• Paramount+ releases first teaser trailer for Lioness season 3
• Release date is confirmed for August 2, 2026
• Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, Morgan Freeman, and creator Taylor Sheridan will all return

The first teaser trailer for Lioness season 3, returning to Paramount+ on August 2, has been released.

The explosive and incredibly chaotic 60-second first look confirms series leads Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, and Morgan Freeman will all be reprising their roles in new episodes.

As the official synopsis explains, "Joe (Saldaña) walks the line between duty and home as unseen forces circle her world. Patterns appear where they shouldn’t, names vanish, and paths rearrange.

"Guided by Kaitlyn (Kidman) and Westfield (Michael Kelly), Joe confronts enemies operating in the shadows, leaving her to reckon with a war that now reaches into every part of her life."

Taylor Sheridan is returning to write the series, as well as acting as an executive producer.

You can catch up with the Lioness season 3 trailer below — but after Landman season 2, Marshals, and Dutton Ranch already airing this year, you can't afford to overlook it.

Opinion: Lioness season 3 trailer makes absolutely no sense — but you have to look at what isn't being shown

Watch the above, and you'll be bombarded with explosions, kidnappings, and the Lioness squad armed with guns storming into abandoned buildings. At first glance, that's exactly like the previous two seasons, with little difference.

But if something isn't broken, you don't fix it — and Lioness delivering more of exactly what fans want is what might make it the strongest and most underrated Taylor Sheridan show of the bunch.

However, there could be a huge change on the horizon... just have to look at what isn't being shown. Joe and husband Neal (Dave Annable) were having serious marital problems in season 2, and judging by their sparse dialogue in the teaser, that could be about to get even worse.

"I'm scared for you... scared the way it became this world," Neal says, with Joe responding, "The world didn't become this way... it's always been this way."

It's another stark reminder of just how different their worlds and opinions are, and I don't know if their relationship is strong enough to survive Joe's genuinely life-or-death missions.

We'll know more on August 2, though we're yet to know just how season 3 episodes will be released.

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Jasmine is a Streaming Staff Writer for TechRadar, previously writing for outlets including Radio Times, Yahoo! and Stylist. She specialises in comfort TV shows and movies, ranging from Hallmark's latest tearjerker to Netflix's Virgin River. She's also the person who wrote an obituary for George Cooper Sr. during Young Sheldon Season 7 and still can't watch the funeral episode.