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All genres · 30 selected seasons

An editorial selection of released 2026 seasons, including returning shows, animation, documentary and limited series. Each entry links to critical reception and its season release record. This is a dated selection, not an exhaustive or objective ranking. Genre categories are omitted to avoid thin or padded lists. TVmaze audience ratings are separate from season-level critic scores.

Checked 2026-10-20 · Season-level critics’ scores and release sources appear with every pick.
All genres · Checked 2026-10-20 · Editorial order
Season 6 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
The Pitt poster8.5
The Pitt
Drama·Season 2 · 2026
HBO Max
Season 2 · 202699% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 202698% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Hacks poster7.4
Hacks
Drama·Season 5 · 2026
HBO Max
Season 5 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 4 · 202696% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 5 · 202696% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Adults poster5.7
Adults
Comedy·Season 2 · 2026
Hulu
Season 2 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 3 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes 9 critic reviews; smaller review sample · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 202698% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Sugar poster7.4
Sugar
Crime·Season 2 · 2026
 tv
Season 2 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 3 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Rivals poster6.4
Rivals
Drama·Season 2 · 2026
Disney+
Season 2 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 202696% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 202696% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Silo poster8.0
Silo
Drama·Season 3 · 2026
 tv
Season 3 · 202696% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 202695% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 202694% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 202694% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Ponies poster6.9
Ponies
Thriller·Season 1 · 2026
Peacock
Season 1 · 202694% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Furious poster7.5
Furious
Drama·Season 1 · 2026
Hulu
Season 1 · 202699% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 202698% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Legends poster6.9
Legends
Crime·Season 1 · 2026
Netflix
Season 1 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Bait poster4.7
Bait
Comedy·Season 1 · 2026
Prime Video
Season 1 · 202694% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Reacher poster8.1
Reacher
Drama·Season 4 · 2026
Prime Video
Season 4 · 202694% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
The Boys poster8.3
The Boys
Action·Season 5 · 2026
Prime Video
Season 5 · 202692% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
Season 1 · 202691% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
01Slow Horses poster

Slow Horses

Season 6 · 2026 · Drama / Thriller / Espionage · Running

Slow Horses follows the story of a group of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 called Slough House after the big mistakes they've made that resulted in the end of their mainstream careers.This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

Season 6 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
8.1TVmaze
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02The Pitt poster

The Pitt

Season 2 · 2026 · Drama / Medical · Running

The Pitt is a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today's America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Each episode follows an hour of Dr. Robby's 15-hour shift as the chief attendant in Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital's emergency room.

Season 2 · 202699% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
8.5TVmaze
HBO Max
03Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! poster

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!

Season 1 · 2026 · Documentary · Ended

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! explores the life, career, friendships, and loves of legendary writer, director, producer, and performer, Mel Brooks. One of Hollywood's most daring satirists from the early years of television sketch comedy through his film and stage hits, Brooks has held a funhouse mirror up to the human condition and used laughter as a path to resilience, connection, and joy for nearly a century.

Season 1 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
—TVmaze
HBO
04Widow's Bay poster

Widow's Bay

Season 1 · 2026 · Comedy / Horror / Supernatural · Running

Widow's Bay is about a mysteriously cursed New England island and its superstitious citizens, led by a mayor who refuses to believe their warnings.

Season 1 · 202698% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
7.5TVmaze
 tv
05Hacks poster

Hacks

Season 5 · 2026 · Drama / Comedy / Romance · Ended

Hacks explores a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.

Season 5 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
7.4TVmaze
HBO Max
06Industry poster

Industry

Season 4 · 2026 · Drama · Running

Industry follows a group of young graduates competing for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London—but the boundaries between colleague, friend, lover, and enemy soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined as much by sex, drugs, and ego as it is by deals and dividends. As members of the group rise and fall, they must decide whether life is about more than the bottom line.

Season 4 · 202696% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
6.5TVmaze
HBO
07The Bear poster

The Bear

Season 5 · 2026 · Drama / Comedy / Food · Ended

Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.

Season 5 · 202696% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
7.4TVmaze
Hulu
08Adults poster

Adults

Season 2 · 2026 · Comedy · To Be Determined

Adults is an ensemble comedy series about a group of twenty-somethings in New York trying to be good people, despite being neither "good" nor "people" yet. Samir, Billie, Paul Bake, Issa and Anton are five friends crashing together in Samir's childhood home, where they share their meals, anxieties and, occasionally, toothbrushes.

