The 43 Most Anticipated TV Shows of 2025 (2025)

Out with the old; in with the new. True, we don’t yet know what the best TV shows of 2025 will be. Heck, we only just named the best TV shows of 2024. Yet next year’s slate seems to have an awful lot to which we can look forward, including buzzy, long-awaited new seasons of old favorites like The White Lotus, Severance, Yellowjackets, Poker Face, and Wednesday; intriguing newcomers from beloved TV vets like Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Lena Dunham, and Jason Momoa; and highly anticipated conclusions for several of the best TV series of the past 10 years, including The Handmaid’s Tale, Stranger Things, Big Mouth, and You.

Ripped-from-the-headlines docudramas? Check. Big movie stars making a play for streaming eyeballs? Check. Carrie Coon relentlessly climbing the social ladder, with no care for whomever she steps over on her way to the top? Check, check, and check. Come, let’s look forward to the most anticipated TV series of 2025—in a year that’s sure to be weird at best and awful at worst, at least there will be plenty of worthy things to watch beyond the show to which numerous Americans desperately did not want a sequel.

The Traitors, season three

Premiere date: January 9
Network: Peacock
Noteworthy cast: Alan Cumming, Chrishell Stause, Sam Asghari, Tom Sandoval

Though Donald Trump’s proposed Cabinet would make for a kind of killer Traitors cast—and we’d certainly rather ship all those people to a Scottish manse than watch them take over Washington—there’s still nothing like the real thing, baby. Peacock’s Alan Cumming–hosted, faux-murder-themed reality competition really can’t return soon enough. And while the show didn’t secure Sean Duffy or Linda McMahon this time around, it has assembled a tantalizing array of reality stars (and one apparent British royal), including the most hated man on Bravo. Well played! —Hillary Busis

American Primeval

Premiere date: January 9
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin

“We wanted to make a show that required us to go into the elements,” celebrated writer-director Peter Berg told David Canfield for VF’s recent first look at his gritty and graphic new survival drama, featuring Gilpin as a mother in the American West circa 1857 and Kitsch as the world-weary man trying to ensure her safety as she travels through hostile territory. “There’s a tendency to want to make female characters like Sara badass and fearless,” Gilpin told Canfield. “I think that just does a disservice to the history of what people went through.” —HB

Severance, season two

Premiere date: January 17
Network: Apple TV+
Noteworthy cast: Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette, Gwendoline Christie

Nearly three years after we last saw the inner workings of Lumon Industries, Apple TV+’s puzzle box series—created by Dan Erickson and primarily directed by Ben Stiller—will finally be back to break our brains anew. This time around, we’ll finally get to see the resolution of a first-season cliff-hanger that Adam Scott himself once called “cruel and unusual,” and see how new characters played by the likes of Gwendoline Christie, Alia Shawkat, Bob Balaban, and Merritt Wever factor into the story. —HB

Prime Target

Premiere date: January 22
Network: Apple TV+
Noteworthy cast: Leo Woodall, Quintessa Swindell, Stephen Rea

White Lotus alum Leo Woodall has a lot going on in 2025: He’s wooing Bridget Jones, starring in films with Rami Malek and Dustin Hoffman, and headlining this drama, which casts Woodall as a Will Hunting type with a knack for seeing patterns in prime numbers. Naturally, that talent makes him very interesting to an NSA agent played by Swindell. The show was created by former math teacher and Sherlock scribe Steve Thompson, who presumably knows his sines from his cosines. —HB

Paradise

Premiere date: January 28
Network: Hulu
Noteworthy cast: Sterling K. Brown, James Marsden, Julianne Nicholson

Did Randall Pearson murder the president of the United States?! That’s the basic premise of this politically tinged thriller, starring Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown as the Secret Service agent who discovers the body of POTUS (James Marsden) and immediately becomes a prime suspect. Weirdly enough, This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman is responsible for this show too—meaning a Mandy Moore cameo may not be out of the question. —HB

Yellowjackets, season three

Premiere date: February 14
Network: Paramount+ With Showtime
Noteworthy cast: Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Sophie Nélisse, Sophie Thatcher

Everyone’s favorite high school cannibals are back for another season, just in time for Valentine’s Day! Hilary Swank is set to join the cast this go-round in an unknown role, and Christina Ricci has promised this season will be “even more shocking and surprising than the previous seasons.” Does that mean more accidental murders, more seances, more antlers as headpieces? You’ll have to tune in to find out, because Yellowjackets’ creators are keeping any specifics on this season’s story under lock and key. —John Ross

Suits: L.A.

