5 Best That Love Podcast Series of 2026 So Far 🎧💛
- Joao Nsita
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If you haven't discovered That Love Podcast yet, you've been missing some of the most emotionally rich, genuinely original audio drama available anywhere right now.
That Love Podcast — created, written, produced, and directed by Joao Nsita — has quietly built one of the most impressive original audio drama universes in the UK, with over 35 serialised series spanning romance, drama, comedy, and science fiction. Each episode runs under twenty minutes, making them perfect for commutes, walks, and the kind of late-night listening that keeps you up longer than you planned.
2026 has already been one of the platform's most ambitious years. Five original series have dropped so far — each one genuinely different from the last, each one pushing the format in a new direction, and each one giving its characters the kind of emotional depth and storytelling care that most streaming platforms reserve for their biggest productions.
Whether you are completely new to That Love Podcast and want to know exactly where to start, or a long-time listener who wants to know which 2026 series deserves your immediate attention — this list is for you.
These are the five best That Love Podcast series of 2026 so far. Ranked from fifth to first. With everything you need to know about each one before you press play.
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5. Hell Nah to Easter 🐣
Genre: Comedy Drama Available at: thatlovepodcast.com/episodes
Hell Nah to Easter is That Love Podcast at its most irreverently funny — a series that takes the specific chaos of a family holiday and weaponises it into one of the most recognisable and gloriously relatable audio comedies in the platform's catalogue.
The premise is exactly what the title promises: a holiday occasion that refuses to go the way anyone planned, filled with the specific combination of love and exasperation that only family gatherings produce. The writing captures the texture of a real Easter — the overlapping expectations, the unresolved dynamics from the last family gathering, the specific way a holiday meal can be simultaneously a celebration and a pressure cooker — with a sharp wit and a warm heart that makes every episode feel like visiting people you actually know.
What That Love Podcast does brilliantly in its comedic series is never let the comedy become cold. Hell Nah to Easter is funny precisely because it cares about its characters — the humour comes from recognition rather than mockery, and by the time the series closes, you've laughed a great deal and felt something genuine beneath the laughter.
For new listeners to That Love Podcast, this is one of the most immediately accessible entry points in the 2026 catalogue — a series you can start on a Tuesday evening and finish before you go to sleep, feeling considerably better about your own family situation.
Why It Made the List: Sharp, warm, and funnier than it has any right to be. Hell Nah to Easter is the series you recommend to friends who think audio drama is too serious for them.
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4. What Is Love? ❓💭
Genre: Romantic Drama / Comedy Available at: thatlovepodcast.com/episodes
What Is Love? is the series that best represents what That Love Podcast does when it wants to explore the big questions underneath its intimate stories — a series that uses the warmth and accessibility of romantic comedy to ask something genuinely complex: what does love actually mean, in practice, for real people navigating real lives?
The series operates across multiple character perspectives and relationship configurations, allowing the central question to be examined through very different lenses simultaneously. The result is a richly layered listening experience where each episode adds a new dimension to the question the title poses, without ever becoming preachy or philosophical at the expense of being genuinely entertaining.
The social media content created for this series — including stand-up comedy bits, character quote posts, and Would You Rather engagement posts — reflects the show's specific tonal ambition: smart enough to ask serious questions, light enough to make you laugh while asking them.
The series bible written for What Is Love? is one of the most comprehensive in the TLP universe, and the depth of character planning behind the series is visible in every episode. These characters are not types or archetypes. They are people — specific, funny, recognisable, and worth spending time with.
Why It Made the List: The most intellectually ambitious series in the 2026 TLP slate, and one of the most emotionally generous. What Is Love? asks the question most people think about privately and almost nobody asks aloud.
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3. Stolen Kiss 💋
Genre: Romantic Drama Premiered: April 13, 2026 Episodes: 6 Cast: Chakree Matayanant, Ciara Haas, Burr Kell, Emerson Peery, Sincerely_Lyzi Available at: thatlovepodcast.com/episodes
Stolen Kiss is the most dramatically satisfying series in the 2026 TLP catalogue — a six-episode romantic drama that takes one of the genre's most beloved premises (the fake relationship that becomes real) and executes it with a specificity, an ambition, and an emotional intelligence that elevates it far above the formula.
Diane Stewart is an Oscar-winning actress, producer, and playwright at the top of her career. Jack Marsden is an aspiring actor with a complicated past who has become one of Hollywood's most discussed disgraced figures. Their fake engagement — a PR strategy designed to rehabilitate both their images simultaneously — is the inciting event. What follows across six episodes is the slow, careful, beautifully performed dismantling of the performance until something real is standing where the fiction used to be.
The series is built on the specific tension between public persona and private self — Diane and Jack present one relationship to the world and discover, gradually and against their own intentions, that they are living another one simultaneously. The supporting cast deepens the world considerably: Maggie Williams as Diane's fiercely loyal assistant, Stephanie Marsden as Jack's sister (a cancer survivor whose own love story with Antonio runs as a quietly moving parallel arc), and Neville Wright as Jack's very British agent.
