With proactive early renewals, Netflix has been able to bring a number of its drama series, including The Diplomat, The Night Agent, Virgin River, Monster and The Lincoln Lawyer — along with all comedies — close to an early release pattern. But there are still a few dramas that take longer to make, delivering a new season every other year. Some of them will skip 2026.
Netflix has unveiled its 2026 TV slate that includes dozens of shows, including the final seasons of Outer Banks and The Witcher and the returns of Bridgerton, One Piece and Beef. Missing from the list are a handful of popular series, including Wednesday, Ginny & Georgia and freshmen Ransom Canyon, Untamed and Forever.
Also not mentioned are several international series that had been renewed for second seasons after a solid freshman showing, including UK’s Supacell and Dept. Q and Canada’s Bet and Geek Girl, along with Australia’s departing Heartbreak High.
Additionally, MIA is talk show Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney, which is one season into a two-season order.
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It’s only January 7 so there may be small tweaks to the slate later in the year — for instance, The Lincoln Lawyer S3 and Virgin River S6 originally were not on Netflix’s 2024 roster but managed to deliver new seasons in Q4 of that year while The Night Agent‘s second season, initially on the 2024 slate, slid to January 2025, and Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials Mystery, originally on the 2025 list, similarly has shifted to January 2026.
Still, such changes are rare; for example, all of the series, which were not on the Netflix 2025 slate unveiled last January, remain on deck for 2026.
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Wednesday‘s delay is understandable. The supernatural mystery comedy starring Jenna Ortega is among Netflix’s most elaborate productions, along with series like One Piece, Bridgerton and the recently departed Stranger Things, which all take roughly two years between seasons for production and post-production.
Wednesday‘s second season came almost three years after Season 1, in part impacted by the 2023 Hollywood strikes. The series will be able to shave off some of that time after an early Season 3 renewal that came in July, ahead of the Season 2 release in August. The new season is already casting, including the high-profile addition of Eva Green, for a rumored February 2026 production start and a 2027 release.
The mother-daughter comedy-drama Ginny & Georgia has been on a two-year cycle, releasing Season 1 in 2021, Season 2 in 2023 and Season 3 in 2025. Filming on Season 4, which was part of a two-season Seasons 3-4 pickup announced in 2023, started last fall and is projected to continue through February.
Ransom Canyon also is expected to wrap production soon — likely later this month — on its second season. The Texas-set romantic drama, which stars Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly, premiered in April and was renewed two months later. It is on track for an early 2027 release.
Also in production on Season 2 and expected to wrap soon is freshman Forever, Netflix’s adaptation of Judy Blume’s coming-of-age classic, which was renewed in May.
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Crime drama Untamed starring Eric Bana needed some time to reinvent itself as an ongoing series after launching in July as a limited series whose success prompted a Season 2 renewal. The second installment will film this year and is expected to be ready to drop in early 2027.
Superhero drama Supacell is looking at a minimum of two and a half years between seasons after filming on Season 2, originally targeting an early 2025 start, was pushed to October. The delay decision followed the December 2024 exit of cast member Ghetts who left the show after admitting to killing a man in a hit-and-run car crash. Season 1 was released in June 2024, with a Season 2 pickup coming two months later.
Meanwhile, the Matthew Goode-starring thriller Dept. Q, renewed this past August after a May release, is already in production on Season 2, which could be eying a premiere in early 2027 — if not sooner.
Another series that started filming its second season in late 2025 after a June renewal is the Canadian Bet, an adaptation of the Japanese manga Kakegurui.
Geek Girl’s absence from the 2026 slate is especially surprising because it is believed to have wrapped production on its second season. The British-Canadian teen series, renewed for Season 2 in April, had shooting set to begin in the UK in July for a what was announced at the time as a 2026 debut. If the new installment is delayed until 2027, it would make for almost a three-year gap between seasons after the Season 2 renewal was delayed by close to a year over issues related to Season 1 producer and distributor, Canada’s troubled Corus Entertainment.
Even more puzzling is the delay for the third and final season of Heartbreak High, which has been in the can for a year, with production wrapping in early 2025.
