Disney+ has announced its first Marvel television project for 2026, featuring new episodes of the animated series Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends. The episodes are set to premiere on January 10, continuing story arcs from previous seasons. This release highlights a year focused on Spider-Man content across the platform.
As 2025 draws to a close, Disney+ revealed its programming lineup for the coming year, with Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends taking the lead in January 2026. The series, aimed at families, will release a fresh batch of Season 4 episodes on Saturday, January 10. Although the season initially premiered in summer 2025, these new installments build on the Water-Webs arc, which introduces pirate-themed suits and aquatic powers for Peter Parker, Miles Morales, and Gwen Stacy. The narrative also extends the Dino-Webs storyline from Season 3.
This placement underscores Disney's emphasis on Spider-Man for 2026, described as the unofficial Year of the Spider. The character’s prominence extends beyond this show, influencing multiple Marvel releases. For instance, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 arrives in March, featuring Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock leading a resistance against Mayor Wilson Fisk’s anti-vigilante initiative. The series connects to Spider-Man through narrative threads leading into Spider-Man 4 and Murdock’s role as a mentor in the animated Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2 will continue Peter Parker’s story as an intern at Oscorp under Norman Osborn, teasing a symbiote suit arc and debuting Gwen Stacy and Venom. Cox voices Daredevil here, bridging live-action and animation. VisionQuest explores White Vision’s journey with AI elements like FRIDAY and EDITH, tied to Peter’s history in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Additionally, the live-action Spider-Noir, starring Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly in 1930s New York, releases as an eight-episode series in black-and-white and color versions on MGM+ and Prime Video. Season 5 of Spidey and His Amazing Friends is already greenlit, while X-Men '97 Season 2 in summer may include further Spider-Man crossovers, potentially resolving a long-standing cliffhanger from the original animated series.
