Winter TV premiere dates: 2022-23 schedule for new and returning ...

With Jack Frost nipping at your nose (and probably toes), why not stay in and enjoy the glow of your TV or warmth of your (overheating) computer resting on your lap?

In the coming months, there are plenty of shows to get excited about, including spinoffs and remakes of beloved shows and movies. This month, "Magnum P.I." (on its new network, NBC) and "Fresh Prince" remake "Bel-Air" debut new seasons. So does "Party Down," after. decade-long break. In March, CBS launches its take on the 1994 spy thriller "True Lies" as a series.

Our calendar of major highlights ensures you won't miss the return of your favorite series or the start of a new show you'll fall in love with. (All times EST/PST.)

Feb. 3

"Dear Edward" (Apple TV+): Connie Britton and Taylor Schilling star in the Jason Katims drama focused on the aftermath of a place crash in which only a young boy survives.

"Harlem" (Amazon Prime)

Feb. 8

"Not Dead Yet" (ABC, Wednesday at 8:30; then Wednesdays at 9:30): Gina Rodriguez plays a recently single bit of a hot mess, who takes a job penning obits to help make ends meet.

“A Million Little Things” (ABC, Wednesdays at 10). The final season.

"The Flash" (CW, Wednesdays at 8): The ninth and final season of the DC Comics-inspired series.

Feb. 9

"You" (Netflix)

Feb. 14

"Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne" (Hulu): The model/actress explores topics relating to human sexuality in this docuseries.

Feb. 15

"Wu-Tang: An American Saga" (Hulu)

Feb. 16

"Animal Control" (Thursdays at 9): Joel McHale stars in the comedy centered on employees of a local Animal Control unit who wish people were as simple as animals.

"Star Trek: Picard" (Paramount+): The final season.

Feb. 17

“Hello Tomorrow!” (Apple TV+): Billy Crudup stars in the series set in the future as a dedicated salesmen trying to push timeshares on the moon.

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Feb. 19

"American Idol” (ABC, Sundays at 8)

"The Company You Keep" (ABC, Sundays at 10): Milo Ventimiglia stars as con artist who has a brief tryst with an undercover CIA agent (Catherine Haena Kim).

"Magnum P.I." (NBC, Sundays at 9): Jay Hernandez (filling the role once played by Tom Selleck) moves to a new network after CBS canceled the series.

Feb. 22

"Snowfall" (FX, Wednesdays at 10)

Feb. 23

“Station 19” (ABC, Thursdays at 8)

“Grey’s Anatomy” ((ABC, Thursdays at 9)

“Alaska Daily” (ABC, Thursdays at 10)

"Bel-Air" (Peacock)

"Outer Banks" (Netflix)

Feb. 24

"Party Down" (Starz, Fridays at 9): The comedy about LA caterwaiters returns for a third season, its first since 2010, with most of its original cast.

“The Reluctant Traveler” (Apple TV+): Eugene Levy visits locations around the globe including the Maldives, Finland, and Tokyo.

"The Consultant" (Amazon Prime): Things go awry after a mysterious consultant (Christoph Waltz) shows up at an app-based gaming company.

Feb. 26

"The Blacklist" (NBC, Sundays at 10): The final season.

March 1

"Survivor" (CBS, Wednesdays at 8)

"Star Wars: The Mandalorian" (Disney+)

"True Lies" (CBS, Wednesday at 10): The new series is inspired by James Cameron's 1994 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. Steve Howey leads the TV version, portraying international spy Harry, whose high-stakes occupation is discovered by wife Helen (Ginger Gonzaga).

March 3

"Daisy Jones & the Six" (Amazon Prime): Riley Keough stars as the the frontwoman of a rock band in the 1970s, in this depiction of its rise and fall, based on a novel.

"Grand Crew" (NBC, Fridays at 8:30)

"Next in Fashion" (Netflix)

March 6

"Perry Mason" (HBO Max): Matthew Rhys stars in this reboot's second season, following a three-year break.

"History of the World, Part II" (Hulu): More than four decades after Mel Brooks' original film, a sketch-comedy sequel delves into more moments from history with various stars.

"The Voice" (NBC, Mondays at 8)

March 17

“Extrapolations” (Apple TV+): Meryl Streep leads an all-star ensemble cast for a drama focused on eight stories exploring what needs to be done to combat climate change.

March 24

“My Kind of Country” (Apple TV+): A singing competition from executive producers Reese Witherspoon and Kacey Musgraves.

"Up Here" (Hulu): Mae Whitman stars in the musical series as an aspiring writer who leaves her small life to pursue her dreams in New York.

March 26

"Succession" (HBO, Sundays at 9)

"Yellowjackets" (Showtime, Sundays at 9)

March 29

"Riverdale" (CW, Wednesdays at 9): The final season.

March 31

"The Power" (Amazon Prime): Toni Collette, John Leguizamo and Auli’i Cravalho star in the series, in which teenage girls are suddenly able to electrocute people.

April 5

"Dave" (FX, Wednesdays at 10)"

April 7

“Schmigadoon!” (Apple TV+)

April 14

“The Last Thing He Told Me” (Apple TV+): Jennifer Garner portrays a woman who has to work with her stepdaughter to get to the bottom of her husband's disappearance.

April 21

"Dear Mama" (FX, Fridays at 10): This docuseries chronicles the relationship between Tupac and his mother, Afeni Shakur.

April 28

"The Afterparty" (Apple TV+)

May 31

"Nancy Drew" (CW, Wednesdays at 8)

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'Veronica Mars' Season 4 and 16 other TV reboots ranked

Another day, another TV reboot.

Our television screens are filled with revivals and remakes these days, from the GIF-able Fab Five of Netflix's "Queer Eye" to the short-lived cable-news antics of "Murphy Brown" to Kristen Bell's return to sleuthing in Hulu's "Veronica Mars." More are on the way, starting with Wednesday's six-episode "BH 90210," which is less a remake than a meta-reunion. New streaming service HBO Max is set to bring back "Gossip Girl"; the "Mad About You" couple is back together for Spectrum cable subscribers; and Freeform plans a new "Party of Five."

With so many classic TV shows returning, it can be hard to keep track. We've definitively ranked the biggest, from the highs of "One Day at a Time" to the lows of "Fuller House."

17. 'Fuller House' (Netflix)

Too corny, too stuck in the '90s, Netflix's return to the Tanner family of ABC's 1987-95 "Full House" is a decent effort that has nothing but nostalgia going for it. And that's just not enough.

16. 'Charmed' (CW)

"Charmed" premiered on CW last fall, just months before "Roswell," and while "Roswell" was too similar to the original to be interesting, "Charmed" departed so wildly from its source material it truly shouldn't have been called "Charmed." The series is somewhat fun when just taken as a story of three sister witches on a college campus, but it ignores the origins of the original WB series, which is disappointing.

15. 'American Idol' (ABC)

Revived just two years after it signed off on Fox, ABC's version of the once-gigantic singing competition is fluffier, hammier and more Disney-fied. Lionel Richie makes a strong effort on the judging panel, Luke Bryan is mostly harmless, but Katy Perry is a distraction.

14. 'BH 90210' (Fox)

The most surprising thing about this meta version of beloved 1990s high school drama "Beverly Hills, 90210" (premiering Wednesday, 8 EDT/PDT) is that it's not a disaster. Most of the original cast, including Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth, Brian Austin Green, Jason Priestley, Gabrielle Carteris, Ian Ziering and even Shannen Doherty, play heightened versions of themselves who come together to put together a fictional "90210" reboot. Once you get past the weirdness of seeing Tori Spelling play a desperate money-seeking "Tori Spelling," you realize it's just a middling soap opera about slightly washed-up celebrities trying to have one last ride. If you're a huge "90210" fan, it offers enough nostalgia and in-jokes to make it worthwhile.

13. 'Roswell, New Mexico' (CW)

One of the more faithful reboots of recent years, CW's take on aliens-in-hiding drama makes only minor tweaks (aging up the characters, adding a few new ones) to the formula, but that doesn't quite help. Most everything the new series does, the old one did better.

12. 'Murphy Brown' (CBS)

The revival of the classic sitcom about a broadcast journalists had great intentions and a political agenda for the modern era, but something about it just didn't quite click, and CBS canceled it after one season. It was too on-the-nose and over-the-top to gel into something anywhere nearly as wonderful as the original.

11. 'Roseanne'/'The Conners' (ABC)

Separated from the offscreen drama that led to the unceremonious dismissal of Roseanne Barr, both versions of the family sitcom revival connected with audiences. Neither has approached the height of the old "Roseanne," but there's something compelling when the series stops posturing and focuses on family.

10. 'The X-Files' (Fox)

Fox's revival of the 1990s sci-fi hit has been inconsistent. Its first new season in 2016 was lackluster, but in its final outing in 2018, the show found some more exciting, simply scary stories to tell.

9. 'Dynasty' (CW)

Set in Atlanta, the splashy, steamy reboot of ABC's nighttime soap isn't quite as juicy as the original, but it still has plenty of fun family drama and catfights. Its actors, led by former Nickelodeon star Elizabeth Gillies, relishes every cheesy line and ounce of melodrama. The series has also benefited from casting actors like "Desperate" housewives alum Nicollette Sheridan, although she's exiting.

8. 'Will & Grace' (NBC)

Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally easily slid back into their roles as Will, Grace, Jack and Karen on the NBC sitcom. Although it's often a little dated, their chemistry and timing haven't lost much since the series went off the air in 2006. A final season will air in 2020.

