Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.com. Today’s column covers Oct. 5-11.
Stephen King’s “Carrie” gets a new adaptation courtesy of showrunner Mike Flanagan, out Wednesday on Prime Video. Flanagan, who was born in Salem, is no stranger to adapting King — he adapted King’s “Life of Chuck” into a 2024 movie starring Tom Hiddleston that Globe film critic Odie Henderson gave four stars. But he’s also well-known as an adapter of literary horror, and previously made miniseries adaptations of Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw” (as “The Haunting of Bly Manor” in 2020) and Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” in 2018. His “Carrie” is set in the present day and stars Summer H. Howell in the lead role.
“Jamie Foxx: Take Care of Yourself” drops Wednesday on Hulu. The new comedy special from the actor and comic finds Foxx addressing the indignities of age, like being given a chair to perch on in the club, as well as his sister making fun of him for wearing a mock neck to go out. “You look old,” she tells him. “No,” counters Foxx. “I look presentable.”
Netflix is probably hoping “Widow’s Bay” fans check out “Below,” out Thursday on the streamer. If what you liked about Widow’s Bay was a man in his 40s dealing with the horror of the supernatural in a small seaside town, you may want to try this one, which stars Josh Hartnett as a fisherman and takes place in Newfoundland. Mackenzie Davis (“Halt and Catch Fire”) and Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things”) costar, as does something ominous from the briny deep.
From the makers of “Ghosts” comes “Eternally Yours,” out Thursday at 8:30 p.m. on CBS. This time, instead of kooky ghosts having hijinks, it’s kooky vampires, who have been together for centuries. Ed Weeks (“The Mindy Project”) and Allegra Edwards (“Upload”) star as a couple adjusting to their vampire daughter (Helen J. Shen) dating a human guy (Jaren Lewison). Lewison also starred in Mindy Kaling’s “Never Have I Ever,” which is a fun coincidence for him and Weeks.
Michelle and Robert King, of “The Good Wife,” “Evil,” and various other excellent dramas, debut their new series, “Cupertino,” out Thursday at 10 p.m. on CBS. Mike Colter, who most recently starred on “Evil” but also appeared in the “Good Wife” universe, stars here as an attorney who decides to start helping the little guy out in Silicon Valley by taking on cases that confront tech giants. Fans of the Kings’ work may have noticed a certain skepticism regarding the tech industry from them, and this show is likely to be no different. There’s quite a spectrum of light to dark (and also, fairly mainstream to amazingly weird, as in “BrainDead”) in their shows; this one skews more toward the “Elsbeth” end than the “Evil” end. To be clear, the whole spectrum is a delight. I hope the presence of “Cupertino” means we get another weird one soon.
Lisa Weidenfeld can be reached at lisa.weidenfeld@globe.com. Follow her on X @LisaWeidenfeld and Instagram @lisaweidenfeld.