{"id":373223,"date":"2026-04-03T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373223\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:17:07","slug":"the-new-shows-of-the-2026-spring-tv-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373223\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Shows of the 2026 Spring TV Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spring season may not be well known as fertile ground for new shows you need to watch \u2014 traditionally, the fall season has been TV&#8217;s time to self-promote \u2014 but the period from March to May is used to manipulate a very influential subset of people who can make or break a series&#8217; future: Emmy voters. With the Emmy eligibility period ending in May and Emmy voters having notorious long-term memory issues, springtime is the best opportunity for new shows to elbow their way into voters&#8217; goldfish brains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why this crop of new shows is looking particularly lush. HBO is starting the season off with a pair of comedies that could be surprise Emmy contenders with the limited series DTF St. Louis and Steve Carell&#8217;s Rooster, and Hulu&#8217;s The Testaments hopes to make an awards splash in its debut season, similar to the show it was spun off from, The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale. Riz Ahmed, Nicole Kidman, and Matthew Rhys are also looking to add to their Emmy collections in a trio of shows that seem tailor-made to get them another prize.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Yellowstone&#8217;s Taylor Sheridan is adding to his empire, the Real Housewives franchise is sprouting up in Rhode Island, and Spider-Man is challenging the colors of spring with a black-and-white noir mystery. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are all the noteworthy new shows of the spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spring season may not be well known as fertile ground for new shows you need to watch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-373223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}