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2. The Comedy Store This fi ve-part documentary series from comedian-turned-director Mike Binder chronicles the evolution of comedy from within the walls of the iconic L.A. club the Comedy Store, which launched the careers of many of the biggest names in comedy, including Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Sarah Silverman, Jay Leno, Chris Rock, David Letterman, Sam Kinison, Dave Chappelle and more. Premieres on Showtime Sunday, Oct. 4

1. The Good Lord Bird

Ethan Hawke, who is also an executive producer, stars as John Brown in this sevenpart miniseries based on James McBride’s acclaimed novel. The historical drama is told from the point of view of Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson), a fi ctional enslaved boy who is part of Brown’s motley crew of abolitionist soldiers in the years just prior to the Civil War. Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) portrays Frederick Douglass, with Wyatt Russell (Lodge 49) as Jeb Stuart. Premieres on Showtime Sunday, Oct. 4

3. The Walking Dead: World Beyond

This new series expands the universe of The Walking Dead, delving into a new mythology and story that follows the fi rst generation raised in a surviving civilization of the postapocalyptic world. Two sisters (Iris and Hope) along with two of their friends leave their place of safety and comfort to brave dangers, known and unknown, living and undead, on an important quest. Premieres on AMC Sunday, Oct. 4

4. Flesh and Blood Francesca Annis and Imelda Staunton lead the cast of this Masterpiece production from the U.K. that follows a widow starting up a new relationship, despite the misgivings of her three adult children, who are struggling with their own lots in life. In a fl ash-forward, a body is found, and by the end of the four episodes the victim — and the murderer — will be revealed. Premieres on PBS Sunday, Oct. 4

5. neXt

In this new techno-thriller, John Slattery (Mad Men) stars as Silicon Valley pioneer Paul LeBlanc, developer of a groundbreaking artifi cial superintelligence called neXt. But when the neXt code is leaked out into the world, it turns into an increasingly powerful menace that wreaks havoc on humans and turns them against each other. Fernanda Andrade, Michael Mosley, Jason Butler Harner and Eve Harlow also star. Premieres on FOX Tuesday, Oct. 6

6. Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones This is the mostly missing eighth serial of the fourth season of Doctor Who, which was broadcast in six weekly parts from April to May 1967, starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. Only two of the six episodes are held in the BBC fi lm archives with snippets of footage and still images existing from the other four. Fortunately, off-air recordings of the soundtrack also still exist, making the animation of a complete serial possible once again, and that is what has been done here. The Faceless Ones sees the TARDIS arrive on Earth at a runway at Gatwick Airport in England, where the Doctor and his companions encounter sinister identity-stealing aliens known as the Chameleons. The fi rst three episodes of the serial air tonight, the three concluding episodes air tomorrow night. Premieres on BBC America Oct. 7-8

7. Photo Ark In this two-part special concluding next Saturday, tag along with National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore on his quest to use the power of photography to inspire people to save species at risk by photographing every species living in the world’s zoos and wildlife sanctuaries. Sartore just recently documented the 10,000th species for the Photo Ark, and he’ll go to great lengths to photograph thousands more, even if it means braving the dense Amazon rainforest and the heights of the Colorado Rockies, or even following a giant armadillo into a bathroom! Premieres on Nat Geo Oct. 17 & 24

8. The Trouble With Maggie Cole

Self-proclaimed historian Maggie Cole is asked to do an interview about her coastal village. Maggie throws a garden party where she plays the interview in full, revealing all the guarded secrets, indiscretions and gossip she has accidentally shared, changing life in Thurlbury forever. Premieres on PBS Sunday, Oct. 18

9. The Undoing

This thrilling six-part series follows Grace and Jonathan Fraser (Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant), who are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight, a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrifi ed by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child (Noah Jupe) and her family. Premieres on HBO Sunday, Oct. 25