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Fall TV Preview 2026: 17 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch
Mark your calendar with these gems, from ‘Slow Horses’ and ‘The Gilded Age’ to a new ‘Blade Runner’ sequel
Get excited for a fall bounty of new TV shows, including "Blade Runner 2099," "A Different World," "Nocturne," "Slow Horses," "Newlyweds" and "Neagley."
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This fall, broadcast networks and streaming titans like Netflix and Prime Video are fielding a rich new crop of sitcoms, dramas and documentaries. Some are reboots or updates of favorite movies and TV shows (like Blade Runner and NCIS), while others are entirely new projects, like an eight-part limited series tracing the life of Muhammad Ali. We’ve culled the full lineup of shows you won’t want to miss.
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Dancing With the Stars, Season 35 (ABC/Disney+, Sept. 15)
The Traitors alum Maura Higgins, Savannah Bananas baseball player Jackson Olson and Jimmy Kimmel Live! sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez, 55, are all conga-lined up to compete in the new season of this reality mainstay. It’s hard to believe we’re on the 35th round of celebrities doing their best on the dance floor with high-kicking pros, but DWTS remains a crowd-pleaser.
Neagley (Prime Video, Sept. 16)
Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher action series and the Prime TV show starring Alan Ritchson as the hulking ex-military cop will thrill to this spin-off. Maria Sten plays Frances Neagley, a Chicago private investigator and former protégé of Reacher’s in the Army’s 110th Special Investigations Unit. Here, she chases clues after an old friend is killed in a suspicious accident.
Slow Horses, Season 6 (Apple TV, Sept. 16)
Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman, 68) is back leading the mulligan stew of disgraced spies at MI5’s Slough House. This time, the gang is charged with a mission of retaliation and revenge based on the sixth and seventh books in Mick Herron’s best-selling thriller series.
The Traitors: New Blood (NBC/Peacock, Sept. 17)
The addictive reality series set in a Scottish castle makes the leap from streaming only to broadcast TV as Alan Cumming, 61, returns as host with his full wardrobe of kilts and outrageous outfits. The twist? This time Cumming oversees “everyday Americans” (not celebrities and reality stars) trying to suss out the identities of the double-crossing “traitors” eluding the upright “faithfuls.”
Line of Fire (NBC/Peacock, Sept. 21)
The family that evades death together stays together. In the new series from the creator of Quantico, a Secret Service agent (Peter Krause, 61) and his U.S. Marshal wife (Hope Davis, 62), become the targets of a mysterious assassin along with their three grown children, who are also in law enforcement.
Brothers (Apple TV, Sept. 23)
What happens when Matthew McConaughey, 56, and Woody Harrelson, 65, learn that they might actually be long-lost brothers? In this absurd new meta-comedy, the actors play amplified versions of themselves bonding at McConaughey’s Austin ranch as he considers a run for Texas’s governorship while Harrelson grapples with the fallout of unearthed family secrets. Bonus: The inimitable Holland Taylor, 83, plays Ma Mac, McConaughey’s loose-lipped mother.
A Different World (Netflix, Sept. 24)
The latest ’90s sitcom to get a reboot is the Cosby Show spin-off set at a fictional HBCU, Hillman College. Maleah Joi Moon (Broadway’s Hell’s Kitchen) stars as Deborah, a freshman trying to live up to the legacy of her Hillman (and original TV show) alum parents, Whitley Gilbert-Wayne (Jasmine Guy, 64) and Dwayne Wayne (Kadeem Hardison, 61). Expect other stars from the OG to pop up as well, including Jada Pinkett Smith, 54, and Jenifer Lewis, 69.
American Horror Story: 13 (FX/Hulu, Sept. 24)
You had to know that Ryan Murphy, 60, would cook up something special for the unlucky 13th season of his horror anthology series. The latest iteration plans to bring back some of the biggest stars from seasons past: Jessica Lange, 77, Sarah Paulson, 51, Kathy Bates, 78, Angela Bassett, 68, and many more. Many will reprise not one but as many as five different characters in a horror mash-up that’s like Marvel’s Avengers in terrifying hyperdrive.
