TV Premieres This Week: August 23 to 29, 2026 • New Shows

Dark Matter returns for a second season, picking back up with physicist Jason Dessen after he was pulled into an alternate version of his own life. The first season put him on the run through a stack of parallel realities, each one a different version of the choices he never made, all while trying to find his way home to his wife and son. The show streams new episodes directly on Apple TV on Fridays.

Beauty in Black comes back for a third season, and Netflix is dropping the entire eight-episode run at once. The series follows Kimmie and Mallory, two women from very different worlds who end up tangled in the affairs of the Bellarie family. This season centers on Kimmie’s fight to hold onto control of the family’s empire as the people around her maneuver for their own piece of it.

Adults returns for a second season following five twenty-something friends sharing a place in New York, all of them trying to act like functioning adults with mixed results. The premiere episode is called The Scrub. This season arrives with a distribution split: the first two episodes air on FXX, while the full eight-episode season streams on Hulu. The show’s premise stays grounded in the daily friction of shared living, half-finished plans, and friendships that are equal parts support system and source of chaos.

The Airport Chaplain premieres with Hugo Weaving as Tobias Wallace, an airport chaplain who solves the daily crises that come through his terminal using methods that don’t exactly follow the rulebook. Those methods put him on a collision course with his new boss, Mira Ansari-Cole, who has different ideas about how the job should be done. All episodes land on Netflix at once.

Dalliance opens with a chance meeting: retired cameraman Billy and chef Dani connect instantly, and that connection sends ripples through the people around them. Marriages get tested, old wounds resurface, and a decades-long friendship starts to strain under the weight of what’s happening between them. The series streams on Paramount+.

Leanne returns for a second season, following a Southern grandmother rebuilding her life after her husband leaves, with her loving and unfiltered family along for the ride. The new season runs 10 episodes, all available on Netflix at once, continuing the family’s day-to-day chaos and comebacks.

The Undeclared War follows analysts at GCHQ defending the UK against cyberattacks and threats hidden inside the country’s own systems. Season 2 makes its U.S. debut on Peacock, picking up after a serious Russian cyberattack, with the team searching for a mole inside their own ranks.

The Good Ship Murder pairs former detective Jack Grayling, now a cruise ship singer, with First Officer Kate Woods to solve murders at Mediterranean ports of call. Season 3 makes its U.S. debut on BritBox, continuing the pair’s mystery-of-the-week format from the first two seasons.