The 10 Most Anticipated TV Shows to Stream in April

Streaming ne'er truly slows down successful this time and age… We’re a acold outcry from the emblematic autumn to outpouring broadcast docket of yesteryear. But things are heating up significantly successful April of 2026. And that’s each due to the fact that of Emmys, baby!

Wait, what? Aren’t the yearly TV awards successful the fall? Yes, that’s true, but – not to get excessively successful the weeds present – shows indispensable broadcast astatine slightest six episodes by the extremity of May successful bid to beryllium eligible, and submissions are owed by the extremity of this month. That means the magnitude of Prestige TV is ramping up starting connected the ol’ April Fool’s Day, and won’t halt until astir Memorial Day.

Don’t worry, determination are plentifulness of non-Emmys-bait shows that are hitting everything from Disney+ and Prime Video to Netflix and HBO Max passim the period of April… It’s not each incredibly superior worldly that you indispensable respect. But determination are besides immoderate immense debuts, including the opening of the extremity of The Boys, the long-awaited/dreaded instrumentality of Euphoria, and adjacent the semi-surprise continuation of Stranger Things (hey, didn’t that just end)?

So with that successful mind, let’s interruption down 10 of our astir anticipated streaming shows and episodes coming passim the period of April, and see this your database of immoderate of the champion caller TV shows to watercourse successful April of 2026. Got a Top 10 prime of your own? You tin fto america cognize successful the comments below.

(Note: This database is presented successful merchandise day order.)

Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord (April 6)

Other than the anthologies Visions and Tales, it’s been a infinitesimal since we got a legit, serialized Star Wars animated series. That each changes this period connected Disney+ with Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord, which flips the publication from The Bad Batch to bring connected 1 of the baddest atrocious guys the franchise has ever seen.

Created by Dave Filoni, the caller bid finds Sam Witwer reprising his dependable relation arsenic Maul aft the extremity of the Clone Wars – and to beryllium clear, aft the extremity of the Clone Wars TV series, arsenic well, since this is acceptable successful the aforesaid country of the galaxy. As Maul begins to rebuild his transgression empire, he’s joined by a caller imaginable Sith apprentice, Devon Izara (Gideon Adlon, who you whitethorn cognize from her relation successful Blockers, oregon arsenic being yet different Pamela Adlon kid alongside Odessa A’zion). Also successful the bid are Wagner Moura and Richard Ayoade arsenic a detective and his droid spouse who whitethorn travel into struggle with Maul’s plans.

What’s possibly astir absorbing astir this series, and an unfair level of hype to propulsion connected it, is that this is the archetypal Star Wars TV show/movie from Filoni since helium took the reins of Lucasfilm. Yes, it was created good before, and a batch much eyes volition beryllium connected the theatrical merchandise of The Mandalorian & Grogu (which is besides astir apt not fair). But dense is the caput that wears the crown of Dathomirian bony horns.

See everything other coming to Disney+ successful April.

The Boys (April 8)

Oh lad (pun intended), wherever to start? This is the 5th and last play of the monolithic deed Prime Video series, truthful there’s a batch of tense anticipation astir the eventual showdown betwixt Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and Homelander (Antony Starr). When we prime up successful The Boys Season 5, America is nether fascist regularisation arsenic superhuman rights are – according to Homelander – nether attack, and he’s truthful suppressing the Starlighter absorption (led by, who else, Erin Moriarty’s Annie January) and throwing radical successful detention centers.

That’s conscionable the extremity of the Compound V-berg, though, arsenic beauteous overmuch each histrion who has been successful the franchise, from the Gen V kids to Giancarlo Esposito’s machiavellian Stan Edgar and Jensen Ackles’ demented Captain America-esque Soldier Boy are backmost successful the mix. Add successful a Supernatural reunion with Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Misha Collins (and possibly Jim Beaver?) and hype is done the roof.

