Apple TV+ adds eight new titles to its queue in October, and all of them are full of plots and dramas you’ll want to see. From a new season of Maya Rudolph’s Loot and the premiere of a Jason Clarke-led thriller series to must-see films and documentaries, there’s more than enough to keep you entertained. There’s even Matthew McConaughey.
Here’s everything new coming to Apple TV+ in October 2025.
The Lost Bus
I told you McConaughey was driving this schedule, and I meant it. His newest film, The Lost Bus, premieres on October 3. Buckle up, because this survival thriller is a white-knuckle ride through one of America’s deadliest wildfires.
Inspired by actual events, the A-list neo-hippie stars as Kevin McKay, a determined father and wayward school bus driver who risks his life to rescue a teacher (America Ferrera) and her 22 students from a monstrous inferno creeping up on their school. He was only meant to take them a few miles to a rendezvous point, but as conditions rapidly worsen, their trip becomes a five-hour odyssey to survive. The Lost Bus compellingly explores both strategic and ground-level perspectives by viscerally trapping viewers inside a school bus surrounded by smoke and fire to dramatize the disaster on multiple levels.
Loosely based on former San Francisco Chronicle reporter Lizzie Johnson’s 2022 account of 2018’s Camp Fire, Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, the film does, of course, take its own liberties. The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California’s Butte County was one of the state’s deadliest and most destructive, killing 85 people and destroying communities—most famously the town of Paradise.
Directed by Paul Greengrass, of the Jason Bourne movies, The Lost Bus makes its streaming debut on Friday, October 3, 2025.
The Lost Bus
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October 3, 2025
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130 minutes
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Paul Greengrass
The Sisters Grimm
Based on Michael Buckley’s New York Times bestseller series, The Sisters Grimm is an all-new animated fantasy series about the journey of adventure and heart in two sleuth-solving sisters, who are—because I know you’re wondering—descendants of the Brothers Grimm, though very different.
While investigating the mystery of their missing parents, two orphaned sisters navigate a town full of people torn straight from fantasy and fairy tales, confronting heroes and villains alike. The series features a stellar voice cast, including Ariel Winter (Modern Family) as Sabrina, the legendary Laraine Newman, of Saturday Night Live, as Relda, Raised by Wolves’ Abubakar Salim as Charming, Ted Lasso’s Billy Harris as Puck, Harry Tevaldwyn (How to Train Your Dragon) as Mirror, and Leah Newman, of The Boys, as Daphne.
The Sisters Grimm premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday, October 3, 2025.
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars
When I think of cooking shows, Iron Chef, Gordon Ramsay, and The Bear come to mind, with the latter having deepened our obsession with star ratings. In this case, we’re following a Ramsay production. Yelling and insults are TBD.
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars is a documentary series offering rare access to the high-stakes world of Michelin-starred dining. Food expert and co-founder of global food-and-travel platform TOPJAW Jesse Burgess hosts. Across eight episodes, you’ll travel to some of the most compelling culinary destinations on Earth, like New York, the Nordics, Italy, and Chicago. At each restaurant stop, chefs open their kitchens as they chase their first or next Michelin star.
Expect unprecedented access to Michelin, including rare, on-the-record interviews with anonymous inspectors. This documentary series doesn’t just deliver a chef’s-eye view of one of the culinary world’s most elusive honors, it also brings us those human stories full of emotion that drive the pursuit of perfection.
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars premieres globally on Friday, October 10, 2025.
The Last Frontier
I have screened this 10-episode series, and I can personally attest to its thrilling intrigue. The Last Frontier pins you to your seat from the opening scene and keeps you there, clean through until the end. You’ll love it.
Jason Clarke (Oppenheimer, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty) stars as Frank Remnick, the lone U.S. Marshal in charge of the quiet, rugged Alaskan frontier. His jurisdiction turns into a frigid nightmare when a prison transport plane crashes in the remote wilderness, setting loose dozens of violent inmates. It’s now up to Frank to protect his town, but everything changes when he begins to suspect the crash wasn’t an accident, but rather the first step of a very well-crafted plan with devastating, far-reaching implications.
This series is extremely well written, with carefully thought-out subplots that are just as intriguing as the main one. Its narrative is layered and complex but tightly presented and well-acted to the point that each episode feels like its own mini-movie. It’s also nice to see Clarke in such a dynamic protagonist role. He gives a nuanced performance that will hopefully pull him out of that highly underrated-actor category and cast him in more spotlights.
Oh! For any Reservation Dogs fans out there, you’ll be happy to know that William Knifeman (Dallas Goldtooth) gives a fabulous supporting performance as well. Also starring in the series are Dominic Cooper, of Preacher, Alfre Woodard (Luke Cage), and Yellowjackets’ Simone Kessell.
