Best of 2026
so far.
The greats, the new discoveries, and everything in between.
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.
Slow Horses
Season 6 · 2026 · Drama / Thriller / Espionage · RunningSlow 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.

The Pitt
Season 2 · 2026 · Drama / Medical · RunningThe 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.

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Season 1 · 2026 · Documentary · EndedMel 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.

Widow's Bay
Season 1 · 2026 · Comedy / Horror / Supernatural · RunningWidow's Bay is about a mysteriously cursed New England island and its superstitious citizens, led by a mayor who refuses to believe their warnings.

Hacks
Season 5 · 2026 · Drama / Comedy / Romance · EndedHacks explores a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.

Industry
Season 4 · 2026 · Drama · RunningIndustry 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.

The Bear
Season 5 · 2026 · Drama / Comedy / Food · EndedCarmy, 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.

Adults
Season 2 · 2026 · Comedy · To Be DeterminedAdults 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.

Colin From Accounts
Season 3 · 2026 · Comedy / Romance · EndedCentred 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.

A Killer Story
Season 1 · 2026 · Documentary / Crime · EndedA 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.

The Other Bennet Sister
Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Romance / History · To Be DeterminedThe 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.

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
Season 1 · 2026 · Comedy · RunningThe Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins focuses on a disgraced former football player, who is on a mission to rehabilitate his image.

Sugar
Season 2 · 2026 · Crime / Science-Fiction / Mystery · To Be DeterminedJohn 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.

The Comeback
Season 3 · 2026 · Comedy · EndedThe 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.

Rivals
Season 2 · 2026 · Drama / Comedy / Romance · RunningRivals 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.

The Boroughs
Season 1 · 2026 · Horror / Science-Fiction / Supernatural · EndedIn 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.

Margo's Got Money Troubles
Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Comedy · RunningMargo 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.

Silo
Season 3 · 2026 · Drama / Science-Fiction / Mystery · RunningSilo 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.

How to Get to Heaven From Belfast
Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Comedy / Thriller · EndedThree 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.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Action / Fantasy · RunningA 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.

Star City
Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Science-Fiction / Thriller · To Be DeterminedStar 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.

Ponies
Season 1 · 2026 · Thriller / Espionage · EndedMoscow, 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.

Furious
Season 1 · 2026 · Drama / Crime / Thriller · RunningFurious 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.

Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
Season 1 · 2026 · Science-Fiction · RunningStar 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.

President Curtis
Season 1 · 2026 · Comedy · RunningPresident 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.

Legends
Season 1 · 2026 · Crime / Thriller · RunningSurrounded by drug lords, a team of regular civil servants faces a nerve-racking undercover mission to take them down.

Bait
Season 1 · 2026 · Comedy · To Be DeterminedBait 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.

Reacher
Season 4 · 2026 · Drama / Action / Thriller · RunningReacher 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.

The Boys
Season 5 · 2026 · Action / Fantasy / Adult · EndedIn 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.

Lord of the Flies
Season 1 · 2026 · Drama · EndedLord 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.