The after-effects of media conglomerate cost-cutting and 2023’s labor strikes showed up in noticeable ways for TV viewers last year. Networks and streamers made fewer shows — the Peak TV era truly seems to have passed for now — and those that did make it to people’s screens, especially on broadcast networks, tended to have shorter seasons than usual.
The good(?) news is that there is still more television out there than any person could hope to consume in a year, even with the new, belt-tightening reality baked in. Production has ramped back up considerably in recent months, and a host of fan-favorite series are set to return after long hiatuses in the coming 12 months.
The Hollywood Reporter has compiled 31 series — new and old, across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms — we’re most looking forward to seeing unspool in 2025. They’re listed below, in order of their scheduled premiere dates; you can also keep up to date on debut and return dates with THR’s TV premiere calendar.
‘The Pitt’
Max, Jan. 9
Noah Wyle reunites with his former ER boss John Wells for a new medical drama, this one set in the emergency room of a Pittsburgh hospital. Wyle plays Dr. Robby, the chief attending physician there, and each episode (there are 15 in the inaugural season) will span one hour of a shift for Robby and his team of residents and interns.
‘Severance’
Apple TV+, Jan. 17
Season one of the Emmy-nominated drama ended (way back in April 2022) on a cliffhanger, as Mark S. (Adam Scott), Helly R. (Britt Lower) and Irving B. (John Turturro) brought their severed work selves into the outside world, only to discover some unsettling things about what they’ve been told inside the walls of Lumon Industries. Season two will feature new cast additions Bob Balaban, Gwendoline Christie, Merrit Wever and Alia Shawkat, among others.
‘Yellowjackets’
Paramount+ With Showtime, Feb. 14
The Emmy-nominated coming-of-age drama that follows the Yellowjackets soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the remote wilderness in two timelines — both as teenagers who turn to cannibalism to survive as well as the adults they turn into 25 years later — ended with major cliffhangers in both eras. The main adult survivors are played by Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Simone Kessell; their younger counterparts are led by Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton and Liv Hewson. Missing from the adult cast for season three is original star Juliette Lewis, since the series picks up after the fateful events of the season two finale. Joining in guest roles are two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank and Joel McHale.
‘Saturday Night Live’ 50th Anniversary Special
NBC, Feb. 16
The Church Lady! Debbie Downer! The Wild and Crazy Guys! The Spartan Cheerleaders! The Californians! We could go on. And on. And on. After almost a half century on the air, there is no shortage of classic sketches to cull from for NBC’s three-hour primetime special. The biggest question is which classic characters and A-list castmembers (past and present) — not to mention who among the show’s most frequent hosts — will make an appearance.
‘The White Lotus’
HBO, Feb. 16
Season three of the globe-trotting series brings a new crop of overprivileged Americans to the resort’s Thailand outpost — along with returning castmember Natasha Rothwell, reprising her role from season one. The typically star-packed cast will feature Carrie Coon, Scott Glenn, Walton Goggins, Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, Blackpink’s Lisa (credited as Lalisa Manobal), Dom Hetrakul, Jason Isaacs, Tayme Thapthimthong, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Aimee Lou Wood, Nicholas Duvernay, Francesca Corney, Arnas Fedaravičius, Christian Friedel, Morgana O’Reilly, Lek Patravadi, Julian Kostov and Shalini Peiris.
‘Reacher’
Prime Video, Feb. 20
The big guy (Alan Ritchson) at the center of Lee Child’s best-selling novels (and one of Prime Video’s most watched series) is back — and will, based on a teaser for season three, have to face off against an even bigger dude in the course of his next mission. The season is based on Persuader, the seventh book in Child’s Jack Reacher series, and will feature the return of Maria Sten as Reacher’s former military colleague Frances Neagley (who is also getting her own spinoff series).
‘The Americas’ and ‘Suits LA’
NBC, Feb. 23
In terms of how long it’s been in the works, few shows can match The Americas for the sheer amount of anticipation. The natural history series, narrated by Tom Hanks and produced by the BBC Studios Natural History Unit (which is behind the extraordinary Blue Planet and Planet Earth series), will debut five years after NBC announced it in January 2020. That same night will bring the premiere of Suits LA, a follow-up to the former USA Network legal drama-turned-2023 streaming juggernaut.
‘1923’
Paramount+, Feb. 23
The second (and presumably final) season of Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone prequel series sees Jacob (Harrison Ford) and Cara (Helen Mirren) defending the Dutton ranch against a villainous land baron (Timothy Dalton) when season two returns after the cliffhanger ending for their nephew, Spender Dutton (Brandon Sklenar), in the season one finale.
