Here's what's worth streaming in March 2026 on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and more

MW Here's what's worth streaming in March 2026 on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and more

By Mike Murphy

Shows like HBO's 'DTF St. Louis' and 'Rooster,' Paramount's 'The Madison' and Netflix's 'Peaky Blinders' movie jump out of the gate as Emmy season gets underway

From left: Jason Bateman, Linda Cardellini and David Harbour star in HBO's "DTF St. Louis."

While much of the country is still digging out from snow, it's springtime in the streaming world, with an impressive-looking crop of new series poised to compete for viewers' eyeballs.

March marks the beginning of Emmy season (episodes need to air before May 31 to be award-eligible), as networks and streaming services like to release many of their (hopefully) best shows in the spring, so they'll be fresh in mind when awards voters cast their ballots.

In addition to ongoing hits like "The Pitt" and "Paradise," the coming month will see the premieres of HBO Max's "DTF St. Louis" and "Rooster," Netflix's "Peaky Blinders" movie, Paramount's latest Taylor Sheridan drama "The Madison" and Amazon's follow-up to the surprise hit "Jury Duty," among many others.

There'll be a lot to watch, but with a bit of strategic churning - that is, adding and dropping services month to month - you can catch the best of the best while keeping your monthly streaming budget just under $50. Keep in mind that a billing cycle starts when you sign up, not necessarily at the beginning of the month. And it's always worth watching out for time-sensitive deals and money-saving bundles.

Each month, this column offers tips on how to maximize your streaming and your budget - rating the major services as "play," "pause" or "stop," similar to investment analysts' traditional ratings of buy, hold and sell - and picks the best shows to help you make your monthly decisions.

Here's a look at what's coming to the various streaming services in March 2026, and what's really worth the monthly subscription fee:

HBO Max ($10.99 a month with ads, $18.49 with no ads, or $22.99 'Ultimate' with no ads)

It's looking like Paramount Skydance $(PSKY)$ has won its bid to buy HBO Max parent Warner Bros. Discovery $(WBD)$, which is likely to be terrible for everyone. With an estimated price tag above $100 billion, much of that a massive debt load, the merger will doubtlessly result in massive cost cuts - meaning layoffs, fewer (and cheaper) TV shows and movies, the likely gutting of CNN and inevitable price hikes for subscribers. And there's still all that debt. Much as AOL did two decades ago, Paramount may just have paid top dollar for an anchor that will end up sinking it.

But back on topic, now that "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" (which managed to make "Game of Thrones" fun again) and "Industry" (season finale March 1), are done for now, HBO Max has a whole new slate of Sunday-night shows coming.

"DTF St. Louis" (March 1), a dark-comedy miniseries, stars Jason Bateman, David Harbour and Linda Cardellini as suburbanites going through middle-aged malaise who get involved in a hook-up app that leads to a deadly love triangle. It features a great cast (including Richard Jenkins, Peter Saarsgard and Joy Sunday), comes from a top-flight creator (Steven Conrad, of Amazon's brilliant "Patriot") and the early reviews are excellent - though Harbour's real-life extramarital exploits, as described in vivid detail by his ex, singer Lily Allen, might be even more dramatic.

Warner Bros. apparently remembered that while creator Bill Lawrence was off making hit after hit with Apple ("Ted Lasso," "Bad Monkey," "Shrinking"), they actually had signed him to a massive, five-year production deal four years ago. The result, from Lawrence and co-creator Matt Tarses (the pair also collaborated on "Scrubs," also not on HBO Max), is "Rooster" (March 8), a college comedy starring Steve Carrell as an author who visits his daughter (Charly Clive), a professor whose marriage has fallen apart, only for him to become a surprisingly popular figure on campus. Connie Britton, Danielle Deadwyler, John C. McGinley and Phil Dunster co-star. This looks great, a worthy heir to wry academia comedies such as "Wonder Boys," Netflix's "The Chair" and AMC's "Lucky Hank" (look 'em up).

And a decade after its second season, "The Comeback" (March 22) is back for its third and final season, starring Lisa Kudrow as a former TV star desperate to be relevant again, who's now starring in a sitcom written by AI. The first two seasons were classics, this final installment should be a treat as well.

HBO Max also has the documentaries "Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare" (March 10), about the 2011 disaster in Japan; "Born to Bowl" (March 16), a five-part series about pro bowlers; the English manor-house movie spoof "Fackham Hall" (March 6); the season finale of Adult Swim's "Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal" (March 2), and weekly episodes of "The Pitt" and "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver."

