by Lior Zaltzman, Kveller

(Kveller via JTA) – The past calendar year was an excellent one for Jewish TV, as you can see based on my very long piece on the best Jewish TV of 2025. But 2026 brings with it fresh promise. Mostly in the form of new seasons of already excellent shows (please don’t disappoint us!), but also with some new shows featuring our favorite Jewish stars.

Here is Kveller’s most anticipated Jewish TV of 2026:

“The Pitt” Season 2, Jan. 8 (HBO Max and Crave)

Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) is coming back for a second season, running a shift in the Pitt’s ER. In the penultimate episode of season one, the intrepid and haunted shift leader brought us a scene that encapsulated the meaning we find in Jewish ritual; this season, he’s leading a team of new and familiar faces for a July Fourth shift, joined by co-attending Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi).

“The first season was about hope, this season is about healing,” co-showrunner R. Scott Gemmil has said. It will touch on many of the current challenges of working in healthcare, including debates about the use of AI in the medical field.

One thing is for sure: We can’t get enough of Dr. Robby.

“Tehran” Season 3, Jan. 9 (Apple TV+)

Season 3 of “Tehran” is finally coming to Apple TV+ this month, a year after it aired in Israel. When the second season ended, Israeli spy Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan) lost one of her fiercest allies; this season, she’s getting a new one, in the form of Sasson Gabai’s Nissan, who lives in Tehran but works for the Mossad. Another star joining the show? Dr. House himself. Hugh Laurie plays the South African nuclear supervisor Eric Peterson. Before joining “Tehran,” Laurie was a genuine fan of the series, and just like everyone else, he gives his best to this season, which has already gotten rave reviews in Israel, and even has Iranian fans.

Larry David’s U.S. History sketch show (HBO Max and Crave)

Many of us lamented (and some of us celebrated) the last season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” For those of you still in mourning, fret not. Larry David has a new, still untitled show coming this year, a U.S. history sketch show produced by the Obamas, no less. And because it’s Larry David, there’s sure to be at least a little something Jewish about it.

“I’ve sat across the table from some of the world’s most difficult leaders and wrestled with some of our most intractable problems. Nothing has prepared me for working with Larry David,” is what Barack Obama, who is co-executive producer of the show with his wife, Michelle, said of this upcoming TV series, and well, I’m not surprised. What a treat for 2026!

“Long Story Short” Season 2 (Netflix)

The animated show about the Jewish Schwooper family was renewed for a second season by Netflix before season one even premiered. I suppose that’s thanks to the wild success of its creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s previous show for the platform, “Bojack Horseman.”

Here at Kveller, we’ve named it our favorite Jewish show of 2025, on account of its star-studded Jewish cast and nuanced and diverse depiction of American Jewry.

The second season will likely launch on Netflix in late 2026 or early 2027 — one can not rush genius and good animation — and I’m betting it will be as good as season one, pupupu, kinehora.

“Nobody Wants This” Season 3 (Netflix)

We had a lot of mixed feelings about season 2 of “Nobody Wants This,” and its Jewish (and therapist!) representation. Still, I’ll always be rooting for a show starring Chrismukkah’s top promoter, Adam Brody, as a hot rabbi and “Frozen’s” Anna, aka Kristen Bell,  as his non-Jewish belle. Plus, I’m in the corner of any project starring Jewish goddess Jackie Tohn. And so I’m hoping that season 3, which will see Bell’s Joanne possibly taking some first steps towards conversion to Judaism, will surpass our wildest expectations.

“We have so many stories we still want to tell,” co-showrunner Jenni Konner told Elle last year, “We want to continue to explore the characters we haven’t really explored, and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun … and it would answer a lot of questions you might leave season 2 with.”

We still don’t know when the season will be released, but based on the production schedule of previous seasons, I’m guessing perhaps around Rosh Hashanah of this calendar year? We shall see.

“The Boys from Brazil” (Netflix)

This adaptation of Ira Levin’s book (and famed movie) about a Nazi hunter stars Jew-ish actor Jeremy Strong as Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann, as well as Shira Haas as Anna Koehler and Lizzy Caplan as Hannah Liebermann.

It comes from “The Crown” creator Peter Morgan, who said of the show: “I’d like to do something where people aren’t polite, aren’t upper-class British, and they have guns. I want some guns.” It sounds genuinely thrilling.

There’s no premiere date yet for this show, but we do know it began filming in December 2025.

