The New Shows of the 2025 Fall TV Season (2026)

Throw your calendar in the paper shredder, because you and your TV have a three-month-long date. The 2025 fall television season is upon us and crowded with options, and not just with some of our returning favorites that we can't wait to see.

Even with broadcast TV premiering just a handful of new shows, dozens of noteworthy series are debuting this season thanks largely to streaming, which comes out of its summer slumber with fresh things to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Max, and more.

Among the shows we're particularly excited for: Mark Ruffalo leads an FBI task force in HBO's Task, Jude Law and Jason Bateman play troubled brothers in Netflix's Black Rabbit, Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn reteam for Apple TV+'s Pluribus, and Anne Rice's Immortal Universe grows with AMC's Talamasca. But that's just a fraction of what's ahead.

Scroll on to see the all the new shows coming this fall to keep an eye on. Maybe one will be your next favorite!

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Outer Banks co-creator Jonas Pate wrote this ditty about a group of high school boys who want to form the next great American rock 'n' roll band. In addition to dealing with a drummer who can't keep a beat, finding gigs to play, fending off and bringing in groupies, and recovering stolen equipment, the kids have all the usual teen drama to worry about, including telling their parents they're not going to college because they'd rather shred instead.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 1 on Prime Video

Like our own universe, the NCIS universe is constantly expanding. But aside from a recent office opening up in Sydney, the modus operandi for TV's biggest procedural franchise is to recycle its stars, not make new ones. Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo reprise their roles as Anthony DiNozzo and Ziva David, the NCIS power couple who eventually ran off to Paris to raise their daughter, in this more serialized chapter of NCIS.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 4 on Paramount+

Extra, extra! Read all about this new comedy from Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, a mockumentary that follows the workplace of a dying newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. Yes, we're burying the lede here: It's a spin-off of the megahit The Office, featuring at least one cast member (and character) from the original series: Oscar Nuñezas Oscar Martinez. The rest of the office will be led by The Patient'sDomhnall Gleeson and The White Lotus'Sabrina Impacciatore.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 4 on Peacock

Cecilie Fjellhøy, who was Tinder swindled as the subject of Netflix'sThe Tinder Swindler, helps women who also became victims of romance scams get back at their grifters in this "gotcha!" investigative docuseries.

Premieres Friday, Sept. 5 on Netflix

Mark Ruffalo stars in this moody crime drama about a Philadelphia FBI agent who leads a task force to stop a crook (Tom Pelphrey) and his crew from committing more violent home invasions, but there's more to this bad guy than initially appears. If it feels close in tone to Mare of Easttown, that's because it was created by Mare writer Brad Ingelsby.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 7 at 9/8c on HBO, HBO Max

This adaptation of Erik Axl Sund's bestselling book follows a detective (Eve Myles) and psychotherapist (Katherine Kelly) as they track down a suspect who is killing young men. The six-episode Scandi noir series was released earlier this year in the U.K., but will stream in the U.S. exclusively on Acorn TV.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 8 on Acorn TV

Greg Nicotero, The Walking Dead's master of gory practical effects, hosts this reality competition series that combines the chaos of creating a horror movie and intensity of a game where elimination is around every corner as players engage in horror-themed challenges. Nicotero describes it as what would happen if "Survivor and The Blair Witch Project had a baby."

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 9 on Shudder, AMC+

TikTok star William White made a legion of fans — mostly older women — from lip-synching classic songs on video, but as his fame grew, so did the boldness of his followers. This docuseries traces the rise of a social media star, and the consequences of being in the public eye.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 9 on Paramount+

Charlie Sheen, of Spin City, Wall Street, and various mugshots fame, spills the beans on his turbulent life in this two-part tell-all documentary. Perhaps he'll reveal his biggest secret: how Two and a Half Men was so popular.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 10 on Netflix

Normally, any mom would be thrilled if her son brought home Olivia Cooke as his girlfriend. Not the overbearing mother played by Robin Wrightin this pulpy thriller, who wages war against Cooke's character after feeling threatened that her lovestruck son is being snatched from her. Is it a mother's jealousy, or is something more sinister going on?

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 10 on Prime Video

The cutthroat trivia game show gets a celebrity* edition, with Jane Lynch returning as host.
*Fox's definition of "celebrity" may differ from your idea of who a celebrity is.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 15 at 9/8c on Fox

Jude Law stars as a hotshot New York City restaurateur digging himself out of a financial hole when his brother (Jason Bateman) returns to town and asks for help. And that help involves saving him from having his fingers cut off by bookies he's in deep to. It's a tense crime drama with shades of Ozark and Uncut Gems.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 18 on Netflix

Rick & Morty writer Matt Roller created this adult animated series about a single mother (voiced by Eliza Coupe) who runs a hotel that's haunted.