On the sports side, HBO Max and Paramount+ will share March Madness, which tips off March 17 with the First Four play-in games, and extends through the national championship (April 6). There's also a full slate of college basketball leading up to the tournament, as well as NBA, NHL, Unrivaled basketball, All Elite Wrestling, U.S. women's soccer (SheBelieves Cup tournament March 4-7) and U.S. men's pre-World Cup matches against Belgium (March 28) and Portugal (March 31), and Major League Baseball, with the New York Yankees vs. the Seattle Mariners (March 31).

Play, pause or stop? Play. Everything new looks extremely watchable, and it's worth catching up with "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" and "Industry," which was just renewed for a fifth and final season and remains the most jaw-droppingly audacious show on TV.

Netflix ($7.99 a month for standard with ads, $17.99 standard with no ads, $24.99 premium with no ads)

Netflix $(NFLX)$ is the king of buzzy, word-of-mouth hits. But one upcoming series may suffer because it's already become a bit of an online joke.

That would be "Detective Hole" (March 26), a gritty detective series set in Norway, whose main character's name - Harry Hole - doesn't quite translate to English (apparently it's more like "Hoo-la" in Norwegian). Cringe-worthy name aside, the series' bigger hurdle may be more existential. The Harry Hole series from novelist Jo Nesbo helped create the Nordic Noir genre in the early 2000s. The only problem now? Its tenets - a moody, troubled but brilliant detective operating in a moral gray area exposing the bleaker parts of Scandinavian society - has become a tired trope (see: "Deadwind," "Borderlands," "The Åre Murders" and "The Glass Dome" - and that's just a handful from Netflix). Will viewers be turned off by what's become a boilerplate setup? Another possible strike against it: The terrible 2017 movie adaptation of Nesbo's "The Snowman" - also featuring Harry Hole - is remembered mostly as a meme punchline. For what it's worth, the book series was mostly great. We'll see how the series turns out, but the odds seem stacked against it.

The prospects seem better for "Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man" (March 20). Four years after Steven Knight's popular period-crime drama ended, Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and his Birmingham gang are back for a farewell movie, with Tommy returning from exile to deal with his out-of-control gangster son (Barry Keoghan) under the shadow of World War II.

Then there's "Vladimir" (March 3), which almost seems a mashup of HBO's "DTF St. Louis" and "Rooster": a comedy-drama series starring Rachel Weisz, Leo Woodall and John Slattery about a married professor who becomes infatuated with her hot young colleague, and becomes more and more unhinged as her fantasies clash with reality. It looks very bingeable.

Also of note: "The Dinosaurs" (March 6), a CGI docuseries about, well, dinosaurs (and looking suspiciously like Apple's "Prehistoric Planet"), from executive producer Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman; "War Machine" (March 6), a "Predator"-esque action movie about a team of Army Rangers whose training mission turns deadly when a killer alien robot starts hunting them; Volume 2 of the reimagined children's standby "Sesame Street" (March 9); Season 2 of the hit pirate-adventure manga adaptation "One Piece" (March 10); "Age of Attraction" (March 11), a dating show mixing the olds and the youngs; Season 7 of the hit small-town romantic drama "Virgin River" (March 12); Season 2 of the French crime thriller "Furies: Resistance" (March 18); Season 2 of Tyler Perry's family power-struggle drama "Beauty in Black" (March 19); Season 2 of Dick Wolf's true-crime docuseries "Homicide: New York" (March 25); and "Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen" (March 26), a horror series following a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated wedding.

Netflix also has the Actors Awards from SAG/AFTRA (live on March 1); "BTS: The Comeback Live" (March 21), a live concert event as the K-pop supergroup reunites, along with the making-of-the-album docuseries "BTS: The Ruturn" (March 27); and MLB Opening Night, as the New York Yankees take on the San Francisco Giants (live March 25).

Also on the way are movies including "Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale" (March 7), the timely "Nuremberg" (March 7) and the kids animated hit "The Bad Guys 2" (March 21), along with all four seasons of Amazon's alt-history drama "The Man in the High Castle" (March 11) and all six seasons of the CBS sitcom "Mike & Molly" (March 26).

Whew.

