All the best shows coming to TV in October: Interview With The Vampire, The Midnight Club, and more

The spooky season brings series from Guillermo Del Toro and Mike Flanagan, multiple vampire shows, and maybe scariest of them all: Saturday Night Live returns

TV News Tanya McQuoid
All the best shows coming to TV in October: Interview With The Vampire, The Midnight Club, and more
Clockwork from bottom left: Alaska Daily (Photo: ABC); Interview With The Vampire (Photo: AMC); White Lotus season two (Photo: HBO Max); Saturday Night Live (Photo: NBC); The Midnight Club (Photo: Netflix) Graphic: Libby McGuire

It’s time for the spooky season, and this October TV lives up to its vibe with a host of new and returning TV shows that will set the mood for Halloween. It all starts with AMC’s long-awaited adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire, while Showtime and Syfy are throwing more vampiric series into the mix. Over at Netflix, the streaming service is adding to its slate of Mike Flanagan horror shows, and rolling out a Guillermo Del Toro anthology that figures to up the terror quotient.

Beyond the horror vein, there are plenty of other major releases headed to TV in October, including Hilary Swank in Alaska Daily, and a couple of notable prequels over at The CW. And familiar favorites like Saturday Night Live, Documentary Now!, and The Walking Dead are all back for another round. Here’s The A.V. Club’s guide for what to watch on TV in October 2022.

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‘Saturday Night Live’ Reveals 4 New Cast Members For 48th Season

The new season of  will look very, very different, thanks to a mass cast exodus. Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, Alex Moffat, Chris Redd, Melissa Villaseñor, and Aristotle Athari have all departed, and when you tune in for the premiere . Don’t worry, some old favorites like Kenan Thompson, Cecily Strong, and Bowen Yang still remain, while Michael Che and Colin Jost are somehow still hosting Weekend Update. The first three hosts for October are Miles Teller, Brendan Gleeson, and Megan Thee Stallion. Kendrick Lamar and Willow are the musical performers. It should be worth tuning in, well, live to see how SNL fares in this new era. [Saloni Gajjar]

9 Comments

  • ruefulcountenance-av says:

    It’s a heck of a coincidence that there are two British TV creators called Rhys Thomas, born within a year of each other, that have made their mark with TV mockumentaries.The Welsh one worked on SNL, Documentary Now! and directed HawkeyeThe English one was an actor in Nathan Barley and The Fast Show before creating all the Brian Pern mockumentaries. They must get confused for each other all the time. It’s like Peyton List and Peyton List (the other one) all over again. Or The Orb/Orbital/William Orbit if you’re a fan of UK dance music from the 1990s.

  • romanpilotseesred-av says:

    He’s not “Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam” to me. He’s “Undeclared’s Charlie Hunnam.”

  • dirtside-av says:

    “actual cowboy woman”I feel like there’s a word for that.

  • jimbrayfan-av says:

    Im pretty bummed that they changed the whole Louis character. The show looks good but.. eh

    • pearlnyx-av says:

      It was actually pretty good, if you forget that it’s supposed to be based on a book because they change a lot of shit. Anne Rice’s vampires did not have retractable fangs for fucksakes!

  • mavar-av says:

    The Tubi app has wasted no time in giving us the Johnny Depp & Amber Heard movie.

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