Premieres Friday, Sept. 19 on Netflix

A winner-take-all mentality pervades this battle royale game show in which 100 competitors all hope to be the last one standing. It's Squid Game lite, as players take on simple challenges — melt a brick of ice, for example — and try not to be last, because whoever finishes last in each challenge is out of the game. Ken Jeong and Erin Andrews host.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 21 at 8/7c on Fox before moving to Wednesdays at 9/8c

Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo returns to Oklahoma for The Lowdown, a Tulsa noir starring Ethan Hawke as a man always seeking the truth, which frequently gets him into trouble with those trying to cover it up. Kyle MacLachlan, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Keith David, and Kaniehtiio Horn— Reservation Dogs' Deer Lady — also star.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 9/8c on FX

If the spectacular views of Italy don't do the trick in Prime Video's new detective series Hotel Costiera, there's always Jesse Williams to stare at. The Grey's Anatomy vet plays a fixer at a luxury hotel in Italy who goes looking for the owner's missing daughter.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 24 on Prime Video

The Marvel universe gets a dose of what would happen if Thanos were a brain-eating zombie with Infinity Stones in this four-part expansion of the Disney+ What If...?animated anthology series. Hint: about the same as if he wasn't a zombie, but with more dangling flesh.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 24 on Disney+

I should make a crack about Canada and stolen poutine or something here, but when it comes to law and order, it's America that's currently the joke.

Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 8/7c on The CW

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight cracks open a new type of historical drama in this series that follows the four heirs to the Guinness empire in the 1860s after their father, Sir Benjamin Guinness, dies. Louis Partridge(Enola Holmes) and Anthony Boyle(Masters of the Air) star.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 25 on Netflix

Mae Martin returns for their second Netflix series following the 2020-2021 romantic comedy Feel Good, but there's nothing romantic or feel good about Wayward, a new show set at an academy for troubled teens with psychological and folk horror vibes. Martin plays a cop who moves to a small Vermont town where a school for teens hides secrets. Toni Collette also stars.

Premieres Thursday, Sept. 25 on Netflix

Jessica Chastain stars as an undercover investigator who infiltrates secret online chat groups of white supremacists to stop hate crimes and large-scale attacks. It's based on a Cosmopolitan story from 2019, which makes sense because white supremacists just organize in the open now.

Premieres Friday, Sept. 26 on Apple TV+

Glen Powell plays a down-on-his-luck college quarterback who blew his chance at the big time because he's kind of a jerk, so he does what any rational person would do: slaps on some facial prosthetics and pretends to be a different person to try out for a new team. If it sounds familiar, it's because it's based on a viral undercover stunt that Eli Manning pulled off when he created the character for his ESPN web series Eli's Places and tried out for Penn State.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 30 on Hulu

Late night's biggest shill will become primetime's biggest shill when Jimmy Fallon and NBC debutOn Brand with Jimmy Fallon, a reality competition in which contestants help famous brands with new marketing campaigns aimed at parting consumers from their cash. It's like watching a commercial about making commercials! Capitalism at its blandest.

Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 10/9c on NBC

PBS is airing a new detective series, which isn't anything new. What is new is that this one is French and very handsome! The series follows Chief Inspector Jules Maigret (Benjamin Wainwright) as he solves crimes in Paris for Police Judiciaire. The character of Maigret, created by Georges Simenon in 1931, is one of the most popular literary detectives ever, but this is the first time we'll see him in contemporary times.

Premieres Sunday, Oct. 5 at 9/8c on PBS

This coming-of-age story set in the 1990s follows a closeted gay man (Miles Heizer) who joins the Marine Corps. The comedy-drama is based on the Greg Cope White book The Pink Marine, and was one of the last TV shows worked on by the legendary Norman Lear.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 9 on Netflix

This fall, chicken won't be the hottest thing Nashville is famous for. 9-1-1: Nashville is a spin-off of ABC's popular first-responder drama 9-1-1, but aside from changing locations to Tennessee, this one will supposedly differ from the mothership by including more interpersonal drama. It's 9-1-1 combined with Nashville, see? Chris O'Donnell, Jessica Capshaw, and LeAnn Rimes star.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 9 at 9/8c on ABC

The Blacklist creator Jon Bokenkamp— who co-created this series with Richard D'Ovidio — stays in his lane with this twisty thriller about a U.S. Marshal (Jason Clarke) in Alaska who hunts down escaped fugitives after a plane carrying some of the country's most hardened criminals crashes in the wilderness. It's got an NBC crook-of-the-week feel with an Apple budget.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 10 on Apple TV+

In CBS's lone new comedy this fall, the Department of Motor Vehicles is no longer the butt of jokes; it's in on the joke. SNL'sTim Meadows and Colin From Accounts'Harriet Dyer star as employees of the East Hollywood DMV in this sitcom that is hopefully more fun than renewing your car registration.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 13 at 8:30/7:30c on CBS

The Ubisoft military stealth video game franchise Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell gets the animated treatment for Netflix, with John Wick screenwriter Derek Kolstad penning the series. Liev Schreiber voices gaming icon Sam Fisher, a black ops agent who is pulled back into the field when a young operative asks for his help. You can hear the sound of his night vision goggles powering up, can't you?

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 14 on Netflix

Severance's Michael Chernus stars as notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who killed dozens of young men and boys in the 1970s, in this dramatized true-crime series.

