The Most Anticipated TV Shows of Spring 2026

It's been a long, long, long winter, meaning that we all deserve a spring filled with a lot of exciting TV. The schedule is packed with high-profile returning champions like the long-delayed third season of Euphoria; the fifth and final season of The Boys; and a new season of The Comeback, which last aired in 2014. But, perhaps most thrillingly, the next few months are packed with new releases like Taylor Sheridan's The Madison; the Handmaid's Tale sequel series The Testaments; and Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir, among others. If you want to know what shows are worth keeping your eye on through March, April, and May, here are our picks for the most anticipated shows of the season.

First of all, let's get this out of the way: Yes, DTF stands for what you think it does. And yes, Jason Bateman and David Harbour are DTF. They play a pair of bored suburban dads emboldened by their new friendship and a new app that helps married people find other couples who are D to F the crap each other. But the cops get involved when someone is murdered, turning this dark comedy about infidelity and middle-aged malaise into a murder mystery. Steven Conrad, who created Prime Video's exquisite Patriot, is behind this one, and he's proving to be one of TV's best designers of quirky and sharp television. Linda Cardellini, Joy Sunday, and Richard Jenkins also star. -Tim Surette [Trailer] [Review]

This might as well happen. Sherlock Holmes gets the Young Sheldon treatment in Young Sherlock, which reimagines the classic Arthur Conan Doyle detective as a 19-year-old Oxford student (played by Hero Fiennes Tiffin) who's dragged into his first murder investigation courtesy of James Moriarty (Dónal Finn). Based on Andrew Lane's Young Sherlock Holmes book series, the Prime Video adaptation is directed and executive produced by Guy Ritchie, whose 2009 and 2011 Sherlock Holmes flicks look like they set the tone for this show — which is to say that Young Sherlock's getting punched. The cast also includes Zine Tseng as Princess Gulun Shou'an, Max Irons as Mycroft, Joseph Fiennes and Natascha McElhone as Sherlock and Mycroft's parents, and Colin Firth as the fantastically named Sir Bucephalus Hodge. -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]

Adapted from Julia May Jonas' book of the same name, Vladimir follows a professor (Rachel Weisz) as she develops an obsession with her new and younger colleague, Vladimir (Leo Woodall). Reality blurs with fantasy as Weisz's character fixates on him and contemplates the unfulfilled desires across many areas of her life. The series also stars John Slattery, Ellen Robertson, and Jessica Henwick. The trailer is a good indication that Vladimir promises to be spicy, irreverent, and packed with moments breaking the fourth wall. -Kat Moon [Trailer]

Fans of Ted Lasso and Shrinking, mark your calendars for March 8, because that's the premiere date of the latest show from co-creator Bill Lawrence. Along with Matt Tarses, writer Lawrence created Rooster, a series about a father-and-daughter relationship where everything appears to be going wrong. Steve Carell plays an author who is trying to find himself again, which involves reconnecting with his daughter, a professor played by Charly Clive. They are joined in the cast by Danielle Deadwyler, Phil Dunster, Lauren Tsai, and John C. McGinley. -Kat Moon [Trailer]

Monkey D. Luffy's (Iñaki Godoy) quest to become the King of the Pirates continues in One Piece: Into the Grand Line. The first season of Netflix's live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's manga was praised for honoring the spirit of the original work. Oda returns as executive producer for Season 2 and has regularly shared updates with manga and anime fans about the show's progress over the last few years. Well, the wait is over on March 10, as Luffy and the Straw Hats — Zoro (Mackenyu), Nami (Emily Rudd), Usopp (Jacob Romero Gibson), and Sanji (Taz Skylar) — set sail for the Grand Line. -Kat Moon [Trailer] [Everything to know about Netflix's One Piece Season 2]

Scarpetta combines two of everyone's favorite TV genres: crime dramas and shows about Nicole Kidman's secrets. The Prime Video series, based on the Patricia Cornwell books, stars Kidman as Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who returns to her old job as her hometown's chief medical examiner after leaving on bad terms the first time around. When she connects a recent murder to the case that made her career 28 years ago, she realizes that her hunt for justice could upend her life. Rosy McEwan plays Scarpetta in the late '90s, alongside a cast that also includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Baker, and Ariana DeBose. -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]

