Hulu May 2026 Premieres: The Nightmare Upstairs plus The Bear and The Testaments

The Bear is about Carmy, a chef trained in fine dining who returns to Chicago to take over his family’s sandwich shop. He tries to remake the restaurant and himself at the same time, working with a rough crew that gradually becomes something like a chosen family. The series moves between the pressure of the kitchen and the personal lives behind it. New episodes aired through the month.

The Testaments is based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, published in 2019 and set in the dystopian theocracy of Gilead. It picks up years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale and turns to a younger generation of women who have grown up inside Gilead with no real memory of the world that came before it. The story follows them as they come of age and confront the future the regime has laid out. New episodes aired during May.

This documentary follows the case of two children, Ty and Bryn, who barricaded themselves inside their upstairs bedroom and refused to come out. Over 54 days, they livestreamed the standoff on TikTok, and the broadcast pulled in a national audience that kept watching as the days stacked up. The film works through what led to the barricade and how the situation managed to stretch on for so long. The title poses the question the documentary sets out to answer: why.

This documentary series tracks Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds and their ownership of Wrexham AFC, the oldest professional football club in Wales, which the two bought in 2020. Neither came in with a background in football or any history of working together, so the show follows them learning the business of running a club while trying to do right by the town. Season 5 continues that effort, charting the club’s progress on the pitch and the relationships off it.

When their father, a convenience store magnate, dies suddenly, two pampered Pakistani American brothers find themselves with nothing. The bigger shock is what they learn about him: a hidden life of crime running underneath the family business. The series, a comedy, follows the brothers as they try to step into his place in that underworld, with little preparation for the work it demands. Season 2 continues their reckoning with everything they inherited.

Family Guy is an animated comedy set in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island, centered on the Griffin family. Peter is the well-meaning but clueless father, Lois the patient mother, and their household includes teenage outcast Meg, awkward son Chris, and the scheming infant Stewie. The family’s antics drive a steady run of jokes, cutaways, and tangents. New episodes of the long-running series aired through the month.

Bob’s Burgers follows Bob Belcher, who runs a burger restaurant with help from his wife Linda and their three kids. Bob has big ideas about his cooking, but the rest of the family falls short on the service side, and the location does him no favors. Linda stays loyal and tends to break into song. Their eldest, Tina, is 13 and easily distracted. The Belchers keep trying to make the place work, one reopening at a time. New episodes aired through May.

American Dad! is an animated comedy built around Stan Smith, a CIA agent who brings the same drastic, high-stakes approach to running his household that he uses at work. His confidence almost never lines up with the outcome, and the show mines that gap for laughs. Driven by machismo and his own idea of the American dream, Stan keeps failing while never quite noticing, with his family along for the ride. New episodes aired during the month.

MasterChef is a cooking competition that puts home cooks through a series of elimination challenges judged by a panel of food experts. The rounds get harder as the season goes, testing technique and nerve under time pressure, and the field thins out week by week. By the end, one amateur cook is named the winner. New episodes aired during May.

The Floor is a quiz competition staged on a giant LED floor split into a 9 by 9 grid, with each square representing a different category of knowledge. A contestant challenges a neighbor to a head-to-head duel in that opponent’s category, and the winner claims the loser’s square, steadily expanding their territory while the loser is out. The grid shrinks as the game goes on. New episodes aired during May.

Next Level Chef is a cooking competition led by Gordon Ramsay, who recruits cooks from a wide range of backgrounds: line cooks, home chefs, food truck owners, and social media stars among them. He works alongside two other established chefs, Nyesha Arrington and Richard Blais, with each mentor taking a group under their wing. The contestants compete to be recognized as the food world’s next standout. New episodes aired during May.

Fear Factor: House of Fear drops a group of strangers into a remote location where they live together under one roof. The series puts them through demanding stunts and challenges while a social game runs underneath it all, one where alliances shift and trust does not last long. Contestants have to get past both the physical tests and each other. New episodes aired during May.