When Jack receives a Law & Order SVU offer and leaves LA, the series enters its most emotionally powerful stretch. His return in the finale — episode six, titled "Your Anti-Hero" — and the marriage that closes the series, with Diane pregnant, is the payoff the preceding five episodes have earned completely.
The production values across Stolen Kiss are among the highest in the TLP universe, and the marketing suite produced for it — character cards, concept art in the Ginger & Posh vintage comic book style, Pinterest descriptions, a full trailer ad script — reflects the scale of ambition behind the project.
Why It Made the List: The best romantic drama in the 2026 TLP slate. Stolen Kiss is the series that demonstrates what audio drama can do when the writing is strong enough and the cast is committed enough to make you forget you're not watching something.
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2. Back to December 📅❤️
Genre: Romantic Comedy Premiered: May 11, 2026 Episodes: 6 Available at: thatlovepodcast.com/episodes
Back to December is the romance that reminds you why you fell in love with love stories in the first place.
Haley is an artist and the series' narrator — a woman whose voice carries the whole story, whose perspective shapes everything the listener receives, and whose emotional journey is the reason every episode matters.
Luke is the person she shouldn't still have feelings for, and then unexpectedly finds across the table on a blind date. The reunion is the starting gun.
The six-episode arc of Back to December is structured with the precision of a great romantic comedy novel. Episode one: the banter, the wine, the electricity of rediscovery. Episode two: the vulnerabilities emerge — Haley's mother died, Luke's fake-girlfriend situation surfaces. Episode three: a restaurant, a stalker ex, and Luke confessing love that Haley isn't ready to receive. Episode four: a fake date with Luke's grandmother, an heirloom ring, and a kiss that changes everything. Episode five: Luke ruins Haley's gallery meeting with Mike Turner and gets dumped. Episode six: Haley has become famous. Luke has come back from London. A bus stop. A reconciliation. They marry the next day.
That final episode beats — the bus stop scene, the next-day marriage — are where Back to December earns everything it has been building toward. Haley's voice as narrator, carrying us through six episodes of wanting and hesitating and finally choosing, makes the ending land with the specific force of a story that was always going exactly here.
Enzo Cho Carter, the Love Doctor of the TLP universe, exists in the same creative world as Back to December — and his presence connects this series to the broader TLP universe in ways that reward listeners who have spent time across the platform's catalogue.
The Podbean series description for Back to December, written with full episode summaries for all six chapters, is one of the most complete and emotionally precise series pitches in the TLP archive. It reads like the back of a very good novel. The series itself delivers everything the pitch promises.
Why It Made the List: The most structurally satisfying romantic comedy in the 2026 TLP slate. Back to December is the series you will listen to in one sitting and feel genuinely happy at the end of.
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1. Girls Like Girls 🌈💕
Genre: Romantic Drama Premiered: June 8, 2026 (Pride Month) Episodes: 6 Cast: Alsey Carver, Alissa Bowers, Emerson Peery, Lisa Miller Available at: thatlovepodcast.com/episodes
Girls Like Girls is the best That Love Podcast series of 2026 so far — and it earns that position because it does everything the platform does well and then goes further than it has ever gone before.
Missy Johnson is in her mid-thirties, bisexual, and newly an empty-nester. Her son Louis is sixteen and Columbia-bound. Her ex-husband Chris is her best friend. Her life is settled, perhaps too settled, in ways that she hasn't yet fully examined.
Quinn Matlock is twenty-six, a tech heiress, and hiding. The scandal she is hiding from involves an affair with Zoe Holland, the White House chief of staff — a detail that gives the series an immediately sophisticated and politically charged context that sets it apart from every other TLP series in the catalogue.
Their love story is told across six episodes with a patience and an emotional precision that makes it the most complete romantic arc in the 2026 TLP slate. The series does not rush. It gives Missy and Quinn the space to find each other, to misunderstand each other, to lose each other temporarily, and to choose each other with complete intention in the finale.
The supporting cast is one of the finest assembled in a TLP series. Chris Johnson — Missy's ex-husband and best friend — is the series' most quietly radical relationship, a depiction of a genuine, sustaining friendship between ex-partners that feels both specific and enormously true. Louis, their sixteen-year-old son who is Columbia-bound and increasingly complicated in the truths he tells his mother, adds a generational layer to the story that deepens every scene he's in. Margaret, the butcher-restaurateur who becomes Chris's love interest, gives the show a secondary romance whose warmth and humour provide perfect counterpoint to Missy and Quinn's more fraught central love story.
The fifth episode is the series' most emotionally devastating. Missy breaks up with Quinn — not knowing that Quinn's father David Sugar is simultaneously in surgery for a life-threatening cardiac event. Chris reveals the truth. Missy texts an apology. Quinn doesn't reply. The silence at the end of that episode is one of the most affecting moments in TLP's entire catalogue.
