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‘The Vampire Lestat’ Officially Resurrects a Long-Lost Character Before a Shocking Twist
Editor’s note: The below interview contains spoilers for The Vampire Lestat Episode 6.
With only the finale left to air, fans likely suspected that the penultimate hour of The Vampire Lestat had more than one clever trick up its sleeve. So far, the show’s creative and stylistic pivot from Interview with the Vampire has resulted in the story being told to viewers through a very different perspective — that of Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) in all his complicated and mercurial glory. That doesn’t mean the series isn’t still following the vampires we’ve come to know and have increasingly conflicted feelings about. Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) is still grappling with his grief over the long-deceased Claudia (Delainey Hayles), preserving her memory through brutal revenge killings and spending too much time with her eerily uncanny doppelgänger. Lestat’s band, now down one guitarist (RIP, Noah Reid‘s Larry), has all been turned into immortals themselves with an assist from Lestat’s own mother and fledgling (yes, you read that right) Gabriella (Jennifer Ehle). Meanwhile, whatever’s going on between Armand (Assad Zaman) and Daniel (Eric Bogosian) can’t possibly bode well for everyone else.
Ahead of the premiere of “Montreal,” written by Ryan Kattner & Kevin Hanna and directed by Jane Wu, Collider had the opportunity to discuss the episode’s most pivotal moments with Anderson and Hayles, the latter of whom finally reprises her role as Claudia to absolutely heartbreaking ends. Below, the co-stars break down the events of a night that starts almost optimistically for Louis and Lestat, the experience of filming that emotionally exposing seance scene (and how Louis feels about it in the aftermath), and why that shocking twist in the episode’s closing minutes is harder to talk about before fans have seen the season finale.
Louis and Lestat’s Night Out in ‘The Vampire Lestat’ Episode 6 Is Full of Ups and Downs
At a glance, “Montreal” shows all signs of a potential reconciliation for one of Interview with the Vampire‘s most tortured romances. Louis and Lestat have certainly had their ups and downs over the years, many of them transpiring within the last five episodes of this season, but it seems that when Louis summoned Lestat to confront Regina (Hayles) — or “Fraudia,” as Lestat later dubs her — it resulted in these on-again, off-again paramours coming back together again.
Not only is Louis staying with Lestat at his house in Montreal, on a Halloween night two years to the day that news of Daniel’s book first broke, but the two are joking and teasing each other like old times as they stroll through the neighborhood. At one point, Lestat notes in voiceover that Louis has done his best to keep his distance from Regina since the night that Lestat saw her (and wrote “Stained Glass Eyes” in the aftermath), but Hayles says that her mysterious character hasn’t exactly been waiting around for either vampire to show up again.
“Meeting Lestat, after he leaves, she takes a big exhale, and it’s because she’s petrified. Lestat has got this energy that is the whole thing [of] why maybe he and Louis met — it’s alluring, but it’s also very, very scary.” While it may have been easier for Regina to manipulate Louis after recognizing that he was grieving someone who looked exactly like her, Hayles adds that her character’s run-in with Lestat has given her a new perspective on the dangers of getting involved with immortals. “I think that’s kind of her wake-up call. Because Louis is grieving, and maybe in a way she exploits that, and Lestat comes in, and it’s like, ‘Oh, they’re real.’”
With Regina now seemingly out of the picture, the two are more joined at the hip than they have been in years — Daniel even directly refers to them as “Taylor and Travis” when they meet him at a restaurant for a private dinner that could only be enjoyed by vampires, complete with the finest vintage of fresh blood. Even more telling is the moment when Louis tags along with Lestat to a rehearsal for the band’s upcoming concert for 50,000 vampire devotees, resulting in a performance that instantly brings reminders of their relationship swirling to the surface.
Previously, Anderson revealed that “Brutal Love” was one of his favorite songs of the season, and here, we finally get the official context, as Lestat initially sings for an audience of two — Louis and Gabriella, awkwardly enough — before his gaze intentionally drifts over to Louis and stays there through the rest of the number. It’s not the first time that Lestat has sung directly to him (and been “pretty harsh” about it, per Anderson), but listening to the lyrics, it’s hard not to feel as though this song carries all the weight of their past combined with potential hopes for the future. Now, Anderson doesn’t hesitate to confirm what’s going through Louis’ head in the moment itself. “I feel like there’s this idea of the fog of love passing over them in this episode that [series creator] Rolin [Jones] used to talk about a lot, and that term comes back again in Episode 7. I think that’s when it starts to really pass over him.”
Throughout the season, we’ve seen the power that the link between vampires holds and how it can manifest differently for different pairs. While Daniel is forced to realize that the feeling he has with Armand, of everyone else disappearing from view, is unique to their bond as fledgling and maker, Anderson points out that this song in particular is Louis and Lestat’s version of the same phenomenon. “It’s nostalgia and feeling that vampire bond again, like the only two people in the world feeling — maybe not quite as literally as Armand and Daniel, but a cosmic version of that.”
