Paramount has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports coming to the Paramount+ streaming service in October. The Paramount Plus October 2024 schedule includes the second season of the espionage thriller series Lioness, the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, and the new Halloween special SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp.
With All Hallows Eve fast approaching, viewers will feel a tingle down their spine as the Paramount+ Peak Screaming collection casts its spell on every member of the household, and soccer enthusiasts around the world are fired up for the kickoff of the UEFA Champions League.
Inspired by an actual U.S. military program, Lioness follows the life of Joe (Zoe Saldaña) while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA’s spear in the war on terror. In season two, as the CIA’s fight moves closer to home, Joe and the team enlist a new operative to infiltrate a previously unknown threat.
With pressure mounting from all sides, Joe is forced to confront the profound personal sacrifices she has made as the leader of the Lioness program.
Star Trek: Lower Decks has boldly gone where no Trek series has gone before. The franchise’s first foray into adult animation begins its final voyage this October with the premiere of season five.
The citizens of Bikini Bottom are up to some spooky shenanigans this October in the new Halloween special SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp. While at a reunion at Kamp Koral, our intrepid campers start disappearing one by one until they uncover a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows.
Viewers beware! The heart-pounding Peak Screaming collection is back with a monster-sized lineup of thrills to haunt your screens this Halloween season. The popular collection has expanded with more genre-defining hits and perennial favorites than ever before, featuring over 450 new originals, fan-favorite horror movies, and unforgettable Halloween episodes from beloved series.
This year’s fresh batch of frights include the edge-of-your-seat thrill ride A Quiet Place: Day One from Paramount Pictures, the new Paramount+ original Apartment 7A, a mysterious prequel to the cult classic Rosemary’s Baby, and a special Halloween episode of CBS’ Ghosts.
The UEFA Champions League season is back in full swing with a new format and more matches than ever. Every single match streams live on Paramount+, including rematches of four of the past five UCL Finals during the League Phase. Key matches in October include Arsenal vs. PSG (Oct. 1), Real Madrid vs. Borussia Dortmund (Oct. 22) and Barcelona vs. Bayern Munich.
Next month, Pulp Fiction turns 30. The movie changed cinema forever with a wildly unconventional story that took audiences inside L.A.’s seedy underbelly. Director Quentin Tarantino threw caution to the wind, creating a blazingly original masterpiece brought to life by John Travolta, Uma Thurman, and Samuel L. Jackson while establishing himself as one of history’s most inventive filmmakers. Fans can relive the magic on Paramount+.
PARAMOUNT PLUS OCTOBER 2024 HIGHLIGHTS
October brings fall television into full swing with a fleet of premieres on CBS that Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers can stream live as they air. You won’t want to miss the debuts of the brand new series NCIS: Origins, Matlock, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, and The Summit, as well as new seasons of Tracker, Elsbeth, Ghosts, Fire Country, and more.
Another title joining the Paramount+ library in October is Killing Eve, a British spy thriller created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer. Viewers can stream all four seasons of the show starting October 28.
10/10 SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp
In this new SpongeBob SquarePants Halloween special, “Kreepaway Kamp,” SpongeBob and the gang are stalked by a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows as campers start disappearing one by one.
10/15 FBI True Season 5 premiere
Audiences get an insider’s look at the dangerous missions carried out by the FBI every day. You think you know the case, but you’ve never heard them told like this.
10/24 Star Trek: Lower Decks final season premiere
The crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos must contend with space potholes, an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries and scariest of all: their own career aspirations. The final season of this Paramount+ original celebrates this crew of underdogs who are dangerously close to leaving the lower decks for strange new Starfleet roles.
10/25 Transformers: EarthSpark Season 3 premiere
A new generation of Transformers robots—the first to be born on Earth—joins together with the humans who welcome and care for them, redefining what it means to be a family. In season three, a giant-size dome divides the town of Witwicky and traps the Decepticons inside, but it can’t hold them forever.
