Ryan Murphys The Beauty Adaptation Sets Premiere Date Across FX and Streaming

Ryan Murphy’s newest FX series The Beauty has set its 2026 premiere date and revealed an impressive list of guest stars.

The Beauty is set to premiere on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026 on both the FX cable channel and on Hulu; the same date applies internationally, but beyond our borders, the series will stream on Disney+. The first three episodes of The Beauty will debut in order, beginning at 9 p.m. ET/PT that evening. The next eight episodes will premiere weekly each Wednesday starting at the same time, with a pair of episodes back-to-back in the show’s final two weeks.

On the guest list are Amelia Gray Hamlin, Ari Graynor, Bella Hadid, Ben Platt, Billy Eichner, Isabella Rossellini, Jaquel Spivey, Jessica Alexander, Jon Jon Briones, John Carroll Lynch, Julie Halston, Lux Pascal, Meghan Trainor, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Peter Gallagher and Vincent D’Onofrio.

Rossellini had been previously announced, and Hadid was widely expected to be in the series, but the rest stayed under wraps until today.

The Beauty’s official description reads:

In TheBeauty, theworld of high fashion turns dark when international supermodels begin dying in gruesome and mysterious ways. FBI Agents Cooper Madsen (Evan Peters) and Jordan Bennett (Rebecca Hall) are sent to Paris to uncover the truth. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover a sexually transmitted virus that transforms ordinary people into visions of physical perfection, but with terrifying consequences. Their path leads them directly into the crosshairs of The Corporation (Ashton Kutcher), a shadowy tech billionaire who has secretly engineered a miracle drug dubbed ‘The Beauty,’ who will do anything to protect his trillion-dollar empire—including unleashing his lethal enforcer, The Assassin (Anthony Ramos). As the epidemic spreads, Jeremy (Jeremy Pope), a desperate outsider, is caught in the chaos, searching for purpose as the agents race across Paris, Venice, Rome, and New York to stop a threat that could alter the future of humanity.The Beautyis a global thriller that asks: what would you sacrifice for perfection?

The Beauty is created and written by Murphy & Matthew Hodgson. It is executive produced by Murphy, Hodgson, Peters, Ramos, Pope,Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Michael Uppendahl, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Gitter, Peter Schwerin and Jeremy Haun. The series is based on the comic books written by Haun and Jason A. Hurley, who serves as a consultant.The Beautyis produced by 20thTelevision.