7. 'The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' (Netflix)

Netflix promised something wicked with this horror-tinged reimagining of the teenage witch, and the series definitely delivered. Soaked in blood and Satan worship, the new "Sabrina," based on the Archie Comics character, is nothing like the cutesy 1996-2003 ABC sitcom that starred Melissa Joan Hart. The reboot is beautiful and has a great cast, although sometimes it gets lost in its own complicated plots.

6. 'Lost in Space' (Netflix)

Will Robinson (Maxwell Jenkins) is still in danger. Netflix's "Lost" remake is a CGI-filled space epic that turns the cheesy 1960s sci-fi series into a tense, twisty action-adventure. Sometimes it's a little too self-serious, but most of the time it's a fun romp.

5. 'Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life' (Netflix)

It was lovely to revisit Stars Hollow and check in on Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel), especially after the original finale was so disappointing. The series faced some rough patches as its central mother/daughter duo returned more than a decade older, even if they didn't always act that way. The revival was sweet, but overall slight.

4. 'Queer Eye' (Netflix)

The new Fab Five are fabulous, indeed. Bobby Berk (design), Karamo Brown (culture), Antoni Porowski (food and wine), Jonathan Van Ness (grooming) and Tan France (fashion) have revitalized the early 2000s Bravo staple. The new "Queer Eye" is addictive and moves beyond some of the cartoonish elements of the original series.

3. 'Twin Peaks' (Showtime)

Director David Lynch ran with the revival of the 1990s ABC drama to create something weirder, wilder and ultimately more wonderful than what came before. Lynch mixed the eclectic original cast with great actors like Laura Dern and upped the surrealism and slow burn that made the original both tantalizing and frustrating.

2. 'Veronica Mars' (Hulu)

Rebooting a TV show like "One Day," is often easier than reviving one with its original cast years or even decades later. No series has pulled off that trick better than "Veronica," which came back twice, first for a Kickstarter-funded movie in 2014 and now for an eight-episode fourth season on Hulu. The pulpy, neo-noir setting made Veronica's (Kristen Bell) return in her 30s make sense, and the series wisely avoided nostalgia and characters that don't matter anymore. The result was a season that felt comforting and new all at once.

1. 'One Day at a Time' (Pop)

The new take on Norman Lear's 1970s CBS sitcom is the model all other TV reboots should follow. Fresh but also familiar, with sublime casting and a perfect blend of comedy and tragedy, "One Day" manages to feel as relevant in 2019 as it did in 1975. That Netflix canceled it after just three seasons was devastating, but this little spark of a show managed to land a fourth season on Pop TV, anyway.

'Walker' reboot review: Jared Padalecki, Texas Ranger, in fantasy ...

Now, what I look for in a television show is not usually the same sensation as a Benadryl dream where a long-forgotten 1990s action show, a local heartthrob and scenes shot near my office bleed into a melodramatic melange. But I'm open to the experience, and you might be, too.

The first episode of the the CW's "Walker" premiered Thursday, starring Austinite and erstwhile "Supernatural" lead Jared Padalecki. (Not for nothing, it broke ratings records for the network.) Both familiar and hallucinatory to an local, it's a reboot of the 1993-2001 CBS procedural "Walker, Texas Ranger," which starred Chuck Norris when he was better known for cowboy hats and karate kicks than for that "Chuck Norris facts" calendar on your coworker's desk.

The reboot — or reimagining, as Padalecki, who's also an executive producer, has characterized it — punts most of the Norris version's trappings into the sun (the ultimate lone star). The original theme song, a masterpiece of law enforcement paranoia/propaganda and also an utter bop? No more.

The supporting cast, including Walker's trusted ranger partner Trivette and love interest/assistant district attorney Alex Cahill? Written out of existence and replaced by a new rookie partner, a bartender serving sexual tension and an entire brood of Walker family members.

The Dallas-Fort Worth setting? For our purposes, the most significant jettison of the reboot, since "Walker" is set in Austin. The production, helped along by city-approved incentives, actually filmed in the Texas capital, including at Austin Studios, unlike a certain other network drama about first responders set in these here parts that we could mention.

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And Padalecki, who just wrapped an impressive 15-season run hunting demons on the CW, is Cordell Walker in name and boots only. Norris' take on the character was one-third martial arts master, one-third shaman, one-third long arm of the law. Padalecki's Walker is a cocky loose cannon and haunted pater familias. (His arms are definitely long, though.) My man also got a haircut; RIP to the Sam Winchester locks.

Spoilers for the premiere follow, pardner.

We meet Walker 2.0 right as he's meeting up with his wife, Emily (played by IRL wife Genevieve Padalecki). She's about to go do some humanitarian work in the desert, and he's on the way to family game night, giving off powerful "emotionally constipated dad of whom little's been asked" energy. (Men, go to therapy, it's great.)

While playing a game with his family but looking like he needs Liam Neeson to rescue him, Walker gets an S.O.S. text from Emily. She's running through the desert, pursued by gunmen. They kill her; Walker's call comes too late. He contacts Darth Vader via seance, lets out a guttural "NOOOOO!" scream (4 out of 5 stars; could have used more reverb) and sinks to the ground.

Flash forward! Eleven months later, Walker's returning home from some bad-guy hunting, and his new partner is a bottle of booze. His kids Stella (16, angsty, played by Violet Brinson) and August (14, responsible, wearing Padalecki's "Gilmore Girls"-era haircut, played by Kale Culley) have been left in the care of Walker's younger brother, Liam (played by Keegan Allen). Liam is "the most well-groomed assistant D.A. in Austin," which is good for him and bad for any viewers wondering why they replaced the original show's girlfriend assistant D.A. with a brother assistant D.A. and then immediately had the two characters wrestle.

Walker, who if you'll recall appears to have actual panic attacks at the prospect of playing a board game with the two children he fathered, hasn't been in touch with the family for almost a year. He misses his own homecoming, opting instead to sit in the bed of his truck, spend quality time with straight liquor and have visions of his dead wife that look like they were filmed through a Glamour Shots filter. We also get our first "Hey! I know that!" moment, when we're told Cordell and Emily's place is out on Lady Bird Lake.

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Walker is picked up and taken home by Micki Ramirez, a state trooper who honestly is god-level patient with this drunk white man sitting on his car in the middle of nowhere and acting like he's not afraid of anything. (Because ... men like that usually aren't. Upside-down smiley face emoji goes here.)

Reunions are had, scenes change. Then, we get the real goods: Austin stuff, baby! A White Denim song, an establishing shot of the skyline, the Capitol. The Walker home's interior, we see, looks like that Airbnb you stayed at in Driftwood after your college friend's wedding, so points for accuracy there. And, most exciting to me, Walker drives past the Yeti flagship store at Congress Avenue and Barton Springs Road, which means that he also drove past the American-Statesman newsroom. Did I actually see the newsroom? No, but fortunately for your trusty newspaper goon, a career in legacy media has inured me to being forgotten.

We (you, me, Walker) learn that Ramirez is joining the Texas Rangers, and she's our hero's new partner. There aren't a lot of Mexican American rangers, she says, and her mom doesn't approve — mom has a point, given the agency's history as a force of racist violence in the state, including against people of Mexican descent.

Ramirez and Walker get to know each other over a food truck meal on South Congress — hello Maya, hello Lucy In Disguise — before Walker is called to bail Stella out of jail. She's gotten into some trouble with a friend whom she seems especially close to (I imagine this will become a plot thread). Your sense of cognitive dissonance also gets into trouble trying to make sense of the faux Austin Police Department used in the show.

More Austin landmarks: the Paramount and Stateside theaters! Walker goes to a honky tonk and flirts/talks about death/two-steps with bartender Geri (played by Odette Annable). Forming a psychosexual trauma bond with a service industry worker will have to wait for this swaggering law enforcement officer, though. He's called off to investigate a sinister truck tied to a charitable organization that sells religious figurines. A man who works in the stock room, when questioned by Walker and Ramirez, talks smack about the late Emily. Walker — a loose cannon, if you'll recall — goes a little berserk before he's restrained by Ramirez.

Fun fact about this scene: one snatch of dialogue mentions the truck going "southbound on 84." U.S. 84, which does cut across Texas, is an east-west highway! But points for trying; no way "9-1-1 Lone Star" would have even used a real highway.

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Austin landmark check: the “Rhapsody” mural by John Yancey at Waller and 12th streets! Stella's not in school; Walker tracks her down. He makes a stop at the home of her friend, and finds out the friend's parents are undocumented. He intimates that he's going to try to expedite their papers. He recounts the conversation with Ramirez later, who says her mother's stance on Ramirez's law enforcement career is essentially, "Who does the law protect? Not us."

Threads are tied. Stella's found at the Walkers' favorite gazebo, where our hero drank until he saw visions of his late wife earlier. Those religious figurines — would you believe they dissolve in water and reveal heroin inside, and that the charitable organization is a front for a drug cartel? Reader, I could believe.

It seems the cartel will come back to bite us. Emily's body was found with a poker chip, which Walker now flips back and forth in his fingers like he's Leonardo DiCaprio with a top in "Inception," another classic of the dead wife genre.

Walker's offered a task force assignment on the border, ostensibly to suss out this cartel. The family's not jazzed about that, and Walker decides not to take it, finally learning that maybe family ... is the most important thing of all. "Now's all we got," he says.

We've also got next week. The second episode of "Walker" airs at 7 p.m. on Thursday on the CW. See you then, highly fictionalized version of Austin.

Best TV shows and series of the 2010s from 'GoT' to 'Veep'

The world of TV in 2019 doesn't look anything like it did in 2010.

