April gives us a quick rundown and the upcoming attractions you must put on your TV-watching radar.
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING - HULU
Only Murders in the Building returns August 27. It is a comedy starring Selena Gomez's Mabel Mora, Steve Martin's Charles Savage (a widower and retired actor who is still dining on his long career as the star of a sitcom), and Martin Short's Oliver Putnam (a hummus-loving, scarf-wearing theatrical producer with a string of Broadway musical flops).
All three live in the historic Upper West Side apartment building, The Arconia, where a series of murders have taken place. Their true crime podcast has taken off, as they sleuth to find out who's responsible, much to their neighbor's chagrin.
Returning series players Meryl Streep, Michael Cyril Creighton, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph are joined by Melissa McCarthy, Molly Shannon, Kumail Nanjiani, and Richard Kind this season.
SLOW HORSES - APPLE TV+
April says "catch up" with this darkly humorous espionage yarn. The BAFTA award-winning Apple TV+ hit series season four is back on September 4 as the premiere date.
Following a two-episode drop on premiere day, one new episode will be released every Wednesday through October.
The series, adapted from Spook Street, the fourth novel in the Mick Herron spy series Slough House, the TV series Slow Horses stars Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, a pompous, brilliant but misanthropic leader of spies who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending blunders in the field as the team quietly tried to rebuild their reputations in the espionage world. According to AppleTV, season four opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the unstable foundations of Slough House.
TULSA KING - PARAMOUNT+
Iconic American actor Sylvester Stallone plays the Tulsa King. Relegated to Oklahoma by his New York crime family to get him out of town, he now runs Tulsa. Sly will write at least two episodes of Tulsa King Season 2, which premieres on September 15.
Stallone, who stars as Dwight "The General" Manfredi, a New York mafia capo exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, has shown he can seamlessly command drama and comedy in his performances.
With looming threats from the Kansas City mob and a powerful local businessman, Dwight has to keep his band of local heavies organized as he figures out a mob family that runs a bit differently than the bad boys back East.
THE IRRATIONAL - NBC & PEACOCK
The Season 2 Premiere: Tuesdays, October 8, 202410/9c on NBC
This unconventional crime drama has an intriguing premise and a charismatic star (Law & Order veteran Jesse L. Martin).
Alec Mercer (Martin), a professor and expert in behavioral science, is called upon and consulted by police and authorities in moments of crisis to interpret why people do inexplicable things.