The finale delivers everything. A Boston Marathon reunion. Margaret's restaurant grand opening. Louis's complicated confession about a girlfriend. Chris proposing to Margaret. And Missy and Quinn, at the end of everything, choosing each other with the simplest and most complete declaration in the series: "No more trying. Forever."
Girls Like Girls premiered on June 8, 2026 — the opening of Pride Month — and it is the most important series That Love Podcast has produced in terms of the story it tells and the audience it reaches. The creative marketing suite built around it — character introduction posts, Hook/Emotion/Intrigue Instagram posts, series announcement content, trailer ad scripts — reflects the scale of the ambition. But the series itself exceeds every expectation the marketing sets.
Written, produced, and directed by Joao Nsita, Girls Like Girls is proof that great romantic fiction doesn't require a screen. It requires characters you believe in, a story told with enough honesty to make you feel something real, and the willingness to go to the places that other platforms are not brave enough to go.
This is That Love Podcast at its absolute best.
Why It Ranks First: The most emotionally complete, most beautifully performed, and most thematically ambitious series in the 2026 TLP slate. If you listen to only one TLP series this year, make it this one.
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Conclusion
2026 has already been That Love Podcast's most ambitious year — five genuinely different series, each one pushing the format in a new direction, each one earning its place in a catalogue that now spans over 35 original series and 220+ episodes.
From the irreverent warmth of Hell Nah to Easter to the philosophical heart of What Is Love?, from the Hollywood glamour of Stolen Kiss to the perfectly structured romantic comedy of Back to December, and culminating in the Pride Month landmark that is Girls Like Girls — this year's TLP slate is the work of a creator operating at the top of his craft and a platform that knows exactly who it is and who it is for.
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10 Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is That Love Podcast? That Love Podcast is an original audio drama and romantic fiction platform created, written, produced, and directed by Joao Nsita. It features over 35 serialised series and 220+ episodes across romance, comedy, drama, and science fiction genres. Episodes run under twenty minutes each, making them perfect for commuting, walking, or any daily downtime. All series are available free at thatlovepodcast.com/episodes and on major podcast platforms including Spotify.
2. Where can I listen to That Love Podcast? All That Love Podcast series are available at thatlovepodcast.com/episodes, on Spotify, and across all major podcast platforms. The platform offers over 35 original series covering romance, comedy, drama, and more, all produced by Joao Nsita.
3. What is Girls Like Girls about? Girls Like Girls is a six-episode romantic drama that premiered on June 8, 2026, for Pride Month. It follows Missy Johnson (a bisexual mid-thirties empty-nester) and Quinn Matlock (a 26-year-old tech heiress hiding from a political scandal) and their love story across six emotionally complex episodes. It is the best-reviewed and most emotionally ambitious series in the 2026 TLP slate.
4. What is Back to December about? Back to December is a six-episode romantic comedy that premiered May 11, 2026. It follows Haley, an artist, and Luke, her unexpected reunion date, through six episodes of misunderstandings, vulnerability, and eventual commitment. The series is narrated by Haley and is widely considered one of the most structurally satisfying rom-coms in the TLP catalogue.
5. What is Stolen Kiss about? Stolen Kiss is a six-episode romantic drama that premiered April 13, 2026. It follows Diane Stewart, an Oscar-winning actress, and Jack Marsden, a disgraced actor, whose fake engagement for PR purposes becomes a genuine love story. The series finale is titled "Your Anti-Hero" and closes with a wedding and a pregnancy reveal.
6. Is That Love Podcast free to listen to? Yes — That Love Podcast is free to listen to at thatlovepodcast.com/episodes and on all major podcast platforms including Spotify. The platform is supported through listener donations, Amazon affiliate revenue, and Mediavine ad revenue. Fans who want to support the show can donate at thatlovepodcast.com/donate.
7. Who creates That Love Podcast? All That Love Podcast series are created, written, produced, and directed by Joao Nsita, a London-based storyteller and platform founder. The shows are recorded with a cast of voice actors and audio drama performers and produced to a professional broadcast standard.
8. How many series does That Love Podcast have? That Love Podcast has over 35 original serialised series and more than 220 episodes available across romance, comedy, drama, and science fiction genres. New series are added regularly, with 2026 having already seen the premiere of five major new productions.
9. What genre is That Love Podcast? That Love Podcast's primary genre is romantic fiction — specifically romantic comedy (rom-com) and romantic drama. The platform also includes series in science fiction (The Iron Web), supernatural drama, comedy drama, and LGBTQ+ romantic fiction. The 2026 slate includes romantic drama, comedy drama, and what is arguably the platform's most important LGBTQ+ series to date.
10. What is the best That Love Podcast series to start with? For new listeners, Girls Like Girls is the best single series to start with in 2026 — it is the most emotionally complete and the most ambitious entry in the year's slate. Back to December is the best romantic comedy entry point. Stolen Kiss is ideal for listeners who love Hollywood glamour and fake-relationship tropes. Hell Nah to Easter is the best starting point for listeners who want something lighter and immediately funny.
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