Taylor Sheridan has become a pop culture powerhouse on the shoulders of tough men (and some women, thank you Lioness!) protecting their interests and/or blasting bad guys in a series of dad shows and movies that are politically obviously leaning right yet bipartisanly watched. (How else can you explain those Yellowstone ratings?) So what will happen when Sheridan dabbles in yoga mom territory with a sensitive examination of grief and loss through the eyes of a woman? We don't know, but we're dying to find out. The Madison isn't overtly one of Sheridan's Yellowstone spin-offs, but with its use of Montana as a salve for the soul, it may as well be. Michelle Pfeiffer stars as a career woman who ditches the Big Apple for Big Sky Country after suffering a family tragedy. Kurt Russell plays her husband, who, if rumors are true, is part of that tragedy, and Patrick J. Adams and Matthew Fox (Jaaaaack!) also star. -Tim Surette [Trailer] [Everything to know about The Madison]

One of streaming's most criminally underwatched crime shows is also one of streaming's most criminally underwatched comedies. Australia's Deadloch — which went under the working title of Funny Broadchurch — nails the challenging tone of being deadly serious when it comes to murder while also being laugh-out-loud funny thanks to the sharp minds of creators Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. The series is one of those "cop-posites attract" police shows, with the straitlaced Dulcie (Kate Box) paired with the boisterous Eddie (Madeleine Sami), tossing in eccentric characters from backwoods parts Down Under for local flavor and fun. In Season 2, competing alligator watching tour companies have a beef, which ties in with a local murder that Dulcie and Eddie are investigating. Sounds perfectly Deadloch-ian. -Tim Surette [Trailer]

Prime Video found a surprise hit in 2023's Jury Duty, a social experiment and comedic prank show in which one man believed he was part of a docuseries examining a real trial as it unfolded in court — except what he did not know is that everything was staged and that he was the only person unaware. After its breakout success, Prime Video decided it wanted more, but this isn't the kind of joke you can tell twice, so the new season was moved to a corporate offsite event for a hot sauce company, with the new mark being a recently hired temp. The first season of Jury Duty worked because of the earnestness of its unsuspecting hero; can TV find a heroic everyman twice? -Tim Surette [Trailer]

Well, she got it! "It" being a third season of The Comeback, the cult comedy series created by Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King and starring Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, a washed-up '90s TV star who agrees to appear in a reality show documenting her life in a desperate effort to revive her career. (Season 1 of The Comeback premiered in 2005, two years before Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Talk about prescient.) In the third (and apparently final) season, Valerie accepts a role as the lead of a new sitcom, which was written by AI. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]

In the grand tradition of people in the entertainment industry satirizing the entertainment industry, Bait is about the hunt for the next James Bond. In reality, rumors are swirling about seemingly every young white actor taking up the mantle; in Bait, Riz Ahmed plays Shah Latif, a struggling actor who lands an audition to star as the next Bond, immediately prompting discourse from everyone he's ever met, and the rest of the world, too. -Allison Picurro [Clip]

The fourth season of The Boys ended on the most dramatic cliffhanger of the series yet: Butcher (Karl Urban) betrays The Boys, and they are forcibly separated. The fifth and final season of Prime Video's dark comedy brings together The Boys one last time for a war against Vought and its supes. Fans of Supernatural should be particularly excited, since this upcoming chapter includes guest appearances from Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins. Jensen Ackles, who played Soldier Boy in Season 3, returns as a series regular. -Kat Moon [Trailer] [Everything to know about The Boys Season 5]

If anyone can make the Handmaid's Tale TV universe exciting again, it's One Battle After Another breakout Chase Infiniti. Infiniti stars in The Handmaid's Tale sequel series The Testaments as June and Luke's daughter, Hannah — now known as Agnes MacKenzie — who's coming of age in Gilead and reckoning with her dismal future. The Hulu series got a little too bleak for most viewers by the end, but maybe a younger spin is just what the story needs. Like Margaret Atwood's 2019 novel, The Testaments will also follow a Canadian teen named Daisy (Lucy Halliday) with her own connection to Gilead. And yes, the great Ann Dowd is back as Aunt Lydia. Blessed day. -Kelly Connolly

When you need someone to play a bumbling husband locked in a strange power struggle, call Matthew Macfadyen. In The Miniature Wife, Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks play married couple Les and Lindy, whose relationship gets a lot more imbalanced when a technological accident shrinks Lindy down to the size of a doll. Created by Boardwalk Empire's Jennifer Ames and Steve Turner and based on a short story by Manuel Gonzales, The Miniature Wife also stars O-T Fagbenle, Zoe Lister-Jones, Sian Clifford, and Sofia Rosinsky. But everything you really need to know about this show is in its title. It's about a wife who's miniature. -Kelly Connolly [Teaser]

