August 2026 TV Premieres: 88 New and Returning Shows

Sam Memmolo and Dave Bowman working on every kind of vehicle, in their own garage and on location at shops around the US and Canada.

Twelve Naked and Afraid all-stars think they are starting a standard 35-day group challenge and instead begin adrift at sea overnight. With flares going up overhead they grab what they can and swim for an isolated island off the Philippines. A venomous jellyfish sting puts one survivalist in serious trouble in the opener.

Vikram Chamberlain time-travelled from 1847, got stuck in the present, and accidentally released magic across Europe. Season two sends the team to an international boarding school to look into an outbreak of inexplicable rage, where they meet a man claiming to be Merlin.

The FBI estimates 25 to 50 active serial killers in America each year, most of whom never become household names. Season two opens with four women murdered across four states in a single month and the drifter police tracked down.

Origin stories of the largest American businesses, from Costco and Walmart to FedEx and UPS. Season four opens on the wartime race to build an all-purpose military vehicle and the decades of fighting that turned it into the SUV.

Joe runs the CIA’s Lioness program, sending women undercover among the power brokers of state terrorism while trying to hold a personal life together. Season three opens with a covert strike that turns up a threat nobody was looking for.

DI Max Arnold works murders in a borough where wealth and status usually get in the way. Season four opens with a butler found dead in the Thames who turns out to have been Billy Paige, an undercover journalist investigating a fashion mogul’s household.

Four famous faces swap the spotlight for aprons. This year it is Taran Killam, Michelle Buteau, Jay Pharoah, and Natasha Rothwell through three summer challenges under Paul Hollywood’s eye.

An improvised stand-up show where the audience is the material. Season two opens with Cameron, Aaron, and Jordan trying to please the court.

Fry, Bender, and Leela still delivering packages across the 31st century. Season fourteen opens with the Professor attempting lab-grown meat so Fry can enter a hotdog-eating championship.

Billie is a powerful young wizard living in the mortal world with Justin Russo, the only teacher who can help her control it. The final season opens with Billie giving up her powers after losing Alex, convinced she is a danger to her family.

NFL Films inside a training camp, this year with the Seattle Seahawks. Head coach Mike Macdonald opens by using the 1990s Bulls to explain his “12 as One” approach, with Sam Darnold and Cooper Kupp responding.

Unseen footage and accounts from members of Special Operations Forces.

Relationships that turned out to be built on deception, and what it cost the people inside them. Season four opens with a police officer’s confession exposing how he used his position.

An American football coach with no soccer experience took over an English club and somehow made it work. Season four picks up a few years after Ted left Richmond, with familiar faces visiting him in Kansas, or possibly Missouri.

Privileged seniors at an elite Los Angeles prep school in 1981, and what is happening underneath. The premiere has a series of disturbing crimes coinciding with a strange new student arriving in Bret’s orbit.

Seventeen-year-old Annie Jacobson inherits an island in Muskoka from a grandfather she was never allowed to meet. The premiere has her rejected from her dream summer program, then a letter sends her on a secret solo trip north.

An expansion of the Visions short into a full series, from Production I.G.

Veterans and newcomers running physical challenges for a share of a million dollars. Season forty-two opens with the challengers racing through Bangkok to become one of three captains.

Harry Jowsey hands his love life to his friends, who weigh in on every date and every match from a handpicked pool. The premiere brings in twenty hopeful singles.

The Yorkshire fishing family turned newly wealthy returns for a second season.

Michael McWhorter, better known online as Tizzy Ent, crowdsources the identification of people caught behaving badly in public. The opener tracks a pipe-wielding road-rager in Los Angeles, a woman filmed defecating on a car, and a man who stole a tow truck in New York.

Eric Goode follows his first love, reptiles, into the exotic animal smuggling trade, a billion-dollar criminal enterprise driven by obsession. The first episode opens on the rivalry between dealers Hank Molt and Tommy Crutchfield.

Jackie Howard lost her family and moved from Manhattan to rural Colorado to live with her guardian and twelve rowdy kids. Season three opens after a medical emergency, with Jackie and Katherine trying to hold the fractured Walters together.