Premiere date: February 23
Network: NBC
Noteworthy cast: Gabriel Macht, Stephen Amell, Lex Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt, Bryan Greenberg

Congratulations, Twitter: You got what you asked for. Well, sort of. Last year the USA drama Suits took Netflix by storm, generating nearly 4 billion minutes’ worth of streams in a single week that summer. That wave of renewed interest likely stoked NBCUniversal to revive the show in the form of a spin-off called Suits: L.A., which will not feature Meghan Markle (as far as we know) but will bring original star Gabriel Macht back into the Suits-verse. Patrick J. Adams, your old jacket is waiting; just say the word. —HB

The Studio

Premiere date: March 26
Network: Apple TV+
Noteworthy cast: Seth Rogen, Catherine O’Hara, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders

Ever wanted to see Bryan Cranston in full Robert Evans drag, preaching to Seth Rogen about the difference between “artsy-fartsy films” and “moooovies”? You’ve come to the right place. Rogen and his longtime producing partner, Evan Goldberg, are behind this Hollywood satire, which also stars the Knocked Up actor as the newbie head of a venerated studio called Continental. The trailer promises cameos from a bevy of other bold-faced names, including Martin Scorsese and Rogen’s onetime costar Charlize Theron. —HB

Your Friends & Neighbors

Premiere date: April 11
Network: Apple TV+
Noteworthy cast: Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn

Jon Hamm is booked and busy. Fresh off Taylor Sheridan’s Landman, the Mad Men alum is starring in this drama series from author and screenwriter Jonathan Tropper, which follows a hedge fund manager who becomes a sort of Robin Hood figure—or maybe just a thief?—following a painful divorce. Apple, at least, seems bullish on it: The streamer ordered a second season months before the first is set to air. —HB

Andor, season two

Premiere date: April 22
Network: Disney+
Noteworthy cast: Diego Luna, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Stellan Skarsgård

The best Star Wars series of all—and there have been a lot of Star Wars series—is set shortly before the events of the franchise’s very first movie, and follows Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor as he transforms from a self-interested rogue into a rebel fighting to undermine the wicked Emperor Palpatine. Season one had a perfect episode; will season two follow suit? And exactly how dark should we expect things to get as the series winds down with this, its final installment? (Pretty dark, right?) —HB

The White Lotus, season three

Premiere date: February 2025
Network: HBO
Noteworthy cast: Natasha Rothwell, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Jason Isaacs, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola

One might say that we’re just a tad bit excited for the return of Mike White’s sumptuous, luxury-resort-set ensemble dramedy, which this season travels to yet another exotic locale: Thailand. Rothwell, the only former cast member to return for this season (or so we’ve been led to believe), only had good things to say last December about the first scripts she’d read: “I gasped out loud a minimum of five times, and this was just me reading them,” she told VF. “Everyone needs to buckle up, because it’s going to get real!” —HB

Long Bright River

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Peacock
Noteworthy cast: Amanda Seyfried, Nicholas Pinnock, Ashleigh Cummings

It’s not a second season of Mare of Easttown, but it doesn’t not sound like a second season of Mare of Easttown. In this adaptation of Liz Moore’s novel, Emmy winner Amanda Seyfried stars as Mickey, a Philadelphia police officer whose sister, Kacey, has fallen deeply into opioid addiction. When Kacey disappears, Mickey sets off on a desperate quest to find her. There have been a lot of similarly themed series in the years since Dopesick, but how many of those were based on one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2020? —HB

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Premiere date: Undated
Network: HBO
Noteworthy cast: Peter Claffey, Dexter Sol Ansell, Finn Bennett, Bertie Carvel

House of the Dragon has had its moments, but it’s never managed to scratch exactly the same itch as Game of Thrones. Maybe this second prequel will do the trick. It is, helpfully, set a lot closer to the action of the main series, focusing on the adventures of the duo Ser Duncan the Tall, destined to become lord commander of the Kingsguard, and Prince Aegon Targaryen, eventual grandfather of the monarch who would become known as the Mad King. The tricky thing, of course, will be making a series that can appeal even to viewers who understand none of that genealogy. —HB

It: Welcome to Derry

Premiere date: Undated
Network: HBO
Noteworthy cast: Bill Skarsgård, James Remar, Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, Stephen Rider

What a friendly title for a show about a homicidal clown! As implied, this prequel to Andy Muschietti’s It movies settles into the Maine hamlet haunted by one Pennywise, revealing an origin story for the malevolent spirit who’s been giving actual children nightmares for decades now. The series was originally slated to stream only on Max before being moved to HBO proper; perhaps that’s a vote of confidence for this latest Stephen King adaptation. —HB

Zero Day

Premiere date: February 20
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Dan Stevens, Angela Bassett

What would happen if an esteemed former president were put in charge of a federal investigation into a 9/11-esque terrorist attack—but nobody knew that he was suffering symptoms of cognitive decline? Eric Newman’s six-episode drama, starring Robert De Niro as the former POTUS, dares to learn the answer. Its star is surrounded by a similarly distinguished troupe of actors playing an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez–like congresswoman (Lizzy Caplan), a loudmouth who bears more than a slight resemblance to Ben Shapiro (Dan Stevens), and, sigh, a skilled, inspiring Black female president (Angela Bassett). Plus: Joan Allen in her first onscreen role in several years! —HB

The Residence

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Uzo Aduba, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson, Jason Lee, Ken Marino

White House intrigue is the hottest subgenre on TV this winter, but this is the only entry in the category that’s also kind of, sort of a comedy—albeit with another dead body at its center. Someone is murdered during a state dinner; detective Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba), a quirky investigator in the mold of Hercule Poirot or Benoit Blanc, may be the only one who can solve the crime. Created by Paul William Davies, this is a Shondaland show, which indicates viewers should be in for a very wild ride. —HB

Running Point

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Kate Hudson, Brenda Song, Drew Tarver, Chet Hanks

If two seasons of Winning Time weren’t enough for you, LA Lakers president Jeanie Buss has teamed with Mindy Kaling for this breezy comedy about a nepo-baby-made-good (Kate Hudson, who knows a thing or two about that topic) who’s unexpectedly made president of the Los Angeles basketball team owned by her family. Sounds Succession-esque, but with more overt punch lines—and this show also stars Hudson’s nepo compatriot Chet Hanks, a.k.a. rapper Chet Haze. —HB

Big Mouth, season eight

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Maya Rudolph, Jordan Peele, Ayo Edebiri

As we all know, adolescence eventually comes to an end. And so will Big Mouth, Netflix’s animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of puberty, starring Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. The profane show is returning for its eighth and final season sometime in 2025—and let’s hope the writers find a way to get six-time Emmy winner Maya Rudolph, who plays Connie the Hormone Monstress, to say “bubble bath” one last time. —Chris Murphy

You, season five

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Penn Badgley, Madeline Brewer, Griffin Matthews, Anna Camp

Five seasons in, Joe Goldberg keeps getting away with everything—or does he? Penn Badgley returns as everyone’s favorite serial killer in You, which is coming back to Netflix for its fifth and final season. This time around, he’s finally heading back to New York City, joined by The Handmaid’s Tale’s Madeline Brewer, The Flight Attendant’s Griffin Matthews, and Pitch Perfect’s Anna Camp. Will everyone survive, or will Joe finally get caught for the many, many murders he’s committed? You’ll have to tune in to see. —CM

Stranger Things, season five

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Maya Hawke, Sadie Sink, Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things, the hit sci-fi show by brothers Matt and Ross Duffer—which launched the career of Millie Bobby Brown and reintroduced the world to Winona Ryder—returns to Netflix in 2025. Joined by her cadre of friends, played by Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, and Caleb McLaughlin, Brown’s Eleven will take on Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) and the Upside Down one last time before entering adulthood. No spoilers—but the eighth and final episode is reportedly titled “The Rightside Up,” so perhaps the Stranger Things kids will actually get to the bottom of the Upside Down after all these years. —CM

The Diplomat, season three

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Keri Russell, Allison Janney, Rufus Sewell, David Gyasi

All hail the chief. After a thrilling season two finale that saw corrupt vice president Grace Penn (Allison Janney) become the new president of the United States, The Diplomat will be back for more in 2025. While the plot for season three is under wraps, Keri Russell’s Kate Wyler will certainly have her hands full handling Penn now that her adversary has become the most powerful person in the world. —CM

Wednesday, season two

Premiere Date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Fred Armisen, Steve Buscemi