Anderson admits, with a chuckle, that he enjoyed having Ehle present for the scene, yet even through Lestat’s performance, there’s the looming sense that another shoe is waiting to drop regarding “Sofia.” Once the rehearsal is over, a text from Louis’ lawyer and lover, Lemuel (Moses Sumney), alerts him to a new video posted by Daniel, in which Armand’s daylight testimony and a leaked video from the recording studio reveal that Sofia is actually Gabriella, Lestat’s mother, and the two have been sleeping together. Lestat’s initial reaction is to deny the NSFW clip’s veracity, dismissing it as a deepfake, but when it’s clear Louis isn’t buying it, their argument spills out of the car and into the street. Louis is trying and failing to wrap his head around the idea, referring to Lestat’s omission of it as “Armand-level deceit,” while Lestat points out that their “unnatural” nature as vampires conflicts with human concepts of morality. Besides, who was there to pick Louis up after he was paying someone to pretend to be Claudia for him, and did so without judgment?
Witnessing the panic attack that results for Lestat is further confirmation for Louis that the situation is more complicated than a mere mommy fetish, and once emotions have cooled, the two retreat to a bar to hash things out at a lower volume. Lestat refers to Gabriella as “one of the many chainsaws I juggle,” and, as for where Louis ultimately lands on the subject of his maker’s relationship with his mother, Anderson directly quotes a line from the episode itself: “It’s a hill to climb, vampire or not. I think it’s that for [Louis], as well.” What that argument and its resolution represent on a higher level, he adds, is how much progress Lestat and Louis have made in their relationship; they’re actually listening to each other instead of letting their feelings get the better of them.
“They’re communicating in a different way in that scene. The way that they used to communicate, some of it kind of spilled over into these fits of emotional or sometimes physical violence. Now, I think they’re hearing each other more. They’ve both had an opportunity to vent, and now they’re able to hear each other. But where Louis stands on it is still something that needs to be processed.”
Claudia Finally Returns in ‘The Vampire Lestat’ Episode 6
As if Louis and Lestat’s night wasn’t already enough of an emotional rollercoaster, now they’ve got a seance to attend, one that Louis has been having misgivings about in the hours leading up to it. With Merrick Mayfair (Sarah Afful) having landed in town — seemingly confirming that Lestat’s longtime connection to one of New Orleans’ most powerful witching families remains alive and well — the task turns to officially summoning a ghost from their past. After weeks of watching Regina the waitress do her best impression of Claudia, “Montreal” finally resurrects the real vampire, and she’s got quite a lot to say now that the floor is hers. Hayles likens the experience of reprising the role of Claudia, especially on the heels of Regina’s playacting, to “putting an old pair of shoes back on.” She’s been mourning the character herself since the Season 2 episode that culminated in Claudia’s death by sunlight, and still considers the trial in Paris as the “worst injustice ever to her.” Getting the opportunity to return to the role made Hayles very happy, by her own admission, and, in her words, “what a way for her to make her entrance this season.”
In preparing to embrace her character’s complex emotional state for the seance scene, Hayles admits that her physical transformation into the state Claudia had been in prior to her demise was immensely helpful. “I think I sat for two or three hours in a chair, and my whole body was getting spray-painted with this yellow, ill-looking paint.” Getting a good look at herself in the mirror afterward reaffirmed that mentality as Hayles geared up for Claudia’s reappearance. “When you have the makeup on, and the lenses, all of it intertwined helps you feel odd, if that makes sense, and othered. The scene starts with a close-up of the feet and the tendons, and it draws out. All of those aspects combined helped me feel uncomfortable, but in the best way.”
The seance, which Hayles describes as “exposing in itself,” starts with Claudia first making her presence known by slamming Merrick face-first into a table and speaking through the Mayfair witch, but then the vampire’s ghost manifests in the room — within the limits of a salt circle, at least at first. Hayles says she felt like a spinning top set loose in a confined space alongside Reid and Anderson, whom she calls her fellow “fidget spinners.” Their approach to filming the sequence mirrored Season 2’s trial, with long takes for the actors to deliver their lines, “where you could run it until you don’t.” It’s a revealing scene in more ways than one, with Claudia divulging her true feelings about Louis and the ways in which she manipulated him over the years. At one point, she even admits that she liked Lestat more, because, in her words, “he knew who he was.”
Hayles isn’t surprised that Claudia uses being summoned by the two people she both loves and hates most to get a few things off her chest — including the confirmation that she had lied about what happened between her and Lestat on the train — but she initially grappled with the degree to which her character had seemingly manipulated events before reaching her own conclusion. “I got the script, and I was slightly heartbroken, but then I drew back, and I was like, ‘No, I’m doing it now,’ infantilizing her. She is a woman. She is intelligent. She’s learned to survive that long through the decisions she’s made.” It’s a scene that also speaks to the overall complexity of every individual involved, as well as what Hayles praises as the brilliance of the show’s writing: “They’ve never created black-and-white characters.”
Whether you believe Claudia’s words to Louis are “harsh or correct,” she adds, the seance spotlights more beyond just what others remember about her. “I love Claudia inside out, upside down, right way round — even through her, if you want to call them, ‘wrongs.’ It gives her the space to be multifaceted, as well. You have the complexities of Louis and Lestat, whereas we’ve known Claudia through her diaries and the guys’ memories. And now we get her. It’s not gonna be sunshine and rainbows, right?”