"Grey's Anatomy" and "Law & Order: SVU" are still on the air, but before this decade, Netflix mostly sent you DVDs in the mail, "Roseanne" had ended in the 1990s, singers were mostly unmasked and no one worried much about how many TV shows Hollywood was making.

Suffice to say, the 2010s were a significant decade for the television industry and for fans of the medium, who have more options for what and how to watch serialized stories than ever before.

Amid the hundreds of shows that aired or streamed during the decade, some stood far above the rest. They are this decade's "The Sopranos" or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." We won't stop talking about them in 2020, or even 2030.

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Choosing favorites among all the series that premiered in 2010 and beyond, we excluded some greats that started at the end of the '00s but aired many '10s episodes, including "Parks and Recreation" and "Mad Men." But we picked the 25 best TV series of the 2010s: comedies and dramas, late-night talk shows and animated series. Their characters sang, danced, killed, buoyed and knocked each other down. Their subjects included British misanthropes, fantasy kings and Russian spies.

Above all, they reminded us of the power of TV as an art form, one that will dominate the technology and culture of the 2020s, for better or worse.

25. ‘The Good Fight’ (CBS All Access, 2017-present)

The ultimate TV series about The Way We Live Now, “Good Fight” has outpaced its source material, CBS’s “The Good Wife,” which didn't qualify for this list based on its 2009 premiere date. Co-creators Robert and Michelle King, freed from the broadcast restrictions of "Wife," let loose in the spinoff legal drama. It’s still about lawyers in Chicago, but everyone’s just a little bit zanier in a post-2016 election world.

24. ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ (AMC, 2014-2017)

Some of the best TV shows demonstrate their greatness not by being perfect all the time, but by learning from past mistakes. No TV show earns the most-improved award more than “Halt,” which started as a “Mad Men” knockoff about the 1980s computer industry. It morphed into a complicated drama about communication, connection and women's struggles to achieve power at home and work. The shift came precisely in the Season 2 premiere, as the story moved away from the Don Draper-esque Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) and made its emotional center the friendship between punky Cameron (Mackenzie Davis) and straight-laced Donna (Kerry Bishé). From that moment on, “Halt” found its voice.

23. ‘Speechless’ (ABC, 2016-2019)

Of all the great ABC family sitcoms during the decade (“Fresh Off the Boat,” “Black-ish,” “The Middle”), “Speechless” stands out. A series about a family in which the eldest son, JJ (Micah Fowler), has cerebral palsy, “Speechless” was the antithesis of the typical, borderline-offensive pop culture portrayal of disability. In “Speechless,” disability was never “inspiration porn” or something to be overcome to the strains of a swelling orchestra. Rather, it was a part of life that led to unique opportunities for humor. Paired with a great cast, including Minnie Driver and John Ross Bowie, “Speechless” was irreverent and hilarious, verging on bawdy and uncouth, for its three seasons.

22. ‘Catastrophe’ (Amazon, 2015-2019)

The brilliance of this sitcom from across the pond – about an Irish woman and American man whose vacation fling turns into married life after an unexpected pregnancy – stems from Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, the comedic duo behind the excellent writing and acting. Running the gamut from sweet to caustic, “Catastrophe” is an honest comedy about the unexpected twists life takes, and how much work and compromise go into marriage and aging.

21. ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ (Fox, 2013-2018; NBC, 2019-present)

This almost-canceled series is far more than the sum of its workplace-sitcom parts. One of two gems from power producer Mike Schur to make this list, “Brooklyn," starring Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher, is the platonic ideal of a sitcom, full of characters viewers can adore and giggle with; romances that feel real and moving; and gags that are funny no matter how many times you watch suspects in a police lineup sing a Backstreet Boys song. Long-running, broadly appealing sitcoms are fewer and further between in our current TV era, making “Brooklyn” and its reliably hilarious episodes even more precious.

20. ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ (HBO, 2014-present)

John Oliver is the right man for the right era. The former “Daily Show” correspondent got his big break on HBO at a perfect moment to unleash his brand of comedy. A time capsule of much of the 2010s, “Last Week” kicked off a new genre of long-form, politically activist late-night comedy that spread beyond his weekly series, adopted by broadcast hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers. But no one has as perfect a mix of facts, anger and persuasion as Oliver.

19. ‘Broad City' (Comedy Central, 2014-2019)

Many TV series in the 2010s tried to capture the millennial experience, as the generation everyone loves to hate reached young adulthood. Before most TV creators “got it,” there was “Broad City,” a lewd and crude take on being young and single in New York City. Stars and creators Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson made the series both ludicrous and relatable, anchoring it with a friendship that had more chemistry than many TV romances.

18. ‘American Vandal’ (Netflix, 2017-2018)

A blistering lampoon of true-crime documentaries, this teen comedy had depth and maturity far beyond the ages of its protagonists. By treating high school pranks and humorous crimes with the serious tone of “Making a Murderer,” “Vandal” found a superb way to talk about the pressures of adolescence, where scrawling genitalia graffiti on a car can feel as grave as murder.

17. ‘One Day at a Time’ (Netflix, 2017-2019; Pop TV, 2020-)

Many of the decade's best sitcoms were single-camera comedies like “30 Rock,” filmed without the live studio audience many classic (and some derided) series employed.. But the laughter-filled multi-camera comedy is not dead; it’s just evolving, and no series better exemplified the art form than “One Day,” a remake of the 1970s Norman Lear series now focused on a Cuban-American family in Los Angeles. A modern take on mixing comedy and social issues, the series’ biggest strength is the warmth imbued in every single episode. Its passionate fan base helped make it the only series in history to make the jump from a streaming platform to basic cable, a move that will hopefully keep it on the air well into the 2020s.

16. ‘BoJack Horseman’ (Netflix, 2014-2020)

Some of the best TV episodes this decade were about a depressed talking horse in Hollywood. Netflix’s showbiz satire found unexpected depths by juxtaposing animated, bipedal animals dealing with serious contemporary issues to its advantage. An excellent voice cast (Will Arnett, Aaron Paul, Amy Sedaris) gave life to the most cynical series the 2010s produced.

15. ‘American Crime Story,’ (FX, 2016-present)

There's been no shortage of true crime series on TV, but none were as stylish and respectful as the two seasons of “ACS.” In telling the stories of O.J. Simpson and Gianni Versace, the series never exploited violence and trauma, but rather found tragic moments from the past that illuminated something about the world today.

14. ‘Fargo’ (FX, 2014-present)

FX’s “American Horror Story” may be most responsible for the current boom in anthology series, but none have mastered the format quite like “Fargo.” Each season riffs on the 1996 Cohen Brothers film in its own way, portraying a standalone story that's still intimately related to the greater series. The aw-shucks Midwestern vibe is never missing, nor is great casting that has given us an ever-growing list of fabulous performances from actors including Allison Tolman, Martin Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Ewan McGregor and Jean Smart.

13. ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ (Showtime, 2017)

The biggest trend of the latter half of this decade has been the reboot/revival/remake, as Hollywood becomes more invested in tapping its libraries of intellectual property instead of developing new story ideas (see Disney+). When bringing an aged cast back for an old story, no one succeeded the way David Lynch did when he produced 18 new episodes of his cult 1990s ABC series “Twin Peaks.” Mindbending, near farcical and perhaps better than the original, “The Return” dared to fly in the face of fan service and expectations, and was twice as rewarding as a result.

12. ‘Atlanta’ (FX, 2016-present)

Donald Glover’s audacious series about Earn Marks (Glover), a college dropout and father trying to climb the economic ladder as a manager for his rapper cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry), is the best argument around for auteur television. Although technically a half-hour comedy, “Atlanta” resists categorization, swinging between laugh-out-loud episodes and straight-up horror stories without an ounce of whiplash between. Whenever Glover decides to return for new seasons (hopefully soon), rest assured he’ll come up with something completely new and ingenious to devour.

11. ‘Alias Grace’ (Netflix, 2017)

Underseen and underrated, this adaptation of a beloved Margaret Atwood novel far outpaces its more famous cousin, Hulu's “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Sarah Gadon is a revelation as the eponymous Grace, a notorious 19th-century Canadian murderess who is being considered for a pardon due to “insanity.” Expertly written by Sarah Polley (“Stories We Tell”) and gorgeously directed by Mary Harron (“American Psycho”), the miniseries is time-twisting, potentially mystical and deeply spiritual. Even if you have read Atwood’s excellent book, it will surprise you.

10. ‘Key and Peele’ (Comedy Central, 2012-2015)

This sketch comedy series would be notable if the only thing it did was introduce us to Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, two incredibly talented comedians who have since gone on to huge careers (“Get Out,” anyone?). But “Key and Peele” was more than just a starting block for its stars; it was a hilarious and smart series that captured a woefully underrepresented point of view. Their sketches routinely transcended those of their peers, nailing tricky contrasts in content and tone. The best were scathing commentaries on race in America and downright jolly affairs, like the iconic “Negrotown,” set in a magical, musical land where black people can wear hoodies and avoid getting arrested.

9. ‘The Good Place’ (NBC, 2016-2020)

The 2010s without “The Good Place” would have been quite the “bad place.” Another winner from Schur, the existential afterlife comedy continuously surprises and delights. Considering how well-known it is for its often philosophical narrative, it’s easy to forget that “Good Place” is also the home of a thousand puns (”You Do the Hokey Gnocchi and You Get Yourself Some Food,” “Beignet and the Jets”). The direction and production design offers superb blink-and-you’ll-miss-it visual humor, while its writers and actors have perfected characters and performances that remain true to their core amid hundreds of mind-wipes.

8. ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ (CW, 2015-2019)

A mix of romantic comedy, mental-health drama and, oh yeah, original songs every single week, “Crazy Ex” was an act that many lesser series couldn’t keep up for one season, much less four critically-acclaimed ones. But with co-creator and star Rachel Bloom steering the ship, it was never in doubt that protagonist Rebecca Bunch was so much more than just a girl who followed an old boyfriend across the country. The situation is a lot more nuanced than that.

7. ‘Justified’ (FX, 2010-2015)

Violent, funny, horrifying, electrifying and chaotic, FX’s crime drama about a Kentucky U.S. Marshal (Timothy Olyphant at his most charming) with his own moral code consistently rose above its cop-show peers. The series is full of the kind of interesting good guys and bad guys (particularly the manic Boyd Crowder, played with panache by Walton Goggins) you’d expect from anything based on a story by legendary writer Elmore Leonard. Most importantly, over six seasons it never lost an innate sense of fun and absurdity with its unique brand of action, mystery and havoc.

6. ‘Veep’ (HBO, 2012-2019)

American politics have changed dramatically since “Veep” premiered in the midst of the Obama presidency, and it can be hard to remember when the series was less uncanny documentary and more searing parody. A mildly disappointing final season does not erase the acerbic writing or pitch-perfect performance from Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The humor of "Veep" was, and still is, unparalleled.

5. ‘Game of Thrones’ (HBO, 2011-2019)

At any moment during its eight seasons and 73 episodes, “Game of Thrones” could be the best or worst series on TV, but when it was at its peak, there was nothing else like it. Recency bias will emphasize the terrible series finale, the constant violence against women and the overly long episodes. But a fuller exploration of this complex series reveals impeccable acting, gorgeous costuming and an expansion of our collective ideas about what TV can achieve. Don’t think of the Iron Throne burning, or the $15 million spent on a single episode. Think instead of the powerful, near-silent shot of birds flying away as Arya (Maisie Williams), watched her father Ned (Sean Bean) be publicly executed. As much as we love the dragons, it was in subtler moments that the series really caught fire.

4. ‘O.J. Made in America’ (ESPN, 2016)

Much more than a retelling of Simpson’s much-publicized murder trial, “Made in America” is a searing history of our country through the lens of race, sport and celebrity. The documentary arrived the same year as the "American Crime Story" take on Simpson, and it could have been a footnote. Instead, thanks to riveting and insightful filmmaking, ESPN’s five-part series outshone “People vs. O.J.” and wowed Emmy and Oscar voters alike.

3. ‘Fleabag’ (Amazon, 2016-2019)

What is left to say about Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s genius, or the brilliance of her TV show? Much ink has been spilled this year about the second season of “Fleabag,” a remarkable examination of self-actualization, love and faith. Its first, far more below-the- radar season in 2016 was nearly as accomplished a character study, boisterously funny and a coming-out party for one of the best artists working in Hollywood right now. Here’s to more Phoebe in the 10 years to come.

2. ‘The Leftovers’ (HBO, 2014-2017)

Even if the tone of this overwhelmingly somber series isn’t your style, it’s hard to ignore the level of artistry delivered over three seasons from co-creators Damon Lindelof (“Lost,” "Watchmen") and Tom Perrotta. Two percent of the earth’s population disappears without an explanation, but the story is not in the mystery but in the aftermath, the broken people forced to keep living in a world that doesn’t make any sense. Perfectly timed to a real world that felt increasingly senseless and chaotic, “Leftovers” leaned into unreality over its three short seasons, improving almost episode and culminating in a gorgeous finale, with a showstopping performance from Carrie Coon that won’t be topped anytime soon.

1. ‘The Americans,’ (FX, 2013-2018)

Over its six seasons, the Soviet spy drama was exemplary in its acting (particularly from Keri Russell), its writing, its directing, its music choices, its wigs and everything else. Thoughtful, insightful, thrilling and even funny at times, the series is the epitome of this era of TV. That it was able to end on such a brilliant note in 2018 (a feat few series have managed), only cements its legacy as the best of the decade.

26 incredible '90s TV shows to stream now

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It’s hard to pin down when the Golden Age of Television really began. Some argue that it started in 1999 with the premiere of The Sopranos on HBO, while others contend that it really only kicked off circa 2008, thanks to shows like Mad Men, Breaking Bad and later, Game of Thrones.

But if you came of age during the 1990s, you know better. From 1990 all the way up to the new millennium (or should I say, Willennium), television was positively glorious.

On any given night, you could tune into one of the major networks like ABC, NBC, or Fox and catch a family-friendly sitcom (like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), an edgy teen drama (cue the Beverly Hills 90210 theme), or—if you were lucky enough to be a house with cable—channel surf over to HBO and follow groundbreaking shows like Sex and the City or Oz right from the beginning.

The best ‘90s TV shows had it all: aliens, gangsters, great friends, wise-cracking cats, vampires with souls (before it was cool) and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Here are 26 of the most incredible '90s TV shows you can watch for the first time—or fall in love with all over again—on HBO Max, Disney+ and other streaming platforms. Lord, have mercy.

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1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

For most folks, high school is hell. But on Buffy the Vampire Slayer—the influential ‘90s teen show that was based on the 1992 box-office bomb of the same name—that metaphor is taken to its most literal place. Full of special effects that haven’t aged well (but storylines that did), Buffy gave us sexy vamps, LGBTQ+ witches, one-off episodic gems like the musical Once More With Feeling and teen angst and melodrama for days.

But perhaps its biggest contribution of all is that it gave us a heroine like Buffy Summers (played with wit and tenderness by Sarah Michelle Gellar), a blonde high school cheerleader chosen—reluctantly—by fate to save the world. A lot. In that way, show creator Joss Whedon (despite his recent controversies) helped give an entire generation of young girls the best female superhero since Wonder Woman and that slays.

Stream Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu with the Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ bundle

2. Friends

Have you been on a break from this hit ‘90s sitcom since it wrapped up in 2004? With a reunion set to air later this month and the entire 10 seasons available to stream right now on HBO Max, there’s never been a better time to give the Central Perk gang another go-around, especially if you’ve been dying for a good excuse to sing along during a rendition of Smelly Cat again.

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3. The X Files

Thought science fiction was all navel-gazing or men in cheesy green alien suits firing off plastic ray-guns? Think again. Fox brought new life to the genre with this hit show about a couple of FBI agents—one a skeptic, the other a true believer—charged with investigating the unknown. Often considered the best 90 sci-fi TV show of them all, The X Files launched stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson into the pop-culture stratosphere and helped make conspiracy theorists out of all of us (for an hour a week, at least).

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4. Seinfeld

Although Seinfeld is usually described as a “show about nothing,” this mega-hit ‘90s sitcom created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David of eventual Curb Your Enthusiasm fame actually gives viewers a whole lot of "somethings" to think about. Like, is it wise to pretend to be a marine biologist just to impress a woman? Answer: No, probably not. Or, is it advisable to stock up on your favorite birth control before it goes off the market and only use it with those deemed the most “sponge-worthy”? Answer: Maybe, but ask your doctor first. As ‘90s sitcoms go, Seinfeld is arguably the best (sorry, Friends stans) and absolutely worth a rewatch.

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5. Twin Peaks

Unless you were an arthouse kid back in ‘70s or ‘80s, chances are that director David Lynch slipped under your radar. That is, until the 1990 premiere on ABC of Twin Peaks, which he co-created with Mark Frost. This weird murder mystery, set in a quirky fictional town in Washington state, weaves together comedy, soap opera and tragedy in a way that Lynch fans know well.

After an acclaimed first season, the show went off the rails in season two and ended on one of the most famous cliffhangers of all time. But do yourself a favor and don’t Google it, or watch Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch’s divisive 1992 prequel) or Twin Peaks: The Return (the limited-run series that aired on Showtime in 2017) first. Just grab a hot cup of dang good coffee, kick back and start from episode one of the O.G. series. Trust me, you’ll enjoy it better that way.

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6. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Will Smith is better known these days for blowing up aliens and passing on one the most influential films of all time, but back in the early ‘90s, he was just an up-and-coming rapper from Philly and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was his breakthrough role.

As one of the most beloved ‘90s family TV shows, this NBC hit aired from 1990 to 1996 and gave us so much, from quippy one-liners to incredible dance moves. You can catch the reunion on HBO Max right now, but consider treating yourself to a weekend of binge-watching this series, too.

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7. Boy Meets World

Raise your hand if you always secretly wished you were in Mr. Feeny’s (William Daniels) class alongside Cory (Ben Savage), Topanga (Danielle Fishel) and the rest of the gang of Boy Meets World. As one of the most charming ‘90s family TV shows of its time, this series started in 1993 and served as a cute coming-of-age tale that definitely resonated with millennials of the time. Plus, you get to admire Topanga’s hair in all its thick, wavy, Gen X glory.

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8. Frasier

Sitcoms have a rich history of spawning spin-offs: All in the Family famously led to seven other shows, including The Jeffersons and Maude (which, in turn, eventually led to Good Times). But it’s rare for a sitcom spin-off to truly match—or in some cases, even outdo—the show that inspired it. Frasier is a notable exception, though.

The character Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) first appeared on the hit sitcom Cheers, but in 1993, got his own eponymous show. Set in Seattle, the show follows his life as a radio advice show host, as well as his relationship with his father and brother. Contrary to what you might think, you don’t need an IQ of 130 or higher to chuckle along with the jokes on this show, either.

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9. Daria

Speaking of spin-offs, it’s impossible to talk about the best ‘90s TV shows and not mention Daria. As MTV’s “loose” spin-off of Beavis and Butthead, this cartoon series is as hilarious and insightful today as it was when it originally aired.

