While the Olympic Winter Games Milano-Cortina 2026 (Feb. 5 to 22 on CBC) will likely be taking up most of your TV viewing hours this month, there’s no shortage of scripted shows for when you need a break from high-stakes sport. Thrillers Paradise (Feb. 23 on Disney+) and The Last Thing He Told Me (Feb. 20 on AppleTV+) make their second season returns. While original cast members – including Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke – of the early aughts medical comedy Scrubs (Feb. 25 on CTV) are back for the revival.
And here are our picks of the latest brand-new streaming offerings.
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette
Prolific producer Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology dramatization turns its lens on the tragic romance of JFK. Jr., crown prince of Camelot, and Carolyn, the stylish, rising Calvin Klein executive whom the dashing bachelor would eventually marry. (Along with her sister Lauren, the photogenic couple perished in 1999 in the crash of the private plane he was piloting.) Their courtship and high-profile marriage plays out in nostalgic 1990s New York, where they’re hounded by paparazzi in the streets of swiftly gentrifying TriBeCa. Drawing on the bio Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, commentators glimpsing the behind-the-scenes of filming have been ruthless in criticizing the costume and styling choices for Bessette – CBK, as she’s become known, is revered in fashion circles for her minimalist taste. Of note: Meryl Streep’s daughter Grace Gummer plays John Jr’s sister Caroline Kennedy to Naomi Watts’s Jackie O.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Disney+ starting Feb. 12 (nine episodes)
The Borderline
Debuting immediately after the Super Bowl, this new Crave Original drama is set and filmed in the Thousand Islands and on location around Southern Ontario. Tamara Podemski (Reservation Dogs) plays a Canadian Border Intelligence Agent investigating a shocking double homicide that’s disrupted the quiet community. Complicating matters: Stephen Amell (Arrow) is a cop trying to protect a friend (Hamza Haq) he thinks might be involved. And in a wonderful bit of surprise casting, Minnie Driver stars as the matriarch of a British crime family seemingly related to the case.
Where to Watch: Streaming on CTV/Crave starting Feb. 8 (six episodes)
The ’Burbs
In Peacock’s black comedy and sort-of remake of Tom Hanks’ 1989 classic, a young couple (Emmy-winner Keke Palmer and Jack Whitehall) move into a house in the suburbs and immediately suspect that one of the people in their cul-de-sac is hiding a dark secret. Goading the young couple into entertaining escapades are a couple of canny neighbours played by comic all-stars, Paula Pell (Saturday Night Live) and Julia Duffy (Newhart).
Where to Watch: Streaming on StackTV starting Feb. 8 (eight episodes)
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
Calling this darkly funny Irish mystery “Derry Girls all grown up” is a little on-the-nose, because it’s by Lisa McGee, also the creator of that retro series sensation. Her new comedy-thriller centres on another group of longtime girlfriends, this time middle-aged and juggling families, jobs and grown-up anxiety. It follows their misadventures while trying to uncover the truth behind the suspicious death of a fourth, once close but recently estranged, childhood pal.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix starting Feb. 12 (eight episodes)
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
Nowadays when celebrities need to rehabilitate their image, they skip PR firms and commission their own biographical docs instead. And that’s the premise for the disgraced NFL superstar Reggie Dinkins in this new satire. Joining the growing ranks of sports comedies like Ted Lasso, Shoresy, Chad Powers and Running Point, the series reunites NBC’s 30 Rock showrunners Tina Fey (who produces) and Robert Carlock (co-creator, here with former Daily Show writer Sam Means) and star Tracy Morgan as the titular down-on-his-luck former footballer who hires an earnest, award-winning documentarian (Daniel Radcliffe) to spin his life story into a comeback.
Where to Watch: Streaming on CTV/Crave starting Feb. 23 (10 episodes)
Vanished
For Valentine’s month, Prime’s all-in on the sexy psychodrama 56 Days (Feb. 18), based on the novel by Catherine Ryan Howard. But it’s Vanished that’s got boldface buzz: Alice and Tom (The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco and Sam Claflin of The Hunger Games) are on a romantic trip to France. When Tom suddenly disappears on the train to Marseille, Alice finds herself searching for the truth and also in danger after – surprise! – discovering there was a lot more to the boyfriend she thought she knew. Filmed in and around Paris and Marseille, Emily in Paris this ain’t – the miniseries is more like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Prime starting Feb. 27 (four episodes)
International Arrivals
CBC Gem has two interesting exclusive Canadian premieres this month. The acclaimed bittersweet British series Just Act Normal (Feb. 1, six episodes) follows siblings Tiana, Tionne and Tanika. After their mother disappears, the three youngsters try to stay under the radar and avoid being taken into care until Tionne, the eldest, turns 18 and can legally keep the family together. Meanwhile, U.K./New Zealand-thriller The Ridge (Feb. 27, six episodes) follows a Scottish anesthesiologist Mia (Lauren Lyle) who travels to New Zealand for what she thinks is her sister’s wedding, only to arrive and learn said sibling is dead; naturally, she investigates. French crime thriller Cash Queens (Feb. 5, Netflix) has entertaining potential: the heist comedy follows a group of women who rob banks while dressed as men, and is filmed in scenic southeast France. Netflix also debuts the much-anticipated Turkish adaptation of 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s novel Museum of Innocence (Feb 13, nine episodes). Beginning in the 1970s, it follows the relationship between Kemal, who comes from one of Istanbul’s wealthiest families, and his poor and distant young relation Füsun, in a tale of love and obsession. If nothing else, the scenery will be gorgeous.