While the scene is full of anger and rage and revelations, there’s a different emotion that arises when Claudia declares that she can’t find her lover, Madeleine (Roxane Duran), in whatever afterlife she’s been existing in since her death. Seeing Louis and Lestat together, seemingly on the road to patching things up, only reaffirms that feeling of despair, and Hayles admits that the conversation might have gone differently if Louis had actually done the seance solo. “If Louis had just called her without Lestat by his side, maybe she would have been gentler. It’s about that vampire loneliness, and her wanting a companion and wanting somebody who understands her. She had that, and then it was dragged away from her.
Now she’s been called upon, and the two people that she does love, but she hates right now, have found each other again. How unfair. In every life, will they go back to each other? Probably, because they love each other. Claudia is not given that same privilege or grace. When I got the script and [read] the end, when she’s screaming for Madeleine, I was really, really sad. How much can one person take?”
Throughout our conversation, however, Hayles reasserts that her affection for Claudia has never dimmed, and the tragedy of her story actually reveals her most important trait. “She’s a traumatic character, and she’s written sad, but to me, she’s the one vampire that has been dished out terrible dealings in life, but tries to seize life at the same time, seize every moment.”
Meanwhile, how is Louis coping in the aftermath of Claudia’s brutal truths? Anderson says that the reunion represents the closing of a certain chapter in the vampire’s life, but only to an extent. “I think there is a real finality to that scene. As brutal as the séance is, what comes out of it is really beautiful. What comes out of it is they saw her again, rather than just the memory of her. They remembered the frustration in her and the brutality of it for her. I think that they were able to hold some of that for her again, rather than it just being about their own grief and their own feelings of injustice.”
Anderson admits that he’d originally wanted Louis to have processed Claudia’s death by the end of Interview with the Vampire Season 2, but he’s realized since that grief will always be wrapped up in who Louis is, given that he’s lost so many people he cared about the most, both before and after being turned into a vampire. “It’s a part of him in the same way that his grief over Paul will be with him forever. His grief about how things went with Grace will stay with him forever. He was made in grief. They were the circumstances around his turning. I think that’s always going to be a part of his character and his being.” Yet, in the same breath, Anderson adds that he has different aspirations for Louis’ future now, speaking about him in quietly affectionate terms: “I just hope it’s less overwhelming for him going forward. As a friend, I want that for him.”
Regarding Claudia’s potential future on the show, well, fans of Anne Rice‘s book series know that her ghost comes back to haunt the narrative more than once, interacting with other characters besides Louis and Lestat. While this season treated fans to a double dose of Delainey Hayles, the actress confirms that she’d definitely be up for returning in some capacity moving forward. “She made a promise that she was going to come back and kill everybody, so I think she should just do that,” she declares with a laugh.
Jacob Anderson Has Complicated Feelings About ‘The Vampire Lestat’s Most Shocking Twist
As Lestat and Louis process the events of the seance in a nearby park, their choice to sit on a bench for more quiet conversation instantly calls back to some of their most introspective moments over the course of the entire series. Lestat questions why he’s developed the habit of actively pursuing failure, while Louis posits that it might stem from the eternal burden of their existence: “What’s to live for if there’s no end?” Both of them conclude, over the course of the conversation, that they have some work to do on themselves, which is a start. The episode’s closing minutes successfully lull the audience into a sense of calm — or maybe even hope about Louis and Lestat’s potential future together in a desert trailer park, growing evening primrose. Even a casual brush of fingers feels as significant as a kiss.
When Louis notices the newly turned vampire Alex (Seamus Patterson) watching them from beneath a nearby lamppost, it serves as enough of a distraction that they’re not aware of Armand and Daniel, disguised in Halloween masks, approaching them from behind until it’s too late. Louis and Lestat’s heads are neatly, unceremoniously severed from their bodies, and now there’s no telling what’s coming next in the finale. Chances are they’re not dead, but we also can’t imagine many good things are going to happen post-decapitation. Anderson reveals that this penultimate shocker was revealed to him and Reid fairly early on, but he can only say so much about why Armand and Daniel have taken action in the most brutal way possible. “That was one of the first things that Rolin pitched to Sam and I, told us was going to happen. And it was more about things that I won’t talk about necessarily right now. It was more about what happens after that.”
Funnily enough, it was Anderson’s time in another major fantasy franchise that actually resulted in him having a heads-up — pun intended — about what Louis’ precise fate would be. Any actor in Game of Thrones whose character was about to meet a certain fate always got a very specific summons. “There was always a thing where, if you get fitted for prosthetics, you’re probably going to die the next season.” When Jones approached Anderson and Reid long before Episode 6 was even filmed, the conversation included a familiar element. “He was like, ‘We’re going to have to do a head cast, so I should probably tell you why.’”
Anderson reiterates that he can’t give his full thoughts regarding the last scene of “Montreal” because of what will follow in the finale to provide added background for viewers — what motivated Armand and Daniel to do what they did, and how Louis will react to it, especially. Yet his cryptic response almost makes the wait for next week’s conclusion feel even longer. “I can’t really talk too much about that final moment, frustratingly, with all the context around it, because I have complicated feelings about that whole thing, physically as well as emotionally or psychologically.” What he will say, with a light shrug, is that it’s certainly a memorable way to end an episode: “I think it’s fun.”
The finale of The Vampire Lestat premieres next Sunday on AMC.
