Finally we’ll get to see exactly how Amazon applied its eleventy-billion dollar budget to this lavish JRR Tolkien project! Learn more here. (September 2, Prime Video)

Need more TV, you fiend? Here’s a few titles we might well be seeing this summer, but have not yet confirmed their release dates. If not summer, look for these in the fall or winter: Locke & Key (season three, Netflix); The Sandman (new series, Netflix); The Witcher: Blood Origin (new series, Netflix); Willow (new series, Disney+).

Update: May 13, 3:15pm: FX announced the release date for What We Do in the Shadows season four soon after this post was published, so we obviously needed to add it.


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