfield, Zazie Beetz
Why We’re Hyped: Atlanta is hands down one of the most beautifully idiosyncratic shows to premiere in the last decade and Season 4 is its swan song. Sure, say goodbye to Earn and the gang. But more importantly, give this iconic masterpiece your full and undivided attention as it gives reinventing the art form one last go.

Release Date: September 16
Streaming Service: Netflix
Cast: Abigail Cowen, Danny Griffin, Paulina Chávez, Elisha Applebaum
Why We’re Hyped: Don’t lie. You binged the heck out of Fate: The Winx Saga when it premiered on Netflix last fall. You were all about these pretty girl fairies and their dating lives and complaining about how Flora was cut out of the adaptation. Well good news: Flora is in Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2. Happy now? Nope, well binge Season 2 and find something else to complain about on Twitter and TikTok.

Release Date: September 20
Streaming Service: Hulu
Cast: Keegan-Michael Key, Judy Greer, Rachel Bloom, Johnny Knoxville
Why We’re Hyped: BECAUSE JUDY GREER IS FINALLY THE LEAD!!!! That’s it! There’s no other reason to be hyped for a meta comedy show about the behind-the-scenes drama at a streamer’s craven attempt to reboot an old hit that happens to star some of the funniest people alive. We’re only watching Reboot for Judy Greer!!! Go, Judy, go!!!

Release Date: September 21
Streaming Service: ABC for broadcast, next day on Hulu
Cast: Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Janelle James
Why We’re Hyped: Abbott Elementary is the show that reminded us that ABC is good for more than just The Bachelor franchise. This hilarious and heart-felt sitcom has us obsessed with Janine and Gregory’s “Will they? Won’t they?”, Sheryl Lee Ralph’s epic line delivery, and Janelle James’s literal everything. Abbott Elementary is maybe the one show that’s for everyone? (Which is only weird to me as half the jokes seem to hit only if you’re from the Philly area and had family members who taught in underprivileged, underfunded inner city schools. My teacher sister would have killed for an Eagles rug in her classroom!)

Release Date: September 21
Streaming Service: Disney+
Cast: Diego Luna, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Stellan Starsgard
Why We’re Hyped: Star Wars: Rogue One is probably the most bitching Star Wars movie ever made — Alan Tudyk is a mean droid! There are buddies who might be gay for each other! Everyone dies at the end! — and Andor is Disney+’s attempt to elaborate even more on this world. Expect a grounded take on the early Rebellion, complete with heroes, villains, and martyrs who don’t have the Force to lean back on.

Release Date: October 2
Streaming Service: AMC and AMC+
Cast: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Bailey Bass, Eric Bogosian
Why We’re Hyped: AMC’s new adaptation of Anne Rice’s beloved novel updates the action twofold to both 1920s New Orleans and our COVID-infected present day. More importantly, all signs point to this new take on Rice’s world to be campier, gorier, and gayer than ever before. Take the subtext out of the vampire genre! Let it be more than a metaphor for queerness. Let the vampire show just be queer!

Release Date: October 7
Streaming Service: Netflix
Cast: Zach Gilford, Iman Benson, Samantha Sloyan, Igby Rigney
Why We’re Hyped: Mike Flanagan has become the king of Halloween on Netflix and The Midnight Club is his latest creepy masterpiece. What pushes this over the edge, however, is that Flanagan is adapting the Christoper Pike novel of the same name. The show will follow a group of young patients in hospice care who meet up to share the scariest stories they can. Expect thrills, chills, and dreams full of nightmares after this series debuts.

Release Date: October 11
Streaming Service: The CW
Cast: Jensen Ackles, Meg Donnelly, Drake Rodger
Why We’re Hyped: Supernatural might have devolved into the Castiel show in later seasons — and I say that as a Castiel fan! — but early Supernatural was all about the Winchesters’ own family mythology. Now Jensen Ackles is producing and reprising his role as Dean Winchester in this prequel series about how Sam and Dean’s mommy and daddy met, fell in love, and made all of hell hate their family.

Release Date: Fall
Streaming Service: Netflix
Cast: Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán
Why We’re Hyped: Wednesday marks the first time that the great Tim Burton has tiptoed into the world of Charles Addams’s iconic New Yorker cartoons. Which means the maestro of hip goth storytelling is finally bringing our culture’s spookiest family to life. Specifically speaking, this show will follow young Wednesday Addams as she matriculates at a special school for creepy kids. What horrors await everyone’s favorite goth girl in braids?

