Here’s my monthly TV premieres list, this time for 2025’s May TV shows, including new and returning series. I’ve organized the list by date. I’ve also included the premiere time, in Eastern Standard Time, if the show is playing on a TV station. I try my best to find every TV show premiering each month, but if I’m missing one, then let me know and I can add it to this list.
May 1
- The Four Seasons (Netflix)
- 100 Foot Wave (9 p.m. HBO)
May 2
- Unseen: Season 2 (Netflix)
- Pita Hall (Hulu)
May 3
- Wild Game Kitchen: Season 2 (FYI)
May 4
- Miss Austen on Masterpiece: Season 1 (9 p.m. PBS)
- The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 2 (9 p.m. AMC/AMC+)
- Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld (Disney+)
May 5
- Harry Wild: Season 4 (Acorn TV)
- Mighty Monsterwheelies (Netflix)
- The Motherhood (8 p.m. Hallmark)
- The Playboy Murders: Season 3 (9 p.m. ID)
- Toxic (10 p.m. ID)
May 6
- David Spade: Dandelion (Prime Video)
- The Devil’s Plan (Netflix)
- Untold: Shooting Guards (Netflix)
May 7
- Sullivan’s Crossing: Season 3 (8 p.m. The CW)
- Full Speed (Netflix)
May 8
- Poker Face: Season 2 (Peacock)
- Criminal Minds: Season 18 (Paramount +)
- Forever (Netflix)
- Conan O’Brien Must Go (Max)
- Octopus! (Prime Video)
- Blood of Zeus: Season 3 (Netflix)
May 9
- Long Way Home (Apple TV+)
- The Royals (Netflix)
- Too Hot to Handle: Italy (Netflix)
May 10
- The Judd Family: Truth Be Told (8 p.m. Lifetime)
May 11
- BAFTA Television Awards (BritBox)
- The Bakersfield Three: A Tale of Murder and Motherhood (8 p.m. ID)
May 13
- Bad Thoughts: Season 1 (Netflix)
May 14
- America’s Most Wanted: John Walsh’s Dirty Dozen (9 p.m. Fox)
- Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story (Netflix)
- Snakes and Ladders: Season 1 (Netflix)
May 15
- Overcompensating: Season 1 (Prime Video)
- The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Season 2 (Hulu)
- Duster: Season 1 (Max)
- Love Death + Robots: Season 4 (Netflix)
- SkyMed: Season 3 (Paramount +)
- Welcome to Wrexha: Season 4 (9 p.m. FX)
May 16
- Matteo Lane: The Al Dente Special (Hulu)
- Murderbot (Apple TV+)
- Rotten Legacy (Netflix)
- The Chi: Season 7 (Paramount+ with Showtime)
May 18
- The Chi: Season 7 (9 p.m. Showtime)
May 20
- Motorheads: Season 1 (Prime Video)
- Sarah Silverman: Postmortem (Netflix)
May 21
- Nine Perfect Strangers: Season 2 (Hulu)
- Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service: Season 1 (9 p.m. Fox)
May 22
- Sirens (Netflix)
May 23
- Big Mouth: Season 8 (Netflix)
May 25
- Rick and Morty: Season 8 (11 p.m. Adult Swim)
May 26
- American Music Awards (8 p.m. CBS)
- Kevin Costner’s The West (9 p.m. History Channel)
May 27
- America’s Got Talent (8 p.m., NBC)
May 28
- Adults (Hulu)
- Duck Dynasty: The Revival (9 p.m. A&E)
May 29
- And Just Like That…: Season 3 (Max)
- The Better Sister (Prime Video)
Check out May’s movie premieres too.
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