July 2026 TV Premieres: 109 New and Returning Shows

Scott McGillivray and Bryan Baeumler set four contractor and designer duos against each other to build waterfront cabins at Scott’s lakeside resort, with $100,000 for the winning team. Season three opens with each team choosing exterior finishes and pairing up on the communal spaces, then a twist adds another $100,000 in cash and prizes to the board.

Four bladesmiths compete each episode to forge iconic weapons, from Japanese katanas to medieval broadswords to the chakram, and everything they make has to work. Season eleven opens with Mind Over Metal.

A Hulu docuseries on places people walked away from and what was left behind.

The continuation of the 1990s animated series, with the team facing a future none of them planned for. Season two opens with Forge and Bishop putting together a plan to pull the X-Men back from where they have been scattered across time.

Elle Woods before Harvard. It is 1995 and she is sixteen with a fully mapped plan for junior year in Bel-Air, right up until her parents tell her the family is moving to Seattle. The series works through what shaped the character from the first Legally Blonde film.

Firsthand accounts of harassment and violence between neighbors, told with body cam footage and animated reenactments. The opener follows Frances, who goes from houseguest to a one-sided feud that keeps escalating.

Hallmark fans aboard the network’s Christmas cruise, with proposals, weddings, girls’ trips, and celebrity guests. Season two starts as passengers board and meet the stars.

Over 3,500 years, voyagers crossed millions of miles of Pacific in handmade canoes and settled thousands of islands, reaching Guam, Hawaii, Rapa Nui, and Fiji. The series follows how they became master navigators and built a world connected by canoes.

Mavis Beaumont rebuilding her life with her chosen family around her. The final season opens with her turning heads at a major fashion event while a shift in her motherhood timeline has her and Luca rethinking the plan.

The Independence Day concert and fireworks, broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.

Thousands live in a silo buried deep underground in a ruined and toxic future, governed by rules nobody is allowed to question. Season three opens with Juliette as the new mayor, unable to remember anything from her time outside or from her past.

The 50th edition of the fireworks broadcast, expanding this year to both the lower East River in the Seaport District and the lower Hudson.

Sharon D. Clarke returns as DCI Ellis, sent into police forces where investigations have already gone wrong.

Controversies from inside and outside the ring involving wrestling’s most notorious names. Season seven opens on Jeff Jarrett building Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from scratch and spending a decade fighting WWE.

David Newbern and Mike Cotten try to make cars faster on a small budget in a few days, mixing affordable upgrades with their own labor.

Viral kitchen disasters broken down by professional chefs, from hibachi tricks gone wrong to recipes that should never have been attempted. The opener covers deep-fried turkey failures and collapsing baked goods, plus a game where chefs try to predict the disaster before it lands.

Jason and Nikki want a baby, which is the one thing they cannot manage. Season five opens with the fallout from Nikki’s lie still landing and Kat’s arrival unsettling the family.

Herb Baumeister was a businessman and father of three in suburban Indianapolis who spent the 1990s killing gay men, with a possible victim count above Jeffrey Dahmer’s. Season two follows Hamilton County coroner Jeff Jellison further into the case, with new evidence and old Mark Goodyear interviews suggesting the investigation stalled for a reason.

Steve Harvey hosts celebrities and their families guessing the top survey answers. Season twelve opens with AFC champions against NFC champions.

Season twenty brings Vicki back. Shannon and Tamra are at odds after an explosive encounter, Gina is working out her new relationship status, Emily’s home life is rebuilding, and Heather’s mother moves to California.

Houseguests live under constant camera surveillance and vote each other out weekly for a $500,000 prize. Season twenty-eight runs on a nostalgia theme.

Burning Man started in 1986 as a San Francisco counterculture gathering and now draws 80,000 people to the Nevada desert each year. The series follows the organization through several years of turmoil, beginning with its growth from Larry Harvey’s founding into a multi-million-dollar event backed by tech money.

Elizabeth Banks hosts contestants trying to avoid the Whammy. Season seven opens with three football fans playing for big money.

Heidi Klum returns to host twenty-two designers competing for a career-making prize. A twist has them presenting a signature look just to secure a spot in the competition.

A new adaptation of Wilder’s semi-autobiographical books, running as family drama, survival story, and origin story of the American West at once. The premiere has the Ingalls family leaving the Wisconsin woods for the Kansas plains, where the new life is both beautiful and genuinely dangerous.

