May is looking fairly stacked for UK TV viewers, with a frankly dangerous mix of angels, demons, superheroes, spies, Soviet space-race drama, medical chaos, true crime, football fairytales, murder towns, and one very angry Frank Castle.
So, if you were hoping for a quiet month to catch up on the streaming pile, bad news. The TV gods have other plans.
Here are some of the biggest new and returning shows landing across UK TV and streaming this May.
The Big Geeky Picks
‘Good Omens’ Season 3 | Prime Video, Wednesday, 13th May 2026
Michael Sheen and David Tennant return as Aziraphale and Crowley for one final chapter of celestial chaos. Rather than a full third season, the story is being wrapped up as a feature-length finale, picking up after the emotional fallout of Season 2. Given where we left those two, expect heavenly bureaucracy, demonic sulking, apocalyptic absurdity, and probably at least one very pained look from Crowley.
‘From’ Season 4 | Sky One, Thursday, 14th May 2026
The sci-fi horror mystery returns, continuing the story of the nightmare town that traps anyone unlucky enough to enter. The series has built up a loyal following thanks to its unsettling atmosphere, gruesome creatures and increasingly tangled mythology. It has also already been renewed for a fifth and final season, so we are, in theory, heading towards answers. Possibly horrifying answers, but answers nonetheless.
‘The Boroughs’ Season 1 | Netflix, Thursday, 21st May 2026
One of Netflix’s more intriguing new genre launches this month. Produced by the Duffer Brothers, the team behind ‘Stranger Things’, the series is set in a retirement community in the New Mexico desert, where a group of residents find themselves facing something very strange indeed. “Retirees fighting supernatural weirdness in the desert” is a pretty great hook, to be fair.
‘Spider-Noir’ Season 1 | Prime Video, Wednesday, 27th May 2026
Nicolas Cage enters live-action Marvel territory as an ageing private investigator in 1930s New York, drawn into a stylish, noir-flavoured take on the Spider-Man universe. Prime Video has already been leaning into the visual style of this one, and if nothing else, “Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man Noir” is one of those sentences that makes you stop and pay attention.
‘Star City’ Season 1 | Apple TV, Friday, 29th May 2026
A spin-off from the excellent ‘For All Mankind’, but this time flipping the perspective to the Soviet side of the alternate-history space race. Apple TV has built one of the best sci-fi dramas around with ‘For All Mankind’, so the idea of digging into the other side of that universe has a lot of promise. This is absolutely one for fans of smart space drama, Cold War tension, and big “what if history went very differently?” storytelling.
‘The Punisher: One Last Kill’ | Disney+, Wednesday, 13th May 2026
Jon Bernthal returns as Frank Castle for a new Disney+ special. There is not much more you need to say than “Jon Bernthal is back as The Punisher”, really. That alone will have a good chunk of Marvel fans clearing space in the diary.
Returning Favourites
‘Rivals’ Season 2 | Disney+, Friday, 15th May 2026
Disney+ takes us back into the scandal, sex, ambition and power games of Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire. The first season was one of those shows that could easily have gone horribly wrong but instead turned into glossy, chaotic, wildly watchable television. Season 2 looks set to lean even harder into the 1980s excess, rivalries and backstabbing.
‘Welcome To Wrexham’ Season 5 | Disney+, Friday, 15th May 2026
Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds’ football docuseries returns, continuing the astonishing story of Wrexham AFC. Even if football is not usually your thing, the series remains one of the most weirdly inspirational documentaries on TV, charting the club’s rise from the National League to the Championship. At this point, it is less “Hollywood buys a football club” and more “surely someone made this up?”
‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War’ | Prime Video, Wednesday, 20th May 2026
John Krasinski returns as Jack Ryan for a new Prime Video film. It is not technically another season, but it is very much a continuation of the series, with Prime Video seemingly treating it as a bigger event-style return. Expect rogue ops, international conspiracies, and John Krasinski looking very concerned in tactical gear.
‘Rick and Morty’ Season 9 | HBO Max, Monday, 25th May 2026
The animated sci-fi comedy returns, because apparently, there are still infinite universes left to emotionally traumatise. ‘Rick and Morty’ remains one of the biggest adult animation hits around, mixing multiverse madness, family dysfunction and occasionally horrifying existential dread with fart jokes. As you do.
‘Good Girl’s Guide To Murder’ Season 2 | BBC iPlayer, Wednesday, 27th May 2026
The adaptation of Holly Jackson’s hugely popular novels returns for a second season. The first run found a strong audience, and this next chapter should be a big one for fans of YA mystery, murder boards and teenagers making choices which would give any sensible adult heart palpitations.
‘Citadel’ Season 2 | Prime Video, Wednesday, 6th May 2026
Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Stanley Tucci and Lesley Manville are back for more glossy international spy chaos from the Russo Brothers’ ever-expanding action universe. Expect secrets, explosions, double-crosses, and an awful lot of people being dramatically debriefed in expensive rooms.
‘St. Denis Medical’ Season 2 | BBC iPlayer, Friday, 1st May 2026
The medical mockumentary comedy returns for a second season, offering more workplace chaos from the people behind ‘Superstore’. If you like sitcoms where everyone is just about holding it together while the institution around them quietly catches fire, this should be worth a look.