The 1% Club is a quiz show whose questions come from a survey rather than from textbooks, so each one has a correct answer that still trips people up in entertaining ways. Contestants work to stay in the game and reach the cash prize, while viewers at home can play along with the same questions. The difficulty climbs as fewer players remain. New episodes aired during May.

Farmer Wants a Wife follows four farmers from around the country as they look for a partner to settle down with. The women involved step away from dating apps and city life to try a more old-fashioned kind of courtship. The farmers bring their groups out to the farm to show what daily life as a rancher actually looks like. New episodes aired during May.

Bear Grylls Is Running Wild sends the adventurer Bear Grylls into remote wilderness with a different well-known guest each time, for a 48-hour trip away from everything familiar. The episodes mix demanding physical challenges with the kind of open conversation that tends to happen when people are tired and out of their element. This season ranges across locations around the globe. New episodes aired during May.

The Quiz with Balls pairs a high-stakes trivia contest with a large-scale physical competition. In each episode two families go head to head, answering questions in what the show bills as a battle of the balls, with a $100,000 prize on the line. The combination of getting the answers right and surviving the physical element is the whole draw. New episodes aired during the month.

The Rookie centers on John Nolan, who became the oldest rookie in the LAPD after leaving a quieter small-town life to chase a longtime goal. Surrounded by fellow recruits decades younger, he works to prove that a second act as a police officer can hold up. The series mixes the danger and unpredictability of the job with lighter moments. The show notes it was inspired by a true story. New episodes aired through May.

Will Trent follows a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Abandoned at birth and raised in Atlanta’s strained foster care system, Trent carries that history into his work and uses his particular way of reading cases to close them at a high rate. His drive comes partly from not wanting anyone else to be overlooked the way he was. New episodes of the crime drama aired during May.

9-1-1 follows first responders, the police officers, paramedics, and firefighters who answer emergency calls and put themselves in harm’s way to help. The series moves at a fast clip between the crises on the job and the personal lives of the people handling them. Each episode is built around the kind of high-stakes situations these crews face. New episodes aired through May.

Grey’s Anatomy is set at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, where the doctors face life-or-death decisions as a routine part of the work. Outside the operating room, they lean on one another for friendship and, often, more than that. The series treats both medicine and relationships as messy and rarely clear-cut, working in shades of grey rather than absolutes. New episodes aired through May.

Jimmy Kimmel Live is a late-night talk show with a rotating lineup of guests that includes actors, musicians, athletes, comedians, and people pulled from the headlines. Each episode pairs those interviews with comedy bits and music from a house band. The mix stays loose and topical, built around whoever happens to be sitting on the couch that night. New episodes aired throughout the month.

9-1-1: Nashville is a procedural about first responders, set in Nashville. Alongside the high-stakes emergency calls, it follows a family whose story runs on power and a certain amount of glamour, played out against one of the country’s more dynamic cities. The series keeps the action moving while building the family saga underneath it. New episodes aired through the month.

American Idol is a singing competition in which contestants perform in front of a panel of judges drawn from the music industry. The performances run week to week, and it is the viewers at home, not the judges, who cast the votes that decide who moves on and who is sent home. The season builds toward a single winner. New episodes aired during May.

Celebrity Jeopardy! is a version of the long-running trivia game in which famous contestants compete by phrasing their answers as questions. The twist is the stakes: players compete for money that goes to a charity of their choosing rather than for themselves. The format otherwise follows the standard game, with celebrities in the contestant seats. New episodes aired during the month.

America’s Funniest Home Videos is built around clips sent in by viewers, strung together at a quick pace for laughs the whole family can share. It is the longest-running primetime entertainment show in ABC’s history and reached its 36th season here. The format stays simple: real moments caught on camera, one after another, with the appeal coming from the fact that none of it is staged. New episodes aired during May.

Betrayal: Secrets & Lies is a documentary series about people whose lives were upended by betrayal. Each installment works through a real case, the kind built on hidden second lives, sudden confessions, acts of violence, or financial collapse, and the toll those revelations take. The focus stays on what it took for the people involved to come through it. New episodes aired during May.