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The 50 most anticipated TV shows of 2024

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Returning hits, exciting new shows: TV\u2019s got it all this year

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Once upon a time, television was an ephemeral, even disposable form of entertainment, cinema\u2019s scrappy younger cousin. Today, much of Hollywood\u2019s small-screen output is as star-studded and finely-crafted as anything you\u2019ll find in theaters. The streaming prestige miniseries has all but replaced the theatrical mid-budget adult drama, while advances in digital effects (and exorbitant budgets) have made it possible to bring practically any fantastical world into the home. To someone living even a mere decade ago, a TV slate that included two new live-action Star Wars series and an Apple miniseries from Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n and Cate Blanchett, would sound like a joke.

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But on top of the flashy franchise installments and lavish historical epics, there are television shows that are still, essentially, television: Delightful single-camera sitcoms like Abbott Elementary and Girls5Eva, offbeat procedurals like Evil and Elsbeth, and animated comedies like Big Mouth and Hazbin Hotel. Big screen cinema may be clawing its way back to the top, but television \u2014 in all its forms \u2014 is still scrapping.

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Here are the exciting new and returning shows to keep an eye on this year.

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The Brothers Sun

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on Jan. 4

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\u201cMichelle Yeoh stars as\u201d is probably enough of a sell, but let\u2019s continue. In the new Netflix series Yeoh plays the matriarch of a Los Angeles crime family. When war breaks out between rival gangs, the family must band together to protect their territory. The problem: One of her sons (Justin Chien) is a lethal assassin who\u2019s been estranged from the family for years, and the other (Sam Song Li) has no idea what he was born into. Bloody, tightly choreographed action, complicated family drama, and fish-out-of-water comedy ensue.

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Echo

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Release date: Premieres on Disney Plus and Hulu on Jan. 10

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Echo\u2019s first trailer immediately set it apart from previous Disney Plus Marvel shows, boasting gnarly violence, an edgy adult tone, and a TV-MA rating. Though it still promises cameos and plot threads from other MCU properties, Echo looks to be an action-packed crime thriller first and foremost. Whether or not this bloody tale can stoke Marvel\u2019s flickering flame is yet to be seen, but it\u2019s also not the point \u2014 Marvel wants to assure you Echo is neither dependent on its parent show, Hawkeye, nor a mere precursor for some future crossover. It\u2019s just a television show that can be enjoyed by Marvel fans and general audiences alike. Imagine that!

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True Detective: Night Country

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Release date: Premieres on HBO and Max on Jan. 14

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It\u2019s been a decade since HBO launched True Detective. While its first mystery was a critical phenomenon that had countless viewers gazing thoughtfully out of car windows musing about how \u201ctime is a flat circle,\u201d none of the subsequent seasons have lived up to the hype, and the show itself now feels like a cold case waiting to be reopened. True Detective: Night Country aims to recapture the bone-chilling horror-thriller vibes of that first season, albeit in a dramatically different setting: the frozen Alaskan tundra. Jodie Foster and Kali Reis play a pair of cops still haunted by the case that destroyed their partnership six years prior. Night Country is helmed by director-showrunner Issa L\u00f3pez, bringing her folk-horror bona fides to the chilling, supernatural-tinged crime drama.

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Hazbin Hotel

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on Jan. 19

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Rarely has an original series arrived on television with such a ready-made, rabid fanbase as Hazbin Hotel. The pilot episode of Vivienne Medrano\u2019s animated musical comedy hit YouTube in 2019 and absolutely caught fire. (There are over 10,000 works of Hazbin Hotel fanfiction on AAO3 already.) The raunchy, violent workplace sitcom set at a rehab center for damned souls in Hell features the voices of Broadway star Erika Henningsen, Brooklyn Nine-Nine\u2019s Stephanie Beatriz, and the legendary Keith David.

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on Feb. 2

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From producer and star Donald Glover comes a new series kinda-sorta based on Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the 2005 film that hooked up Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie both on- and off-screen. The new version reverses the premise of the original, with Glover and Maya Erskine portraying a pair of spies who work undercover as a married couple. Sparks (and bullets) will fly as the Smiths embrace a new assignment each episode, opposite a magnificent array of guest stars like Paul Dano, Parker Posey, Michaela Coel, and Ron Perlman.

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Abbott Elementary season 3

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Release date: Premieres on ABC on Feb. 7

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Just when we thought the \u201cdocu-sitcom\u201d was dead and buried, Quinta Brunson called us back into class with Abbott Elementary, an endlessly charming ode to America\u2019s undervalued public educators. Two seasons and a handful of Emmys later, Abbott Elementary has come to occupy the space in our hearts left behind by Parks and Recreation, likewise a sunny satire about quirky public servants.

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Halo season 2

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Release date: Premieres on Paramount Plus on Feb. 8

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After an eternity in development hell, the live-action Halo adaptation hit small screens in 2022 to what can generously be called a \u201cmixed reception.\u201d Bold as it was for showrunner Steven Kane to present a dramatically different take on the massively popular source material, no one seemed terribly interested in a show about an unmasked Master Chief reclaiming his humanity and losing his virginity. 343 Studios and Paramount Plus are looking to win fans back this year by promoting an action-heavy second season and making the first season free to watch on YouTube.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on Feb. 22

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Let\u2019s try this again. 14 years after the abysmal first attempt at adapting the acclaimed animated series to live-action, Netflix is unveiling its own take on Avatar: The Last Airbender. We emphasize \u201cits own take\u201d because ATLA creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko walked away from the project two years ago. Whether this new series will surpass the lifeless, whitewashed film version is hardly in question, but can this translation to live-action add anything new to the beloved story?

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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

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Release date: Premieres on AMC and AMC Plus on Feb. 25

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The six-part miniseries set in the world of The Walking Dead sees the return of both Andrew Lincoln\u2019s Sheriff Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira\u2019s katana-wielding heroine Michonne. AMC\u2019s initial announcement describes The Ones Who Live as \u201can epic love story,\u201d one that may leave the door open for further stories with the duo. Given that Lincoln and Gurira\u2019s departures are arguably what hobbled The Walking Dead to begin with, could this be the spinoff that jaded fans have been waiting for, or is it simply too late to revive mass interest in this sprawling, shambling franchise?

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Sh\u014dgun

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Release date: Premieres on FX and Hulu on Feb. 27

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The word \u201cepic\u201d gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but Sh\u014dgun, a 10-part historical drama based on the acclaimed 1975 novel by James Clavell, appears worthy. FX chairman John Landgraf has hailed it as the network\u2019s \u201cbiggest and most ambitious production ever,\u201d and from the look of the trailer, that budget and scope certainly shows.

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Elsbeth

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Release date: Premieres on CBS on Feb. 29

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Elsbeth is the latest entry in Michelle and Robert King\u2019s run of legal dramas that includes The Good Wife and The Good Fight (but not The Good Doctor), centering around fan favorite character Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston). The scatterbrained, effervescent defense attorney has appeared sporadically in the Chicago-based Good Universe since 2010, but her spinoff ships her off to the East Coast to lend her unique perspective to the NYPD.

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Invincible season 2 part 2

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on March 14

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Invincible, the animated series based on the long-running comics series by writer Robert Kirkman and artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, has suffered some long production delays since it launched in 2021, but fans will tell you, this show is well worth the wait. More than a pastiche of coming-of-age superhero stories, Invincible makes better use of the genre\u2019s tropes than its mainstream counterparts and leans into its potential for nuance and social commentary. Plus, it\u2019s gleefully self-aware and so very, very violent. For grown-up superhero comics fans, this is a can\u2019t-miss.

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Girls5Eva season 3

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on March 14

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After languishing in Peacock obscurity for its first two seasons, showbiz comedy Girls5Eva has been picked up by Netflix, where \u2014 just like the titular pop group \u2014 they hope to finally get noticed. It\u2019s a light, joke-dense comedy in the tradition of 30 Rock, created by Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt staffer Meredith Scardino and produced by Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Jeff Richmond. Can one of the best modern TV comedies mount the comeback it deserves?

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Manhunt

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Release date: Premieres on Apple TV Plus on March 18

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Apple TV Plus and Monica Beletsky, showrunner for the third season of Fargo, present Manhunt, a 10-part historical drama/political thriller about the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The Crown\u2019s Tobias Menzies stars as Edwin Stanton, the US Secretary of War, who obsessively pursues Lincoln\u2019s killer, John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle). The miniseries will reportedly also follow the efforts to preserve Lincoln\u2019s Reconstruction agenda, and the assassination\u2019s immediate and lingering impact on the rights and lives of Black Americans, drawing a line between the assassination and the still incomplete recovery from American slavery.

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3 Body Problem

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on March 21

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In the 20th century, the imagination of science fiction authors generally outpaced the technology to adapt their strange worlds or high concepts to the screen. Today, just about anything is filmable, including The 3 Body Problem, Cixin Liu\u2019s acclaimed novel about the discovery of extraterrestrial life and its repercussions on our world. Netflix\u2019s big-budget streaming series adaptation features an ensemble cast that includes Benedict Wong, Eiza Gonzalez, and Jonathan Pryce, but the biggest names attached are Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Given the reception of GoT\u2019s final season, that may not inspire an abundance of confidence, but this time they\u2019re dealing with completed source material.

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Fallout

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on April 12

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The era of the live-action video game adaptation is in full swing, and every major streamer wants a piece. The Fallout series follows a sheltered survivor of a nuclear apocalypse (Ella Purcell) as she ventures into a wasteland populated by mutants, scavengers, and a skull-faced gunslinger played by Walton Goggins. Developed by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan of Westworld fame, and run by alums of Portlandia and Captain Marvel, Fallout certainly has an interesting pedigree, and with six core games to mine from, we can probably expect the series to have a long half-life.

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Star Trek: Discovery season 5

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Release date: Premieres on Paramount Plus in April

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Star Trek: Discovery boldly kicked off the franchise\u2019s streaming renaissance, setting the stage for arguably more successful installments in Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, but never truly becoming comfortable with itself. Retooled practically every year since its debut, Discovery gets one more shot to cement its legacy with its fifth and final season, which appears to be leaning more than ever into flashy action-adventure. Though it wasn\u2019t initially intended as a last hurrah for Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and her crew, additional shooting was performed last year to wrap up the series, and hopefully ensures Discovery gets an appropriately emotional final hour.

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Bridgerton season 3

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Release date: Part 1 premieres on Netflix on May 16; part 2 premieres on June 13

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News from Lady Whistledown! The third season of Bridgerton is coming in two parts. The wildly popular regency romance continues as Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), who is secretly London\u2019s notorious Gossip Girl, moves on from her crush on Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) \u2014 or does she? What happens to her quest for a practical marriage when her heretofore unattainable dream guy suddenly seems attainable? Something sexy, we wager.

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Arcane season 2

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix in November

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The second season of Arcane has been three years in the making, and honestly, Fortiche and Riot Games deserve every second of it. Its first season was a surprise knockout, a compelling story whose appeal reached far beyond the League of Legends fanbase. The steampunk/fantasy/coming-of-age action-tragedy has produced some of the most instantly iconic, fan-art-ready characters of the decade, and we can\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s next for sisters and revolutionary rivals Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell). Actually, we can wait. Take all the time you want, we\u2019ll be here.

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Agatha: Darkhold Diaries

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Release date: Premieres on Disney Plus this fall

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Hey, remember back in 2021, when Marvel\u2019s expansion onto Disney Plus had just begun and everyone was really jazzed about WandaVision? How exciting it was when we learned, via a catchy musical number, that the villain was \u201cAgatha All Along?\u201d Remember how the fandom cheered when it was announced that Kathryn Hahn\u2019s charismatic, diabolical witch would receive her own spinoff? Well, here it is, with a lot of other MCU stuff behind it. Agatha: Darkhold Diaries is a dark comedy that will star not only Hahn, but America\u2019s terrifying crush Aubrey Plaza, Heartbreaker\u2019s Joe Locke, and Broadway legend Patti LuPone.

