The Equalizer Returns for One Last Mission
THE EQUALIZER -- “Just Fans” Episode 503 -- Pictured: (l-r) Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian and Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall -- (Photo by: Michael Greenberg/CBS)
The Equalizer returns to Universal TV for its fifth and final season
Johannesburg, 2 April 2026: The fifth and final season of The Equalizer premieres on Universal TV (DSTV 117) on 3 April at 8 PM, with new episodes airing every Friday leading up to the series finale on 31 July 2026.
The Equalizer is a reimagining of the classic series starring Academy Award® nominee and multi-hyphenate Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her extensive skills as a former CIA operative to help those with nowhere else to turn. McCall presents to most as an average single mom who is quietly raising her teenage daughter. But to a trusted few, she is The Equalizer – an anonymous guardian angel and defender of the downtrodden, who’s also dogged in her pursuit of personal redemption.
Robyn’s clandestine work and her personal life often collide when her smart and observant daughter, Delilah, and her aunt Vi, who lives with Robyn to help her balance life as a working mother, struggle to conceal her vigilante career. While Robyn worries about the mental and emotional toll her work exacts on her family, she is joined in her pursuit of justice by Melody “Mel” Bayani, an edgy bar owner and sniper from Robyn’s past who recently quit the Equalizer team to recover from post-traumatic stress disorder, and Harry Keshegian, a paranoid and brilliant white hat hacker married to Mel. As Robyn aids the oppressed and exploited, she sometimes works with Marcus Dante, an NYPD detective and trusted friend who respects the need for Robyn’s type of justice even as he often questions her methods.
Queen Latifah (Chicago, Hairspray) returns alongside Tory Kittles (Colony, True Detective), Adam Goldberg (A Beautiful Mind, Saving Private Ryan), Liza Lapira (Fast & Furious, Crazy, Stupid, Love), Laya DeLeon Hayes (God of War Ragnarök, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster) and Lorraine Toussaint (Orange Is the New Black, Selma).
The Equalizer is produced by Universal Television in association with CBS Studios. Executive producers include Joseph C. Wilson, Dana Owens (Queen Latifah), Debra Martin Chase, Shakim Compere, John Davis, John Fox, Loretha Jones and Rob Hanning.
The Equalizer Season 5 premieres on Universal TV on 3 April at 8 PM, with new episodes airing every Friday until 31 July 2026.
Universal TV is available on DStv Channel 117 across Africa.