Season 2 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
5.7TVmaze
Hulu
09Colin From Accounts poster

Colin From Accounts

Season 3 · 2026 · Comedy / Romance · Ended

Centred on Ashley and Gordon, two single(ish), complex humans who are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog, Colin From Accounts is about flawed, funny people choosing each other and being brave enough to show their true self, scars and all, as they navigate life together.

Season 3 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
7.0TVmaze
Binge
10A Killer Story poster

A Killer Story

Season 1 · 2026 · Documentary / Crime · Ended

A Killer Story examines a polarizing murder case that spanned more than two decades and captured national attention. At the center of the case is Dana Chandler, who was accused of killing her ex-husband and his girlfriend in 2002. 

Season 1 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes 9 critic reviews; smaller review sample · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
—TVmaze
HBO
11The Other Bennet Sister poster

The Other Bennet Sister

Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Romance / History · To Be Determined

The Other Bennet Sister is a fresh spin around the ballroom for one of Jane Austen's most unassuming characters: Mary Bennet – the seemingly unremarkable and overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The series takes as its premise that - when it comes to the Bennet sisters - while we dream of being Lizzy, in reality most us are more like Mary...Unlike her sisters, Mary isn't your typical period drama heroine. She is awkward, anxious, preachy, full of facts, a terrible singer… overlooked by her mother and seemingly destined to an empty dance card for the rest of her life… until Mary takes matters into her own hands.The Other Bennet Sister gives Mary Bennet the epic love story nobody predicted for her, taking her from her family home in Meryton to the soirees of Regency London and the peaks and vales of the Lake District - all in search of independence, romance and, most elusive of all, self-love and acceptance.

Season 1 · 202698% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
6.7TVmaze
BBC iPlayer
13Sugar poster

Sugar

Season 2 · 2026 · Crime / Science-Fiction / Mystery · To Be Determined

John Sugar is an American private investigator on the heels of the mysterious disappearance of Olivia Siegel, the beloved granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel. As Sugar tries to determine what happened to Olivia, he will also unearth Siegel family secrets; some very recent, others long-buried.

Season 2 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
7.4TVmaze
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14The Comeback poster

The Comeback

Season 3 · 2026 · Comedy · Ended

The limited comedy series stars Lisa Kudrow as the embattled Valerie Cherish, a fading TV "It Girl" who was once so desperate to stay in the spotlight that she allowed cameras to follow her every move as she appeared on a new sitcom - with disastrous results. Now, it's ten years later, and Valerie thinks she has it all figured out this time. She doesn't.

Season 3 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
6.5TVmaze
HBO Max
15Rivals poster

Rivals

Season 2 · 2026 · Drama / Comedy / Romance · Running

Rivals dives headfirst into the cut-throat world of independent television in 1986, where the shoulder pads are big and ambitions even bigger. In the fictional upper-class county of Rutshire, a long-standing rivalry between two powerful men is about to boil over: ex-Olympian, Member of Parliament, and notorious womaniser Rupert Campbell-Black, and his Rutshire neighbour Tony Baddingham, controller of the independent TV franchise Corinium Television. As tensions rise and rivalries deepen, there are spilled secrets, forged alliances, and snatched liaisons that draw wives, lovers, colleagues, friends, and families into their battle.

Season 2 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
6.4TVmaze
Disney+
16The Boroughs poster

The Boroughs

Season 1 · 2026 · Horror / Science-Fiction / Supernatural · Ended

In a seemingly picturesque retirement community in the New Mexico desert, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don't have... time.

Season 1 · 202696% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
7.1TVmaze
Netflix
17Margo's Got Money Troubles poster

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Comedy · Running

Margo Millet is the daughter of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler. Now an unemployed single mother in her early 20s, Margo is struggling to make ends meet, leading her to launch an OnlyFans account. When her father reenters her life, she starts incorporating his lessons from the pro wrestling world into her OnlyFans work, leading to unexpected success.

