{"id":519093,"date":"2026-03-06T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519093\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:46:08","slug":"the-49-best-and-most-anticipated-new-tv-shows-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519093\/","title":{"rendered":"The 49 Best and Most Anticipated New TV Shows 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE IDEA OF “new” television shows is a little bit of a tricky one these days. Sure, we do still get a fair share of truly new, exciting, unique ideas each year\u2014just look at shows like Severance<\/a> a couple years ago and Pluribus<\/a> last year. Shows like last year’s The Lowdown\u2014rich, well-written, character-focused stories\u2014still draw major stars like Ethan Hawke<\/a> and still hit in a big way for audiences that watch it. If someone was being dramatic and wanted to say original TV was dead, dying, or on life support, there’s plenty of evidence out there to throw in their face. <\/p>\n

But at the same time, they aren’t entirely wrong. For one reason or another, so much of the TV landscape\u2014even shows we’re really excited for\u2014are based around something that in one way or another already exists. Among the shows we’re eager to see are a number of movies being made into shows (Man on Fire and Cape Fear among them), TV series based around characters we love from comics or other mediums (Lanterns and Spider-Noir), TV continuations of beloved franchises (Blade Runner 2099 and Crystal Lake) and even straight-up reboots of shows everyone loves (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Malcolm in the Middle, and Scrubs). <\/p>\n

Look, we can’t beat too much around the bush: People love nostalgia, people love things they recognize and remember, and it can be pretty hard to get anyone to even attempt to give their attention to something new, let alone get really into it in the way we all like to with the very best of TV. Which is why we kind of have two different options here\u2014people need to be really trusting of word of mouth and really aware when something is a really good new, original show (because no one likes to waste their time with a piece of junk), and we just need to really hope that all the remakes, reboots, reimaginings, and re-whatevers are good. <\/p>\n

And they should be! HBO’s Lanterns is modeled after True Detective, stars Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre as the titular Green Lanterns, and counts Watchmen genius Damon Lindelof as a producer. Why wouldn’t that be good? Apple TV’s Cape Fear counts Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg among its producers and Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, and Patrick Wilson among it’s cast. Again: Why wouldn’t that be good? Yahya Abdul Mateen II kicked off 2026 with one of the year’s early best shows (in Marvel’s Wonder Man), and we can only hope that he keeps his hot streak going when he steps into Denzel Washington’s shoes for Netflix’s new take on Man on Fire. Will it be good? Who’s to say. But we are choosing to be hopeful. <\/p>\n

Below, we’re going to keep track all year. We’re charting the shows we already know are good. We’re charting the shows we think might be good. And we’re charting the shows that may not even come out this year, but if they do… they still might not be good. But, again, say it with us: We’re choosing to be hopeful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE IDEA OF “new” television shows is a little bit of a tricky one these days. Sure, we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,191187,205015,205016,205017,782,205014,9332,75,787,1642,205013,348],"class_list":["post-519093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-collection-marvel","tag-collection-movies-tv","tag-collection-what-to-watch-on-hbo-max","tag-collection-what-to-watch-on-netflix","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-10caff1e-b461-405d-b5cf-9a16796e60bd","tag-displaytype-listicle","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-the-49-best-and-most-anticipated-new-shows-of-2026","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}