Paramount has announced the movies, TV shows and sports coming to the Paramount+ streaming service in October. The Paramount Plus October 2023 lineup includes Original series Frasier, featuring the return of Kelsey Grammer as the iconic character Frasier Crane for the first time in 20 years.
The Paramount Plus October 2023 slate also includes romantic limited series Fellow Travelers, starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey. And the service has resurrected the fan-favorite Peak Screaming collection, which will feature the premiers of Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, Monster High 2 and Bargain.
It’s been 20 years since he’s been on the air, but Dr. Frasier Crane is back! In the Paramount+ Original series Frasier, the title character has moved back to Boston to be closer to his grown son Freddy.
Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers can stream Fellow Travelers, a decades-spanning love story starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey. The show was created for television by Oscar nominee Ron Nyswaner and based on the novel by Thomas Mallon.
The Paramount+ Peak Screaming collection has been jolted back to life with more than 25 creepily-curated carousels, including “Big Screen’s Big Screams,” “Horror Heroines,” “Family Fright Night” and “A24 Horror” with more than 400 fan-favorite horror movies, series and episodes such as Scream VI, Smile, Evil, Ghosts, A Quiet Place Part II and many more. New films and specials are also making their debut.
Sometimes… dead is better. That’s the haunting lesson at the heart of Stephen King’s twisted tale Pet Sematary. In Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, a spine-tingling prequel to the 2019 film, we travel back to 1969 to learn more about the unnatural patch of ground in Ludlow, Maine where grieving families bury their dead with the hope that they will rise again.
Class is back in session for the world’s most unusual students when Monster High 2 premieres on the service. Clawdeen, Frankie and Draculaura are in for some hair-raising adventures as they step into the “human world,” contend with a new frenemy — popular werecat Torelai — and sing new bops we’ll be humming all season.
The critically-acclaimed Korean dystopian thriller series Bargain is filled with twists and turns that will have you on the edge of your seat. Investigators are tracking down a ring of organ traffickers when a devastating earthquake traps them alongside the criminals in a crumbling building from which they must escape.
Trick-or-treaters will be delighted by A Really Haunted Loud House. In this spooky special, Lincoln Loud and his best friend Clyde McBride undertake a Halloween adventure in which they must decide between upholding the tradition of the signature Loud Family spooktacular or attending a party hosted by the cool new kid at school.
Read on to see all the Paramount Plus October 2023 Originals, library TV shows and movies, and sports. The titles with an asterisk (*) are available to Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers.
PARAMOUNT PLUS OCTOBER 2023 HIGHLIGHTS
10/5: Bargain premiere
10/5: Monster High 2 premiere
10/6: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial premiere*
10/6: Pet Sematary: Bloodlines premiere
10/10: Painkiller: The Tylenol Murders premiere
10/12: Frasier premiere
10/16: Vindicta premiere
10/17: Crush premiere
10/24: Milli Vanilli premiere
10/27: Fellow Travelers premiere*
PEAK SCREAMING COLLECTION
The Paramount+ Peak Screaming collection has returned to the service with a broad and popular lineup of chills and thrills for audiences to enjoy this Halloween season. The updated collection features more than 400 fan-favorite horror movies, series and episodes.
The seasonal spooktacular also will include the debut of Bargain (Thursday, October 5), a festival award-winning South Korean dystopian thriller series; the premiere of Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (Friday, October 6), a horror film based on the never-before-told chapter from the novel Pet Sematary; and the release of Monster High 2 (Thursday, October 5), the sequel to the hit musical film inspired by the beloved children’s toy line.
From child-sized scares to pulse-pounding terrors, the Peak Screaming collection connects each member of the household with bespoke frights from more than 25 expertly curated carousels. New and returning subgenres include “Flash Frights: 90 Minutes or Less,” “True & Terrifying,” “ExtraTerrorestrial,” “Based on BOOks” and more, such as the following:
Big Screen’s Big Screams: Blockbuster hits, such as Scream VI, Smile, Paranormal Activity, Mother! and Orphan: First Kill.
Slash Hits: Spine-chilling slashers, such as Pearl, Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers, X* and Scream (1995).
