Amazon Prime Video is easily the most accessible streaming service available, and home to an extensive TV and movie library packed with classics and also new movies that migrate over from Universal. Over the years, the streamer has quickly been building up its content with tons of original hits and big-name IP that could even topple the prestige of Netflix and HBO Max.
With already having heavy hitters like Fallout, The Boys, Reacher, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, along with its steady stream of movies developed through MGM, Prime Video is only getting started. The slate it has in store for 2026 sees the return of new seasons of some of your favorite shows on Prime, along with exciting new series, most of which continue to be based on bestselling books.
10. The Night Manager Season 2 – January 11
Tom Hiddleston’s series The Night Manager from the novel by John le Carré finally returns with a second season after a decade-long hiatus. Hiddleston, best known for his role as Loki in the MCU, plays a hotel night manager-turned-British spy Jonathan Pine. In the first season, he was tasked with taking down arms dealer Richard Roper (played by Hugh Laurie).
Season Two sees Pine living under the new name of Alex Goodwin as his past comes back to haunt him and his sights are set on a new arms dealer, Teddy Dos Santos, played by Babylon star Diego Calva. Emmy-nominated actor and model Camila Morrone and Game of Thrones star Indira Varma also appear in the new season, while Olivia Colman reprises her role of Angela Burr.
9. Steal – January 21
Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner (and also now officially Lara Croft in Amazon Prime’s upcoming Tomb Raider series) will next appear in Steal. The show tells a thriller story kicking off with a heist taking place in the office building where Turner’s character, Zara Dunne, is currently employed, soon becoming embroiled in a larger conspiracy.
Starring alongside Sophie Turner is Saltburn, Lurker, and Apple TV+’s See actor Archie Madekwe, playing her friend and co-worker, Luke. As Zara’s world gets turned upside down, she gets some help from DCI Rhys Covac, who will be played by Jacob Fortune-Lloyd.
8. The Wrecking Crew – January 28
Take a January trip to Hawaii with Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista, who lead Prime Video’s The Wrecking Crew. Following up DC’s Blue Beetle, director Angel Manuel Soto delivers a new action comedy that actually stars plenty of DC and MCU actors in addition to Momoa and Bautista. Rounding out the star-studded cast of The Wrecking Crew are also Temuera Morrison, Claes Bang, Jacob Batalon, Morena Baccarin, Frankie Adams, and Stephen Root.
Momoa and Bautista play half-brothers united in solving the death of their father, with a whole lot of action and mayhem to follow in their trail. The action set pieces look like nothing but over-the-top fun reminiscent of John Wick and the Fast & Furious films, with plenty of hilarious moments between the on-screen brothers. The trailer even teases an Oldboy-style hallway fight based on the similar combat choreography and cinematography.
7. Cross Season 2 – February 11
With its first season premiering back in 2024, Cross returns with its sophomore run in February of 2026. This series is based on James Patterson’s book series Alex Cross and stars Aldis Hodge in the titular role of D.C. homicide detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross. While Michael Connelly’s Bosch had quite a run on the streamer, it’s now time for the era of Cross.
Season Two will follow Cross as he’s in pursuit of a murderous vigilante targeting billionaire CEOs. Scream and Five Nights at Freddy’s star Matthew Lillard joins the cast of the second season as one of the killer’s targets, Lance Durand of Crestbrook Industries.
6. 56 Days – February 18
Prime Video’s 56 Days is adapted from the 2021 bestselling novel written by Catherine Ryan Howard. It’s a whirlwind romance mystery thriller about a couple who meet at a grocery store and decide to move in together during the COVID-19 lockdown. However, things take a sinister and tragic turn when a body turns up 56 days later.
Playing the protagonist couple, Oliver Kennedy and Ciara Wyse, you have former Nickelodeon star Avan Jogia and former Disney Channel star Dove Cameron. Other notable names within the cast also include How to Get Away with Murder’s Karla Souza and For Life’s Dorian Missick. Insidious and The Conjuring universe creator and horror movie icon, James Wan, serves as an executive producer on the series via his studio Atomic Monster.