Remembered for her monotone voice and scathing one-liners, the character of Daria Morgandorffer was like a stand-in for anyone who felt out-of-sorts in high school, but the supporting cast of characters (from popular kids to alt-rock crushes and more) help make this one of the most nuanced teen shows of its time. Along the way, the show does an admirable job of critiquing suburbia, teen culture and the status quo, but with lots of heart, too.

Stream Daria on Paramount+

10. The Sopranos

Depending on who you ask, The Sopranos didn’t just kickstart the Golden Age of Television, it created it. Even 22 years later, the HBO crime drama is often considered the best show of all time, period. (Although fans of The Wire, HBO’s critically acclaimed drama from the 2000s, can wage a strong counter-argument.)

The premise—a mafia capo in therapy—could just as easily read as a comedy (and was fodder for several, starting with Analyze This), but show creator David Chase’s celebrated series goes deeper, with all the violence, intensity, family drama and pathos you’d expect. It still holds up, more than two decades later.

Stream The Sopranos on HBO Max

11. Law & Order

This procedural drama about cops and attorneys in New York City might be one of the best binge-worthy shows of all time. It spawned several spin-offs, most famously Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (which is still airing but available on Sling TV, too) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which ran from 2001 to 2011. The O.G. Law & Order—which featured Jerry Orbach, a bonafide national treasure—proves that being formulaic isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because the show is still wildly addictive, all these years later.

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12. Dawson's Creek

You wouldn’t get teen drama shows like Riverdale or One Tree Hill if it wasn’t for Dawson’s Creek, the WB/CW hit about brooding teens living in a fictional New England town. Filmed on location in Wilmington, North Carolina (another thing it shares in common with One Tree Hill), Dawson’s Creek is one of the best-known ‘90s teen shows and helped to cement a tried-and-true formula that still works to this day: beautiful teens + beautiful location + beautiful tragic problems = ratings gold.

Beyond its catchy theme song, the show helped to launch the careers of Katie Holmes, Josh Jackson and Michelle Williams, respectively. Of the three, Williams has enjoyed the greatest success, thanks to her impressive work in critically acclaimed films like Blue Valentine, Brokeback Mountain and My Week With Marilyn, as well as TV shows like FX's wonderful Fosse/Verdon, but it all started here.

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13. Sex and the City

Whether you love it or you kind of cringe over it now, there’s no denying that Sex and the City broke new ground when it premiered on HBO in 1998.

Ostensibly, this show about four single, successful ladies in their 30s living and loving in the big city was part of HBO’s gritty, hyper-realistic programming for the era, along with The Sopranos. These days though, Sex and the City mostly reads like an urban fairy tale. (“What do you mean a writer with only one article due a week and no side hustles could afford to live in her own apartment and buy $400 designer shoes on the regular in ‘90s-era Manhattan, that’s not fair,” sobbed the single, city-dwelling, 30-something year-old millennial author of this article after dodging another month of student loan bills.)

Still, some fairy tales are worth passing onto the next generation, especially when they involve general sex positivity (the show didn't age well around certain LGBTQ+ issues, it must be said) and characters as woke and wonderful as Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall). For all those reasons, Sex and the City is worth hanging onto.

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14. Freaks and Geeks

Although Freaks and Geeks famously only lasted for a single season on NBC back in 1999, its sweet yet merciless take on the high school experience garnered many fans. It’s since become a cult classic and for many, was the first real taste of what Judd Apatow could do, plus a great introduction to future mega-stars like Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, James Franco and others.

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15. Living Single

Tell me if this sounds familiar: A show about a group of single, successful ladies living and loving in the big city in their 20s and the heartbreaks and friendships that bind them and help them grow better as people.

Sounds a lot like Friends and Sex and the City, right? Except unlike those two shows, Living Single features a cast of talented Black actors, including Queen Latifah. Also, it came out in 1993, before anyone had ever been introduced to the saga of Ross and Rachel or Carrie Bradshaw’s never-ending love-affair with Manolo Blahnik. Criminally underrated but a total delight, Living Single is a delightful show to consider giving a watch, especially if it flew under your radar.

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16. Beverly Hills 90210

Remember that formula from before? You know, the one about how shows based on beautiful teens and their beautiful, tragic problems will almost always equal network ratings gold? While Dawson's Creek directly inspired a string of imitators in the 2000s like One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl and others, all of these shows owe a debt to the grand-daddy of them all: Beverly Hills 90210.

Produced by the legendary Aaron Spelling (whose small-screen hits prior to the 1990s included Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and others) this iconic '90s teen melodrama focused on a group of teens from one of the poshest zip codes in the U.S. and touched on after-school special topics like teen pregnancy, addiction and parental pressure. It also helped make its cast of dreamy mostly 20-somethings like Luke Perry and Shannen Doherty mega-stars in the early part of the decade.

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17. Sabrina the Teenage Witch

The ‘90s were the perfect time for witches to get cool again. You had bell bottoms, girl power, Lilith Fair—so much divine feminine energy just bursting through everywhere. And of course, who could forget Sabrina, the titular character of the popular ABC show Sabrina the Teenage Witch?

Inspired by the Archie Comics series of the same name (just like Riverdale), this tween-friendly hit was completely adorable and anchored by a charming performance by Melissa Joan Hart, who was already known to kids of the era as Clarissa, from Nickelodeon’s show Clarissa Explains It All. Plus, there was a talking cat. Nothing can ever be bad about a show that features a talking cat that also makes puns, I mean really.

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18. Sister, Sister

Although Disney remade The Parent Trap in the ‘90s, ABC’s popular show Sister, Sister always felt like a more modern version of the same premise. Starring real-life twins Tia and Tamera Mowry, the plot focuses on two twin sisters separated at birth and adopted out to separate people—one, a straight-laced dad (Tim Reid) and the other, a fast-talking fashionista (Jackée Harry). This is one of those ‘90s family TV shows that feels safe and cozy upon rewatch and could be especially good if you’re looking for options to mix it up.

Stream Sister, Sister on Netflix

19. Are You Afraid of the Dark?

There’s a good chance that Are You Afraid of the Dark? eventually led an entire generation of millennials to love shows like Black Mirror. In the vein of The Twilight Zone, this Nickelodeon show conjured up all things creepy and spooky and the unleashed them in anthology form over 45-minute blocks of time. The initial show ran over the course of five seasons (with subsequent reboots in 1999, 2019 and 2021). Gather round the campfire—or in this case, your TV—and give this kid-friendly horror series another go.

Stream Are You Afraid of the Dark? on Paramount+

20. Oz

Oz isn’t a show for everyone. Set in a prison, it’s about as brutal and violent as you might expect and it features a truly chilling performance by J.K. Simmons. If you want a drama that has sweet, tender moments, look elsewhere, because Oz really is unrelentingly bleak. But as ‘90s drama TV shows go, it’s important to include in the conversation because it did push the envelope and pave the way for other gritty shows like The Shield in the 2000s and 2010s.

Stream Oz on HBO Max

21. My So Called Life

Teen angst earned its poster girl in the form of Angela Chase (Claire Danes), the protagonist of the short-lived but celebrated ABC series, My So-Called Life. Over the course of its lone season, the show netted lots of critical acclaim and earned a then-15-year-old Danes a Golden Globe award and Primetime Emmy nomination for Best Actress due to her portrayal, as well as helped launch the career of Jared Leto (who would later earn an Academy Award for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club). It also tackled serious issues, from homophobia to drug use, but in less of a soap-opera way than contemporary shows like 90210.

Stream My So Called Life on Hulu with the Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ bundle

22. Full House

Was it possible to experience the ‘90s and not know about Full House? As the king of ‘90s family TV shows, this classic is totally corny, but that’s also part of it’s charm.

Dive back into one of these old episodes and Uncle Jesse (John Stamos) is still as hot as ever, little Michelle (played by the immortal Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) is still adorable and Dave Coulier is now the guy you can’t believe probably inspired Alanis Morisette’s signature anthem. Aside from Aunt Becky (now better known for Operation Varsity Blues), everything about the show feels wholesome and nostalgic in the sweetest way possible.

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23. The Nanny

Fran Drescher's distinctive voice isn't the only draw to The Nanny, the popular '90s sitcom that just became available on HBO Max, but it's among the most memorable. As a show about a street-smart Jewish woman from Flushing who, by sheer twist of luck, ends up as the nanny for a well-to-do Broadway producer, this is comfort viewing at its finest.

Stream The Nanny on HBO Max

24. Moesha

R&B singer Brandy Norwood was already a teen sensation when she signed on in 1996 to star as the title character in Moesha, but her fame grew exponentially larger by the end of it's six seasons thanks to hits like The Boy is Mine, off her chart-topping 1998 album Never Say Never. All that's to say, Brandy was a big deal in the '90s and this UPN sitcom just served to further showcase her talents. Similar to other tween-friendly dramas of the era, the show has an after school special vibe to it, but features fun appearances by stars like Bernie Mac, Usher, Mo'Nique and others.

Stream Moesha on Netflix

25. Will & Grace

Say what you will about Will & Grace now (it's always been divisive), but when it first appeared on the small screen in 1998, it became an instant game-changer. Co-created by Max Mutchnick, who is gay, the series debuted in 1998 during a period of time where the LGBTQ+ community was still reeling from the AIDS epidemic and rarely represented on screen.

Will & Grace however, is all about queer celebration: of love, of friendship, of culture. It's fair to say that the show played to certain stereotypes along the way, but it helped change the country's views (in a favorable way) toward queer humans. For that reason, it deserves a solid rewatch.

