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TV Night Is Going to ATX TV Festival 2026

Every show on the Season 15 panel slate — sorted by where you can stream it right now, so you can catch up before opening night.

If you've ever wondered what to watch tonight, the answer for Memorial Day weekend is "whatever's about to be on stage in Austin." TV Night is covering ATX TV Festival 2026 with its trademark mood: where to find these shows, what platform they're on, and which ones to queue up before May 28.

AUSTIN, TEX. — May 14, 2026. The fifteenth ATX TV Festival rolls into downtown Austin from Thursday, May 28 through Sunday, May 31, and TV Night's editors are turning the festival's programmed slate into a watch-ahead playlist. The festival's "TV camp for grown-ups" vibe pairs naturally with the kind of can't-decide-what-to-watch energy TV Night was built to fix — so we're indexing every show appearing on the Paramount Theatre and Stateside stages to the streamer where you can find it tonight.

The five W’s, TV Night edition

WHO
Co-presidents Caitlin McFarland & Emily Gipson, plus a 24-person advisory board (Noah Hawley, Phil Rosenthal, Richard Linklater, more)
WHAT
ATX TV Festival, Season 15 — five days of premieres, reunions, master classes, and three honorific awards
WHEN
Thursday May 28 — Sunday May 31, 2026 · opens 9 AM CT
WHERE
Paramount Theatre (713 Congress) + Stateside Theatre (719 Congress), downtown Austin
WHY
Because "TV for all, y'all" is the closest thing television has to a clubhouse — and 2026 is the year you should be paying attention

Catch up by streamer before May 28

Here's the ATX TV Festival 2026 lineup, organized the only way TV Night knows how — by where you actually watch it. Pick a streamer, queue the show, and you'll walk into the panel knowing the work.

NBC / Peacock 2 panels
  • Friday Night Lights — 20th-anniversary reunion Texas Made Award
  • Homicide: Life on the Street — "Three Men and Adena" deep-dive
CBS / Paramount+ 2 panels
  • Everybody Loves Raymond — 30th anniversary w/ Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal
  • Marshals — Grit/Guts/Stunts w/ Spencer Hudnut, Arielle Kebbel, Matthew Taylor
HBO / Max 1 panel
  • House of the Dragon — Season 3 first look w/ Ryan Condal
Acorn TV 1 premiere
  • You're Killing Me — Brooke Shields headlining
PBS Masterpiece 1 panel
  • All Creatures Great and Small — cast & producer conversation
MTV / Paramount+ 1 reunion
  • Sweet/Vicious — 10th-anniversary reunion w/ Eliza Bennett, Taylor Dearden
Reality / Multi-platform 1 master class
  • Boston Rob Mariano — Reality Master Class
Independent 2 spotlights
  • Indie TV Pilot Competition — inaugural, w/ Mark Duplass
  • The Other Bennet Sister — screening

Add it up: NBC, CBS, HBO, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Acorn, PBS, MTV, and indie — nine platforms represented across a four-day weekend. ATX still does this better than anyone.

The honorific awards

Three names get a trophy this year, and all three reshape your watchlist. Friday Night Lights takes the Texas Made Award. Sharon Bialy and Sherry Thomas — the casting directors behind Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, and Barry — share the Collaborator Award. Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Ted Lasso, Shrinking) receives the Warren Littlefield Award. If those three pillars don't tell you what prestige television looks like right now, nothing will.

📺 Where to find our coverage on TVNight.com

  • /atx-tv-festival-2026/ — the festival hub: lineup, where to stream each show, panel previews
  • /tonight.html — nightly watch picks during the festival, May 28–31
  • /news.html — daily dispatches from the Paramount Theatre lobby
  • /social.html — ATX social feed roundup, refreshed during the weekend
  • /resources.html — the streamer index, so you can find every panelled show fast

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