Aisha Tyler, A.J. Cook, Joe Mantegna, Adam Rodriguez in Criminal Minds: Evolution
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It’s only fitting that the spooky shows are thriving this October. Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie has locked in a second season at Prime Video, proving that the telekinetic teen really is too powerful to be stopped. Plus, FX has broken out the ouija board and summoned another season of TV’s most famous horror series, American Horror Story. The anthology show will return for a 14th season, which was confirmed shortly after the Season 13 premiere became creator Ryan Murphy’s biggest streaming premiere on Hulu ever. Not to be outdone, Disney+’s YA witch school drama Coven Academy has also been renewed.
But it’s not just horror. It turns out that in October, crime also pays. Some of the month’s biggest renewals are at least crime adjacent, including Paramount+’s fish-out-of-water mob show Tulsa King, Apple TV’s murder mystery thriller Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, the soapy thrillers The Hunting Wives (at Netflix) and Imperfect Women (at Apple TV), and Prime Video’s Reacher spin-off Neagley. But not all crime-heavy shows are seeing new life: The next season of Paramount+’s Criminal Minds: Evolution is going to be its last.
Other renewals this month include CBS’s reality stalwart Big Brother, Netflix’s political thriller The Diplomat and sitcom revival A Different World, and Paramount+’s Avatar: Seven Havens.
As the busy fall TV season continues, check back here throughout the month for the latest news. We’re keeping tabs on all the shows that have been canceled or renewed in October below.
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TV show cancellationsCriminal Minds: Evolution, Paramount+: Ahead of the premiere of its nineteenth season in May, Criminal Minds: Evolution received an early renewal for Season 20. But at the end of October, it was announced that Season 20 will be the series’ last. (Oct. 30, Deadline)
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TV show renewalsThe Diplomat, Netflix: Good news: Keri Russell will get another chance at an Emmy. Netflix’s political thriller The Diplomat has been renewed for a fifth season. The news was announced shortly after the premiere of Season 4. (Oct. 29, Netflix)Nation’s Dumbest, Fox: Fox’s school-themed celebrity game show that celebrates stupidity is repeating summer school. Nation’s Dumbest was Fox’s biggest summer premiere in four years, earning it a second season. Chase Hudson was the unfortunate “winner” of Season 1. (Oct. 27, Fox)Coven Academy, Disney+/Hulu/Freeform: The YA drama about teenagers attending a boarding school for witches and warlocks in New Orleans has conjured up a second season. The series premiered on Oct. 1 on Freeform, and the whole season — made up of short-form videos that run about 15 minutes long — was dropped on Disney+ and Hulu the next day. (Oct. 26, Variety)In the City, Bravo: The Summer House spin-off has been renewed for Season 2. (Oct. 23, Variety)Next Gen NYC, Bravo: The reality series about young adults in the spotlight has been renewed for Season 3. Bravo is also expanding the franchise in the form of the new series Next Gen Atlanta. (Oct. 23, Variety)Southern Hospitality, Bravo: The Charleston, South Carolina-set reality show will be back for a fifth season. (Oct. 23, Variety)Carrie, Prime Video: Prom was just the beginning. Carrie, Mike Flanagan’s modern take on Stephen King’s debut horror novel, has been renewed for a second season at Prime Video. Flanagan will return as showrunner and executive producer, alongside King as executive producer. (Oct. 22, Prime Video)American Horror Story, FX: Speculation that Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s horror anthology would stop at unlucky No. 13 has been buried for good. The series will return for Season 14, but don’t expect any concrete details until we get nearer to its release date. Such is the Murphy way. (Oct. 20, FX)Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, Apple TV: The pleasure is all yours! Apple TV has renewed the propulsive thriller Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, starring Tatiana Maslany as a single mom who gets caught up in a murder conspiracy, for a second season. (Oct. 14, Apple TV)Avatar: Seven Havens, Paramount+: On the day of its series premiere, Avatar: Seven Havens, a new animated sequel series to Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, was renewed for Seasons 3 and 4. The news was announced at New York Comic Con. Another animated series, Avatar Kuruk: Wave of Chaos, is also in the works. (Oct. 9, Paramount+)The Hunting Wives, Netflix: More than a month ahead of the release of its second season, The Hunting Wives — which was originally set up at Starz but picked up by Netflix after Lionsgate split its studios from Starz — was renewed for a third season. (Oct. 7, Netflix)Tulsa King, Paramount+: The Sylvester Stallone-led mafia show has been renewed for a fifth season — and it’s leaving Tulsa behind. The show, which filmed its first season in Oklahoma and has shot in Atlanta since Season 2, is moving production to New York for Season 5 to accommodate the storyline. The news was announced ahead of the Oct. 16 premiere of Season 4. (Oct. 5, Paramount+)Imperfect Women, Apple TV: The drama about friends navigating the aftermath of a crime isn’t a limited series anymore. Imperfect Women has been renewed for Season 2, with Kerry Washington set to return. The new season will follow Washington’s Eleanor as she returns to her hometown on Martha’s Vineyard. (Oct. 5, Apple TV)A Different World, Netflix: A week after its debut, the Netflix sequel series to the spin-off of The Cosby Show has been renewed for a second season. (Oct. 2, Netflix)Big Brother, CBS: At the live season finale for Big Brother Season 28, Julie Chen Moonves announced that the reality competition series has been renewed for two more summers, taking it through Season 30. (Oct. 1, CBS).Neagley, Prime Video: The Reacher spin-off, starring Maria Sten as private investigator Frances Neagley, has been renewed for Season 2 after a strong debut. According to Prime Video, Season 1 is among the top 10 most-viewed seasons of any of the streamer’s original series. (Oct. 1, Prime Video)