What's on TV this week—Small Prophets and Below premiere
Here is what's happening on TV from Sunday, October 4 through Saturday, October 10, 2026.
This week on television, two new series premiere: Small Prophets on Apple TV and Below on Netflix. Small Prophets, created, written, and directed by Mackenzie Crook, follows Michael Sleep, a hardware store worker grieving the disappearance of his partner Clea. With the help of his eccentric dad Brian, Sleep creates homunculi—tiny, prophesying beings in glass jars of water—to uncover what happened to his partner.
Below, a Canadian thriller, follows Calvin Penney, a fisherman in a remote Newfoundland community, who teams up with a marine biologist to uncover a mysterious, violent sea creature terrorizing their town.
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