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
Futurama (Hulu): While delivering pizza on New Year’s Eve 1999, Philip J. Fry is accidentally cryonically frozen and thawed out one thousand years into the future. Season 8 premiere on Monday.
Good Omens (Prime Video): A naked archangel turns up at the door to renegade angel Aziraphale’s bookshop, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and Aziraphale and retired demon Crowley’s lives become extremely complicated. Heaven and Hell are both desperate to find the runaway. As Crowley and Aziraphale attempt to fix a human romance, things become increasingly unsafe for them, in the past and the present. Season 2 Premeires July 27th.
Twisted Metal (Peacock): Twisted Metal is a high-octane action comedy, based on an original take by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and written by Michael Jonathan Smith, about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck. Premieres on Thursday.
Schedule Notes
Also premiering this week are Harley Quinn Season 4 on Max on Thursday, The Hardy Boys Season 3 Wednesday on Hulu and Volume 2 of The Witcher Season 3 on Saturday on Netflix. Wrapping up this week is Disney+’s MCU mini-series Secret Invasion.
You can see all of the premieres for July and beyond at this link.
Prime Time Sci Fi TV Listings for the Week of Jul 24 – Jul 30
Links are to the show pages on this site with additional series info, trailers, updates and more. Broadcast/Cable Listings Source: Zap2It.com
| Monday July 24 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Tuesday July 25 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Wednesday July 26 |
| Nancy Drew (CW) 8:00-9:00 |
| Riverdale (CW) 9:00-10:00 |
| Thursday July 27 |
| What We Do in the Shadows (FX) 10:00-10:30 |
| Friday July 28 |
| Outlander (Starz) 9:00-10:00 |
| Saturday July 29 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Sunday July 30 |
| The Lazarus Project (TNT) 9:00-10:00 |
| Streaming |
| Futurama (Hulu) Monday Season 8 Premiere |
| The Hardy Boys (Hulu) Wednesday Season 3 Premiere |
| Secret Invasion (Disney+) Wednesday Season Finale |
| Harley Quinn (Max) Thursday Season 4 Premiere |
| Good Omens (Prime Video) Thursday Season 2 Premiere |
| Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+) Thursday New Ep |
| Twisted Metal (Peacock) Thursday Series Premiere |
| Foundation (Apple TV+) Friday New Ep |
| The Witcher (Netflix) Friday Season 3 Vol 2 Premiere |
| You can see the complete list of streaming shows at this link |
Sci Fi TV News
Babylon 5 will be getting a Blu-ray release of the complete series to celebrate its 30th anniversary. It will be available in December of this year . . . TWD spin-off series Dead City and Daryl Dixon have both received second season renewals . . . Several premieres were announced at Comic Con this weekend including One Piece (Netflix, August 31st), The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC, September 10th), and Invincible (Prime Video, November 3rd). You can see all of the upcoming sci fi and fantasy premieres at this link.
Keep up with the latest sci fi TV news and discuss current and past shows at r/SciFiTV
Sci Fi TV Trailers
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC): Daryl washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan. Premieres September 10th.
You can see more sci fi TV trailers from San Diego Comic Con at this link.
CancelledSciFi.com: Keep up with the status updates of all the airing, returning, and upcoming sci fi and fantasy shows for the current season with our Cancellation Watch posts. And be sure to follow the Cancelled Sci Fi Twitter Site for breaking news and updates.