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The Penguin

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Release date: Premieres on Max in late 2024

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Ey, take it easy, sweethaht! The story of Gotham mafioso Oswald \u201cOz\u201d Cobblepot will be streaming on Max before you know it. Colin Farrell, under a lot of heavy makeup, will reprise his role in this spinoff from Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman, which will chart the Penguin\u2019s attempt to fill the power vacuum left by mob boss Carmine Falcone. This isn\u2019t the first attempt at a crime drama set in the world of Batman (remember Gotham?), but this one\u2019s got Farrell\u2019s star power and a place in (one of) the Batman movie continuit(ies), so it\u2019s likely to attract more mainstream attention.

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

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Who\u2019s up for more Game of Thrones? Alongside House of the Dragon, Max has commissioned this series in Westeros, with all six episodes co-written by George R.R. Martin himself. The Hedge Knight is based on the first entry in his novella series, Tales of Dunk & Egg, following the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Aegon Targaryen, a century before the events of Game of Thrones. As of this writing, the series has yet to be cast, making a 2024 release feel optimistic at best, but given the popularity of House of the Dragon, Warner Bros. Discovery surely wants to put The Hedge Knight in front of audiences as soon as possible.

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Dark Matter

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Not to be confused with the 2015 space sci-fi series of the same name, Dark Matter is an adaptation of the novel by Blake Crouch, in which a physicist finds himself unstuck in the multiverse, bouncing between unnerving alternate versions of his own life along his journey home. Crouch adapts his own work as showrunner for the nine-part miniseries for Apple TV Plus, which stars Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly in the lead roles.

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Sugar

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Colin Farrell seems to be everywhere of late, and you will likely see him again next year as the star of the Apple TV Plus detective series Sugar. Written and produced by Mark Protosevich, best known as the screenwriter of sci-fi thrillers I Am Legend and The Cell, Apple describes the project as \u201ca genre-bending contemporary take on the private detective story,\u201d we can reasonably assume that there will be some sort of fanciful twist.

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Anne Rice\u2019s Interview with the Vampire season 2

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The first bona fide hit from AMC Plus returns with a new season \u2014 and a new Claudia, with Delainey Haines succeeding Bailey Bass as the teenage vampire. The main attraction is, of course, Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt, the worst person ever to live, who we expect to continue to delight and repulse us simultaneously. Interview has excited Anne Rice fans old and new with its fresh take on the bestselling novels, examining race and sexuality through a found family of bloodthirsty immortals.

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House of the Dragon season 2

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House of the Dragon is the leaner \u2014 and, improbably, even meaner \u2014 prequel to Game of Thrones, tracing the history of the Targaryen family during their reign over the grim fantasy world of Westeros. Based on a fictional history text rather than a novel, House of the Dragon thrives by being \u201can unspoilable show,\u201d where the key events are a given and the intrigue comes from learning why these political animals make their presaged power moves. The upcoming season finds the dragon-riding despots embroiled a in civil war, promising a lot less dinner-table bickering and a lot more spitting of literal fire from the mouths of their scaly flying mascots.

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Star Wars: The Acolyte

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Is there room for new Star Wars? Tony Gilroy\u2019s Andor, which ranks amongst the best Star Wars stories ever, gave us hope and every new piece of news about The Acolyte, the new series from Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland, remains promising. Set during the High Republic era when the Jedi are at the peak of their power and benevolence, The Acolyte promises to add some new flavors to the Star Wars recipe, such as a wuxia-inspired action aesthetic and an environment in which \u201cthe bad guys are outnumbered.\u201d

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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

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Speaking of Star Wars, Skeleton Crew is a youth-oriented adventure that co-creator Jon Watts likens to classic Amblin coming-of-age stories. Much of the cast is young and relatively unknown, but it does boast Oscar-nominee Jude Law front and center as a Jedi, as well as a very interesting stable of directors. In addition to Star Wars stalwarts Bryce Dallas Howard and Lee Isaac Chung, The Green Knight\u2019s David Lowery and Everything Everywhere All at Once\u2019s Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are taking turns behind the camera.

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Dune: Prophecy

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Dune: Part Two\u2019s release delay was heartbreaking but patience will be rewarded big time in 2024. But in addition to Part Two\u2019s arrival in theaters in March, we\u2019re also getting a prequel series, Dune: The Sisterhood. Set 10,000 years before the events of the films, Sisterhood will shed light on the Bene Gesserit, the mysterious order that prophesies the galaxy\u2019s future and then, through millennia of cultural engineering, makes it happen. The first two episodes will be helmed by Johan Renck, the Emmy-winning director of Chernobyl.

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Daredevil: Born Again

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It\u2019s been a decade since the Marvel Cinematic Universe first expanded to the small screen, first with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC, then with a string of interconnected Netflix series geared towards an adult audience. Even after the demise of that project, there\u2019s no getting rid of Charlie Cox as Daredevil, who has since guest starred in She-Hulk and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Now, the Man Without Fear is back, along with Vincent D\u2019Onofrio as his nemesis Wilson Fisk, for a new series on Disney Plus \u2014 or, rather, he will be, once Marvel gets their ducks in a row. The studio just tossed out multiple episodes that had completed shooting and are taking the whole show back to formula as they rethink their entire television strategy.

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Kite Man: Hell Yeah!

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What a journey the past few years have been for Kite Man. Initially a Z-tier Batman villain with no cultural footprint, Kite Man became a recurring character on the way-funnier-than-you\u2019d-expect Harley Quinn animated series, where comedian Matt Oberg portrays him as the epitome of an average, affable midwestern guy who happens to pull elaborate heists while wearing a kite on his back. Now, he\u2019s getting his own spinoff, bringing along a few other popular HQ characters (namely James Adomian\u2019s Bane) for what appears to be more of the R-rated, self-aware comic book hijinx that fans have come to expect. Sounds like a great way to pass the time while we wait for Harley Quinn season 5.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2

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Amazon\u2019s unbelievably expensive streaming series based on the appendices to Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings will return this year, having spent its first season, as Polygon\u2019s Josh Rivera put it, playing a secret game of Werewolf with all of its characters. Now that we know where most of our characters are aligned \u2014 including the identity of the Dark Lord Sauron \u2014 the game must change. Here are a lot of questions left to be answered, but the biggest of all might be whether or not The Rings of Power can find its footing as a series.

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Each episode of the MCU\u2019s first animated series, What If?, explores a different alternate universe, usually branching off of the films\u2019 timeline at some key juncture. One installment, however, is inspired directly by the popular Marvel Zombies comics series, in which an unstoppable virus turns most of Earth\u2019s Mightiest Heroes into flesh-eating monsters. Now, the plague is spreading to its own animated series from What If? director Bryan Andrews, in which \u201ca new generation of heroes\u201d will try to fight back the super-powered zombie hoard.

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Moana: The Series

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Moana\u2019s streaming sequel was announced during the early days of Disney Plus back in 2020. Small-screen continuations were once an expected stage of the life cycle of any Disney animated features (even The Emperor\u2019s New Groove got one), but Moana sounds more ambitious than those Disney Channel standards. The series will see Auli\u2019i Cravalho reprising her role from the animated original (and the upcoming live-action version), and a \u201cmusical comedy\u201d format, implying original songs in each episode.

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This spinoff from the hit Canadian sci-fi drama Orphan Black sports the clever tagline: \u201cA completely unique copy of the original.\u201d Like the 2013 series, Echoes centers around a woman who discovers that she is one of multiple identical genetic clones. Echoes, however, has not only a new star in Krysten Ritter, but a new setting in the glossy neon future of 2052.

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Elizabeth Moss stars in this limited series from FX, Hulu, and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. This globe-trotting thriller revolves around a conflict between two women, one deadly secret, and thousands of lives in the balance. This will be Steven Knight\u2019s fourth series for FX, after the historical crime drama Taboo and his grim adaptations of A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations, though he is also the writer-director of the underrated Tom Hardy film Locke and the absolutely unhinged Serenity.

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There\u2019s been an incredible renaissance in X-Men comics over the past five years, with the entire line receiving a much-needed overhaul that has redefined many of the iconic Mutant heroes and elevated many of the more obscure ones to places of prominence. It\u2019s an exciting new era that is, so far, totally untapped in screen media. So, naturally, the upcoming X-Men animated series is a continuation of the 1993 cartoon, resurrecting the classic roster, costumes, and voice cast. Will this reboot find a way to blend the familiar, memetic series with the new characters and ideas from the intervening 20 years of X-Men comics? We hope so, but we absolutely promise you there will be at least one scene of Wolverine gazing longingly at a framed photo of someone.

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Big Mouth season 8

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While Netflix has developed a reputation for prematurely canceling their original series, the raunchy animated coming-of-age comedy Big Mouth is rounding out a record-setting eighth season. The series, which stars a who\u2019s-who of alt-comedians and Saturday Night Live alums, has both shocked and charmed audiences with its blend of shamelessly filthy comedy and sincere, progressive commentary on modern adolescence. Big Mouth will have its final say on puberty, sexuality, shame, and mental health this year \u2014 via monsters and dick jokes, of course.

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You season 5

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After traveling to a different city each season, homicidal bookworm Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) returns to New York for the final chapter of You. The psychological drama has habitually reinvented itself, and the end of season four teases what will make Joe\u2019s final act unique: At last, the truly hopeless romantic has accepted that he\u2019s a monster, and he\u2019s ready to run with it.

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The Umbrella Academy season 4

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Finally, that Gerard Way project you love is back! No, not My Chemical Romance (though, it\u2019s good to have you back, boys), we\u2019re talking about The Umbrella Academy, the Netflix show loosely based on Way and artist Gabriel B\u00e1\u2019s comics series. The series is coming to an end with its fourth season, and since this live-action version has already diverted significantly from its source material, even devoted fans could be in for some big surprises.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3

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The Bad Batch, a spinoff from the long-running Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is returning for a third and final season that will wrap up the story of the fugitive Clone Force 99. Set in the immediate aftermath of the Prequel Trilogy, The Bad Batch has depicted the eerie and violent transformation of the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire, through the eyes of the tank-grown soldiers who look back at their service in the Clone Wars and say, \u201cOops.\u201d Like The Clone Wars and Rebels before it, The Bad Batch is a kid-targeted show that has grown more mature over the course of its run, and while we don\u2019t expect its ending to break our hearts like the finale of Clone Wars, fans of the franchise will definitely want to give it a shot.

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Vikings: Valhalla season 3

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Vikings: Valhalla, a Netflix spinoff from The History Channel\u2019s first scripted drama, is drawing to a close. We surmise it will end the age of Vikings, with historical icons Leif Erikson (Sam Corlett), Freyd\u00eds Eir\u00edksd\u00f3ttir (Frida Gustavsson), and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter) poised for a deadly conflict with the English. (Spoilers for a thing that happened a thousand years ago: it\u2019s not going to end well for them.)

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American Horror Story: Delicate part 2

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Ryan Murphy\u2019s anthology series American Horror Story is onto its 12th installment, and it\u2019s\u2026good now? Color us shocked, but the first half of AHS: Delicate caught our attention with its emphasis on psychological horror over shock and gore, and its pivot from ensemble drama to a focus on a single character, a rising Hollywood star and aspiring parent portrayed by Emma Roberts. There are a lot of new elements that you could point towards to explain the show\u2019s uptick in quality \u2014 new showrunner Halley Feiffer, the source material by author Danielle Valentine \u2014 but we wouldn\u2019t have guessed that a standout performance from Kim Kardashian would be one of them.

