November 2024 TV Preview

Streaming documentary film
Premieres November 1 on Disney+

Has there ever been a film composer with a greater impact on pop culture than John Williams? The now-92-year-old composer has left his mark on franchises ranging from Star Wars to Harry Potter while also scoring almost every film directed by Steven Spielberg, and his memorable music has collected 54 Academy Award nominations—good for #2 all time. Now Spielberg himself produces this look at Williams' lengthy career. The Laurent Bouzereau-directed documentary compiles new interviews and rare behind-the-scenes footage (including some shot by Spielberg)—plus plenty of music—into a "beautiful tribute to a legend" in the words of Collider critic Jeff Ewing.

Returning drama series
Premieres November 10 on Paramount Network

Our long national nightmare is over: The massive cable hit drama Yellowstone's fifth and final season returns this month with its concluding batch of six episodes. (You may or may not remember that the final episode of the first half of the season aired all the way back on the first day of January 2023.) One thing you won't be seeing: Kevin Costner, who is no longer part of the series. The November 10 premiere will also air the same night on CBS, though subsequent episodes won't (at least in the near future).

Will this really be the end for Yellowstone? Maybe, maybe not: A sixth season of the series is rumored to be in negotations, and several spinoffs are already in development, with the first (which will star Michelle Pfeiffer) potentially launching as soon as 2025.

New comedy series
Premieres November 12 on NBC

A mockumentary-style medical workplace comedy set at an understaffed Oregon hospital, St. Denis Medical stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, David Alan Grier, Allison Tolman, and Josh Lawson. The series comes from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer and American Auto writer-producer Eric Ledgin. The series kicks off with back-to-back episodes on the 12th. At publication time, a handful of reviews are already in and critics suggest that the series has promise.

Streaming movie
Premieres November 13 on Netflix

The third-place (Jury Prize) winner at this year's Cannes—where it was also one of the most talked-about films in competition—is an ambitious, genre-blending project from A Prophet director Jacques Audiard. The musical melodrama stars Zoe Saldana as a lawyer who helps a cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) get out of his business and leave behind his wife (Selena Gomez) and children to become the woman he has always dreamed of being. While critics at Cannes certainly found Emilia Pérez messy at times (or even all of the time), some also found it exhilarating, and the female ensemble shared the fest's Best Actress award. It's also France's official submission to the 97th Academy Awards where the Spanish-language (yes, we did say it's from France) film is predicted to score nominations in multiple categories including Best Picture.

New drama series
Premieres November 14 on Prime Video

Three films have been adapted from James Patterson's Alex Cross crime novel series to date, ranging from mediocre to even more mediocre to mostly terrible. Can a switch to the small screen produce better results? This latest adaptation stars Aldis Hodge as the titular forensic psychologist alongside Isaiah Mustafa, Juanita Jennings, and Ryan Eggold. All eight episodes stream on day one, and a second season has already been greenlit.

New drama series
Premieres November 14 on Peacock

Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch star in an assassin thriller based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel, which was previously adapted into a pair of feature films (one considered a classic, another definitely not). The 10-episode series (a Peacock and Sky co-production) finds Redmayne playing a killer for hire who draws the attention of Lynch's British intelligence officer, who then pursues him across Europe. Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, and Ursula Corbero also star in the series, which kicks off with a five-episode drop before switching to weekly installments.

Limited series
Premieres November 14 on Hulu

The latest Theoretically FX But Really Only on Hulu™ original is an adaptation of a nonfiction best-seller by Patrick Radden Keefe that traces the true stories of multiple IRA members across four decades of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The series comes from writer Joshua Zetumer (Patriots Day) and stars Lola Petticrew, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, Maxine Peake, and Josh Finan. All nine episodes stream at once.

New horror series
Premieres November 15 on Shudder and AMC+

This darkly comedic, six-episode spinoff from the 2015 found-footage horror film Creep returns star Mark Duplass (who also serves as writer and producer alongside Patrick Brice, with the latter directing every episode). He again plays the secluded serial killer Peachfuzz, who lures videographers by offering them a job filming his life, with each episode focusing on a different victim. New episodes stream weekly following a two-episode premiere.

New sci-fi series
Premieres November 17 on HBO and Max

Once an HBO Max (then Max) original called Dune: Sisterhood (when it was first ordered to series five years ago), this TV series prequel to Denis Villeneuve's recent big-screen Dune franchise reboot now bears the HBO brand and the title you see above. Villeneuve was once set to direct the series—based on the 2012 novel Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson—as well but is no longer directly involved in the project, nor is much of the original creative team (or, for that matter, the second version of the creative team). Set 10,000 years before the events of the films, Prophecy is now under the guidance of former Westworld executive producer Alison Schapker and stars Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Jodhi May, Travis Fimmel, and Mark Strong. Season 1 will run for just six episodes, airing/streaming weekly in HBO's coveted Sunday night slot.

New drama series
Premieres November 17 on Paramount+

The latest series from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is adapted from the Texas Monthly-produced podcast Boomtown and follows a group of blue-collar oil workers and the billionaire executives who employ them in West Texas oil country. Billy Bob Thornton heads a strong cast that also includes Jon Hamm, Demi Moore, Andy Garcia, Ali Larter, Michael Pena, Michelle Randolph, and Jacob Lofland. The first two (of 10) episodes stream on day one.

