What's on TV this week—East Of Eden and War premiere
Plus, the season (series?) finale of Futurama
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Welcome to What’s On, our weekly roundup of notable shows. Here is what’s happening on TV from Sunday, September 27 to Saturday, October 3. All times are Eastern.
Futurama (Hulu, Monday, season 11 finale) The 180th episode of the animated sci-fi sitcom—which centers on a childhood flashback of Fry (Billy West) and his brother Yancy (Tom Kenny) sneaking into a PG-13 movie as kids, an event that triggers “shocking consequences for the future”—was reportedly penned as a potential series finale for the long-running show. But Hulu has already greenlit Futurama’s future: Rather than a standard 10-episode block for season 15, the show will come back as three hourlong streaming specials (dubbed “XXXL-Sized”), which will kick off in 2027 with an Xmas-related edition.
War (HBO and HBO Max, Thursday, 9 p.m., series premiere) This HBO legal anthology from George Kay (Lupin, Criminal) was ordered upfront as a two-season package, so a follow-up featuring Marissa Tomei, Kelly Macdonald, and David Harewood is already in the works. Before all that, though, we have to meet Cathcarts & Sons and Taylor & Byrne, two rival London law firms clashing over the high-stakes, headline-dominating divorce between British tech entrepreneur Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and his film-star wife Carla Duval (Sienna Miller). The case draws young lawyer Jonathan “Johnny” Warren (Archie Renaux) into a ruthless world where ambition and betrayal reign supreme. Read The A.V. Club’s take on the new drama later this week.
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