The most anticipated TV shows of 2025
The small screen is in for a big year. These are the new and returning series you’ll want to add to your watchlist

AS WE’RE SO often being told, we live in a golden age of television. Pick any one of the myriad streaming services available and you’ll find it stacked with top tier shows. There’s more than enough to look forward after a long day at work, when all you really need is binge-watch. Seriously, what would we do without TV? Stay up late reading? Go outside and breathe in the fresh air? Pick up a new hobby? No thanks.
In 2025, you’ll have plenty of excuses for staying at home. 2024 was a relatively lighter year for TV – with the initial post-COVID burst of content now slowing down – but 2025’s release schedule includes a number of vastly popular series returning for new seasons, as well as a host of new shows just waiting to gain legions of fans and break The Bear‘s stranglehold on the Golden Globes.
To prepare you for the year ahead, we’ve rounded up all of the most anticipated TV shows set to release in 2025.
What are the biggest TV shows releasing in 2025?
American Primeval
Release date: January 9th
Where to watch: Netflix
American Primeval is a darker than usual take on manifest destiny and American expansion towards the West Coast in the 1800s. Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin are in the leading roles, in a family-focused story that recounts the violent clashes between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and indigenous tribes in Utah during the Utah war of 1857.
Severance, season 2
Release date: January 17th
Where to watch: Apple TV+
A sci-fi drama that takes work-life balance to a whole new level – no seriously, the characters divide their consciousness into a work-self and a non-work-self – season one of Severance was one of Apple TV+’s most streamed series ever. Perhaps its popularity is because it hits slightly too close to home, but season two looks to up the ante as Adam Scott’s work and home life continue to crossover.
The White Lotus, season 3
Release date: February 17th
Where to watch: Binge
Although it will feature an entirely new cast, season three of The White Lotus will follow a similar tune to the show’s first two seasons. Expect to see a bunch of rich people vacationing at a luxury resort in Thailand put through the wringer as their lives slowly unravel. A closer analysis of the Western world’s brand of healing and spiritual thinking and whether throwing money at any problem can really solve it is also on the cards.
Paradise
Release date: January 26th
Where to watch: Disney+
Sterling K Brown plays the bodyguard of the President of the United States. The thing is, he isn’t too good at it, because the President is killed. Brown’s Special Agent Xavier Collins then becomes a suspect in an investigation, but something is amiss. We presume that Agent Collins will get to the bottom of it.
Zero Day
Release date: February 20th
Where to watch: Netflix
Set in the aftermath of a mass-scale cyber-attack that cripples government systems, Zero Day stars Robert De Niro as retired president George Mullen, who is appointed head of the Zero Day commission. The supporting cast includes Jesse Plemons, Angela Bassett and Lizzy Caplan. It’s looks like heavy stuff, with a cast and subject matter we’d usually expect to see in a film. Expect an absorbing account of a fictional crisis that feels ever more likely to occur in real life.
A Thousand Blows
Release date: February 21st
Where to watch: Disney+
From the creator of Peaky Blinders comes A Thousand Blows, another gritty and eminently cockney series set in London’s East End in the 1880s. Our protagonists are a pair of Jamaican migrants who become bare-knuckle boxers to make ends meet, but soon find themselves involved with London’s criminal underbelly and the infamous all-female gang the Forty Elephants.
The Studio
Release date: March 26th
Where to watch: Apple TV+
Seth Rogen stars as the newly-appointed head of a Hollywood studio struggling to keep up in the age of streaming. Seems a little ironic for a show that will release on Apple TV+, don’t you think? Whatever; Zac Efron, Zoë Kravitz, Anthony Mackie, Martin Scorsese, Steve Buscemi and Olivia Wilde are all set to appear as themselves, so we won’t miss it.
The Residence
Release date: March 20th
Where to watch: Netflix
The synopsis of The Residence is intriguing enough that the upcoming drama doesn’t need much more of an explanation. “132 rooms. 157 suspects. One dead body. One wildly eccentric detective. One disastrous State Dinner. The Residence is a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world’s most famous mansion.” We’re in.
Your Friends and Neighbours

Release date: April 11th
Where to watch: Apple TV+
Jon Hamm stars in Your Friends and Neighbours as a recently divorced and recently out of a job hedge fund manager. When his sudden loss of income makes living his lavish lifestyle difficult, Hamm’s character turns to stealing from his wealthy neighbours. But in the process of his thieving, Hamm discovers that the residents of his picture-perfect community have a few skeletons in their closets.
Andor, season 2

Release date: April 22nd
Where to watch: Disney+
The most critically acclaimed Disney+ Star Wars series to date, Andor largely eschews the standard Star-Wars-iness that endears the franchise to its fans but isolates outsiders who aren’t already well-versed in almost 50 years of lore. Instead, Andor tells a grittier story about political espionage and rebellion during a time of oppression. It could stand on its own outside of the Star Wars universe, but works just as well in it.
You, season 5
Release date: April 24
Where to watch: Netflix
The final season of You is almost here. Penn Badgley returns as Joe, a serial killer who stalks a series of women. It’s getting harder and harder for Joe to get away with his crimes though, as his victims have started putting up some resistance. If we had to guess, we’d say that the final season of You could bring about Joe’s downfall.
The Last of Us, season 2
Release date: April (exact date TBA)
Where to watch: Binge
Pedro Pascal will return to the post-apocalypse in season two of The Last of Us. For those who are real desperate to find out what happens next, we suggest picking up the video game on which the series is based, because season one stuck very close to its source material. Resuming a few years after the previous season’s chaotic finale, Pascal’s Joel and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie have found their way to Joel’s brother’s settlement in Wyoming. All is well, but when a figure from Joel’s past shows up and is keen on revenge, a new fight for survival begins.
Stranger Things, season 5

Release date: TBA
Where to watch: Netflix
While no firm release date has been set for the final season of Stranger Things, with filming wrapping up at the end of 2024, we have to assume it will be released at some point this year. We last left the residents of Hawkins Indiana in quite a spot of bother. A portal to the Upside Down had just opened up above the town, with all sorts of unsavoury monsters emerging from within. Vecna is also still out there, somewhere, so he will likely be back as our protagonists fight to defeat evil for one last time.
Black Mirror, season 7

Release date: TBA
Where to watch: Netflix
Sci-fi thriller Black Mirror has been confirmed to be returning for a seventh season at some point in 2025. Details on the season’s episodes are scarce, but we do know that one of them will be a sequel to season 4 episode USS Callister – the one where Jesse Plemons cloned his colleagues into a video game spaceship so he could torment them. Outside of the flagship ep, brace yourself for some more scarily prescient predictions about the future of technology.
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