“The Studio” Season 2 (Apple TV+)

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s “The Studio,” the Apple TV+ comedy about a Hollywood studio exec, has been picking up awards like it’s their job (including a Critics’ Choice Award for Sal Saperstein himself, aka Ike Barinholtz). The show is both a love letter to movies and the movie industry and a deliciously funny satire of it. The show also takes on stereotypes about being Jewish in Hollywood in such a fun way. I can’t wait for season two (and, hopefully, for the return of ridiculous TV Jew Mitch Weitz, played by David Krumholtz, so that he can keep making us all uncomfortable with his Jewish references).

“Fauda” Season 5 (Netflix)

Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff’s beloved, tense spy thriller, the global phenomenon “Fauda,” about an IDF unit of undercover soldiers and their missions, is returning for its first post-October 7 season.

“Two years after the massacre of October 7th, we reunite with the Fauda team as they grapple with the national tragedy that struck Israel and shattered them in the most personal and painful way,” the description of the official trailer for season 5 reads. “What begins as an unbridled journey of revenge evolves into a high-stakes mission to thwart a massive terror attack — one that originates from an unexpected direction and threatens to hit Israel at an especially sensitive target.”

According to previous reports, “Fauda” season 5 will air in Israel in early 2026 and will land on Netflix later this year.

“Royal Pains” reboot (NBC)

OK, so we don’t know if Dr. Henry “Hank” Lawson will indeed come back to his tony private practice in the Hamptons this year, but a reboot of the show starring Jewish heartthrob Mark Feuerstein is in the works. Here’s hoping Henry Winkler also comes back as Hank’s not-so-amazing Jewish father, Eddie. Even though we have Dr. Robby and Dr. Jake Heller of “Doc,” we just can’t get enough of hot Jewish TV doctors.

“Lost Paradise”

This show, helmed by “Shtisel” director Alon Singman and created by “Shtisel” writer Yehonatan Indursky, wrapped filming in December 2025, and stars Michael Aloni of “Shtisel.” Its first season takes place in Eastern Europe in the 1860s. Darren Aronofsky serves as executive producer.

“It aims to tell the story of the Ashkenazi people from the mid-19th century to, I hope, the present day. The first season ends in 1880, just before a pogrom that led to the exodus of a large part of the community, but unfortunately not everyone,” show producer Alain Goldman told Variety. “If everyone had left, they would still be alive today, either in America or Israel.”

The show was commissioned by Canal+ in France and was backed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Alcon Media Group and the Gesher Film Fund, according to Variety. While we’re not sure when it will air stateside, we’re hoping it will make some sort of premiere this year.

Exciting shows with Jewish stars:

These shows don’t have any explicitly Jewish characters that we know of, but we’re so excited to see these Jewish stars back on our TV screens this year.

“The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” (NBC)

Jewish dad Daniel Radcliffe stars as a filmmaker in this new show. It “focuses on a disgraced former football player, portrayed by [Tracy] Morgan, who is on a mission to rehabilitate his image with the help of award-winning filmmaker Arthur Tobin (Radcliffe). In order to earn back the admiration of his fans and the respect of his family, Reggie will also have to confront the ghosts of his past,” according to NBC. We know quite a few Jewish people with the last name Tobin, so here’s hoping Radcliffe makes a Jewish joke or two. It’s slated to premiere sometime in mid-2026.

“The Comeback” (HBO Max and Crave)

Even though the therapist she plays on this hilarious show, Valerie Cherish, isn’t Jewish, Lisa Kudrow is a Jewish actress we just can’t stop kvelling about. We also love to kvell about the Argentinian-American Jewish actor Dan Bucatinsky, who returns as Valerie’s manager, and Laura Silverman (yes, that’s Sarah’s sister), who plays reality show producer Jane. Ella Stiller and Abbi Jacobson, who starred with Kudrow in Netflix’s “No Good Deed,” are signed on to guest star in season 3. It’s going to be so, so funny.

“Scrubs” reboot (ABC)

This millennial’s favorite comfort watch is finally coming back, and honestly, I still think it’s a shanda that Dr. John “J.D.” Dorian isn’t Jewish. I mean, why can’t we get another hot TV Jewish doctor?! But I am so excited for the return of the incredible chemistry between Jewish star Zach Braff and Donald Fiason (and, honestly, the rest of the cast of this delightful medical comedy)