Series to Watch: February 2026

Series to Watch: February 2026


By DQ
January 29, 2026

Ones to Watch

DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this February, from a British spy drama and a New Zealand true crime parody to the new series from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee and the eagerly anticipated adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

Vanished
From: US
Original broadcasters: MGM+ (US, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Latin America and the Netherlands), Prime Video (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)
Producers: AGC Television, Fragile Films, Rockwood Pictures
Starring: Kaley Cuoco, Sam Claflin, Dar Zuzovsky, Karin Viard, Matthias Schweighöfer and Simon Abkarian
Launch dates: February 1 (MGM+), February 27 (Prime Video)
When a trip to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom (Claflin) aboard a train to the south of France, Alice (Cuoco) is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew.
Watch trailer here

Les Lionnes (Cash Queens)
From: France
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producer: Les Films entre 2 & 4
Starring: Rebecca Marder, Zoé Marchal, Naidra Ayadi, Pascale Arbillot, Tya Deslauriers, François Damiens, Jonathan Cohen, Sami Outalbali, Jérémie Laheurte and Steve Tientcheu
Launch date: February 5
Five women join forces to find their way out of a tricky situation by robbing a bank disguised as men. One shot of adrenaline and 36,280 euros later, the amateur thieves are forced to start over. It’s not long before politicians, police and gangsters are on their tails, scarcely imagining that a group of ordinary women are behind this band of mercenaries.
Watch trailer here

Betrayal
From: UK
Original broadcaster: ITV
Producer: Mammoth Screen
Distributor: ITV Studios
Starring: Shaun Evans, Romola Garai, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Zahra Ahmadi
Launch date: February 8
John Hughes (Evans) is a mid-career MI5 officer navigating a rapidly evolving intelligence landscape while struggling to keep his personal life intact. Acting on a hunch, he meets a British-Iranian man with links to the Stockport gangland who claims to have intelligence about an imminent plot on UK soil. When the encounter takes an unexpected turn, John finds himself under internal investigation, facing scrutiny from his superiors including Simone Grant (Amuka-Bird), while his partner Claire (Garai) grapples with the secrecy that defines his world. John’s efforts to save his marriage are complicated by his inability to let the case go, and when he meets Mehreen Askari-Evans (Ahmadi), an intelligence operative who is tasked with taking over John’s duties, he finds an unlikely ally. As John becomes increasingly convinced of the involvement of a hardline faction of the Iranian regime, he also starts to worry there are enemies closer to home. Can he identify the target and avert the attack before it’s too late?
Watch trailer here
Read more here

Lord of the Flies
From: UK
Original broadcasters: BBC (UK), Stan (Australia)
Producer: Eleven
Distributor: Sony Pictures Television
Starring: Winston Sawyers, Lox Pratt, David McKenna, Ike Talbut, Thomas Connor, Noah and Cassius Flemming, Cornelius Brandreth and Tom Page-Turner
Launch date: February 8 (UK)
An adaptation of William Golding’s novel written by Jack Thorne (Adolescence) and directed by Marc Munden (Help), Lord of the Flies is the story of a group of young schoolboys who find themselves stranded on a tropical island with no adults, following a deadly plane crash. In an attempt to remain civil, the boys organise themselves, led by Ralph (Sawyers) and supported by the group’s intellectual, Piggy (McKenna). But Jack (Pratt), who is in charge of signal fire duty, is more interested in hunting and vying for leadership and soon begins to draw other boys away from the order of the group, ultimately taking them from hope to tragedy. Set in the 1950s and filmed on location in Malaysia, the series will have its European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February after its BBC debut.
Read more here

Small Town Scandal
From: New Zealand
Original broadcasters: Neon, Sky Comedy (New Zealand)
Producer: Miss Conception Films
Distributor: BBC Studios
Starring: Tom Sainsbury, Morgana O’Reilly, Felicity Kendal, Alexander England, Loren Taylor, Peter Hambleton, Tanea Heke and Rose Matafeo
Launch date: February 9
A screen adaptation of Sainsbury’s iHeartRadio true-crime parody podcast, Small Town Scandal dives into the eccentricities of rural life and our obsession with true crime. The series follows Toby (Sainsbury), a disgraced journalist turned podcast host who returns to his home town of Te Hōiho only to be faced with the bizarre death of his millionaire uncle who was killed, suspiciously, by an automatic lawnmower. As Toby digs deeper, he uncovers a web of secrets among the town’s quirky residents.
Watch trailer here (available in select territories)
Read more here

