It’s that time to start carving the pumpkins and brushing that sweet tooth. Yes, it’s soon going to be October, otherwise known as “spooky season.” Disney+ will do its best to celebrate all the tricks and treats of Halloween with its new and returning Disney+ shows, original movies, and season finales that are set to stream in October 2023.
Some of October’s highlights include the season 1 finale of Ahsoka, the debut of Loki’s second season, the premiere of the new series Goosebumps, and the streaming debut of this summer’s Haunted Mansion remake.
Below, we’ve provided the full list of everything new on Disney+ in October 2023.
Toy Story Funday Football (Livestreaming at 9:30 a.m. ET)
Mickey and Friends Trick or Treats
Dancing with the Stars (Season 32, Episode 2) (Live 5 p.m. to 7:31 p.m. PT)
Dancing with the Stars is the hit series, hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Houg,h in which celebrities are paired with trained ballroom dancers to compete in themed choreographed dance routines that are judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts, including Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Derek Hough.
Star Wars: Ahsoka Episode 8/Season Finale
Set after the fall of the Empire, Star Wars: Ahsoka follows the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.
Hailey’s On It! (S1, 5 episodes)
The Villains of Valley View (S2, 4 episodes)
Loki (Season 2 premiere available at 6 p.m. PT)
Marvel Studios’ Loki season 2 picks up in the aftermath of the shocking season finale when Loki finds himself in a battle for the soul of the Time Variance Authority. Along with Mobius, Hunter B-15, and a team of new and returning characters, Loki navigates an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous multiverse in search of Sylvie, Judge Renslayer, Miss Minutes, and the truth of what it means to possess free will and glorious purpose.
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Dancing with the Stars (Season 32, Episode 3 (Live 5 p.m. to 7:31 p.m. PT)
Alice’s Wonderland Bakery (S2, 7 episodes)
Broken Karaoke (Shorts) (S2, 3 episodes)
The Simpsons (S34, 22 episodes)
Heartland Docs, Dvm (S5, 12 episodes)
4EVER (Premiere – All Episodes Streaming)
4EVER is the acting debut of CNCO’s four members: Christopher Vélez (“Andy”), Richard Camacho (“Ian”), Zabdiel De Jesús (“Ciro”), and Erick Brian Colón (“Darío”), and it tells the story of four talented youngsters who undertake the challenging road toward recognition as a band in Miami’s music scene. The musicians meet by chance during a fight in a restaurant.
Loki (Season 2, Episode 2) Available at 6 p.m. PT)
Goosebumps Premiere (Episodes 1-5 streaming)
Goosebumps, the chilling new series inspired by R.L. Stine’s bestselling book series, follows a group of five high schoolers as they embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle – while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents’ past.
Dancing with the Stars (Season 32, Episode 4) (Live 5 p.m. to 7:31 p.m. PT)
PJ Masks: Power Heroes Music Videos (Shorts) (S1, 10 episodes)
Loki (Season 2, Episode 3 (Available at 6:00 pm PT)
Dancing with the Stars (Season 32, Episode 5) (Live 5 p.m. 7:31 p.m. PT)
Big City Greens (S4, 5 episodes)
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge (S2, 8 episodes)
Theme Song Takeover (Shorts) (S3, 7 episodes)
Primal Survivor: Extreme African Safari (All Episodes Streaming)
Survival expert Hazen Audel treks through Africa’s Great Rift Valley on an extreme expedition to see rare and magnificent wildlife out in the open.
Loki (Season 2, Episode 4) (Available at 6 p.m. PT)
Explorer: Lake of Fire (Special)
Lego Marvel Avengers: Code Red Premiere
The Avengers assemble to save New York City, but after an argument between Black Widow and her father, Red Guardian, about his parenting style, he disappears under mysterious circumstances. As the Avengers investigate, they discover that the villainous Collector is kidnapping every character who has the word “red” in their name. Determined to find her father, it’s up to Black Widow now to lead the Avengers in finding the Collector’s lair and freeing the prisoners from his evil clutches.
Dancing with the Stars (Season 32, Episode 6) (Live 5 p.m. to 7:31 p.m. PT)
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?