The Most Anticipated TV Shows of Fall 2026

It's just about fall TV season once more, which is hopefully exciting enough to stop us all from stressing about where the summer went. On the lineup this fall are new shows like the Michelle Yeoh-and-Hunter Schafer-starring Blade Runner 2099; Mike Flanagan's Carrie adaptation; and the latest addition to the MCU, VisionQuest. And returning to our screens over the next few months are shows like TV Guide favorite The Lowdown and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. If you want to know what shows are worth keeping your eye on through September, October, and November, here are our picks for the most anticipated shows of the season.

The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie's TV spin-off of his 2019 film of the same name, has made headlines because of reports that Meghan Markle is "in advanced discussions" to join the action comedy in its third season. (The rumor mill has since gone back and forth on those reports.) But let's talk about the second season first. Theo James returns as Eddie Horniman, also known as the 13th Duke of Halstead, whose team-up with Kaya Scodelario's Susie Glass continues as they take on the Italian mafia together. -Kat Moon [Teaser] [Everything to know about The Gentlemen Season 2]

It's no longer the worst of times, because MGM+'s adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities is premiering this fall. This iteration of Charles Dickens' classic novel stars Kit Harington as Sydney Carton and François Civil as Charles Darnay. Sydney and Charles are the two lookalikes who fall for Mirren Mack's Lucie Manette, a woman known for her wisdom. Their lives become intertwined when Lucie receives a message saying that her father, who was presumed dead for 20 years, may actually be alive. -Kat Moon [Trailer]

Patrick Brammall (Colin From Accounts, Evil) leads this thriller about an emergency dispatcher who gets a life-changing distress call. Based on Ryan David Jahn's 2011 novel The Dispatcher, Last Seen trades the book's East Texas setting for Victoria, Australia, where Brammall's Ian Ridley gets a frantic call from a teenager he's convinced is his daughter, who went missing 11 years earlier. He's desperate to track her down and reunite his family, but his relentlessness could come at a high cost. Maxine Peake co-stars. -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]

Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) has worked with an almost entirely new crew in each season of Prime Video's Reacher, but one of his favorite coworkers from the past has popped up in all but one of the seasons that have aired so far: Frances Neagley (Maria Sten), the cereal connoisseur who works as a security expert in Chicago. This fall, their arrangement is flipped, and she's got her own show for Reacher to make cameos in. The spin-off Neagley isn't based on a Lee Child book, so no amount of reading will spoil you. However, what we do know is that Neagley gets into hot water while investigating the death of a family friend, who may have been involved in a cult led by a charismatic psycho (Damon Herriman). Expect a lot of the same things you'd expect from Reacher — brutal action, conspiracies that go all the way to the top, heroes who prefer to work alone — with less Reacher. - Tim Surette [Trailer]

In its first three seasons, Monster — the biographical crime drama from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan — told the stories of Jeffrey Dahmer, Lyle and Erik Menendez, and Ed Gein. The upcoming fourth installment features the anthology's first female "monster," Lizzie Borden, who was accused of the ax murders of her father and stepmother in 1892. Ella Beatty stars in the titular role, and is joined by Charlie Hunnam, Vicky Krieps, Rebecca Hall, Billie Lourd, Jessica Barden, and Sarah Paulson. -Kat Moon [Teaser]

It's time to head back to the roundtable, because a new group of Traitors are out for blood in The Traitors: New Blood. The latest installment of the competition reality series features no Survivor castaways, nor Big Brother houseguests, nor Real Housewives housewives. It doesn't even mix celebrities and civilians, as was the strategy in the show's first season. Rather, 22 "everyday Americans" enter Alan Cumming's castle in the Scottish Highlands for a game of mafia on steroids. Every contestant has the opportunity to win up to $250,000: The Traitors must keep their identities hidden as they "murder" a Faithful each week, while the Faithfuls must identify and banish them from the castle. -Kat Moon [Trailer]

Jon Hamm is back in a period piece, so pay attention. Set in the late 1970s and based on a true story, American Hostage follows Indianapolis radio reporter Fred Heckman (Hamm), who's pulled into an active crisis when hostage taker Tony Kiritsis (Giovanni Ribisi) demands an interview in the middle of a kidnapping. Co-created by Shawn Ryan (The Night Agent, The Shield), the show adapts the podcast of the same name, which also featured Hamm as Heckman. It's envisioned as an anthology series that will follow a new hostage situation each season, but for now, you'll want to tune in for this season's exciting cast — which also includes William Jackson Harper, Mireille Enos, Kristoffer Polaha, and Jonathan Tucker — and impressive turtlenecks. -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]

