TV Show Book Adaptations Arriving In 2026 So Far — SkimNews
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- Netflix's East of Eden — Zoe Kazan's adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 novel premieres Oct 1, with Florence Pugh starring as antiheroine Cathy Ames alongside Tracy Letts, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, Martha Plimpton, and Ciarán Hinds.
- Prime Video's Carrie series — Mike Flanagan adapts Stephen King's 1974 horror novel with Summer H. Howell as the telekinetic teen, premiering Oct 7.
- Peacock's The Good Daughter — Karin Slaughter writes and showruns the adaptation of her own novel, with Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy playing resilient sisters; all episodes drop Nov 12 alongside Jake McDorman and Brendan Gleeson.
- Disney+'s Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3 — adapts Rick Riordan's The Titan's Curse for the first time ever, charting territory beyond the first two books that were previously only made into 2010s films; premiere set for Nov 20.
- Netflix's Pride and Prejudice — Dolly Alderton's six-part series stars Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet, Jack Lowden as Mr. Darcy, Olivia Colman as Mrs. Bennet, and Olivia Colman-adjacent stalwarts Rufus Sewell, Fiona Shaw, and Daryl McCormack; debuting Dec 3.
- Apple TV's Dark Matter Season 2 — Blake Crouch's sci-fi adaptation returns Aug 28, two years after its renewal, picking up after the May 2024 debut of season one.
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — the long-awaited HBO/Max prequel to Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin's novella The Hedge Knight, was among January's first major book-adaptation arrivals alongside Netflix's His & Hers and Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery.
Why it matters: The 2026 slate spans at least five major streamers with 25-plus announced book adaptations on the calendar, mixing prestige literary properties (Steinbeck, Austen, Dickens) with commercial genre thrillers (Stephen King, Karin Slaughter, Rick Riordan) — and Netflix alone anchors three marquee year-end titles in East of Eden, Pride and Prejudice, and the already-released Seven Dials Mystery, marking an unusually dense IP-driven lineup through December.
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