What to Expect on TV in October

The fall season is now underway and while there were plenty of programming options offered in September there are still more new and returning dramas as well as made-for-TV movies to be seen throughout October. Here are just some of them:

The second season of Reign will premiere on The CW on October 2 and 9 PM while the season finale of Cedar Cove’s second season will air on the Hallmark Channel at 8 PM and October 4.

Back-to-back episodes of the fourth season of Homeland will air on Showtime starting at 9 PM on October 5. That same night the two-hour season finale of Witches of East End will air on Lifetime at 9 PM.

A day later, on October 6, a special retrospective for Supernatural will air on The CW at 9 PM with the season finale of the debut season of Matador will air on the El Rey Network at 9 PM.

On October 7, the new CW series The Flash will debut at 8 PM on The CW. For those unfamiliar with the DC Comics hero, Barry Allen (series lead Grant Gustin) is a brilliant, but socially awkward, forensic scientist for the Central City Police Department, who is struck by lightning, and when he wakes up after 9 months in a coma, he learns he has the ability to move at superhuman speeds. That debut will be followed by the season premiere of the 10th season of Supernatural at 9 PM.

The following day, on October 8, Arrow will return for the start of its third season on The CW at 8 PM.

Then on October 11, the Hallmark Channel movie Recipe for Love will debut at 9 PM. The film will follow what happens when Lauren Hennessey (Danielle Panabaker from The Flash) is assigned to ghostwrite a cookbook for TV chef Dexter Duran. She uncovers that he is not the bad boy that he pretends to be for his fans. Lauren falls for Dexter and is able to convince him to show his roots, but the TV network has other plans and the two of them must work to save their jobs and their relationship.

The next day, the UP Channel movie Match Made in Heaven will debut at 7 PM. Life would be perfect for Reverend Casey Hart (Samaire Armstrong from Resurrection) if it weren’t for her leaking baptistery and the match-making parishioners who steal money from the collection box and don’t believe a woman should be a minister. Not to mention Casey is flustered by the sudden, inconvenient feelings she has developed for her long-time friend, fellow seminarian and verbal sparring partner, Reverend David Swenson (Brenden Penny from Motive). It isn’t until Casey is thrust into the position of senior minister for her church that she discovers the real cause for her discontent – her fear of failing might be stronger than her faith in herself.

That same night over on the Hallmark Movie & Mysteries (formerly the Hallmark Movie Channel) original movie Along Came a Nanny will debut at 9 PM. As a series of burglaries plague an upscale, gated community, handsome detective Mike Logan (Cameron Mathison, The Christmas Ornament) goes undercover as a nanny, infiltrating the neighborhood and investigating the crimes. When the Bannermans, a high maintenance family in need of domestic assistance, hire Mike as their nanny, he forms an unlikely bond with the Bannerman children and develops a crush on Jessie (Sarah Lancaster from Chuck), a beautiful nanny who works nearby. Struggling in his new role, an overwhelmed Mike soon falls out of favor with the children, who sense they’re in less than capable hands.

Over on The CW on October 13, the new dramedy Jane the Virgin will debut at 9 PM. Set in Miami, the series will detail the surprising and unforeseen events that take place in the life of Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez), a hard-working, religious young Latina woman whose family tradition and a vow to save her virginity until her imminent marriage to a detective (Brett Dier from Ravenswood) is shattered when a doctor accidentally artificially inseminates her by mistake during a checkup. And to make matters worse, the biological donor is a married man (Justin Baldoni from Everwood), a former playboy and cancer survivor who is not only the new owner of the hotel where Jane works, but was also her former teenage crush.

On October 18, the Hallmark Channel movie My Boyfriends’ Dogs will debut on 9 PM. The owners of a small diner are surprised one rainy evening when just after close, a young woman wearing a wedding dress with three dogs begs to come into their restaurant. What follows is the young woman’s retelling of how she arrived at this curious junction in her life, how through the search for the right man, ended up as a runaway bride with three new dogs.

That same night, the new TNT series Transporter: The Series will debut with two back-to-back episodes at 9 PM. Based on the Luc Besson Transporter film franchise, the series stars Chris Vance (Prison Break, Burn Notice and Rizzoli & Isles) as professional transporter Frank Martin, who can always be counted on to get the job done discreetly.

The next night, the Hallmark Movie & Mysteries original movie Wedding Planner Mystery will debut at 9 PM. Wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid Erica Durance (Saving Hope and Smallville) has just landed the job that could propel her small business into the limelight – Nicky Parry’s marriage to a concert pianist promises to be the season’s biggest high society wedding, but when someone dies in a suspicious car crash and the bride is kidnapped, the impending nuptials turn into a nightmare. Relying upon her sharp intuition, humor and active imagination, Carnegie attempts to root out the culprit.

A fan-appreciation special for Pretty Little Liars will air on ABC Family on October 21 at 8 PM. NOTE: The show will not be airing a Halloween special this year.

A day later, the second season of The 100 will air its season premiere on The CW at 9 PM.

Then on October 24, Grimm will be back for a new season on NBC at 9 PM followed by the debut of the new thriller Constantine at 10 PM. The series will focus on John Constantine (Matt Ryan), a dark magician who is struggling with his past sins as he tries to protect humanity from a gathering supernatural threat.

The 7th film in The Good Witch franchise – The Good Witch’s Wonder – will air on October 25 on the Hallmark Channel at 9 PM. Catherine Bell returns as Cassie Nightingale, the benevolent, kind-hearted witch living in the small community of Middleton with her husband Jake (Chris Potter) and three children. While helping to plan the wedding of her stepson Brandon and raising funds for Middleton’s new botanical gardens project, Cassie takes in a mysterious woman named Audrey who has drifted into town. Coinciding with Audrey’s arrival, Middleton is soon faced with a number of challenges that Cassie can’t solve with magic alone.

Lastly on October 26, the Masterpiece Mystery mini-series Death Comes to Pemberley will debut on PBS at 9 PM. This is an adaptation of the P.D. James novel, picking up the story of Pride & Prejudice six years after the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy. As preparations are being made for a ball at their Pemberley home, the discovery of a corpse brings an abrupt and shocking halt to the proceedings — and a threat to all that the Darcys’ hold dear. This mini-series will air through November 2 from 9 PM to 10:30 PM each Sunday night.

There are many other viewing options throughout October. Please check our full October TV calendar when it is posted at the end of September.