New Series to Watch this Holiday Weekend

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It’s Friday! And it’s not just ANY Friday… it’s the Friday before a LONG WEEKEND! This is the best kind of Friday, and we are here to help support your wonderful weekend with television recommendations!

On deck, we’ve got some brand-new shows (and I mean premiering this weekend), as well as a bunch of shows that came out right after New Year’s that didn’t yet make it onto one of these weekend roundups.

But before I get to that…

It’s an exciting week for TV, even if there aren’t SO many new shows. Why? Well, we’ve got a new trailer for the Prime show Spider Noir, a live-action spinoff from the Into the Spider-Verse movies that puts Nicolas Cage both in the Spidey suit and a noirish trenchcoat. The trailer, which is positively dripping in chiaroscuro, looks delightful. Check it out here:

And now… shows you can watch right away!

The Night Manager: Season Two

You probably have already watched Season Two of The Night Manager, but it came out in 2026 just before we started running these weekly lists, so I’m putting it on here to remind you! Tom Hiddleston is back (after eight years!) as Jonathan Pine, a spy with integrity and knowledge of the night shift.

Where to Stream: Prime

Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge) and Isaiah Mustafa (John Sampson) in ‘Cross’ season two. Prime Video

Cross: Season 2

Alex Cross is back and this time, he’s hunting a terrifying serial killer who seems hungry for revenge.

Where to Stream: Prime

Zahn McClarnon as Joe Leaphorn in Season 4 of “Dark Winds.” (Michael Moriatis / AMC)

Dark Winds: Season 4 

Here at CrimeReads, we love Dark Winds. Apparently, Season 4 is just as noirish and awesome as the previous seasons, so we can’t WAIT.

Where to Stream: AMC+

Wonder Man: Season 1

Wonder Man! My parents (who have great taste, FYI) have been enjoying this new show about an actor who winds up getting superhero powers. But more than be a cookie-cutter superhero story, it’s a satire about Hollywood and the oversaturation of superhero movies, in general. And apparently, the two leads (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley) are phenomenal together.

Where to Stream: Disney+

The Lincoln Lawyer: Season 4

I was not aware that The Lincoln Lawyer had returned, but it has! Pay ol’ Mickey Haller a visit, this weekend, why don’tcha?

Where to Stream: Netflix

Highlights from January and February: 

Rob (Jack Whitehall) and Samira (Keke Palmer) appear on The Burbs Season 1 Episode 2. Photo: Elizabeth Morris/Peacock

The Burbs: Season 1

Well, well, well… they turned The Burbs into a TV show. Normally I don’t like remakes, but I do like this idea, since I think the original Burbs movie could have done more with its amusing premise. Plus Keke Palmer is the lead in this, and I’ll watch her do pretty much anything.

Where to Stream: Peacock

Father Brown: Season 13

I love the endurance of Father Brown! Go Father Brown! I will say that the charming Cotswolds town of Kembleford is starting to feel a little like Cabot Cove, in terms of the large numbers of murders per capita, but whatever.

Where to Stream: Britbox

Photo Credit: Katie Yu/Paramount+

School Spirits: Season 3

The last two seasons of School Spirits were tight and very compelling. The series is a mystery about a young girl who dies in her high school and finds that her spirit has stayed behind—and she meets several other ghosts from the last 70 years who are also former students, waiting around. Except her situation is someone what different (was she murdered?). Anyway, I’m looking forward to season three.

Where to Stream: Paramount+

Vanished: Season 1

I’m very excited for this new series starring thriller-genre-fan Kaley Cuoco, about a woman whose French vacation goes awry when her boyfriend vanishes on a train. And it seems like he’s a spy? Or something? Can’t wait. The first episode comes out on Sunday.

Where to Stream: MGM+

Steal: Season 1

I admit, I’m intrigued by this Sophie Turner-led show, in which an ordinary office worker at a pension fund investment company winds up embroiled in a heist.

Where to Stream: Prime

The Nowhere Man: Season 1

In this gripping new thriller set in Johannesburg, Bonko Khoza plays an ex-soldier with PTSD who is drawn back into a high-octane world when he witnesses a home invasion and can’t help but intervene and try to help.

Where to Stream: Starz

His & Hers: Season 1

Jon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson star in this new Netflix series based on the book by Alice Feeney, as two estranged spouses (a cop and a reporter), who wind up investigating a murder they both think the other committed. What fun!

Where to Stream: Netflix

Photo credit: Peacock via The Hollywood Reporter

Ponies: Season 1

P-O-N-I-E-S means “persons of no interest.” And that’s who our protagonists are (ostensibly) in this new buddy espionage comedy starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson.

Where to Stream: Peacock

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials: Season 1

A new Agatha Christie mystery!! And I thought Christmas already came and went! Helena Bonham Carter’s in this one, too, so that’s an extra treat.

Where to Stream: Netflix