MW Here's what's worth streaming in March 2026 on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and more

By Mike Murphy

Shows like HBO's 'DTF St. Louis' and 'Rooster,' Paramount's 'The Madison' and Netflix's 'Peaky Blinders' movie jump out of the gate as Emmy season gets underway

From left: Jason Bateman, Linda Cardellini and David Harbour star in HBO's "DTF St. Louis."

While much of the country is still digging out from snow, it's springtime in the streaming world, with an impressive-looking crop of new series poised to compete for viewers' eyeballs.

March marks the beginning of Emmy season (episodes need to air before May 31 to be award-eligible), as networks and streaming services like to release many of their (hopefully) best shows in the spring, so they'll be fresh in mind when awards voters cast their ballots.

In addition to ongoing hits like "The Pitt" and "Paradise," the coming month will see the premieres of HBO Max's "DTF St. Louis" and "Rooster," Netflix's "Peaky Blinders" movie, Paramount's latest Taylor Sheridan drama "The Madison" and Amazon's follow-up to the surprise hit "Jury Duty," among many others.

There'll be a lot to watch, but with a bit of strategic churning - that is, adding and dropping services month to month - you can catch the best of the best while keeping your monthly streaming budget just under $50. Keep in mind that a billing cycle starts when you sign up, not necessarily at the beginning of the month. And it's always worth watching out for time-sensitive deals and money-saving bundles.

Each month, this column offers tips on how to maximize your streaming and your budget - rating the major services as "play," "pause" or "stop," similar to investment analysts' traditional ratings of buy, hold and sell - and picks the best shows to help you make your monthly decisions.

Here's a look at what's coming to the various streaming services in March 2026, and what's really worth the monthly subscription fee:

HBO Max ($10.99 a month with ads, $18.49 with no ads, or $22.99 'Ultimate' with no ads)

It's looking like Paramount Skydance (PSKY) has won its bid to buy HBO Max parent Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), which is likely to be terrible for everyone. With an estimated price tag above $100 billion, much of that a massive debt load, the merger will doubtlessly result in massive cost cuts - meaning layoffs, fewer (and cheaper) TV shows and movies, the likely gutting of CNN and inevitable price hikes for subscribers. And there's still all that debt. Much as AOL did two decades ago, Paramount may just have paid top dollar for an anchor that will end up sinking it.

But back on topic, now that "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" (which managed to make "Game of Thrones" fun again) and "Industry" (season finale March 1), are done for now, HBO Max has a whole new slate of Sunday-night shows coming.

"DTF St. Louis" (March 1), a dark-comedy miniseries, stars Jason Bateman, David Harbour and Linda Cardellini as suburbanites going through middle-aged malaise who get involved in a hook-up app that leads to a deadly love triangle. It features a great cast (including Richard Jenkins, Peter Saarsgard and Joy Sunday), comes from a top-flight creator (Steven Conrad, of Amazon's brilliant "Patriot") and the early reviews are excellent - though Harbour's real-life extramarital exploits, as described in vivid detail by his ex, singer Lily Allen, might be even more dramatic.

Warner Bros. apparently remembered that while creator Bill Lawrence was off making hit after hit with Apple ("Ted Lasso," "Bad Monkey," "Shrinking"), they actually had signed him to a massive, five-year production deal four years ago. The result, from Lawrence and co-creator Matt Tarses (the pair also collaborated on "Scrubs," also not on HBO Max), is "Rooster" (March 8), a college comedy starring Steve Carrell as an author who visits his daughter (Charly Clive), a professor whose marriage has fallen apart, only for him to become a surprisingly popular figure on campus. Connie Britton, Danielle Deadwyler, John C. McGinley and Phil Dunster co-star. This looks great, a worthy heir to wry academia comedies such as "Wonder Boys," Netflix's "The Chair" and AMC's "Lucky Hank" (look 'em up).

And a decade after its second season, "The Comeback" (March 22) is back for its third and final season, starring Lisa Kudrow as a former TV star desperate to be relevant again, who's now starring in a sitcom written by AI. The first two seasons were classics, this final installment should be a treat as well.

HBO Max also has the documentaries "Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare" (March 10), about the 2011 disaster in Japan; "Born to Bowl" (March 16), a five-part series about pro bowlers; the English manor-house movie spoof "Fackham Hall" (March 6); the season finale of Adult Swim's "Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal" (March 2), and weekly episodes of "The Pitt" and "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver."

