Here’s my list of 2025’s October TV shows, including new and returning series on streaming services and TV stations. I’ve organized the list by date, and any premiere times are in Eastern Standard Time. If you know of an October series premiere that I missed, then let me know and I can add it.
October 1
- Love Is Blind: Season 9 (Netflix)
- Shifting Gears: Season 2 (8 p.m. ABC)
- Chicago Med: Season 11 (8 p.m. NBC)
- Abbott Elementary: Season 5 (8:30 ABC)
- Chicago Fire: Season 14 (9 p.m. NBC)
- Chicago P.D.: Season 13 (10 p.m. NBC)
October 3
- Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Netflix)
- The Sisters Grimm (Apple TV+)
October 4
- Spy x Family: Season 3 (Crunchyroll)
- My Hero Academia: Season 8 (Crunchyroll)
- Saturday Night Live: Season 51 (11:30 p.m. NBC)
October 5
- Smiling Friends: Season 3 (11:30 p.m. Adult Swim)
- A Grammy Salute to Cyndi Lauper: Love from the Hollywood Bowl (8 p.m. CBS)
- Brian and Maggie (8 p.m. PBS)
- The Real Housewives of Potomac: Season 5 (8 p.m. Bravo)
- The Gold (10 p.m. PBS)
- New Orleans: Soul of a City (9 p.m. CNN)
October 6
- Dr. Seuss’s Horton!: Season 1 (Netflix)
October 7
- The Young and the Restless: Season 53 (12:30 p.m. CBS)
October 8
- Is It Cake? Halloween (Netflix)
October 9
- Boots (Netflix)
- Victoria Beckham (Netflix)
- 9-1-1: Season 9 (8 p.m. ABC)
- 9-1-1: Nashville (9 p.m. ABC)
- Grey’s Anatomy: Season 22 (10 p.m. ABC)
October 10
- The Last Frontier: Season 1 (Apple TV+)
October 12
- Matlock: Season 2 (8:30 p.m. CBS)
- Elsbeth: Season 3 (9:30 p.m. CBS)
- The Chair Company: Season 1 (10 p.m. HBO/HBO Max)
October 13
- The Neighborhood: Season 8 (8 p.m. CBS)
- DMV: Season 1 (8:30 p.m. CBS)
- FBI: Season 8 (9 p.m. CBS)
- Watson: Season 2 (10 p.m. CBS)
- Solar Opposites: Season 6 (Hulu)
- TV We Love (8:30 p.m. The CW)
October 14
- NCIS: Season 23 (8 p.m. CBS)
- NCIS: Origins: Season 2 (9 p.m. CBS)
- NCIS: Sydney: Season 3 (10 p.m. CBS)
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch (Netflix)
- Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition (9 p.m. Bravo)
October 15
- Loot: Season 3 (Apple TV+)
- Murdaugh: Death in the Family: Season 1 (Hulu)
October 16
- Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage: Season 2 (8 p.m. CBS)
- Ghosts: Season 5 (8:30 p.m. CBS)
- Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy: Limited Series (Peacock)
- Starting 5: Season 2 (Netflix)
- The Diplomat: Season 3 (Netflix)
October 17
- Fire Country: Season 4 (9 p.m. CBS)
- Boston Blue: Season 1 (10 p.m. CBS)
- Sheriff Country: Season 1 (9 p.m. CBS)
- Mr. Scorcese (Apple TV+)
October 19
- The Road: Season 1 (9 p.m. CBS)
- Tracker: Season 3 (8 p.m. CBS)
- Haha, You Clowns: Season 3 (11:30 p.m. Adult Swim)
October 21
- NBA on NBC (7:30 p.m. NBC)
October 22
- Lazarus (Prime Video)
- Riot Women (BritBox)
October 23
- Nobody Wants This: Season 2 (Netflix)
October 26
- IT: Welcome to Derry: Season 1 (HBO)
- Mayor of Kingstown: Season 4 (Paramount+)
- Talamasca: The Secret Order: Season 1 (9 p.m. AMC/AMC+)
October 28
- Don’t Date Brandon (Paramount+)
October 29
- Hazbin Hotel: Season 2 (Prime Video)
- Selling Sunset: Season 9 (Netflix)
- Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV+)
- Star Wars: Visions: Volume 3 (Disney+)
October 30
- The Witcher: Season 4 (Netflix)
Check out October’s movie releases too.
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