Stream Will & Grace on Hulu with the Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ bundle

26. Baywatch

Did you know that if you own a Samsung television, you have access to an entire Baywatch channel that just streams the iconic '90s drama? This cult-favorite series followed the ins and outs of daily life for the lifeguards at Malibu Beach. Starring David Hasselhoff and a number of blonde, tan 20-somethings, the series ran for an impressive 11 seasons, covering a number of soap-opera-worthy topics, including estranged parents, haunted homes, redemption for bank robbers and even a story arc with Hulk Hogan.

If you're a big Friends fan, this series is a must-watch. See what Chandler and Joey—and millions of die-hard Baywatch fans—saw in the series. Just don't be shocked when you realized how many montages you'll have to sit through.

Stream Baywatch on Amazon Prime

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Disney+ to Apple TV+ to Netflix: The major streaming services, ranked

Welcome to the era of the Streaming Wars.

Hollywood is getting more crowded than ever as two new online streaming services, HBO Max and Peacock, prepare to join the digital fight for your eyeballs and money in 2020.

The new TV landscape can be a daunting avalanche of choices, and subscribing to every new service can easily end up costing more than that cable bill you already cut. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon still dominate the streaming world, but Disney+ and Apple TV+ jumped into the fray last fall. And don't forget smaller services like CBS All Access, Shudder and Acorn TV trying to find their place in the mix.

But not all streaming services are created equal. Before you subscribe to the latest, consider our list of the major services, ranked from best to worst. We've included only services not available as a cable channel (sorry, HBO Now), and those streaming in 2020.

1. Hulu

Cost: $5.99/month with ads; $11.99/month commercial-free

Originals: A mix of award-winning high profile dramas (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Act”), tiny, quirky and acclaimed comedies (“PEN15,” “Shrill”), several prestige-chasing "FX on Hulu" originals ("Devs," "Mrs. America" with Cate Blanchett) and occasional theatrical or streaming-only films (“Little Monsters,” “Fyre Fraud”).

Library: Includes currently airing TV shows on ABC, NBC and Fox (“The Masked Singer,” “Stumptown”) paired with archival series (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Designing Women,” “Seinfeld,” everything that ever aired on FX) and films (“Boyz n the Hood”).

Kid-friendly? A robust kids' section has mostly older shows (“Sailor Moon,” “Doug”) but a few originals like “The Bravest Knight.”

Hulu tops our list because it's a broadly appealing service that offers plenty of genres and styles without scraping the bottom of the barrel for new content. The ability to watch current broadcast shows in-season is a huge advantage. And Hulu has the best selection of archival TV series with a solid showing of films, too (it recently acquired streaming rights to this year's best picture winner "Parasite," debuting on Hulu April 8). Its originals could be better (although it has a great 2020 with "High Fidelity" and "Little Fires Everywhere"), but the service has wisely chosen not to overload us with shoddy new programming, a mistake its biggest competitor, Netflix, has unfortunately made.

In the past few months, Hulu’s value has grown now that Disney effectively owns the service. A new "FX on Hulu" hub now offers in-season streaming of FX series (don't sleep on "Breeders") and the premiere of "FX on Hulu" originals like "Devs," which won't air on cable. More adult Marvel content will likely gravitate here as Disney+ hones its "family friendly" brand.

2. Netflix

Cost: $8.99/month to watch on one screen at once, $12.99/month to watch on two screens or $15.99/month to watch on four screens in Ultra HD.

Originals: Has the largest crop of originals, which means the biggest mix in quality as well. Notables include “Stranger Things,” “The Witcher” and “The Crown,” in addition to Oscar-bait movies like Martin Scorsese's “The Irishman.” Recently trash-reality TV shows like "Love is Blind" and "The Circle" have become prominent on the service.

Library: Shrinking every year. Although some stalwarts remain (“Breaking Bad,” “Dexter,” “Supernatural”), Netflix is investing in originals, not in holding onto the rights for legacy series and films. ("Friends" is already gone, and "The Office" and "Parks and Recreation" will shift to Comcast's Peacock by 2021 for U.S. subscribers).

Kid-friendly? Netflix’s kids’ section is massive, populated mostly with dozens of originals (A “Boss Baby” series, a “Green Eggs and Ham” adaptation) and some library content (“Pokemon").

Netflix is synonymous with the idea of streaming content, but while it pioneered the format, it hasn’t perfected it. The service has a huge number of films and TV shows to choose from, but that library isn’t as good as it once was. Netflix’s biggest flaw is that it is abandoning archival content in favor of an ever-more-mediocre slate of originals across all genres of TV and film.

A handful of these series are brilliant (“The Crown,” “BoJack Horseman”); others are decent (“Queer Eye”); but most are poor facsimiles of better TV (“Ozark,” “Fuller House”). In the past few months it has better commanded the zeitgeist with buzzy series like "Witcher" and "Love is Blind" (despite questionable quality). Original movies have a distinct “TV movie” vibe. Still, Netflix is a really valuable service and the biggest name in the game, only slightly edged out by Hulu.

3. Amazon Prime Video

Cost: $12.99/month, but comes with free two-day shipping

Originals: "Jack Ryan," "Bosch," "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and lots of small, awards-friendly fare, a lineup that's changing rapidly as the company embraces genre shows like an upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series.

Library: A wide assortment that most notably includes Masterpiece dramas(“Downton Abbey”), mid-2000s procedurals (“The Closer,” “Bones”), USA Network shows (“Mr. Robot,” “Suits") and some older HBO programming.

Kid-friendly? Yes, Amazon includes originals like “Kung Fu Panda” and Nickelodeon series like “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Dora the Explorer.”

Amazon’s TV output is perfectly acceptable, especially if you like quaint British television and series your grandparents will enjoy. The streamer excels at comedies (Emmy-winning “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Fleabag”) and dad shows ("Jack Ryan," "Bosch," "Patriot") and has an impressive selection of British TV (“Downton Abbey,” "Grantchester"). Its library of old series and originals is not as big as Hulu and Netflix, but it does have Oscar-nominated and acclaimed films ("The Big Sick" and "Midsommar").

Your money goes further here than with any other service, because it pays for two-day shipping with all the TV as a bonus, but it still offers a higher proportion of niche programming than its rivals. Unlike Netflix or Hulu, it can’t replace your cable subscription all on its own, but its lineup is greatly expanding. Adaptations of big books like "The Power," "Wheel of Time" and a very expensive version of “Rings" are all in the works.

3. Disney+

Cost: $6.99/month or $69.99/year (available Nov. 12)

Originals: The first Star Wars live-action series (“The Mandalorian”), teen comedy “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” “Toy Story” spinoff “Forky Asks a Question” and a slew of nonfiction series. More Star Wars and Marvel series are promised this year and beyond.

Library: The Disney Vault has opened, and classics (“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs") and duds (“The Shaggy D.A.”) alike will flood the service, along with recent blockbusters (“Avengers: Endgame”) from the studio. Some titles inherited from the merger with 20th Century Fox (“The Simpsons”) also are available.

Kid-friendly? Extremely. All content on the service is family friendly to some degree, to fit with the Disney brand.

The biggest threat to existing services comes from the biggest conglomerate in Hollywood. Disney is flexing its considerable muscle by offering its classic films paired with original series from its biggest brands: Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel. Its huge library is its biggest advantage, as is the ability to reboot and revive. But the biggest disadvantage is the lack of diversity in programming.

After "Mandalorian," most of the original series that have premiered so far have been for kids or wholesome reality (or both). The service has no plans for mature programming or mindless reality TV, both of which have their time and place. If you have kids, the value of the service goes up exponentially, but for those of us not trying to entertain tykes, other streamers have more to choose from.

5. CBS All Access

Cost: $5.99/month with commercials, $9.99/month without

Originals: “Star Trek: Discovery,” “The Good Fight,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Why Women Kill,” "Star Trek: Picard"

Library: Current (and recent) CBS series, classics (“I Love Lucy”) and movies (“Rocky”).

Kid-friendly? Some library content like “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and “Everybody Hates Chris,” but nothing for preschoolers and no originals.

Don’t knock the Eye’s streaming service until you’ve tried it. It's a little on the expensive side for the number of originals, but its streaming shows have a better batting average when it comes to quality (“The Good Fight” is one of the best shows on TV, and "Picard" is the rare nostalgia play that is more than just fan service). In addition to CBS shows, its library includes a treasure trove of classic films and TV, such as “Happy Days” and “The Brady Bunch.” Parent ViacomCBS has announced plans to eventually combine All Access with programming from its cable channels (MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central) and Paramount film library. But for the moment, it's still limited in scope, so seeing some episodes of a “Trek” series a few times a year may not be worth the expense.

6. Apple TV+

Cost: $4.99/month; free for one year with purchase of an Apple product (available Nov. 1)

Originals: “The Morning Show,” “See,” “For All Mankind,” “Dickinson,” “Little America,” "Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet," an "Amazing Stories" remake and festival-style films like "Hala."

Library: None

Kid friendly? Some kids's shows including "Snoopy in Space" and "Sesame Street"-like "Helpsters."

Despite its low price tag, Apple has a distinct disadvantage in value because it has no back library of classic shows or films. You could burn through their entire new catalog in a few weeks, even thought it is slowly building. Its highest profile series, like Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon soap “The Morning Show,” have been its most mediocre. It has a few standouts, like "Little America" from Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon and "Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet" from the "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" guys. But is it worth subscribing for just two or three guaranteed-good shows? Probably not.

