What to Watch This Week: Avatar: Seven Havens, Matchbox, Ted Lasso's Finale

This Week at a Glance

Avatar returns to animation on Friday, Ted Lasso says goodbye on Wednesday, and Slow Horses keeps its Wednesday slot right up to its own finale on the 21st. If you only have room for one, make it Avatar: Seven Havens, because the first night of a new Avatar series is the one that gets better with the whole family on the couch.

What We’d Watch This Week

Top Tip of the Week: Avatar: Seven Havens

Avatar: Seven Havens — Paramount+, Friday October 9. A new animated series in the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe, which is already the only reason most households need. If the kids have never seen the original, our Avatar watch order says where to start before Friday.

For the Whole Family: Horton Hears a Who!

Horton Hears a Who! — Netflix. Dr. Seuss for the younger end of the house, and one of Patrick’s picks from Netflix’s October 1 drop. It is the easiest yes on the list when the littlest one gets the remote, and short enough to finish before bedtime does the deciding for you.

Once the Kids Are in Bed: Matchbox The Movie

Matchbox The Movie — Apple TV+, Friday October 9. John Cena in an action-comedy from Sam Hargrave, the director behind Extraction, and not the kids’ film the toy-brand name suggests. A globe-trotting chase for a stolen nuclear warhead, which is exactly the kind of thing to put on at nine o’clock when the house has gone quiet and nobody needs a snack.

The Classic: Skyfall (3.5/5)

Skyfall — Prime Video, in the catalogue since October 1 alongside Rocky I to V. Gorgeous Bond with shakier logic than it admits, which is why we give it a 3.5, and still the right film for a Bond-curious dad. The 30-day Prime Video trial covers it if you are not a member yet.

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Skyfall sits in the Prime Video catalogue since 1 October, and the 30-day trial covers it if you are not a member yet.

Also Landing This Week

Also landing this week

• Ted Lasso season 4 finale — Apple TV+, Wednesday October 7. Ten episodes, one a week since August 5, wrap here. No season 5 is confirmed, so treat it as the ending.
• Tracker season 4 — Paramount+. Justin Hartley’s reward-hunter procedural is back, one easy case per episode.
• Digger — in theaters. Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and the one we would actually drive out for this month.

Still running

• Slow Horses season 6 — Apple TV+, Wednesdays. Episode four lands this week of six, with the finale on October 21. Six seasons in, it has never had a bad one, and the books it is adapting now are the ones where the series stops circling its own history. If you fell behind, a weekend is enough to catch up.

Dates, platforms and the picks for the weeks ahead are on our release calendar, and VisionQuest arrives next week.

What should we watch this week (October 5-11, 2026)?

Our top tip is Avatar: Seven Havens, the new animated series in the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe, premiering Friday on Paramount+. For the whole family, Horton Hears a Who! is on Netflix. Once the kids are in bed, Matchbox The Movie lands Friday on Apple TV+. For a classic, Skyfall is in the Prime Video catalogue.

When is the Ted Lasso season 4 finale?

Wednesday, October 7 on Apple TV+. It closes a ten-episode run that started on August 5, and Apple has not confirmed a season 5, so treat it as the ending.

Is Matchbox The Movie a kids' film?

No. Despite the toy-brand name it is an action-comedy with John Cena, directed by Sam Hargrave of Extraction, about a chase for a stolen nuclear warhead. It is one for after bedtime.

Is Slow Horses season 6 still running?

Yes. A new episode lands every Wednesday on Apple TV+, with the six-episode season ending on October 21.