Sci Fi TV Highlights: Premieres for Legend of Vox Machina S4 and Interview with the Vampire S3, Doctor Who Xmas Special May Get Delayed, and More

Sci Fi TV Highlights: Weekly post looking at the upcoming schedule of sci fi and fantasy shows as well as recent news and/or trailers of note.  The dates and times shown below can change with little to no notice.

Sci Fi TV Premieres:

The Legend of Vox Machina (Prime Video): Following the team one year after the Chroma Conclave as they reunite to face “The Whispered One” (a version of Vecna), a long-slumbering evil and “darkest foe”. The season will feature the heroes facing supernatural villains, death cultists, and new challenges after initially separating to pursue personal lives. The first three Season 4 episodes will be available on Wednesday.

Interview witht the Vampire (AMC): The third season of Interview with the Vampire, which has been retitled The Vampire Lestat, shifts the focus away from Louis and places Lestat front and center as he finally tells his side of the story. Inspired primarily by Anne Rice’s second Vampire Chronicles novel, the new season follows Lestat de Lioncourt as he embraces life as a flamboyant rock star in the modern era. Premieres Sunday at 9 PM EST.

Below are the full listings for the current week, and you can see all of the premieres for June 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 1 – Jun 7

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

Highlights for the Week of June 8 – June 14

The Terror (Sudder/AMC+): Season 3 Finale Thu Jun 11

Sci Fi TV News of Note:

The upcoming Christmas Special for Doctor Who, which was originally scheduled for December 2026, will likely get delayed, possibly to Easter 2027. Word is that they are still looking for the next actor to play the Doctor, which suggests that the person we saw at the end of the Season 15 finale will not be assuming the role. Russell T Davies has the story planned, which he claims left BBC execs “with jaws agape, loving it”, but they do not have the next face for the Doctor yet. Disney partnered with the BBC on Seasons 14 and 15, but they have since bowed out, and the BBC is looking for a new partner to help finance future seasons.

In the reboots-we-don’t-need category comes a reimagining of the 1963 classic Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds which will be adapted as a six-part mini-series by Universal International Studios. Deadline gives the following description of the property:

The Birds limited series is described as a visceral, present-day reimagining of Hitchcock’s classic set in Spezialy’s home state of Alaska with a murder mystery at the center and new characters, led by a new female protagonist, Myra Massey.

Inspired by the film and Daphne du Maurier’s short story it was loosely based on, The Birds introduces traveling magistrate Myra Massey as she returns to her isolated Alaskan hometown for a routine presumptive death hearing, expecting a simple cold case. Instead, she finds her childhood friend’s bullet-ridden body. When Myra is forced to step outside her role as judge to untangle the mystery, nature itself turns hostile with a wave of bird attacks. Now, Myra isn’t just trying to close a case, she’s fighting to survive in a place where death lurks in both the shadows and the skies.

The lead will be played by Sarah Snook (Predestination), and the series will be written by Tom Spezialy (The Leftovers, Watchmen). No network or streaming service is attached at this point, but with the Universal connection, it could be headed to Peacock.

2014’s post-apocalyptic series The Last Ship is not currently available for streaming, but it will be sailing to Netflix in June 2026. That series, which follows a naval destroyer traveling around the coast of America after a virus has wiped out 80% of the world’s population, ran for five seasons on TNT, producing a total of 50 episodes. The entire series will be available for streaming starting June 22nd.

In production news, work has begun on the fourth season of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as well as Peacock’s adaptation of Dungeon Crawler Carl. You can read more about those in the latest Sci Fi TV Production Report.

In casting news, Andy Serkis (famous for his portrayal of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies) will be joining the voice cast of The Legend of Vox Machina in that show’s fourth season, which premieres this week.

Disney+ has given a July 1st premiere date for the second season of its animated series X-Men ’97. You can see the trailer for that one below.

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Sci Fi TV Trailers:

X-Men ’97 (Disney+): Season 2 continues with the heroic mutant team of X-Men, divided and thrown across different eras in time as they struggle to navigate their return home. Meanwhile, back in the 1990s, suspicious foes and new strains of mutant intolerance are on the rise in the wake of the X-Men’s absence. Premieres July 1st.

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