In this house, we love and support Sharon Horgan, which means that we're keeping an eye on Youth, her latest comedy series. Here, Horgan plays Alex, a 50-year-old divorcée struggling with getting older while simultaneously trying to get her sexual groove back, take care of her ailing parents, and push her son toward adulthood. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]

Brothers is a show that dares to ask, "What if Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson were biological brothers?" I'm not sure why you would need more information than that, but here are some more details if that is in fact the case: The True Detective co-stars play fictionalized versions of themselves in this comedy that finds the two moving in together with their families and discovering that they might actually be, you guessed it, biological brothers. Sure, why not? Like, can you genuinely give me one reason why not? Didn't think so. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]

Adapting East of Eden is a family business. More than seven decades after her grandfather Elia Kazan directed the 1955 film, Zoe Kazan is putting her stamp on Steinbeck's epic novel, wrangling the multigenerational saga into a seven-episode limited series. Inspired by the biblical tale of Cain and Abel, the story tracks two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, across the decades in California's Salinas Valley. Christoper Abbott, Mike Faist, Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, and Ciarán Hinds are among the show's stars, but Florence Pugh is at the center of it all as the scheming Cathy Ames, who marries into the Trask family. Is she an antihero or something more sinister? -Kelly Connolly [Teaser]

Who doesn't want to watch beautiful people involve themselves in an acrimonious legal battle? The very Succession-esque War, HBO's latest drama, is about just that. Lupin creator George Kay is behind this series, which follows the scandalous and high-profile divorce between a tech entrepreneur (played by Dominic West) and his actress wife (played by Sienna Miller), as well as the rival British law firms who are representing them. The series has already been renewed for a second season, which will star Marisa Tomei and Kelly Macdonald. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]

How lucky are we all that there are two Alan Cumming-led TV shows being released this fall? Here, Cumming co-stars alongside David Morrissey in this limited series about a pair of neighbors — Cumming's Leo, the owner of a gay bar; and Morrissey's Clive, an electrician with two teenage sons — who allow the pressures of an increasingly homophobic world to turn them into bitter enemies. Created by Russell T Davies, Tip Toe got great reviews when it premiered in the U.K. earlier this year. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]

Maybe every generation gets the Carrie it deserves. Stephen King's debut horror novel has already been adapted multiple times for the big screen, most memorably in Brian De Palma's 1976 film, and once for the stage, but as long as there are high school bullies, there will probably be new takes on Carrie. The latest — and the first to turn the story into a TV series — comes from frequent Stephen King adapter Mike Flanagan, who brings the story into the present, with social media playing a key role in Carrie's torment. Summer H. Howell stars as the titular teen, who's been isolated from the world by her parents and stuck at home with her abusive religious mother (Samantha Sloyan). When Carrie is put in public school after her father's unexpected death, her dormant telekinetic powers start to awaken. -Kelly Connolly [Teaser]

If you're missing Widow's Bay's specific brand of spooky island vibes, might we recommend Below? The thriller series stars Josh Hartnett as Calvin Penney, a fisherman whose remote Canadian fishing town comes under siege from a mysterious sea creature, leaving Calvin to defend his community, his family, and his quiet way of life. Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton co-star. -Allison Picurro [Teaser]

A new show from Robert and Michelle King is always worth celebrating. The creators of The Good Wife and Evil are back on CBS with another tale of good and evil: a David vs. Goliath legal drama set in Silicon Valley. Cupertino stars Evil's Mike Colter as lawyer Michael Price, who's cheated out of his stock options when he's fired from the tech startup he co-founded. He teams up with Olivia Siffre (Rachel Keller), another recently fired lawyer with her own reasons to want revenge, to start a scrappy new firm dedicated to representing the victims of the tech elite. Ella Stiller, Nik Dodani, Busy Philipps, and Renée Elise Goldsberry also star. -Kelly Connolly [Teaser]

The Lowdown was easily one of the best TV shows of 2025 in its first season, which automatically makes the upcoming second season appointment viewing. Reprising his lead role in Sterlin Harjo's Tulsa-set noir is Ethan Hawke, whose "truthstorian" Lee Raybon finds himself bumbling through a brand new investigation as helps a public defender (played by Betty Gilpin) search for her client, who has recently gone missing from the state penitentiary. In addition to Gilpin, Tommy Lee Jones also joins the ensemble as Lee's estranged grifter father. Sign us up. -Allison Picurro

