Here is every TV show making its debut at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival.
Margo’s Got Money Troubles
Margo’s Got Money Troubles represents the confluence of some very powerful forces in the entertainment industry. Produced by premier indie studio A24 and set to be released on prestige streamer Apple TV, the series is created by TV legend David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Big Little Lies) and based on Rufi Thorpe’s best-selling novel of the same name. Add in the acting talents of Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, and Greg Kinnear, and you’ve got all the ingredients for a creative behemoth.
So what attracted all these heavy hitters to a TV series with a charmingly mundane title? Probably the fact that the premise sounds great! Fanning stars as the titular Margo Millet, the disaffected daughter of a Hooter’s waitress and former wrestler. After getting pregnant from an affair with her English professor, Margo begins to experience, you guessed it, money troubles. Margo starts an OnlyFans account, decides to get creative with it, and heartwarming comedy-drama ensues.
The Comeback Season 3
While Friends might be the biggest television series of all time, real TV-heads know that the NBC sitcom was a mere warmup for Lisa Kudrow’s true episodic masterpiece: The Comeback. After premiering with a single season in 2005 and returning for a follow-up in 2014, the Kudrow-created and starring HBO comedy is set to come back for its third and final bow in 2026.
As embodied by Kudrow, Valerie Cherish is an aging B-list sitcom veteran who continually tries to find a fresh foothold in a Hollywood that has long passed her by… all while documentary cameras film the futile attempts. Armed with only her bright smile and immaculately constructed hair, the guileless Valerie will get to work on her biggest challenge yet in season 3: acting in an AI-written sitcom.
The Audacity
SXSW isn’t just the best place to experience the latest and greatest in tech innovation; it’s also the best place to satirize it. Created by writer Jonathan Glatzer (who knows a thing or two about the rich and powerful thanks to his time on Succession), The Audacity examines the… well, the audacity of our Silicon Valley overlords. Billy Magnussen stars as Duncan Park, an ambitious tech CEO who with a chip on his shoulder and a questionable plan to harvest people’s personal data. In addition to the magnetic Magnussen, The Audacity boasts a cast of TV all-stars like Sarah Goldberg (Barry), Rob Corddry (Children’s Hospital), and Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory), and is set to premiere on AMC on April 12.