Hollis Shaw is a celebrated cook and bestselling author whose picture-perfect life starts cracking after a devastating loss: a strained marriage, a difficult relationship with her daughter, a growing need for validation from fans. The premiere has her hosting a weekend on Nantucket with three friends from three phases of her life, plus one brand new.

A companion show to Big Brother hosted by former winners, working through unaired footage and interviews. Jerry O’Connell joins Taylor Hale and Derrick Levasseur for the season opener.

Joe Bob Briggs hosting weekly Friday night double features, drawing across five decades from horror classics to obscurities. Season thirty-eight opens with I Spit on Your Grave.

Cases from the intersection of old Southern money, hip-hop, and new tech wealth, told by the investigators and families involved. Season four opens with an officer shot and killed during a routine traffic stop.

Strangers matched by a panel of specialists get legally married the moment they meet. Season twenty is set in Seattle with fourteen singles, one bride worried about a runaway groom, another leaving the altar unsure, and a couple who turn out to have met before.

Construction of the Javits Center on the Westies’ Hell’s Kitchen turf promises money, and their reputation for brutality has kept them at the table despite being outnumbered fifty to one by the Five Families. The premiere has a reckless kidnapping unravelling the arrangement while Flanagan leaves Bellevue, Keenan joins an FBI task force, and Bridget takes an assignment from an IRA contact.

Peter Parker, Miles Morales, and Gwen team up with Hulk, Black Panther, and Ms. Marvel, mostly learning to work together.

A South Central player recruited to Beverly Hills High, and two families colliding across that divide. Season eight opens six months after the playoff game, with school nearly out and the week ahead about to change everything.

Twelve up-and-coming professional dancers live together and compete for a pro slot on the next season of Dancing with the Stars. Robert Irwin hosts, with Shirley Ballas, Mark Ballas, and Derek Hough judging jive and samba in the opener.

A week-long barbecue competition in the wilderness, cooking over live fire from sunrise to sunrise for a share of $50,000. The premiere gives teams nine hours to build a family-style platter with two proteins and a side that defines their style.

Five days inside American jails where officers are outnumbered and cellblocks are overcrowded. Season two opens at Clay County Detention Center.

A high school sociology class in Elizabethton, Tennessee takes on the Redhead Murders, a string of unsolved killings that made headlines across the South and then faded. Led by teacher Alex Campbell, the students turn a classroom project into a real investigation.

Celebrity guests answer questions while working through increasingly hot wings. The first episode has Will Ferrell, Fortune Feimster, and Jimmy Tatro.

Thirty-six online creators including Topper Guild, Zhong, Mackenzie Turner, Matthew Beem, and Jesser in a teen variety show. The opener has Topper speedrunning Santa Monica Pier while Beem and Zhong build hidden rooms to keep him away from security.

Wilderness experts confront people living somewhere genuinely unsafe and make them choose between a rescue and carrying on. The Raneys open with an Alaskan family pushed into tents by a mold-infested cabin, facing bears, an arsenic-laced spring, and a seven-month winter.

The Australian spinoff of Death in Paradise, with Anna Samson’s detective back in the coastal town she left.

Inside the season for a handful of NFL quarterbacks, on the field and at home. Season three follows Titans rookie Ward under heavy expectations, Daniels with the Commanders, Mayfield on his past, and Flacco on his future.

Three parts on the story behind the film. The first covers Jordan Belfort building a fraud operation before the FBI started paying attention.

The annual sports awards, live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.

A game show where losing is the point: celebrities try to get eliminated fast to avoid being crowned the nation’s dumbest. The opener puts twelve of them through logic, nostalgia, zoology, and geography.

Police body camera footage paired with the officers’ own accounts. Season eleven opens with a Maryland high-speed chase, a Georgia bank robbery, and a Wisconsin gunfight.

Two teams hunt down the least appealing yards in the country and rebuild them in a matter of days.

Three murders, three 911 calls, three callers claiming innocence, and what the call itself gives away. Season two opens with a couple who find their friend shot dead.

Couples at a marry-or-leave impasse move in with other potential matches. Season four has six new couples, with speed dating and a cocktail hour producing jealousy on the first day.

A multi-million-dollar heist goes wrong and con artist Lucky has to run, with the FBI on one side and a crime boss on the other. The premiere opens the morning after a night in Vegas, with everything already gone sideways.

Debbie Claybourne finds out her best friend Judith is not a forensic accountant but an international assassin. A figure from Judith’s past turns up, a hit goes wrong, and the two of them end up on the run across Europe with law enforcement and other assassins behind them.

