From the return of Netflix's hit rom-com with Kristen Bell and Adam Brody to a prequel series to Stephen King's It and a five-part documentary about Martin Scorsese.

The third instalment in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's killer-focused Monsters franchise – following series about Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers – examines the inspiration for Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The show is based on the true story of Ed Gein, a serial killer with a fondness for corpses, who preyed on victims in Wisconsin in the 1950s. Charlie Hunnam lost almost 30lb (13kg) to play the scarily emaciated Gein, who, among other depravities, was unhealthily obsessed with his mother. Gein inspired a flood of fictional killers in films, a prominent theme in the show. It leans so heavily into his influence on Psycho that Laurie Metcalf plays Gein's mother with her hair in a Mother Bates bun, and Tom Hollander appears as Hitchcock himself, with Olivia Williams as his wife and collaborator, Alma Reville. Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville are other major names in the cast. Don't let the pop culture references fool you. Hunnam looks truly terrifying.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story premieres 3 October on Netflix internationally

Two years after the Hamas attacks on Israel, the first fictionalised versions of those horrific events are starting to appear. One Day in October, on HBO Max, unfolds in real time, as it weaves together seven stories of victims, survivors and their families, based on actual accounts. Similarly, Red Alert, on Paramount , was made in Israel and inspired by first-hand accounts, as it tells the story of five strangers who come together during the attack. Fernando Szew, the president of Fox Entertainment Studios, which co-produced One Day in October, has said: "We approached this series with the utmost care, sensitivity and urgency." David Ellison, chairman and CEO of Paramount, commented: "Red Alert highlights Paramount's continued commitment to storytelling through artistic excellence and accuracy." But both series are bound to raise questions about how soon is too soon to dramatise real-life terror.

One Day in October premieres 7 October on HBO Max in the US and Red Alert premieres 7 October on Paramount internationally

Jason Clarke plays a US Marshal, Frank Remnick, in this action drama set in a remote area of Alaska. When a plane full of convicts crashes in the wilderness, 50 prisoners are set free. As Remnick investigates and tries to capture the survivors, he begins to suspect that the plane was deliberately brought down, and is determined to find out what happened and why the CIA is involved. The cast includes Haley Bennett as a CIA agent, along with Dominic Cooper, Alfre Woodard, and Simone Kessell as Remick's wife. (Kessell, who played the grown-up Lottie in Yellowjackets, seems to be specializing in plane-crash series.) Setting a manhunt in the tundra is a near foolproof way to make the chase more difficult and the scenery more dramatic. And this series clearly isn't going for originality. One of its creators, Jon Bokenkamp, told Esquire, "The show is Con Air meets The Fugitive."

The Last Frontier premieres 10 October on Apple TV internationally

Tim Robinson's characters, like the too-clingy Craig Waterman in the recent film Friendship, are usually meant to be annoyingly offbeat, which makes some viewers love him and others want to flee. Robinson plays a deliberately less annoying but still offbeat character here as Ron Trosper, a placid family man who works for an office furniture company. "I actually don't think Ron is as tough of a hang as........

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