Spring TV Preview 2026: 21 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch

House of David, Season 2 (Mar. 27, Prime Video)

When we last saw the shepherd boy David (Michael Iskander) in the Season 1 finale, he had been transformed into a full-fledged Iron Age warrior following his showdown with the giant Goliath. In the eight-episode second season of this biblical epic, the future of Israel is on the line as Saul’s reign falters and alliances shift. The cast also includes Avatar alum Stephen Lang, 73, as Samuel, Ayelet Zurer, 56 (Munich) as Queen Ahinoam and Oded Fehr, 55 (The Mummy), as Abner, the powerful cousin of Saul who fatefully shifts his allegiance to David.

Your Friends & Neighbors, Season 2 (Apr. 3, Apple TV)

The 1 percent really will do anything to maintain their lifestyle. For fired hedge fund manager Andrew Cooper (Jon Hamm, 53), that means stealing from his wealthy neighbors to maintain his family’s luxe lifestyle. In Season 2, he finds himself facing off against a new neighbor (James Marsden, 52) who clocks Cooper’s felonious double act almost instantly.

The Testaments (Apr. 8, Disney+/Hulu)

Margaret Atwood, 86, waited three decades to publish a sequel to her 1985 dystopian classic The Handmaid's Tale. This adaptation debuts, just one year after the sixth and final season of the Emmy-winning series that was based (increasingly loosely) on the original novel. Set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the new limited series centers on the complicated Gilead school matron Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd, 70, reprising her role from the Hulu series) as well as two younger women who get caught up in the oppression and hypocrisy of the theocratic land.

The Miniature Wife, Season 1 (Apr. 9, Peacock)

Based on a whimsically over-the-top 2014 Manuel Gonzales short story, this dramedy that recalls old Disney live-action movies might as well be called Honey, I Shrunk My Wife! Matthew Macfadyen, 51, and Elizabeth Banks, 52, play a married couple whose devotion is tested when she accidentally turns on his radical new shrinking invention to calamitous results that prove alarmingly difficult to reverse.

Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair, Season 1 (Apr. 10, Disney+/Hulu)

It’s been two decades since we’ve seen Frankie Muniz’s Malcolm Wilkerson. Now the precocious middle child is all grown up and a dad himself. He’s also mostly managed to avoid the family that raised and frustrated him as a boy. But he’s drawn back home for the 40th wedding anniversary of his still-exasperated parents, Lois (Jane Kaczmarek, 70) and Hal (Bryan Cranston, 70). Christopher Masterson and Justin Berfield reprise their roles as Malcolm’s older brothers, while Caleb Ellsworth-Clark replaces Erik Per Sullivan as younger brother Dewey. If you’re truly feeling nostalgic, you can also stream all 151 of the original episodes.

The Audacity, Season 1 (Apr. 12, AMC)

Silicon Valley continues to inspire both awe and satirical disdain. This new dramedy from veteran Succession and Better Call Saul writer-producer Jonathan Glatzer, 56, focuses on a pompous but insecure data-mining CEO (Lilo & Stitch’s Billy Magnussen) and his therapist (Barry’s Sarah Goldberg) as he navigates a culture full of business, technical and ethical challenges. Just don’t expect Steve Jobs–style hagiography. As a tech pioneer (Zach Galifianakis, 56) says of Magnussen’s wunderkind, “Some people just have very punchable faces.”

Beef, Season 2 (Apr. 16, Netflix)

Beef won eight Emmys three years ago for its debut season about a road-rage incident that escalates into madness. The anthology series returns with a new cast (Carey Mulligan! Oscar Isaac!) and a new conflict — this time dividing along generational lines at a high-end country club. When two low-level Gen Z staffers observe a nasty fight between their millennial boss (Isaac) and his wife (Mulligan), they decide to take advantage of the situation to curry favor with the club’s billionaire owner (Youn Yuh Jung, 78).

​A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough (Apr. 17, Netflix)

The legendary natural historian, writer and broadcaster David Attenborough, who’s primed to hit the century mark in May, recalls his first encounter with the baby silverback gorilla Pablo — who grew up to be the alpha of his troop. This feature-length doc follows Pablo as well as his direct descendants with footage of primate behavior seldom captured on film. 

​Running Wild With Bear Grylls, Season 1 (Apr. 21, Fox)

The outdoorsman with an almost inhuman tolerance for pain and discomfort returns to TV five years after his NatGeo show ended. Bear Grylls, now 51, is still bringing celebrity guests out into the wilderness for two-day stints to test their survival skills and ability to maintain composure in forbidding landscapes. What better spot to watch than from the comfort of your sofa? 

​The House of the Spirits (Apr. 29, Prime Video)

When Chilean author Isabel Allende, now 83, learned that her 100-year-old grandfather was dying, she wrote him a letter that evolved into her beloved 1982 novel The House of the Spirits — the basis for this eight-part Spanish-language limited series that blends a loose retelling of Chilean history and magic realism. The story centers on three generations of women in an unnamed conservative South American country riven by political upheaval, class struggle and ongoing violence against women.

Widow’s Bay, Season 1 (Apr. 29, Apple TV)

Sometimes it’s hard to overcome your past — especially when the supernatural is involved. That’s the situation confronting a new mayor (The Americans’ Matthew Rhys, 51) when he tries to boost tourism to his blue-collar island community in New England. Turns out that the long-whispered rumors that the town is cursed are legit. Hiro Murai, who switched up the comedy genre on shows like Atlanta and The Bear, directs half of the first 10 episodes.

​The Boroughs, Season 1 (May 21, Netflix)

Finally, a version of Stranger Things for grownups! Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, creators of that monster-filled hit, produce this new series set in a New Mexico retirement community whose residents band together to battle malevolent forces that do more than go bump in the night. The cast includes familiar stars like Alfred Molina, 72, Geena Davis, 70, Alfre Woodard, 73, Clarke Peters, 73, and Bill Pullman, 72.

Spider-Noir (May 27, Prime Video)

The latest spin-off of the Spider-Man franchise centers on Ben Reilly, a.k.a. the Spider, a sad-sack private investigator in 1930s New York City who also happens to be the city’s only superhero. He’s played by Oscar winner Nicolas Cage, 62, returning to series TV for the first time since the 1970s. And in keeping with the noir aesthetic of the comic books that inspired the show, episodes will be released in black-and-white (though a color version will also be available).

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​Star City, Season 1 (May 29, Apple TV)

Can’t get enough of the brainy sci-fi-tinged show For All Mankind (which launches its fifth season on March 27)? This spin-off returns to a key moment in Mankind’s alternate history, when the Soviet Union beat the Americans to putting a man on the moon and added rocket fuel to the Cold War space race. This time, though, we peek behind the Iron Curtain to see the events unfold from the Russian point of view. Rhys Ifans, 58, stars as the chief architect of the Soviet space program.