Best TV Shows to Stream this Weekend on Disney+, Including ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’

Planning a Disney+ binge this weekend? Here’s a fresh, easy-to-scan roundup that pulls together new premieres, returning seasons, and a few heavyweight staples—so you can jump straight to what fits your mood without any scrolling fatigue. Everything below includes the basics that matter most when you’re deciding what to play next: the premise, the principal cast, and the creative hands steering each project.

To keep things timely, this list focuses on the newest drops first, then spotlights Disney+ originals and flagship brands, and finally folds in classic mainstays that still deliver the goods. From wizarding hijinks and animated undead to National Geographic expeditions and long-running sitcom royalty, consider this your weekend watchlist—ready to go.

‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’ (2024– )

The Disney Branded Television follow-up to ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ picks up with Justin Russo, now settled in Staten Island with his family, getting pulled back into sorcery when he’s asked to mentor a gifted young wizard named Billie. David Henrie returns as Justin and serves as an executive producer, with Selena Gomez appearing as Alex Russo and also executive producing alongside Andy Fickman, Gary Marsh, and Jonas Agin; the ensemble includes Janice LeAnn Brown, Mimi Gianopulos, Alkaio Thiele, Max Matenko, and Taylor Cora. Developed by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas from characters created by Todd J. Greenwald, the series expands the original lore around wizard training and the Family Wizard Competition.

Produced by It’s a Laugh Productions, the show is built as a multi-camera comedy that blends family sitcom rhythms with new wizard-world rules and Staten Island life. The music team includes composer Zack Ryan and an opening theme by John Adair and Steve Hampton, performed by Janice LeAnn Brown with a featured appearance by Selena Gomez, aligning the sequel’s sound with the franchise identity while updating it for a new generation.

‘Halloween Baking Championship’ (2015– )

This seasonal competition assembles professional bakers to conquer Halloween-themed pre-heats and main-heats, culminating in elaborate edible showpieces for a cash prize. Host and judging rosters have rotated across seasons, with recent lineups featuring host John Henson and judges Carla Hall, Zac Young, and Stephanie Boswell, while earlier cycles included figures like Ron Ben-Israel, Sherry Yard, Sandra Lee, Lorraine Pascale, Damiano Carrara, and Katie Lee, reflecting the franchise’s broad culinary bench.

Episodes typically fill an hourlong slot and escalate in difficulty as challenges tap haunted-house motifs, horror film nods, and structural sugar-and-chocolate builds. As a sibling to ‘Holiday Baking Championship,’ the series highlights practical effects, pastry engineering, and flavor-texture balance under pressure, making it a reliable fall fixture that refreshes its themes every year.

‘The Murky Stream’ (2025)

Set in the Joseon era, this Korean historical drama (romanized as ‘Takryu’) follows three intertwined leads: Si-yool, a man with a concealed past who climbs from gang enforcer near Mapo Port; Choi Eun, a merchant trying to keep his integrity; and Jeong-cheon, an aspirant for honest government service. The cast features Rowoon, Shin Ye-eun, and Park Seo-ham, with the series directed by Choo Chang-min and written by Chun Sung-il.

Produced by NPIO Entertainment and Anew, the show blends action and political intrigue against late-Joseon corruption and shifting trade power. Its nine-episode run uses river hubs, port districts, and regional powerbrokers to frame personal loyalties and betrayals, situating the characters’ fortunes within broader currents of commerce and governance.

‘Marvel Zombies’ (2025)

This four-episode animated miniseries spins out of the alternate reality introduced in ‘What If…?’, where a virus has transformed many heroes into the undead. Bryan Andrews serves as director and showrunner with Zeb Wells as writer and executive producer, joined by executive producers Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, and Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt. The voice cast includes Awkwafina, David Harbour, Simu Liu, Elizabeth Olsen, Randall Park, Florence Pugh, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Hailee Steinfeld, Tessa Thompson, Dominique Thorne, Iman Vellani, and Todd Williams.

The series follows a survivor squad through a ravaged landscape as they seek a path to stop the plague, picking up thematic and narrative threads seeded in the ‘What If… Zombies?!’ chapter. Animated by Stellar Creative Lab, it continues the visual style established in ‘What If…?’ while layering in new character combinations and franchise crossovers within the Marvel Studios Animation slate.