Somewhat tempering that hype? Showrunner Eric Kripke has been cautious to explicate that the amusement won’t person Game of Thrones-level battles due to the fact that of budgetary restrictions. Somewhat puncturing that protective bubble? Urban has teased large quality deaths close from the commencement of the season.

Look, for 5 seasons (plus spin-offs), The Boys has been 1 of the astir eerily prescient, profane, outrageous, and often heartfelt shows connected TV. If Kripke and institution tin instrumentality the landing here? It’ll beryllium fucking diabolical.

The Testaments (April 8)

Lucy Halliday and Chase Infiniti.

First announced successful 2019 (!!!), the upcoming sequel bid to Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale is based connected the Margaret Atwood caller of the aforesaid name. It’s acceptable years aft the extremity of the archetypal series, and transports the enactment to a prep schoolhouse for aboriginal wives.

Before you deliberation this is The Handmaid’s Tale: The Teen Years, well… It benignant of is, arsenic it stars Chase Infiniti (hot disconnected her crook successful One Battle After Another) alongside Lucy Halliday, Rowan Blanchard and others astatine slightest initially surviving and sparring successful this school. But it besides features the instrumentality of Ann Dowd arsenic the iconic Aunt Lydia. And it comes from archetypal Handmaid’s Tale showrunner Bruce Miller, who stepped backmost from the OG amusement earlier the last play to absorption connected processing this spinoff.

While Handmaid’s Tale fever (please spot your doc if you are suffering from symptoms) whitethorn person cooled a spot implicit the past fewer years, the themes, ideas, and stark warnings presented by the now-franchise are arsenic pressing arsenic ever. Given Atwood’s caller was wide lauded and award-winning, and Miller has spent astatine slightest 3 years oregon much cautiously processing The Testaments, this whitethorn conscionable beryllium the injection of relevance Hulu needed.

Euphoria (April 12)

Zendaya arsenic Rue.

Speaking of long-gestating seasons of TV, Euphoria yet returns for a 3rd play astatine HBO and HBO Max, and it’s been truthful agelong the characters aren’t adjacent successful precocious schoolhouse anymore. In fact, for a bully agelong while, fixed the, shall we generously accidental “intense” originative process amusement creator Sam Levinson goes done (and the insanely engaged cast), it looked similar this mightiness not happen. Well, it is – oregon astatine slightest arsenic of this penning we presume it is… Filming finished successful November of 2025, but Levinson famously tinkers until the past second, truthful we’ll spot what happens.

Picking up respective years aft the extremity of Season 2 (which aired implicit 4 years ago), Rue (Zendaya) is successful superior occupation with assorted cause dealers, portion Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) is making a surviving arsenic an OnlyFans creator portion getting acceptable to wed Nate (Jacob Elordi). Meanwhile, Jules (Hunter Schafer) is astatine schoolhouse and exploring the satellite of sweetener daddies.

Also returning for the 3rd play are Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Martha Kelly, and Chloe Cherry, arsenic good arsenic Colman Domingo. Eric Dane, who sadly passed distant successful February from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), filmed scenes for Season 3 and volition beryllium included, portion Angus Cloud, who played the soulful cause trader Fezco, passed distant from an accidental cause overdose successful 2023, truthful volition unluckily not beryllium featured. (Barbie Ferreira and Storm Reid, who were successful the erstwhile 2 seasons, volition not beryllium returning arsenic well.)

Look: Euphoria looks and feels similar thing other connected TV, and features jaw-dropping performances by Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney, arsenic good arsenic the remainder of the cast. Whether immoderate of this works devoid of the archetypal premise of the bid is TBD, but we’ll surely beryllium determination to find out.

See everything other coming to HBO Max successful April.

Margo's Got Money Troubles (April 15)

Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning.

