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From Black Rabbit to The White Lotus, these are the TV shows we can’t wait to see debut—or return—in the coming year. Though 2023 may feel like a lifetime ago to many, the effects of that year’s dual writers’ and actors’ strikes are still being felt in Hollywood—as well as by fans eagerly anticipating the premiere (or return) of their favorite TV series. While the bulk of strike-delayed programs made their triumphant debuts/returns this year (see: Abbott Elementary, The Penguin, True Detective: Night Country, and Yellowstone), there are still more long-awaited titles, both new and returning, on the schedule for the next 12 months. Here are 15 shows we can’t wait to watch in 2025. Lockerbie: A Search for Truth On the evening of December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was traveling over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, when a bomb exploded onboard—killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members, plus another 11 on-the-ground witnesses to the terrorist attack. Jim Swire (portrayed here by Oscar-winner Colin Firth) has spent the decades since the incident, which claimed the life of his 23-year-old daughter Flora, looking for answers about exactly what happened on that tragic day in an attempt to bring those responsible to justice. This five-part series was adapted from The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice, the 2021 book Swire cowrote with Peter Biddulph. Though the bombing took place nearly 40 years ago, it’s still very much in the news—and is about to make even bigger headlines once again: Abu Agila Mas’ud, who the US authorities allege made the bomb used in the attack, is set to go on trial in Washington, DC in May 2025. US release date: January 7, Peacock American Primeval Thanks to Taylor Sheridan, Westerns are hot again—and Netflix is leaning into the genre with this six-part period drama. It’s 1857 and Sara Rowell (Betty Gilpin) is a wife and mother attempting to make her way to Philadelphia to reunite with her husband. Realizing her chances of surviving the journey are slim, she hires a mysterious man named Isaac (Taylor Kitsch) to serve as her guide and protector. But American Primeval is about more than just one woman’s journey: It’s a gritty retelling of the American West, and the violent extremes people went to in order to maintain control of the land with gender, religion, and race all playing a part in the fight. Shea Whigham, Dane DeHaan, Jai Courtney, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Shawnee Pourier, Derek Hinkey, and Joe Tippett round out the cast. US release date: January 9, Netflix Severance Nearly three years after Severance first wowed viewers in early 2022 with its dystopian take on work-life balance, the employees of Lumon Industries are back. After learning the true nature of their work, and that a surgical procedure has allowed them to completely separate their work and personal lives, coworkers Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Dylan (Zach Cherry), and Irving (John Turturro) are forced to reckon with their new knowledge of the outside world—and the price they might end up paying for their discovery. The series is upping the ante in terms of its already-phenomenal cast in Season 2, with Alia Shawkat, Bob Balaban, Merritt Wever, and Gwendoline Christie joining the team. US release date: January 17, Apple TV+ Prime Target After delivering a flawless performance in Netflix’s One Day, Leo Woodall’s leading-man streak continues. Edward Brooks (Woodall) is a brilliant young mathematician who may have just cracked the code on how to gain control over every computer on earth—which isn’t something the National Security Agency wants to see happen, and why they send in one of their own, agent Taylah Sanders (Quintessa Swindell), to keep an eye on Brooks. But the more Sanders gets to know Brooks, the more she begins to understand that he—and she—might be at the center of a massive conspiracy that threatens both their lives, and the safety of every citizen with Wi-Fi access. US release date: January 22, Apple TV+ Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man If there’s one thing Marvel Cinematic Universe creatives love, it’s an alternate universe. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man—which was first announced back in 2021 (when it was known as Spider-Man: Freshman Year)—is a gorgeously illustrated exploration of Peter Parker’s formative years. It also imagines what would happen if our little Spidey (Hudson Thames) were taught to harness his superpowers not by supermentor Tony Stark/Iron Man, but by Norman Osborn/Green Goblin (Colman Domingo). Let chaos reign! US release date: January 29, Disney+ The Pitt It’s hard to resist a good medical drama—especially one that lures Noah Wyle back into the emergency room. Michael Robinavitch (Wyle) is just one of the medical professionals who keeps things moving in the ER of a Pittsburgh hospital, where anything can happen. The 15-episode series will take place in real-time, following the facility’s employees and patients over a single 15-hour shift. It’s just the kind of experimental idea we like to see from HBO, but also somewhat unexpected, as its robust episode count (HBO series generally top out at about 10 episodes per season) feels like something more in line with one of the Big Three networks. The Pitt will also reunite Wyle with John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill, both of whom served as executive producers on ER. US release date: January 9, Max The White Lotus While Jennifer Coolidge will most definitely be missed, Mike White has assembled yet another stacked cast for Season 3 of The White Lotus, including HBO’s unofficial king, Walton Goggins. Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Aimee Lou Wood, Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Nivola, Jason Isaacs, and Nicholas Duvernay are among the other series newcomers, while Natasha Rothwell—who played spa manager Brenda in Season 1—will be returning. No firm details have been released, but expect death to be on the menu. US release date: February 16, HBO Daredevil: Born Again Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) has been through a lot in the past decade: a Netflix series that was unceremoniously canceled after three seasons; a reboot series at Disney that then got a major reboot of its own after several episodes had already been shot; and a writers strike that delayed the project even further. Good thing this guy has got superpowers, and that Cox has kept busy keeping his Daredevil in the conversation with a cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home and appearances in She-Hulk and Echo (plus the aforementioned and upcoming Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man). Expect to see Murdock’s blind lawyer kick ass in the courtroom and beyond when he goes toe-to-toe with notorious New York City crime boss Kingpin (Vincent D'Onofrio). US release date: March 4, Disney+ Dope Thief Brian Tyree Henry trades Atlanta for Philadelphia and comedy for drama in this limited crime series based on Dennis Tafoya’s 2009 novel of the same name. Ray (Tyree Henry) and Manny (Wagner Moura) are longtime pals whose preferred way of getting drugs is to pose as DEA agents and rob local drug dealers. But when they decide to take their grift outside of the city, they fail to realize that the “small-time” dealers they thought they were getting one over on happen to be a part of one of the nation’s largest, and most dangerous, criminal enterprises. Oops. US release date: March 14, Apple TV+ Stranger Things It’s been a long time since we’ve seen the kids of Hawkins, Indiana. So long, in fact, that calling them “kids” might be a bit of a stretch. Nearly a decade after it made its debut in the summer of 2016, Stranger Things is back for its fifth and final season. As usual, the Duffer Brothers are keeping a lid on any of the major details of the upcoming season. What we do know is that The Terminator’s Linda Hamilton will be joining the cast; that it will be set in the fall of 1987, a year after the events of Season 4; and that the final episode (there are eight in all) is titled “The Rightside Up,” which seems like a happy ending could be in sight. US release date: 2025, Netflix Alien: Earth By now, you know the elements of every piece of the Alien franchise: a ragtag group of space travelers are alerted to a vessel in distress, only to arrive and encounter an array of homicidal aliens who have a lot of imagination when it comes to inventive ways to knock off the human race. Except in Alien: Earth, as the title indicates, it’s a ragtag group of earthbound humans who encounter the aforementioned aliens. This prequel series is set two years before the events of the original Alien movie. And with Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley at the helm, we’re expecting great things. US release date: 2025, FX/Hulu The Last of Us More fungi, more action, and Catherine O’Hara. Those are the three big takeaways one quickly gleans from the trailer for The Last of Us’ hotly anticipated second season. Set five years after the events of the first season, the world is still a post-apocalyptic mess as the Cordyceps fungus continues to wreak havoc on the world, which has been in a perpetual pandemic state. Though survivors Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) have fallen into a comfortable routine, they’ve also grown apart—and frequently find themselves butting heads—as they each attempt to reconcile the events of the past several years, and what they’ve lost. US release date: 2025, HBO Black Rabbit Jake (Jude Law) and Vince Friedkin (Jason Bateman) are brothers with seemingly nothing in common. While Jake is the owner of one of New York City’s hottest nightclubs, Vince is more of a perpetual lost soul. But when he suddenly reemerges, Jake does the brotherly thing and lets Vince back into his life—which turns out to be a decision that could lead to Jake losing everything he has worked to build. In addition to his starring role, Bateman is also executive producing the series and directing the first two episodes in what is turning out to be a bit of an Ozark reunion. Laura Linney is scheduled to direct the limited series’ second two episodes, while Ben Semanoff—who directed Bateman and Linney in Ozark—will direct the third pair of installments. US release date: 2025, Netflix Death By Lightning You may not have had “historical drama about the presidency of James Garfield” on your bingo card as must-watch TV in 2025, but Death by Lightning promises to be different for a few different reasons. Game of Thrones cocreators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are back as executive producers on this adaptation of Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, with Michael Shannon starring as the 20th president of the United States and Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Guiteau, one of Grant’s most ardent admirers—and the man who would eventually assassinate him. Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin, Bradley Whitford, Shea Whigham, Paula Malcomson, Željko Ivanek, Kyle Soller, and Vondie Curtis-Hall costar. US release date: 2025, Netflix The Rehearsal Few people in history do awkward comedy as well as Nathan Fielder, and those skills were put on full display in The Rehearsal, which began as a semi-reality show in which Fielder “helped” people “rehearse” for what might be some of the defining moments of their lives. Ultimately, Fielder became a part of his own experiment when he found a woman (via Craigslist) who wanted to rehearse parenthood. Details on what to expect from Season 2 are still largely under wraps—but even if there were an official logline, it’s one Fielder would no doubt quickly turn on its head. US release date: 2025, HBO Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

We got a healthy dose of Star Wars and Marvel shows on Disney Plus this year, but the more mature series from Hulu helped balance things out. Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images This year, Hulu officially became a part of Disney Plus, which means no more bouncing back and forth between the two apps if you’re subscribed to both. The two services had some pretty noteworthy releases this year, including several new additions to the Marvel and Star Wars lineups on Disney Plus, along with a variety of binge-worthy shows from Hulu. Here are all the best shows released this year that you can stream on both platforms. Agatha All Along Agatha All Along takes place three years after the end of WandaVision. It follows Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), who’s released from a magical spell by a mysterious teen (Joe Locke). As Agatha looks to restore her lost powers, she recruits an eclectic coven of witches, including a lover from her past, Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), a divination witch Lilia Calderu (Patti LuPone), and a potions expert Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata), to take on the trials of the Witches’ Road. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Skeleton Crew is the latest Star Wars spinoff to hit Disney Plus. It’s a coming-of-age story featuring four kids — Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), KB (Kyriana Kratter), and Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) — who get lost in a foreign galaxy after exploring an abandoned ship on their home planet. As they try to find a way back home, they encounter the Force-wielding Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law), and things only get wilder from there. Shōgun If you’re in the mood for a riveting historical drama to immerse yourself in, Shōgun is a great choice. It takes place in 17th-century Japan, revolving around two key figures: the powerful Lord Yoshi Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) and John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), an Englishman who winds up in Japan following a shipwreck. The story is adapted from a 1975 book by James Clavell and is loosely based on real events. The Acolyte Along with Skeleton Crew, Disney Plus added The Acolyte to its lineup of original Star Wars shows this year. The Acolyte is set around 100 years before The Phantom Menace, exploring the relationship between identical twins Mae and Osha (both played by Amandla Stenberg), who were separated as children and went on to lead very different lives. The two reunite under unexpected circumstances: the murder of a Jedi master. Though The Acolyte was canceled after one season, it’s still worth watching if you’re looking for a new spin on Star Wars. We Were the Lucky Ones We Were the Lucky Ones is a heart-wrenching miniseries based on a book by Georgia Hunter, which chronicles her family’s struggles as they fought to survive World War II and the Holocaust. It’s centered around the Kurcs, a Jewish family living in Poland, who are separated when war breaks out and attempt to reunite. Some noteworthy names in this series include Joey King as the youngest sibling, Halina Kurc, and Logan Lerman as one of her brothers, Addy Kurc. X-Men ‘97 As the title suggests, Marvel’s X-Men ‘97 is reminiscent of the classic — and beloved — X-Men: The Animated Series. It picks up one year after the events in the ’90s-era series, which sees the return of Cyclops (Ray Chase), Jean Grey (Jennifer Hale), Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith), Wolverine (Cal Dodd), Rogue (Lenore Zann), and other familiar mutants as they face new challenges in the absence of Professor Charles Xavier. Echo Speaking of Marvel, the company’s first TV-MA series made its debut on Disney Plus this year. Echo offers a deeper look at the skilled fighter Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), who first appeared as a villain in 2021’s Hawkeye. The five-episode series touches upon her Native American roots, along with her troubled backstory that left her an amputee. Lopez, who is deaf, returns to her Oklahoma hometown, where she aims to take control of an enemy’s crime ring. Doctor Who Doctor Who has