10/27 Lioness Season 2 premiere
As the CIA’s fight against terror moves closer to home, Joe, Kaitlyn, and Byron enlist a new Lioness operative to infiltrate a previously unknown threat. With pressure mounting from all sides, Joe is forced to confront the profound personal sacrifices she has made as the leader of the Lioness program.
10/28 Ezra*
In this film, Max (Bobby Canavale) is a stand-up comedian living with his father (Robert DeNiro) and struggling to co-parent his autistic son, Ezra. Forced to confront difficult decisions about his son’s future, Max and Ezra embark on a transformative cross-country road trip.
10/28 Treasure*
Ruth, an American journalist compelled by the fall of the Iron Curtain, travels to Poland with her father, a Holocaust survivor, to visit his childhood town.
OCTOBER TBA
Ink Master Season 16 premiere
Talented artists enter the shop to battle in the ultimate tattoo competition, hosted by Joel Madden.
Uncharted
Through the lens of race and gender, this documentary follows emerging artists who attend a life-changing songwriting camp put on by Alicia Keys & She Is The Music. Uncharted reveals the odds women face in music and how things can change one song at a time.
LIBRARY SHOWS
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2
Monster High: The Series (Season 1)
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 7
American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special**
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 8
An Oprah Special: The Presleys – Elvis, Lisa Marie and Riley**
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 9
Blaze and the Monster Machines (Season 7)
Blaze and the Monster Machines: Wild Wheels Escape to Animal Island
Blaze and the Monster Machines: Big Rig to the Rescue!
Blaze and the Monster Machines: Racecar Adventures
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 13
Tracker (Season 2 premiere)**
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 14
NCIS (Season 22 premiere)**
NCIS: Origins premiere***
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 15
FBI (Season 7 premiere)**
FBI: International (Season 4 premiere)**
FBI: Most Wanted (Season 6 premiere)**
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 16
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta (Season 11)
Tyler Perry’s The Oval (Seasons 1-3)
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 17
Elsbeth (Season 2 premiere)**
Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage premiere**
Ghosts (Season 4 premiere)**
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 18
Blue Bloods (Season 14 return for final episodes)**
Fire Country (Season 3 premiere)**
S.W.A.T. (Season 8 premiere)**
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 20
The Equalizer (Season 5 premiere)**
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21
Poppa’s House premiere**
The Neighborhood (Season 7 premiere)**
LIBRARY MOVIES
Just in time for the spooky season, Paramount+ has added a host of frightening flicks to its library, with the Friday the 13th series, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 28 Weeks Later, Stir of Echoes, and 30 Days of Night, and more, to ensure horror fans won’t sleep a wink this October.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1
28 Weeks Later
30 Days of Night
A Simple Plan*
All About the Benjamins
All the Wrong Ingredients
Allegiant
Almost Famous*
Along Came a Spider
American Psycho
Amistad*
Antlers
Arena Wars
Bad Behaviour
Best Defense*
Black Rock
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Buried
Chaplin*
Chocolat*
Cliffhanger
Coach Carter
Colombiana
Days of Heaven*
Deliver Us from Evil*
Desperado
Divergent
Django Unchained
Downhill Racer*
Dying of the Light*
Eastern Promises
Eddie Murphy: Raw*
Elizabethtown*
Enough
Escape from Alcatraz*
Eyes Wide Shut
Fear (1990)
Fido
Finding Neverland*
Flatliners* (1990)
Fools Rush In
Freedom Writers
Fresh (2022)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th: Part II
Friday the 13th: Part III
Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Frozen River
Galaxy Quest
Gothika
Hard Eight
Heat (1995)
Heaven Can Wait*
Hell or High Water
Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth
Hellraiser IV: Bloodline
Hellraiser V: Inferno
Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker
Hellraiser VII: Deader
Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld
Hide and Seek*
Hugo*
Hustle & Flow
Imagine That*
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
Insurgent
Jawbreaker
Jennifer’s Body
John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A.*
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
Juice
Just My Luck
Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Life
Little Women (1994)
Love Story*
Maggie’s Plan*
Marathon Man*
Margin Call*
Men, Women & Children*
Mirrors
Monstrous*
Mud*
Obsessed
Oculus
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Only Lovers Left Alive
Orphan
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Pride And Glory
Private Parts*
Prospect
Queen of The Damned
Re: Uniting
Resident Evil
Road Trip*
Runaway Jury
Scary Movie 3
Scary Movie 4
School Ties
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy
Scrooged
Set it Off: Director’s Cut
Sleepy Hollow
Smallfoot
Snakes On a Plane
Southpaw
Spanglish
Spawn
Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
Stephen King’s Thinner
Stir of Echoes
Surviving Christmas
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
Swingers
Team America: World Police
The Belko Experiment
The Blob
The Core
The Day After Tomorrow
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Gambler*
The General’s Daughter
The Girl in the Pool*
The Green Inferno
The Hours*
The Ladies Man*
The Legend of Zorro
The Little Vampire
The Midnight Meat Train
The Negotiator
The Net*
The Orphanage
The Running Man*
The Stepford Wives*
The Truman Show*
The Wash*
The Wicker Man (2006)
This One’s for the Ladies*
Three Days of the Condor*
Training Day
True Grit (2010)
Universal Soldier
Vampire in Brooklyn
Vantage Point*
We Own the Night*
Weird Science
Wild Eyed and Wicked
Wild Things
Willard (2003)
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 22
Tale of Tales*
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 29
The Man Who Knew Infinity*
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31
Camp X-Ray*
SPORTS
10/1: UEFA Champions League – Arsenal vs. PSG
10/2: UEFA Champions League – Aston Villa vs. Bayern Munich
10/3: UEFA Europa League – Porto vs. Manchester United
10/5: College Football on CBS – Navy @ Air Force*
10/5: Big Ten on CBS*
10/6: NFL ON CBS Week 5 Doubleheader (check local listings)
10/6: Serie A – Fiorentina vs. AC Milan
10/12: WCRA Rodeo Carolina*
10/12: Big Ten on CBS*
10/13: NFL ON CBS Week 6 (check local listings)
10/13: PBR – Professional Bull Riders*
10/19: NWSL – Kansas City Current vs. San Diego Wave FC*
10/19: Big Ten on CBS*
10/19: Serie A – Juventus vs. Lazio
10/20: Serie A – Roma vs. Inter
10/20: NFL ON CBS Week 7 (check local listings)
10/22: AFC Champions League Elite – Esteghlal vs. Al Nassr
10/22: UEFA Champions League – Real Madrid vs. Borussia Dortmund
10/23: UEFA Champions League – Barcelona vs. Bayern Munich
10/24: UEFA Europa League – Fenerbahçe vs. Manchester United
10/25: NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Final – NJ/NY Gotham FC vs. Kansas City Current
10/26: Serie A – Bologna vs. AC Milan
10/26: Big Ten on CBS*
10/27: NFL ON CBS Week 8 Doubleheader (check local listings)
10/27: Serie A – Inter vs. Juventus
10/29: Serie A – AC Milan vs. Napoli
Throughout October: NWSL regular season competition
Throughout October: Argentina Liga Profesional de Fútbol competition
Throughout October: Scottish Professional Football League competition
Throughout October: English Football League competition
Throughout October: Concacaf Men’s Nations League competition
Throughout October: Concacaf W Champions Cup competition
Throughout October: Serie A competition
Throughout October: AFC Champions League Elite competition
Throughout October: UEFA Champions League competition
Throughout October: UEFA Europa League competition
Throughout October: UEFA Conference League competition
*Title is available to Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers.
**All Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers can live stream CBS titles via the live feed on Paramount+. Those titles will be available on-demand to all subscribers the day after they air live.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills to provide the latest news on streaming, movies, and TV shows. He previously created the websites ComingSoon, SuperHeroHype, and ShockTillYouDrop.