Here Are All the TV Shows Coming to Paramount+ This Week, Including ‘48 Hours’

It’s a packed week for long-running heavy hitters, with competition stalwarts and hard-hitting newsmagazines all landing fresh episodes. Whether you’re into globe-trotting challenges, social strategy on a remote island, or meticulously reported investigations, there’s something familiar—and reliably compelling—on the lineup.

Below you’ll find quick primers on each returning series, focusing on what they cover, who fronts them, and the creative teams that shape the shows. Dates reflect when each title is arriving this week, and each entry includes background details so you can jump in fully up to speed.

‘Survivor’ (2000)

The landmark reality competition touches down on Wednesday, 9/24. Based on Charlie Parsons’ format, the U.S. edition strands contestants in a remote location, organizes them into tribes, and runs a cycle of Reward and Immunity Challenges leading to Tribal Councils where players vote to eliminate one another until a jury selects the Sole Survivor. Jeff Probst hosts and serves as an executive producer, guiding the gameplay framework that mixes physical endurance, puzzle-solving, and alliance-building with twists like hidden immunity idols and tribe swaps.

Production is overseen by Survivor Entertainment Group in association with Castaway Television Productions, with executive producers including Jeff Probst and Mark Burnett as part of the long-standing leadership. Recent seasons have filmed in Fiji, which provides a consistent base for large-scale challenge construction and logistics. The series’ crew structure—showrunners, challenge designers, field producers, and editors—supports a documentary-style approach that captures strategy at camp and the high-stakes deliberations at Tribal Council when it arrives on 9/24.

‘The Amazing Race’ (2001)

The globe-trekking competition sets off on Thursday, 9/25. Co-created by Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri, the series pairs teams with pre-existing relationships and sends them across multiple countries, navigating airports, public transit, and self-driving routes while completing Detours and Roadblocks before checking in at Pit Stops. Phil Keoghan has hosted from the start, greeting teams at the mat, explaining penalties, and introducing tasks that test navigation, communication, and teamwork under pressure.

Worldrace Productions leads the show’s production, with van Munster and Doganieri among the executive producers alongside a rotating leadership team; the enterprise coordinates international permits, location scouting, safety protocols, and clue distribution across each leg. The format’s mechanics—route markers, task instructions, and time penalties—remain the backbone of the race. When the new leg begins on 9/25, expect the polished mix of cultural tasks, endurance challenges, and real-time decision-making that has defined the franchise.

’48 Hours’ (1988)

The award-winning newsmagazine returns on Sunday, 9/28. Produced by CBS News, the program dedicates each episode to a single case—or occasionally two shorter investigations—drawing on interviews with detectives, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and families, as well as police records, timelines, and courtroom footage. Correspondents including Erin Moriarty and Peter Van Sant anchor reports that trace cases from incident through investigation and trial, with careful attention to evidentiary detail and legal context.

Judy Tygard serves as executive producer, overseeing editorial standards, verification, and the narrative structure that blends field reporting with archival material. The production pipeline spans producers, associate producers, researchers, and editors who compile case files, vet sources, and assemble the chronology of events. The 9/28 installment follows the established template: a meticulously documented story shaped by interviews, documents, and on-the-ground reporting.

’60 Minutes’ (1968)

The pioneering newsmagazine is back on Sunday, 9/28. Created by Don Hewitt, the program is organized around multiple segments—typically 12–15 minutes each—reported by a roster that has included Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi, Bill Whitaker, Anderson Cooper, and Jon Wertheim. Stories span international affairs, business, science, culture, and sports, often featuring exclusive interviews and on-site reporting, all framed by the stopwatch motif that opens each broadcast.

Produced by CBS News, the show’s editorial leadership commissions investigations, coordinates legal review, and manages field production from pre-interview to final edit. Correspondents work closely with producers and researchers responsible for backgrounding, source vetting, and fact-checking ahead of air. When it airs on 9/28, expect a slate of self-contained segments, each guided by a correspondent and shaped in the edit suite to deliver deeply reported storytelling in the program’s signature cadence.

Tell us which of this week’s arrivals you’re most excited for—and why—in the comments!