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Kamri Peterson recalled the exact moment she found out she would be part of the Dancing With the Stars troupe for season 35.
“I was in a hotel room. I was at a dance convention. I was in a hotel room all by myself. I got the call,” Peterson, 18, told Us exclusively at Dancing With the Stars Con 2026. “I was absolutely shocked and so excited.”
Peterson said it has “been a dream” of hers to return to DWTS since she took part in its short-lived spinoff DWTS: Juniors.
“I was just so excited. I really don’t think I’ve ever been so happy in my entire life,” she gushed. “I called my mom first, and then I called my dad, and then I called one of my best friends’ moms, Felicia, and then my best friend Malakai.”
Several Dancing With the Stars pro dancers began their journey in the ballroom in the troupe. The hit dance competition first introduced its troupe during 2011’s season 12, featuring a selection of performers who didn’t have a celebrity partner but still appeared in group numbers and their own “bumpers” between competitive routines. “When I first […]
News broke on Sunday, August 2, at the first-ever DWTS Con that Peterson will perform in the troupe for the upcoming season of the hit show. When Peterson appeared on DWTS: Juniors in 2018, she was partnered up with Little Big Shots alum Akash Vukoti with help from mentor Witney Carson.
“One of my favorite pros is Witney because she was my pro on Juniors, so I always feel like that’s so fun,” Peterson told Us. “I love Rylee [Arnold] because I grew up with [her], so it’s so fun seeing her.”
She continued: “But literally, there’s Dani[ella Karagach]. I grew up watching Dani even before I was on Juniors. I’d watch her videos on YouTube. Like, I have been a die-hard fan of Dani since before Juniors. I mean, before Dancing With the Stars. So, yeah, I mean, literally everyone. Everyone’s so good.”
Peterson said being on DWTS: Juniors was an experience that shaped her life, adding, “I just remember having the absolute time of my life. Like, literally, my favorite memories ever are from that show.”
She’s even more excited to return to the ballroom in this new chapter.
“This is my first performance with Dancing With the Stars since Dancing With the Stars: Juniors. I’m just so excited,” she shared from the Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, California. “It’s surreal because this is such a big dream of mine. So it’s been amazing, and I feel like everyone’s had a lot of fun. I’ve had a lot of fun. It’s been amazing.”
ABC has yet to announce the rest of the season 35 troupe members — or the pro roster — but so far, fans can expect to see celebs Ciara Miller, Maura Higgins, Jackson Olson and Guillermo Rodriguez competing in the ballroom this fall.
Peterson, meanwhile, is looking forward to leaving her mark, telling Us, “I want to inspire the younger generation. I want them to see that dance doesn’t have to be so serious. It can also be something that’s just fun because I feel like, at least for me, dance is something that I do because I enjoy it, not because I have to.”
She concluded: “And I feel like sometimes people get a little distracted by the fact that ‘Oh, we have to win, we have to do this, we have to do that,’ but also we dance because we love it, so I think I want to show people that dance can be fun. It doesn’t always have to be competitive and scary.”
Dancing With the Stars returns to ABC with a two-night premiere starting Tuesday, September 15.
Last July, Rasheeda Frost let her supporters know: “I ain’t never leaving Kirk.” That line alone had the freestyle buzzing across the internet. While some found humor in her approach to long-standing shade against her husband, others kept the hate train choo-chooing! More than a year later, Rasheeda is resurfacing her iconic lyrics to participate in a viral TikTok trend. Now, fans are divided as they debate the couple’s relationship history and Kirk Frost’s infidelities.
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Rasheeda Frost Uses Viral Lyrics In TikTok Trend
Mrs. Frost dropped by Antoinette Media for a chat and participated in an acting challenge that’s been sweeping the internet. Folks have been picking a quote and repeating it in different emotional tones. In Rasheeda’s case, she used the tones happy, sad, sarcastic, disappointed, angry and flirty. Each time she repeated the phrase, “I ain’t leaving Kirk.” She appeared to enjoy the internet challenge and seemingly put her all into each acting cue. As mentioned, Rasheeda Frost debuted the freestyle rap that features those lyrics in July 2025.
Recap Of Kirk Frost’s Track Record
More than 10 years ago, Kirk Frost gagged his and Rasheeda’s fans after they learned of his cheating ways. During ‘Love & Hip Hop ATL’ S2 airing in 2013, his wife revealed her pregnancy with son Karter. Kirk’s reaction appeared to be less than ideal as he asked Rasheeda for an abortion and questioned who the father was. Later in S2 of ‘LHHATL’, camera caught Kirk Frost kissing and partying with two women or as most people call it: cheating. By the following year, in 2014, Kirk acted on his doubt toward his wife and tested Karter’s DNA. By 2017, Jasmine Washington came forward with her and Kirk Frost’s affair. Approximately two years laterk, court-ordered DNA proved he was the father. Their son was secretly born in 2016 and the following year she joined the ‘LHHATL’ cast, where her and Kirk’s coparenting issues got air time.
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Mara Wilson and company have done a lot since leaving Crunchem Hall Elementary School.
Todd Tucker has raised eyebrows after taking to social media to ask, “How young is too young?” when it comes to dating.
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Todd Tucker Asks Question About Dating: “How Young Is Too Young?”
