Crystal Lake, The Good Daughter Get Peacock Fall Dates

Peacock’s fall is shaping up to be a big one. The streamer revealed premiere dates for several of its most anticipated scripted series at NBCUniversal’s upfront on Monday — and horror fans, in particular, have something to look forward to.

Crystal Lake, the A24-produced prequel series rooted in the Friday the 13th universe, will debut on October 15 — just in time for spooky season, and a couple weeks ahead of Halloween. Linda Cardellini leads the series as Pamela Voorhees, the original killer from the 1980 film and the mother of hockey-mask-wearing icon Jason. The show is billed as an expanded prequel, following Pamela’s life before the events of the first movie, and Callum Vinson will recur as the young Jason himself.

The supporting cast includes William Catlett (Black Lightning), Devin Kessler (Godfather of Harlem), Cameron Scoggins (Nashville), and Gwendolyn Sundstrom. Peacock is still keeping story details tightly under wraps — the kind of silence that tends to mean there’s something worth protecting.

A Long Road to Camp Crystal Lake

This one has been a long time coming. The series first earned a series order back in October 2022, with Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller originally attached as showrunner. Fuller stepped away in 2024 and was replaced by Brad Caleb Kane, a veteran of IT: Welcome to Derry. The original Friday the 13th — about counselors being murdered at a summer camp — became a box-office phenomenon on its 1980 release, spawning nine sequels, the crossover event Freddy vs. Jason, a 2009 reboot, and even a TV anthology series that ran in syndication from 1987 to 1990. A prestige-TV chapter, produced by A24 no less, feels like the next logical evolution.

Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy Lead a Psychological Thriller

The Good Daughter lands on November 12. The limited series is based on the novel by Karin Slaughter — who is also serving as showrunner — and centers on sisters Charlotte (Meghann Fahy) and Samantha (Rose Byrne) Quinn, who “have spent the last 20 years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence.” When another attack hits their small town of Pikeville, Charlotte — a lawyer like her father — becomes the first witness on the scene, and the case pulls buried secrets and painful memories back to the surface.

Brendan Gleeson, Harper Steele, Olivia Williams, Drew Cheek, Audrey Grace Marshall, and Michael Dorman round out the cast. The combination of Byrne and Fahy as estranged sisters navigating trauma and a twisting crime drama feels like exactly the kind of prestige limited series that gets people talking through the holidays.

What Else Is Coming to Peacock This Fall

The Paper, the Office-universe spinoff following the staff of a struggling Toledo newspaper, returns for Season 2 in September. The first season ended on a hopeful note, with editor Ned (Domhnall Gleeson) and his team of largely inexperienced reporters finding their footing and picking up a couple of awards. Oscar Nuñez reprises his role as Oscar Martinez as the connective thread between universes.

Also on the horizon: Dig, the Amy Poehler comedy in which she plays an archaeologist whose team uncovers a rare artifact in Greece — only to get swept into an international conspiracy. Hugh Laurie, Geraldine Viswanathan, Antonia Thomas, and Fina Strazza co-star, and the show marks a reunion between Poehler and her Parks and Recreation co-creator Michael Schur, who’s writing and executive producing. Dig is set to debut in November.

Peacock has also dated the British thriller The Capture for June 18 and The Undeclared War for August 27, while Season 2 of The Day of the Jackal and Superfakes — starring Lucy Liu — are both slated for 2027. And Ted: The Animated Series is listed as “coming soon,” which is either very exciting or very ominous depending on your feelings about Ted.

On the unscripted side, Peacock is making a move into vertical video with two Bravo-adjacent shows: Campus Confidential: Miami, which will follow a group of college students including Georgia Gay, daughter of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay, and Salon Confessionals With Madison LeCroy, featuring the Southern Charm star getting clients to spill their secrets in the chair.

October 15 can’t come soon enough.