returned for a 14th series. This time, the alien Time Lord is portrayed by Ncuti Gatwa, who was first introduced as the Fifteenth Doctor during a 2023 Christmas special. The show hit Disney Plus in full this year, featuring the Doctor and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) as they investigate strange incidents across London while running into some new enemies along the way. The Bear The Bear released its third season this year, making it a good time to catch up on the Emmy-winning series. It stars Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto, a prestigious chef who moves back to Chicago after inheriting his late brother’s Italian sandwich shop. The third season only expands on the chaos in the kitchen as a stressed-out Carmy juggles issues at home and work as he tries to transform his restaurant into a Michelin-starred spot. Interior Chinatown Based on the book by Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown is sort of like a show within a show, starring Jimmy O. Yang as Willis Wu, an actor and waiter in a Chinatown restaurant longing to break out of his role as a background character in a procedural crime show. However, things start to change once Willis witnesses a crime and detective Lana Lee (Chloe Bennet) asks him for help solving the case. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. 2023: Over 5,800 news posts | 2024 (till end of November): 5,298 news posts RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Diarra from Detroit, The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh—these are the shows you might not have watched in 2024 but definitely still should. ILLUSTRATION: GRAPHICS BY JAMES MARSHALL; WIRED STAFF; Apple TV+ There are two types of great television shows: the kind millions of people are watching and talking about and the ones that never quite break into the larger cultural conversation. In the case of the latter, it’s not for lack of worthiness. It’s just that not every great TV series finds its fandom. So you’d be forgiven for missing one—if not all—of the best series that premiered in the past year. After all, with countless networks in various formats (broadcast, cable, streaming, and otherwise) all looking to enter the original content game, there’s a lot of TV to sort through. Some of it worse than others; some of it much worse. Fortunately, we’ve done the heavy lifting and taken the guesswork out of it for you. Below are our picks for the best TV shows you might have missed in 2024. After the Flood Whatever you think After the Flood is, you’re probably wrong—or at least missing a big part of the series’ appeal. In the aftermath of a flash flood that leaves much of the Yorkshire town of Waterside underwater, police officer Jo Marshall (Peaky Blinders’ Sophie Rundle) is called to a parking garage, where the body of a man is found trapped in an elevator, presumably drowned. But when authorities learn that the unidentified man was killed three days before the flood, Jo will do whatever it takes to put a name to the body in the morgue. When she makes the very poor decision to enter his DNA into an ancestry database, she learns that the man who was most definitely breathing just 72 hours ago has supposedly been dead for years. For Jo, who is just weeks from giving birth, it’s a race to find the killer before motherhood arrives. And, in doing so, discovering that not everyone—even those closest to her—are who or what they say they are. Good news for those who do give it a watch: After the Flood has already been renewed for a second season. Watch on BritBoxWatch on Amazon Criminal Record Peter Capaldi plays against type as Daniel Hegarty, a veteran detective nearing the end of an impressive career whose legacy could be on the line. When an anonymous tipster delivers some shocking information that casts doubt on the verdict in a high-profile, decades-old case Hegarty worked on, he’d rather imagine he got everything right the first time around. What he wasn’t counting on was detective June Lenker (Cush Jumbo) receiving the same information and setting out to retrace Hegarty’s steps, which puts the two at extreme odds. The ever-captivating Capaldi has found a wonderful sparring partner in Jumbo. A second season is already in the works. Watch on Apple TV+ Diarra From Detroit Diarra Brickland (Diarra Kilpatrick) is a teacher coming out of a painful divorce who finally feels like she might be ready to reenter the dating scene—or at least have a little fun on Tinder. What she wasn’t expecting to find was Chris (Shannon Wallace), a man with serious soulmate potential. When she stops hearing from him altogether after one glorious night together, Diarra insists that he must have gone missing, as there’s no way he would ghost her … right? Her closest friends are skeptical, but Diarra goes all-in on finding her man—and soon finds herself entangled with Detroit’s extremely dangerous criminal underworld. Did we mention that it’s a comedy? Kilpatrick is a force of nature in this BET+ series, which she created and produces (alongside Kenya Barris). Watch on Amazon Lost Boys & Fairies We know that Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer isn’t the final word on quality. But it does say something that Lost Boys & Fairies has a perfect 100 percent score (based on just a half-dozen critics’ reviews, but still). After nearly a decade together, Gabriel (Sion Daniel