Sci Fi TV Highlights: A look at the upcoming schedule of sci fi and fantasy shows as well as recent news and/or trailers of note.
Sci Fi TV Premieres This Week:
Loki (Disney+): Loki navigates an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous multiverse in search of Sylvie, Judge Renslayer, Miss Minutes, and the truth of what it means to possess free will and glorious purpose. Season 2 premieres on Thursday at 9 PM EST.
Quantum Leap (NBC): It’s been nearly 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now, a new team, led by physicist Ben Song (Raymond Lee), has been assembled to restart the project in hope of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it. Everything changes, however, when Ben makes an unauthorized leap into the past, leaving the team behind to solve the mystery of why he did it. Season 2 premieres Wednesday at 8 PM EST.
Surrealestate (Syfy): Real estate agent Luke Roman is the owner of The Roman Agency, a boutique residential real estate brokerage specializing in “metaphysically engaged” properties, also known as haunted houses. Luke has a special connection to the spiritual realm; he can not only sense the presence that might inhabit a client’s house, he can often communicate and negotiate with it. Along with his team, Luke takes on the houses nobody else can or will. Season 2 premieres Wednesday at 10 PM EST.
Chucky (Syfy): In Chucky’s unending thirst for power, season 3 now sees Chucky ensconced with the most powerful family in the world — America’s First Family, inside the infamous walls of the White House. How did Chucky wind up here? What in God’s name does he want? And how can Jake, Devon, and Lexy possibly get to Chucky inside the world’s most secure house, all while balancing the pressures of romantic relationships and growing up? Season 3 premieres Wednesday at 9 PM EST.
Schedule Notes:
Wrapping up this week is Ahsoka which drops its season finale on Thursday on Disney+. There has been no word on a second season of that show yet. On Sunday, Syfy is running a mini-marathon of the first season of Quantum Leap which will include thirteen of that show’s eighteen first-season episodes. That starts at 8 AM EST. Below are the listings for the current week, and you can see all of the premieres for October and beyond at this link. The two-week view of the schedule is available here.
Prime Time Sci Fi TV Listings for the Week of Oct 2 – Oct 8
Links are to the show pages on this site with additional series info, trailers, updates and more. Broadcast/Cable Listings Source: Zap2It.com
| Monday October 2 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Tuesday October 3 |
| The Swarm (CW) 9:00-10:00 |
| Ahsoka (Disney+) Streaming Season Finale |
| Wednesday October 4 |
| Quantum Leap (NBC) 8:00-9:00 Season 2 Premiere |
| Chucky (Syfy) 9:00-10:00 Season 3 Premiere |
| American Horror Story (FX) 10:00-11:00 |
| Surrealestate (Syfy) 10:00-11:00 Season 2 Premiere |
| Invasion (Apple TV+) Streaming |
| Thursday October 5 |
| Loki (Disney+) Streaming Season 2 Premiere |
| Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+) Streaming |
| Friday October 6 |
| The Changeling (Apple TV+) Streaming |
| Gen V (Prime Video) Streaming |
| The Wheel of Time (Prime Video) Streaming |
| Saturday October 7 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Sunday October 8 |
| Krapopolis (FOX) 8:30-9:00 |
| The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC) 9:00-10:00 |
Sci Fi TV News
It has been a year since HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon premiered, but fans of that show still have to wait a while longer for the second season. It was minimally impacted by the strikes because scripts were already completed before the writers’ strike started and the UK-based shoot is not a SAG-AFTRA production. But Summer 2024 is looking like the soonest that the show will return for its second year . . . David McCallum passed away this past week at the age of 90. He is best known to sci fi and fantasy fans for his co-lead roles in the 1960s spy fi series The Man from UNCLE and the late-70s British series Sapphire and Steel. He also starred in the short-lived shows The Invisible Man (1975) and VR-5 (1995).
Keep up with the latest sci fi TV news and discuss current and past shows at r/SciFiTV
Sci Fi TV Trailers
Scavengers Reign (Max): In this surreal sci-fi animated series from creators Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, the remaining crew of a damaged interstellar freighter ship find themselves stranded on a beautiful yet unforgiving alien planet – where they must survive long enough to escape or be rescued. But as the survivors struggle to locate their downed ship and missing crewmates, their new home reveals a hostile world allowed to thrive without human interference. Premieres October 19th.
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