On Monday, August 3, Todd Tucker took to Instagram with a question for the internet to weigh in on. Furthermore, he noted that he’s always “asking for a friend,” but was wondering, as one gets back into the dating world, “How young is too young?”
“And is there an age that’s too old?” he continued. “So my body said if you’re gonna go younger, you have to go your oldest child’s age, and add eight years. So my daughter Kayla is what? 30? So eight years is 38. Is that appropriate? Imma be 53. Then, another friend said it’s half your age plus seven… And then how old is too old? Can I go 60? 65?”
Todd Tucker Raises Eyebrows With Question About Dating
Social media users entered TSR’s comment section with raised eyebrows to Todd Tucker’s question about dating.
Instagram user @brittani__nicole wrote, “If you gotta ask I’m suspicious 🤔”
While Instagram user @spunky_brewstah added, “If you gotta ask 😏 knowing good and damn well you just added that ‘how old is too old’ for razzle dazzle. However I am not razzled nor am I dazzled so…”
Instagram user @tamashintl wrote, “Date your age group. You’ll have more in common and lots to talk about than someone slightly older than your daughter. Simple as that.”
While Instagram user @rosekransmami added, “🌽 He always single and looking lol he never had these questions when he was married and cheating”
Instagram user @md29creations wrote, “Asking for a friend, okay Todd😂”
While Instagram user @laysia_jaayy added, “He trying to see how young he can go without scrutiny”
Instagram user @boriibillions__ wrote, “Men think the single life so fun until you 50 divorced & on the internet asking questions you know the answer to all because you want attention from your ex wife .”
While Instagram user @jeliroleearthwalker added, “I liked him better. When he was married and quiet”
Instagram user @mochalamode wrote, “IF YOU GOTTA ASK YOU SHOULDN’T BE DOING IT🧐🤔🙁😐”
While Instagram user @legendary_berry added, “If you’re even asking this question, I think you know the answer.”
Instagram user @yellow_dymond wrote, “The ink just dried on the divorce decree🫠”
While Instagram user @yasmeeniana added, “He’s scheming. I can see it in his eyes.”
Instagram user @dewithluv wrote, “Too old to be using the wrong ‘to/too’ I can say that much”
His & Kandi Burruss’ daughter, Riley, Recently Opened Up About Their Divorce
As The Shade Room previously reported, Kandi Burruss announced her and Todd Tucker’s split in November 2025. This, after they were married for almost 12 years. Last month, their daughter Riley opened up about the impact of their divorce.
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Alan Ritchson is rapidly becoming the King of Hollywood, with the rate he’s going at. We’re running out of characters to describe the sheer number of projects he’s got on the go, but this next one might be the most ambitious project he’s signed up to yet. His appearance in Fast X seems to have given him a taste for high octane thrills, because he’s doing his own take on the mega franchise.
Deadline is reporting that Netflix has partnered with Ritchson on an untitled MotoGP-set heist thriller, which will serve as the first project under the actor’s newly signed first-look feature deal with the streamer. Ritchson will both star in and produce the film through his Dancing Skeleton banner, with longtime Fast & Furious writer Chris Morgan penning the screenplay. MotoGP is fully involved with the project and will consult on it for Ritchson. The announcement comes just days after Ritchson revealed he had acquired the rights to MotoGP while speaking on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
“I got the rights to MotoGP. I love motorcycles. They’re so fun. I want to tell stories about it. I want to make a cool, Fast and Furious kind of thing for motorcycles, like international.”
He also revealed he’d already begun extensive stunt preparation for the film, which he’s clearly keen to be involved with practically on every level, if he can be.
“I had just set up a film where I would be riding every bike in that thing and riding it in crazy scenarios. So I really got to know how to do every kind of stunt. I have every kind of bike you can imagine, all levels of stunt bikes, dirt bikes, and I practice on these things all the time.”
Alan Ritchson Will Partner With Netflix
The MotoGP thriller also signals Netflix’s growing confidence in Ritchson following the enormous success of War Machine. The sci-fi action blockbuster amassed 139.9 million views during its first 91 days, becoming one of Netflix’s biggest original movie hits and earning an immediate sequel.
Under the new first-look deal, Ritchson will star in and produce multiple feature films for Netflix. He’s already attached to headline Maelstrom, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, while also fronting an untitled survival competition series for the streamer.
No release date has yet been announced for the untitled MotoGP heist thriller. In the meantime, Ritchson returns as Jack Reacher when Season 4 premieres on Prime Video on August 12.
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February 3, 2022
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Prime Video
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Nick Santora
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Omar Madha, Carol Banker, Julian Holmes, Lin Oeding, M.J. Bassett, Norberto Barba, Stephen Surjik, Thomas Vincent
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Cait Duffy
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Fall TV used to mean broadcast premieres and little else, but streaming has completely taken over the season at this point, and this year’s crop is an unusually strong mix: a Marvel trilogy finale, a slasher icon’s origin story, a Stephen King adaptation from the genre’s most trusted current voice, and two Hollywood A-listers playing exaggerated versions of themselves. These are all new series, not returning seasons, with confirmed premiere dates.