5. Young Sherlock – March 4
Guy Ritchie steps back into the realm of Sherlock Holmes and compelling TV drama and thrillers after Netflix’s The Gentlemen and Paramount+’s MobLand. Though not canon to Ritchie’s own films with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, Prime Video’s Young Sherlock is actually based on the book series by author Andrew Lane, with all episodes being directed by Ritchie.
Playing the young Sherlock Holmes is Hero Fiennes Tiffin, who you may know from the After film series, where he played Hardin Scott. In this series, Holmes is studying at Oxford when he finds himself investigating a murder mystery that will soon send him around the world. Fiennes Tiffin is joined by Natascha McElhone as his mother, Cordelia Holmes, Joseph Fiennes as his father, Silas Holmes, Dónal Finn as young James Moriarty, Colin Firth as Bucephalus Hodge, and Zine Tseng as Chinese princess and Oxford scholar Gulun Shou’an.
4. Scarpetta – March 11
If there’s already not enough to satisfy your ghoulish cravings for the murder-mystery genre, you also have the debut of Scarpetta on Amazon Prime in March. This show is based on Patricia Cornwell’s acclaimed series of novels featuring forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta at the forefront. Here, she will be portrayed by the ever-amazing Nicole Kidman in yet another return to TV book adaptations after Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers and HBO’s Big Little Lies.
Then, you have Jamie Lee Curtis co-starring as Kay Scarpetta’s older sister, Dorothy, in the series. But Kidman and Curtis aren’t the only famous faces you’ll find. Bobby Cannavale, The Mentalist himself, Simon Baker, Ariana DeBose, and Smile’s Sosie Bacon are also set to appear. Bobby Cannavale’s son, Jake Cannavale, even plays the younger version of his father’s character on the show.
3. Invincible Season 4 – March 2026
Invincible soars back to Prime Video in 2026 with its fourth season. The adult superhero animated series developed by Robert Kirkman from his own comic books follows the story of teenager Mark Grayson (or the titular Invincible), who forges his own superhero path under the shadow of his powerful dad, Omni-Man.
The Walking Dead, Minari, and Beef star Steven Yeun reteams with Kirkman post-Walking Dead to voice Mark Grayson, with J.K. Simmons voicing his father, Nolan Grayson, aka Omni-Man. This show is truly the animated cousin of The Boys, so Prime will certainly have you covered with your favorite supe characters in 2026.
2. The Boys Season 5 – April 8
Just as Stranger Things would end with its fifth and final season in 2025, The Boys is set to conclude with its fifth and final season in 2026. Based on the comic books by Garth Ennis, The Boys follows Jack Quaid’s Hughie, Karl Urban’s Butcher, and the rest of their crew as they go up against Vought and their murderous, world-dominating supes led by Homelander, in a biting satire of America’s political issues.
Season Five will piggyback right off from the second season of Gen V, with the storylines converging into one (hopefully) epic and diabolical conclusion. One of the most exciting things to come from the last hurrah of The Boys is a Supernatural reunion between Jensen Ackles (who plays Soldier Boy here and formerly Dean Winchester), Jared Padalecki (or Sam Winchester), and Misha Collins (or Castiel). And since Eric Kripke is the creator of both Supernatural and The Boys, it will be a full-circle moment to end on.
1. Elle – Summer 2026
Legally Blonde returns with a prequel series that will debut on Prime Video in 2026, one of the most hotly anticipated releases for the streamer. Before studying to be a lawyer at Harvard, Elle Woods first had to survive high school, and that’s precisely the storyline this show sets out to tell.
Playing the younger version of Elle Woods is Lexi Minetree, with her mother, Eva Woods, being played by actor and comedian June Diane Raphael, who was most recently seen in Weapons and Freakier Friday. The series is also executive-produced by the original Elle Woods herself, Reese Witherspoon. Safe to say, it’s going to be an Elle Woods summer in 2026!