More than five years after WandaVision premiered, and two years after Agatha All Along, Disney+ is wrapping up the trilogy with this series following Paul Bettany's Vision. VisionQuest, which is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase Six, tells the story of the android, who's been in hiding. But Vision must step out of the shadows when a bounty is placed on his head. As he goes on the run with a boy named Thomas Shepherd (Ruaridh Mollica), Vision begins to learn the secrets behind his programming. VisionQuest also stars James Spader as Ultron, Todd Stashwick as Paladin, and T'Nia Miller as Jocasta. -Kat Moon [Trailer] 

It was only a matter of time before we got the Mrs. Voorhees prequel. Just in time for Halloween is Crystal Lake, the latest addition to the Friday the 13th franchise, which stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela, mother of the future hockey mask-wearing killer Jason, who (seemingly fatally) drowned before the events of the 1980 slasher that started it all. As the grief-stricken Pamela struggles to move on after her son's supposed death, the quiet town of Crystal Lake is rocked as dead bodies suddenly begin turning up all over the place. -Allison Picurro [Teaser]

Don't sleep on Nocturne, Apple TV+'s new crime drama based on the novels Lazarus and The Sandman by Lars Kepler. The series takes place in a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where a serial killer, Jurek Walter — played by Adolescence's Stephen Graham — is on a rampage. Liev Schreiber plays homicide detective Jonah Lynn, who must put a stop to Jurek's crimes. Joining Graham and Schreiber in the cast are Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Rory Culkin, Chrissy Metz, Poorna Jagannathan, and Gary Carr. -Kat Moon

Please rise for last season's best new network comedy. Created by 30 Rock alums Robert Carlock and Sam Means, The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins is a winner about a pair of guys who can't win: disgraced former NFL player Reggie Dinkins (Tracy Morgan) and disgraced director Arthur Tobin (Daniel Radcliffe), who are working together on a documentary they hope will rebuild both of their careers. Season 1 ended with Reggie earning a few Hall of Fame votes — not enough to get in, but more than he expected — as his agent and ex-wife, Monica (the great Erika Alexander), impressed a major potential client, a college running back with the excellent name of Slacks Madison. Real football is stressful; let Reggie Dinkins distract you with fictional athletes' funny problems. -Kelly Connolly

We've had Taylor Sheridan's take on Bass Reeves, and now we get the adult animated take on the first Black U.S. Marshal. Brian Tyree Henry voices Reeves in the new sci-fi steampunk series, which reimagines him as a ruthless bounty hunter in an alternate history version of the post-Civil War American West. Janelle Monáe, Tati Gabrielle, and Cree Summer fill out the voice cast. -Allison Picurro [Teaser]

In Season 3 of Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, all forces of good must unite against the Dark Lord, aka Sauron (Charlie Vickers). He is starting to forge the One Ring to Rule Them All, but that won't be made easy by Galadriel (Morfydd Clark), Elrond (Robert Aramayo), Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova), and the humans, dwarves, and Harfoots we've come to known in the show's first two seasons. This upcoming chapter also introduces Jamie Campbell Bower, best known for portraying Vecna in Stranger Things, as Galadriel's husband, Celeborn. -Kat Moon [Teaser] [Everything to know about The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power] 

Rose Byrne: good. Meghann Fahy: good. In The Good Daughter, Byrne and Fahy play sisters still reeling from a violent event deep in their pasts. That trauma comes to the surface in the present when another crime rocks their small town, and Fahy's Charlotte, now a lawyer, investigates. Created by Karin Slaughter and based on her novel of the same name, The Good Daughter boasts a very good cast that also includes Brendan Gleeson, Harper Steele, Paula Malcomson, Jake McDorman, Michael Dorman, and Olivia Williams. -Kelly Connolly

It's no Pawnee, but can Amy Poehler and Michael Schur interest you in a trip to the Mediterranean? Poehler and Schur's first collaboration since Parks and Recreation is Dig, a new comedy the pair co-created about archaeologists who stumble on an international conspiracy while working at an excavation site in Greece. Fun! Poehler stars as the lead archaeologist, alongside Geraldine Viswanathan, Antonia Thomas, and Fina Strazza as her fellow archaeologists and Hugh Laurie as a professor. Dig is based on the 2023 novel Excavations by Kate Myers, who's on board as an executive producer. -Kelly Connolly

If there's one job — and pop culture franchise — that rampantly out-of-control AI won't eliminate, it's Blade Runner. The new Prime Video cyberpunk series Blade Runner 2099 is set 50 years after Denis Villeneuve's 2017 film Blade Runner 2049 and stars Michelle Yeoh as an aging Replicant Blade Runner tasked with hunting down a rogue group of human-like bots. Her new partner, Cora, played by Euphoria's Hunter Schafer, is hiding a secret: She's a fugitive human masquerading as a Replicant. Let's hope she can pretend she's not fond of tortoises. - Tim Surette [Teaser]

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