A fun fact here is that it’s a genuinely franchise-heavy lineup, which speaks to where streaming has landed in 2026: almost nothing on this list is an original concept created from scratch, and yet, all of them are original in their creation process. Each entry is either expanding a universe, adapting a book, or trading on a real person’s life story, a reminder that even in a fall full of wild swings, the safest bet studios can make right now is attaching a project to something audiences know. Here are the seven new streaming shows that debut in fall 2026.
‘Neagley’ (2026)
Maria Sten steps out of Reacher‘s shadow in the spin-off Neagley, where she plays the titular character Frances Neagley. Neagley is Reacher’s former Army protégé who has since established a career as a Chicago private investigator. When a friend from her past dies in suspicious circumstances, Neagley applies everything she learned to investigate the case. Unlike Reacher‘s rotating cast and town-to-town structure, Neagley stays rooted in one city with a recurring ensemble, which is a departure from the formula but will allow for deeper relationships and longer-simmering plots compared to Reacher’s episodic wandering. Alan Ritchson appears as a guest star, reprising Reacher, presumably to ease the transition for fans who have only seen Neagley as a supporting character.
Though not a prominent figure in Lee Child‘s original novels, Neagley has genuinely been one of the most well-received characters in the Reacher ensemble since the show’s first season, making this spin-off as much a bet on Sten’s performance as on the source material itself. Neagley will have eight episodes, and they’re set to premiere on the same day as the Reacher Season 4 finale, allowing fans to jump from one to the next without missing a beat. It seems Amazon wants this to feel like an extension of the binge rather than a separate event; it’s a significant structural gamble for the streamer, as it essentially splits a hit series into two concurrent shows rather than one larger season.
‘Brothers’ (2026)
In the eight-episode comedy Brothers, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play fictionalized versions of themselves, long-time friends whose bond is disrupted when a family secret reveals they may be brothers. After Harrelson’s daughter’s wedding fails, he and his family travel to McConaughey’s Texas ranch for what is supposed to be a healing retreat, only for the secret to come out and make both men spiral, with McConaughey’s potential run for Texas governor complicating matters even more. It’s a reunion of the True Detective co-stars in a much lighter register, created by the pair alongside Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read, and it draws directly on years of genuine speculation about the two actors’ resemblance to one another.
The series has had an unusually long road to air: Apple ordered it in March 2023, shot it in late 2024 and mid-2025, and only set a 2026 release date, meaning fans have been waiting well over three years to see it. Even by prestige TV standards, such a gap is unusual, but as conflict happens on set sometimes, the show did go through its ups and downs; the release was also influenced by the switch in production companies and showrunners. The first two episodes will premiere on September 23, with new episodes released weekly, leaning on a classic Apple TV schedule and giving the show a full seven-week run rather than a single binge dump.
‘Carrie’ (2026)
Mike Flanagan directs the first television adaptation of Stephen King’s 1974 debut novel Carrie, and this comes after his signing with Prime Video in 2022 and a delayed attempt at adapting The Dark Tower (Flanagan called this project “one of the most complicated to adapt”). Summer H. Howell stars as Carrie White, a sheltered teenager who lives with an overbearing Catholic mother (Samantha Sloyan) and attends public high school for the first time. As she becomes the target of a bullying campaign around school, her telekinetic abilities begin to emerge.
King serves as an executive producer on the series, while Flanagan continues his now well-established track record of faithfully adapting his work while finding new angles. Flanagan has thus far adapted Gerald’s Game, The Life of Chuck, and Doctor Sleep and shows no signs of slowing down. All eight episodes will air at the same time, building to the same prom-night climax that audiences have come to expect for decades, but Flanagan spends far more time than previous adaptations establishing who Carrie is before that night arrives. Every screen adaptation since Brian De Palma’s 1976 original has essentially been chasing that film’s legacy, and this series is the first attempt to tell the story over eight hours rather than two.
‘VisionQuest’ (2026)
VisionQuest, the third and final installment in the trilogy that began with WandaVision and moved on through Agatha All Along, reintroduces Paul Bettany as the reconstructed “White Vision”, now working to reclaim the memories and humanity that were taken away from him. James Spader returns as Ultron for the first time since 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron in this reimagined story about fathers, sons, and inherited trauma, with Ultron serving as both antagonist and, in his own twisted way, family. Terry Matalas, the showrunner behind Star Trek: Picard, is the showrunner, while other recurring roles include Ruaridh Mollica as an older version of Tommy Maximoff, one of Wanda and Vision’s twin sons, Orla Brady, T’Nia Miller, and James D’Arcy.
The series has undergone multiple title changes and years of development since it was first reported in 2022, demonstrating how much Marvel has restructured its television plans since the initial post-Endgame streaming push. It’s being billed as the true conclusion to a story that began with grief and domestic fantasy in WandaVision and has gradually progressed to Vision confronting his own creator ever since. It’s an eight-episode series and, according to Marvel, their final live-action show of the year, capping off Marvel’s noticeably slower release schedule compared to the flood of shows released in 2021 and 2022. It’s also part of Phase Six of the MCU, which began with The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
‘Crystal Lake’ (2026)
Linda Cardellini stars as Pamela Voorhees in the A24-produced prequel to the Friday the 13th franchise, Crystal Lake, which marks the series’ first meaningful new entry in years. The show, set mostly in 1970 and 1971, follows Pam a year after her young son Jason drowns at Camp Crystal Lake, a grief she can’t get over, which is made more difficult when two strangers arrive in town and begin digging into her past. It’s more of a character-driven approach than the slasher film series, focusing on the woman who becomes the franchise’s original killer before Jason ever picks up a machete, and the series will feature multiple versions of Jason throughout its run, played in part by Callum Vinson as a child.