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The Boys season 4

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The meanest, nastiest, and probably most believable depiction of a world full of superheroes returns to lampoon American politics and celebrity culture once more. How does a society cope when its most powerful individuals flaunt their narcissism, to the thunderous applause of the general public? Is there any hope for a world where the worst people get to thrive, consequence-free, while the rest of us spend our lives on the precipice of total ruin? Is democracy doomed as harshly divided camps rally behind leaders who would rather stoke their rage than solve their problems? Anyway, we should get back to talking about The Boys.

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Chucky S3 part 2

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Keeping a horror franchise fun and interesting after 35 years is anything but Child\u2019s Play, but Chucky has breathed new life into the killer doll saga while discarding none of its messy continuity. The bizarre horror comedy sees Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif) spilling blood and swapping bodies as usual, while bonding with bullied gay teenager Jake (Zackary Arthur) and revisiting a string of his past victims and companions. Season 3 finds Chucky settling into his new home \u2014 the freaking White House \u2014 and it\u2019ll be up to Jake to kill Chucky (some more) and prevent an international incident.

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The Diplomat Season 2

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Keri Russell returns for more twisty political intrigue in The Diplomat, a terrific Netflix thriller that came out of nowhere when its first season dropped in 2023. Russell portrays an ambitious American politician who is unexpectedly assigned as the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, a position that is typically not taken seriously. Power brokering and high-stakes conflict ensue, sometimes pitting her directly against her shrewd, equally adept diplomat husband (God\u2019s perfect weasel Rufus Seward).

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Evil season 4

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Evil, the paranormal procedural that was too weird to stay on CBS, is back on Paramount Plus this year. Priest David Acosta (Mike Coulter), forensic psychologist Dr. Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), and technologist Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) investigate strange phenomena that may or not (but frequently are) caused by demons. Part X-Files, part Hannibal, and part The Exorcist, Evil is a critical darling that still hasn\u2019t achieved the wider viewership it deserves.

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Squid Game season 2

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Hwang Dong-hyuk\u2019s Squid Game is the most popular program ever to debut on Netflix, watched for a cumulative 1.6 billion hours worldwide in its first month. A second season was a given, whether or not the story truly demands one. My taste for more of the clever and devastatingly cruel survival drama has lessened somewhat after learning how poorly Hwang and the cast were compensated for their blockbuster hit, to say nothing of Netflix\u2019s distasteful and generally lousy game show adaptation, but in truth, there\u2019s no way I\u2019m opting out of Squid Game. As in the show, the rewards are simply too great to pass up.

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Acclaimed filmmaker Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n hasn\u2019t released a new film since 2018\u2019s Roma, and he\u2019s very rarely lent his talents to television since his film career took off in the 1990s. Oscar-winner and arguably Hollywood\u2019s greatest living actor Cate Blanchett has dipped her toe into the world of prestige streaming television only once, with 2019\u2019s Miss America. The two artists have never worked together, but now they\u2019ve teamed up for an Apple TV Plus miniseries based on a thriller by Ren\u00e9e Knight. Blanchett plays a journalist who realizes that the mystery novel she\u2019s reading is actually about her, and could reveal her most closely guarded secrets.

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Star Trek: Prodigy season 2

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The past five years have seen the Star Trek franchise expanding aggressively in multiple directions, but the most surprising of all its new offerings is Star Trek: Prodigy, the kid-targeted animated series from Trollhunters creators Kevin and Dan Hageman. Prodigy is designed as an on-ramp for viewers with no history or prior interest in the Star Trek universe, essentially a metafictional hyperbaric chamber that acclimatizes Star Wars fans to the more sunny and cerebral world of Trek. Along the way, it\u2019s generated a few of streaming Trek\u2019s best episodes and unfolded an exciting longform story in its own right, which is why it stung so much when Paramount decided not to air its nearly-completed second season. Thankfully, Netflix stepped in to ensure that fans new and old would get the chance to see the remaining 20 episodes.

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Returning hits, exciting new shows: TV\u2019s got it all this year

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Once upon a time, television was an ephemeral, even disposable form of entertainment, cinema\u2019s scrappy younger cousin. Today, much of Hollywood\u2019s small-screen output is as star-studded and finely-crafted as anything you\u2019ll find in theaters. The streaming prestige miniseries has all but replaced the theatrical mid-budget adult drama, while advances in digital effects (and exorbitant budgets) have made it possible to bring practically any fantastical world into the home. To someone living even a mere decade ago, a TV slate that included two new live-action Star Wars series and an Apple miniseries from Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n and Cate Blanchett, would sound like a joke.

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But on top of the flashy franchise installments and lavish historical epics, there are television shows that are still, essentially, television: Delightful single-camera sitcoms like Abbott Elementary and Girls5Eva, offbeat procedurals like Evil and Elsbeth, and animated comedies like Big Mouth and Hazbin Hotel. Big screen cinema may be clawing its way back to the top, but television \u2014 in all its forms \u2014 is still scrapping.

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The Brothers Sun

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on Jan. 4

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\u201cMichelle Yeoh stars as\u201d is probably enough of a sell, but let\u2019s continue. In the new Netflix series Yeoh plays the matriarch of a Los Angeles crime family. When war breaks out between rival gangs, the family must band together to protect their territory. The problem: One of her sons (Justin Chien) is a lethal assassin who\u2019s been estranged from the family for years, and the other (Sam Song Li) has no idea what he was born into. Bloody, tightly choreographed action, complicated family drama, and fish-out-of-water comedy ensue.

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Release date: Premieres on Disney Plus and Hulu on Jan. 10

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Echo\u2019s first trailer immediately set it apart from previous Disney Plus Marvel shows, boasting gnarly violence, an edgy adult tone, and a TV-MA rating. Though it still promises cameos and plot threads from other MCU properties, Echo looks to be an action-packed crime thriller first and foremost. Whether or not this bloody tale can stoke Marvel\u2019s flickering flame is yet to be seen, but it\u2019s also not the point \u2014 Marvel wants to assure you Echo is neither dependent on its parent show, Hawkeye, nor a mere precursor for some future crossover. It\u2019s just a television show that can be enjoyed by Marvel fans and general audiences alike. Imagine that!

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True Detective: Night Country

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Release date: Premieres on HBO and Max on Jan. 14

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It\u2019s been a decade since HBO launched True Detective. While its first mystery was a critical phenomenon that had countless viewers gazing thoughtfully out of car windows musing about how \u201ctime is a flat circle,\u201d none of the subsequent seasons have lived up to the hype, and the show itself now feels like a cold case waiting to be reopened. True Detective: Night Country aims to recapture the bone-chilling horror-thriller vibes of that first season, albeit in a dramatically different setting: the frozen Alaskan tundra. Jodie Foster and Kali Reis play a pair of cops still haunted by the case that destroyed their partnership six years prior. Night Country is helmed by director-showrunner Issa L\u00f3pez, bringing her folk-horror bona fides to the chilling, supernatural-tinged crime drama.

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on Jan. 19

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Rarely has an original series arrived on television with such a ready-made, rabid fanbase as Hazbin Hotel. The pilot episode of Vivienne Medrano\u2019s animated musical comedy hit YouTube in 2019 and absolutely caught fire. (There are over 10,000 works of Hazbin Hotel fanfiction on AAO3 already.) The raunchy, violent workplace sitcom set at a rehab center for damned souls in Hell features the voices of Broadway star Erika Henningsen, Brooklyn Nine-Nine\u2019s Stephanie Beatriz, and the legendary Keith David.

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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From producer and star Donald Glover comes a new series kinda-sorta based on Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the 2005 film that hooked up Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie both on- and off-screen. The new version reverses the premise of the original, with Glover and Maya Erskine portraying a pair of spies who work undercover as a married couple. Sparks (and bullets) will fly as the Smiths embrace a new assignment each episode, opposite a magnificent array of guest stars like Paul Dano, Parker Posey, Michaela Coel, and Ron Perlman.

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Release date: Premieres on ABC on Feb. 7

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Just when we thought the \u201cdocu-sitcom\u201d was dead and buried, Quinta Brunson called us back into class with Abbott Elementary, an endlessly charming ode to America\u2019s undervalued public educators. Two seasons and a handful of Emmys later, Abbott Elementary has come to occupy the space in our hearts left behind by Parks and Recreation, likewise a sunny satire about quirky public servants.

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Halo season 2

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Release date: Premieres on Paramount Plus on Feb. 8

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After an eternity in development hell, the live-action Halo adaptation hit small screens in 2022 to what can generously be called a \u201cmixed reception.\u201d Bold as it was for showrunner Steven Kane to present a dramatically different take on the massively popular source material, no one seemed terribly interested in a show about an unmasked Master Chief reclaiming his humanity and losing his virginity. 343 Studios and Paramount Plus are looking to win fans back this year by promoting an action-heavy second season and making the first season free to watch on YouTube.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on Feb. 22

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Let\u2019s try this again. 14 years after the abysmal first attempt at adapting the acclaimed animated series to live-action, Netflix is unveiling its own take on Avatar: The Last Airbender. We emphasize \u201cits own take\u201d because ATLA creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko walked away from the project two years ago. Whether this new series will surpass the lifeless, whitewashed film version is hardly in question, but can this translation to live-action add anything new to the beloved story?

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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

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Release date: Premieres on AMC and AMC Plus on Feb. 25

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The six-part miniseries set in the world of The Walking Dead sees the return of both Andrew Lincoln\u2019s Sheriff Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira\u2019s katana-wielding heroine Michonne. AMC\u2019s initial announcement describes The Ones Who Live as \u201can epic love story,\u201d one that may leave the door open for further stories with the duo. Given that Lincoln and Gurira\u2019s departures are arguably what hobbled The Walking Dead to begin with, could this be the spinoff that jaded fans have been waiting for, or is it simply too late to revive mass interest in this sprawling, shambling franchise?

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Sh\u014dgun

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Release date: Premieres on FX and Hulu on Feb. 27

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The word \u201cepic\u201d gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but Sh\u014dgun, a 10-part historical drama based on the acclaimed 1975 novel by James Clavell, appears worthy. FX chairman John Landgraf has hailed it as the network\u2019s \u201cbiggest and most ambitious production ever,\u201d and from the look of the trailer, that budget and scope certainly shows.

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Elsbeth

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Release date: Premieres on CBS on Feb. 29

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Elsbeth is the latest entry in Michelle and Robert King\u2019s run of legal dramas that includes The Good Wife and The Good Fight (but not The Good Doctor), centering around fan favorite character Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston). The scatterbrained, effervescent defense attorney has appeared sporadically in the Chicago-based Good Universe since 2010, but her spinoff ships her off to the East Coast to lend her unique perspective to the NYPD.

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on March 14

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Invincible, the animated series based on the long-running comics series by writer Robert Kirkman and artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, has suffered some long production delays since it launched in 2021, but fans will tell you, this show is well worth the wait. More than a pastiche of coming-of-age superhero stories, Invincible makes better use of the genre\u2019s tropes than its mainstream counterparts and leans into its potential for nuance and social commentary. Plus, it\u2019s gleefully self-aware and so very, very violent. For grown-up superhero comics fans, this is a can\u2019t-miss.

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Girls5Eva season 3

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on March 14

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After languishing in Peacock obscurity for its first two seasons, showbiz comedy Girls5Eva has been picked up by Netflix, where \u2014 just like the titular pop group \u2014 they hope to finally get noticed. It\u2019s a light, joke-dense comedy in the tradition of 30 Rock, created by Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt staffer Meredith Scardino and produced by Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Jeff Richmond. Can one of the best modern TV comedies mount the comeback it deserves?

