For a show called Shrinking, Apple TV’s Jason Segel and Harrison Ford starring therapist comedy drama really does just seem to be getting bigger and bigger from season to season. After a stellar sophomore outing with last year’s Season 2, the big-wigs at Apple put in a speedy order for Season 3 from series co-creators Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence. Now, just months after learning that Michael J. Fox will make his acting return in the show’s upcoming third season, the streamer has just confirmed that Shrinking Season 3 is set to premiere with an hour-long first episode on 28 January, 2026. And, what’s more, we’ve even got our first few shots from the season ahead — check ’em out below;
Oh, boy — the warm and fuzzies are warming and fuzzing again already. By the looks of things, Jimmy (Segel) and Alice (Lukita Maxwell) are still rebuilding their relationship here as elsewhere we see Brian (Michael Urie) and Charlie (Devin Kawaoka) stepping up their adoption plans; Gaby (Jessica Williams) and Derrick’s (Damon Wayans Jr.) romance heating up; Derek (Ted McGinley) and Sean (Luke Tennie) shooting the breeze; and Derek and Liz (Christa Miller) reconnecting in their own intimate moment.
Crucially, we don’t see Michael J. Fox — who’s set to play a key figure in Paul’s (Ford) ongoing Parkinson’s journey — here, or Jeff Daniels as Jimmy’s dad either. We also know that Brett Goldstein’s Louis and Cobie Smulders’ Sofi will be back for Season 3, too, but they also aren’t in this first set of shots from the show’s new 11-episode run. With the series’ drop mere months away, we’d expect to get our first glimpses of them both very soon.
Having run headfirst into exploring grief in its first season, and forgiveness in its second, we’re more than ready to check in for a third round of cathartic televisual therapy with Shrinking when it returns to our screens on 28 January. Talk about appointment viewing.