An off-the-books undercover task force in Philadelphia going after crime families. The premiere has the police chief losing his son in a suspected hit and forming the unit to infiltrate the Roth organization.

Cases that ended at the hands of a husband, wife, friend, or lover.

Camera crews embedded with patrol units, no narration and no script. Season thirty-eight opens with a PIT maneuver ending a bank robbery pursuit, a man with a stolen motorcycle, and an air unit tracking a stolen car.

Couples separated by decades working through power dynamics, family pressure, and financial imbalance. The premiere has Brooke and Kai’s secret exposed, Tynisha blindsiding Eric, and Caroline questioning Vic’s commitment.

A former city dweller became a park ranger after a loss she is still outrunning, and now works crimes on national park land. The premiere has her questioning the official explanation for a fellow ranger’s death.

A clutter of useless cats swearing at the telly and causing problems locally. The first episode has gang leader Gus taking his crew hunting mice in a cemetery, where they find a lost kitten instead.

Live from Canton, Ohio. The 2026 class is Drew Brees, Roger Craig, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly, and Adam Vinatieri.

Criminology professor Jasper Tempest works cases at Cambridge while managing OCD and a difficult past. Season five has Jasper and Helena testing a new romance at a spa hotel, where two apparently natural deaths pull him into an obsession that threatens it.

Housewives from different cities on one trip. Season five starts in Orange County for the franchise’s twentieth anniversary, with Vicki hosting a yacht party and trying to recreate the Bunco night at the Quiet Woman.

Six couples outside St. Louis whose carpool-and-church routines coexist with lucrative second lives nobody around them knows about. The premiere introduces Tammy balancing faith and family values, Bri dealing with fallout from her past, and Macy working hard to keep hers hidden.

The cast of The Chosen taken through forests, deserts, and canyons by Bear Grylls. The first episode is Luke Dimyan, who plays Judas, navigating deep canyons in Utah’s Castle Valley.

Romances that ended in kidnapping, cover-ups, and cross-country manhunts, told through first-person interviews.

True crime influencer Kara Chamberlain works unsolved murders and missing persons cases that have defeated professionals and amateurs alike.

Red and Blue and their ocean friends, in eight-minute episodes.

Ten fighters a week trying to earn a UFC contract in front of Dana White.

Half-hour episodes revisiting brutal killers through news footage and the killers’ own words, looking for the traits that were there all along. Season eleven opens with a Florida cold case broken by a confession almost ten years later.

José Mourinho’s career told through game footage, sideline antics, and interviews. The first episode is 2004, with Frank Lampard, John Terry, and Alex Ferguson on his arrival at Chelsea as “The Special One.”

Jack Reacher drifts through the country with no phone and almost nothing else, and trouble finds him anyway. Season four opens on a Philadelphia subway car with a distraught stranger and a missing flash drive that people are willing to kill over.

Prison calls recorded before Manson’s death, never heard publicly. The first episode covers how he drew in the young and disillusioned at the height of the hippie movement with promises of acceptance and no rules.

Extended looks at First 48 cases. This run opens with a Tulsa homicide where a man is found shot outside his family home, and a Mobile murder committed by a man on a bicycle.

Engineering landmarks seen from the air, with the construction secrets underneath them. The first episode covers a defensive wall around a historic Colombian city and the metal towers standing in the English Channel.

A hapless manager running his father’s auto shop while trying to keep his cousin in line. Season three opens with Will pitching a commercial and Phil countering with a faster way to cut costs.

Sybylla wants to write, and her family wants her married, in 1900 Australia. The premiere sends her to a posh grandmother to be polished for marriage, where her temperament makes an impression on high society instead.

Marie Faustin hosts singles through challenges designed to surface their red flags. The first episode has Ontonio judging jokes, hearing from daters’ mothers, and making a final pick.

Vascular surgeon Neil Hopper lost both legs and became a symbol of resilience, until an investigation turned up a hidden obsession and a second life.

How organized crime worked its way into Hollywood across the twentieth century, through unions, financing, and the people quietly holding power.

The 2026 class includes Doc Rivers, Mark Few, Amar’e Stoudemire, Joey Crawford, Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne, Chamique Holdsclaw, and the 1996 US women’s national team.