Ranking soon: HBO Max and Peacock

Although we haven't been able to get hands (or, rather, remotes) on 2020's two big streaming service upstarts yet, both companies have made several announcements about what kind of programming to expect.

Here are the basics on each:

HBO Max: Set for a debut in May, the streaming service from WarnerMedia is more than just the home of "Friends" and a "Friends" reunion (although they certainly aren't shy about promoting that). The service will include HBO content, sitcom reruns like "The Big Bang Theory" and "South Park," dramas like modern "Doctor Who" and originals that include new DC Comics superhero series and an "Apprentice"-like reality series starring Bethenny Frankel. So far it has the highest monthly price: $14.99, roughly the same as HBO's cable subscribers now pay..

Peacock: Launching in Comcast homes April 15 (and nationally July 15), NBCUniversal's service will include three price tiers, "Law & Order: SVU" and "Saturday Night Live," and "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and "Late Night with Seth Meyers" a few hours before the late-night talk shows air on NBC. Originals include remakes of "Battlestar Galactica," from producer Sam Esmail ("Mr. Robot"), teen series "Saved By the Bell" and "Punky Brewster;" and an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," starring Demi Moore. Universal Studios' film classics also will become part of the service.

Honorable mentions: AcornTV, Britbox, Shudder, YouTube and Facebook Watch

A few other, much smaller streaming services are vying for your wallet. AcornTV and BritBox are for serious Anglophiles (Acorn has more mysteries, Britbox has all of classic "Doctor Who"). Shudder is devoted to horror. Facebook Watch and YouTube are a mix of user-created and professional content. Facebook Watch has one good original series ("Sorry for Your Loss" starring Elisabeth Olsen, which they canceled); so does YouTube ("Karate Kid" sequel "Cobra Kai"). Facebook Watch is free if you have time for it, and YouTube also has a free tier, with ads.

Contributing: Gary Levin and Bill Keveney

'Walker': 'Supernatural' star Jared Padalecki ropes new starring role

As monster-hunting Sam Winchester on 15 seasons of “Supernatural,” Jared Padalecki had all manner of terrifying things happen to him on screen. In a pandemic world, however, having a ne’er-do-well spit in the face of the heroic new star of CW’s “Walker” – without a mask! – somehow seems more shocking than being possessed by a demon.

Don’t worry, members of the Padalecki faithful: It’s a special-effects loogie that flies in the actor’s face during the Thursday's premiere of the “Walker, Texas Ranger” reboot (8 EST/PST). “Believe me, there was a lengthy meeting about how to do the spitting,” says creator and executive producer Anna Fricke.

After more than a decade of being TV bros with Jensen Ackles, Padalecki gets the solo spotlight with “Walker.” In the revamp of the 1993-2001 CBS show starring Chuck Norris and tons of martial arts, Padalecki stars as Cordell Walker, a Texas Ranger who has been away from his family for a while following the tragic, mysterious murder of his wife, Emily (Padalecki’s real-life spouse, Genevieve Padalecki). He returns to Austin to be father to his children – thoughtful son August (Kale Culley) and rebellious daughter Stella (Violet Brinson) – and partner to a new female Ranger, Micki (Lindsey Morgan).

“On ‘Supernatural,' we treated our world as reality. We were telling a science fiction thriller horror story,” Padalecki says. “So to go to a new show that's shot in a very real way, and we're not hunting God or Lucifer or angels or demons of any sort, has been a fun new world to immerse myself in."

“Walker” thus far has been a joy for Padalecki. He grew up in San Antonio and dreamed of living and working in Austin (where the show is also filmed), where he has lived for the past 10 years, and now he gets to do that “at the tender young age of 38.” He’s an executive producer on the show, though he’s used to living and breathing whatever series he’s on: “I don't feel right unless I do it with everything I’ve got.” And Padalecki can authentically channel a character who has spent important time away from his children after spending much of 15 years in Vancouver to film “Supernatural.”

“A lot of what Cordell goes through in the first couple of episodes is a lot of what Jared Padalecki went through,” he says. “I was off working a job that took a lot of my time and a lot of my bandwidth and a lot of my energy and focus.” He recalls being sent back to Austin last March because of the COVID-19 pandemic before “Supernatural” had finished its final season, “and when I got home, Gen was sort of like, 'All right, well, pick up the garbage and make sure the kids don't kill each other.’ I was like: ‘Then what? What do I do with these things? They want to play with me, but it's hot outside.'

“Our reimagination of ‘Walker’ is a very human story about a person who maybe hid themselves in their work for a long time, because that was easier for them than dealing with the very human issues that affect us all.”

While Padalecki showed a lot of heart on “Supernatural,” “it was really important to Jared in this role to play a man,” Fricke says. “He had kind of grown up on that show." With the new series, "we wanted to show someone who was a little more war-torn. When we meet Walker, he is not in a great place, and it takes him a while to pull himself together."

In addition to drama, Padalecki gets to show off some of his horseback-riding skills: He has taken lessons, and he owned a horse with his wife when they lived in L.A. for a couple of years. “I had more experience on horseback going into ‘Walker’ than I had experience hunting demons going into ‘Supernatural,’ ” he quips.

But being able to rope bad guys on a TV show mid-ride is a new weapon in his holster. In fact, Padalecki keeps a few lassos around the house in case he needs to rope his kids for fun. “They're going, ‘Do me, do me!’ and so they would scooter by me and I'm just sitting there in the driveway roping them.”

Like the '90s show, the new "Walker" features plenty of action and a two-fisted nature. Old-school fans will recognize at least one face: Mitch Pileggi, who guest-starred in the original series, reappears as Padalecki’s onscreen dad. “We're very committed to letting the audience get a clear picture of what the show is going to be about,” Padalecki says, “but as we carry on, I'd love to have everybody (from the original cast) on the show.”

So who’s the likelier guest star: Karate icon Norris, or his former partner Ackles?

“Man, I've been blowing Jensen's phone up!” Padalecki says. His “Supernatural” co-star is soon traveling to Toronto to film scenes for the new season of Amazon’s “The Boys,” “but you'd better believe that as soon as he's back in Texas, I'll be knocking on his door and telling him we need somebody bowlegged to get up on a horse and ride next to me.”

12 famous people from Iowa including Yellowstone, Twilight Zone ...

In acknowledgment of Iowa's 175th anniversary as a state, the Des Moines Register published a list of notable, Iowa-born figures and celebrities from the state's history.

Due to interest in that piece, Register journalists have hopped back into the history books to showcase 12 more examples of the celebrities and high profile people born in the Hawkeye state.

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Jefferson White

Born: Mt. Vernon

Lifetime: Nov. 3, 1987-present

What he's famous for: Actor on "Yellowstone"

Jefferson White is another actor on this list who has ventured into "The Twilight Zone," albeit in the 2019 reboot of the classic television program, several decades after Virginia Christine appeared in the original show. White is likely more familiar to audiences as Jimmy Hurdstrom in the show "Yellowstone" where he appears alongside Kevin Costner. White has been in other programs such as "The Americans" and "House of Cards."

Harry Hopkins

Born: Sioux City

Lifetime: 1890-1946

What he's famous for: Advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt

Born in Sioux City and a 1912 graduate of Grinnell College, Hopkins grew up to work on remedying the ripple effects of the Great Depression and become an advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Roosevelt became president in 1933, he named Hopkins the administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and, when the United States entered World War II, Hopkins became a key figure in the efforts of the Allied powers. After surviving stomach cancer, Hopkins died due to liver failure months after receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from President Truman.

W. Edwards Deming

Born: Sioux City

Lifetime: 1900-1993

What he's famous for: Statistician and educator

Sioux City's William Edwards Deming made his way into the field of statistical analysis which he applied to achieve better industrial quality control. In the 1950s, Deming's skills helped Japan as the nation economically recovered from the fallout of World War II and became the namesake for The Deming Prize, an annual award given to Japanese corporations with exceptional quality control.

Meredith Willson

Born: Mason City

Lifetime: 1902-1984

What he's famous for: Composer of "The Music Man"

Robert Meredith Willson was himself a music man from a young age when he began playing flute in the Mason City Municipal Band, setting him on track to begin his musical career. In 1958, Willson's musical "The Music Man," the most widely known of his works, was given a Tony Award for Best Musical.

Leon 'Bix' Beiderbecke

Born: Davenport

Lifetime: 1903-1931

What he's famous for: Jazz musician

Leon Beiderbecke is a Davenport-born musician more widely known under the name "Bix." As a jazz musician, Beiderbecke became known for the quality of his improvisation in his performances. He joined the Jean Goldkette group in Detroit player in the latter half of the 1920s, but, only a handful of years later, died after suffering from lobar pneumonia at the age of 28.

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Norman Borlaug

Born: Cresco

Lifetime: 1914-2009

What he's famous for: Nobel Peace Prize-winning agronomist

Borlaug was educated at the University of Minnesota, studying to be a forester and eventually returning to study plant pathology and received his doctorate. He spent a large portion of his professional life working to solve wheat production problems in Mexico. It was 1970 when Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize, recognized for years spent improving food production.

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Virginia Christine

Born: Stanton

Lifetime: 1920-1996

What she's famous for: Radio and film actress

Originally named Virginia Kraft, Virginia Christine is perhaps best remembered as Mrs. Olson, a character who appeared in television advertisements for Folgers Coffee. Over the course of her career, she also appeared on television in "The Twilight Zone" and "The Lone Ranger" and in cinema in the 1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," among other projects.

