Shrinking Season 3 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out?

Shrinking fans rejoice! Your favorite therapists are returning to the small screen.

Season 3 of the Emmy-nominated dramedy is set to premiere on Apple TV on Jan. 28, and co-creator Bill Lawrence has already warned that it could be its last. “We pitched three seasons — the beginning, middle and end,” he told Variety in March 2023.

While the inaugural season focused on grief, with viewers meeting Jason Segel’s Jimmy after he recently lost his wife in a car crash, Lawrence explained that “the second year is about forgiveness, and the third year is about moving forward.”

That transition looks different for each of the series’ beloved characters. While Gaby (Jessica Williams) navigates her romance with Derrick No. 2 (Damon Wayans Jr.), Paul (Harrison Ford) returns to work after learning that he has up to a year before his Parkinson medication stops taking effect. Now that Alice (Lukita Maxwell) is officially off to college, Jimmy struggles to allow himself to find love again — possibly with Segel’s How I Met Your Mother costar Cobie Smulders.

“He’s gotten himself back to zero, but the entire framework of the life that he had planned was sort of taken away from him,” the actor said during a January 2026 interview with The Knockturnal. “His wife is gone. His daughter is going off to college. Things are really changing at work. So I think Jimmy is at this moment of ‘What now?’ ”

So when will fans get to find out what’s next for their favorite fictional therapists? Here’s everything to know about Shrinking season 3’s release schedule, including when new episodes come out.

When does season 3 of Shrinking premiere?

The third season of Shrinking will begin streaming on Jan. 28. This year, the whole crew is focused on moving forward.

“Forgiveness wasn’t just Jimmy’s story,” Lawrence told TVLine in June 2025. “It was Alice’s story, and Derek and Liz’s story, and Sean [Luke Tennie] with his dad, and Gaby and her mom and sister, so this sense of moving forward exists for everybody, and we consider Brett [Goldstein]’s character to be a major one after the second year.”

Goldstein, who co-created the series with Lawrence, was introduced in season 2 as Louis, the drunk driver responsible for killing Jimmy’s wife. In the final episode, the therapist confronts him just before he throws himself in front of a moving train.

How many episodes are in season 3 of Shrinking?

Season 3 of Shrinking will include 11 episodes. While season 2 expanded to 12 episodes from the first season’s 10, the new installment is slightly shorter.

Fans will be happy to know that the premiere episode will run a full hour — longer than most installments of the series — and introduce them to another patient with Parkinson’s, played by Michael J. Fox. Lawrence joked to PEOPLE in November 2025 that the Family Ties alum made the mistake of saying he’d “do it again” after filming the first episode.

“It’s not a simple, preachy role,” he explained. “He’s a wise-ass and as acerbic as he’s always been, and he’s kind of a really key part of the first episode, and he had so much fun and we had so much — he made the mistake.”

Lawrence continued, “He said, ‘That was so much fun. I’d do it again.’ And around me, if he ever says anything like that out loud, I’m like, ‘Oh, then come back in two weeks.’ So he had to come back again.”

What is Shrinking season 3’s episode release schedule?

Apple TV will stream the first, one-hour episode of Shrinking season 3 on Jan. 28. After that, episodes will drop every week on Wednesday until the season finale on April 8.

Here’s the full episode release schedule:

• Jan. 28: “My Bad”
• Feb. 4: “Happiness Mission”
• Feb. 11: Episode 3
• Feb. 18: Episode 4
• Feb. 25: Episode 5
• March 4: Episode 6
• March 11: Episode 7
• March 18: Episode 8
• March 25: Episode 9
• April 1: Episode 10
• April 8: Episode 11

What time do new episodes of Shrinking season 3 come out?

Like other Apple TV shows, new episodes of Shrinking will likely be released on the platform at 9 p.m. ET on the Tuesday before the official premiere date.

Where can I watch Shrinking?

The first two seasons of Shrinking are available to stream on Apple TV, where new episodes will also be releasing.