Based connected the caller by Rufi Thorpe, Apple TV’s caller bid stars Elle Fanning arsenic the titular Margo, a stellar pupil who abruptly finds herself with the besides titular wealth troubles erstwhile she becomes large aft an matter with her English professor. So people she turns to OnlyFans (maybe she tin get immoderate tips from Cassie?).

Behind the scenes you’ve got David E. Kelley, 1 of the astir accordant showrunners successful TV history, portion successful beforehand of the camera alongside Fanning are Michelle Pfeiffer arsenic her Hooters waiter parent and Nick Offerman arsenic her ex-wrestler father. Plus Nicole Kidman, who is intelligibly cloning herself to prima successful each these TV shows lately, Greg Kinnear, and more.

While this has the imaginable to beryllium either excessively maudlin oregon excessively quirky (modes Kelley has delved into clip and again), the trailer looks highly charming and Fanning has a knack for choosing absorbing projects. The large question, though, is whether the Predator volition amusement up. Probably not, but it would surely marque those wealth troubles consciousness little important!

See everything other coming to Apple TV successful April.

Beef (April 16)

Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan.

One of the much astonishing 2nd seasons successful caller history, Netflix returns to the satellite of the deed bid Beef for a 2nd circular of spiraling choler and fighting. In the archetypal play created by Lin Sung Jin, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong tangled aft a roadworthy rage incident. In Season 2? It’s a full caller fight-game.

This clip astir we’re getting 8 binge-worthy episodes alternatively of 10. But arsenic compensation, the formed is wild, including Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, and Cailee Spaeny. Per Netflix, “a Gen-Z mates witnesses an alarming combat betwixt their Millennial brag and his wife.”

What characterized the archetypal play beyond the propulsive gait and engrossing performances was the show’s nuanced explorations of people and race, which looks to proceed successful Season 2: The main mounting is simply a state club, with a absorption connected the billionaire owner, the members a level lower, and the radical who enactment astatine the club.

The large question? Whether Beef Season 2 tin debar the extracurricular beef that overshadowed the speech astir the bid itself, owed to contention astir statements offered by the artist, David Choe, who crafted the credits.

See everything other coming to Netflix successful April.

The Pitt Season 2 Finale (April 16)

Noah Wyle arsenic Dr. Robby.

A monolithic deed for HBO Max, the 2nd extended displacement astatine the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center ends (potentially) with 1 of the astir anticipated motorcycle rides since Evel Knievel attempted to leap Snake River Canyon.

So acold this play connected The Pitt, we’ve seen a imaginable cyberattack marque the Emergency Department (ED) spell analog, a waterslide collapse, and amazingly lone 1 firework wounded (as of this writing) connected the July 4-set season. But with specified hours near to spell earlier Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) heads disconnected connected a three-month sabbatical that he’s powerfully implied helium whitethorn not instrumentality from, fans are connected tenterhooks to cognize what volition hap erstwhile we deed the extremity of hr 15.

Given that HBO Max has already picked up the infirmary play for Season 3, and Wyle has indicated they’re fleshing retired quality arcs, we shouldn’t expect Robby to die. But determination are a batch much balls successful the aerial this season, including what’s going connected with caller attending Dr. Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi) spacing out, what’s up with that abandoned babe they look to person forgotten about, whether Dr. Mohan (Supriya Ganesh) is going to person a full breakdown, and astir importantly, what amusive caller nicknames everyone tin travel up with for Dr. Whitaker (Gerran Howell), though we’re astir apt not going to apical “fuckle-berry.”

Look, there’s thing similar The Pitt connected TV – engrossing, heartfelt, propulsive – and portion Season 2 whitethorn not person been arsenic streamlined arsenic Season 1 (which IGN gave a 10 retired of 10), we conscionable privation everyone successful the ED to beryllium good by the extremity of the season. And for Robby to retrieve to deterioration his helmet.

Invincible Season 4 Finale (April 22)

Prime Video’s animated adaptation of the comic from Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley doesn’t truly clasp backmost connected the unit oregon gore. But the finale episodes really fto loose, truthful get acceptable for the reddish connected your TV to get maxed retired by the extremity of the month, acknowledgment to apt copious amounts of blood.

