The Ultimate Guide to What to Watch on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, and More in March 2026

Spring has sprung, and so, thankfully, have the new TV shows. After a light start to 2026, the March schedule is looking pretty exciting: Returning shows include Season 2 of the live-action manga adaptation One Piece, the long-awaited third season of Lisa Kudrow's cult comedy The Comeback, and the second season of Jury Duty, which is heading to a (mostly staged, aside from its normal everyman) corporate retreat. If you'd like something entirely new, we recommend HBO's very good dark comedy DTF St. Louis, Taylor Sheridan's latest series The Madison, and Riz Ahmed's entertainment industry satire Bait.

Our guide to the best TV and streaming movies in March is divided into three sections: the best shows to watch this month, the best shows to watch by streaming service, and a calendar of TV highlights. Whatever you're looking for, you'll find it below.

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The best shows to watch in March

DTF St. Louis (March 1, HBO)

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]

Young Sherlock (March 4, Prime Video)

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] [Review]

Vladimir (March 5, Netflix)

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]

Rooster (March 8, HBO)

Fans of Ted Lasso and Shrinking, mark your calendars for 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]

One Piece Season 2 (March 10, Netflix)

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 (March 11, Prime Video)

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]

The Madison (March 14, Paramount+)

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]

Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (March 20, Prime Video)

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]

The Comeback Season 3 (March 22, HBO)

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]

Bait (March 25, Prime Video)

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]

What's on Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Prime Video, and more in March

Netflix's best new shows and movies in March

There's a lot of variety in Netflix's bouquet of new arrivals this March. New shows coming to the streamer include the limited series Vladimir, starring Rachel Weisz as a college professor who becomes obsessed with her younger colleague (Leo Woodall), and the horror series Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, in which something very bad happens before a wedding. Plus, a pair of big hits return: One Piece is back for Season 2, and Virgin River is back for Season 7. And by order of the Peaky Blinders, the hit crime drama gets the movie treatment in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. All the rain in Peaky Blinders should pair nicely with the high seas of One Piece and the river of Virgin River; it's going to be a wet spring on Netflix. Here's our list of the best shows and movies on Netflix in March, plus everything coming to and leaving Netflix in March.

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HBO Max's best new shows and movies in March

On HBO and HBO Max, March is for laughter. A trio of comedy series premiere this month, two of which are new and one of which has been away for so long that it's basically new: DTF St. Louis, which follows three people in a love triangle that results in death and stars Jason Bateman, David Harbour, and Linda Cardellini; Rooster, Steve Carell's new series from Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence; and the third and final season of Lisa Kudrow's prophetic cult comedy The Comeback. On the movies end, the Downton Abbey spoof Fackham Hall premieres toward the beginning of the month, while the John Wick spin-off Ballerina, which stars Ana de Armas as the titular ballerina, drops on HBO Max closer to the end of the month. Here's our list of the best shows and movies on HBO Max in March, plus everything coming to HBO Max in March.

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Hulu's best new shows and movies in March

The highlight of Hulu's February calendar was Season 2 of Paradise, and the highlight of Hulu's March calendar is also Season 2 of Paradise. As the post-apocalyptic thriller continues to roll out new episodes weekly until the end of the month, Hulu doesn't seem eager to steal its thunder, with a March lineup that's otherwise pretty light on Hulu original series — except for The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which returns for Season 4 on March 12. The month's other TV standouts are a pair of ABC shows: the new Scott Speedman drama RJ Decker and Season 22 of The Bachelorette. Here's our list of the best shows and movies on Hulu in March, plus everything coming to Hulu in March.

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Amazon Prime Video's best new shows and movies in March

Murder is on the menu in March for Prime Video. Three of the biggest new releases on Amazon's streaming service in the month involve smart people solving brutal killings, because that's what we love to watch while we are not being murdered in our living rooms. Two of these crime fighters — Sherlock Holmes and Kay Scarpetta — are fairly well known, while another duo — the mismatched detectives of Deadloch — deserves to be. And in Prime Video's Jury Duty, which returns for Season 2, anything can happen, so we're not ruling out an accidental murder happening there, too. Here's our list of the best shows and movies on Amazon Prime Video in March, plus everything coming to Amazon Prime Video in March. 

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Peacock's new shows and movies in March

Just accept it: A cute teddy bear with a Massachusetts accent smoking dope and talking about sex is what the people want. Ted, Seth MacFarlane's TV prequel to the Ted films, became the streamer's most-watched original series when it premiered in January 2024, and it returns to Peacock (Ted LOVES that name) for Season 2 in March to curse its way into your heart again. It's the headlining title for Peacock's new shows and movies in the month, following a busy February full of Winter Olympics, a Super Bowl, and the NBA All-Star Game. But Ted isn't the only out-of-control animal coming to Peacock in March. Late in the month, the gonzo film Bambi: The Reckoning — about a deer who goes on a murderous rampage after its mother is killed — makes its streaming debut. The "Poohniverse" film continues the twisted retelling of classic children's stories through a blood-soaked horror lens that started with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. For something more saccharine, Wicked: For Good, the sequel to the colorful musical Wicked, makes its streaming debut on March 20. Here's our list of everything coming to Peacock in March.

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Paramount+'s new shows and movies in March

Taylor Sheridan may have signed a deal to leave Paramount for NBCUniversal, but he's still making fresh bootprints on Paramount+, where his series Landman, Lioness, Tulsa King, and Mayor of Kingstown are thriving. Sheridan's new series The Madison makes its debut in March, and Marshals, which continues the story of Yellowstone's Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes), hits P+ the day after it premieres on CBS. The Madison isn't like Sheridan's other shows; it stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a woman who relocates to Montana to heal after tragedy. Marshals is a little more Sheridan-esque, but it's much more of a police procedural that follows Kayce as he joins the U.S. Marshals. Here's our list of everything coming to Paramount+ in March.

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March TV calendar highlights

Sunday, March 1
32nd Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA (Live Event, Netflix)
DTF St. Louis (Limited Series, HBO)
Marshals (Season 1, CBS)

Tuesday, March 3
RJ Decker (Season 1, ABC)

Wednesday, March 4
Young Sherlock (Season 1, Prime Video)

Thursday, March 5
Ladies of London: The New Reign (Season 1, Bravo)
Ted (Season 2, Peacock)
Vladimir (Limited Series, Netflix)

Sunday, March 8
Rooster (Season 1, HBO)

Wednesday, March 11
Scarpetta (Season 1, Prime Video)
Sunny Nights (Season 1, Hulu)

Thursday, March 12
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Season 4, Hulu)

Saturday, March 14
The Madison (Season 1, Paramount+)

Sunday, March 15
98th Academy Awards (Live Event, ABC)

Wednesday, March 18
Imperfect Women (Limited Series, Apple TV)

Friday, March 20
Deadloch (Season 2, Prime Video)
Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Season 2, Prime Video)
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (Film, Netflix)

Sunday, March 22
The Comeback (Season 3, HBO)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Limited Series, PBS)

Tuesday, March 24
Daredevil: Born Again (Season 2, Disney+)

Wednesday, March 25
Bait (Season 1, Prime Video)

Thursday, March 26
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (Season 1, Netflix)

Friday, March 27
For All Mankind (Season 5, Apple TV)
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (Film, Hulu)