As the writer’s strike in Hollywood continues for more than 4 months, shaking up major production studios, streaming platforms are scrambling to fill the void with relevant series and movies. At a time when losses are expected to exceed hundreds of millions of dollars and the number of unemployed in the sector to exceed 17,000, the strike seriously threatens the largest stage economy.

Meanwhile, global platforms and broadcast networks are still able to provide enough content to their viewers, amid concerns that if the strike continues, they will run out of stock by early 2024. However, the fall 2023 programming does not suggest a major shortage, as a good number of important series are expected to launch this season.

Netflix is ​​full of series

Netflix seems to be more comfortable than other platforms, bolstered with a group of announced series. The platform wraps up its year with the sixth and final season of “The Crown.” The release date of the show is yet to be announced, but Netflix has previously assured its viewers that the series will be on the 2023 calendar.

The final season takes viewers from the mid-nineties of the last century to the new millennium, passing through an event that shook the British royal family and the world. The tragedy of Princess Diana’s death in 1997. Visually, the series doesn’t dwell on the tragic incident, but it keeps pace with its aftermath on Princes William and Harry.

As for the season’s spotlight, it will be aimed at twins William and Kate, played by newcomers Ed McPhee and Meg Bellamy. On the other hand, the old maintains its oldness in the remaining basic roles like Diana, Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and others. According to Netflix, the final season will include the wedding of Charles and Camilla.

Among the fixed dates announced on Netflix, the third season of the French series “Lupin”, which will premiere on October 5. Asane Diop, the lovable thief played by actor Omar Sy, returns after a two-year absence. Missing his wife and son after months on the run, Diop returns to Paris to reunite. But the adventure will be fraught with danger, especially since he’s the city’s number one wanted man.

Netflix is ​​betting on this “Lupine” season, especially since the series is the most popular and most watched in the platform’s history. According to the numbers, 70 million accounts watched it in the first month of its first season in early 2021.

“We can’t see all the light,” Netflix has been marketing with high hopes for some time in new series. An adaptation of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning international novel of the same title, it will be released on November 2.

Limited to one season of 4 episodes, each one hour long, the series ranks as one of Netflix’s biggest productions. The story revolves around a blind French woman who lost contact with her father during World War II, so she seeks to reunite with him. But she found no one by her side except a Nazi soldier to help her. Notably, the actress playing the heroine “Marie-Laure” in her first acting experience is actually blind, and producer and director Shawn Levy chose her out of thousands.

Away from the drama, Netflix viewers will be presented with a social comedy series called “Sabana Sukhya” (Wrong Education) on September 15. The global platform is not new to using products from around the world, the demand for which is now increasing under the weight of the US strike, but the “false education” is 100 percent made in South Africa.

At the heart of the story is “Mbali”, a young woman who tries to find a new life for herself among new friends after a corruption scandal shakes her family. Mbali’s journey to save his reputation and his life was not without events and suspense.

A short but horror-filled series is coming to Netflix on October 12, called “The Fall of the House of Usher.” The story is adapted from a novel by American writer Edgar Allan Poe published in 1839 and explores a world of darkness, ghosts, graveyards and haunted castles.

Another episode of the Spanish drama “Elite” is among the series expected on Netflix next month. The fact that the series has been renewed for a seventh consecutive season is a testament to its popularity, especially among the youth and young adults, whose issues pique their interest.

What are the rest of the sites?

Moving to Apple TV+ (Apple TV Plus), the most important dates on the platform will come next week as the third season of the famous series “The Morning Show” begins. “Alex” and “Bradley” or the beloved duo Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon return to their unusual television diaries. Apart from new faces entering the series, the new season will see developments in both their lives and their plans.

In anticipation of the hugely popular “Morning Show,” Apple TV+ opens the drama season with “The Changeling.” The 8-episode series belongs to the fantasy-horror genre, and its story follows a man’s search for his wife, who has gone on the run following the birth of their first child after committing a horrific act.

In October, the series “Lessons in Chemistry” will be launched on the same platform. The drama, set in the 1950s, is based on a novel that broke sales records two years ago. At the center of events Elizabeth wants to become a scientist, but the constraints of male society and the challenges of her personal life force her to take a different path and present a culinary project.

As for the Amazon Prime platform, hit by the writers’ strike in Hollywood, it’s trying to fill the void with a series lineup, led by the short-form docu-series “Fake Shack.” British journalist Mazar Mahmood tells the story of how he conned a number of prominent figures and lured them into his web using false identities.