The Last Frontier premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday, October 10, 2025, with two episodes. From there, remaining episodes will roll out weekly through December 5, 2025.
The Last Frontier
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October 10, 2025
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Apple TV+
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Sam Hargrave
Loot (Season Three)
Maya Rudolph is back as quirky philanthropic billionaire Molly Wells in Loot, Season Three, and we’ll finally get to see what she and her group of misfits have been up to since that season two cliffhanger finale, which saw Molly hit with a lot of blowback from fellow billionaires about stepping up philanthropy. It also saw more of the awkward will-they-won’t-they interaction with her colleague Arthur (The Way Way Back’s Nat Faxon). As a result, Molly and her assistant, Nicholas (Joel Kim Booster, of Big Mouth), boarded Molly’s private jet to get as far away from it all as possible.
Season three finds Molly continuing her journey of self-discovery after that fat $87 billion divorce settlement, thriving in her role as the head of her philanthropic organization, the Wells Foundation. She’s landed the jet and is back—bigger, bolder, richer, and with a fresh perspective. We’ll continue following the antics of the Foundation’s beloved group of misfits as they work together towards Molly’s promise of giving away all of her vast fortune.
Loot, season three, will see its two-episode premiere on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Episodes will air weekly on Wednesdays through December 10, 2025.
Mr. Scorsese
If you just watched that First Look trailer above, you now know the Director’s Cut of Martin Scorsese’s iconic Taxi Driver almost never saw the light of day, and that the visionary had to go to extreme lengths to protect it. Acclaimed filmmaker Rebecca Miller (She Came to Me, Personal Velocity) returns with another silver screen must-see—this time with a five-part film portrait of one of Hollywood’s most emblematic directors, producers, and writers, Martin Scorsese.
Mr. Scorsese is the portrait of a man through the lens of his work and explores the many facets of a visionary who redefined filmmaking, including his extraordinary career and unique personal history. The Apple TV Original documentary series features exclusive, unrestricted access to Scorsese’s private archives and is bookended by extensive conversations with the man himself, as well as never-before-seen interviews with family, friends, and creative collaborators, who include Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Cate Blanchett, and more.
Cinephiles will want to see how Scorsese’s colorful life experiences informed his artistic vision, as each film he made stunned the world with originality. Beginning with his NYU student films and continuing right on through to present-day films, Mr. Scorsese also explores the themes that have fascinated the filmmaker and informed his work, including the place of good and evil in the fundamental nature of humankind.
Mr. Scorsese premieres in its entirety on Friday, October 17, 2025.
Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost
In the endearing hour-and-a-half-long documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, Ben Stiller gives a heartfelt tribute to his parents, comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, while traversing his family’s legacy. In telling their story, the award-winning actor and director explores his parents’ impact both on popular culture and at home, where the lines between family, life, creativity, and art often went unnoticed.
Though he didn’t particularly want to, Stiller also turns the camera on himself and his own family to examine Jerry and Anne’s enormous influence on their lives, understanding that, in order to expose his parents, he must also expose himself. His film also addresses the generational lessons we can all learn from those we love, if we just take the time to inquire and listen.
The documentary uses archival recordings, footage, and letters as well as interviews with friends and collaborators of the late couple to tell the complete story of the groundbreaking comedy duo, and the challenges and insecurities that come along with being a showbiz family.
Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday, October 24, 2025.
Down Cemetery Road
Adapted from award-winning author Mick Herron’s novel of the same name from the Zoë Boehm book series, Down Cemetery Road is a new British thriller series starring the inimitable Dame Emma Thompson.
When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbor Sarah Tucker (Ruth Wilson, of The Affair) becomes obsessed with finding her. After enlisting the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Emma Thompson), the two suddenly find themselves in a complex military conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are actually still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead. From there, you can imagine the chaos that ensues.
The series adaptation is written by Morwenna Banks, who has also written four previous episodes of Apple TV+ hit Slow Horses, which started in its seventh season as part of the streamer’s September lineup. It’s also important to note that Mick Herron authored the series as well.
In addition to Thompson and Wilson, the cast also includes Adam Godley (The Great), Hullraisers’ Sinead Matthews, The Winter King’s Ken Nwosu, Fehinti Balogun, of A Gentleman in Moscow, Aiysha Hart (We Are Lady Parts), Adeel Akhtar (Fool Me Once), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, of Culprits, Darren Boyd (The Outlaws), Baby Reindeer’s Tom Goodman-Hill, and Tom Riley, of Murder Is Easy.
Down Cemetery Road premieres on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.
With such new, exciting titles in Apple TV+’s October bucket of content, it’s understandable why the streaming service is an annual favorite.
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