Jessica Alba and Lizzy Mathis rebuilding family homes that stopped working. Season four opens with Susan, who spent eight years putting her children first after their father died.

Recreational scuba diving around the world. Season three starts in Key Largo.

New recruit John Stewart and Lantern veteran Hal Jordan work a murder in the American heartland that keeps looking less terrestrial. The pilot has the two of them trying to prove a fatal shooting was an extraterrestrial event.

Four sociopaths running a failing Irish bar in South Philadelphia, now in their eighteenth season. The opener has the guys helping Frank through cold feet before his wedding to Sam while Dee tries to scare Sam off.

Mixologists competing through themed challenges for $10,000 an episode. Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, and Melissa Brooke host, with Justin Sylvester joining for a challenge built on extreme temperature shifts.

Josh Gates, Phil Torres, and Heather Amaro investigating supernatural reports and unexplained phenomena. Season twelve opens on Robin Hood’s ghosts.

Arrestees followed through the booking process, telling their own account of how they got there. Season five opens in Mesa with a report of someone driving erratically.

The story of a lion cub named Kio and his route to becoming a king. The first episode has him born to Summer, queen of a powerful pride, learning early how unpredictable the savannah is, and eventually meeting the pride’s mortal enemy alone.

Miles O’Brien with the scientists working on extreme heat, methane, brain disorders, and water supply. The first episode is a dairy farmer using seaweed to cut cow methane.

A travel competition where the world is the board and each season runs a different game.

British singles date through pod walls and get engaged before meeting. Season three opens with the pods filling up and two love triangles forming almost immediately.

A plumber found out his dead father stole millions from dangerous people who now assume he knows where it is. Season two opens with Joe at rock bottom taking a call that puts his family’s life on the line and points toward Africa.

Manchester City across two seasons, from a fourth Premier League title through their worst run in decades. Pep Guardiola opens by warning that success does not last.

A new drama on GagaOOLala.

John B and the Pogues hunting treasure on an island split between haves and have-nots. The final season opens with the group stranded in Morocco after a loss, racing across a dangerous border to intercept Groff and the Blue Crown.

Cricket Green and his family, transplanted from the country to the city and still adjusting.

Survivors who shared life-or-death moments with strangers on September 11 and want to meet again, made with the 9/11 Memorial and Museum for the 25th anniversary. The first episode reunites three men trapped in a north tower elevator with the window cleaner whose late arrival helped them get out.

Three siblings and the wise panda next door who helps them with the things that feel insurmountable.

Conan visiting fans he met on his podcast and getting into their local business. Season three opens in India, where he rides Mumbai’s trains, takes on the country’s monkey problem, and helps a fan launch a talk show.

Twelve titles and what Geno Auriemma asked of the players who won them, with Rebecca Lobo, Diana Taurasi, and Paige Bueckers. The first episode covers building the program from nothing.

An animated special. A rainstorm brings animals into the castle, the animals run amok, and a villain turns out to be behind it.

Khloé Kardashian’s closest friends on motherhood, marriage, dating, and business. The premiere has the group disagreeing about how much they are willing to put on camera.

A live special tied to the Vampire Lestat season.

A new Acorn TV crime series set in and around a hotel.

Ken Jennings hosts the invitational tournament, with the game’s strongest recent players in a round-robin format.

Challengers pick which of Bobby Flay’s three titans they want to cook against, with a points handicap in their favor.

A former detective turned cruise ship singer keeps finding bodies between sets.

Homeowners take their houses back to the decade, on purpose.

A documentary following the chaplain who works one of the world’s busiest airports.

A true crime series on the death of a pastor’s wife and the investigation that followed.

A Black Mirror parody special from the Simpsons team.

Five friends in their twenties sharing a house in Queens and handling adulthood poorly. Streams on Hulu the next day.

Tyler Perry’s drama about a stripper and the wealthy family whose business she gets pulled into.

Leanne Morgan’s sitcom about starting over after a husband of thirty-three years leaves.

A new Paramount+ drama.

GCHQ analysts working a cyberattack on the UK, returning for a second season.

Jason Dessen was abducted into an alternate version of his own life and has been trying to find his way back through the multiverse of lives he might have lived.