Peacock in June 2026: 11 premieres, including Surviving Earth and America's Got Talent

Surviving Earth traveled back across deep time to the planet’s past mass extinctions. Using digital recreations, each episode rebuilt a vanished world and the creatures in it, then traced the catastrophe that ended it: falling meteors, erupting super volcanoes, boiling seas, shifting land. The connecting thread was survival, the ways life has repeatedly continued after the planet nearly wiped it out. Rather than filming the present-day wild, the series stayed in prehistory, reconstructing lost landscapes episode by episode.

America’s Got Talent returned for its 21st season, keeping its open casting that let anyone of any age audition. The lineup pulled from across the country and across disciplines: singers, dancers, comedians, magicians, contortionists, impressionists, jugglers, and ventriloquists, among others. Acts performed for the judging panel and worked through rounds toward the live shows, with a $1 million prize at the end. The variety structure kept each episode swinging between very different kinds of performances rather than settling into one type.

Below Deck Mediterranean came back for an 11th season with another yacht, another stretch of coastline, and a largely new crew. The setup stayed the same: a team of yachties living and working aboard a luxury charter, delivering high-end service to demanding guests who rotate in and out across the season. This run sailed the Greek islands, with stops around Santorini and Mykonos, and the usual mix of long hours, crew friction, and the occasional blurred line between staff and guests. Each charter brought a fresh set of clients and a fresh set of problems.

American Ninja Warrior returned for an 18th season of obstacle-course competition. Contestants ran physically demanding courses through qualifying and finals rounds staged in cities around the country, and the people who cleared their region advanced toward the national finals in Las Vegas. That final stretch used a four-stage course modeled on Japan’s Mt. Midoriyama, the show’s hardest test. The season again mixed first-time competitors with returning veterans, all attempting runs that combined speed, grip strength, and balance against a clock.

Love Island returned for its eighth U.S. season, putting another group of singles together in a villa for several weeks. The format had contestants pair off into couples, with anyone left uncoupled at risk of being sent home. New arrivals dropped in throughout the season to shake up existing pairings, and recoupling decisions kept the lineup shifting. Between the romance, the cast took on challenges and navigated the friendships and rivalries that formed under one roof. Staying in the villa depended on both finding a partner and holding on to one.

Dateline: Secrets Uncovered repackaged investigative reporting into hour-long true-crime mysteries, hosted by NBC News’ Craig Melvin. Each episode reconstructed a single real case, moving through the crime, the investigation, and how it resolved, with firsthand accounts from people close to the events. The Secrets Uncovered branch drew on the long-running Dateline catalog, shaping each story around the path from open question to answer. This run continued the pattern, working through one case at a time.

Password returned for a third season of its revived take on the 1960s word game. Each of two teams paired a celebrity with a contestant, and the teams raced to pass mystery words back and forth using only single-word clues. Getting a partner to say the target word faster than the other side banked progress toward a cash prize. The one-word limit was the whole game, pushing players to pick the single clue most likely to land. Rounds moved fast, with celebrity guests rotating through.

The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys returned for a third season following the McBee family and the agricultural business Steve McBee built. The show centered on Steve and his four sons, each pulling in a different direction: Steven Jr. positioned as the business-minded successor, Cole grinding it out in the field, Jesse keeping to the quiet-cowboy lane, and Brayden showing the least interest in farming of the bunch. The season tracked the work of running the operation alongside the friction of doing it as a family, where business decisions and family roles kept overlapping.

Next Gen NYC returned for a second season tracking a group of twentysomethings in Manhattan, several of whom grew up around fame through their families. The season followed them through the ordinary mechanics of early adulthood: friendships, careers, dating, and the occasional impulsive decision. Part of the throughline was the push to build something of their own rather than coast on a parent’s name, while still figuring out the basics of adult life. The cast’s overlapping social circles kept the friendships and the conflicts closely linked across the season.

Everything on the Menu with Braun Strowman returned for a second season built on a simple premise: the WWE star traveled the country for work and, at each stop, ordered everything on the menu. The season followed Strowman through restaurants as he tried to finish the entire lineup at each one, plate after plate. The road format tied the eating to his WWE schedule, moving city to city. It was a food-and-travel show organized around one large appetite and the work of clearing every dish.

Las Culturistas Culture Awards returned as a one-night awards special built around the year in culture. The show ran through more than 100 award categories, a count that let it recognize moments and details a traditional ceremony would skip. Musical performances and celebrity guests filled out the broadcast between categories. The format treated the night as a celebration of the past year’s cultural moments more than a conventional industry ceremony, with the long category list as its signature.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon kept up its nightly run from Rockefeller Center in New York. Fallon’s version leaned on comedy bits, games with guests, and pop-culture segments, with The Roots as the house band backing the show. New episodes through June followed the standard late-night shape: an opening monologue, celebrity interviews, and musical or comedy segments. As a daily show, it stayed close to the news and pop-culture cycle of the month it aired in.