Detectives working the first two days of a homicide case, with access to crime scenes, autopsies, and interrogations. Season thirty opens in North Charleston, where a man dies of a gunshot wound to the leg after asking a stranger for help.

Lonnie Hawkins was the world’s number one golfer in 2004 and is now on the back nine of his career. His ex-wife and his son Lance, golf’s new star, both think he is finished. He needs one more major for the career Grand Slam.

Abby Hornacek visiting national parks. Season nine opens at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Brothers Jagger and Dawson run a multi-million-dollar RV parts business in a small town, between stunts and schemes.

The crew takes on a rundown bed and breakfast and turns it into a twelve-acre lakeside inn, with Chase and his wife Sarah becoming innkeepers in the process.

Inside some of the worst espionage cases in recent American history, from foreign adversaries to insiders.

A high-stakes cash game with Eric Persson, Jean-Robert Bellande, Patrik Antonius, Maria Ho, Alan Keating, and others playing up to $200/$400 no-limit hold’em on a $100,000 minimum buy-in.

Retta tours homes their owners nominated as the worst around, and Alison Victoria renovates the winner for $150,000. Season eight starts in the Frontier region with four contenders.

A murder inside a friend group and the secrets it pulls out of everyone around it. Season two opens with a Florida woman’s disappearance and a hidden life her friends did not know about.

Television’s longest-running showcase for independent nonfiction film. Season thirty-nine opens with three Chinese bachelors at a seven-day dating camp in a country where eligible men outnumber women by more than 30 million.

DCI Jeanette Kilburn and psychotherapist Dr Sophia Craven working a case that runs into historic abuse and disappearances nobody followed up on. Season two opens with a discovery at a pig farm and an accident at a local church that turns up something buried.

Tracee Ellis Ross traveling alone and enjoying it. Season two opens in Melbourne with a private tour of the National Gallery’s fashion exhibit, a surfing attempt, and Australian wine.

Hank and Peggy back in a changed Arlen, with Bobby running a restaurant and enjoying being an adult. Season fifteen opens with the alley guys and Peggy competing to find who owns an electric truck parked outside, and Bobby dealing with Chane finding out about his relationship.

Gordon Ramsay visiting restaurants that are barely holding on. Season ten opens with an owner twenty years and considerable debt in, caught between a manager and a head chef who will not stop fighting each other.

Texas agent Noel Collier takes clients with unusual property requirements and finds listings to match. The opener has a woman with forty llamas and a kangaroo, and a couple who want an underground bunker.

The London edition of the franchise gets its US premiere on Bravo.

The Kennedy Center’s annual humor award. This year’s honoree is Bill Maher.

A newer group of teen mothers, with the family conflict and co-parenting trouble the format runs on.

Backstage access to how WWE storylines actually get built. Season three has John Cena looking for an exit as retirement approaches, and a new pairing threatening Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch.

Fifteen questions for a million dollars. This run opens with Larry David and his daughter Cazzie, and Ben Affleck with game show champion Jamie Ding, playing for charity.

Tom Hiddleston works through the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and the city it preserved, tracing real Romans through the day. The first episode follows two of them ignoring the tremors.

Aarón Sánchez and Canadian restaurateur Jen Agg rescuing struggling restaurants, with Jen on design and front of house and Aarón in the kitchen. The premiere is at Toronto’s oldest Hakka restaurant, where two sisters left their careers to save their parents’ business.

Two correctional facilities where every officer wears a body camera, and what that footage changes about how the jails run. The opener is Clayton County, Georgia, where inmates reach a breaking point.

Four friends daring each other into public humiliation. Season thirteen opens with Meal, Interrupted.

Captain Pike, Spock, and Number One in the decade before Kirk took the Enterprise. Season four opens with Pike taking the crew into a stellar storm that throws the ship back 65 million years.

Three ranching families in Texas Hill Country and the ways their lives keep crossing. Season two has Quinn coming home to find her mother in town, Staten at odds with his father, and Yancy losing patience with his housemate.

A British missing-persons drama arriving on BritBox.

Stuart Bloom breaks a device built by Sheldon, Leonard, and Howard, and brings about a multiverse problem he now has to fix. He is helped by his girlfriend Denise, Bert, and Barry Kripke, and they keep running into alternate versions of people from The Big Bang Theory.

Four University of Idaho students were found murdered in an off-campus house in Moscow in the fall of 2022. The series covers the crime, the investigation under enormous pressure, and what it did to the town.