Without getting into immoderate spoilers from the book, it’s beauteous wide that Invincible Season 4 is heading to all-out warfare with the Viltrumite Empire, thing that’s been promised and teased since the archetypal occurrence of the series. With everyone’s lives successful the balance, and the play already (as usual) challenging Mark’s (Steven Yeun) morality, however acold volition helium spell to support his friends and family?

And there’s 1 different large happening beyond the show’s accustomed 50,000 subplots to woody with: Atom Eve (Gillian Jacobs) is pregnant. Will Mark find out? Will they person the baby? And volition we ever find retired however babies are made (let america cognize successful the comments below!)? With Season 5 already successful production, there’s plentifulness of amusement to go, but it’s that halfway narration which keeps Invincible going… So beyond seeing yet different Viltrumite smash Mark’s look done a crowded populace, we request to get immoderate benignant of closure connected the affectional storyline.

Stranger Things: Tales From '85 (April 23)

Is it excessively soon for much Stranger Things aft the bid ended (or did it? No, it did) conscionable a fewer months back? Netflix intelligibly doesn’t deliberation so, arsenic they’re already releasing a new, 10-episode animated spinoff series, Stranger Things: Tales From '85, acceptable betwixt the events of Seasons 2 and 3.

The in-canon amusement depicts what happened successful the wintertime of 1985, aft the gross was closed successful Hawkins Lab, and earlier the kids had a horrible summertime featuring a rat-infested Mind Flayer attacking them successful the Starcourt Mall. While the spinoff media has often avoided the supernatural entirely, this bid from showrunner Eric Robles volition someway bring backmost aspects of the Upside Down to Hawkins for a play that has alternately been described arsenic monster-of-the-week, inspired by classical animated ‘toons similar The Real Ghostbusters, and a mislaid play of the show. Square those 2 ideas, friends!

While nary of the live-action formed are voicing their characters, Odessa A’zion (big period for the Adlon sisters!) voices a caller quality named Nikki Baxter who joins the gang, alongside Janeane Garofalo and Lou Diamond Phillips successful enigma roles.

If you are hankering to find retired much astir this intriguing project, the archetypal 2 episodes volition premiere successful theaters successful constricted merchandise connected April 18.

Man connected Fire (April 30)

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II arsenic John Creasy.

Into each generation, a Man connected Fire is born. Or astatine least, aft movie adaptations successful 1987 and 2004 (starring Scott Glenn and Denzel Washington, respectively), Netflix is getting successful connected the A.J. Quinnell adaptation crippled with this seven-episode bid starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

Also starring Bobby Cannavele, Scoot McNairy, Alice Braga and more, the bid stars Abdul-Mateen II arsenic John Creasy, a erstwhile peculiar forces mercenary with PTSD who spends a quiescent beingness gardening, and that’s it. Just kidding, helium gets sucked backmost into the game, bent connected revenge.

For what, exactly, we don’t know, arsenic this amusement seems to person tweaked oregon ditched wholly the “hard-edged merc becomes the bodyguard for a precocious small kid” premise that characterized the erstwhile 2 movie adaptations. Instead, we’ve got 20-year-old Billie Boulet arsenic Poe, who is the sole witnesser to a “tragic incident” and is protected by John.

Abdul-Mateen II is connected a blistery streak with the debut (and 2nd play renewal) for Marvel’s Wonder Man… Based connected rubric alone, Man connected Fire should support that blistery streak going.

Will you beryllium watching immoderate of these bid this month? What other are you looking guardant to that we didn’t get to? Vote successful our canvass and let’s sermon successful the comments!

You tin chat with Alex Zalben connected BlueSky @azalben.bsky.social, oregon find him regularly yapping connected the Comic Book Club podcast.