Horror Heroines: Iconic films and series, featuring scream queens, such as A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place Part II, Yellowjackets* and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Supernatural Scares: Otherworldly oddities with The Ring (2002), The Grudge (2004), The Blair Witch Project and Pet Sematary (2019).
Family Fright Night: Family favorites and kids titles, such as The Addams Family (1991 and 2019), Monster High: The Movie, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and A Really Haunted Loud House, which debuts on the service within collection on Thursday, September 28.
Coming of Rage: High-school horrors like Teen Wolf: The Movie, Wolf Pack, School Spirits, Teeth*, Firestarter and My Dead Ex.
Critically Acclaimed: Praised scares, such as Arrival, District 9, Rosemary’s Baby, Annihilation and Suspiria (1977).
Creature Features: Monsters take center stage in iconic films, such as King Kong (1976), Cloverfield, Crawl and Congo.
A24 Horror: Peak A24 thrillers, such as Midsommar, Bodies Bodies Bodies, The Killing of a Sacred Deer* and Men*.
Costume Goals: Cosplay contenders, such as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Top Gun: Maverick, Sonic 2, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and Babylon.
Halloween Nickstalgia: Nostalgic episodes from Nickelodeon favorites, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Hey Arnold!, Rugrats (1991), iCarly (2007) and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.
Suspenseful Series: Darkly captivating seasons of Evil, Criminal Minds, The Twilight Zone, Dexter* and Twin Peaks: The Return*.
International Horror: Terrors from around the globe with Train to Busan, The Host, Death’s Roulette and Curandero.
The Paramount Plus October 2023 schedule will also feature CBS’ seasonal content, including the first-ever Big Brother primetime Halloween episode on October 31; a wrestling-themed Halloween episode on The Price Is Right on October 31; and a spooky celebration on Let’s Make a Deal on October 31.
This season, the Peak Screaming offering will come to life with the first-ever Paramount+ Peak Screaming-themed celebration at the Javits Center Saturday, October 14, from 8 p.m. – 11 p.m., exclusively to New York Comic Con badge holders.
In addition, Paramount+ will present The Haunted Lodge, an immersive, pop-up Halloween experience, riddled with some of the scariest films and series from Paramount+.
Visitors can step inside their favorite shows and movies, from SpongeBob SquarePants to Yellowjackets to Pet Sematary: Bloodlines at The Haunted Lodge inside the Westfield Century City mall from October 27-29.
LIBRARY SHOWS
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2
Lotería Loca (Season 1)
The Price is Right at Night
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3
The Young & the Restless (Season 51)
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 4
Blaze and the Monster Machines (Season 6)
Ex on the Beach (Season 6)
Louis Tomlinson: All of Those Voices
Siesta Key (Season 5)
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 11
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019) (Season 3)
Inside the Factory (Seasons 3-5)
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 13
Raid The Cage (Season 1)
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 18
Teen Mom Family Reunion (Seasons 1-2)
Teen Mom: Girls Night In (Seasons 1-2)
Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Season 3)
The Penguins of Madagascar (Season 2)
Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan (Season 3)
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 25
Isle of MTV: Malta
Air Disasters (Seasons 1-7)
MTV Cribs (Season 19)
Reno 911! It’s A Wonderful Heist
LIBRARY MOVIES
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1
A Royal Night Out*
A Simple Plan*
Airplane!*
Airplane II: The Sequel*
Akeelah and the Bee*
Almost Famous*
American Graffiti*
An American Haunting
Babel
Bend It Like Beckham*
Beowulf (2007)*
Best Defense*
Better Off Dead*
Big Game*
Birthday Girl
Birthmarked*
Body Cam
Chocolate City*
Citizen Ruth
Clerks
Crawl
Croupier*
Dance Flick
Dead Presidents*
Deep Impact
Defiance
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels*
District 9
Dotty & Soul*
Doubt*
Eye for An Eye
Face/Off
Fatal Attraction
Fear the Night*
