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We may be living in a golden age of TV, but panning through all the dross to find that gold can be time-consuming and tedious. For every much-discussed hit like Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Bear, there are dozens of new original shows that barely tip the cultural needle. And with so many new streaming services competing with HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney Plus, it’s impossible to keep up with everything new to view. But The Verge’s TV section is ready to help. Our news, reviews, and interviews help you find the next Stranger Things or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in time to keep up with the cultural conversation. And our essays and analysis invite you to consider the deeper context of what you’re watching.

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Long Story Short is getting even longer.

The new show from BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg hasn’t actually premiered yet — it starts streaming on August 22nd — but Netflix has already confirmed it’ll be getting a second season. In the meantime, you can check out this new trailer that sets up the time-jumping family story.

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It’s getting chilly on Prehistoric Planet.

There have already been two great seasons of Apple’s prehistoric nature documentary series, and the next will shift the focus to the Ice Age, exploring the period across five episodes. Tom Hiddleston will be swapping in for Sir David Attenborough as the narrator when the show premieres on November 26th.

A still photo from the TV series Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age.
A still photo from the TV series Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age.
A still photo from the TV series Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age.
A still photo from the TV series Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age.
A still photo from the TV series Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Ready for some Wakandan history?

Disney Plus’ Eyes of Wakanda animated miniseries was slated to debut on August 6th, but the streamer has just bumped the show’s premiere up to August 1st and decided drop all four episodes at once.

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Peacemaker’s new trailer reveals how it’ll tidy up DC canon.

The HBO Max series is the last hangover from DC’s old universe, but it has to line up with the new world started by Superman. This trailer for season two hints at how that’ll happen, and if you guessed “multiverse” then you don’t get any prize because it was both obvious and inevitable.

Peacemaker returns with eight episodes from August 21st and, most importantly, will have an all-new dance number for the opening credits.

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‘The story of killing Nazis is evergreen’ declares Amazon’s new Wolfenstein TV series.

A Wolfenstein show is in development, reports Variety, and sounds like it could be based on MachineGames’ fantastic games that actually told stories rather than starting from scratch. Both MachineGames’ studio director Jerk Gustafsson and the showrunners of Fallout (which got the games right) Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan are attached. Showrunner here is Patrick Somerville; the show’s not official yet.

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She’s the new Avatar, and you gotta deal with it.

At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Nickelodeon revealed some new art featuring Pavi, the young Earthbender at the center of the new Avatar: Seven Havens animated series due out in 2027.

A girl wearing an orange dress, green pants, one boot, and a green cape. walking in a desert next to a half-cat half-lemur creature. Behind the cat and the creature stands a tall adult with long hair wearing a blue shirt, a yellow apron, orange pants, black boots, and a red scarf.
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Can South Park save Paramount Plus?

With a $1.5 billion five-year deal to lock the irreverent show down and take it away from HBO Max, the streaming service clearly thinks so.

Paramonut Plus is steadily gaining subscribers, but lags behind rivals when it comes to the most popular content, and securing South Park might just help. And hey, if it distracts from stories about its troubled Skydance merger and payouts to Trump, that can’t hurt either, right?

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Futurama season 13 is dropping all at once this September.

While Hulu took its time releasing the last two seasons of Futurama, the streamer announced today that every episode of season 13 will debut simultaneously on September 15th.

A robot wearing a black shirt and a white jacket sitting next to a purple haired woman with one eye and a redheaded man wearing a gray shirt and blazer.
A robot that resembles the devil pouring alcohol into a flaming cup.
A purple-hared woman wearing a white tank top and black pants. Next to the woman is a red headed man wearing a white shirt and a red jacket. Both people are strapped into machines that resemble electric chairs.
A humanoid robot waring a purple pinstriped suit, platform shoes with fish swimming in them, and a top hat made to look like the American flag. The robot is strutting down a street.
A redheaded man wearing a white shirt, a red jacket, and blue pants opening double doors while walking two polar bears on leashes.
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Ted Lasso steps back on to the pitch.

Apple announced that production is officially underway for the previously-revealed season 4 of Ted Lasso. There’s even a photo to prove it. More interesting, though, is the news that a bunch of the cast are joining Jason Sudeikis in returning to the show, including Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt. and Jeremy Swift.

A still photo from season 4 of Ted Lasso.
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Welcome back to the new season of the Trump show.