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Manhunt

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Release date: Premieres on Apple TV Plus on March 18

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Apple TV Plus and Monica Beletsky, showrunner for the third season of Fargo, present Manhunt, a 10-part historical drama/political thriller about the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The Crown\u2019s Tobias Menzies stars as Edwin Stanton, the US Secretary of War, who obsessively pursues Lincoln\u2019s killer, John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle). The miniseries will reportedly also follow the efforts to preserve Lincoln\u2019s Reconstruction agenda, and the assassination\u2019s immediate and lingering impact on the rights and lives of Black Americans, drawing a line between the assassination and the still incomplete recovery from American slavery.

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3 Body Problem

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on March 21

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In the 20th century, the imagination of science fiction authors generally outpaced the technology to adapt their strange worlds or high concepts to the screen. Today, just about anything is filmable, including The 3 Body Problem, Cixin Liu\u2019s acclaimed novel about the discovery of extraterrestrial life and its repercussions on our world. Netflix\u2019s big-budget streaming series adaptation features an ensemble cast that includes Benedict Wong, Eiza Gonzalez, and Jonathan Pryce, but the biggest names attached are Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Given the reception of GoT\u2019s final season, that may not inspire an abundance of confidence, but this time they\u2019re dealing with completed source material.

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Fallout

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on April 12

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The era of the live-action video game adaptation is in full swing, and every major streamer wants a piece. The Fallout series follows a sheltered survivor of a nuclear apocalypse (Ella Purcell) as she ventures into a wasteland populated by mutants, scavengers, and a skull-faced gunslinger played by Walton Goggins. Developed by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan of Westworld fame, and run by alums of Portlandia and Captain Marvel, Fallout certainly has an interesting pedigree, and with six core games to mine from, we can probably expect the series to have a long half-life.

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Star Trek: Discovery season 5

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Release date: Premieres on Paramount Plus in April

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Star Trek: Discovery boldly kicked off the franchise\u2019s streaming renaissance, setting the stage for arguably more successful installments in Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, but never truly becoming comfortable with itself. Retooled practically every year since its debut, Discovery gets one more shot to cement its legacy with its fifth and final season, which appears to be leaning more than ever into flashy action-adventure. Though it wasn\u2019t initially intended as a last hurrah for Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and her crew, additional shooting was performed last year to wrap up the series, and hopefully ensures Discovery gets an appropriately emotional final hour.

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Bridgerton season 3

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Release date: Part 1 premieres on Netflix on May 16; part 2 premieres on June 13

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News from Lady Whistledown! The third season of Bridgerton is coming in two parts. The wildly popular regency romance continues as Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), who is secretly London\u2019s notorious Gossip Girl, moves on from her crush on Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) \u2014 or does she? What happens to her quest for a practical marriage when her heretofore unattainable dream guy suddenly seems attainable? Something sexy, we wager.

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Arcane season 2

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix in November

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The second season of Arcane has been three years in the making, and honestly, Fortiche and Riot Games deserve every second of it. Its first season was a surprise knockout, a compelling story whose appeal reached far beyond the League of Legends fanbase. The steampunk/fantasy/coming-of-age action-tragedy has produced some of the most instantly iconic, fan-art-ready characters of the decade, and we can\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s next for sisters and revolutionary rivals Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell). Actually, we can wait. Take all the time you want, we\u2019ll be here.

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Agatha: Darkhold Diaries

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Release date: Premieres on Disney Plus this fall

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Hey, remember back in 2021, when Marvel\u2019s expansion onto Disney Plus had just begun and everyone was really jazzed about WandaVision? How exciting it was when we learned, via a catchy musical number, that the villain was \u201cAgatha All Along?\u201d Remember how the fandom cheered when it was announced that Kathryn Hahn\u2019s charismatic, diabolical witch would receive her own spinoff? Well, here it is, with a lot of other MCU stuff behind it. Agatha: Darkhold Diaries is a dark comedy that will star not only Hahn, but America\u2019s terrifying crush Aubrey Plaza, Heartbreaker\u2019s Joe Locke, and Broadway legend Patti LuPone.

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The Penguin

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Release date: Premieres on Max in late 2024

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Ey, take it easy, sweethaht! The story of Gotham mafioso Oswald \u201cOz\u201d Cobblepot will be streaming on Max before you know it. Colin Farrell, under a lot of heavy makeup, will reprise his role in this spinoff from Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman, which will chart the Penguin\u2019s attempt to fill the power vacuum left by mob boss Carmine Falcone. This isn\u2019t the first attempt at a crime drama set in the world of Batman (remember Gotham?), but this one\u2019s got Farrell\u2019s star power and a place in (one of) the Batman movie continuit(ies), so it\u2019s likely to attract more mainstream attention.

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

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Release date: TBA on HBO and Max

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Who\u2019s up for more Game of Thrones? Alongside House of the Dragon, Max has commissioned this series in Westeros, with all six episodes co-written by George R.R. Martin himself. The Hedge Knight is based on the first entry in his novella series, Tales of Dunk & Egg, following the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Aegon Targaryen, a century before the events of Game of Thrones. As of this writing, the series has yet to be cast, making a 2024 release feel optimistic at best, but given the popularity of House of the Dragon, Warner Bros. Discovery surely wants to put The Hedge Knight in front of audiences as soon as possible.

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Dark Matter

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Release date: TBA on Apple TV Plus

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Not to be confused with the 2015 space sci-fi series of the same name, Dark Matter is an adaptation of the novel by Blake Crouch, in which a physicist finds himself unstuck in the multiverse, bouncing between unnerving alternate versions of his own life along his journey home. Crouch adapts his own work as showrunner for the nine-part miniseries for Apple TV Plus, which stars Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly in the lead roles.

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Sugar

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Release date: TBA on Apple TV Plus

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Colin Farrell seems to be everywhere of late, and you will likely see him again next year as the star of the Apple TV Plus detective series Sugar. Written and produced by Mark Protosevich, best known as the screenwriter of sci-fi thrillers I Am Legend and The Cell, Apple describes the project as \u201ca genre-bending contemporary take on the private detective story,\u201d we can reasonably assume that there will be some sort of fanciful twist.

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Anne Rice\u2019s Interview with the Vampire season 2

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Release date: TBA on AMC and AMC Plus

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The first bona fide hit from AMC Plus returns with a new season \u2014 and a new Claudia, with Delainey Haines succeeding Bailey Bass as the teenage vampire. The main attraction is, of course, Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt, the worst person ever to live, who we expect to continue to delight and repulse us simultaneously. Interview has excited Anne Rice fans old and new with its fresh take on the bestselling novels, examining race and sexuality through a found family of bloodthirsty immortals.

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House of the Dragon season 2

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Release date: TBA on HBO and Max this summer

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House of the Dragon is the leaner \u2014 and, improbably, even meaner \u2014 prequel to Game of Thrones, tracing the history of the Targaryen family during their reign over the grim fantasy world of Westeros. Based on a fictional history text rather than a novel, House of the Dragon thrives by being \u201can unspoilable show,\u201d where the key events are a given and the intrigue comes from learning why these political animals make their presaged power moves. The upcoming season finds the dragon-riding despots embroiled a in civil war, promising a lot less dinner-table bickering and a lot more spitting of literal fire from the mouths of their scaly flying mascots.

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Star Wars: The Acolyte

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Release date: TBA on Disney Plus

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Is there room for new Star Wars? Tony Gilroy\u2019s Andor, which ranks amongst the best Star Wars stories ever, gave us hope and every new piece of news about The Acolyte, the new series from Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland, remains promising. Set during the High Republic era when the Jedi are at the peak of their power and benevolence, The Acolyte promises to add some new flavors to the Star Wars recipe, such as a wuxia-inspired action aesthetic and an environment in which \u201cthe bad guys are outnumbered.\u201d

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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

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Release date: TBA on Disney Plus

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Speaking of Star Wars, Skeleton Crew is a youth-oriented adventure that co-creator Jon Watts likens to classic Amblin coming-of-age stories. Much of the cast is young and relatively unknown, but it does boast Oscar-nominee Jude Law front and center as a Jedi, as well as a very interesting stable of directors. In addition to Star Wars stalwarts Bryce Dallas Howard and Lee Isaac Chung, The Green Knight\u2019s David Lowery and Everything Everywhere All at Once\u2019s Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are taking turns behind the camera.

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Dune: Prophecy

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Release date: TBA on Max

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Dune: Part Two\u2019s release delay was heartbreaking but patience will be rewarded big time in 2024. But in addition to Part Two\u2019s arrival in theaters in March, we\u2019re also getting a prequel series, Dune: The Sisterhood. Set 10,000 years before the events of the films, Sisterhood will shed light on the Bene Gesserit, the mysterious order that prophesies the galaxy\u2019s future and then, through millennia of cultural engineering, makes it happen. The first two episodes will be helmed by Johan Renck, the Emmy-winning director of Chernobyl.

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Daredevil: Born Again

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Release date: TBA on Disney Plus

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It\u2019s been a decade since the Marvel Cinematic Universe first expanded to the small screen, first with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC, then with a string of interconnected Netflix series geared towards an adult audience. Even after the demise of that project, there\u2019s no getting rid of Charlie Cox as Daredevil, who has since guest starred in She-Hulk and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Now, the Man Without Fear is back, along with Vincent D\u2019Onofrio as his nemesis Wilson Fisk, for a new series on Disney Plus \u2014 or, rather, he will be, once Marvel gets their ducks in a row. The studio just tossed out multiple episodes that had completed shooting and are taking the whole show back to formula as they rethink their entire television strategy.

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Kite Man: Hell Yeah!

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Release date: TBA on Max

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What a journey the past few years have been for Kite Man. Initially a Z-tier Batman villain with no cultural footprint, Kite Man became a recurring character on the way-funnier-than-you\u2019d-expect Harley Quinn animated series, where comedian Matt Oberg portrays him as the epitome of an average, affable midwestern guy who happens to pull elaborate heists while wearing a kite on his back. Now, he\u2019s getting his own spinoff, bringing along a few other popular HQ characters (namely James Adomian\u2019s Bane) for what appears to be more of the R-rated, self-aware comic book hijinx that fans have come to expect. Sounds like a great way to pass the time while we wait for Harley Quinn season 5.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2

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Amazon\u2019s unbelievably expensive streaming series based on the appendices to Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings will return this year, having spent its first season, as Polygon\u2019s Josh Rivera put it, playing a secret game of Werewolf with all of its characters. Now that we know where most of our characters are aligned \u2014 including the identity of the Dark Lord Sauron \u2014 the game must change. Here are a lot of questions left to be answered, but the biggest of all might be whether or not The Rings of Power can find its footing as a series.

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Marvel Zombies

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Each episode of the MCU\u2019s first animated series, What If?, explores a different alternate universe, usually branching off of the films\u2019 timeline at some key juncture. One installment, however, is inspired directly by the popular Marvel Zombies comics series, in which an unstoppable virus turns most of Earth\u2019s Mightiest Heroes into flesh-eating monsters. Now, the plague is spreading to its own animated series from What If? director Bryan Andrews, in which \u201ca new generation of heroes\u201d will try to fight back the super-powered zombie hoard.

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Moana: The Series

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Moana\u2019s streaming sequel was announced during the early days of Disney Plus back in 2020. Small-screen continuations were once an expected stage of the life cycle of any Disney animated features (even The Emperor\u2019s New Groove got one), but Moana sounds more ambitious than those Disney Channel standards. The series will see Auli\u2019i Cravalho reprising her role from the animated original (and the upcoming live-action version), and a \u201cmusical comedy\u201d format, implying original songs in each episode.