Premieres Thursday, Oct. 16 on Peacock

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a film director," Martin Scorsese said, probably. The Goodfellas mastermind isn't afraid to let his movies run a little long, so why wouldn't a documentary on his life maximize its time? This five-part series from Rebecca Miller looks at the famed director's life and his influence on modern cinema.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 17 on Apple TV+

CBS's new "spin-off Fridays" kick off with the Fire Country-inspired Sheriff Country, starring Morena Baccarin as Mickey Fox, who brings law and order to Edgewater, Calif., the same place Fire Country's Bode Donovan tries to keep not on fire.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 17 at 9/8c on CBS

After several years of working in New York on Blue Bloods, Donnie Wahlberg is moving back to Boston! Well, in reality he'll be in Toronto, where this Blue Bloods spin-off is mostly filmed. Wahlberg takes his character Danny Reagan to Beantown, where he's partnered up with Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green), a rising star in the Boston Police Department who also comes from a law enforcement family. We'll see how many episodes it takes for Reagan to switch from being a Mets fan to being a Red Sox fan. You know Wahlberg is doing everything in his power to make it happen.

Premieres Friday, Oct. 17 at 10/9c on CBS

Sorry, Cormac McCarthy fans. This is just a country music reality competition series that challenges performers to go on tour, not a grisly, post-apocalyptic story of a family avoiding cannibals. Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson, and Blake Shelton serve as mentors, and Yellowstone creatorTaylor Sheridan executive produces alongside Shelton and Urban.

Premieres Sunday, Oct. 19 at 9/8c on CBS

Harlan Coben, whose books have been turned into more than a dozen TV shows in the last several years, could smash his hands on a laptop keyboard and turn whatever gobbledygook came out into a hit series. The latest adaptation of the prolific writer's work is Harlan Coben's Lazarus, which stars Sam Claflin as a man who experiences unexplained disturbances after his father (Bill Nighy) dies by suicide.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 22 on Prime Video

The supernatural and the undead have been living their best lives on AMC, thanks to shows like Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches, but their luck may have run out. Anne Rice's Immortal Universe is expanding with Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order, a drama focusing on the secret society that tracks the witches, vampires, and other supernatural creatures that run amok all over the world. Nicholas Denton, Elizabeth McGovern, and William Fichtner star.

Premieres Sunday, Oct. 26 at 9/8c on AMC, AMC+

Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson play the leads in this crime thriller, which is an adaptation of Mick Herron's book of the same name. (Herron is also the author of theSlough Housenovel series, which was adapted by Apple TV+ into Slow Horses.) When a house explodes and a girl goes missing, private investigator Zoë Boehm (Thompson) and concerned citizen Sarah Tucker (Wilson) start digging, and find themselves in a deep conspiracy.

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 29 on Apple TV+

In-demand comedian, actress, and writer Rachel Sennott (Bottoms) is behind this new comedy about a group of friends in Los Angeles. Jordan Firstman and Josh Hutcherson also star.

Premieres Sunday, Nov. 2 at 10:30/9:30c on HBO, HBO Max

Succession's Sarah Snook stars in and executive produces this adaptation of Andrea Mara's 2021 novel about a mother (Snook) who goes to pick up her young son from his first play date, but when she arrives at the house, she doesn't recognize the woman living there and her son is nowhere to be found. The twisty suburban thriller about a community with dark secrets also stars Jake Lacy, Dakota Fanning, and Sophia Lillis.

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 6 on Peacock

Former U.S. president James A. Garfield didn't get killed by lightning, but Shot by Charles J. Guiteau didn't have the same ring to it. Michael Shannon stars as Garfield — the president, not the cat — in this historical drama about his life and the shooting that eventually led to his death.

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 6 on Netflix

As of late August, here's what we know about the plot of Pluribus: nothing. Well, the logline teases that "the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness," but that's it. But we're still more excited about this show than any other coming out this fall because of what we do know: Vince Gilligan, the creator ofBreaking Badand co-creator of Better Call Saul, and Rhea Seehorn, who played Better Call Saul's Kim Wexler, are involved as creator and star, respectively. That's good enough for us.

Premieres Friday, Nov. 7 on Apple TV+

Claire Danes plays a famous author reeling from the death of her son and struggling with the ensuing writers block in this eight-episode thriller, which re-teams Danes with her Homeland boss Howard Gordon, who serves as showrunner on The Beast in Me. Danes' character finds inspiration — or is it something else? — when a real estate mogul (Matthew Rhys) who was once the prime suspect in his wife's murder moves in next door.

Premieres Thursday, Nov. 13 on Netflix

Become an expert in the American Revolution in just 12 hours after watching this documentary series from the king of documentary series, Ken Burns.

Premieres Sunday, Nov. 16 at 8/7c on PBS

The comedicDungeons & Dragons adventures inspired by Critical Role's campaigns continue with The Mighty Nein, a new campaign set in the same realm but decades after The Legend of Vox Machina.

Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 19 on Prime Video

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