Disney’s Wizards and Teen Vampire, ‘Unsuitable Paris’ Romcom, ‘Rainmaker’ in Courtroom, Streaming ‘Warfire’

Wizards Past Waverly Place

The sequel to Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place returns for a second season with back-to-back episodes, that includes a crowded home of younger wizards now that protégée Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) has been joined within the magic commerce by Russo brothers Roman (Alkaio Thiele) and Milo (Max Matenko). Whereas Justin (David Henrie) helps practice the younger wizards for the Household Wizard Competitors, anticipate guest-star appearances by Selena Gomez (reprising her position as Justin’s sister Alex), What We Do within the Shadows alum Harvey Guillén as Gossip Stone and Legal Minds‘ Kirsten Vangsness as Bigelow McFigglehorn, a member of the Wizard Tribunal. All episodes of Season 2 will start streaming on Disney+ on October 8.

Vampirina: Teenage Vampire

The supernatural enjoyable continues on a music-heavy comedy sequence starring Kenzi Richardson as Vampirina — or as her buddies name her, “Vee” — a tween vampire from Transylvania who’s left the crypt to sink her tooth right into a performing-arts boarding faculty. As one does. Residing Single‘s Kim Coles costars because the Wilson Corridor Academy of the Arts’ Dean Merriweather, with Jiwon Lee as Vee’s perky roommate Sophie and Milo Maharlika as Demi, a 600-year-old ghost despatched by Vee’s mother and father to maintain a spectral eye on Vee. The complete season will start streaming on Disney+ on October 15, with the primary single (“Slay”) accessible as we speak.

The Unsuitable Paris

What would Emily Cooper (of Emily in Paris) do? Have a meltdown, most definitely. Which is nation woman Daybreak’s (Miranda Cosgrove of iCarly fame) preliminary response when she indicators on as a contestant for the Honey Pot courting present, set in Paris, the place she hopes to pursue her art-school desires. However actuality (as in actuality TV) units in when she discovers the present is definitely set in Paris, Texas. This being a romcom, you gained’t be shocked to be taught that the cowboy bootcamp has an upside: the bachelor himself, a hunky hayseed named Trey (Pierson Fodé) who takes a shine to Daybreak.

The Rainmaker

Novice lawyer Rudy (Milo Callaghan) squares off in court docket on the alternative facet of his girlfriend Sarah (Madison Iseman) for a high-stakes evidentiary listening to in a pivotal episode of the authorized drama based mostly on John Grisham’s bestseller. Sarah and her new mentor Brad (Wade Briggs) know their jobs at Tinley Britt are on the road, whereas Rudy retains making an attempt to show himself to his boss Bruiser (Lana Parrilla), although he has a dangerous behavior of ignoring all of her recommendation and warnings. Including to the anxiousness: the outcomes of the bar examination are starting to come back in.

Warfare

Described by the New York Instances as “a tricky, relentless film about life and demise in battle,” writer-director Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s unflinching 2025 real-time conflict movie set throughout an ill-fated Iraq Battle mission makes its streaming debut. (The film premieres on HBO Saturday at 8/7c.) The ensemble solid contains Reservation Canines‘ D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Shogun‘s Cosmo Jarvis, Heartstopper‘s Package Connor, Will Poulter (The Bear), Finn Bennett (True Detective: Evening Nation), and Noah Centineo (To All of the Boys I’ve Cherished Earlier than).

Chief of Battle

Battle clouds are forming on a number of fronts within the penultimate episode of Jason Momoa‘s historic epic set within the pre-unification Hawaiian Islands of the early 1800s. Grieving the slaughter on the seaside of a whole lot of harmless villagers by European invaders, Ka’iana (Momoa) is dropping religion in conflict chief and future king Kamehameha’s (Kaina Makua) resolve. And there’s one other enemy inside, with the battle-hungry Keoua (Cliff Curtis) on the rampage.

INSIDE FRIDAY TV:

• True Crime Watch: On ABC‘s 20/20 (9/8c), Stephanie Ramos reviews on the 2001 homicide of Leslie Preer in her suburban Maryland residence, which was solely solved practically 25 years later when DNA below her fingerprints lastly discovered a match. On Dateline NBC (10/9c), Keith Morrison reviews on the investigation into the 2014 homicide in Calgary, Alberta of Shannon Madill Burgess, an aspiring actress and newlywed.
• Misplaced within the Jungle (9/8c, Nationwide Geographic): An actual-life survival story unfolds in a documentary from Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo, The Rescue) and director Juan Camilo Cruz, recounting the 40-day ordeal of 4 Indigenous kids who’re stranded within the Columbian jungle after a 2023 aircraft crash.

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