Brilliant Minds continued its second season, a medical drama centered on a neurologist and the interns training under him. The cases pulled from unusual conditions of the brain and mind, and the lead’s outsized personality shaped how the team approached each patient. Alongside the medicine, the show tracked the staff’s own relationships and mental health, so the personal and the clinical ran together. The series took loose inspiration from the writing and career of physician Oliver Sacks.

Late Night with Seth Meyers ran its usual nightly episodes through June. Meyers, who spent years anchoring Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, built the show around a topical monologue, recurring comedy segments, and interviews with guests from entertainment and beyond. Like the rest of NBC’s late-night lineup, it followed the daily-broadcast rhythm, staying current with the month’s news and pop culture. Musical and comedy guests rounded out the episodes.

1st Look continued its long run as a late-night lifestyle and travel show, hosted by Johnny Bananas. Each episode visited destinations around the country and worked through their food, activities, and nightlife, with the host on location as a guide. New June episodes followed that template, moving between places and pointing viewers toward what to eat and do in each. It was a short-form travel show built on quick stops rather than deep dives into one place.

Top Chef continued its 23rd season of cooking competition. Professional chefs worked through timed culinary challenges, with a panel of chefs and food-world judges scoring the results and sending someone home each round. The challenges varied in format and constraints across the season, testing range as much as technique. New June episodes moved the field closer to the finale as the roster of competing chefs narrowed.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta continued its 17th season following a group of women across the city’s social and business circles. The season tracked their careers, families, and friendships, along with the disputes and alliances that shifted between them. As with the rest of the franchise, much of the running time went to group events where tensions surfaced and got hashed out. New June episodes carried those storylines forward through the season.

Below Deck Down Under continued its fourth season aboard a charter yacht working its way around Australia. The crew handled the same demands as the rest of the franchise, long service hours and close quarters, with the added wrinkle that guests there often wanted water activities like scuba diving as part of the trip. New June episodes followed the crew through charters, guest requests, and the friction that built among people living and working on the same boat.

Summer House continued its tenth season following a group of friends who share a summer house in Montauk, New York. The cast split time between day jobs in the city and weekends at the shared house, where most of the drama played out. New June episodes tracked the rotating houseguests, the couplings and fallings-out, and the friction that came with a crowd sharing one place all season. The summer-share setup kept everyone in close contact whether they wanted it or not.

Watch What Happens Live continued its long run with Andy Cohen hosting from the Bravo clubhouse. The late-night show ran short, with guests drawn from Bravo’s reality casts and the wider entertainment world fielding questions, playing games, and weighing in on pop culture. Its live format left room for viewer calls and unscripted moments. New June episodes kept the nightly pace, often pairing the show with whatever Bravo series were airing that week.

The Valley continued its third season following a group of friends who traded the West Hollywood nightlife scene for family life in the San Fernando Valley. The season covered their marriages and relationships, the businesses some of them ran, and the friendships that held the group together or pulled it apart. New June episodes pushed those threads forward, with the shift into parenthood and settled life at the center of much of the conflict.

In the City continued its first season following a group of New Yorkers through major life changes: marriage, parenthood, and reinvention. The season looked at how those shifts tested long friendships, with the cast trying to grow up without drifting apart. New June episodes carried the early-run storylines forward as the group worked through the tension between the lives they had built and the changes pulling at them. As a debut season, it spent time establishing the cast and their connections.

The Real Housewives of Rhode Island continued its first season, the franchise’s newest entry, set along the New England coast. The season introduced a group of women whose social and business lives overlapped across the state, following the same template as the rest of the series: careers, families, friendships, and the disputes that came with them. New June episodes built out the cast and their histories while the season’s conflicts started to take shape. Being a first season, much of the run went to setup.

Southern Hospitality continued its fourth season inside Leva Bonaparte’s Charleston nightlife business. The show centered on Republic Garden & Lounge, one of the restaurants she and her husband Lamar ran on King Street, and the staff who kept the club going on busy nights. New June episodes followed the day-to-day of running the venue: scheduling, service, and the personal drama among the staff. The workplace setting kept the focus on the people behind the bar and the front door.

Snapped: Killer Couples continued its 19th season of true-crime episodes centered on pairs who committed crimes together. Each installment laid out how a given couple met and paired off, then traced the point where the relationship turned toward manipulation and, eventually, a crime. The show built its cases from recreations and firsthand accounts. New June episodes worked through more of these stories one couple at a time, following the same arc from relationship to crime.

Philly Homicide continued its second season with host Chris McMullin walking through homicide cases from the Philadelphia area. McMullin, who worked as a patrol officer and later a detective in the region, brought that background to each hour-long episode as he laid out how a given case unfolded. New June episodes followed that case-by-case structure, using local knowledge of the area to frame each investigation. The host’s law-enforcement experience anchored the show’s read on each crime.

The Killer Among Us continued its first season, a true-crime series hosted by Alan Cumming. Each episode centered on a murder inside a close-knit community where the likely culprit was not an outsider but someone local, which turned neighbors and acquaintances into suspects. The show leaned on that question of who within a community can be trusted, working through the suspects and the conflicting accounts. New June episodes followed that setup case by case. As a first season, it established the show’s format.