Season 1 · 202696% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
6.6TVmaze
 tv
18Silo poster

Silo

Season 3 · 2026 · Drama / Science-Fiction / Mystery · Running

Silo depicts a ruined and toxic future, when thousands of people live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

Season 3 · 202696% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
8.0TVmaze
 tv
19How to Get to Heaven From Belfast poster

How to Get to Heaven From Belfast

Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Comedy / Thriller · Ended

Three lifelong friends reunite after the death of an old classmate turns a wake into a dark mystery. They embark on a thrilling adventure across Ireland, piecing together enigmatic truths amid complicated lives.

Season 1 · 202695% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
7.1TVmaze
Netflix
20A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms poster

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Action / Fantasy · Running

A century before the events of Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros: a young, naive but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg. Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne and the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, great destinies, powerful foes, and dangerous exploits await these improbable and incomparable friends.

Season 1 · 202694% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
8.2TVmaze
HBO Max
21Star City poster

Star City

Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Science-Fiction / Thriller · To Be Determined

Star City is a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.

Season 1 · 202694% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
6.8TVmaze
 tv
22Ponies poster

Ponies

Season 1 · 2026 · Thriller / Espionage · Ended

Moscow, 1977. Two "PONIES" ("persons of no interest" in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea is an over educated, Russian speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, is a small town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.

Season 1 · 202694% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
6.9TVmaze
Peacock
23Furious poster

Furious

Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Crime / Thriller · Running

Furious follows an FBI agent, Alice Black, on the hunt for a mysterious and calculating female serial killer. Both walk their own paths toward justice, and as their lives start to intertwine, the line between right and wrong begins to blur.

Season 1 · 202699% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
7.5TVmaze
Hulu
24Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord poster

Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord

Season 1 · 2026 · Science-Fiction · Running

Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord picks up after the events of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, for a pulpy adventure that finds Maul plotting to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire. There, he crosses paths with a disillusioned young Jedi Padawan who may just be the apprentice he is seeking to aid him in his relentless pursuit for revenge.

Season 1 · 202698% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
8.3TVmaze
Disney+
25President Curtis poster

President Curtis

Season 1 · 2026 · Comedy · Running

President Curtis follows the Commander-in-Chief and his eccentric staff as they tackle the kind of crises that Rick Sanchez could never be bothered with - from interdimensional diplomacy to paranormal investigations and unexplained phenomena.

Season 1 · 2026100% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
7.2TVmaze
Adult Swim
26Legends poster

Legends

Season 1 · 2026 · Crime / Thriller · Running

Surrounded by drug lords, a team of regular civil servants faces a nerve-racking undercover mission to take them down.

Season 1 · 202697% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
6.9TVmaze
Netflix
27Bait poster

Bait

Season 1 · 2026 · Comedy · To Be Determined

Bait is about a struggling actor, whose last chance to hit it big comes in the form of an audition of a lifetime. The series follows him over the course of four wild days as his life spirals out of control and his family, ex-lover and the entire world weigh in on whether he is the right man for the job.  

Season 1 · 202694% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
4.7TVmaze
Prime Video
28Reacher poster

Reacher

Season 4 · 2026 · Drama / Action / Thriller · Running

Reacher follows Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator who has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served. When Reacher arrives in the small town of Margrave, Georgia, he finds a community grappling with its first homicide in 20 years. The cops immediately arrest him and eyewitnesses claim to place Reacher at the scene of the crime. While he works to prove his innocence, a deep-seated conspiracy begins to emerge, one that will require Reacher's keen mind and hard-hitting fists to deal with. One thing above all is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

Season 4 · 202694% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
8.1TVmaze
Prime Video
29The Boys poster

The Boys

Season 5 · 2026 · Action / Fantasy / Adult · Ended

In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, The Boys centres on a group of vigilantes known informally as "The Boys," who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

Season 5 · 202692% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
8.3TVmaze
Prime Video
30Lord of the Flies poster

Lord of the Flies

Season 1 · 2026 · Drama · Ended

Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of young boys who find themselves stranded on a tropical island.In an attempt to remain civil, the boys organise themselves, led by Ralph and supported by the group's intellectual, Piggy. But Jack, who is in charge of signal fire duty, is more interested in hunting and vying for leadership and begins to draw other boys away from the order of the group and ultimately from hope to tragedy.

Season 1 · 202691% critics · Rotten Tomatoes Included in Rotten Tomatoes’ 2026 Certified Fresh guide · Checked 2026-10-20Season release record
6.1TVmaze
BBC iPlayer
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