Firestarter (1987)
First Blood*
Flesh and Bone
Follow Her*
Getting Even with Dad*
God’s Waiting Room*
Harlem Nights
Hart’s War*
Home For The Holidays (1995)*
Hoosiers*
Igby Goes Down*
In & Out*
In The Bedroom*
In The Heights
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Inside Llewyn Davis*
Into The Wild*
Iris*
Jackass Number Two
Jessabelle*
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
Just Between Friends*
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider*
LX 2048*
Malcolm X*
Mansfield Park*
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein*
Mean Creek
Midnight Cowboy*
Minority Report
Moonstruck*
More American Graffiti*
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge*
Mrs. Brown*
Mulholland Drive*
Notorious*
Phantasm*
Pioneer Woman*
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Private Parts
Rambo III*
Rambo: First Blood Part II*
Raze*
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Save the Last Dance
Saving Private Ryan*
Say Anything*
School Ties
Scrooged
Semper Fi*
Sexy Beast
Silence
Six Degrees of Separation*
Sleeping with the Enemy*
Smoke Signals*
Smokey and the Bandit*
Smokey and the Bandit II*
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3*
Summer of Sam*
Suspiria (1977)*
Teeth*
The Aviator
The Boys in the Band*
The Contractor
The Conversation*
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
The Duchess
The Firm
The Grudge
The Host*
The Integrity of Joseph Chambers*
The Italian Job (1969)
The Italian Job (2003)
The Love Guru
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Missouri Breaks*
The Newton Boys*
The Original Kings of Comedy
The Prestige*
The Queen*
The Remains of the Day*
The Ring Two*
The Station Agent
The Warriors
The Wings of the Dove*
Titanic
Train to Busan*
Universal Soldier
Vampire in Brooklyn
Vamps*
Vanilla Sky
What Lies Beneath*
Who’s Harry Crumb?*
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)*
Young Adult
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 9
The Starling Girl*
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 16
Vindicta
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 18
Homefront*
SPORTS
10/1: NFL ON CBS Week 4 (check local listings)
10/1: Argentina Liga Profesional de Fútbol – Boca Juniors vs. River Plate
10/1: Professional Bull Riding Camping World Teams Series
10/3-10/4: UEFA Champions League Matchday 2
10/3: UEFA Champions League – Napoli vs. Real Madrid
10/4: UEFA Champions League – Newcastle United vs. PSG
10/5: UEFA Europa League Matchday 2
10/5: UEFA Europa Conference League Matchday 2
10/6: NWSL – Megan Rapinoe Sendoff Match – OL Reign vs. Washington Spirit
10/7: Professional Bull Riding Camping World Teams Series
10/7: SEC on CBS
10/7: Serie A – Juventus vs. Torino
10/8: NFL ON CBS Week 5 Doubleheader (check local listings)
10/8: Barclays Women’s Super League – Manchester City vs. Chelsea
10/14: SEC on CBS Doubleheader
10/15: NFL ON CBS Week 6 (check local listings)
10/15: Professional Bull Riding Camping World Team Series: Road to the Championship
10/15: NWSL – Final Day of Regular Season
10/21: College Football on CBS – Air Force @ Navy
10/21: SEC on CBS
10/22: NFL ON CBS Week 7 Doubleheader (check local listings)
10/22: Serie A – AC Milan vs. Juventus
10/22: NWSL Playoffs Quarterfinals
10/24-10/25: UEFA Champions League Matchday 3
10/24: UEFA Champions League – Sevilla vs. Arsenal
10/25: UEFA Champions League – PSG vs. AC Milan
10/26: UEFA Europa League Matchday 3
10/26: UEFA Europa Conference League Matchday 3
10/28: Big Ten on CBS
10/28: SEC on CBS – Georgia vs. Florida
10/29: NFL ON CBS Week 8 Doubleheader (check local listings)
10/29: Serie A – Inter vs. Roma
10/29: Serie A – Napoli vs. AC Milan
10/30: 2023 Ballon d’Or Awards Ceremony
Throughout October: NWSL competition
Throughout October: Italian Serie A competition
Throughout October: Concacaf Nations League qualifiers
Throughout October: Argentina Liga Profesional de Fútbol competition
Throughout October: Campeonato Brasileirão Série A competition
Throughout October: Scottish Professional Football League competition
Throughout October: Combate Global competition
Throughout October: AFC Champions League
Throughout October: Barclays Women’s Super League
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills in 2018 to cover the latest news on streaming, movies, TV, and video games.