Crystal Lake arrives amid a genuinely tangled rights history: a long legal battle between showrunners and writers ensued, with even Bryan Fuller and Kevin Williamson having been attached to the project at some point, which explains why fans have gone so long without any new Friday the 13th material, despite the franchise’s enduring popularity. The current and official showrunner is Brad Caleb Kane, fresh off It: Welcome to Derry, and he produced all eight episodes. Crystal Lake will premiere all of its episodes on the same day, mid-October, just before Halloween arrives. Fun fact, there are three Friday the 13ths in 2026, which is the maximum possible number of them in a single year.
‘Yaga’ (2026)
Created by playwright Kat Sandler and adapted from her own stage play, Yaga reimagines the Slavic folklore figure of Baba Yaga as a contemporary mystery thriller set in a small coastal town. Noah Reid plays Rapp, a private investigator called in when Henry Park (Hudson Williams), heir to the town’s powerful fishery, vanishes without explanation, pulling Rapp into conflict with a wary local detective, Carson (Clark Backo), and a magnetic university professor Katherine (Carrie-Anne Moss), all while the case delves further into folklore and long-buried town secrets.
The eight-episode series will premiere all at once, and each episode has a runtime of about half an hour, similar to some recent genre-bending hits like Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. Yaga debuted its first teaser at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2026, and with Williams on board, it’s set to be a hit, considering his skyrocketed fame after Heated Rivalry (reportedly, the tickets for the play sold out after Williams was announced as a cast member). Yaga is set to stream on AMC+ in the U.S., but an exact October date is still to be confirmed as of now; from what can be seen in the trailer, it leans just as much on atmosphere as it does on its central mystery. Furthermore, it looks like some of the shows we enjoyed watching in the 2010s, and a nostalgic moment is always welcome.
‘The Greatest’ (2026)
The Greatest, executive produced by Muhammad Ali‘s widow, Lonnie Ali, and Michael B. Jordan, is the first authorized scripted series about Ali’s life, chronicling his rise from Cassius Clay to the world’s most recognizable athlete in eight episodes. Jaalen Best stars as Ali throughout his life, with Omari Hardwick as his father, Cassius Clay Sr., and Michael Ealy as Malcolm X, rounding out a cast designed to carry the series through both his athletic triumphs and the political and personal battles that accompanied them, from his opposition to the Vietnam draft to his involvement in the civil rights movement.
Showrunner Ben Watkins created the series with the direct involvement of Ali’s family, aiming for an intimate portrait rather than a highlight reel, focusing as much on what Ali sacrificed as what he achieved. The project and premiere date were revealed at this year’s ESSENCE Festival of Culture in New Orleans, which sees Prime Video attempting to position the show within Black cultural institutions rather than treating it as a standard sports biopic release. Filming took place across Ontario, Toronto, and Hamilton to represent the various American cities that defined the different stages of Ali’s career.
‘The Good Daughter’ (2026)
Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy play sisters Samantha and Charlotte Quinn in the six-episode limited series The Good Daughter, adapted by Karin Slaughter from her own novel with the same title. Nearly thirty years after Samantha and Charlotte’s family suffered a violent event, Charlotte, now a lawyer like their father, becomes the first witness to a new attack that reveals a small town’s long-buried history. Slaughter, best known for her novels Will Trent and Pieces of Her (both turned into hit series subsequently), wrote every episode and serves as showrunner. Besides Fahy and Byrne, Brendan Gleeson and Olivia Williams round out the cast in a story that focuses on the long, complicated aftermath of trauma.
Jessica Biel was originally cast in the lead role in 2024, but she left the production months later, with Fahy and Byrne taking over. Steph Green, who previously directed on HBO’s Duster, directs all six episodes, giving the series a consistent directorial voice rather than the rotating-director approach that many limited series employ. With a female showrunner, writer, and director, as well as two compelling female leads, The Good Daughter looks to be a great addition to a growing trend of women in television. All six episodes of the show will premiere on the same day, making it one of the year’s final major scripted premieres before the holiday programming rush dominates most platforms’ release calendars.
‘Blade Runner 2099’ (2026)
Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, we revisit a futuristic Los Angeles yet again in the limited series Blade Runner 2099, which closes out the fall calendar as one of Prime Video’s biggest swings; as much as fans are excited, they’re also skeptical. Michelle Yeoh plays Olwen, a veteran Replicant Blade Runner on the verge of retirement who is forced to collaborate with Cora (Hunter Schafer), a fugitive human posing as a replicant, as the two are dragged into a conspiracy that dates back to the city’s foundational moments.