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Orphan Black: Echoes

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Release date: TBA on AMC, AMC Plus, and BBC America

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This spinoff from the hit Canadian sci-fi drama Orphan Black sports the clever tagline: \u201cA completely unique copy of the original.\u201d Like the 2013 series, Echoes centers around a woman who discovers that she is one of multiple identical genetic clones. Echoes, however, has not only a new star in Krysten Ritter, but a new setting in the glossy neon future of 2052.

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The Veil

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Elizabeth Moss stars in this limited series from FX, Hulu, and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. This globe-trotting thriller revolves around a conflict between two women, one deadly secret, and thousands of lives in the balance. This will be Steven Knight\u2019s fourth series for FX, after the historical crime drama Taboo and his grim adaptations of A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations, though he is also the writer-director of the underrated Tom Hardy film Locke and the absolutely unhinged Serenity.

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X-Men \u201997

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Release date: TBA on Disney Plus

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There\u2019s been an incredible renaissance in X-Men comics over the past five years, with the entire line receiving a much-needed overhaul that has redefined many of the iconic Mutant heroes and elevated many of the more obscure ones to places of prominence. It\u2019s an exciting new era that is, so far, totally untapped in screen media. So, naturally, the upcoming X-Men animated series is a continuation of the 1993 cartoon, resurrecting the classic roster, costumes, and voice cast. Will this reboot find a way to blend the familiar, memetic series with the new characters and ideas from the intervening 20 years of X-Men comics? We hope so, but we absolutely promise you there will be at least one scene of Wolverine gazing longingly at a framed photo of someone.

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Big Mouth season 8

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Release date: TBA on Netflix

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While Netflix has developed a reputation for prematurely canceling their original series, the raunchy animated coming-of-age comedy Big Mouth is rounding out a record-setting eighth season. The series, which stars a who\u2019s-who of alt-comedians and Saturday Night Live alums, has both shocked and charmed audiences with its blend of shamelessly filthy comedy and sincere, progressive commentary on modern adolescence. Big Mouth will have its final say on puberty, sexuality, shame, and mental health this year \u2014 via monsters and dick jokes, of course.

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You season 5

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After traveling to a different city each season, homicidal bookworm Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) returns to New York for the final chapter of You. The psychological drama has habitually reinvented itself, and the end of season four teases what will make Joe\u2019s final act unique: At last, the truly hopeless romantic has accepted that he\u2019s a monster, and he\u2019s ready to run with it.

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The Umbrella Academy season 4

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Finally, that Gerard Way project you love is back! No, not My Chemical Romance (though, it\u2019s good to have you back, boys), we\u2019re talking about The Umbrella Academy, the Netflix show loosely based on Way and artist Gabriel B\u00e1\u2019s comics series. The series is coming to an end with its fourth season, and since this live-action version has already diverted significantly from its source material, even devoted fans could be in for some big surprises.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3

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Release date: TBA on Disney Plus

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The Bad Batch, a spinoff from the long-running Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is returning for a third and final season that will wrap up the story of the fugitive Clone Force 99. Set in the immediate aftermath of the Prequel Trilogy, The Bad Batch has depicted the eerie and violent transformation of the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire, through the eyes of the tank-grown soldiers who look back at their service in the Clone Wars and say, \u201cOops.\u201d Like The Clone Wars and Rebels before it, The Bad Batch is a kid-targeted show that has grown more mature over the course of its run, and while we don\u2019t expect its ending to break our hearts like the finale of Clone Wars, fans of the franchise will definitely want to give it a shot.

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Vikings: Valhalla season 3

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Vikings: Valhalla, a Netflix spinoff from The History Channel\u2019s first scripted drama, is drawing to a close. We surmise it will end the age of Vikings, with historical icons Leif Erikson (Sam Corlett), Freyd\u00eds Eir\u00edksd\u00f3ttir (Frida Gustavsson), and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter) poised for a deadly conflict with the English. (Spoilers for a thing that happened a thousand years ago: it\u2019s not going to end well for them.)

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American Horror Story: Delicate part 2

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Release date: TBA on FX and Hulu

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Ryan Murphy\u2019s anthology series American Horror Story is onto its 12th installment, and it\u2019s\u2026good now? Color us shocked, but the first half of AHS: Delicate caught our attention with its emphasis on psychological horror over shock and gore, and its pivot from ensemble drama to a focus on a single character, a rising Hollywood star and aspiring parent portrayed by Emma Roberts. There are a lot of new elements that you could point towards to explain the show\u2019s uptick in quality \u2014 new showrunner Halley Feiffer, the source material by author Danielle Valentine \u2014 but we wouldn\u2019t have guessed that a standout performance from Kim Kardashian would be one of them.

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The Boys season 4

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The meanest, nastiest, and probably most believable depiction of a world full of superheroes returns to lampoon American politics and celebrity culture once more. How does a society cope when its most powerful individuals flaunt their narcissism, to the thunderous applause of the general public? Is there any hope for a world where the worst people get to thrive, consequence-free, while the rest of us spend our lives on the precipice of total ruin? Is democracy doomed as harshly divided camps rally behind leaders who would rather stoke their rage than solve their problems? Anyway, we should get back to talking about The Boys.

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Chucky S3 part 2

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Keeping a horror franchise fun and interesting after 35 years is anything but Child\u2019s Play, but Chucky has breathed new life into the killer doll saga while discarding none of its messy continuity. The bizarre horror comedy sees Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif) spilling blood and swapping bodies as usual, while bonding with bullied gay teenager Jake (Zackary Arthur) and revisiting a string of his past victims and companions. Season 3 finds Chucky settling into his new home \u2014 the freaking White House \u2014 and it\u2019ll be up to Jake to kill Chucky (some more) and prevent an international incident.

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The Diplomat Season 2

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Keri Russell returns for more twisty political intrigue in The Diplomat, a terrific Netflix thriller that came out of nowhere when its first season dropped in 2023. Russell portrays an ambitious American politician who is unexpectedly assigned as the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, a position that is typically not taken seriously. Power brokering and high-stakes conflict ensue, sometimes pitting her directly against her shrewd, equally adept diplomat husband (God\u2019s perfect weasel Rufus Seward).

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Evil season 4

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Evil, the paranormal procedural that was too weird to stay on CBS, is back on Paramount Plus this year. Priest David Acosta (Mike Coulter), forensic psychologist Dr. Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), and technologist Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) investigate strange phenomena that may or not (but frequently are) caused by demons. Part X-Files, part Hannibal, and part The Exorcist, Evil is a critical darling that still hasn\u2019t achieved the wider viewership it deserves.

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Hwang Dong-hyuk\u2019s Squid Game is the most popular program ever to debut on Netflix, watched for a cumulative 1.6 billion hours worldwide in its first month. A second season was a given, whether or not the story truly demands one. My taste for more of the clever and devastatingly cruel survival drama has lessened somewhat after learning how poorly Hwang and the cast were compensated for their blockbuster hit, to say nothing of Netflix\u2019s distasteful and generally lousy game show adaptation, but in truth, there\u2019s no way I\u2019m opting out of Squid Game. As in the show, the rewards are simply too great to pass up.

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Acclaimed filmmaker Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n hasn\u2019t released a new film since 2018\u2019s Roma, and he\u2019s very rarely lent his talents to television since his film career took off in the 1990s. Oscar-winner and arguably Hollywood\u2019s greatest living actor Cate Blanchett has dipped her toe into the world of prestige streaming television only once, with 2019\u2019s Miss America. The two artists have never worked together, but now they\u2019ve teamed up for an Apple TV Plus miniseries based on a thriller by Ren\u00e9e Knight. Blanchett plays a journalist who realizes that the mystery novel she\u2019s reading is actually about her, and could reveal her most closely guarded secrets.

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\n\n\n\n\n\tAfter the dual strikes effectively shut down most production from May through November, the doors have reopened again onto a landscape that\u2019s been forever changed. The realities of the streaming bubble and the rifts between legacy media v. Silicon Valley companies were put into stark relief during the strikes, and whether some of the legacy studios survive next year intact is a very real question. (As we were finishing writing this introduction, as if to emphasize the point, the news broke of a possible merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global.)

\n\n\n\n\n\tIn the practical terms for this 2024 TV preview, consumers should start seeing fewer shows as of next year: But whether people will even notice when there\u2019s still just so much content is an open question \u2014 especially when the beginning of the year is stacked like never before.

\n\n\n\n\n\tThat\u2019s because one tangible result of the strikes is that shows that would have premiered in fall 2023 \u2014 such as HBO\u2019s \u201cTrue Detective: Night Country\u201d and FX\u2019s \u201cFeud: Capote vs. The Swans\u201d \u2014 were pushed into the new year, and the result is an insane pile-up in January, as you will see below (and we\u2019re not including everything, obviously).

\n\n\n\n\n\tAnother by-product of the strikes is that network TV programs, most of which went into production as soon as the actors strike ended, will also be rolling out in the first quarter of the year, with shows like ABC\u2019s \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d and NBC’s “One Chicago” lineup premiering in slots normally allocated for midseason replacements. What the effect of this shift will be on tried-and-true network shows is anyone\u2019s guess.

\n\n\n\n\n\tWhile we\u2019ve included 34 shows in this preview, the new methodology in the streaming age (even for non-streamers) is to continue to play hide-the-ball with premiere dates in order to preserve maximum flexibility. So the latest date that\u2019s been announced at all is for the split third season of Netflix\u2019s \u201cBridgerton\u201d (May 16 and June 13). Beyond that, other than the Olympics in July, there\u2019s just \u201csummer\u201d for Season 2 of \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d on HBO and \u201cfall\u201d for Disney+\u2019s \u201cAgatha: Darkhold Diaries\u201d (the \u201cWandaVision\u201d spinoff revolving around Kathryn Hahn\u2019s breakout villain).

\n\n\n\n\n\tThe outlet with the most high-profile projects without dates is, naturally, Netflix, since the dominant streamer still has the greatest number of shows, period. Viewers can anticipate the final seasons of \u201cCobra Kai\u201d and \u201cUmbrella Academy,\u201d along with Andrew Scott in \u201cRipley\u201d (likely within the Emmys\u2019 window of the spring). Eventually, among many other new and returning shows, Netflix\u2019s audience will also see \u201cDead Boy Detectives,\u201d Hayley Atwell as the title star of \u201cTomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft\u201d and David E. Kelley\u2019s long-awaited adaptation of Tom Wolfe\u2019s novel \u201cA Man in Full,\u201d starring Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane. 

\n\n\n\n\n\tHBO and Max also have a number of highly anticipated undated shows, starting with the Robert Downey Jr. satire \u201cThe Sympathizer\u201d (likely this spring, for Emmys purposes), to be followed later in the year by the huge IP plays of the Batman-offshoot \u201cThe Penguin\u201d (with Colin Farrell!) and \u201cDune: Prophecy,\u201d a prequel series to the blockbuster movie franchise \u2014 both of which are on Max. Returning for new seasons on Max will be Season 2 of \u201cTokyo Vice,\u201d and the third seasons of both \u201cHacks\u201d and \u201cThe Sex Lives of College Girls.\u201d

\n\n\n\n\n\tWe have a number of Apple TV+ shows on this list, but still to be slotted are \u201cDark Matter,\u201d Blake Crouch\u2019s adaptation of his own novel, led by Joel Edgerton, and \u201cLady in the Lake,\u201d the Natalie Portman-starring limited series (based on Laura Lippman\u2019s 2019 mystery) \u2014 among many others. And then there\u2019s the small matter of the return of the Emmy-nominated \u201cSeverance\u201d for Season 2, which despite reports to the contrary, we\u2019ve heard is going to be excellent.