On the sports side, HBO Max and Paramount+ will share March Madness, which tips off March 17 with the First Four play-in games, and extends through the national championship (April 6). There's also a full slate of college basketball leading up to the tournament, as well as NBA, NHL, Unrivaled basketball, All Elite Wrestling, U.S. women's soccer (SheBelieves Cup tournament March 4-7) and U.S. men's pre-World Cup matches against Belgium (March 28) and Portugal (March 31), and Major League Baseball, with the New York Yankees vs. the Seattle Mariners (March 31).

Play, pause or stop? Play. Everything new looks extremely watchable, and it's worth catching up with "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" and "Industry," which was just renewed for a fifth and final season and remains the most jaw-droppingly audacious show on TV.

Netflix ($7.99 a month for standard with ads, $17.99 standard with no ads, $24.99 premium with no ads)

Netflix (NFLX) is the king of buzzy, word-of-mouth hits. But one upcoming series may suffer because it's already become a bit of an online joke.

That would be "Detective Hole" (March 26), a gritty detective series set in Norway, whose main character's name - Harry Hole - doesn't quite translate to English (apparently it's more like "Hoo-la" in Norwegian). Cringe-worthy name aside, the series' bigger hurdle may be more existential. The Harry Hole series from novelist Jo Nesbo helped create the Nordic Noir genre in the early 2000s. The only problem now? Its tenets - a moody, troubled but brilliant detective operating in a moral gray area exposing the bleaker parts of Scandinavian society - has become a tired trope (see: "Deadwind," "Borderlands," "The Åre Murders" and "The Glass Dome" - and that's just a handful from Netflix). Will viewers be turned off by what's become a boilerplate setup? Another possible strike against it: The terrible 2017 movie adaptation of Nesbo's "The Snowman" - also featuring Harry Hole - is remembered mostly as a meme punchline. For what it's worth, the book series was mostly great. We'll see how the series turns out, but the odds seem stacked against it.

The prospects seem better for "Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man" (March 20). Four years after Steven Knight's popular period-crime drama ended, Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and his Birmingham gang are back for a farewell movie, with Tommy returning from exile to deal with his out-of-control gangster son (Barry Keoghan) under the shadow of World War II.

Then there's "Vladimir" (March 3), which almost seems a mashup of HBO's "DTF St. Louis" and "Rooster": a comedy-drama series starring Rachel Weisz, Leo Woodall and John Slattery about a married professor who becomes infatuated with her hot young colleague, and becomes more and more unhinged as her fantasies clash with reality. It looks very bingeable.

Also of note: "The Dinosaurs" (March 6), a CGI docuseries about, well, dinosaurs (and looking suspiciously like Apple's "Prehistoric Planet"), from executive producer Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman; "War Machine" (March 6), a "Predator"-esque action movie about a team of Army Rangers whose training mission turns deadly when a killer alien robot starts hunting them; Volume 2 of the reimagined children's standby "Sesame Street" (March 9); Season 2 of the hit pirate-adventure manga adaptation "One Piece" (March 10); "Age of Attraction" (March 11), a dating show mixing the olds and the youngs; Season 7 of the hit small-town romantic drama "Virgin River" (March 12); Season 2 of the French crime thriller "Furies: Resistance" (March 18); Season 2 of Tyler Perry's family power-struggle drama "Beauty in Black" (March 19); Season 2 of Dick Wolf's true-crime docuseries "Homicide: New York" (March 25); and "Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen" (March 26), a horror series following a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated wedding.

Netflix also has the Actors Awards from SAG/AFTRA (live on March 1); "BTS: The Comeback Live" (March 21), a live concert event as the K-pop supergroup reunites, along with the making-of-the-album docuseries "BTS: The Ruturn" (March 27); and MLB Opening Night, as the New York Yankees take on the San Francisco Giants (live March 25).

Also on the way are movies including "Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale" (March 7), the timely "Nuremberg" (March 7) and the kids animated hit "The Bad Guys 2" (March 21), along with all four seasons of Amazon's alt-history drama "The Man in the High Castle" (March 11) and all six seasons of the CBS sitcom "Mike & Molly" (March 26).

Whew.

