March 2018 TV premieres
Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys star in the final season of “The Americans.” (Pari Dukovic/FX)

March 2018 TV premieres, movies and more

Netflix overwhelms the March 2018 TV premieres calendar with all kinds of content, but there’s a ton of quality shows elsewhere. FX has Trust and the final season of The Americans. AMC brings viewers The Terror. CBS All-Access continues The Good Fight. Hard Sun burns bright on Hulu. Nat Geo airs the critically acclaimed doc Jane.

That just scratches the surface of what’s coming in March. Take a look at the most complete monthly premieres calendar on the Internet right here. (But if I’m missing something, let me know!)

 

March 2018 TV premieres calendar

All times Central

Thursday, March 1

Streaming

  • “21 Thunder,” Netflix (season 1; players & coaches for Montreal soccer team chase dreams while personal lives erupt with love, fear, passion, violence)

7 p.m.

  • “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC (special episode; episode introduces spinoff show “Station 19” about Seattle firefighters and EMTs)
  • “Gotham,” Fox (spring premiere)

8 p.m.

  • “Scandal,” ABC (crossover with “How to Get Away with Murder,” Part 1; Annalise Keating seeks Olivia Pope’s help in fast-tracking class action to Supreme Court)
  • “American Ninja Warrior: Ninja vs. Ninja,” USA (series premiere; top ninjas compete head-to-head)

9 p.m.

  • “How to Get Away with Murder,” ABC (crossover with “Scandal,” Part 2; Annalise Keating and Olivia Pope work together)
  • “Atlanta Robbin’,” FX (season 2)
  • “Music City,” CMT (doc series premiere; group of emerging artists chase their dreams)
  • “American Chopper,” Discovery (new season sneak peek)

 

Friday, March 2

Streaming

  • “Girls Incarcerated,” Netflix (season 1; doc series about teen women in prison)
  • “B: The Beginning,” Netflix (season 1; in anime, genius investigator Keith Flick rejoins royal police force just as serial killer “B” emerges)
  • “Brad’s Status,” Amazon Prime (movie; father takes his son to tour colleges & meets up with old friend who makes him feel inferior)
  • “Les Affamés (The Ravenous),” Netflix (movie; zombie plague ravages rural Quebec town)
  • “Flint Town,” Netflix (season 1; doc about cops in Flint, Mich., reveal department grappling with volatile issues)
  • “Voltron: Legendary Defender,” Netflix (season 5)

7 p.m.

  • “America’s Wild Frontier,” Nat Geo Wild (series premiere; diverse animals of heartland)
  • “Once Upon a Time,” ABC (spring premiere)
  • “MasterChef Junior,” Fox (season 6)

9 p.m.

  • “Frontline: Weinstein,” PBS (doc premiere; Harvey Weinstein’s efforts to silence allegations of sexual harassment and abuse by his accusers)
  • “Bridezillas,” We tv (season 11)

 

Saturday, March 3

4 p.m.

2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards,” IFC, Facebook Watch (special; 

7 p.m.

  • “Doo Wop Generations (My Music),” PBS (special; featuring music greats and rising stars of doo-wop)

9 p.m.

  • “Hear Me, Love Me, See Me,” TLC (series premiere, 3 episodes; bachelorette will meet three bachelors through POV cameras strapped to the men’s chests) 
  • “Buyers Bootcamp with Scott McGillivray,” diy (series premiere; real estate expert helps novice flippers win big)

 

Sunday, March 4

Streaming

  • “The Good Fight,” CBS All-Access (season 2)

Noon

  • “Countdown to the Oscars, Live!” ABC (3-hour special)

4:30 p.m.

  • On the Red Carpet at the Oscars, ABC (preview show)

5:30 p.m.

  • “Oscars Opening Ceremony: Live From the Red Carpet,” ABC (special; star interviews, etc. until 7 p.m.)

6 p.m.

  • “Nat Geo Wild from the Red Carpet,” Nat Geo Wild (special; from the Pawscars Awards)

7 p.m.