Wednesday became Netflix’s most popular show of all time following its November 2022 debut, and its sophomore season is finally upon us. Jenna Ortega reprises her titular role as the angsty adolescent daughter of the delightfully macabre Addams family. In season two, she’s reunited with mother Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), father Gomez (Luis Guzmán), and best friend Enid (Emma Myers), as well as Fred Armisen’s Uncle Fester. And a few new faces have come to populate Wednesday’s gothic orbit, including Christopher Lloyd, Haley Joel Osment, Joanna Lumley, and reportedly even Lady Gaga herself. Not much is known about the exact plot; only that the season’s premiere episode, written by series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and directed by Tim Burton, is called “Here We Woe Again.” —Savannah Walsh

Poker Face, season two

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Peacock
Noteworthy cast: Natasha Lyonne and a whole lotta major guest stars

Creator Rian Johnson and executive producer Natasha Lyonne, who also leads this Emmy-nominated series, have devised a new set of capers for gifted private eye Charlie Cale to solve. While using her special skill—always being able to tell when someone is lying—Lyonne’s Charlie will be joined by a slew of guest stars in season two. Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney, Kumail Nanjiani, Awkwafina, Katie Holmes, Margo Martindale, Simon Rex, and Sam Richardson are just a sampling of the many stars set to join the case-of-the-week chaos. —SW

Untitled Office Follow-up

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Peacock
Noteworthy cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore

Some two decades after the Steve Carell–starring American version of The Office debuted, following the show’s success in the UK with original star Ricky Gervais, a third chapter in the show’s story is being told. Don’t call it a reboot—but rather, a new comedy set in the same workplace universe. “The documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch is in search of a new subject,” says Peacock, “when they discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters.” British Independent Film Awards nominee Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore, best known for season two of The White Lotus, star in the mockumentary-style project from Michael Koman (SNL, Late Night With Conan O’Brien) and Greg Daniels, who developed the American version of The Office. —SW

Apple Cider Vinegar

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Kaitlyn Dever, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Aisha Dee

The streaming world loves a good scam story. Following recent fictionalized shows about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, WeWork’s Adam Neumann, and Uber’s Travis Kalanick, Netflix has set its sights on a lesser-known grift. Emmy-nominated actor Kaitlyn Dever stars as Belle Gibson, an Australian influencer who claimed to have cured her terminal brain cancer through pseudoscience. The remedy was a sham—and so was her claim of a cancer diagnosis, as series creator Samantha Strauss explores in a new limited series costarring Fear the Walking Dead’s Alycia Debnam-Carey and The Bold Type’s Aisha Dee. —SW

Death by Lightning

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen, Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin, Bradley Whitford

Finally, a presidential period drama that isn’t about Abraham Lincoln or John F. Kennedy. Death by Lightning covers another assassinated president, James A. Garfield. The series follows Garfield (Michael Shannon) and his eventual killer, Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen, hot off Succession), as Guiteau evolves from Garfield fan to foe. Very promisingly, the series was created by Mike Makowsky, whose 2019 film, Bad Education, was one of the best of that year—a creeping real-life drama about the private machinations of a man in power. Perhaps Makowsky will bring that same thoughtful, whip-smart energy to this project, which covers an area of history perhaps best known now as one of the plotlines in the musical Assassins. —Richard Lawson

The Four Seasons

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Will Forte, Colman Domingo, Kerri Kenney-Silver

The Four Seasons is an adaptation of Alan Alda’s 1981 relationship dramedy of the same name, which follows a trio of couples, all old friends, as they navigate one pair’s divorce. It’s a great little film—an Upper West Side, upper-middle-class kind of social survey—but not so sacrosanct that an update feels unwarranted. Plus, the show was created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield (Wigfield won an Emmy with Fey for writing the 30 Rock series finale), who ought to work wonders with this cast. —RL

Long Story Short

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Unknown

An adult animated comedy from Raphael Bob-Waksberg, creator of the lauded series BoJack Horseman, Long Story Short takes a look at one family over a span of many years. One would expect some pathos to sneak in alongside the comedy, much as it did on BoJack. We don’t know much about this beyond what little Netflix has said in press releases, but fans of Bob-Waksberg (and of BoJack illustrator Lisa Hanawalt’s artwork) will no doubt put this series at the top of their 2025 must-watch list. —RL

