Sci Fi TV Highlights: Premiere for The Sandman Season 2, Fist of the North Star Gets a Reboot, and More

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:

The Sandman (Netflix): A reunion of the Endless thrusts Lord Morpheus onto a perilous path, where a fateful choice makes him the target of a relentless quest for vengeance. The first six eps of Season 2 will be available on Thursday, followed by the next five on July 24th and the series finale on July 31st.

Below are the full listings for the current week, and you can see all of the premieres for July 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 Jun 30 – Jul 6

Links are to the show pages on this site with additional series info, trailers, updates and more. Broadcast/Cable Listings Source: Zap2It.com

Highlights for the Week of Jul 6 – Jul 13

Leviathan (Netflix): Series Premiere on Thu Jul 10th
Foundation (Apple TV+): Season 3 Premiere on Fri Jul 11th
Murderbot (Apple TV+): Season Finale on Fri Jul 11th
The Institute (MGM+): Series Premiere on Sun Jul 13th

Sci Fi TV News of Note:

A Fist of the North Star reboot is in the works at Warner Bros. Discovery Japan, forty years after the original debuted with “an all-new team of creators and voice actors, and powered by the latest animation technology”. Following is the description of the new series:

In the year 199X, the world was engulfed in nuclear fire!! The seas dried up, the earth split open, and it seemed as if all life had been wiped out… Yet…humanity somehow survived!! Across the scorched and broken land, survivors cling to hope, desperately searching for food and water. However, their hopes are trampled underfoot by violence. Might makes right in this world, and the weak are crushed without mercy. From the depths of that despair, a lone man with seven scars on his chest emerges. His name is Kenshiro, heir to the legendary assassination art Hokuto Shinken. As he roams the wasteland in pursuit of his sworn enemy Shin, who stole his fiancée Yuria, Kenshiro answers the cries of the oppressed, becoming a beacon of hope in a world of despair. Standing in his path are brutal survivors of the apocalypse, their ambitions twisted by power and greed. In a world where the weak are prey and prayers go unheard, Kenshiro forges a path with his iron fists!

The reboot is currently targeting a 2026 premiere, and the first trailer will be unveiled at Anime Expo 2025 on July 5th.

Work has begun on the TV series Very Young Frankenstein which is “inspired” by Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy classic Young Frankenstein and will be produced by the same team that brought us the television adaptation of What We Do in the Shadows. It also appears that a TV series reboot of the 1985 film Trancers is in the works. You can read about both of those in the latest Sci Fi TV Production Report post.

In further production news, the final season of The Boys has wrapped filming while the fourth season of From has just kicked off filming.

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Sci Fi TV Trailers:

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC): The road home is brutal and the fight to survive is far from over. Season 3 premieres September 7th.

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