The 30 Most Anticipated TV Shows of 2026

SOURCE:Hollywood Reporter|BY:Rick Porter

The next 12 months will feature the return of beloved series (both recent and from long ago) and a host of buzzed-about new shows featuring top-tier casts and creative teams.

December 30, 2025 11:33am

Published on December 30, 2025

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If 2025 was the year that the makers of TV series (re)discovered that releasing new seasons of a show every year is a good thing, 2026 will be the year that philosophy starts to pay off. Last season’s Emmy darlings The Pitt and The Studio are both set to run their second seasons in the next 12 months, as are watercooler shows The Hunting Wives and Paradise.

Of course, in the streaming era not every show operates on the new-season-every-year timeline, and Bridgerton (last seen in spring 2024), Ted Lasso (2023) and Euphoria (2022) will test the adage about absence making hearts grow fonder. Speaking of absences: Three comedies not seen in more than a decade (The Comeback, Malcolm in the Middle and Scrubs) are all set for revivals in 2026.

What they all have in common — along with more than a dozen new series featuring combinations of A-list casts, top creators and deeply intriguing premises — is that _The Hollywood Reporter’_s staff has marked their calendars for when they’re set to premiere. Here are _THR’_s 30 most anticipated series of 2026.

‘The Pitt’

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The Pitt is set to follow up its Emmy-winning first season with a 10-month time jump to July 4th weekend. In addition to Noah Wyle’s Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavich, spotted riding a motorcycle to work in the first moments of season two released by HBO Max, Katherine LaNasa’s charge nurse Dana Evans and Patrick Ball’s Dr. Frank Langdon are expected to return to the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center emergency department after Dana was ready to quit and Langdon had been tossed out for drug use near the end of season one. Meanwhile, Sepideh Moafi is set to join as emergency attending physician Dr. Al-Hashimi.

Creator R. Scott Gemmill previously told The Hollywood Reporter that the gap between seasons is designed to give the characters time to deal with the issues that emerged from the mass shooting at Pitt Fest and other events from season one.

And after Robby’s first-season meltdown, Wyle and Gemmill have teased that the second season will explore Robby’s “journey of healing,” as Gemmill put it. Going into season two, The Pitt will also explore how high-profile real-life health care changes, including layoffs and funding losses, play out.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’

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More Game of Thrones? Yes. But different Game of Thrones. HBO’s latest entry in its hugely popular fantasy franchise is set about 100 years before the events in GoT and several decades after the events in House of the Dragon. The six-episode season is based on a George R.R. Martin novella and follows the adventures of the wandering “hedge knight” Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his squire Egg (Dexter Sol) as they enter a tournament in hopes of improving their fortunes. The series from showrunner Ira Parker () has a notably different style than the other two dramas. There are no dragons or magic, or massive battles, and the show mainly focuses on everyday folk in Westeros rather than nobles. Expect something more like what is to Disney+’s shows.