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Binges with subtitles: Released in February, the comedy-mystery series "How to Get to Heaven from Belfast," from "Derry Girls" creator Lisa McGee, is a charming though overly twisty romp set in Northern Ireland, as three old friends investigate the apparent death of their former classmate. Though the characters are different, the vibes are very much "Derry Girls"-plus 20 years, and there are a couple of winks to the hit comedy. There's also the propulsive espionage thriller "Unfamiliar," about a pair of former spies whose quiet family life in Berlin is suddenly thrown into a violent game of cat and mouse after a Russian spymaster looks to cover up a nearly two-decade-old operation. Part Jason Bourne, part "Scenes From a Marriage," it's a quick and intense binge. One red flag: It ends on a cliffhanger, and Season 2 has not been green-lit yet, despite the show shooting to the top of Netflix's charts.

Play, pause or stop? Play. After a few off months, Netflix is back in the game.

Amazon's Prime Video ($14.99 a month with ads, $8.99 without Prime membership, both +$2.99 to avoid ads)

Prime Video has an unusually loaded month, making it a serious consideration if you don't already have Prime for the shipping perks.

"Deadloch" (March 20), the surprise hit from 2023, is back for its second season. The Australian "Odd Couple"-like comedy/mystery shifts to the tropical north of Darwin this time around, as boorish detective Eddie (Madeline Sami) investigates the death of her former partner, aided by straightlaced Tasmanian cop Dulcie (Kate Box). Season 1 deftly balanced slapstick comedy with darker themes of violence and misogyny in an utterly addictive season. Hopes are high that the series can pull a repeat.

Meanwhile, the hit animated superhero drama "Invincible" (March 18) is back for its fourth season - which is, mercifully, not split in half again. After last season's global catastrophe, we pick up the action with Mark (Steven Yeun) struggling with guilt as yet another threat emerges. And a few years after the surprise success of the documentary-style comedy "Jury Duty," a sequel is on the way: "Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat" (March 20), as a newly hired intern is thrown into a world of chaos during a corporate getaway. The twist, of course, is that while he thinks it's all real, everyone else is an actor orchestrating crazy scenarios to test his responses. Season 1 was a delight; can lightning strike twice?

Amazon's (AMZN) streaming service also has "Young Sherlock" (March 4), a new series from Guy Ritchie, delving into the iconic detective's origins as a student at Oxford; "Scarpetta" (March 11), a new mystery series starring Nicole Kidman as a crime-solving medical examiner, based on the bestselling book series by Patricia Cornwell; "Meal Ticket" (March 19), a documentary about the McDonald's All-America high-school basketball games; "Bait" (March 26), a comedy series starring Riz Ahmed as a struggling actor whose life spins out of control over one wild week; "Pretty Lethal" (March 25), an action movie about five ballerinas trapped in the woods who must fight for their survival; Season 2 of the biblical drama "House of David" (March 27); and Season 2 of the British reality competition "Last One Laughing" (date TBA), as a roomful of comedians try to crack each other up, and the last one to hold it together wins.

And don't forget a full slate of NBA games, as the playoff push begins.

Play, pause or stop? Pause and think it over. There's some high potential this month, particularly with "Deadloch" and "Company Retreat."

Hulu ($11.99 a month with ads, or $18.99 with no ads)

Hulu will live-stream the Oscars (March 15) for the first time, along with ABC's red-carpet coverage. This is an obvious upgrade, since it always seemed odd to stream the awards a day later, once everyone already knew the winners.

Hulu's also got weekly episodes of ABC's "American Idol," Season 4 of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" (March 12), ABC's new private-eye drama "RJ Decker" (March 4), Season 4 of "Celebrity Jeopardy All Stars" (March 14), a new season of ABC's "The Bachelorette" (March 23), and "Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice" (March 27), a buddy action-comedy movie about two friends who get mixed up in the criminal underworld, starring Vince Vaughn, James Marsden and Eiza Gonzalez.

But the best things to stream will likely be the ongoing seasons of the soapy-but-addictive post-apocalyptic thriller "Paradise" and the revived hospital comedy "Scrubs," which both premiered in late February, along with Ryan Murphy's surprisingly decent body-horror drama "The Beauty" (finale March 4).

Drop the Puck: Between HBO Max's "Heated Rivalry" and the Winter Olympics, hockey has been having a moment. And if you feel the need to scratch that itch even more, look no further than Season 5 of "Shoresy," which dropped in February. Jared Keeso stars in this "Letterkenny" spinoff satirizing performative masculinity among a small-town Canadian hockey team. Extremely raunchy but surprisingly heartfelt, it allows its characters to both be knucklehead bros yet grow and display depth at the most surprising moments. The first 10 minutes of the current season's premiere episode perfectly encapsulate the show: Five minutes of an extended (and hilarious) masturbation joke followed by five minutes of a tender and inspirational heart-to-heart with a struggling junior player that'll put a tear in your eye. And while this season is probably the weakest of the series, it's still a blast.