NCIS: New York (CBS/Paramount+, Oct. 6)
The crime procedural will never die; it just sets up shop in new locations. It’s been three years since NCIS Agent Sam Hanna (LL Cool J, 58) ended his gig along with the long-running NCIS: Los Angeles. Now Hanna returns to his hometown to lead a home office with the rebellious Scott Caan.
Cupertino (CBS/Paramount+, Oct. 8)
Robert and Michelle King, creators of legal dramas like The Good Wife and Elsbeth, have a knack for tapping into the zeitgeist with ripped-from-the-headlines storylines. Their new series is set in Silicon Valley, where a fledgling firm of upstart lawyers represent underdogs against deep-pocketed tech giants. The cast includes familiar faces like Hamilton’s Renée Elise Goldsberry, 55, Luke Cage’s Mike Colter, 50 on August 26, and Girls5eva’s Busy Philipps.
The Gold, Season 2 (PBS, Oct. 18)
Downton Abbey alum Hugh Bonneville, 62, stars as a real-life detective charged with investigating a notorious case: the 1983 heist of £26 million worth of gold bullion, diamonds and cash from a warehouse near London’s Heathrow Airport. The cast also includes Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden and Preacher’s Dominic Cooper.
Newlyweds (NBC/Peacock, Oct. 23)
Real-life couple Téa Leoni, 60, and Tim Daly, 70, star in this old-fashioned multi-camera comedy about a free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up professor who get hitched shortly after their first date and sort out the consequences after the fact. The show, the brainchild of Will & Grace writer Gail Lerner, 56, also features Jamie Lee Curtis, 67, in a recurring role.
Nocturne (Apple TV, Oct. 30)
Liev Schreiber, 58, stars as Jonah Lynn, a Philadelphia homicide detective who relocates to a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where he catches the attention of a serial killer (Adolescence alum Stephen Graham, 53) and joins forces with an FBI agent (Zazie Beetz). The twisty crime drama is based on the works of Swedish best-selling author Lars Kepler (the pen name of husband-wife writing team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril).
The Greatest (Prime Video, Nov. 4)
It’s been a quarter century since Michael Mann directed Ali, the Oscar-nominated biopic about boxing legend and pop culture icon Muhammad Ali. Now, created in conjunction with Ali’s estate, this eight-episode limited series explores anew that remarkable life that transcended the ring. Newcomer Jaalen Best stars, joined by Giovanni Ribisi, 51, as his trainer.
Crime and Punishment in America (PBS, Nov. 16)
Lynn Novick, 64, the Emmy-winning documentarian and Ken Burns collaborator, tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time in her new eight-hour docuseries: America’s criminal justice system, from the precolonial era to the mass incarceration of the 21st century. Expect a fascinating tour through knotty questions about prisons, police and courts — full of sharp details and broad philosophical questions.
Blade Runner 2099 (Prime Video, Nov. 25)
First there was Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. That 1982 classic got a sequel in 2017 (directed by Denis Villeneuve). Scott returns to the franchise he launched (this time as executive producer) with a third installment — a big-budget limited series — set 50 years later in a world now run by Replicants. Michelle Yeoh, 63, stars as a nearly expired Replicant Blade Runner hunting down her final batch of rogue bioengineered humanoids. She’s joined by a younger partner (Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer) who’s actually a fugitive human trying to pass as a Replicant.
The Gilded Age, Season 4 (HBO/HBO Max, date TBA)
Julian Fellowes’ historic drama jumps ahead two years to 1886, as old-money grande dame Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski, 74) maneuvers to regain social standing. Meanwhile, new-money society queen Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) tries to save her troubled marriage, and footman-turned-clock entrepreneur Jack Trotter (Ben Ahlers) adapts to life as a gentleman, with servants of his own. Look out for plenty of history book cameos, including Jim Gaffigan, 60, as U.S. President Grover Cleveland.
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