\n\n\n\n\n\tNetflix, Apple TV+ and HBO/Max aren\u2019t alone in not frigging announcing dates for shows we\u2019re excited to see: someday. The date for Hulu\u2019s adaptation of Georgia Hunter\u2019s bestselling novel \u201cWe Were the Lucky Ones\u201d \u2014 starring Joey King and Logan Lerman \u2014 about a Jewish family during World War II, is TBA. That\u2019s also the case for Hulu’s \u201cInterior Chinatown,\u201d Charles Yu\u2019s adaptation of his own 2020 novel that used a screenplay structure to serve as a commentary on race and representation in popular culture. In addition to “Agatha,” Disney+, Hulu’s corporate sibling, will also feature Leslye Headland’s take on “Star Wars” in “The Acolyte,” and, with the animated “X-Men \u201897,” Marvel Studios will dip its toes into that franchise for the first time.

\n\n\n\n\n\tThose are just some of the undated shows from the dominant players. We\u2019re also looking forward finally to seeing \u201cOrphan Black: Echoes\u201d on AMC, which will also have Season 2 of \u201cInterview With the Vampire.\u201d Speaking of second seasons, \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d should also return next year \u2014 and we hope it won\u2019t run right up against \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d again this time, if only for its own sake. There\u2019s also Showtime\u2019s \u201cGentleman in Moscow,\u201d starring Ewan McGregor. And speaking of star power, Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine play mother and son in the Starz acquisition of \u201cMary & George,\u201d which we nominate as having the most batshit trailer of a period series in years. (Watch it here!)

\n\n\n\n\n\tNow, let us turn our attention to those shows who\u2019ve done us the courtesy of announcing their dates! They’re in chronological order \u2014 and we wish you all a happy New Year, with much excellent watching in your futures.

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The 50 most anticipated TV shows of 2024

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Returning hits, exciting new shows: TV\u2019s got it all this year

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Once upon a time, television was an ephemeral, even disposable form of entertainment, cinema\u2019s scrappy younger cousin. Today, much of Hollywood\u2019s small-screen output is as star-studded and finely-crafted as anything you\u2019ll find in theaters. The streaming prestige miniseries has all but replaced the theatrical mid-budget adult drama, while advances in digital effects (and exorbitant budgets) have made it possible to bring practically any fantastical world into the home. To someone living even a mere decade ago, a TV slate that included two new live-action Star Wars series and an Apple miniseries from Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n and Cate Blanchett, would sound like a joke.

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But on top of the flashy franchise installments and lavish historical epics, there are television shows that are still, essentially, television: Delightful single-camera sitcoms like Abbott Elementary and Girls5Eva, offbeat procedurals like Evil and Elsbeth, and animated comedies like Big Mouth and Hazbin Hotel. Big screen cinema may be clawing its way back to the top, but television \u2014 in all its forms \u2014 is still scrapping.

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Here are the exciting new and returning shows to keep an eye on this year.

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The Brothers Sun

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on Jan. 4

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\u201cMichelle Yeoh stars as\u201d is probably enough of a sell, but let\u2019s continue. In the new Netflix series Yeoh plays the matriarch of a Los Angeles crime family. When war breaks out between rival gangs, the family must band together to protect their territory. The problem: One of her sons (Justin Chien) is a lethal assassin who\u2019s been estranged from the family for years, and the other (Sam Song Li) has no idea what he was born into. Bloody, tightly choreographed action, complicated family drama, and fish-out-of-water comedy ensue.

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Echo

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Release date: Premieres on Disney Plus and Hulu on Jan. 10

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Echo\u2019s first trailer immediately set it apart from previous Disney Plus Marvel shows, boasting gnarly violence, an edgy adult tone, and a TV-MA rating. Though it still promises cameos and plot threads from other MCU properties, Echo looks to be an action-packed crime thriller first and foremost. Whether or not this bloody tale can stoke Marvel\u2019s flickering flame is yet to be seen, but it\u2019s also not the point \u2014 Marvel wants to assure you Echo is neither dependent on its parent show, Hawkeye, nor a mere precursor for some future crossover. It\u2019s just a television show that can be enjoyed by Marvel fans and general audiences alike. Imagine that!

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True Detective: Night Country

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Release date: Premieres on HBO and Max on Jan. 14

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It\u2019s been a decade since HBO launched True Detective. While its first mystery was a critical phenomenon that had countless viewers gazing thoughtfully out of car windows musing about how \u201ctime is a flat circle,\u201d none of the subsequent seasons have lived up to the hype, and the show itself now feels like a cold case waiting to be reopened. True Detective: Night Country aims to recapture the bone-chilling horror-thriller vibes of that first season, albeit in a dramatically different setting: the frozen Alaskan tundra. Jodie Foster and Kali Reis play a pair of cops still haunted by the case that destroyed their partnership six years prior. Night Country is helmed by director-showrunner Issa L\u00f3pez, bringing her folk-horror bona fides to the chilling, supernatural-tinged crime drama.

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Hazbin Hotel

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on Jan. 19

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Rarely has an original series arrived on television with such a ready-made, rabid fanbase as Hazbin Hotel. The pilot episode of Vivienne Medrano\u2019s animated musical comedy hit YouTube in 2019 and absolutely caught fire. (There are over 10,000 works of Hazbin Hotel fanfiction on AAO3 already.) The raunchy, violent workplace sitcom set at a rehab center for damned souls in Hell features the voices of Broadway star Erika Henningsen, Brooklyn Nine-Nine\u2019s Stephanie Beatriz, and the legendary Keith David.

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on Feb. 2

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From producer and star Donald Glover comes a new series kinda-sorta based on Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the 2005 film that hooked up Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie both on- and off-screen. The new version reverses the premise of the original, with Glover and Maya Erskine portraying a pair of spies who work undercover as a married couple. Sparks (and bullets) will fly as the Smiths embrace a new assignment each episode, opposite a magnificent array of guest stars like Paul Dano, Parker Posey, Michaela Coel, and Ron Perlman.

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Abbott Elementary season 3

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Release date: Premieres on ABC on Feb. 7

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Just when we thought the \u201cdocu-sitcom\u201d was dead and buried, Quinta Brunson called us back into class with Abbott Elementary, an endlessly charming ode to America\u2019s undervalued public educators. Two seasons and a handful of Emmys later, Abbott Elementary has come to occupy the space in our hearts left behind by Parks and Recreation, likewise a sunny satire about quirky public servants.

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Halo season 2

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Release date: Premieres on Paramount Plus on Feb. 8

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After an eternity in development hell, the live-action Halo adaptation hit small screens in 2022 to what can generously be called a \u201cmixed reception.\u201d Bold as it was for showrunner Steven Kane to present a dramatically different take on the massively popular source material, no one seemed terribly interested in a show about an unmasked Master Chief reclaiming his humanity and losing his virginity. 343 Studios and Paramount Plus are looking to win fans back this year by promoting an action-heavy second season and making the first season free to watch on YouTube.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on Feb. 22

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Let\u2019s try this again. 14 years after the abysmal first attempt at adapting the acclaimed animated series to live-action, Netflix is unveiling its own take on Avatar: The Last Airbender. We emphasize \u201cits own take\u201d because ATLA creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko walked away from the project two years ago. Whether this new series will surpass the lifeless, whitewashed film version is hardly in question, but can this translation to live-action add anything new to the beloved story?

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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

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Release date: Premieres on AMC and AMC Plus on Feb. 25

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The six-part miniseries set in the world of The Walking Dead sees the return of both Andrew Lincoln\u2019s Sheriff Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira\u2019s katana-wielding heroine Michonne. AMC\u2019s initial announcement describes The Ones Who Live as \u201can epic love story,\u201d one that may leave the door open for further stories with the duo. Given that Lincoln and Gurira\u2019s departures are arguably what hobbled The Walking Dead to begin with, could this be the spinoff that jaded fans have been waiting for, or is it simply too late to revive mass interest in this sprawling, shambling franchise?

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Sh\u014dgun

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Release date: Premieres on FX and Hulu on Feb. 27

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The word \u201cepic\u201d gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but Sh\u014dgun, a 10-part historical drama based on the acclaimed 1975 novel by James Clavell, appears worthy. FX chairman John Landgraf has hailed it as the network\u2019s \u201cbiggest and most ambitious production ever,\u201d and from the look of the trailer, that budget and scope certainly shows.

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Elsbeth

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Release date: Premieres on CBS on Feb. 29

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Elsbeth is the latest entry in Michelle and Robert King\u2019s run of legal dramas that includes The Good Wife and The Good Fight (but not The Good Doctor), centering around fan favorite character Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston). The scatterbrained, effervescent defense attorney has appeared sporadically in the Chicago-based Good Universe since 2010, but her spinoff ships her off to the East Coast to lend her unique perspective to the NYPD.

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Invincible season 2 part 2

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on March 14

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Invincible, the animated series based on the long-running comics series by writer Robert Kirkman and artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, has suffered some long production delays since it launched in 2021, but fans will tell you, this show is well worth the wait. More than a pastiche of coming-of-age superhero stories, Invincible makes better use of the genre\u2019s tropes than its mainstream counterparts and leans into its potential for nuance and social commentary. Plus, it\u2019s gleefully self-aware and so very, very violent. For grown-up superhero comics fans, this is a can\u2019t-miss.

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Girls5Eva season 3

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on March 14

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After languishing in Peacock obscurity for its first two seasons, showbiz comedy Girls5Eva has been picked up by Netflix, where \u2014 just like the titular pop group \u2014 they hope to finally get noticed. It\u2019s a light, joke-dense comedy in the tradition of 30 Rock, created by Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt staffer Meredith Scardino and produced by Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Jeff Richmond. Can one of the best modern TV comedies mount the comeback it deserves?

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Manhunt

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Release date: Premieres on Apple TV Plus on March 18

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Apple TV Plus and Monica Beletsky, showrunner for the third season of Fargo, present Manhunt, a 10-part historical drama/political thriller about the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The Crown\u2019s Tobias Menzies stars as Edwin Stanton, the US Secretary of War, who obsessively pursues Lincoln\u2019s killer, John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle). The miniseries will reportedly also follow the efforts to preserve Lincoln\u2019s Reconstruction agenda, and the assassination\u2019s immediate and lingering impact on the rights and lives of Black Americans, drawing a line between the assassination and the still incomplete recovery from American slavery.

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3 Body Problem

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix on March 21

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In the 20th century, the imagination of science fiction authors generally outpaced the technology to adapt their strange worlds or high concepts to the screen. Today, just about anything is filmable, including The 3 Body Problem, Cixin Liu\u2019s acclaimed novel about the discovery of extraterrestrial life and its repercussions on our world. Netflix\u2019s big-budget streaming series adaptation features an ensemble cast that includes Benedict Wong, Eiza Gonzalez, and Jonathan Pryce, but the biggest names attached are Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Given the reception of GoT\u2019s final season, that may not inspire an abundance of confidence, but this time they\u2019re dealing with completed source material.

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Fallout

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Release date: Premieres on Prime Video on April 12

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The era of the live-action video game adaptation is in full swing, and every major streamer wants a piece. The Fallout series follows a sheltered survivor of a nuclear apocalypse (Ella Purcell) as she ventures into a wasteland populated by mutants, scavengers, and a skull-faced gunslinger played by Walton Goggins. Developed by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan of Westworld fame, and run by alums of Portlandia and Captain Marvel, Fallout certainly has an interesting pedigree, and with six core games to mine from, we can probably expect the series to have a long half-life.