Young) and Andy (Fra Fee) decide that they are ready to make the leap into parenthood. But as they officially begin the adoption process, Gabe—whose own childhood was marked by trauma due to the death of his mother and a strained relationship with his homophobic father—worries that he may not be capable, or worthy, of being a loving parent. It’s a powerful, poignant reminder that the ties that bind can also break us. Watch on Apple TV Manhunt Even if you weren’t paying attention during your third-grade history class, you probably know the very basics about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at the hands of John Wilkes Booth. But Manhunt is not about service-level history; quite the opposite. It reveals the lengths Lincoln’s close friend and secretary of war Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies) went to in order to capture Booth. Series creator Monica Beletsky, who has previously served as a writer-producer on Fargo, The Leftovers, Parenthood, and Friday Night Lights, is meticulous in her approach to getting the details just right (which is sure to please any presidential history buff). Watch on Apple TV+ MaryLand Becca (Suranne Jones) and Rosaline (Eve Best) are once-close sisters who have grown apart over the years, as time, space, and circumstances have changed them both. When their mother is suddenly found dead on the Isle of Man, they must come together—however briefly—to identify her body and have it transported back to Great Britain, where their father is waiting for her. While both sisters are confused as to what their mother was doing on the island in the first place, they soon come to learn about the many buried chapters of their mother’s history that brought her to this place. Jones (Gentleman Jack) and Best (House of the Dragon) are never better than when it’s just the two of them, being sisters, for better or worse. Watch on Amazon Monsieur Spade Clive Owen joins the long list of formidable actors, from Humphrey Bogart to Tom Wilkinson, to inhabit the role of Sam Spade—Dashiell Hammett’s famed private detective. In this case, Monsieur Spade takes place in the early 1960s, two decades after the events of The Maltese Falcon, and Spade has made the decision to retire to the picturesque town of Bozouls in the South of . But when a group of nuns are brutally murdered at a nearby convent, Spade will need to put his detective hat on once again in order to solve the crime. Watch on Netflix My Lady Jane With a tone that’s somewhat reminiscent of The Great, Gemma Burgess’ My Lady Jane reimagines the life of Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) through a somewhat supernatural lens. Yes, in this version of 16th century England, shapeshifters abound—which only ups the quirkiness. At its heart, however, My Lady Jane is about the budding romance between Jane and Lord Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel), whom Jane’s mother has arranged for her to marry. Sadly, eight episodes are all we’re going to get of this series, as Amazon announced its cancellation after just one fabulous season. Watch on Amazon The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh Lost star Naveen Andrews gets to make use of his stellar comedic chops in this darkly humorous tale of the American Dream gone wrong. When what seems like a stellar business opportunity arises, Pradeep family patriarch Mahesh (Andrews) moves his family from India to America, where culture shock is the least of their problems. By the time we meet the family, they’ve been living in Pittsburgh for two years—and are recounting their story to a pair of federal agents (Pete Holmes and Romy Rosemont) from the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, as they’re also suspected of possibly burning down the home of their snobby neighbors (Megan Hilty and Ethan Suplee). The most amazing part of all is that the story is partly based on the real life of creator Vijal Patel. Watch on Amazon Sugar The small screen has been good to Colin Farrell this year, most notably with the success of The Penguin. But five months before he resumed his role as Oz Cobb, the Oscar-nominated actor went neo-noir for Sugar. In the stylish crime-drama Farrell plays John Sugar, a private detective who is hired to investigate the disappearance of a big-time Hollywood producer’s granddaughter while battling some personal demons of his own. If you’ve heard anything about the show, you probably know that there’s a twist (more than one of them, really). A second season has already been confirmed. Watch on Apple TV+ Renegade Nell Sally Wainwright has never been known as a creator of “family-friendly” fare—unless your kids think that binge-watching Happy Valley is an all-ages affair. But that she is the creative force behind Renegade Nell makes sense once you watch even just the first episode. After being framed for murder, Nell Jackson (Louisa Harland) becomes one of England’s most feared highwaywomen. It’s all a bluff, of course, but Nell comes to realize that the best way to clear her name is to lean into the notoriety surrounding her and have a little fun with it. Harland is a joy to watch (even when you know there’s no Season 2 on the menu). Watch on Disney+ Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. 2023: Over 5,800 news posts | 2024 (till end of November): 5,298 news posts RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend