TV Premieres This Week: July 26 to August 1, 2026 • New Shows

The Walking Dead: Dead City drops Maggie and Negan into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan that has been cut off from the mainland and left to rot. The island has become its own lawless world, packed with the dead and with living factions who have carved out territory amid the ruins. The two of them share a long and bitter history, which keeps their uneasy alliance tense even as the city forces them to depend on each other. Season 3 opens with an episode called Trillium, bringing the pair back into that landscape. It is part of the larger Walking Dead universe, running on AMC and AMC+.

Furious is a new crime thriller centered on Alice Black, an FBI agent tracking a methodical female serial killer. The series follows both women along separate paths, the agent building her case while the killer stays a step ahead of her. As their lives begin to overlap, the line between pursuer and pursued blurs, and right and wrong stop being so easy to tell apart. The premiere sets that chase in motion and introduces both sides of it, laying out the pattern the season will follow.

The Ark is set about a century from now, when humanity has started launching colony ships to secure its survival on distant planets. One of those ships, Ark One, suffered a catastrophic failure early on that killed much of the crew and its leadership, leaving the survivors more than a year out from their destination and short on the supplies keeping them alive. The show follows that crew as ordinary people are pushed into roles they never trained for, sorting out who leads and how they ration what little they have. Season 3 continues their trip on Syfy, picking up the pressures that have built across the run.

House Of Stassi follows Stassi as she steps back into the reality TV spotlight, this time on her own terms and wary of how the genre treated her the first time around. With her as the central focus, the show trails her daily life under real pressure. The supporting cast is her inner circle: husband Beau Clark, her sister Georgianna Aubin, and former Vanderpump Rules castmates including Katie Maloney and Kristina Kelly. It streams on Hulu.

Shark Week is Discovery’s annual week of shark programming, back again for 2026. The block runs a stretch of shark-focused specials across the week. This year’s opener, K-Pop Shark Heroes, sends actor and comedian Ken Jeong and singer Rei Ami to East Asia after a run of shark encounters off the Korean coast, using K-pop to push back on how sharks are seen there and elsewhere.

President Curtis is an animated comedy about a US President, Andre Curtis, and the odd staff around him as they take on the strangest problems to cross the Resolute Desk: interdimensional diplomacy, paranormal cases, and assorted unexplained phenomena. The pilot puts Curtis at odds with the CIA over a secret tape, and chasing it down forces him to face some buried secrets of his own. It runs late Sunday night on Adult Swim.

The Great Food Truck Race is back for a 19th season, with host Tyler Florence putting seven teams of first-time food truck operators through a rolling competition. Each week the trucks move to a new location, take on cooking challenges, and try to outsell one another, with a team going home when the sales come up short. The premiere, Music City Mayhem, starts them off on the road.

Game Day Murders is a true crime series that looks at killings tied to the world of sports, told through firsthand accounts from families, teammates, and others close to each case. The premiere, A Killer Recruit, revisits the 2003 disappearance of Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy. His teammate Ellis Kidd Jr. gives his own account of the investigation, which ended up exposing one of college basketball’s larger scandals.