Release Date: October 21
Streaming Service: Netflix
Cast: Zoe Saldana, Eugenio Mastrandrea, Danielle Deadwyler
Why We’re Hyped: From Scratch is based on Tembi Locke’s best-selling memoir, which details how she met and fell in love with a hot chef while studying abroad in Italy, only to lose that love later to cancer. Essentially that means we’re getting a swoon-worthy tearjerker about a woman living the dream: living her best “Under the Tuscan Sun” life, complete with sexy sex and delicious food. It might be just the thing to tie us over until Bridgeton Season 3.

Release Date: October 25
Streaming Service: Netflix
Cast: Ben Barnes, Tim Blake Nelson, Rupert Grint, Essie Davis
Why We’re Hyped: Guillermo del Toro has asked a few of his favorite horror directors — including himself, duh — to pull together this terrifying anthology just in time for Halloween. Netflix is actually dropping two installments a day, creating their first ever “event” week. The only question is whether or not you’ll binge your way through this series with the lights turned off or on. (I will be watching in broad daylight with a flashlight turned on for good measure.)

Release Date: October
Streaming Service: HBO Max
Cast: Jennifer Coolidge, Aubrey Plaza, Tom Hollander, Haley Lu Richardson
Why We’re Hyped: Mike White’s scathing social satire is back with (almost) a whole new cast of privileged assholes and put-upon hotel staff. This time, we’re following Season 1 standout Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) as she journeys to Sicily. Let’s hope she’s a bit nicer to the staff this time around. (Justice for Natasha Rothwell’s Belinda!)

Release Date: November 13
Streaming Service: Paramount Network
Cast: Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Luke Grimes
Why We’re Hyped: Yellowstone is the biggest show in the country (that the mainstream media seems to conveniently ignore) and it’s about to get bigger! When Yellowstone returns in November, it’ll treat fans to a two hour premiere. John Dutton’s going to mean business, Beth Dutton’s going to have great eye makeup, and Rip Wheeler is going to cock his rifle like never before! (At least that’s what I take away from the 15 second teaser.)

Release Date: November
Streaming Service: Netflix
Cast: Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce, Elizabeth Debicki, Dominic West
Why We’re Hyped: It’s all honestly been leading up to this. After four seasons of set up, we’re going to watch Queen Elizabeth II’s world come apart as Princess Diana divorces Prince Charles and Fergie gets her toes sucked! If you thought Megxit was bad, wait until The Crown dramatizes the trauma of the Annus Horribilis! Plus, we can’t wait to see real-life very tall and glamorous lady Elizabeth Debicki rock Diana’s divorce fashion.

Release Date: November 30
Streaming Service: Disney+
Cast: Warwick Davis, Ruby Cruz, Erin Kellyman, Ellie Bamber
Why We’re Hyped: Willow is one of the great cult hits of the ‘80s and it’s getting a reboot with the help of Disney+. While it’s unclear if Elora Danan will take center stage in the series, we do know that Mad Martigan and Sorsha’s daughter is going to round up her friends — and Willow! — to save her kidnapped brother. This will be a magical story that the whole family can enjoy (except for your one cousin who hates pure, cool, weird things).

Release Date: Fall
Streaming Service: HBO Max
Cast: Abel “The Weekend” Tesfaye, Lily-Rose Depp, Troye Sivan, Jennie Ruby Jane (aka Jennie from Blackpink)
Why We’re Hyped: Sam Levinson’s Euphoria has swiftly become one of the most must-watch shows in HBO history and early teasers for The Idol promise similar levels of hyper-stylized, hyper-sexualized drama. The Idol stars real-life pop stars — like co-creator The Weeknd, Jennie from Blackpink, and Troye Sivan — as characters in the orbit of Lily-Rose Depp’s fictional one. We’ve seen what Levinson can do with high school life. Want to bet he makes rock star debauchery look even more insane?

Release Date: Fall??
Streaming Service: Hulu
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, Lizzie Caplan, Adam Brody
Why We’re Hyped: Beloved New York Times writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner is adapting her equally beloved best-seller as a nine-part limited series with a killer cast, so, like, of course we’ll be tuning in. The only thing that gives us pause is the realization that millennial icons like Jesse Eisenberg and Adam Brody are now officially playing middle-aged men. Where did the time go?!? Fingers crossed it’ll have a late fall debut.

Release Date: Fall 2022, we think??
Streaming Service: Apple TV+
Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein
Why We’re Hyped: Ted Lasso, my sweet, biscuit-making, panic attack-having man…where are you? You were supposed to greet me at the height of summer, giving me comfort with your pep talks and joy with your show’s jokes. But you weren’t there. Ted Lasso, why have you abandoned us, your loyal people in our hour of need?!? Ted Lasso, are you coming out in Fall 2022? Why won’t Apple TV+ reveal a release date, season, year? Ted Lasso, come back to me and never leave again!!!