The 40 Most Anticipated New Shows of 2026 (and 7 More We Already Love)

Netflix has been really good of late at the pulpy, potboiler, limited series, and His & Hers is the latest in that winning streak. The show follows a detective (Jon Bernthal) and his estranged journalist wife (Tessa Thompson) as they both hunt for answers when a local woman—whom they both have a close connection to—winds up dead. Based on Alice Feeney’s book of the same name, His & Hers is exactly how this kind of show should be: Juicy, fun, easy to watch, and filled with really good actors.

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In shrinking its story down to a more intimate one that takes place between the margins of major universe events, Game of Thrones takes a page out of the Andor handbook with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (based on George R.R. Martin’s Dunk and Egg novellas). This short series, which follows a big, humble, anxious hedge knight (former professional rugby player Peter Claffey)and his little friend/squire (Dexter Sol Ansell) is a true breath of fresh air for Thrones fans on both a story and character level. It’s a delight.

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Doesn’t the premise of Ponies just sound fun? This spy series set in ’70s Moscow follows a pair of women working with the CIA who find themselves at the midst of a vast conspiracy when their husbands both die under mysterious circumstances. And those women are played by The White Lotus‘s Haley Lu Richardson and Game of Thrones queen Emilia Clarke. Sometimes something that sounds like a winner just turns out to be one.

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This show about a disgraced former football player (Tracy Morgan) and a documentary filmmaker following him (Daniel Radcliffe) comes from the team behind 30 Rock, so you know you’re going to get several jokes per minute. Plus, Morgan and Radcliffe are no slouches themselves. The show had a special debut in January and will continue on a regular schedule later in February.

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At the very least, Wonder Man is among the best shows Marvel ever made—and you could make a case that it’s at the top of the list. Yahya Abdul Mateen II plays the titular hero (aka actor Simon Williams) as the kind of guy we love to love in this sort of story: humble, well-meaning, charismatic, and ambitious. But when he meets fellow actor (and former fake terrorist) Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley) and learns that his favorite movie from childhood is being remade by an acclaimed director, everything changes. Wonder Man isn’t just a good Marvel show, but a good show about people, movies, and friendship period. Let’s hope the MCU takes notes from what worked so well here and keeps the streak going in the future.

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One of America’s great cultural institutions made its grand return in 2026: The Muppet Show! This version—coming from executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg—is directly modeled on the original Muppet Show, which means special guests, musical performances, comedy sketches, and lots of fun. The first episode, which featured special guest star Sabrina Carpenter, was an absolute delight for anyone who likes Kermit, Miss Piggy, and friends (or who just likes laughing and having a good time). For now, it’s just this one episode, but if the reaction is strong enough (and it seems like it might be), the show will come back in full.

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The latest entry in producer Ryan Murphy’s American Story universe is called Love Story and follows the romance and life between Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. Of course, that story ends in an extreme tragedy—so if you get invested, be sure to have your tissues ready.

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The new season of Scrubs—which will bring back almost all of the original cast, including Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke—will be an interesting test. Do audiences remember Scrubs? Do they still care? The show has always thrived in its tonal balancing of goofiness and, somehow, medical drama, and it should at the very least make for a fun watch. The last season aired in 2010, so we’re OK with calling this 16-years-later revival a ‘new’ show.

DTF St. Louis follows trio of languishing adults—played by the electric trio of Jason Bateman, Linda Cardellini, and David Harbour—get involved in a love triangle and general madness that results in one of them winding up dead. A dark comedy, the show has the potential (and the premise) to be one of those HBO shows that gets everyone talking.

The second age of Yellowstone begins in earnest with Marshals, a 13-episode drama that will air on CBS (and later stream on Parmaount+) and focuses on Luke Grimes‘s character Kayce. We’ll see how the show pivots and differentiates itself, because there are at least two more Yellowstone spin-offs coming in 2026.

One of the busiest men in show business these days—on both the big and small screen—is Guy Ritchie, and his newest endeavor takes him back to a world he’s inhabited a couple times before. Young Sherlock follows, well, a Young Sherlock Holmes. And as you can imagine, it follows Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective as he solves a mystery. Hero Fiennes Tiffin plays the titular character, and Colin Firth is also part of the show’s cast. Should be a fun time.

The erotic thriller is back! Or, well, juicy erotic character study dramedy? Whatever we want to call it, Netflix’s Vladimir is one of the year’s most exciting new shows. Based on the novel of the same name, this show follows a longtime literature professor at a college (Rachel Weisz, constantly breaking the fourth wall) who finds herself in the midst of controversy when her fellow professor husband (John Slattery) gets caught sleeping with students. She takes this as an opportunity to switch things up a bit, and so she becomes smitten with her very sexy new colleague (Leo Woodall). It promises to be a fun, zippy, juicy time—and could be one of Netflix’s best shows in a while.

From the mold of Ted Lasso and Shrinking comes Rooster, which stars Steve Carell and counts Lasso and Shrinking co-creator Bill Lawrence (who also made Shrinking and Cougar Town) as its showrunner. Carell plays an author who heads to help his professor daughter on a college campus… and becomes enamored with life there. Imagine Back to School but with some middle-age soul-searching and academia at play? Sure!

There are 29 books in the Scarpetta series, and, now, one TV show on Prime Video starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis. The series follows forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta (Kidman) as she solves a crime. The show seems destined to fit into Prime Video’s roster of rock-solid procedural murder mysteries, which also includes Reacher, Cross, Bosch, and plenty more. Bobby Cannavale and Simon Baker are also part of the cast.

Sunny Nights, which aired in Australia last year, makes its U.S. debut this March on Hulu. The premise is simple: A pair of siblings (played by the very funny Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden) want to start a spray tan business, but wind up entrenched in the criminal underworld. Whoops!

More Yellowstone! While it’s not clear just yet how The Madison connects to Yellowstone… it does. This series is said to be about grief, is set out in those beautiful landscapes this universe is known for, and stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell.

Riz Ahmed is the creator and star of Bait, a show about an actor who thinks he’s about to get offered the role of a lifetime—James Bond!—and the madness that spirals out of such a revelation.

Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones and the Six) and Adam DiMarco (The White Lotus) are set to get married in this horror series from showrunnerHaley Z. Boston (who worked on the very underrated Brand New Cherry Flavor) and producers The Duffer Brothers. But something very bad happens in the week before. That’s all we know right now, and, quite frankly, it’s all we need to be sold.

The beloved ’90s and 2000s sitcom Malcolm in the Middle makes its grand return with Life’s Still Unfair, a four-part limited series that picks up with our favorite parents and brothers 20 years after the show aired its last episode in 2006.

If you’ve been missing a Succession-style dramedy in your life, AMC’s The Audacity might be it. This show is a Silicon Valley satire centered on a CEO and his personal shrink, with a very charismatic cast that includes Billy Magnussen, Zach Gaifianakis, and Barry star Sarah Goldberg.