Studios and streamers are prepping a lot of new quality sci-fi and fantasy content for April, and we’re here to get you ready. From animated spinoffs to sci-fi comedies to the final season of one of the best superhero shows of the past decade, there’s a ton worth watching right around the corner.
Here are all the new fantasy and sci-fi shows to look out for this month.
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Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord
Get primed before The Mandalorian & Grogu
Disney will never allow people to spend too much time away from the Star Wars universe. Its latest effort is Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord, an animated series that follows Sith Lord Darth Maul as he rebuilds his criminal syndicate. For those who assumed that Darth Maul died back in 2001’s The Phantom Menace, he was brought back in animated form in shows like The Clone War and Star Wars Rebels, both the brainchildren of Dave Filoni. Shadow Lord, which is set after The Clone Wars but before Rebels, is the latest entry in that series.
These animated Star Wars shows built a reputation for having heart, action, and solid character drama. And now that Filoni is replacing Kathleen Kennedy at the head of Lucasfilm, his ideas are bleeding more and more into the live-action Star Wars movies. For instance, he has a large hand in the upcoming movie The Mandalorian & Grogu.
Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord will release two episodes at a time, starting April 6 on Disney+. There are 10 episodes in all, so the season will run through May 4, just a couple weeks before The Mandalorian & Grogu lands in theaters on May 22.
Release Date
April 6, 2026
Network
Disney+
Directors
Brad Rau
Richard Ayoade
Two-Boots (voice)
Gideon Adlon
Devon Izara (voice)
David C. Collins
Spybot (voice)
The Boys Season 5
The big finish
The Boys premiered back in 2019, when everyone was obsessed with the squeaky clean Marvel Cinematic Universe and needed an alternative. The Boys is set in a world full of superheroes, but a lot of them are narcissistic, bloodthirsty monsters more interested in personal glory than saving people. The worst of them is Homelander (Anthony Starr), who at the end of season 4 has effectively taken over the United States. The fifth and final season will bring him into conflict with Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and his team of anti-superhero freedom fighters. We don’t know exactly how it’s all gonna end, but we know it’ll be bloody.
The Boys season 5 is probably the biggest thing coming out on TV in April. The first two episodes drop on Prime Video on April 8. After that, episodes come out one per week. There are eight total this season.
Release Date
2019 – 2026-00-00
Showrunner
Eric Kripke
Directors
Erin Moriarty, Karen Fukuhara, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Eric Kripke
Jack Quaid
Hugh Hughie Campbell
Antony Starr
John / Homelander
Erin Moriarty
Annie January / Starlight
The Testaments
The Handmaid’s Tale continues
The Handmaid’s Tale, based on Margaret Atwood’s novel, was a drama about a world plagued by infertility. A religious autocracy takes over the United States and forces those few women who are still capable of bearing children into slavery as “handmaids.” That show ran for six seasons on Hulu and ended with hero June (Elizabeth Moss) escaping to freedom. Spinoff The Testaments will follow her daughter (Chase Infiniti), who is being trained at a school for handmaids. But like her mother, she’s going to push back against the oppressive society.
There are 10 episodes in the first season of The Testaments. The first three will drop all at once on Hulu on April 8 and come out one per week after that.
Release Date
April 8, 2026
Network
Hulu
Showrunner
Bruce Miller
Rowan Blanchard
Shunammite
The Miniature Wife
Honey, I Shrunk You
The Miniature Wife looks like it could be very trite or very charming. It’s a sci-fi comedy about a scientist (Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen) who accidentally shrinks his wife (Elizabeth Banks) in one of his experiments. Can they manage to return her to normal size before time runs out?
The Miniature Wife looks like an easy-to-watch, lightweight good time. It’s hard to do sci-fi comedy well — Murderbot is a recent example of a show that got it pretty right — but hopefully this show can thread the needle.
Release Date
April 9, 2026
Network
Peacock
Directors
Greg Mottola, Bertie Ellwood
All 10 episodes of The Miniature Wife drop on Peacock on April 9.
From Season 4
The best horror show no one is watching
From is a horror show about a seemingly ordinary town with a strange secret: once you enter it, you can’t leave. And at night weird monsters come out and try to kill you. Drive around this place if you can.
From is one of the best shows on TV that no one is watching. For three seasons now, it’s introduced us to a variety of fascinating characters trying to untangle the mystery of the town where they’re trapped, and this next season looks like it’s going to ramp up to some answers. The lack of hype around From probably has something to do with the fact that it airs on little-known streaming service MGM+, but if you’re able to check it out, you’ll be rewarded with a spine-tingling good time.
There are 10 episodes in From’s fourth season. They start on MGM+ on April 19.
Release Date
February 20, 2022
Network
Epix, MGM+
Directors
Jack Bender, Brad Turner, Alexandra La Roche, Bruce McDonald, Jeff Renfroe
Harold Perrineau
Boyd Stevens
Catalina Sandino Moreno
Tabitha Matthews
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85
Are you ready to be hurt again?
Stranger Things ended its five-season run on Netflix back in December amidst a storm of controversy, but enough time may have passed for people to want to check out this animated spinoff, which is set between seasons 2 and 3 of the original show. It will feature familiar characters like Eleven, Jim Hopper, Lucas, and others fighting a supernatural menace we just didn’t hear about on the main show. Some of the characters are voiced by their actors from the original series, although others have new voices.
All 10 episodes of Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 drop on Netflix on April 23.
Release Date
April 23, 2026
Network
Netflix
Showrunner
Eric Robles
Directors
Phil Allora
Writers
Jennifer Muro
Franchise(s)
Stranger Things
Odessa A’zion
Nikki Baxter
Brooklyn Davey Norstedt
Eleven
Jolie Hoang-Rappaport
Max
Something for everyone
In April, there are sci-fi and fantasy shows coming to Disney+, Prime Video, Hulu, Peacock, MGM+, and Netflix. No matter which streaming services you have, there should be something to entertain you.
