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:
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+): Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco, and the shocking revelation that monsters are real, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch. Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army Officer Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell), taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows. Premieres on Friday.
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Netflix): Scott Pilgrim Takes Off follows the title character as he falls in love with New Yorker Ramona Flowers. But in order to date her, he must defeat all seven of her evil exes. Then things get even more complicated. Premieres on Friday.
Schedule Notes:
Wrapping up this week is AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead which will have its two-hour series finale on Sunday to close out its eight-season run. Max’s Scavengers Reign wrapped up this past week as it has been releasing three episodes per week. Below are the listings for the current week, and you can see all of the premieres for November 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 Nov 13 – Nov 19
Links are to the show pages on this site with additional series info, trailers, updates and more. Broadcast/Cable Listings Source: Zap2It.com
| Monday November 13 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Tuesday November 14 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Wednesday November 15 |
| Quantum Leap (NBC) 8:00-9:00 |
| Surrealestate (Syfy) 10:00-11:00 |
| Thursday November 16 |
| Wolf Like Me (Peacock) Streaming |
| Friday November 17 |
| Shining Vale (Starz) 9:00-9:30 |
| Creepshow (Shudder/AMC) Streaming/10:00-11:00 |
| For All Mankind (Apple TV+) Streaming |
| Invincible (Prime Video) Streaming |
| Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+) Streaming Series Premiere |
| Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Netflix) Streaming Series Premiere |
| Saturday November 18 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Sunday November 19 |
| Krapopolis (FOX) 8:30-9:00 |
| Beacon 23 (MGM+) 9:00-10:00 |
| Fear the Walking Dead (AMC) 9:00-11:00 2 Hr Series Finale |
| Rick & Morty (ADSW) 11:30-12:00 |
Sci Fi TV News
The Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon is set to return in Summer 2024 and the spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight will start shooting in 2024, but beyond that no other shows in that universe are actively in the works. Several have been mentioned as being in development like a series that will focus on Jon Snow, but nothing has received the greenlight to series and it could be a while before that happens according to HBO CEO and chairman Casey Bloys. I had predicted this previously as the networks and streamers are going through cost-cutting and these shows are expensive to produce. I do expect more GoT spin-offs will happen at some point, but likely not as many as has been previously announced.
Marvel Studios has announced the Marvel Spotlight banner for some of its upcoming shows that are not heavily tied to the MCU universe. Marvel’s head of streaming Brad Winderbaum made the following comments in an interview about this approach:
Marvel Spotlight gives us a platform to bring more grounded, character-driven stories to the screen, and in the case of Echo, focusing on street-level stakes over larger MCU continuity. Just like comics fans didn’t need to read Avengers or Fantastic Four to enjoy a Ghost Rider Spotlight comic, our audience doesn’t need to have seen other Marvel series to understand what’s happening in Maya’s story.
Echo is the first show to release under this banner and it is set to premiere January 10th.
Dead Boy Detectives will be moving to Netflix after initially receiving the greenlight from Max. It was decided that the show did not fit in with the reboot of the DCEU by James Gunn and Peter Safran and it is tied to the universe of The Sandman, so it went through a shift in streamers. You can see the trailer below.
In scheduling news, the second season of Disney+’s What if . . . ? will premiere by the end of 2023, likely in December.
Keep up with the latest sci fi TV news and discuss current and past shows at r/SciFiTV
Sci Fi TV Trailers
Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix): Do you have a pesky ghost haunting you? Has a demon stolen your core memories? You may want to ring the Dead Boy Detectives. In this new supernatural series set in The Sandman universe, two teenagers find each other in death… and they will do anything to stick together – including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal, they must work together to crack some of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal cases. Coming soon to Netflix.
You can see more sci fi TV trailers at this link.
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