A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Image: Steffan Hill/HBO.
Don’t just make a couch date with returning TV favourites this year, regardless of whether you’re a fan of Industry, Euphoria or The Boys, or can’t wait for the revivals of Scrubs, Malcolm in the Middle and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to arrive – 2026 is also set to deliver a feast of brand-new television shows.
Also, Australian Invisible Boys talent (and upcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping star) Joseph Zada takes on the role initially played by James Dean. Aussie filmmaker Garth Davis is among the family saga’s directors, too, returning to TV for the first time since making the leap to movies with Lion, Mary Magdalene and Foe.
Sarah Ward is a film and television critic; arts, entertainment and culture editor and journalist; and film festival organiser. She is the film and TV critic for ABC radio Gold Coast, the Australia-based film critic for Screen International, and a critic and member at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Sarah’s background also spans stints as film and television editor at both Concrete Playground and Variety Australia, and as Goethe-Institut Australien’s Kino in Oz critic and writer. Her work has been published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Birth.Movies.Death, SBS, SBS Movies, Flicks, Lumina, Senses of Cinema, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, Junkee, FilmInk, Broadsheet, Televised Revolution, Metro Magazine and Screen Education, the City of Gold Coast, the World Film Locations book series and more.