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Star Trek: Discovery season 5

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Release date: Premieres on Paramount Plus in April

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Star Trek: Discovery boldly kicked off the franchise\u2019s streaming renaissance, setting the stage for arguably more successful installments in Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, but never truly becoming comfortable with itself. Retooled practically every year since its debut, Discovery gets one more shot to cement its legacy with its fifth and final season, which appears to be leaning more than ever into flashy action-adventure. Though it wasn\u2019t initially intended as a last hurrah for Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and her crew, additional shooting was performed last year to wrap up the series, and hopefully ensures Discovery gets an appropriately emotional final hour.

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Bridgerton season 3

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News from Lady Whistledown! The third season of Bridgerton is coming in two parts. The wildly popular regency romance continues as Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), who is secretly London\u2019s notorious Gossip Girl, moves on from her crush on Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) \u2014 or does she? What happens to her quest for a practical marriage when her heretofore unattainable dream guy suddenly seems attainable? Something sexy, we wager.

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Arcane season 2

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Release date: Premieres on Netflix in November

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The second season of Arcane has been three years in the making, and honestly, Fortiche and Riot Games deserve every second of it. Its first season was a surprise knockout, a compelling story whose appeal reached far beyond the League of Legends fanbase. The steampunk/fantasy/coming-of-age action-tragedy has produced some of the most instantly iconic, fan-art-ready characters of the decade, and we can\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s next for sisters and revolutionary rivals Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell). Actually, we can wait. Take all the time you want, we\u2019ll be here.

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Agatha: Darkhold Diaries

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Hey, remember back in 2021, when Marvel\u2019s expansion onto Disney Plus had just begun and everyone was really jazzed about WandaVision? How exciting it was when we learned, via a catchy musical number, that the villain was \u201cAgatha All Along?\u201d Remember how the fandom cheered when it was announced that Kathryn Hahn\u2019s charismatic, diabolical witch would receive her own spinoff? Well, here it is, with a lot of other MCU stuff behind it. Agatha: Darkhold Diaries is a dark comedy that will star not only Hahn, but America\u2019s terrifying crush Aubrey Plaza, Heartbreaker\u2019s Joe Locke, and Broadway legend Patti LuPone.

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The Penguin

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Ey, take it easy, sweethaht! The story of Gotham mafioso Oswald \u201cOz\u201d Cobblepot will be streaming on Max before you know it. Colin Farrell, under a lot of heavy makeup, will reprise his role in this spinoff from Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman, which will chart the Penguin\u2019s attempt to fill the power vacuum left by mob boss Carmine Falcone. This isn\u2019t the first attempt at a crime drama set in the world of Batman (remember Gotham?), but this one\u2019s got Farrell\u2019s star power and a place in (one of) the Batman movie continuit(ies), so it\u2019s likely to attract more mainstream attention.

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

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Who\u2019s up for more Game of Thrones? Alongside House of the Dragon, Max has commissioned this series in Westeros, with all six episodes co-written by George R.R. Martin himself. The Hedge Knight is based on the first entry in his novella series, Tales of Dunk & Egg, following the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Aegon Targaryen, a century before the events of Game of Thrones. As of this writing, the series has yet to be cast, making a 2024 release feel optimistic at best, but given the popularity of House of the Dragon, Warner Bros. Discovery surely wants to put The Hedge Knight in front of audiences as soon as possible.

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Dark Matter

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Not to be confused with the 2015 space sci-fi series of the same name, Dark Matter is an adaptation of the novel by Blake Crouch, in which a physicist finds himself unstuck in the multiverse, bouncing between unnerving alternate versions of his own life along his journey home. Crouch adapts his own work as showrunner for the nine-part miniseries for Apple TV Plus, which stars Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly in the lead roles.

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Sugar

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Colin Farrell seems to be everywhere of late, and you will likely see him again next year as the star of the Apple TV Plus detective series Sugar. Written and produced by Mark Protosevich, best known as the screenwriter of sci-fi thrillers I Am Legend and The Cell, Apple describes the project as \u201ca genre-bending contemporary take on the private detective story,\u201d we can reasonably assume that there will be some sort of fanciful twist.

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Anne Rice\u2019s Interview with the Vampire season 2

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The first bona fide hit from AMC Plus returns with a new season \u2014 and a new Claudia, with Delainey Haines succeeding Bailey Bass as the teenage vampire. The main attraction is, of course, Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt, the worst person ever to live, who we expect to continue to delight and repulse us simultaneously. Interview has excited Anne Rice fans old and new with its fresh take on the bestselling novels, examining race and sexuality through a found family of bloodthirsty immortals.

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House of the Dragon season 2

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Release date: TBA on HBO and Max this summer

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House of the Dragon is the leaner \u2014 and, improbably, even meaner \u2014 prequel to Game of Thrones, tracing the history of the Targaryen family during their reign over the grim fantasy world of Westeros. Based on a fictional history text rather than a novel, House of the Dragon thrives by being \u201can unspoilable show,\u201d where the key events are a given and the intrigue comes from learning why these political animals make their presaged power moves. The upcoming season finds the dragon-riding despots embroiled a in civil war, promising a lot less dinner-table bickering and a lot more spitting of literal fire from the mouths of their scaly flying mascots.

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Star Wars: The Acolyte

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Is there room for new Star Wars? Tony Gilroy\u2019s Andor, which ranks amongst the best Star Wars stories ever, gave us hope and every new piece of news about The Acolyte, the new series from Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland, remains promising. Set during the High Republic era when the Jedi are at the peak of their power and benevolence, The Acolyte promises to add some new flavors to the Star Wars recipe, such as a wuxia-inspired action aesthetic and an environment in which \u201cthe bad guys are outnumbered.\u201d

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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

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Speaking of Star Wars, Skeleton Crew is a youth-oriented adventure that co-creator Jon Watts likens to classic Amblin coming-of-age stories. Much of the cast is young and relatively unknown, but it does boast Oscar-nominee Jude Law front and center as a Jedi, as well as a very interesting stable of directors. In addition to Star Wars stalwarts Bryce Dallas Howard and Lee Isaac Chung, The Green Knight\u2019s David Lowery and Everything Everywhere All at Once\u2019s Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are taking turns behind the camera.

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Dune: Prophecy

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Dune: Part Two\u2019s release delay was heartbreaking but patience will be rewarded big time in 2024. But in addition to Part Two\u2019s arrival in theaters in March, we\u2019re also getting a prequel series, Dune: The Sisterhood. Set 10,000 years before the events of the films, Sisterhood will shed light on the Bene Gesserit, the mysterious order that prophesies the galaxy\u2019s future and then, through millennia of cultural engineering, makes it happen. The first two episodes will be helmed by Johan Renck, the Emmy-winning director of Chernobyl.

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Daredevil: Born Again

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It\u2019s been a decade since the Marvel Cinematic Universe first expanded to the small screen, first with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC, then with a string of interconnected Netflix series geared towards an adult audience. Even after the demise of that project, there\u2019s no getting rid of Charlie Cox as Daredevil, who has since guest starred in She-Hulk and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Now, the Man Without Fear is back, along with Vincent D\u2019Onofrio as his nemesis Wilson Fisk, for a new series on Disney Plus \u2014 or, rather, he will be, once Marvel gets their ducks in a row. The studio just tossed out multiple episodes that had completed shooting and are taking the whole show back to formula as they rethink their entire television strategy.

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Kite Man: Hell Yeah!

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What a journey the past few years have been for Kite Man. Initially a Z-tier Batman villain with no cultural footprint, Kite Man became a recurring character on the way-funnier-than-you\u2019d-expect Harley Quinn animated series, where comedian Matt Oberg portrays him as the epitome of an average, affable midwestern guy who happens to pull elaborate heists while wearing a kite on his back. Now, he\u2019s getting his own spinoff, bringing along a few other popular HQ characters (namely James Adomian\u2019s Bane) for what appears to be more of the R-rated, self-aware comic book hijinx that fans have come to expect. Sounds like a great way to pass the time while we wait for Harley Quinn season 5.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2

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Amazon\u2019s unbelievably expensive streaming series based on the appendices to Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings will return this year, having spent its first season, as Polygon\u2019s Josh Rivera put it, playing a secret game of Werewolf with all of its characters. Now that we know where most of our characters are aligned \u2014 including the identity of the Dark Lord Sauron \u2014 the game must change. Here are a lot of questions left to be answered, but the biggest of all might be whether or not The Rings of Power can find its footing as a series.

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Marvel Zombies

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Each episode of the MCU\u2019s first animated series, What If?, explores a different alternate universe, usually branching off of the films\u2019 timeline at some key juncture. One installment, however, is inspired directly by the popular Marvel Zombies comics series, in which an unstoppable virus turns most of Earth\u2019s Mightiest Heroes into flesh-eating monsters. Now, the plague is spreading to its own animated series from What If? director Bryan Andrews, in which \u201ca new generation of heroes\u201d will try to fight back the super-powered zombie hoard.

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Moana: The Series

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Moana\u2019s streaming sequel was announced during the early days of Disney Plus back in 2020. Small-screen continuations were once an expected stage of the life cycle of any Disney animated features (even The Emperor\u2019s New Groove got one), but Moana sounds more ambitious than those Disney Channel standards. The series will see Auli\u2019i Cravalho reprising her role from the animated original (and the upcoming live-action version), and a \u201cmusical comedy\u201d format, implying original songs in each episode.

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Orphan Black: Echoes

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This spinoff from the hit Canadian sci-fi drama Orphan Black sports the clever tagline: \u201cA completely unique copy of the original.\u201d Like the 2013 series, Echoes centers around a woman who discovers that she is one of multiple identical genetic clones. Echoes, however, has not only a new star in Krysten Ritter, but a new setting in the glossy neon future of 2052.

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The Veil

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Elizabeth Moss stars in this limited series from FX, Hulu, and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. This globe-trotting thriller revolves around a conflict between two women, one deadly secret, and thousands of lives in the balance. This will be Steven Knight\u2019s fourth series for FX, after the historical crime drama Taboo and his grim adaptations of A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations, though he is also the writer-director of the underrated Tom Hardy film Locke and the absolutely unhinged Serenity.

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X-Men \u201997

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There\u2019s been an incredible renaissance in X-Men comics over the past five years, with the entire line receiving a much-needed overhaul that has redefined many of the iconic Mutant heroes and elevated many of the more obscure ones to places of prominence. It\u2019s an exciting new era that is, so far, totally untapped in screen media. So, naturally, the upcoming X-Men animated series is a continuation of the 1993 cartoon, resurrecting the classic roster, costumes, and voice cast. Will this reboot find a way to blend the familiar, memetic series with the new characters and ideas from the intervening 20 years of X-Men comics? We hope so, but we absolutely promise you there will be at least one scene of Wolverine gazing longingly at a framed photo of someone.

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Big Mouth season 8

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While Netflix has developed a reputation for prematurely canceling their original series, the raunchy animated coming-of-age comedy Big Mouth is rounding out a record-setting eighth season. The series, which stars a who\u2019s-who of alt-comedians and Saturday Night Live alums, has both shocked and charmed audiences with its blend of shamelessly filthy comedy and sincere, progressive commentary on modern adolescence. Big Mouth will have its final say on puberty, sexuality, shame, and mental health this year \u2014 via monsters and dick jokes, of course.

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You season 5

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After traveling to a different city each season, homicidal bookworm Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) returns to New York for the final chapter of You. The psychological drama has habitually reinvented itself, and the end of season four teases what will make Joe\u2019s final act unique: At last, the truly hopeless romantic has accepted that he\u2019s a monster, and he\u2019s ready to run with it.