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R. Walter Cunningham

Born: Creston

Lifetime: March 16, 1932-present

What he's famous for: The first Iowan in space

The idea to propel a human outside of Earth's atmosphere was still the stuff of science fiction when Cunningham, born Ronnie Walter Cunningham, came into the world in 1932. However, in 1968, he became the first Iowan in space aboard Apollo 7 — the first crewed Apollo space mission — on which he was the lunar module pilot.

Barry Allen

Born: Fallville

First Appearance: January 1940

What he's known for: Member of the Justice League

The character of Barry Allen is perhaps better known as The Flash, "The Fastest Man Alive." The character has more than 80 years of history since appearing in "Flash Comics No. 1," and part of that history includes claiming the fictional Fallville, Iowa, as his place of birth before making the move to the more metropolitan Central City.

The character has appeared in a variety of incarnations across comic books, television and film. Perhaps his most prominent depictions include Grant Gustin's take on the character in the CW's "The Flash" and Ezra Miller's cinematic appearance in "Justice League."

Mary Beth Hurt

Born: Marshalltown

Lifetime: Sept. 26, 1946-present

What she's famous for: Film and television actress

According to the book "Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film" by Emanuel Levy, when Mary Beth Hurt was growing up in Marshalltown, her babysitter was Jean Seberg, another Iowa-born actress from Marshalltown who became an icon of French New Wave cinema with the film "Breathless."

Hurt would go on to play Seberg in the docudrama film "From the Journals of Jean Seberg." However, Hurt is more easily recognizable for appearing in the movie "The World According to Garp" with Robin Williams as well as multiple episodes of "Law & Order."

Michael Emerson

Born: Cedar Rapids

Lifetime: Sept. 7, 1954-present

What he's famous for: Film and television actor

Michael Emerson, born in Cedar Rapids, played a recurring character in the television show "Lost," where he first appeared as Benjamin Linus, one of the "the Others" on the island in the show. Since then, Emerson also appeared in the CBS show "Arrow" and the Amazon original series "Mozart in the Jungle." Over the course of his career, he's been nominated for five Emmys and a Golden Globe.

Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins

Born: Des Moines

Lifetime: April 26, 1970-present

What she's famous for: Member of the hip-hop group TLC

Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins is a founding member of TLC, an R&B group that also included Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. The group — most popular through the 1990s and early 2000s for songs such as "Creep" and "No Scrubs" — formed in Atlanta, where Watkins' family moved when she was 9.

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Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the instrument Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke played. He played the cornet.

Isaac Hamlet covers arts, entertainment and culture at the Des Moines Register. Reach him at ihamlet@gannett.com or 319-600-2124, or follow him on Twitter @IsaacHamlet.

Comic-Con preview: Your best ways to geek out

Brian Truitt, and Bill Keveney

USA TODAY

Convention season is upon us, yet while politicos set their sights on Cleveland and Philadelphia, pop-culture enthusiasts are headed to San Diego.

Comic-Con International, the annual nerd mecca that brings the pop-culture world to the San Diego Convention Center, begins Wednesday with the world premiere of Star Trek Beyond. More than 125,000 attendees will be entertained through July 24 with the biggest and best movies, TV shows, comic books and video games.

"For film studios and TV networks, this is a chance to directly reach out to their core consumers on a personal level," says Fandango.com correspondent Alicia Malone. "And if they impress the audience with their product, fans will spread the word for them and make their properties hugely successful."

Exclusive: Captain America celebrates 75 years with new bronze statue

Not all of the faithful can make the journey, so USA TODAY will be on site to give readers the latest. Here are four things we’ll be watching for:

Blockbuster brands

Marvel Studios again showcases its superhero movie fare, and directors Scott Derrickson and James Gunn have already teased that they’ll be on hand for their films Doctor Strange (in theaters Nov. 4) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (May 5), respectively. Not to be outdone, Warner Bros.' panel will tout six upcoming films, from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Nov. 18) to King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (March 24) to Wonder Woman (June 2).

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AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead and HBO’s Game of Thrones form a powerhouse TV block. Dead newcomer Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the villainous Negan, will join fellow series regulars. Thrones cast members are scheduled to appear with executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Fans also can attend a Thrones Hall of Faces interactive exhibit.

Major stars

After Star Trek Beyond actors Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana hit the red carpet at the movie's premiere, Justin Timberlake brings sexy back to Comic-Con, appearing alongside Anna Kendrick for their animated movie Trolls (Nov. 4). Other celebs going geek: Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Viola Davis for Suicide Squad (Aug. 5), and Fantastic Beasts star Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston of Kong: Skull Island (March 10). (Might Hiddleston's squeeze Taylor Swift also make the trip?)

Diversity focus

Eyes will be on Luke Cage, the latest Marvel Netflix series starring Mike Colter (Jessica Jones) as the black superhero with unbreakable skin. The impressively diverse cast of Suicide Squad will be on hand, and so will female-led films and TV shows such as Supergirl, Orphan Black and Wonder Woman. Orange Is the New Black’s Laverne Cox, who will play Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Fox’s TV movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, will attend a panel with cast members Victoria Justice, Christina Milian and Staz Nair.

The Mothership: Talking 'Pets' and a super Comic-Con reveal

Nostalgia

What’s old is new again, and that’s especially true of Power Rangers (March 24), the youth-tinged big-screen update of the popular 1990s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers kids show and movie. For fans of a certain age, Star Trek has a 50th-anniversary panel — with former TV space captains William Shatner and Scott Bakula — followed by an Aliens 30th-anniversary event starring Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton and director James Cameron. Comedy Central’s South Park, which starts its 20th season Sept. 14, will feature an interactive exhibit celebrating 20 classic Park moments. Plus, fans also can get a look at reboots of TV favorites, with panels for Fox’s Prison Break and 24: Legacy and CBS’MacGyver.

Streaming: Netflix premieres crime saga

Sean Axmaker

Special to the Statesman Journal

What’s new for home viewing on video-on-demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services.

Netflix

The new Netflix original series “ Narcos ” is a sprawling crime saga produced in Colombia by filmmaker José Padilha, who draws inspiration from “Goodfellas” and other American gangster movies for his take on drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and the rise of the cartels. In Spanish with subtitles, features explicit sex and violence. All ten episodes of the first season available.

” is a sprawling crime saga produced in Colombia by filmmaker José Padilha, who draws inspiration from “Goodfellas” and other American gangster movies for his take on drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and the rise of the cartels. In Spanish with subtitles, features explicit sex and violence. All ten episodes of the first season available. The modern Gothic horror “ Byzantium ” (2012) is an inspired twist on the vampire myth from filmmaker Neil Jordan (R).

” (2012) is an inspired twist on the vampire myth from filmmaker Neil Jordan (R). More streaming TV: “ Once Upon a Time: Season 4 ” brings “Frozen” into Storybrooke’s fairy tale world and the CBS warhorse “ NCIS: Season 12 ” keeps investigating military-related crimes. Both arrive a month before the new seasons debut on TV.

” brings “Frozen” into Storybrooke’s fairy tale world and the CBS warhorse “ ” keeps investigating military-related crimes. Both arrive a month before the new seasons debut on TV. For the kids: “Girl Meets World: Season 1,” originally made for the Disney Channel, is a sequel to the ’90s sitcom for today’s teens and tweens, and for the elementary school set, there’s the Netflix original “Inspector Gadget: Season 2.”

Amazon Instant Prime

“ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ” (2014), the live-action reboot of the comic book heroes in the half shell from Michael Bay, stars Megan Fox and Will Arnett with the CGI heroes. PG-13 for sci-fi action violence.

” (2014), the live-action reboot of the comic book heroes in the half shell from Michael Bay, stars Megan Fox and Will Arnett with the CGI heroes. PG-13 for sci-fi action violence. “ Timbuktu ” (2014) from the African nation of Mauritania was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. It has English subtitles and is PG-13.

” (2014) from the African nation of Mauritania was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. It has English subtitles and is PG-13. In “Grantchester,” set in a picturesque British village in the early 1950s, a priest (James Norton) and a detective (Robson Green) solve murders the British TV mystery way.

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

Cameron Crowe’s sentimental and intermittently charming romcom “ Aloha ,” starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Rachel McAdams, was a major flop, but the PG-13 film has beautiful people, a Hawaiian setting and Bill Murray. The Cable On Demand rental features a bonus gag reel.

,” starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Rachel McAdams, was a major flop, but the PG-13 film has beautiful people, a Hawaiian setting and Bill Murray. The Cable On Demand rental features a bonus gag reel. "Digging for Fire,” a low-key comic drama with Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt as a married couple on separate staycations, comes to VOD just days after its theatrical premier. Rated R.

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is the indie drama “Queen of Earth” with Elisabeth Moss (no rating, adult themes), the post-apocalyptic “Z for Zachariah” with Margot Robbie and Chiwetel Ejiofor (PG-13) and the offbeat comedy “7 Chinese Brothers” with Jason Schwartzman (no rating, mature themes).

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Hulu

The cable TV series “Fargo: Season 1” isn’t exactly a spin-off of the movie, but it captures the sensibility and morbid sense of humor of the Coen Brothers and features a terrific cast that includes Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman.

Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. His work appears in Parallax View, Turner Classic Movies online, Keyframe and at http://streamondemandathome.com.

Coming Tuesday

On DVD and streaming: Action adventure remake “Mad Max: Fury Road”; the drama comedy “I’ll See You In My Dreams” about a widow in her 70s who decides to start dating again and falls into relationships with two very different men; and the Jack Black and James Marsden comedy “The D Train”

On Redbox: “The D Train,” the romance “Far From The Madding Crowd” about a whoman who attracts three very different suitors, and the suspense drama “True Story” about a reporter whose identity is taken by an accused killer