Apple TV+: best new shows & films streaming January 2026

Discover the best new shows & films streaming in January 2026 on Apple TV with this guide.
Shrinking Season 2. Image: Apple TV.

Apple TV: new this month

Drops of God Season 2 – 21 January

Drops Of Gold. Image: Apple Tv.
Drops of Gold. Image: Apple TV.

French-Japanese series. The hit, International Emmy Award-winning Best Drama Series adapted from the New York Times bestselling Japanese manga series of the same name returns.

In season two, Camille and Issei are thrust into their most perilous challenge yet: uncovering the origin of the world’s greatest wine, a mystery so profound that even their legendary father, Alexandre Léger, could not solve it.

Shrinking Season 3 – 28 January

Shrinking. Image: Apple Tv+.
Shrinking. Image: Apple TV+.

Series. The highly anticipated new season from creators Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein and Jason Segel. The series follows a grieving therapist (played by Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives, including his own. 

In addition to the ensemble cast, season three brings back guest stars Goldstein, Damon Wayans Jr, Wendie Malick and Cobie Smulders, along with new additions Jeff Daniels and multi-award winner and activist Michael J Fox.

Yo Gabba Gabbaland Season 2  – 30 January

Kids and family series. Dance, sing, play and make learning fun as kids and parents jump into Yo Gabba Gabbaland and discover all the things that make this community so magical. The series builds on the original Daytime Emmy Award-winning series Yo Gabba Gabba!, a fully-fledged cultural phenomenon that has amassed over 1.2 billion views on YouTube.

Apple TV: recently added

The First Snow of Fraggle Rock – 5 December

Kids and family special. The Fraggles eagerly await the first snow of the season and all the traditions it brings. But when only a single snowflake arrives and Gobo can’t write the yearly holiday song everyone is expecting, the season is thrown off course.

For the first time ever, Gobo journeys to the human world, or as the Fraggles refer to it: Outer Space, to find some unexpected musical inspiration.

F1® The Movie – 12 December

F1® The Movie. Image: Apple Tv.
F1® The Movie. Image: Apple TV.

Film (2025). The highest-grossing sports film of all time, starring Brad Pitt and hailing from director Joseph Kosinski. Dubbed ‘the greatest that never was,’ Sonny Hayes (Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career.

Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world.

Born to be Wild – 19 December

Born To Be Wild. Image: Apple Tv.
Born to be Wild. Image: Apple TV.

Documentary series. An intimate and emotional look at the powerful relationships between these animals and the heroic humans dedicated to raising, rehabilitating and rewilding them to help save their species.

As each animal finds its place in the world after being orphaned or born through conservation programs – from an elephant calf and two young cheetahs, to a ring-tailed lemur pup, a moon bear cub, Iberian lynx kittens and rescued African penguins – the series highlights the challenges, triumphs and resilience that define their survival, both for the animals and the extraordinary people working to raise and protect them.

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Paul Dalgarno is author of the novels A Country of Eternal Light (2023) and Poly (2020); the memoir And You May Find Yourself (2015); and the creative non-fiction book Prudish Nation (2023). He is Head of Content at ArtsHub & ScreenHub. Insta: @dalgarnowrites