Is every TV show kind of about the tech industry now? Yes. Does The Audacity, the new Silicon Valley-set series from Succession producer Jonathan Glatzer, still sound like it's worth watching? Also yes. The dark comedy stars Billy Magnussen as an intense and insecure data-mining CEO who's striving to turn himself into a major figure in the tech space. The cast features a number of comedic powerhouses, like Zach Galifianakis, Simon Helberg, Sarah Goldberg, and Randall Park. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]

Did anyone think this day would ever come? Euphoria's second season aired all the way back in early 2022, and its journey back to our screens has been, in a word, dramatic. But the HBO drama returns this spring, complete with a lot of new cast members (including — deep breath — Rosalía, Marshawn Lynch, Sharon Stone, Trisha Paytas, Danielle Deadwyler, and Natasha Lyonne, among others) as it jumps five years into the future. The first trailer shows Rue (Zendaya) being chased down by her old drug boss; Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Nate (Jacob Elordi) unhappily engaged; and Jules (Hunter Schafer) incredibly rich, somehow? The Euphoria high school is no more, but the Euphoria teens (turned adults) are still getting into trouble. -Allison Picurro [Trailer] [Everything to know about Euphoria Season 3]

Anyone who watched The Great already knows that Elle Fanning is one of the greats. In David E. Kelley's adaptation of Rufi Thorpe's novel of the same name, Fanning returns to TV as the titular Margo, a college dropout who turns to OnlyFans to support herself after an affair with her professor leaves her unexpectedly pregnant. The star-studded cast includes Michelle Pfeiffer as Margo's mother, Nick Offerman as Margo's estranged father, and Nicole Kidman as the mediator between Margo and her professor. -Allison Picurro [Teaser]

Was Beef supposed to be a limited series? Yes. Did it run in the limited series categories during its 2023 awards push? Also yes. Can we forgive a case of category fraud, just this once? Yes, and with a Season 2 cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Charles Melton, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny, and Youn Yuh-jung, who could possibly blame us? The second season of Lee Sung Jin's dramedy follows a young couple (played by Melton and Spaeny) who witness an alarming fight between their country club manager boss and his wife (played by Isaac and Mulligan). -Allison Picurro

Richard Gadd was slingshotted into stardom when his Netflix miniseries Baby Reindeer became an overnight sensation in 2024, and we're about to find out whether it was just a fluke or we've found a new streaming auteur. There isn't much known about his new series Half Man, which stars Gadd and Jamie Bell as estranged "brothers" (not related by blood) whose reunion ignites an inferno of violence and kicks off a look back at their relationship. But from the promo image, it looks like Gadd beefed up significantly from baby reindeer to mature bull for the role. -Tim Surette

If you thought the horrors of the Upside Down were going away after the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, think again. The animated series Stranger Things: Tales From '85 is taking us back to Hawkins and to the stories of familiar characters, including Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, and Max, as they battle new threats. As of now, no actor from the original series has been announced to reprise their role. But Tales From '85 is being produced by Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer, and Netflix has announced that the events in the new show officially take place in between Stranger Things Seasons 2 and 3. -Kat Moon [Trailer]

Matthew Rhys, who has dependably good taste in TV projects, stars in Widow's Bay, a horror comedy created by Katie Dippold, whose credits include Parks and Recreation, The Heat, and the funniest tweet of all time. The show is set in a superstitious New England town with a skeptical mayor (Rhys) who refuses to accept the locals' claims that the place is cursed. Stephen Root, Kate O'Flynn, Kingston Rumi Southwick, Kevin Carroll, and Dale Dickey round out the cast, and Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Barry, Station Eleven) directs. Widow's Bay might be cursed, but Widow's Bay doesn't look like it will be. -Kelly Connolly [Teaser]

Can we interest you in another dark comedy with a killer cast this spring? Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed stars Tatiana Maslany as recently divorced mom Paula, who "falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder, and youth soccer." After becoming convinced she witnessed a crime, Paula begins her own investigation, hoping to unravel a conspiracy and heal her family at the same time. Jake Johnson plays Paula's ex-husband, Karl; the ensemble also features Murray Bartlett Jessy Hodges, Jon Michael Hill, Brandon Flynn, and Dolly de Leon. This is a cast that could live up to the promise of the title. -Kelly Connolly

We're all going to just have to keep waiting for the third and final installment of the Spider-Verse trilogy, but of all the things to hold us over, Spider-Noir feels pretty promising. Nicolas Cage, who voiced a version of the character in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, stars as Ben Reilly, a grizzled private investigator who once masqueraded as 1930s New York City's only superhero, known as the Spider. Years after his retirement, Reilly decides to resurrect his alter ego when an exceptional case comes his way. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]

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