Reacher Season 3 continues Amazon Prime Video's hit action series based on Lee Child's best-selling novels about Jack Reacher, a hulking former military police investigator who drifts across America and inevitably collides with violent conspiracies. One of Prime Video's most-watched originals, the show adapts a different book in the series each season.
Alan Ritchson returns as the imposing, sharp-witted Reacher, this time in an adaptation of Child's fan-favorite novel Persuader, which sends him deep undercover to infiltrate a dangerous criminal operation. Maria Sten returns as his ally Frances Neagley, with new faces including Anthony Michael Hall and, as a towering enforcer, the seven-foot-plus Dutch Giant Olivier Richters.
The season premiered in February 2025 and launched to the strongest reviews in the show's history, around 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics noting that Reacher finally faced an opponent his own size. It remained one of Prime Video's biggest draws. Streaming on Prime Video.
Route 187 is a 2026 crime drama streaming on Paramount+, produced through Tyler Perry Studios and created and directed by Mark E. Swinton. Set in the fictional, crime-scarred city of South Winslow, it uses a single deadly thoroughfare as the spine for a sprawling portrait of a community under pressure.
The series follows Mason James, a dogged print journalist played by Christopher Livingston, who begins investigating the notorious Route 187 after a tragedy and slowly uncovers evidence of a serial killer who has operated undetected for years. Around his reporting, the show weaves the interconnected lives of residents struggling to survive, with a cast that includes Jesse Lewis, Rico Ball, Tonia Jackson, Clark Moore, and Cuyle Carvin, each episode surfacing a new crime or social wound in the city.
Premiering September 16, 2026, Route 187 rolls out its first season on Paramount+ as part of the platform's BET-aligned slate, pairing a classic newsroom-hero premise with an urban crime-drama backdrop. It is streaming on Paramount+.
Youth is a 2026 HBO comedy created by, written by, and starring Sharon Horgan, the Irish writer-performer behind Catastrophe and the Emmy-nominated Bad Sisters. It is a sharp, bittersweet midlife comedy about a woman rebuilding her life on multiple fronts at once.
Horgan plays Alex, a fifty-year-old divorcee thrown back into the worlds of dating and desire just as she is raising her teenage son and taking on the care of her aging parents — the classic "sandwich generation" squeeze, mined here for both laughs and ache. Rupert Friend, Sharlene Whyte, and Aran Murphy co-star, with Harriet Walter, Anne Reid, and Freddie Fox among the ensemble. The series is a production of Merman, the company Horgan co-founded, and every episode is directed by Dawn Shadforth.
Premiering September 20, 2026 and rolling out weekly across eight episodes, Youth arrived with the pedigree of one of television's most reliable comic voices and a marquee slot on HBO's schedule. It is streaming on HBO Max.
Brothers is a 2026 Apple TV+ comedy that turns one of Hollywood's most famous friendships into a meta odd-couple sitcom. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson star as heightened, fictionalized versions of themselves, real-life best friends who end up living together and confronting a wild possibility: that they might actually be half-brothers.
When Harrelson's screen life falls apart, the two decamp to McConaughey's Texas ranch, where the collision of their opposite temperaments — and the hunt for the truth about their possible blood tie — drives the comedy. Holland Taylor, Natalie Martinez, and Brittany Ishibashi co-star. The series was created by McConaughey, Harrelson, and Schitt's Creek writer David West Read, with Lee Eisenberg serving as showrunner.
Premiering September 23, 2026 with eight episodes rolling out weekly, Brothers drew mixed-to-warm reviews: critics singled out the effortless chemistry between its two leads even when they found the show around them slight. It is streaming on Apple TV+.
The Drop: A Snowfall Saga is an FX drama series set in the world of Snowfall, the acclaimed crime saga about the crack epidemic's grip on 1980s Los Angeles. Picking up around 1990, roughly four years after the events of the parent show, The Drop shifts its focus to the explosion of West Coast hip-hop and the fortunes to be made and lost as the sound reshapes South Los Angeles.
Gail Bean and Isaiah John reprise their Snowfall roles as Wanda Bell and Leon Simmons, trying to build new lives amid the era's opportunity and danger, with Asante Blackk, Peyton Alex Smith, and a deep ensemble filling out the neighborhood around them. Created by Malcolm Spellman — the writer behind Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the FX docuseries Hip Hop Uncovered — the series blends music, ambition, and gang politics into a next-generation chapter of the Snowfall universe.
Premiering September 8, 2026, the eight-episode first season earned strong early reviews for its performances and its authentic feel for the period's music culture. It airs on FX and streams on Hulu.
A Different World is Netflix's 2026 continuation of the beloved 1987–1993 sitcom, itself a spin-off of The Cosby Show that became a landmark portrait of life at a historically Black college. The revival returns to the fictional Hillman College and hands the story to a new generation while welcoming back many of the faces that made the original a cultural touchstone.
Newcomer Maleah Joi Moon stars as Deborah Wayne, the college-age daughter of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert-Wayne, as she begins her freshman year and tries to forge her own identity out from under her famous parents' shadow. Kadeem Hardison and Jasmine Guy reprise their signature roles as Dwayne and Whitley, with Cree Summer returning as Freddie Brooks and Darryl M. Bell as Ron Johnson; Jada Pinkett Smith also returns in her original-series role. Felicia Pride serves as showrunner, with original-series director Debbie Allen back behind the camera and as an executive producer.