Squid Game, season three

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Lee Jung-jae

We only have Lee Jung-jae listed as a noteworthy cast member, because we have no idea who else might make it to season three of the South Korean juggernaut series—about desperate people competing in a series of deadly games. After all, season two won’t even arrive on Netflix until the end of December 2024. But a third season is already in the works, said to be the final installment of the series. We can probably expect some resolutions, though creator Hwang Dong-hyuk isn’t exactly known for happy endings. Whatever seasons two and three bring, they are both likely to be major television events. —RL

Too Much

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Netflix
Noteworthy cast: Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe

Too Much is the first show that Lena Dunham has created since 2018’s Camping, her underwhelming Girls follow-up—and her first-ever series without former writing partner Jenni Konner. Instead, the eight-time Emmy nominee has joined forces with her husband, the British musician Luis Felber, for a rom-com that bears some resemblance to her own story: A young woman unhappy in New York moves to London for a fresh start, then strikes up a swift, heated connection with a local. Dunham’s return to TV feels exciting enough, but her casting of two breakouts from HBO favorites stands out the most: Hacks’ Megan Stalter and The White Lotus’s Will Sharpe. —David Canfield

The Handmaid’s Tale, season six

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Hulu
Noteworthy cast: Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, Josh Charles

And so The Handmaid’s Tale ends, in many ways, right where it began. Hulu’s Emmy-winning dystopian drama premiered at the dawn of the (first) Trump era in 2017, emerging as a cultural phenomenon for its chilling parallels to alarming, real-life political shifts. It’ll wrap its six-season run with President Donald Trump newly back in office—amid statewide abortion bans that have the potential to go national. All of that is to say, one final return to Gilead and the ongoing resistance fight led by June (Elisabeth Moss) couldn’t be more unfortunately timely. —DC

The Bear, season four

Premiere date: Summer 2025
Network: FX/Hulu
Noteworthy cast: Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach

After two universally acclaimed, broadly popular seasons, The Bear alienated viewers with a third season that was light on plot and heavy on experimentation. Still, it contained a few gems, including episodes centered on Liza Colón-Zayas’s and Abby Elliott’s characters, and left us with a few small but potent cliff-hangers that may get the show back on track for season four (some of which has already been filmed). In this high-pressure culinary milieu, the impact of a critic’s mysterious review, or of Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) leaving Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and the gang behind, could be all we need for a return to tragicomic, stressful form. —DC

Chad Powers

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Hulu
Noteworthy cast: Glen Powell, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss, Quentin Plair

Few people have had a bigger 12 months in movies than Glen Powell: He led last winter’s box office phenomenon Anyone but You and dominated the summer with hit movies both in theaters (Twisters) and on streaming (Hit Man). There’s some delightful surprise, then, in seeing such a bona fide movie star turn to a shaggy TV comedy for his next act. Based on an Eli Manning character sketch, this Hulu half hour finds Powell playing a troublemaking quarterback who dons a disguise to keep his crashing football career alive. —DC

Good American Family

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Hulu
Noteworthy cast: Ellen Pompeo, Mark Duplass

Based on the wild true story of Natalia Grace, this limited series follows a Midwestern couple who adopt whom they believe to be a six-year-old Ukrainian girl with a rare form of dwarfism. As time goes on, though, they begin to believe she’s much older than she claims, and may be out to harm them. In the true case (as chronicled in the docuseries The Curious Case of Natalia Grace), Natalia Grace’s parents had her birth records changed before abandoning her in an apartment in Indiana, then moving to Canada without her. The case made international headlines when they were charged with neglect. (The father was ultimately found not guilty, while the charges against the mother were dropped.) Pompeo and Duplass star as the couple, while Dulé Hill and Sarayu Blue also appear in the eight-episode series. —Rebecca Ford

And Just Like That…, season three

Premiere date: Undated
Network: HBO
Noteworthy cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis

At the end of season two, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) left her beloved apartment so she could move forward in her relationship with Aidan (John Corbett). We can expect the next season of the HBO hit to follow her into this next big step. The next season will also see the return of stars Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, along with some new guest additions, with Mehcad Brooks and Logan Marshall-Green joining the show. There will, however, be a Che Diaz–size hole in the show, as Sara Ramirez will not return to reprise their role as the show’s most divisive character. —RF

The Gilded Age, season three

Premiere date: Undated
Network: HBO
Noteworthy cast: Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Cynthia Nixon, Christine Baranski