  • “90th Academy Awards,” ABC (special)
  • “Autopsy: The Last Hours of Mary Tyler Moore,” Reelz (special; Mary Tyler Moore’s life behind the cameras)

8 p.m.

  • “Carrie Fisher: The Price of Fame,” Reelz (special; life of Carrie Fisher)

10:35 p.m.

  • “Sundays with Alec Baldwin,” ABC (series premiere; talk show opens with guests Jerry Seinfeld and Kate McKinnon)

 

Monday, March 5

Streaming

  • “Delicious,” Acorn TV (season 2, exclusive U.S. premiere; more Acorn TV premieres)
  • “The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes,” Netflix (season 1; touring unconventional homes in extreme places)

7 p.m.

  • “Cleopatra,” Smithsonian (special; life of Egypt’s most famous ruler—sole woman of her time to rule alone)

7:30 p.m.

  • “Star Wars Rebels,” Disney XD (series finale, 2 eps over 90 minutes) 8 p.m.
  • “Mary Kills People,” Lifetime (season 2)

8 p.m.

  • “The Golden State Killer: It’s Not Over,” ID (4-part docuseries concludes Tuesday; new attempt to expose serial killer who struck from 1974 to 1986 in California)

9 p.m.

  • “Shifting Gears with Aaron Kaufman,” Discovery (series premiere; vehicle builds driven by passion)

 

Tuesday, March 6

Streaming

  • “Borderliner,” Netflix (season 1; team of inept border agents tackles immigration issues in mockumentary)
  • “Blochin,” MHz Choice (series premiere; German crime drama set in Berlin)

7 p.m.

  • “Food Exposed with Nelufar Hedayat,” Fusion (series premiere)

 

Wednesday, March 7

Streaming

  • “Hard Sun,” Hulu (season 1; two detectives, one corrupt and one incorruptible, must overcome distrust and work together on a case)
  • “300 Years of French and Saunders,” BritBox (exclusive U.S. premiere; comedy duo take aim at “Wonder Woman,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Poldark;” more BritBox premieres)

7 p.m.

  • “Survivor,” CBS (time-period premiere)
  • “Riverdale,” CW (spring premiere)

8 p.m.

  • “Life Sentence,” CW (series premiere; woman and family get back to living after she beats cancer)
  • “The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen,” History (docuseries; Daniel Boone, Lewis & Clark, etc.—look at men who went west)
  • “Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings,” Discovery (series premiere; 32 big names in no prep racing compete)

9 p.m.

  • “Hap and Leonard: The Two Bear Mambo,” SundanceTV (season 3)
  • “Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway,” Ovation (doc; how group of inspired mavericks made unlikely marriage of hip-hop and history)

 

Thursday, March 8

Streaming

  • “The Oath,” Crackle (season 1; inside world of cop gangs)
  • “Marvel’s Jessica Jones,”  Netflix (season 2)
  • “Kim Kong,” Sundance Now (comic miniseries; Asian dictatorship abducts bored French director during filming of action movie)
  • “Liberation Day,” Sundance Now (doc; Slovenian cult band Laibach becomes first rock group to perform in North Korea)
  • “Ladies First,” Netflix (doc; poor 18-year-old Indian woman becomes No.1 female archer in world)

7 p.m.

  • “She Started It,” Fuse (doc; lives of 5 diverse women entrepreneurs in tech field)

9 p.m.

  • “Truck Night in America,” History (series premiere; drivers compete in challenge course called “Green Hell”)

 

Friday, March 9

Streaming

  • “Collateral,” Netflix (season 1; investigating murder, London detective uncovers tangled conspiracy involving drug dealers, smugglers and spies)
  • “Nailed It,” Netflix (season 1; home bakers try to recreate edible masterpieces for $10,000 prize)
  • “The Outsider,” Netflix (movie; American soldier imprisoned in postwar Japan adopts yakuza way of life in repayment for his freedom)
  • “Sneaky Pete,” Amazon Prime (season 2)
  • “Love,” Netflix (season 3)
  • “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman,” Netflix (episode 3; Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai)
  • “The Remix,” Amazon Prime (season 1; music competition show in which competitors rejig, reshuffle and remix popular Bollywood songs)
  • “Trolls: The Beat Goes On,” Netflix (season 2)

9 p.m.