Premiering September 24, 2026, the ten-episode first season updates the original's HBCU setting for a Gen Z student body, drawing generally favorable reviews for its warm, legacy-minded ensemble while inviting inevitable comparisons to its predecessor. It is streaming on Netflix.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's Netflix true-crime anthology, following the seasons devoted to Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers, and Ed Gein. It turns to one of America's oldest and most enduring murder mysteries: the 1892 killings of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts, and the trial of Andrew's daughter Lizzie, who was accused of the crime and famously acquitted.
Ella Beatty stars as Lizzie Borden, with Charlie Hunnam as her father Andrew, Rebecca Hall as her stepmother Abby, Vicky Krieps as the household maid Bridget Sullivan, and Billie Lourd as Lizzie's sister Emma. Across eight episodes the season reconstructs the killings and the trial that gripped Gilded Age America, using the case to probe Victorian misogyny, class, and the suffocating expectations placed on women of the era — the first time the franchise has built a season around an alleged female perpetrator.
Released on September 17, 2026, the season debuted at number one on Netflix and drew millions of views in its opening days, keeping the Monster franchise among the streamer's most-watched original brands even as critics remained divided over its lurid, stylized approach. It is streaming on Netflix.
American Horror Story: 13 marks the thirteenth season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's landmark FX horror anthology, and the creators have leaned hard into the ominous significance of the number itself. Built around superstition, bad luck, and the show's own mythology, the season is conceived as a celebratory, crossover-style event that gathers threads from across the franchise's long history.
The season reunites an extraordinary roster of returning American Horror Story veterans, with Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Billie Lourd, and Gabourey Sidibe among those revisiting the franchise, several of them playing multiple roles. New additions to the ensemble include Cara Delevingne, Charlie Carver, and Tig Notaro, as the season revisits and interweaves elements fans have followed for more than a decade.
Premiering on FX on September 24, 2026, and streaming the next day on Hulu, the thirteenth season runs a full slate of episodes released in weekly pairs and trios through late October. A milestone entry for one of television's most durable horror brands, it is designed as both a reward for longtime viewers and a showcase for the anthology's deep bench of stars. American Horror Story: 13 is streaming on Hulu.
Silo Season 3 returns Apple TV+'s acclaimed dystopian thriller, adapted from Hugh Howey's Wool novels, for its most expansive chapter yet. Where the first two seasons kept largely to the claustrophobic levels of the buried silo that houses the last of humanity, the third season splits its story across two timelines, adapting Howey's book Shift to reveal how this sealed world came to be.
Rebecca Ferguson returns as engineer Juliette Nichols, who survived being sent outside to "clean" but now grapples with memory loss as the silo she left behind slides toward chaos. Alongside the present-day crisis, a "Before Times" thread reaches back to the origins of the silos themselves, introducing new figures played by Jessica Henwick and Ashley Zukerman who uncover a conspiracy with world-ending stakes. Common and Harriet Walter are among the returning ensemble.
The ten-episode season premiered on July 3, 2026, rolling out weekly through the summer, and continues one of streaming's most patient and rewarding science-fiction sagas. With a fourth and final season planned to complete Howey's trilogy, Silo Season 3 deepens the mystery just as the pieces begin to connect. Silo Season 3 is streaming on Apple TV+.
Chad Powers returns for a second season on Hulu, continuing the big-hearted sports comedy co-created by and starring Glen Powell. The show grew out of a viral ESPN bit dreamed up with Eli Manning, and it turns that gag into a full underdog saga: disgraced former college quarterback Russ Holliday, whose ego torched his own career, reinvents himself under heavy prosthetics as the goofy, earnest walk-on Chad Powers.
Season 2 picks up with Russ still guarding his secret identity as he tries to carry the fictional South Georgia Catfish toward a College Football Playoff berth. Steve Zahn returns as head coach Jake Hudson and Perry Mattfeld as coach Ricky Hudson, whose growing suspicion threatens to expose Chad, while Toby Huss's Hollywood-makeup-artist dad steps up to supply Russ with new disguises and fresh complications. Frankie A. Rodriguez, Clayne Crawford, and Wynn Everett round out the ensemble.
Developed by Powell with Loki writer Michael Waldron, the series leans fully into broad, warmhearted sports-movie comedy, and Hulu renewed it after a first season that won over audiences with its underdog charm. The six-episode second season dropped all at once on September 3, 2026. Chad Powers Season 2 is streaming on Hulu.
Industry Season 4 returns HBO's razor-edged finance drama, created by former bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, for another plunge into the ruthless world of high-stakes capital. After a third season that pushed the survivors of the Pierpoint & Co. trading floor into the wider arenas of media, politics, and private wealth, the fourth season reshapes the show as a full-blown corporate thriller, with the creators citing Michael Clayton as a touchstone.
Myha'la returns as the relentless Harper Stern, with Marisa Abela as Yasmin Kara-Hanani, Ken Leung as Eric Tao, Sagar Radia as Rishi, and Kit Harington reprising his role as financier Henry Muck. The new season brings in a wave of fresh faces, including Max Minghella and Kal Penn as the leaders of a fast-rising payments company, along with Charlie Heaton, Kiernan Shipka, and Toheeb Jimoh, as the fallout from Yasmin's family secrets continues to bind her and Harper together.
Premiering in January 2026 on HBO Max, the season drew reviews praising it as an ambitious reinvention that cranked the show's intensity higher than ever while keeping its addictive, morally slippery energy intact. Long a critical favorite operating just outside the mainstream, Industry remains one of television's sharpest studies of money and ambition. Industry Season 4 is streaming on HBO Max.