The Gilded Age quickly became an audience favorite over the last few years, earning six Emmy nominations for its second season. In its third season, the Julian Fellowes–created period piece will continue to follow the wealthy families and social climbers of New York with the return of stars like Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Cynthia Nixon, and Christine Baranski. Plus, we’re getting some new faces played by the likes of Phylicia Rashad, Merritt Wever, and Bill Camp, who are sure to shake up the show’s volatile social dynamics. —RF

The Pitt

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Max
Noteworthy cast: Noah Wyle

Do you miss ER as much as we do? Former ER star Noah Wyle is back in scrubs for The Pitt, a hospital drama set in Pittsburgh. The show plays in real time—similarly to the TV series 24—with the first season taking place across one 15-hour emergency room shift. —RF

The Last of Us, season two

Premiere date: Spring 2025
Network: HBO
Noteworthy cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Wright

The new season of HBO’s video game adaptation picks up with Pedro Pascal’s Joel and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie five years after the end of the previous story. A teaser trailer has a distinct snowy Western feel, showing a frosty frontier town where survivors now struggle on in a world that was overtaken by the zombie-like horde who became infected with a brain-warping fungus. Jeffrey Wright plays a militia leader named Isaac, reprising the role he played in the 2020 game sequel that inspired this season. Catherine O’Hara is seemingly a therapist-like figure who pushes Joel to confront the actions of his past, which include stopping the search for a cure in the last season by rescuing Ellie before she could be dissected to study her immunity. Did sparing her life doom countless others? Like many Westerns, this story explores the blurry boundary between right and wrong. —Anthony Breznican

Duster

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Max
Noteworthy cast: Josh Holloway

This nostalgic drama set in the 1970s stars Josh Holloway as a getaway driver who earns his living outside the law. It reunites the actor with Lost cocreator J.J. Abrams, who devised this show with LaToya Morgan (Turn: Washington’s Spies). Little else is known about the story, but it calls to mind some classic lone-wolf shows from yesteryear, like The Incredible Hulk, Kung Fu, and Have Gun—Will Travel, all of which explored the world through the eyes of a wanderer who never stayed in one place longer than it took to get into serious trouble. —AB

Murderbot

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Apple TV+
Noteworthy cast: Alexander Skarsgård

Based on the Murderbot Diaries series of novels by Martha Wells, this offbeat sci-fi series from About a Boy filmmaking brothers Chris and Paul Weitz follows the travails of a morose machine programmed to work as a hit man. As in the 1992 Megadeth song “Psychotron,” this robot (voiced by Alexander Skarsgård) aggressively fulfills its obligations—but Murderbot is self-aware enough to be intrigued (and sometimes annoyed) by human emotions, making it a curmudgeon with a license to kill. —AB

Stick

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Apple TV+
Noteworthy cast: Owen Wilson, Peter Dager, Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay

Owen Wilson stars in this golf comedy as a burned-out former pro who never amounted to much, and now has even less going on. He has lost both his wife and his job at a sports supply store—but he sees a shot at redemption in his future if he can attach himself to a young up-and-comer whose talent he can help refine. —AB

Chief of War

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Apple TV+
Noteworthy cast: Jason Momoa, Temuera Morrison, Cliff Curtis

Who among us is going to sniff at the prospect of some mo’ Jason Momoa? This nine-episode historical series will tackle the true story of the warring kingdoms of Hawaii and their unification in the early 19th century. Momoa, born in Honolulu himself and invested in telling the tale from the Native perspective, plays a warrior who comes back from his travels to find his homeland in upheaval. Will the series be bloody? One of the episodes is titled “Day of Spilled Brains,” so we’re going to go with yes. —Jeff Giles

Dexter: Resurrection

Premiere date: Undated
Network: Paramount+ With Showtime
Noteworthy cast: Michael C. Hall

It’s possible you believe that Dexter Morgan is dead. For evidence, you might point to the fact that when we saw him last, in Dexter: New Blood, he was bleeding to death—plus, there’s the fact that New Blood showrunner Clyde Phillips has been quoted as saying, “I have three words for you: Dexter is dead.” And sure, it’s a convincing case. Yet here comes Resurrection, which is set right after the events of New Blood. Has Dexter actually been resurrected? Is his son stepping into his murderous shoes? Has anyone ever stayed dead if they could potentially make a corporation money? —JG

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