Million-Follower Detective
From: Taiwan
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producers: Bossdom, Digiinnovation, Gift Pictures
Starring: Kent Tsai, Ekin Cheng, Patty Lee, Chen Yan-fei and Shou Lou
Launch date: February 12
When influencer Yen Wei (Kent Tsai) is shot as he attempts to attack the police, veteran detective Chen Chia-jen (Ekin Cheng) discovers he is acting under someone’s orders. Technology criminal investigator Li Hsin-ping (Patty Lee) joins the case, and soon a chilling pattern is revealed — a string of influencer murders linked to a masked online prophet known as the Witch Baba, whose eerie predictions always come true, including four murder cases back to back. As the Witch Baba’s prophecies ignite a viral online investigation among influencers, and eventually draw more than a million people to the discussion, Chen realises the case may be connected to his estranged daughter (Chen Yan-fei). Joining forces with influencer Lin Ting-yu (Shou Lou), Chen dives deeper into the web of lies — only to uncover a dark past that changes everything.

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
From: Ireland
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producer: Hat Trick Productions
Starring: Roisin Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan and Caoilfhionn Dunne
Launch date: February 12
Clever, chaotic TV writer Saoirse (Gallagher), glamorous, stressed-out mother-of-three Robyn (Keenan) and dependable, inhibited carer Dara (Dunne) have been a tight-knit group since school. Now in their late 30s, but still as close as ever, these three friends are about to embark on the most thrilling adventure of their lives. When an email arrives, telling them about the death of the estranged fourth member of their childhood gang, Greta, a series of eerie events at her wake set them on a dark, dangerous and hilarious odyssey through Ireland and beyond as each tries to piece together the truth of the past. It’s described as a show about friendship, memory and what happens when life doesn’t turn out quite like you’d expected.
Watch trailer here

56 Days
From: US
Original broadcaster: Prime Video
Producers: Amazon MGM Studios, Atomic Monster
Starring: Dove Cameron, Avan Jogia, Karla Souza and Dorian Missick
Launch date: February 18
After meeting randomly in a supermarket, Oliver and Ciara fall for each other fast, and dangerously hard. Fifty-six days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body – brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed. Did he kill her? Did she kill him? Intercutting between an intense single day in the present investigation and the twisted trajectory of the young lovers’ affair in the past, the series is both a unique crime story and a sexy, psychological thriller based on the novel by Catherine Ryan Howard, set in present-day Boston.
Watch trailer here

Uniformen (The Uniform)
From: Denmark
Original broadcaster: DR
Producer: Miso Film
Distributor: Fremantle
Starring: Lene Maria Christensen, Soheil Bavi, Clara Rosager, Gustav Giese and Jakob Cedergren
Launch dates: February 20 (DRTV), February 22 (DR1)
When a student from the police academy shoots and injures an aggressive young man during a violent arrest, the case raises serious questions about the use of force and training of the police. Pressure grows on the school’s new principal as the Independent Police Complaints Authority launches an investigation into the incident, which also examines and challenges the school’s procedures and curriculum. The truth becomes increasingly unclear, and both students and staff are confronted with the difficult choices and heavy responsibility that come with wearing the uniform.
Read more here

CIA
From: US
Original broadcaster: CBS
Producers: Universal Television in association with Wolf Entertainment and CBS Studios
Distributor: Paramount Global Content Distribution
Starring: Nick Gehlfuss, Tom Ellis, Natalee Linez and Necar Zadegan
Launch date: February 23
When by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman (Gehlfuss) is loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI task force, he finds himself teamed up with secretive and roguish CIA case officer Colin Glass (Ellis). Together they will work covert operations in New York, uncovering international plots, terrorist cells and geopolitical secrets. On CIA, Bill will learn the rules of this murky world on the fly as Colin leads him deeper into spy games where only one thing is clear – their work keeps America safe, even if no one will ever know what they did in the shadows.
Watch trailer here

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