‘Amandaland’ Season 2 | BBC One, Wednesday, 6th May 2026 at 9pm
The ‘Motherland’ spin-off returns, with Amanda continuing to navigate life, parenting, status anxiety and the sort of social horrors only middle-class British comedy can truly weaponise.
‘Matlock’ Season 2b | Sky Witness, Wednesday, 6th May 2026 at 9pm
Kathy Bates returns as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, the brilliant septuagenarian lawyer with far more going on than people initially realise. The reboot has been one of the more successful examples of taking a familiar title and actually doing something interesting with it.
‘Only Child’ Season 2 | BBC One, Wednesday, 6th May 2026 at 9:30pm
Greg McHugh returns as Richard, a budding author who heads back to North East Scotland to look after his ageing and wilful dad Ken, played by Gregor Fisher. Expect family tension, eccentric behaviour, and the sort of awkward comedy that comes from being an adult child suddenly forced to parent your own parent.
‘The Hardacres’ Season 2 | Channel 5, Thursday, 14th May 2026
The period drama returns, following the working-class Yorkshire family who made the leap from grimy fish docks to life on a vast country estate. Basically, class drama, period settings, and a lot of people trying to work out which fork to use while quietly plotting.
‘Hudson & Rex’ Season 8 | U&Alibi, Sunday, 10th May 2026 at 8pm
Major Crimes detective Hudson teams up with Rex, his very useful former-K9 German Shepherd. Sometimes you just want crimes solved by a man and his dog. Television understands this… Although this is a different Hudson… and a different Rex…
‘SkyMed’ Season 4 | Paramount+, Thursday, 21st May 2026
The Canadian medical drama returns, following the young nurses and pilots flying air ambulances across remote Northern Canada. High stakes, big landscapes, complicated personal lives. Standard TV emergency services behaviour, only with more snow.
‘Devil May Cry’ Season 2 | Netflix, Tuesday, 12th May 2026
The animated adaptation of the video game franchise returns for a second season. Demons, swords, style and probably a lot of people looking unreasonably cool while fighting supernatural horrors.
‘Brokenwood Mysteries’ Season 12 | U&DRAMA, May 2026
The long-running New Zealand detective drama returns for another season. At this point, Brokenwood is one of those places where you might want to visit for the scenery, but probably not stay long enough to become involved in a murder investigation.
‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ Season 27 | Sky Witness, May 2026
The very long-running crime drama returns. Twenty-seven seasons. That is not so much a TV run as an institution with a badge.
New Dramas, Thrillers & Oddities
‘Fallen’ Season 1 | ITVX, Sunday, 3rd May 2026
A supernatural fantasy romance based on Lauren Kate’s bestselling novels, starring Jessica Alexander. Expect angels, destiny, forbidden love and celestial conflict. So, nice and low stakes, then.
‘M.I.A.’ Season 1 | Paramount+, Thursday, 7th May 2026
A new crime drama from Bill Dubuque, co-creator of ‘Ozark’. Set around Miami’s criminal underworld, it follows Etta Tiger Jonze as tragedy pushes her into a dangerous new life among drug gangs, power players and bad decisions in very warm weather.
‘Legends’ Season 1 | Netflix, Thursday, 7th May 2026
Inspired by one of the most remarkable criminal investigations ever conducted, the series follows British Customs employees sent undercover to infiltrate some of the country’s most dangerous drug gangs. Which sounds like exactly the sort of thing where “training day” probably escalates very quickly.
‘Believe Me’ | ITV, Sunday, 10th May 2026
A powerful true crime drama following three women who survived attacks by serial rapist John Worboys and took on the Metropolitan Police in a landmark legal battle. This is likely to be one of the month’s heavier watches, but also one of the most important.
‘PONIES’ Season 1 | Sky Atlantic, Friday, 22nd May 2026
Set in 1977 Moscow, the spy thriller follows two “persons of no interest” who become CIA operatives after their husbands are killed. Cold War espionage, grief, conspiracy and undercover work in Soviet Russia. Not exactly a light weekend away.
‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Season 1 | Apple TV, Wednesday, 20th May 2026
Tatiana Maslany stars in a half-hour darkly comedic thriller about a newly divorced mum who falls into a dangerous world of blackmail, murder and youth soccer. Which is quite the escalation from orange slices and badly parked SUVs.
‘Two Weeks in August’ Season 1 | BBC One, May 2026
A new drama where an illicit kiss in Greece quickly turns a dream holiday into a nightmare. So, possibly not one to watch while browsing summer getaway deals.
‘Monsieur Spade’ Season 1 | U&DRAMA, Saturday, 9th May 2026 at 9pm
Clive Owen stars as Dashiell Hammett’s classic detective Sam Spade. If you like your mysteries stylish, literary and slightly brooding, this should be on the radar.
‘Off Campus’ Season 1 | Prime Video, Wednesday, 13th May 2026
A college soap based on the bestselling book series, following an elite ice hockey team and the women in their lives as they grapple with love, heartbreak and self-discovery. Expect romance, drama and probably quite a lot of emotionally unavailable athletes.
‘Dutton Ranch’ Season 1 | Paramount+, Friday, 15th May 2026
The ‘Yellowstone’ universe expands again, with Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser reprising their roles as Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler. Given those two characters, “quiet rural life” seems unlikely.
So yes, May is busy. Very busy. Possibly “hide the remote and pretend you have no responsibilities” busy.
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