  • “Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Family Edition,” WEtv (season 10)

 

Saturday, March 10

8 p.m.

  • “Love, Once and Always,” Hallmark (movie; former sweethearts are reunited when they each are left half of New England mansion)

9 p.m.

  • “Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue,” Nat Geo (series premiere; staff at Humane Society of Pikes Peak Region risk their lives to save animals)

 

Sunday, March 11

6 p.m.

  • “American Ninja Warrior: USA Vs. the World,” NBC (special, 3 hours)

7 p.m.

  • “O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession,” Fox (special; Soledad O’Brien hosts look into 2006 interview Simpson granted Judith Regan in which he gave detailed description of what might have happened on night in 1994 when Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered)
  • “Instinct,” CBS (series premiere; author and former CIA operative is lured back to his old life by NYPD detective to help her stop serial killer who is using his first book as tutorial)
  • “American Idol,” ABC (network premiere; judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie join host Ryan Seacrest in this revival of the singing competition)

8 p.m.

  • “Deadly Deed—Fixer Upper Mystery 3,” Hallmark M&M (movie; many suspects in murder of reviled banker)
  • “The Arrangement,” E! (season 2)

9 p.m.

  • “Deception,” ABC (series premiere; magician teams with FBI to solve crimes)
  • “Timeless,” NBC (season 2)
  • “The Supervet,” Nat Geo (series premiere; Fitzpatrick Referrals in Surrey, England, is one of best veterinary hospitals in world)
  • “The Royals,” E! (season 4)
  • Naked and Afraid, Discovery (season 9)

 

Monday, March 12

7 p.m.

  • “Jane,” National Geographic/Nat Geo Wild (doc; Jane Goodall’s iconic chimpanzee research)
  • “Spring Baking Championship,” Food (season premiere)

8 p.m.

  • “Evil Talks: Chilling Confessions,” ID (series premiere; tactics employed by detectives in hopes of securing a criminal confession)
  • “Fast n’ Loud,” Discovery (season premiere)

 

Tuesday, March 13

Streaming

  • “Terrace House: Opening New Doors,” Netflix (Part 1; group of young people gather in the Karuizawa woods while pursuing their dreams)
  • “Stretch Armstrong: The Breakout,” Netflix (series premiere; kids show)

8 p.m.

  • “This Is Us,” NBC (season 2 finale)
  • “The Zimmern List,” Travel (series premiere; Andrew Zimmern sharing his personal food recommendations)
  • “The Big Interview with Dan Rather,” AXS (season 6)

9 p.m.

  • “Rise,” NBC (series premiere; dedicated teacher and family man takes over school’s lackluster theater department, galvanizing faculty, students, town)

 

Wednesday, March 14

Streaming

  • “Trauma,” BritBox (3-part limited series; father goes after doctor he thinks caused his son’s death)

7 p.m.

  • “The Mountain Lion and Me,” Smithsonian (6-parter; Montana filmmaker Casey Anderson gets to know a local mountain lion)

 

Thursday, March 15

Streaming

  • “Occupied,” Netflix (season 2)

8 p.m.

  • “Flip or Flop Vegas,” HGTV (season 2)

 

Friday, March 16

Streaming

  • “Striking Out,” Acorn TV (series 2, exclusive North American premiere)
  • “EDHA,” Netflix (season 1; Revenge, passion and dark secrets push a successful fashion designer/single mother to her limits)
  • “On My Block,” Netflix (season 1; teenage friends confront challenges of growing up in gritty inner-city Los Angeles.)
  • “Benji,” Netflix (movie; determined dog comes to rescue)
  • “Take Your Pills,” Netflix (doc; drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more)
  • “Spirit Riding Free,” Netflix (season 4)

8 p.m.

  • Beyond the Opposite Sex, Showtime (doc; revisiting subjects of The Opposite Sex 14 years after that doc showed them deal with sexual reassignment surgery)
  • “The Secret Life on Kids,” USA (series premiere; kids approach topics such as love, hate, relationships and lying on hidden camera)

 

Saturday, March 17

6 p.m.

