School is back in session, and so are 2026’s fall TV shows, signaling an end to fun-in-the-sun programming like Love Island and Sterling Point . In their place, we’re getting returning autumnal favorites, including Abbott Elementary and Yellowjackets, plus fresh installments of Ryan Murphy–created anthology series Monster and American Horror Story.
But there’s no shortage of new television on the horizon, either—from Netflix’s buzzy Florence Pugh–led East of Eden adaptation to Apple TV comedy Brothers, which reunites stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey for the first time since True Detective . Then again, the TV gods can’t resist a little repetition: after all, the year closes out with yet another headline-making iteration of Harry Potter .
Read on to see which new fall shows we’re most looking forward to, premiering post–Labor Day through Christmas.
Premiere date: September 8 Network: FX/Hulu Noteworthy cast: Gail Bean, Isaiah John
John Singleton’s Snowfall is over—but this spin-off will bring Bean’s Wanda and John’s Leon back for further adventures in Los Angeles. Though the original was focused on the crack epidemic of the 1980s, this iteration will shift gears and look toward the rise of hip-hop in the 1990s.
(Maybe they should have called it Straight Outta Snowfall. ) It’s executive produced by Malcolm Spellman, who certainly knows this territory: his résumé includes Fox’s hit family drama Empire and Peacock’s Bel-Air, a grittier take on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. — Hillary Busis
Premiere date: September 17 Network: Netflix Noteworthy cast: Ella Beatty, Vicky Krieps, Rebecca Hall, Charlie Hunnam
In 1893, Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden was tried for allegedly murdering her father and stepmother with an axe inside the family home. Borden was acquitted.
But season four of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology series, which began in 2022 with a divisive portrait of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer , posits that there’s far more to this 19th-century true-crime tale than meets the eye. Ella Beatty—as in the daughter of Hollywood royalty Warren Beatty and Annette Bening—stars as Lizzie, whose miserable existence as the family’s black sheep changes forever with the arrival of a free-spirited maid (Krieps).
“It was a tough time to be a rudderless young woman, and in a house that didn’t seem happy,” Brennan told Vanity Fair in his first interview about the series last month. “The big question the anthology always asks is: Are monsters made or born?
With Lizzie, if she’s a monster, she wasn’t born that way.” —Savannah Walsh
The Drop: A Snowfall Saga
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story