Leslie Jones checks into short-term rentals with terrible reviews, roasts them, and then Jasmine Roth’s team has 72 hours to fix them. The opener is in Temecula, California, where filthy carpet and an unsafe sleeping loft mean starting over.

Six episodes inside the WNBA season, following what the job actually demands of the league’s best players. The opener runs up to the All-Star break with the Lynx leading and players pushing for a new CBA.

A family of bears runs a drug operation to raise money to save their forest from frackers. Three siblings wake from hibernation, find the forest being cleared, and make one very bad decision looking for food.

Short-form drama from the hallways of Auradon Prep. The first part has a letter threatening to expose Red and Chloe’s secret.

The annual week of shark programming, running since 1988. This year opens with Ken Jeong and singer REI AMI working to change how sharks are seen across East Asia, by way of K-pop.

Tyler Florence sends new food truck operators across the country, cooking and outselling each other town by town. Season nineteen opens in Nashville.

The president and his staff handling interdimensional diplomacy, paranormal investigations, and other things nobody else wants. The pilot has Andre Curtis going up against the CIA over a tape, which forces him into some of his own secrets.

Maggie and Negan in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan cut off from the mainland, full of the dead and of people who have built something of their own. Season three opens with the two of them in a situation that tests an alliance neither fully trusts.

Buildings and structures that look like they should not stand up, and how they were actually made. Season five opens on reborn buildings and sacred grounds.

A World War II run of the long-running engineering series, on the machines and infrastructure the war produced.

Killings connected to teams and fanbases, told by families and teammates. The premiere covers Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, who went missing in 2003, with teammate Ellis Kidd Jr. giving his account for the first time.

A new Acorn TV drama set in a remote community.

FBI agent Alice Black hunting a careful female serial killer, with both of them working toward something they would call justice. The premiere has Alice investigating a suspicious overdose while Catherine plans her next move.

Antonia Lofaso watches from a command center while sous-chef Nestor Milian goes undercover inside failing restaurants. The premiere is at Gritz N’ Wafflez, a ghost kitchen whose fast expansion outpaced everything holding it up.

Teams race to name songs before the app does. Season eight opens with bestie moms, bartenders, and former NFL cheerleaders.

A century from now, colonization missions have become necessary, and Ark One suffered a catastrophic event with a year still to go. Season three has the colony facing new problems while Ark One takes on its hardest rescue yet.

Penny Proud and her family in the present day. The final season opens with Penny and Kareem arriving in Los Angeles to try the music industry.

A divorcing schoolteacher who refuses to accept she was ghosted, and the decades-old Detroit mystery that turns out to be underneath it. Season two has Diarra helping Chris through a welcome home barbecue while quietly continuing to investigate his mother.

The same case from crime scene to courtroom, following the hunt for Bryan Kohberger. The first episode is November 13, 2022, and the 911 call that led to the discovery.

A case from the perspective of the accused, their lawyers, and their family. Season eight opens with a young man stabbed to death, a trail of blood to a trailer, and a robbery honeytrap that went wrong.

A limited series on the Lockerbie bombing and the investigation that followed.

Six high-profile British cases reopened with ABC News’ 20/20 team. The first is Ben Needham, the British toddler who vanished in Greece, and a search that runs through trafficking claims, suspected burial sites, and a prison confession.

Stassi Schroeder returning to television with the people closest to her on camera. The premiere has her trying to reconcile with Katie, Beau unconvinced, and Georgi facing her after their conflict in London.

Chelsea Martin goes to Paris to land a donation and instead follows a message from her late mother into reconnecting with three people she left behind, across Ireland, Paris, and Spain.

On the night Duke Kilroy became world heavyweight champion, an assault left his brother dead and Duke spent eight years in a U.S. prison for what he did next. He returns to London for the crime family he holds responsible.

Long-term couples dealing with infidelity move into a Miami house to work through it. Three couples face Dr. Stacii, and one man’s supposed sidepiece turns out to be a former girlfriend.

A Gotham where the corrupt outnumber everyone else and Bruce Wayne’s crusade keeps producing consequences he did not plan for. Season two opens during Rupert Thorne’s trial, with the Batman up against Thorne’s retribution and Eddie Nygma.

A Peanuts special. Snoopy’s doghouse is accidentally sold at a yard sale, which takes with it the place his imagination started and everything he keeps.

Joe Buck hosts sports commentators and celebrity fans on the Alex Trebek Stage, with material drawn from across ESPN. The first quarterfinal has Christine Williamson, Jeremy Schaap, and Kimberley A. Martin.