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The Umbrella Academy season 4

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Finally, that Gerard Way project you love is back! No, not My Chemical Romance (though, it\u2019s good to have you back, boys), we\u2019re talking about The Umbrella Academy, the Netflix show loosely based on Way and artist Gabriel B\u00e1\u2019s comics series. The series is coming to an end with its fourth season, and since this live-action version has already diverted significantly from its source material, even devoted fans could be in for some big surprises.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3

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The Bad Batch, a spinoff from the long-running Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is returning for a third and final season that will wrap up the story of the fugitive Clone Force 99. Set in the immediate aftermath of the Prequel Trilogy, The Bad Batch has depicted the eerie and violent transformation of the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire, through the eyes of the tank-grown soldiers who look back at their service in the Clone Wars and say, \u201cOops.\u201d Like The Clone Wars and Rebels before it, The Bad Batch is a kid-targeted show that has grown more mature over the course of its run, and while we don\u2019t expect its ending to break our hearts like the finale of Clone Wars, fans of the franchise will definitely want to give it a shot.

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Vikings: Valhalla season 3

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Vikings: Valhalla, a Netflix spinoff from The History Channel\u2019s first scripted drama, is drawing to a close. We surmise it will end the age of Vikings, with historical icons Leif Erikson (Sam Corlett), Freyd\u00eds Eir\u00edksd\u00f3ttir (Frida Gustavsson), and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter) poised for a deadly conflict with the English. (Spoilers for a thing that happened a thousand years ago: it\u2019s not going to end well for them.)

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American Horror Story: Delicate part 2

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Ryan Murphy\u2019s anthology series American Horror Story is onto its 12th installment, and it\u2019s\u2026good now? Color us shocked, but the first half of AHS: Delicate caught our attention with its emphasis on psychological horror over shock and gore, and its pivot from ensemble drama to a focus on a single character, a rising Hollywood star and aspiring parent portrayed by Emma Roberts. There are a lot of new elements that you could point towards to explain the show\u2019s uptick in quality \u2014 new showrunner Halley Feiffer, the source material by author Danielle Valentine \u2014 but we wouldn\u2019t have guessed that a standout performance from Kim Kardashian would be one of them.

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The Boys season 4

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The meanest, nastiest, and probably most believable depiction of a world full of superheroes returns to lampoon American politics and celebrity culture once more. How does a society cope when its most powerful individuals flaunt their narcissism, to the thunderous applause of the general public? Is there any hope for a world where the worst people get to thrive, consequence-free, while the rest of us spend our lives on the precipice of total ruin? Is democracy doomed as harshly divided camps rally behind leaders who would rather stoke their rage than solve their problems? Anyway, we should get back to talking about The Boys.

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Chucky S3 part 2

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Keeping a horror franchise fun and interesting after 35 years is anything but Child\u2019s Play, but Chucky has breathed new life into the killer doll saga while discarding none of its messy continuity. The bizarre horror comedy sees Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif) spilling blood and swapping bodies as usual, while bonding with bullied gay teenager Jake (Zackary Arthur) and revisiting a string of his past victims and companions. Season 3 finds Chucky settling into his new home \u2014 the freaking White House \u2014 and it\u2019ll be up to Jake to kill Chucky (some more) and prevent an international incident.

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The Diplomat Season 2

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Keri Russell returns for more twisty political intrigue in The Diplomat, a terrific Netflix thriller that came out of nowhere when its first season dropped in 2023. Russell portrays an ambitious American politician who is unexpectedly assigned as the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, a position that is typically not taken seriously. Power brokering and high-stakes conflict ensue, sometimes pitting her directly against her shrewd, equally adept diplomat husband (God\u2019s perfect weasel Rufus Seward).

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Evil season 4

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Evil, the paranormal procedural that was too weird to stay on CBS, is back on Paramount Plus this year. Priest David Acosta (Mike Coulter), forensic psychologist Dr. Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), and technologist Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) investigate strange phenomena that may or not (but frequently are) caused by demons. Part X-Files, part Hannibal, and part The Exorcist, Evil is a critical darling that still hasn\u2019t achieved the wider viewership it deserves.

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Squid Game season 2

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Hwang Dong-hyuk\u2019s Squid Game is the most popular program ever to debut on Netflix, watched for a cumulative 1.6 billion hours worldwide in its first month. A second season was a given, whether or not the story truly demands one. My taste for more of the clever and devastatingly cruel survival drama has lessened somewhat after learning how poorly Hwang and the cast were compensated for their blockbuster hit, to say nothing of Netflix\u2019s distasteful and generally lousy game show adaptation, but in truth, there\u2019s no way I\u2019m opting out of Squid Game. As in the show, the rewards are simply too great to pass up.

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Acclaimed filmmaker Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n hasn\u2019t released a new film since 2018\u2019s Roma, and he\u2019s very rarely lent his talents to television since his film career took off in the 1990s. Oscar-winner and arguably Hollywood\u2019s greatest living actor Cate Blanchett has dipped her toe into the world of prestige streaming television only once, with 2019\u2019s Miss America. The two artists have never worked together, but now they\u2019ve teamed up for an Apple TV Plus miniseries based on a thriller by Ren\u00e9e Knight. Blanchett plays a journalist who realizes that the mystery novel she\u2019s reading is actually about her, and could reveal her most closely guarded secrets.

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Star Trek: Prodigy season 2

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The past five years have seen the Star Trek franchise expanding aggressively in multiple directions, but the most surprising of all its new offerings is Star Trek: Prodigy, the kid-targeted animated series from Trollhunters creators Kevin and Dan Hageman. Prodigy is designed as an on-ramp for viewers with no history or prior interest in the Star Trek universe, essentially a metafictional hyperbaric chamber that acclimatizes Star Wars fans to the more sunny and cerebral world of Trek. Along the way, it\u2019s generated a few of streaming Trek\u2019s best episodes and unfolded an exciting longform story in its own right, which is why it stung so much when Paramount decided not to air its nearly-completed second season. Thankfully, Netflix stepped in to ensure that fans new and old would get the chance to see the remaining 20 episodes.

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\n\n\n\n\n\tAfter the dual strikes effectively shut down most production from May through November, the doors have reopened again onto a landscape that\u2019s been forever changed. The realities of the streaming bubble and the rifts between legacy media v. Silicon Valley companies were put into stark relief during the strikes, and whether some of the legacy studios survive next year intact is a very real question. (As we were finishing writing this introduction, as if to emphasize the point, the news broke of a possible merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global.)

\n\n\n\n\n\tIn the practical terms for this 2024 TV preview, consumers should start seeing fewer shows as of next year: But whether people will even notice when there\u2019s still just so much content is an open question \u2014 especially when the beginning of the year is stacked like never before.

\n\n\n\n\n\tThat\u2019s because one tangible result of the strikes is that shows that would have premiered in fall 2023 \u2014 such as HBO\u2019s \u201cTrue Detective: Night Country\u201d and FX\u2019s \u201cFeud: Capote vs. The Swans\u201d \u2014 were pushed into the new year, and the result is an insane pile-up in January, as you will see below (and we\u2019re not including everything, obviously).

\n\n\n\n\n\tAnother by-product of the strikes is that network TV programs, most of which went into production as soon as the actors strike ended, will also be rolling out in the first quarter of the year, with shows like ABC\u2019s \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d and NBC’s “One Chicago” lineup premiering in slots normally allocated for midseason replacements. What the effect of this shift will be on tried-and-true network shows is anyone\u2019s guess.

\n\n\n\n\n\tWhile we\u2019ve included 34 shows in this preview, the new methodology in the streaming age (even for non-streamers) is to continue to play hide-the-ball with premiere dates in order to preserve maximum flexibility. So the latest date that\u2019s been announced at all is for the split third season of Netflix\u2019s \u201cBridgerton\u201d (May 16 and June 13). Beyond that, other than the Olympics in July, there\u2019s just \u201csummer\u201d for Season 2 of \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d on HBO and \u201cfall\u201d for Disney+\u2019s \u201cAgatha: Darkhold Diaries\u201d (the \u201cWandaVision\u201d spinoff revolving around Kathryn Hahn\u2019s breakout villain).

\n\n\n\n\n\tThe outlet with the most high-profile projects without dates is, naturally, Netflix, since the dominant streamer still has the greatest number of shows, period. Viewers can anticipate the final seasons of \u201cCobra Kai\u201d and \u201cUmbrella Academy,\u201d along with Andrew Scott in \u201cRipley\u201d (likely within the Emmys\u2019 window of the spring). Eventually, among many other new and returning shows, Netflix\u2019s audience will also see \u201cDead Boy Detectives,\u201d Hayley Atwell as the title star of \u201cTomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft\u201d and David E. Kelley\u2019s long-awaited adaptation of Tom Wolfe\u2019s novel \u201cA Man in Full,\u201d starring Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane. 

\n\n\n\n\n\tHBO and Max also have a number of highly anticipated undated shows, starting with the Robert Downey Jr. satire \u201cThe Sympathizer\u201d (likely this spring, for Emmys purposes), to be followed later in the year by the huge IP plays of the Batman-offshoot \u201cThe Penguin\u201d (with Colin Farrell!) and \u201cDune: Prophecy,\u201d a prequel series to the blockbuster movie franchise \u2014 both of which are on Max. Returning for new seasons on Max will be Season 2 of \u201cTokyo Vice,\u201d and the third seasons of both \u201cHacks\u201d and \u201cThe Sex Lives of College Girls.\u201d

\n\n\n\n\n\tWe have a number of Apple TV+ shows on this list, but still to be slotted are \u201cDark Matter,\u201d Blake Crouch\u2019s adaptation of his own novel, led by Joel Edgerton, and \u201cLady in the Lake,\u201d the Natalie Portman-starring limited series (based on Laura Lippman\u2019s 2019 mystery) \u2014 among many others. And then there\u2019s the small matter of the return of the Emmy-nominated \u201cSeverance\u201d for Season 2, which despite reports to the contrary, we\u2019ve heard is going to be excellent.

\n\n\n\n\n\tNetflix, Apple TV+ and HBO/Max aren\u2019t alone in not frigging announcing dates for shows we\u2019re excited to see: someday. The date for Hulu\u2019s adaptation of Georgia Hunter\u2019s bestselling novel \u201cWe Were the Lucky Ones\u201d \u2014 starring Joey King and Logan Lerman \u2014 about a Jewish family during World War II, is TBA. That\u2019s also the case for Hulu’s \u201cInterior Chinatown,\u201d Charles Yu\u2019s adaptation of his own 2020 novel that used a screenplay structure to serve as a commentary on race and representation in popular culture. In addition to “Agatha,” Disney+, Hulu’s corporate sibling, will also feature Leslye Headland’s take on “Star Wars” in “The Acolyte,” and, with the animated “X-Men \u201897,” Marvel Studios will dip its toes into that franchise for the first time.

\n\n\n\n\n\tThose are just some of the undated shows from the dominant players. We\u2019re also looking forward finally to seeing \u201cOrphan Black: Echoes\u201d on AMC, which will also have Season 2 of \u201cInterview With the Vampire.\u201d Speaking of second seasons, \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d should also return next year \u2014 and we hope it won\u2019t run right up against \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d again this time, if only for its own sake. There\u2019s also Showtime\u2019s \u201cGentleman in Moscow,\u201d starring Ewan McGregor. And speaking of star power, Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine play mother and son in the Starz acquisition of \u201cMary & George,\u201d which we nominate as having the most batshit trailer of a period series in years. (Watch it here!)

\n\n\n\n\n\tNow, let us turn our attention to those shows who\u2019ve done us the courtesy of announcing their dates! They’re in chronological order \u2014 and we wish you all a happy New Year, with much excellent watching in your futures.

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