Stranger Things may have ended a bit before the New Year’s Eve ball drop, but Netflix won’t be without programming in 2026. Among the new premiere dates we learned on Wednesday are those for Beef season two, Sweet Magnolias season five and Virgin River season seven.
Netflix also revealed premiere dates for some of its coming 2026 movies; find those here.
Beef season two will debut on April 16, 2026. This season, “a young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner,” per Netflix.
This time around, the A24 series will star Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, Seoyeon Jang, Youn Yuh-jung, Song Kang-Ho, William Fichtner, Mikaela Hoover and rapper BM.
Lee Sung Jin is creator, showrunner and lead executive producer of Beef. His season one stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong executive produce, as do director Jake Schreier and season two stars Mulligan, Isaac, Melton and Spaeny. Yeah, if you want an EP credit, get cast in a Lee Sung Jin show.
Sweet Magnolias will return for its fifth season on June 11. Netflix also shared a first-look photo — the one above.
Sweet Magnolias follows lifelong best friends Maddie (JoAnna Garcia Swisher), Dana Sue (Brooke Elliott) and Helen (Heather Headley) as they juggle relationships, family and careers in Serenity, South Carolina. The showrunner is Sheryl J. Anderson, who executive produces along with Dan Paulson (the series is produced by Daniel L. Paulson Productions, so he takes a backseat to no one here) and Matt Drake.
Like Sweet Magnolias, Virgin River blessed us today with both a return date — March 12, 2026 — and a first-look photo (above).
Romance drama Virgin River centers on nurse practitioner Melinda Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge) who moves to the remote California town of Virgin River. “Yearning for a fresh start, Monroe discovered that small-town living isn’t quite as simple as she expected and that she had to learn to heal herself before she could truly make Virgin River her home,” the series logline reads.
The streaming series is adapted from the more than 20 books in Robyn Carr’s Virgin River collection. Patrick Sean Smith is showrunner of the Netflix version, which also stars Martin Henderson, Tim Matheson, Annette O’Toole, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Zibby Allen, Colin Lawrence, Sarah Dugdale, Marco Grazzini, Kai Bradbury and Kandyse McClure.