  • “Aaron Hernandez Uncovered,” Oxygen (docu-series, 2 parts; what led NFL star to murder?)

8 p.m.

  • “The Sweetest Heart,” Hallmark (movie; high school sweethearts reconnect when one returns to their hometown for event)

 

Sunday, March 18

7 p.m.

  • “Little Big Shots,” NBC (season 2)
  • “Death Row Stories,” HLN (season 3)

8 p.m.

  • “Genius Junior,” NBC (series premiere; Neil Patrick Harris-led gameshow)
  • “El Negocio,” HBO Latino (4th and final season; moves to 9 p.m. Mondays thereafter)
  • “Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER,” Nat Geo (season 6)
  • “Unmasking a Killer,” HLN (5-part limited doc; profiles California’s most prolific uncaught serial killer)

9 p.m.

 

Monday, March 19

7 p.m.

  • “Epic Warrior Women,” Smithsonian (3-part doc series; Lynda Carter narrates look at women of history who fought on battlefields; Amazons, Gladiatrix and Africa’s Amazons)
  • “Silicon Valley: The Untold Story,” Science (3-hour special; look at history of computer and tech industry)
  • “Arthur Miller: Writer,” HBO (doc; intimate portrait of one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century is told from the unique perspective of his daughter, Rebecca Miller)

 

Tuesday, March 20

Streaming

  • “The Standups,” Netflix (season 2)
  • “Spring Tide,” MHz Choice (series premiere; student at police academy studies murder of pregnant woman on a Swedish beach 25 years earlier)

7 p.m.

  • “Shadowhunters,” Freeform (season 3)

8 p.m.

  • “Mysteries of the Abandoned,” Science (season 2)

9 p.m.

  • “You Me Her,” Audience (season 3)
  • “Adam Ruins Everything,” truTV (6 special animated episodes; revealing surprising truths and unsung heroes behind the history we’ve been taught)
  • “The Planets and Beyond,” Science (season 2)

10 p.m.

  • “The Chris Gethard Show,” truTV (new episodes)

 

Wednesday, March 21

Streaming

  • “Bear Grylls: Face the Wild,” Facebook Watch (series premiere; adventurer takes 10 participants on separate journeys)

8 p.m.

  • “Krypton,” Syfy (series premiere; Superman’s grandfather tries to save Krypton from forces of evil)

9 p.m.

  • Cheap Eats,” Cooking (season premiere)

 

Thursday, March 22

Streaming

  • “Innocent,” Sundance Now (4-part series; David Collins fights to rebuild his shattered life after wrongful murder conviction)
  • “Braxton Family Values,” WEtv (season premiere)
  • “Hustle & Soul,” WEtv  (season 2)

 

Friday, March 23

Streaming

“Alexa & Katie,” Netflix (season 1; lifelong best friends anticipate start of their freshman year of high school)

“March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step,” Hulu (doc; new father-son tale)

“Requiem,” Netflix (season 1; daughter finds evidence among dead mom’s possessions linking mom to disappearance of child decades earlier)

“Game Over Man,” Netflix (movie; 3 bumbling hotel employees save the day, almost ”Die Hard” style)

“The Mechanism,” Netflix (season 1; loosely inspired by investigation of alleged corruption in Brazilian oil and construction companies)

“Santa Clarita Diet,” Netflix (season 2)

“Dinotrux Supercharged,” Netflix (season 2)

“Roxanne Roxanne,” Netflix (movie; in 1984, New York teen Lolita Shanté Gooden bursts onto hip-hop scene)

 

Saturday, March 24

8 p.m.

  • “Royal Matchmaker,” Hallmark (movie; matchmaker falls for prince she’s supposed to fix up)

 

Sunday, March 25

7 p.m.

  • “Call the Midwife,” PBS (season 7)
  • “Billionaire Space Club,” Smithsonian (special; how rich entrepreneurs and engineers plan to overcome challenges of human space travel)

9 p.m.

