What’s on Streaming This Week? Watch ‘The Diplomat,’ ‘The Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’ and More

This feature-length documentary tells the story of Martha Stewart’s meteoric rise from teen fashion model to America’s first self-made female billionaire. Director RJ Cutler (The September Issue, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry) gets the inside story from Stewart herself and those closest to her. The trailer has already generated some headlines, and we’ll get the full story when Martha premieres on Oct. 30.

Teenager Lucy Field (Outer Banks’ Madison Bailey) travels back in time to 2003 — the same year her sister was murdered by a mysterious masked killer. Can she stop the killer without destroying the future? This sci-fi slasher, which co-stars Ginny & Georgia’s Antonia Gentry, hits Netflix on Oct. 30.

In the aftermath of last season’s shocking finale, American diplomat Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) doesn’t know who to trust — or how high up the corruption might go. Allison Janney joins the cast as US vice president Grace Penn. All eight episodes stream on Oct. 31, and season 3 has already been announced.

JB Smoove hosts the new Prime Video show Buy It Now, which will also feature rotating celebrity judges including Gwyneth Paltrow and Tony Hawk. The retail competition show melds entertainment with commerce as entrepreneurs compete, Shark Tank-style, to impress the judges with their new products. Winners will have their products featured in Amazon’s bespoke “Buy It Now” store, which will be featured on both Amazon.com and within the Prime app. The show premieres Oct. 30.

This sequel/spinoff of Disney’s wildly popular Wizards of Waverly Place follows the now-adult Justin Russo (David Henrie, reprising his original role), who has given up his magical powers. He must help a powerful young wizard named Billie, played by Janice LeAnn Brown, learn to control her powers. Original Waverly stars Selena Gomez, Maria Canals-Barrera, David DeLuise and Jake T. Austin are set to guest star; Gomez and Henrie are executive producers. The first two episodes of the show premiere on the Disney Channel on Oct. 29, but all eight episodes will be available to stream on Disney Plus Oct. 30.

Bobby Cannavale stars as Max, a late-night comedy writer-turned struggling stand-up comedian who lives with his father (Robert De Niro) while helping to raise his son Ezra, who has autism. When tensions with his ex-wife (Cannavale’s real-life partner, Rose Byrne) come to a head, father and son set out on the cross-country trip of a lifetime. Vera Farmiga, Rainn Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg also appear. The film streams on Paramount Plus starting Oct. 28.

Gru and family — including new addition Gru Jr. — are forced to relocate as they try to evade baddie Maxime Le Mal. The French supervillain with cockroach powers (Will Ferrell) proves hard to evade, and hilarious Minion hijinks ensue. The film comes to streaming on Oct. 31.