First, look at what’s coming to Apple TV this week. As a reminder, you can read about what’s new on Apple TV every week with our weekly roundups. The latest TV Shows scheduled to hit Apple TV this Week are below.
The Orville
Creators: Seth MacFarlane
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Cast: Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, Jessica Szohr, J. Lee
Synopsis: Set 400 years in the future, the show follows the adventures of the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in Earth’s interstellar Fleet. Facing cosmic challenges from without and within, this motley crew of space explorers will boldly go where no comedic drama has gone before.
The Staircase
Creators: Antonio Campos
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Dane DeHaan, Olivia DeJonge, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sophie Turner
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Synopsis: Tells the story of Michael Peterson, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen after she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home, and the 16-year judicial battle that followed.
HPI
Creators: Stéphane Carrié, Alice Chegaray-Breugnot, Nicolas Jean
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Cast: Audrey Fleurot, Mehdi Nebbou, Bruno Sanches, Marie Denarnaud, Bérangere McNeese, Cypriane Gardin
Synopsis: One night, while working as a cleaning lady in a police station, Morgane can’t resist “tidying up” the elements on an investigation board. When the cops return the next day, they realize she’s brought them a giant step closer to finding the suspect. It turns out Morgane has High Intellectual Potential. But her 160 IQ has never really helped Morgane in her everyday life. After questioning her and testing her method, the police decide to bring her on board to help them track down and catch highly intelligent criminals. Despite the mismatched duo she forms with the brigade’s captain, their first joint effort is a success. Morgane strikes a deal with the cops: she agrees to work for them, but in exchange they have to work for her, reopening a missing persons investigation into her first love, who vanished fifteen years ago, when she was pregnant with her first child.
Halo
Creators: Steven Kane, Kyle Killen
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Cast: Pablo Schreiber, Yerin Ha, Natascha McElhone, Shabana Azmi, Natasha Culzac, Bokeem Woodbine, Kate Kennedy
Synopsis: Aliens threaten human existence in an epic 26th-century showdown. TV series based on the video game ‘Halo.’
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Creators: Dan Goor, Michael Schur
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Cast: Andy Samberg, Andre Braugher, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Chelsea Peretti, Stephanie Beatriz, Joe Lo Truglio
Synopsis: A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
We Own This City
Creators: George Pelecanos, David Simon
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama
Cast: Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, McKinley Belcher III, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Josh Charles, Dagmara Domińczyk
Synopsis: The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.
Outlander
Creators: John Dahl
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Cast: Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Lotte Verbeek, Gary Lewis, Graham McTavish, Laura Donnelly
Synopsis: Follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world in which her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate relationship is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Euphoria
Creators: Sam Levinson
Genres: Drama
Cast: Zendaya, Alexa Demie, Austin Abrams, Algee Smith, Hunter Schafer, Barbie Ferreria, Maude Apatow
Synopsis: A look at life for a group of high school students as they grapple with issues of drugs, sex and violence. The series focuses on the relationship between two young girls trying to find their place in the world: recovering addict Rue and new-in-town Jules.
This Is Us
Creators: Dan Fogelman
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullivan
Synopsis: Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday – and so much more than anyone would expect.
And Just Like That…
Creators: Michael Patrick King, Darren Star
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Sara Ramirez
Synopsis: The series will follow Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.