New drama series
Premieres November 19 on Hulu

Jimmy O. Yang (Silicon Valley) stars as Willis Wu, a an actor playing an unnamed background character on a police procedural who stumbles into a larger real-life story involving a criminal conspiracy in Chinatown and his family's secret history. The adaptation of the acclaimed best-seller of the same name by Charles Yu comes from Yu himself (the author has extensive TV experience including writing for Lodge 49 and Westworld) and also stars Ronny Chieng, Chloe Bennet, and Lisa Gilroy. All 10 episodes, including the Taika Waititi-directed opener, will be available to stream at once.

New comedy series
Premieres November 21 on Netflix

Mike Schur reunites with his The Good Place star Ted Danson for a new series adapted from the Oscar-nominated 2020 documentary The Mole Agent. The San Francisco-set caper borrows that film's basic premise (though not many of the details): A family, concerned about the treatment of their mother in a nursing home, hires a private investigator, who in turn recruits an elderly man (played here by Danson) to serve as an undercover spy in the facility. In this case, Danson's Charles is a widower and retired professor who attempts to unravel the mystery of a stolen family heirloom and finds an unexpected new chapter in his life in the process. Stephanie Beatriz, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Sally Struthers, Lilah Richcreek Estrada, and Susan Ruttan also star. Season one runs eight episodes, all of which stream on day one.

Streaming movie
Premieres November 22 on Apple TV+

Writer-director Steve McQueen's first narrative feature since 2018's Widows is set in England during WWII, when German bombs rained down upon major cities in a devastating monthslong attack known as the Blitz. When a London mother (Saoirse Ronan) sends her nine-year-old son (newcomer Elliott Heffernan) to live in safety in the countryside, the child becomes determined to find his way back home—an adventure that comes with many perils. Reviews were generally positive for the film when it debuted at the BFI London Film Festival a few weeks ago, though some reviewers deemed it a surprisingly "mainstream" and "old-fashioned" war picture that doesn't quite stand up to the director's best work.

Streaming movie
Premieres November 22 on Netflix

First Fences, then Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Once again, Denzel Washington is bringing one of August Wilson's plays to the big (or small) screen, but this time it's a family affair. Denzel produces while his son Malcolm Washington makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of Wilson's Pulitzer-winning 1987 play (previously adapted for TV in 1995) that stars Malcolm's brother John David Washington (Tenet, BlacKkKlansman). Samuel L. Jackson (who, like John David Washington, recently starred in the play on Broadway), Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Danielle Deadwyler, Corey Hawkins, and Erykah Badu also star in the 1936 Pittsburgh-set drama that finds a family divided over the fate of a damaged heirloom piano. Critics had mostly good things to say about the film when it debuted at Telluride and TIFF a few months ago.

Streaming movie
Premieres November 22 on Netflix

It was originally a Paramount theatrical release scheduled for 2019, then an Apple TV+ original with a different title. Now a Netflix original, the second animated feature from Skydance Animation—best known as the studio run by former Pixar head John Lasseter—is a musical fantasy adventure following a teenage princess on a quest to reverse a curse than has turned her parents into monsters. Spellbound features the voices of Rachel Zegler, Nicole Kidman, Nathan Lane, John Lithgow, Tituss Burgess, and Jenifer Lewis, while Shrek's Vicky Jenson directs and Alan Menken and Glenn Slater provide the original songs.

Limited series
Premieres November 25 on HBO and Max

Co-produced with the UK's Channel 4, this five-episode miniseries marks the TV debut for Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings). Tamara Lawrance stars as Millie-Jean Black, a former Scotland Yard detective who returns to work in her native country of Jamaica, where she investigates missing persons cases.

Limited series
Premieres November 28 on Netflix

Colman Domingo heads the cast of a fast-paced conspiracy thriller in which he plays a political consultant turned on-air pundit who suddenly finds himself out of his element and in a fight for his life when he witnesses a murder of a white supremacist in the Poconos woods and is framed for the crime. The series comes from screenwriter Stephen Belber (Tape, Match). All eight episodes stream on day one.

New drama series
Premieres November 29 on Paramount+ With Showtime

An English-language adaptation of the acclaimed, long-running French spy series The Bureau (aka Le Bureau des Légendes), The Agency follows an undercover CIA agent (Michael Fassbender) who is recalled to London to abandon his secret identity and begin a major new assignment—a mission that gets complicated when a romantic interest from his undercover life suddenly appears. There are big names on both sides of the camera in this 10-episode season, which is adapted by Tony-winning playwright Jez Butterworth and his brother John-Henry Butterworth (Ford v Ferrari, Edge of Tomorrow). Joining Fassbender in the cast are Richard Gere, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, Hugh Bonneville, and John Magaro. Directors include Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) and Grant Heslov, while the latter also produces alongside George Clooney. The series will also air on the Showtime cable channel at some point, though a premiere date has not been set.

Streaming documentary film
Premieres November 29 on Disney+

Directed by David Tedeschi and produced by Martin Scorsese, Disney's latest Beatles documentary chronicles the band's first trip to the United States. The film incorporates newly restored footage originally shot by famed documentarians Albert and David Maysles as well as performance footage from the band's legendary The Ed Sullivan Show appearances and adds new interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and other material to paint a more complete picture of Beatlemania at its height.

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