November 2026 TV Shows: 12 New Seasons and Series to Watch

A crowded month with more than familiar names

Blade Runner is becoming a series. Middle-earth is going to war. But November's watchlist reaches well beyond established worlds: a boxing biography, a Zurich heist, a Polish crime drama and an unsettling school horror series all have their own reasons to draw attention. Here are 12 new and returning shows, and the questions that make each one interesting.

Blade Runner 2099 — November 25, Prime Video

All eight episodes arrive together on November 25. Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer lead a story set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049. Cora is a fugitive; Olwen is a Replicant running out of time. An uneasy partnership draws them into an investigation in Los Angeles. Silka Luisa is showrunner and Ridley Scott an executive producer.

Blade Runner has always made a simple question uncomfortable: who gets treated as human? A series has the room to stay with that question instead of racing between spectacular locations. The biggest science-fiction name on this list also faces the biggest test: make the people beneath those lights matter.

The Greatest — November 4, Prime Video

Prime Video releases all eight episodes of The Greatest on November 4. Jaalen Best plays Muhammad Ali in Ben Watkins's scripted drama, which follows the young Cassius Clay and the struggles surrounding his rise inside and outside the ring. This is a dramatized series, not a documentary assembled from historical footage.

A boxing biography could become a parade of famous victories. Ali makes that too easy: his identity, convictions and public image cannot be separated neatly from the athlete. Winning a fight and deciding what you stand for are different kinds of pressure. The family and private relationships matter as much as the punches.

Stick, season 2 — November 4, Apple TV

Owen Wilson returns as Pryce Cahill, alongside Peter Dager as young golfer Santi. Rhea Seehorn joins the cast as a coach. Stick's second season sets a promising professional future beside an unlikely comeback on the same fairway. The ten-episode run starts with two episodes on November 4, then continues weekly.

A mistake in golf is visible to everyone, and the wait before the next shot gives it time to grow in your head. That makes ambition and bruised confidence a natural fit for this makeshift family, with space for comedy. It is the lighter choice here if your recent viewing has involved too many missing people and dimly lit interrogation rooms.

Black Doves, season 2 — November 5, Netflix

Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw return to Joe Barton's spy series. Helen's secret work grows harder to contain as her husband's political career advances. Sam is back in her orbit, and the danger reaches the organization behind the operations.

Another complicated assignment is only part of the appeal. The sharper conflict is between a public life that must look controlled and a private life built on concealment. The friendship at the center matters in a genre where trust is usually a terrible investment. Season two continues the story, so newcomers should begin with the first. Returning viewers have a harder question: how long can these relationships survive when honesty costs so much?

The Body — November 11, Netflix

Quinn Shephard's eight-episode series follows a Catholic school dance team whose initiation is followed by disturbing visions and collective hysteria. Kristina Bogic, Sara Boustany, Geena Meszaros and Sofia Wylie are in the cast.

A dance team is supposed to move together. The idea turns less comforting as fear spreads through the group. Discipline, belonging, shame and the need to fit in put the body under several kinds of pressure at once. Teen drama, religious repression and horror give this a different shape from a standard school mystery, with room for campy energy as well as unease. For anyone who wants horror to continue after October, this is November's most direct invitation.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, season 3 — November 11, Prime Video

Middle-earth is at war, and Sauron's pursuit of the One Ring drives the third season. Morfydd Clark, Charlie Vickers and Robert Aramayo return; Jamie Campbell Bower joins as Celeborn. Four episodes arrive on November 11, two more on November 18 and the final two on November 25.

A bigger war presents a familiar challenge for fantasy television: spectacle can grow faster than the reasons to care. What matters here is what different peoples will sacrifice and whether their alliances survive the pressure. This is another chapter of an ongoing series, not a fresh adaptation of the original trilogy, so catching up matters.

The Empress, season 3 — November 12, Netflix

Devrim Lingnau returns as Elisabeth and Philip Froissant as Franz for the third and final season. Their marriage, Elisabeth's health and her public role come under pressure as the family faces a changing political world.

The appeal of court drama goes beyond costumes. In a palace, every private choice becomes somebody else's public business. Elisabeth is trying to define her own life inside an institution that already has a job description for her. A final season promises a destination; the returning characters need their conflicts to land somewhere, not just another round of beautiful rooms and unhappy conversations.

12 12 12 — November 13, Apple TV

Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan lead an eight-episode heist drama about a bank robbery in Zurich. An FBI agent and a career criminal confront each other across a story that moves between preparation, the robbery and its aftermath.

The three stages can give the same decision a new meaning each time. Planning reveals what people think they can control; the robbery tests that belief; the aftermath shows who pays for it. The attraction is a compact contest of nerve and judgment. The title may look like a code, but the basic hook is clear: a careful plan meets people who refuse to behave like carefully designed pieces.

The Law of Beasts — November 18, Netflix

This four-part Polish drama follows two former friends who must confront choices tied to a child-murder investigation years earlier, as the convicted man's release approaches. Agnieszka Grochowska and Agnieszka Żulewska lead the cast; Kasper Bajon and Anna Kasińska wrote the series. The premise is inspired by real events, but the story is dramatized.

Its strongest question concerns the distance between protecting people and deciding that rules no longer apply to you. Crime stories often treat punishment as a clean final stop. A story about release must face what follows: fear, responsibility and decisions that refuse to stay in the past. The conflict between people and institutions is compelling enough without turning the crime into a spectacle.

The Altruists — November 19, Netflix

Netflix releases all eight episodes of The Altruists on November 19. Julia Garner plays Caroline Ellison and Anthony Boyle plays Sam Bankman-Fried in a dramatization of the rise and collapse of FTX. Graham Moore and Jacqueline Hoyt are the showrunners.

Financial scandals can disappear into charts and jargon. Drama can stay with the people who persuade themselves that their choices make sense. Add a relationship and loyalty begins to compete with judgment. The title sets up the tension between good intentions and the consequences of someone's actions. You need not follow every crypto headline to recognize ambition, self-justification and the difficulty of admitting that the person beside you might be wrong.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, season 3 — November 20, Disney Plus

Season three adapts The Titan's Curse, bringing Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri back to Rick Riordan's world. A missing friend and another dangerous quest set the young heroes in motion.

A continuing adventure has to let its characters grow. Their friendships should mean more after the difficult choices they have already made together. Greek mythology supplies plenty of creatures and powerful adults, but the young cast remains the point of connection. This is November's family-adventure option, though it continues an existing story. Readers of the books can watch this part reach the screen without the quest's outcome being given away here.

Yellowjackets, season 4 — November 20, Paramount Plus

The fourth and final season begins November 20 on the Paramount Plus Premium plan in the United States; local availability can vary. Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci and Tawny Cypress are among the returning stars. The series continues to connect stranded young soccer players with the adults who have spent years living with what happened.

Surviving an event does not mean being finished with it. The adult scenes let the past interrupt an apparently ordinary life. A final season adds pressure of its own: mysteries must become answers, and those answers must matter to the people involved. Newcomers should begin with season one. The wilderness is only half the trap; the rest is carrying it long after leaving.

Choose the tension you want

November offers far more than one kind of spectacle: the public and private pressures around Ali, the long shadow of a crime, the appeal of a well-planned heist and the strain of secrets kept for years. The difficult part is making room for it all.