Sunny Nights is a darkly comic crime series created by Nick Keetch and Ty Freer, pairing Will Forte and D'Arcy Carden as a mismatched pair of American siblings who relocate to Sydney, Australia, in pursuit of a fresh start. Their big idea, a spray-tan business, is meant to be a clean, sunny path to reinvention, but it quickly drags them somewhere far messier.
Forte plays Martin Marvin and Carden his sister Vicki, and as their fledgling venture stumbles they become entangled with local criminals, spending the series scrambling to stay solvent, out of jail and, ideally, alive. The show mines its comedy from the gulf between the siblings' cheerful, sun-kissed ambitions and the seedy underworld they keep tripping into, set against a vivid Australian backdrop and populated by a largely local ensemble, including a debut acting turn from former rugby league star Willie Mason.
Produced for Australia's Stan before reaching a wider audience internationally, Sunny Nights was selected for the Berlinale Series Market, signaling festival interest ahead of its premiere. A brisk, offbeat crime comedy powered by the odd-couple chemistry of its leads, Sunny Nights is streaming on Hulu.
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.
The Paper returns for its second season on Peacock, continuing the mockumentary comedy set in the same universe as The Office. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, the series follows the very documentary crew that once immortalized Dunder Mifflin as they keep their cameras trained on a new subject: the Toledo Truth Teller, a withering Midwestern newspaper fighting to stay alive.
Domhnall Gleeson returns as earnest editor-in-chief Ned Sampson, alongside Sabrina Impacciatore as managing editor Esmeralda Grand and Oscar Nuñez, reprising accountant Oscar Martinez from the original Office. Season 2 deepens the ensemble of volunteer reporters and newsroom eccentrics, with Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg, Gbemisola Ikumelo, and Alex Edelman among the returning staff, and a run of guest turns from comic ringers including Jon Lovitz and Andy Richter.
The first season won warm reviews for finding its own rhythm while honoring the DNA of its predecessor, and Peacock renewed it well ahead of the second season's arrival. By anchoring its workplace comedy to a dying local newspaper, the show keeps a bittersweet, timely edge beneath the laughs. The Paper Season 2 premiered on September 9, 2026, and is streaming on Peacock.
Only Murders in the Building Season 5 brings back Hulu's Emmy-nominated comic murder mystery, with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez reprising their roles as true-crime podcasters Charles, Oliver and Mabel. After four seasons of solving killings inside their storied Manhattan apartment building, the Arconia, the trio face a case that strikes closer to home than ever.
This season opens with the death of Lester, the Arconia's longtime doorman, plunging Charles, Oliver and Mabel into a New York underworld of mobsters and billionaire power players in a scheme that threatens the very future of their beloved building. As ever, the show stuffs its whodunit with A-list guest stars, this season including Renee Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, Keegan-Michael Key, Tea Leoni, Logan Lerman, Beanie Feldstein and Bobby Cannavale, alongside returning Oscar winner Meryl Streep.
A consistent awards favorite, Only Murders continued its critical run with Season 5, which reviewers praised for returning to the series' fundamentals: warm banter, clever plotting and the irreplaceable chemistry of its three leads. Streaming on Hulu.
Long Story Short is a Netflix adult animated comedy-drama created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, his first new animated series since the acclaimed BoJack Horseman. Trading Hollywood satire for something more intimate, the show is a warm, melancholy, and very funny portrait of a single family told across the sweep of its members' entire lives.
The series follows the Schwooper family, jumping freely and non-chronologically through the decades, from childhood and adolescence to marriage, parenthood, and old age, so that a character might be a squabbling kid in one scene and a weary adult in the next. This restless time-hopping structure lets the show explore how families carry their history with them, how old wounds and inside jokes echo across generations, and how small moments accumulate into a life. Its voice cast includes Abbi Jacobson, Ben Feldman, Lisa Edelstein, Paul Reiser, and Nicole Byer.
Rooted in Bob-Waksberg's own Jewish American upbringing, Long Story Short earned strong reviews for balancing sharp comedy with genuine emotional depth, the same alchemy that made his previous work resonate. It is streaming on Netflix.
Adults is a young-adult ensemble comedy that premiered on FX and streams on Hulu, created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, two former late-night writers making their series debut. Executive produced by Nick Kroll, it follows a group of friends in their early twenties fumbling through the first stumbles of adulthood.
Set largely in one character's inherited family house in Queens, New York, the show tracks five friends, played by Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao, and Owen Thiele, as they navigate jobs, dating, health scares, and disastrous dinner parties with far more enthusiasm than competence. The comedy mines the gap between how grown-up its characters believe they are and how grown-up they actually are.
Debuting in 2025, Adults was embraced as a scrappy, joke-dense hangout comedy, with several critics comparing its friend-group chemistry to a Gen-Z Friends. It is streaming on Hulu.
Margo's Got Money Troubles is an Apple TV+ comedy-drama from prolific creator David E. Kelley, adapted from Rufi Thorpe's best-selling 2024 novel. Warm, offbeat, and led by a powerhouse cast, it follows a young single mother who finds an unlikely way out of financial free-fall.
Elle Fanning stars as Margo Millet, a twenty-year-old waitress left broke and alone after an affair with her college professor leaves her pregnant. To stay afloat, she launches an online subscription account and reluctantly enlists her estranged father, a washed-up professional wrestler played by Nick Offerman, whose showmanship helps reinvent her public persona. Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman also feature.
Premiering in 2026, the series became one of Apple TV+'s most warmly received comedies, praised for Fanning's performance and its big-hearted handling of a thorny premise, and Apple renewed it for a second season. It is streaming on Apple TV+; because the site has no dedicated Apple TV+ field, its streaming link is listed as the source website.
Rooster is an HBO Max comedy from Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of Ted Lasso, Scrubs and Shrinking, developed with Matt Tarses. Premiering in March 2026, it hands Steve Carell one of his richest television roles since The Office and became a breakout hit for the platform, blending warm character comedy with a streak of midlife melancholy.
Carell plays Greg Russo, a middle-aged author who arrives at a small New England college ostensibly to give a talk, but whose real mission is to check up on his adult daughter Katie, an art-history instructor whose marriage is falling apart. Charly Clive plays Katie, with Danielle Deadwyler, Phil Dunster, John C. McGinley and Lauren Tsai rounding out a campus ensemble full of complications.
The series became HBO's most-watched comedy premiere in more than a decade, drawing millions of viewers in its opening days, and was quickly renewed for a second season. Carell earned an Emmy nomination for the role, anchoring a show about the messy business of being needed. It is streaming on HBO Max.
