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NARCOS – SEASON 3 Netflix, Fri 1 Sep With Pablo Escobar out of the picture, Javier Peña (Pedro Pascal) takes on the cartels competing to fill the power vacuum the drug lord left in his wake. THE X FACTOR ITV, Sat 2 Sep, 8pm Simon Cowell and some other people judge a singing competition. Take this as a warning or a reminder, depending on your viewpoint.
TIN STAR Sky Atlantic, Thu 7 Sep A tale of bloody revenge in this new series from writer Rowan Joffe, starring Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks. See review, page 92.
BOJACK HORSEMAN – SEASON 4 Netflix, Fri 8 Sep More animated misadventures for everyone’s favourite washed-up equine actor (voiced by Will Arnett). Creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg has vaguely hinted at a political angle for season 4.
COLD FEET – SEASON 7 ITV, Fri 8 Sep, 9pm The Cold Feet reunion was a dull, stodgy affair. But it was massively popular so James Nesbitt, John Thomson, Fay Ripley, Hermonie Norris and Robert Bathhurst return for more midlife dramedy.
OUTLANDER – SEASON 3 Amazon Prime, Mon 11 Sep The time- travelling historical romance returns after an extended break, picking up after the Battle of Culloden. TRANSPARENT – SEASON 4 Amazon Prime, Fri 22 Sep Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development) stars as the transgender Maura Pfefferman is this superb dramedy created by Jill Soloway.
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Netflix, Mon 25 Sep Trek heads back to TV. A prequel focusing on the conflict between the Klingons and the United Federation of Planets.
MINDHUNTER Netflix, Fri 13 Oct New 70s-set thriller, produced by David Fincher, about a special FBI unit who hunt serial killers. ASSASSIN’S CREED: ORIGINS PC, PS4, Xbox One, Fri 27 Oct Forget the misfiring movie and head back to the source with the latest instalment in the AC universe set in ancient Egypt.
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Stranger Things FRIGHT NIGHT
With horror fans spoiled for choice on TV these days, Henry Northmore picks out the best new series to scare the pants off you this Halloween
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT
The seventh season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s anthology horror series kicks off Halloween early. While plot details are a closely guarded secret as we go to press, Murphy told E! Online: ‘The i rst 10 minutes of this season take place in a very eerie macabre way on election night [2016] . . . which in itself was a horror story, so it’s like a horror story upon a horror story.’ Lady Gaga and Kathy Bates are out but Lena Dunham is a surprise addition to the cast alongside returning favourites Sarah Paulson, Frances Conroy and Evan Peters. ■ FOX (UK), Fri 8 Sep.
LUCIFER – SEASON 3 Based on Neil Gaiman’s version of the Devil from the pages of The Sandman comics. Bored of ruling over the damned, Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) swaps Hell for Los Angeles. The wicked premise is played as a black comedy / police procedural. Season 3 will start with four standalone episodes held over from last year before Tom Welling (Smallville) joins the cast as a new antagonist. ■ Amazon Prime, Tue 3 Oct.
THE EXORCIST – SEASON 2 Nothing could be as terrifying as the 1973 movie but The Exorcist TV show went for old-school horror. Season 2 will see demonologist duo, Fathers Tomas Ortega (Alfonso Herrera) and Marcus Keane (Ben Daniels), contending with a new case of possession centring around a group foster home for troubled kids in Seattle. It also sets up the future of the series as an anthology show with our favourite priests battling Satan across America. ■ SyFy, Wed 11 Oct.
THE WALKING DEAD – SEASON 8 The Walking Dead is the most successful horror TV show of all time. Following Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his rugged band of survivors after the zombie apocalypse, WD isn’t afraid of bloodshed, regularly culling even fan favourite characters. It all kicked off at the end of season 7 as Rick and co i nally fought back against Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Expect a huge i ght for survival as the two sides gather their forces. Creator Robert Kirkman told the Television Critics Association: ‘it’s the all-out war story . . . a more fast-paced season, a more action-packed season, really focusing on momentum, and we feel like over the i rst seven seasons we kind of set all of the characters into place, and now it’s time to break them.’ ■ FOX (UK), Mon 23 Oct.
STRANGER THINGS – SEASON 2 Stranger Things was Netl ix’s breakout hit of 2016. It tapped into a love of 80s sci-i and horror, referencing Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, ET and Stephen King. Expect more retro thrills (the trailer features Dragon’s Lair, ‘Thriller’ and Ghostbusters) and another super-scary sci-i mystery as the kids face a new monster. ■ Netflix, Fri 27 Oct.