What's on TV this week—Small Prophets and Below premiere

Welcome to What’s On, our weekly roundup of notable shows. Here is what’s happening on TV from Sunday, October 4 to Saturday, October 10. All times are Eastern.

Small Prophets (Apple TV, Wednesday, series premiere) After premiering in the U.K. in February, this weird little wonder has made its way across the pond and brought all of its quirky magical realism with it. Created, written, and directed by Mackenzie Crook, the story follows Michael Sleep (Pearce Quigley), a hardware store worker living in a Manchester cul-de-sac and grieving the disappearance of his partner Clea seven years prior. With the support of his eccentric dad Brian (Michael Palin), Sleep sets out to create homunculi—tiny, prophesying beings that reside in glass jars full of water (rendered here via stop-motion animation)—to find out what happened to Clea. Read The A.V. Club’s take on the series on Tuesday.

Below (Netflix, Thursday, series premiere) Josh Hartnett captains this six-episode Canadian thriller, whose logline is giving Widow’s Bay with the Jaws levels turned way up: Hartnett plays Calvin Penney, a hard-bitten fisherman living in a remote Newfoundland community that’s being terrorized by a mysterious, violent sea creature lurking in the local waters. Determined to keep his son Wade (Charlie Heaton) safe and protect their community, Calvin teams up with a visiting marine biologist (Mackenzie Davis) to uncover the dark secrets hidden deep in the ocean. Find The A.V. Club’s series review on Thursday.

Eternally Yours (CBS, Thursday, 8:30 p.m., series premiere) Marriages are bound to fall into a bit of a rut after some years—but imagine being wed to someone for centuries. Such is the case for Charles (Ed Weeks) and Liz (Allegra Edwards), a married vampire couple who have been together for 500 years, only to find their once-passionate hot-and-heavy romance has turned bloodless and stale. That monotonous routine gets a welcome jolt when their daughter Emma (Helen J. Shen) brings home her very earnest and very human boyfriend Max (Jaren Lewison). The single-cam, half-hour sitcom comes from Ghosts’ Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, and also stars Parker Young, Rose Abdoo, and Jeff Hiller. Check out The A.V. Club’s review on Monday.