Fire Country is a CBS firefighting drama co-created by and starring Max Thieriot, and one of the most-watched scripted series on American broadcast television. It follows Bobby Bode Donovan, a young convict who joins a prison release program that places incarcerated firefighters on the front lines of Northern California's wildfires in exchange for a shot at reducing their sentences.
Bode is assigned to work in Edgewater, his small hometown, where he must face the family and community he left behind as he fights alongside the local Cal Fire crew. The ensemble includes Kevin Alejandro, Diane Farr, Billy Burke and Jordan Calloway, and the series balances high-stakes rescue set pieces with the family melodrama and small-town tensions at its emotional core.
A breakout hit for CBS, Fire Country consistently ranks among the top-rated scripted series on American broadcast television and has spawned an expanding franchise of spin-offs. Its blend of procedural firefighting action and soapy family drama has made it a dependable ratings anchor across multiple seasons. It streams on Paramount+.
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.
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.
House of the Dragon Season 3 returns HBO's blockbuster Game of Thrones prequel to the heart of the Targaryen civil war, the ruinous succession conflict known as the Dance of the Dragons. Developed by George R.R. Martin and showrunner Ryan Condal, who now steers the series solo, the eight-episode third season picks up from the shattering events that closed Season 2 as both claimants to the Iron Throne finally commit to open war.
Emma D'Arcy and Tom Glynn-Carney return as the rival monarchs Rhaenyra Targaryen and Aegon II, with Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower, Matt Smith as the mercurial Daemon, and Ewan Mitchell as the fearsome Aemond. The new season widens the board with major additions including James Norton as Ormund Hightower and Tommy Flanagan as Roderick Dustin, as alliances harden, dragons are drawn into battle, and the realm braces for slaughter on a scale the franchise has not yet shown.
The season premiered on HBO Max on June 21, 2026, and immediately reasserted the show's dominance, drawing more than twenty million viewers worldwide to its premiere and holding a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes. With a fourth and final season already ordered, Season 3 escalates the tragedy toward its inevitable, fiery conclusion. House of the Dragon Season 3 is streaming on HBO Max.
Nine Puzzles is a Korean crime-mystery thriller released on Disney+ in 2025, which became the platform's most-watched Korean title of the year. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Yoon Jong-bin in a notable move into series television, the show is a twisty, atmospheric hunt for a serial killer built around a chilling signature.
Kim Da-mi stars as Yun-i, a gifted criminal profiler who, years earlier, was the prime suspect in the shocking murder of her uncle — a case that left her an outsider haunted by suspicion. When a new string of killings begins, each crime scene marked with a piece of a puzzle, she is pulled back in alongside a wary detective played by Son Suk-ku, and the scattered pieces slowly point toward her own buried past.
Praised for its moody visuals, its intricate plotting, and the tense dynamic between its two leads, Nine Puzzles helped reinvigorate Disney+'s Korean slate and was a critical and popular success. Its deliberate, clue-by-clue construction rewards viewers piecing the mystery together alongside its heroine. It is streaming on Disney+.
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty is a Korean fantasy romance drama that streamed on Netflix and aired on tvN in 2025, becoming one of the year's surprise breakout hits. Blending time-travel fantasy, historical intrigue, and mouthwatering culinary spectacle, the series pairs a modern cooking prodigy with a fearsome Joseon-era monarch.
Im Yoon-ah (of Girls' Generation) stars as Yeon Ji-yeong, an acclaimed contemporary chef who is mysteriously transported to the Joseon dynasty, where she must cook to survive at the court of the tyrannical King Yi Heon, played by Lee Chae-min. As she wins favor — and stirs romance — through extraordinary food, her modern techniques collide with palace politics and the king's fearsome reputation, turning each dish into a matter of life and death.
The series was a ratings success in Korea and a strong performer on Netflix internationally, praised for its lavish food styling, comic energy, and the crackling chemistry between its leads. Its winning mix of gastronomy and fairy-tale romance made it one of 2025's most talked-about feel-good K-dramas. It is streaming on Netflix.