We’ve talked before about the funhouse-mirror-alternative-reality that Trump (and Musk) have built. JP Brammer, who watches much more YouTube than I do, notes something weird is going on in content land — it seems Donald Trump has lost control of the plot. NBC’s Brandy Zadrozny, writing from a more anxious angle, seems to agree. Content has now outpaced reality. I guess we’re going to find out by how much.

May the Beast You Rode in on Eat You Alive

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Refine your own macrodata for the low, low price of $899.

That’s how much Atomic Keyboard is charging for its MDR Dasher keyboard, based on Apple TV’s Severance, though early adopters can save $300 with a $10 deposit. That gets you an aluminum keyboard with a trackball and swappable magnetic top sheet that enables three different layouts, depending on how show-accurate you feel like being.

If it’s a little steep for you, $197 gets you Signature Plastics’ Macrodata Refinement keycap set to upgrade an existing board.

<em>Innie matches the show’s keyboard, but lacks keys like Escape, Command, and Control.</em>
<em>Outie is closer to a traditional 60 percent layout, with Severance flourishes like the trackball.</em>
<em>Dasher recreates the original DG Dasher D2 the show’s board is based on.</em>
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Stephen Colbert’s version of The Late Show will end next May.

CBS is also retiring The Late Show franchise, which it says is “purely a financial decision,” according to CBS News.

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Amazon’s Invincible will continue until morale improves.

Ahead of Invincible’s season 4 premiere next year, Variety reports that Amazon has renewed the series for fifth season that will dig even deeper into the story of Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) as he becomes one of the galaxy’s toughest superheroes.

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The Last of Us will return for season 3 in 2027.

During an interview with Variety, HBO Max head Casey Bloys said the next season “is definitely planned for 2027,” though there might not be another one after that:

Craig [Mazin] is still working it out whether it will be two more seasons or one more long season. It hasn’t been decided yet, and I’m following Craig’s lead on that.

The next season will be the first without the involvement of The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckman, who is shifting focus to upcoming Naughty Dog games.

To make Ironheart feel tactile, the show’s creative team had to get on the same page

For cinematographer Alison Kelly, the key to Ironheart’s stunning visuals was strong behind-the-scenes communication.

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This year’s Emmys are going to be HBO Max and Apple-flavored.

The nominations for this year’s Emmys are out, and while HBO Max is leading the pack with 142 noms total, Apple has a good chance of cleaning up as well thanks to Severance (27 noms) and The Studio (23 noms).

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It’s about time.

Netflix is finally going to be releasing a trailer for the fifth and final — and very drawn-out — season of Stranger Things tomorrow. It’s unclear what to expect, but it appears that bikes will be involved. Here’s the new poster:

A poster for season 5 of Stranger Things.
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The Obamas are making an HBO sketch comedy series with Larry David.

The new half-hour limited series doesn’t have a name just yet, but HBO describes it as a celebration of American history that will star Larry David, a handful of other Curb Your Enthusiasm alums, and some “noteworthy guest stars.”

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The Paper is being delivered.

We already knew that Peacock’s The Office spinoff was coming in September, and now the streamer has announced a specific date: September 4th. There will be two new episodes every Thursday, running through September 25th.

A still image from the streaming series The Paper.
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The multiverse comes for sitcoms.

The Big Bang Theory is getting another spinoff, but this one is a bit weirder. It’s called Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, and here’s the set-up: “comic book store owner Stuart Bloom is tasked with restoring reality after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing about a multiverse Armageddon.” Which means there will be familiar characters... from an alternate universe. No word yet on when the series will premiere.

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Deepfakes and conspiracy theories are coming for The Morning Show.

When The Morning Show returns for its fourth season on Apple TV Plus on September 17, the UBA-NBN merger will be a done deal, and the newsroom will find itself dealing with a new slew of challenges as it tries to keep its audience informed about the truth.

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Netflix previews more anime and games that are coming soon.

Beyond just the “coming soon” Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, this Anime Expo 2025 teaser from Netflix highlights other animated releases that are either new or continuing, like Sakamoto Days, Beastars, Leviathan, and Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, and the upcoming “cozy MMO,” Spirit Crossing, that’s part of its new plan for games.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore
It’s time for Dan Da Dan season 2.

Following its theatrical preview earlier this summer, the second of Science Saru’s Dan Da Dan adaptation is finally streaming on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, and a few other streaming platforms depending on which territory you live in. You can also check out the new season’s opening and closing credits sequences on YouTube.

A guide to the best sci-fi streaming this summer

Foundation and Strange New Worlds return, while Alien: Earth and Eyes of Wakanda will make their debuts.

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