Netflix April 2026: 22 Premieres, Big Mistakes, Man on Fire & Full New‑Shows List

Two siblings, Nicky and Morgan, stole something to help their dying grandmother and accidentally landed in the middle of organized crime. Blackmailed into taking on increasingly dangerous jobs, they kept failing upward, each assignment pulling them deeper into a world they had no business being in. The show stayed grounded in their incompetence rather than their ambition, which gave the comedy a consistent tone across the season.

A Special Forces veteran, haunted by his past and hunted by enemies, took on the job of keeping a teenage girl alive on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. The show used Rio as more than a backdrop, building the city’s geography and factions into the plot. It dropped at the end of the month as the final major scripted premiere of April.

An animated series set in the Stranger Things universe, picking up in the winter of 1985 with Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, and Max settled back into normal life in Hawkins. Something new stirred beneath the ice, and the group had to figure out where it came from. The animated format let the show linger on quieter moments between the kids, including D&D sessions and snowball fights, in a way the live-action series rarely had time for.

A stand-up competition show tied to the Netflix Is a Joke Festival 2026, with comics from New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles competing for a spot on the festival lineup. Kevin Hart hosted, and the winner was decided by viewer vote in real time. The live-vote format made each episode feel less like a showcase and more like a bracket.

Zach Galifianakis hosted a series about gardening, interviewing children with strong opinions about plants and adults with even stronger ones. The show worked through different corners of food and growing across each episode, from soil to heirloom varieties, with Galifianakis’s deadpan approach keeping the tone dry throughout.

A documentary series told from the perspective of a woman who stayed engaged to a man accused of murder while quietly gathering evidence against him for investigators. She became a key witness in the case. The series reconstructed how she maintained the relationship under those circumstances and what it took to see the case through.

A documentary series about a polygamist who positioned himself as the rightful successor to Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned FLDS leader. The series tracked how he built a following using existing FLDS structures and beliefs, and how far that influence extended before it was challenged. It opened Netflix’s April documentary run on the first Wednesday of the month.

A documentary about Terry Bollea, the man behind the Hulk Hogan persona, built around what was described as his last interview. Bollea covered the wrestling career, the public image he built, and the harder parts of his personal history. It ran as a single feature-length release rather than a multi-episode series.

A psychological thriller set inside a conservative Christian sect, following a married woman whose encounter with an escaped convict set her on a path away from everything her community expected of her. The series ran as a closed-end limited run, all episodes released together, with the story wrapping in the same month it debuted.

A documentary series about Winnie Mandela, examined through the perspectives of her granddaughters. The series covered her role in the anti-apartheid movement, the years she spent detained and under banning orders, her marriage to Nelson Mandela, and the more contested chapters of her later political life. The family vantage gave the series a different angle than most outside accounts of her legacy.

A reality series built around a father-and-daughter pair, Jordan and Salish Matter, putting each other through creative challenges. Jordan set up the tasks, Salish tried to win them, and the show captured what happened between the two. The format drew directly from the challenge-based content the pair had built up over years online.

The anthology returned for a second season with a new cast and a fresh pair of strangers whose worst instincts found each other and refused to let go. The road-rage premise from the first season carried over as the show’s structural engine, but the story reset entirely. A new conflict, new characters, same slow spiral.

Isla Gordon returned for a second season as president of the Los Angeles Waves, still navigating a skeptical front office, doubting brothers, and a league that hadn’t fully accepted her. The show kept the same workplace friction from season one and pushed the business side of running a professional basketball franchise further into the foreground.

Four couples at a crossroads traveled to Maui and lived separately among 24 single people, testing whether they wanted to stay together or go their separate ways. The show kept the same format it has used since its original run, unchanged for a seventh season on Netflix.

The animated prequel series came back for a second season, staying with the origin story of how the Bad Guys crew first got into the criminal business. The show kept the comedic tone of the first season and the same all-ages framing as the films it precedes.

A second season of the competition where one contestant hiding a wealthy identity had to blend in and avoid elimination while the others tried to figure out who was holding the money. The format and stakes carried over from season one with a new group of players.

The dating docuseries following people on the autism spectrum returned for a fourth season, keeping its observational pace and sitting with cast members through first dates, family conversations, and the longer arcs of relationships that had carried over from earlier seasons.

Kitty returned to the Korean boarding school her late mother attended, picking up the romantic and social threads from the previous two seasons. The show kept its mix of long-distance complications, matchmaking, and the wider cast of classmates she had accumulated.

The PGA Tour docuseries came back for a fourth season with a new mix of players followed across a tournament year. The format stayed the same: embedded access, wins and missed cuts, and the off-course pressures that run alongside the sport.

The Tyson Fury family docusoap returned for a second season, picking up the domestic chaos and humor that drove the first. The show kept its format of following the family through the day-to-day that comes with a large household and a famous name.

The Ninjago continuation came back for a fourth season, with the merged-realms premise still driving the story and the next generation of ninja still searching for Elemental Dragons. The show kept the serialized arc structure of its previous seasons.

The story-driven CoComelon spinoff returned for a seventh season, following the same cast of preschool characters through imaginative adventures built around feelings and the world around them.

A sports documentary anthology series that brought new episodes in April across its sixth season. Each installment covered a different story from the world of professional sports, from tennis to boxing to basketball, focusing on angles and figures that hadn’t been widely covered before.

Pete Davidson hosted a weekly talk show out of his garage in New York, bringing in friends and well-known guests for a loose, informal format. The show premiered in January 2026 and continued dropping new episodes through April.