Silka Luisa, who previously created Apple TV’s Shining Girls, is the series’ showrunner, with Ridley Scott serving as an executive producer, five years after the show was first announced by Scott himself in 2021; production was repeatedly delayed by the 2023 Hollywood strikes and a lengthy post-production process. The eight episodes will be released simultaneously in all countries covered by Prime Video, a fittingly massive rollout for a franchise that has been relevant and sustained for decades; the first teaser, unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con, leaned heavily on the established legacy by showing a grim, replicant-dominated vision of the city’s future, showing why Blade Runner 2099 is one of the year’s most anticipated premieres
Blade Runner 2099
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2026 – 2027-00-00
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Prime Video
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Silka Luisa
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Jonathan van Tulleken
Called an “unrivaled cinematic spectacle” in Joe Schmidt‘s review for Collider, and earning near-perfect scores from both critics and audiences on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Christopher Nolan‘s historical epic The Odysseyhas risen to the huge expectations set by the master of the 21st century blockbuster. After a successful third weekend at the box office, The Odyssey has now hit an enormous $911 million worldwide, and is set to become the third billion-dollar film in Nolan’s catalog, after The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.
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Sunglasses have a way of completing an outfit, and the Nader sisters know a thing or two about pulling out a look. So, we’re not surprised that Brooks, Mary Holland, Grace Ann, and Sarah Jane partnered with Quay to release a sunglasses collection that reflects each of them individually and as a family. You can shop the many styles now starting at $49.
This Made to Be Seen collection offers a range of colors and silhouettes — some new to Quay — so even if you’re a fan of the brand, you’ll find sunglasses you don’t already own. We love that there are familiar neutral colors, like black, tortoise and tonal finishes. But you’ll also find pops of pink and green for when your outfit needs a fun boost.
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When it comes to silhouettes, there are oversized options like Nightfall Remix, No Comment, and Clock It. For more narrow picks, there are smaller styles like Nevermind, Hit Single and Aura Points. We know that it can be tricky to select sunglasses online, but Quay offers a “Try on Virtually” feature, so you can see what you’d look like in a particular pair.
“This collection is really a reflection of who we are individually and together,” said the Nader sisters in Quay materials.
“Each of us has such a different personal style, but sisterhood has always been at the center of everything we do. We wanted these frames to feel fun, confident, versatile and like the perfect finishing touch no matter your vibe.”
Whether you prefer square sunglasses or oval ones, these picks are all about being seen and feeling confident. The new styles are already getting a thumbs up for just how good they look.
“They’re so fashionable, comfortable and durable. They also don’t leave the imprint on your nose when you take them off. They’re so cute, I think I may purchase the brown-colored ones,” one five-star reviewer wrote about the No Comment style.
Quay is an Australian sunglasses brand known for its high-quality yet reasonably priced sunglasses, so you won’t find a single pair above $125 is the Nader sisters’ set.
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Few sci-fi franchises have successfully reinvented themselves as dramatically as this acclaimed military space opera did back in the early 2000s. Reimagining a cult classic that had long divided fans and whose production company was sued by Star Wars‘ 20th Century Fox over alleged similarities, the reboot abandoned the original’s light-hearted space adventure in favor of a darker, post-apocalyptic drama. The result was a groundbreaking series that reshaped audiences’ expectations of sci-fi television through its exploration of religion, artificial intelligence, politics, and humanity’s fight for survival.
From Star Trek veteran Ronald D. Moore, the 95%-rated Battlestar Galactica premiered as a three-hour miniseries on the Sci Fi Channel in December 2003 before expanding into a four-season series that concluded on March 20, 2009. In the years following its dramatic 2009 finale, the genre-defining political drama has bounced between streaming services, making it difficult for new viewers to watch the complete saga in one place. However, now, fans have another opportunity to own the entire series.
According to MovieWeb, Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series returns on Blu-ray from Universal on August 11, 2026. The 21-disc collection includes the complete four-season series along with the original miniseries, totaling 4,171 minutes of content. While this is not a new 4K restoration, the set presents the series in 1080p high definition with its original 1.78:1 aspect ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, and English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles.
How Does ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Hold Up?
Starring Edward James Olmos as Commander (later Admiral) William Adama and Mary McDonnell as President Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica follows the last survivors of humanity after the robotic Cylons launch a devastating genocidal attack on the Twelve Colonies. Forced into exile aboard a ragtag fleet led by the older titular ship, apparently the only military capital ship that survived the Cylons’ attack, the survivors set out in search of the mythical Thirteenth Colony: Earth.
Unlike most space operas, Battlestar Galactica features no alien civilizations. Instead, its central conflict revolves around humanity’s war against the Cylons, human-made sentient machines. The series also distinguishes itself with a grounded approach to combat, favoring ballistic weapons, rail guns, and missiles over the energy weapons commonly associated with the genre, like lasers. Beyond its military action, the space opera examines the moral choices survivors must make as they deal with the decline of the human race and their war with the Cylons.
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series arrives on August 11. Preorder yours here.
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2004 – 2009-00-00
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Wayne Rose, Michael Nankin, Rod Hardy, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Edward James Olmos, Robert M. Young, Jeff Woolnough, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Jonas Pate, Allan Kroeker, Anthony Hemingway, Jean de Segonzac, Marita Grabiak, James Head, Paul A. Edwards, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Brad Turner, Ronald D. Moore, Bill Eagles
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Carla Robinson, Michael Taylor, Bradley Thompson, David Weddle, Jane Espenson, Mark Verheiden, Michael Angeli, Anne Cofell Saunders, Jeff Vlaming, Michael Rymer, Dawn Prestwich, Nicole Yorkin, Seamus Kevin Fahey
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