‘Cleopatra’s Final Secret’ (2025)

This National Geographic feature documentary chronicles archaeologist Kathleen Martínez’s two-decade search for the burial place of Cleopatra VII, centering on land and underwater explorations around the Taposiris Magna temple complex. Directed by Alex Kiehl and produced by Robin Daly for Lion Television, the film also follows maritime explorer Robert Ballard as he investigates a newly identified sunken port linked to the site.

The production weaves amphorae, anchors, architectural fragments, and survey data into Martínez’s working theory that Cleopatra and Mark Antony may have been interred in or around Taposiris Magna. With new dives, site scans, and expert commentary, it presents current evidence alongside scholarly skepticism and showcases the evolving technology used to probe both temple grounds and offshore ruins.

‘Lost Treasures of Egypt’ (2019– )

This National Geographic docu-series embeds with archaeologists working across Egypt, tracking digs from the Valley of the Kings to sites along the Nile and spotlighting discoveries as they happen. English-language narration is by Indira Varma, and fieldwork has featured Egyptologists such as Colleen Darnell and Salima Ikram. Across seasons, directors have included Mat Stimpson and Gwyn Williams, with executive producers Neil Laird, Dan Kendall, Carlo Massarella, and Jane McGoldrick.

Episodes combine on-site excavation footage with expert analysis to frame how new finds—from funerary goods and inscriptions to architectural elements—reshape understanding of the Pharaonic past. The series’ access-driven style keeps the focus on active research while placing each discovery within broader historical and cultural timelines.

‘LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past’ (2025)

This four-part sequel continues the ‘LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy’ storyline, sending Sig Greebling and Darth Dev on a reality-bending quest that mixes “Force Building” and “Sith Breaking” with deep catalog nods from across LEGO Star Wars. Returning voices include Gaten Matarazzo, Tony Revolori, Bobby Moynihan, Marsai Martin, Michael Cusack, and Ahmed Best, with special appearances by Mark Hamill and newcomers Dan Stevens, Ashley Eckstein, and Ben Schwartz.

Developed by showrunners and writers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, who led the 2024 miniseries, the new chapters continue the mash-up of eras and characters in a canon-adjacent sandbox. The production leans into meta humor and brick-built world-bending while threading a serialized adventure built for family co-viewing.

‘Top Guns: The Next Generation’ (2025)

This National Geographic six-part docuseries follows U.S. Navy and Marine Corps student pilots through the advanced strike-fighter training pipeline, capturing sorties, carrier qualifications, and dogfighting drills. Produced by Rex (a Zinc Media Group label) for National Geographic, the series names Karen Edwards and Chris Parkin as showrunners, Lana Salah as series director, and executive producers Tanya Shaw and Simon Raikes.

Filmed over six months, the production balances in-cockpit footage with the human stakes on the ground, charting the pressure, personal sacrifices, and decision points involved in earning the coveted “wings of gold.” The series tracks the cohort’s progress class-by-class, with instructors’ debriefs and squadron life rounding out the training portrait.

‘Dancing with the Stars’ (2005–present)

The long-running U.S. edition of the ballroom competition—adapted from the U.K.’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’—pairs celebrities with professional dancers for weekly routines judged by a panel of experts. Produced by BBC Studios Los Angeles, the show has been stewarded in recent seasons by executive producer and showrunner Conrad Green, with Derek Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba, and Bruno Tonioli on the judging panel and Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough as hosts.

Each week’s format rotates dance styles while combining judges’ scores with audience voting to determine which couples face elimination. Milestone cycles mark franchise anniversaries, with special themes and tribute nights anchoring the season calendar and the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy as the ultimate prize.

‘The Simpsons’ (1989– )

Matt Groening’s animated sitcom centers on the Simpson family—Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie—in the endlessly elastic town of Springfield. Developed with James L. Brooks and Sam Simon, the series’ principal voice cast includes Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, and Harry Shearer, with the iconic main title theme by Danny Elfman.

Over decades and hundreds of episodes, the show has cycled through multiple showrunners, including Al Jean and Matt Selman, and a deep bench of writers and directors. Alongside rotating guest stars and recurring players like Pamela Hayden and Tress MacNeille, new episodes continue to explore cultural satire while the extensive back-catalog remains a cornerstone of animated television.

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