  • “Trust,” FX (series premiere; exploration of wealthy Getty dynasty)
  • “Earth From Outer Space,” Smithsonian (special; astronauts use their unique perspective from space to reveal changes on Earth in past 45 years)
  • “Silicon Valley,” HBO (season 5)
  • “Billions,” Showtime (season 3)

9:30 p.m.

  • “Barry,” HBO (series premiere; depressed, low-rent hitman from the Midwest falls in love with acting while on a job in LA)

 

Monday, March 26

8 p.m.

  • “The Terror,” AMC (series premiere; dramatization of Royal Navy’s lost 1845 expedition to discover Northwest Passage in Antarctic)
  • “Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death,” PBS (doc; nine profiles of people who are dealing with death in different ways)
  • “Teyana & Iman,” VH1 (series premiere; intimate look lives of newlywed singer Teyana Taylor and athlete Iman Shumpert)

9 p.m.

  • “The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling,” HBO (2-part, 4 1/2-hour doc; Judd Apatow explores life of his comedian mentor and friend)

 

Tuesday, March 27

7 p.m.

  • “Roseanne,” ABC (series revival; the Connor family returns; more “Roseanne” news)
  • “Food Exposed with Nelufar Hedayat,” Fusion (docuseries premiere; exploring global food industry)

8 p.m.

  • “Dolores,” PBS (“Independent Lens” premiere; Dolores Huerta tirelessly led fight for racial and labor justice alongside Cesar Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant and unheralded feminist activists of 20th century)

8:30 p.m.

  • “Splitting Up Together,” ABC (series premiere; divorced couple still must live together)

 

Wednesday, March 28

7 p.m.

  • “Empire,” Fox (spring premiere)

8 p.m.

  • “Suits,” USA (season 7B)
  • “Star,” Fox (spring premiere)

9 p.m.

  • “The Americans,” FX (6th and final season)
  • “Ice,” Audience Network (season 2)
  • “Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar,” NBC (special; 70th birthday celebration for one of theater’s most celebrated composers)

9:30 p.m.

  • “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” in Puerto Rico, TBS (special episode filmed in Puerto Rico)

 

Thursday, March 29

Streaming

  • “Rosehaven,” Sundance Now (season 2)

7 p.m.

  • “Siren,” Freeform (series premiere; coastal town known for its mermaid legend is turned upside down when mysterious girl begins wreaking havoc)
  • “Invisible Killers: Influenza,” Discovery/Science (3-part docuseries; episodes “Smallpox” and “Ebola” follow right after only on Science Channel)

8 p.m.

  • Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48, A&E (series premiere; delves into still unsolved crimes, or those that ended with unsatisfactory results)

 

Friday, March 30

Streaming

  • “The Dangerous Book for Boys,” Amazon Prime (season 1; Wyatt and his brothers deal with death of their father, who leaves his sons book that inspires fantasy world)
  • “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” Netflix (season 2)
  • “First Match,” Netflix (movie; teenage girl from Brooklyn decides that wrestling boys is only way back to her estranged father)
  • “The Titan,” Netflix (movie; military family takes part in ground-breaking experiment of genetic evolution and space exploration)
  • “Reboot: The Guardian Code,” Netflix (season 1; adventures of four teenagers who become the Next-Generation Guardians of Cyberspace)
  • “Happy Anniversary,” Netflix (movie; on 3-year anniversary, couple need to decide whether to stay together or call it quits)

7 p.m.

  • “New Wave: Dare To Be Different,” Showtime (doc premiere; nostalgic look back at WLIR 92.7, rogue radio station on cutting edge of music throughout 1980s)

8 p.m.

  • “Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail,”  Discovery (season 2)

9 p.m.

  • “Bering Sea Gold,”  Discovery (season 10)

 

Saturday, March 31

8 p.m.

  • “Operation Odessa,” Showtime (doc; in early 1990s, Russian mobster, Miami playboy and Cuban spy sold Soviet submarine to Colombian drug cartel for $35 million)
  • “Home By Spring,” Hallmark (movie; event planner has to make a decisions: work or love)