This week’s streaming slate moves from rain-dark New York and a haunted school corridor to the hostile waters off Newfoundland, before Friday opens into political pressure, road-movie spectacle and elemental fantasy. From Sunday 4 October to Saturday 10 October, six distinct premieres make this one of the month’s busiest and most varied watchlists.
This Week’s Highlights
NCIS: New York
- Platform: CBS and Paramount+
- Content type: Crime procedural action-drama series
- Release date: Tuesday, 6 October 2026
- US availability: CBS at 9pm ET/PT; live on Paramount+ Premium and on demand from the following day on any Paramount+ plan
- UK availability: Not officially confirmed for this date
- Creators: Byron Balasco and R. Scott Gemmill
- Starring: LL COOL J, Scott Caan, Jennifer Beals and Jacqueline Byers
Viewer Match
- Best for: Procedural fans who want a familiar agent in a fresh city and field office.
- Maybe skip if: Weekly network scheduling is less appealing than a complete-season binge.
- Mood and pace: Case-driven, polished and action-forward.
- Time commitment: One weekly episode.
Sam Hanna returns to New York and joins a newly established NCIS field office protecting one of the world’s busiest ports. Paired with the roguish Nick Schaeffer, he enters a team whose naval and national-security cases make the city itself part of the investigation.
Movieversalfilm watch note: The clearest choice for viewers who like dependable weekly mysteries with franchise continuity and a new team dynamic.
Carrie
- Platform: Prime Video
- Content type: Psychological horror series
- Release date: Wednesday, 7 October 2026
- US/UK availability: All eight episodes worldwide on Prime Video, including both territories
- Creator and showrunner: Mike Flanagan
- Starring: Summer H. Howell, Samantha Sloyan and Amber Midthunder
Viewer Match
- Best for: Stephen King readers and horror viewers drawn to character-first dread.
- Maybe skip if: Bullying, religious trauma and sustained psychological tension are difficult viewing.
- Mood and pace: Ominous, intimate and steadily escalating.
- Time commitment: Eight episodes available together.
Mike Flanagan returns to Stephen King with a new series built around Carrie White, a sheltered teenager navigating cruelty at school and control at home as dangerous powers begin to emerge. The longer format gives the tragedy room to build without surrendering its sense of gathering doom.
Movieversalfilm watch note: The week’s marquee horror binge, pairing a familiar story with a filmmaker whose best work finds empathy inside the nightmare.
Below
- Platform: Netflix
- Content type: Six-part maritime horror-thriller series
- Release date: Thursday, 8 October 2026
- US/UK availability: All six episodes on Netflix in both territories
- Creator: Jesse McKeown
- Starring: Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton
Viewer Match
- Best for: Viewers who like creature mysteries grounded in family and a threatened community.
- Maybe skip if: Cold-water peril and isolated coastal horror are not your preferred atmosphere.
- Mood and pace: Stormy, uncanny and slow-burn before the danger surfaces.
- Time commitment: Six episodes available together.
Newfoundland fisherman Calvin Penney is already fighting to keep his family and livelihood together when something begins terrorising his coastal town. As marine researcher Fonda Howander investigates, vanished fish, local secrets and a threat beneath the water turn survival into a community-wide struggle.
Movieversalfilm watch note: Pick this for the week’s most atmospheric mystery — a family drama and creature thriller shaped by an unforgiving coastline.
Animals
- Platform: Netflix
- Content type: Political kidnapping thriller film
- Release date: Friday, 9 October 2026
- US/UK availability: Netflix in both territories from 9 October
- Director: Ben Affleck
- Starring: Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington and Steven Yeun
Viewer Match
- Best for: Viewers who want a tense adult thriller driven by impossible choices.
- Maybe skip if: Kidnapping stories and political-family pressure are not your preferred weekend escape.
- Mood and pace: Urgent, morally thorny and claustrophobic.
- Time commitment: One feature-length evening.
A Los Angeles mayoral candidate and his wife have only hours to find the ransom after their son is kidnapped. With campaign spending having narrowed their options, the crisis begins exposing decisions and secrets that could destroy more than an election.
Movieversalfilm watch note: The strongest pick for a high-pressure Friday night, especially if you like thrillers where private desperation collides with public ambition.
Matchbox The Movie
- Platform: Apple TV
- Content type: Action-adventure comedy film
- Release date: Friday, 9 October 2026
- US/UK availability: Global Apple TV premiere, including both territories
- Director: Sam Hargrave
- Starring: John Cena, Jessica Biel and Sam Richardson
Viewer Match
- Best for: Households wanting glossy action, friendly banter and a clear crowd-pleasing mission.
- Maybe skip if: Toy-inspired adventure and maximalist chases are not your lane.
- Mood and pace: Fast, bright and globe-trotting.
- Time commitment: One feature-length ride.
A group of childhood friends are pulled into an international pursuit when their long-absent former leader returns as an undercover CIA agent. The reunion quickly becomes a race to save the world, with old chemistry tested at action-movie speed.
Movieversalfilm watch note: This is the week’s uncomplicated event-film option — built for viewers who want motion, ensemble energy and a little comedy with the stunts.
Avatar: Seven Havens
- Platform: Paramount+
- Content type: 2D animated fantasy series
- Release date: Friday, 9 October 2026
- US/UK availability: Global Paramount+ premiere, including both territories
- Release pattern: Three episodes at launch; further batches through October
- Creators: Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko
- Featuring: Saheli Khan, Aishwarya Devan and Dee Bradley Baker
Viewer Match
- Best for: Fantasy-animation fans ready for a new generation and a changed elemental world.
- Maybe skip if: You want a complete-season binge on opening night.
- Mood and pace: Expansive, mysterious and adventure-led.
- Time commitment: Three half-hour episodes at launch, with Book One continuing in batches.
In a world reshaped by catastrophe, young Earthbender Pavi discovers that becoming the next Avatar makes her a target rather than a symbol of hope. Her journey brings allies, a long-lost twin and a race to keep civilisation’s final havens from collapsing.
Movieversalfilm watch note: The week’s most inviting long-form choice, balancing legacy appeal with the promise of a very different world and hero.
Movieversalfilm Weekly Selection
Start with NCIS: New York for a weekly procedural, choose Carrie or Below for horror in sharply different settings, then save Animals, Matchbox The Movie or Avatar: Seven Havens for Friday according to whether you want pressure, propulsion or fantasy.
Which of these six premieres will lead your watchlist this week?