Play, pause or stop? Pause. "Paradise" and "Scrubs" are very watchable, and the Oscars will be good for cord-cutters, but there's a steep drop-off after that.

Apple TV ($12.99 a month)

It's another fairly busy month for Apple $(AAPL)$, topped by the premiere of the psychological-thriller series "Imperfect Women" (March 18), starring Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara as three lifelong friends whose lives are shattered after one is killed, and her secrets are revealed. Unfortunately, that seems like the plot to about a dozen recent streaming shows. It'll be a challenge to elevate it beyond generic.

There's also Season 5 of "For All Mankind" (March 27), the uneven alternate-history sci-fi drama that peaked in Season 2 and has seen diminishing returns since. Joel Kinnaman (who also co-stars in "Imperfect Women" and Netflix's "Detective Hole") returns with about 8 pounds of makeup as crusty, now-elderly astronaut Ed Baldwin, whose little rebellion at the end of Season 4 worked out pretty well, with the Mars colony, aka Happy Valley, now thriving - though tensions with Earth are building. The show tends to veer from engrossing to ridiculous, often in the same episode, but the underlying concept remains compelling enough to earn a wary thumbs-up (in many ways, much like Hulu's "Paradise").

And after resolving a plagiarism dispute that delayed its release last year, the French-language thriller "The Hunt," about a deadly encounter between two groups of hunters, is finally landing on March 4.

Apple's also got weekly episodes of "Hijack" (season finale March 4), "Drops of God" (season finale March 11), "The Last Thing He Told Me," "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" and "Shrinking."

Meanwhile, the Israeli spy thriller "Tehran," which just completed its third season, has been shaken by the sudden death of showrunner Dana Eden amid production for its fourth season.

Vroom vroom: In addition to becoming the new streaming home of Formula 1 racing (starting March 7), Apple has reached an agreement in which the current season of Netflix's megahit docuseries "F1: Drive to Survive" will also stream on Apple. In return, Netflix will get to stream the Canadian Grand Prix live to its U.S. audience in May. Apple also has the Brad Pitt movie "F1," so... hooray for corporate synergy!

Play, pause or stop? Pause. There are good shows here, but with the possible exception of "Shrinking," probably none that stand out as reasons to subscribe. F1 fans may beg to differ though.

Paramount+ ($8.99 a month with ads, $13.99 a month Premium with no ads)

Our long national nightmare is over: Paramount+ has gone more than a month without a Taylor Sheridan show, but that situation will be rectified in March with not one, but two, new Sheridan-produced shows.

Get ready for more sweeping shots of Montana's natural beauty in "The Madison" (March 14), an intimate family drama starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell as a couple coping with a family tragedy played out between Manhattan and the Big Sky state. There's also the "Yellowstone" spinoff "Marshals" (March 1), a CBS drama that sees Luke Dutton (Luke Grimes) leaving the ranch to join the U.S. Marshals.

In non-Sheridan shows, longtime "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi has a new cooking-competition show on CBS, "America's Culinary Cup" (March 4), pitting 16 chefs against each other to master the "10 culinary commandments" (you'll have to watch to figure out what that means). With six Michelin-starred chefs and 14 James Beard Award nominees, including two-time "Top Chef" winner Buddha Lo, this could put some heat on "Top Chef," which also returns this month on Peacock.

Paramount's also got a new season of the true-crime docuseries "FBI True" (March 31); the "female Viagra" documentary "The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs & Who Has Control" (March 8), premiering just in time for International Women's Day; and the season finales of "School Spirts" (March 4), "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" (March 12) and "Dreaming Whilst Black" (March 27). Don't forget weekly episodes of CBS shows including "Tracker," "Watson" and "NCIS."

Sports-wise, there's a full slate of college basketball before March Madness tips off March 19. Rule of thumb for the men's NCAA Tournament: If it's a CBS game, it'll stream on Paramount; if it's on TBS, TNT or TruTV, it'll be on HBO Max. There's also European soccer (including UEFA Champions League Round of 16), NWSL (starting March 13) and UFC fight nights.

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