‘Daredevil: Born Again’
Disney+, March 4
The Marvel series underwent serious creative changes in 2023 when production was paused due to the writers and actors strikes. After a batch of new hirings, Born Again — a continuation (more or less) of Netflix’s 2015-18 Daredevil series — follows Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a lawyer with heightened abilities after he was blinded as a child. The newly retooled version of the show looks to have Murdock once again facing off against mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio). Original cast members Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson and Jon Bernthal are also slated to return.
‘Deli Boys’
Hulu, March 6
The comedy from Disney’s Onyx Collective and 20th TV stars Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh as two “pampered” Pakistani American brothers who uncover their late convenience store-magnate father’s hidden life of crime. They then try take up his mantle in the underworld. The 10-episode series was created by Abdullah Saeed and developed by Jenni Konner and Nora Silver.
‘The Residence’
Netflix, March 20
The White House murder mystery is a pretty common subgenre in TV and movies, and The Residence — the latest series from Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland — definitely falls into that category. What might set it apart, however, is that it also plans to load up on comedic elements. Uzo Aduba heads the cast of the “screwball whodunit” as brilliant detective Cordelia Cupp; Randall Park, Giancarlo Esposito, Edwina Findley, Molly Griggs, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Al Mitchell, Dan Perrault, Bronson Pinchot, Julieth Restrepo, Mel Rodriguez, Susan Kelechi Watson, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Mary Wiseman also star.
‘The Studio’
Apple TV+, March 26
Seth Rogen’s latest collaboration with Apple is a star-studded affair. Rogen serves as writer, director, executive producer and star of the comedy series that follows his character Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of the fictional Continental Studios. Catherine O’Hara, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz and Chase Sui Wonders are slated to appear in the series, which was co-created by Rogen, his creative partner Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez.
‘Your Friends & Neighbors’
Apple TV+, April 11
Following an Emmy-nominated villainous turn on Fargo and a role on The Morning Show, Jon Hamm stars in this drama series as a recently divorced, professionally disgraced hedge fund manager who starts burglarizing the homes of his wealthy neighbors — and uncovers a bunch of secrets in the process. The series, already renewed for a second season, also stars Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, Mark Tallman, Lena Hall, Aimee Carrero, Eunice Bae, Isabel Marie Gravitt and Donovan Colan.
‘Andor’
Disney+, April 22
The best Star Wars TV series returns for a second and final season to wrap up the Rogue One prequel, which stars Diego Luna as doomed Resistance fighter Cassian Andor. The new season will be structured as a quartet of three-episode arcs that will span four years in the saga’s timeline.
‘The Last of Us’
HBO, April; date TBD
The Emmy-winning post-apocalyptic drama series returns. Pandemic survivors Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) confront new challenges in an eagerly anticipated season based upon The Last of Us Part II game, with the action set five years after the events of season one and putting the two lead characters in conflict with each other. Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Wright and Kaitlyn Dever are among the cast additions.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Hulu, spring
The sixth and final season of Hulu’s Emmy-winning dystopian series will pick up some time after June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) and Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski) escaped on the same train of Gilead refugees in hopes of making it to freedom. Bruce Miller and his creative team, which includes Moss, have known where the series will end since the beginning. Executive producers/writers Yahlin Chang and Eric Tuchman take over as co-showrunners for the final season, while Miller also works on developing spinoff The Testaments, the second adaptation from Margaret Atwood.
‘Alien: Earth’
Hulu, summer
The Alien franchise comes to the small screen for the first time in showrunner Noah Hawley’s FX-produced take on the iconic sci-fi horror saga: “When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman [Sydney Chandler] and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.”
‘Squid Game’
Netflix, TBD
Season two of Squid Game released in December to record-setting viewing numbers on Netflix, but creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk has promised a third and final season to conclude the story coming in 2025 — and Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) obsessive quest to take down the people responsible for the murderous game, including the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun).
‘All Her Fault’
Peacock, TBD
Sarah Snook (who also executive produces) follows her Emmy-winning Succession role with this thriller in which she plays Marissa, a woman who goes to pick up her son from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognizes, she isn’t the nanny, and she doesn’t have Marissa’s son. The series comes from creator Megan Gallagher (the BBC’s Wolf, Apple TV+’s Suspicion) and is based on a novel by Andrea Mara.
‘The Chair Company’
HBO, TBD
The logline for this HBO comedy doesn’t reveal much: “After an embarrassing incident at work, a man finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy.” Knowing, however, that Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave) is the show’s co-creator and star — playing the man mentioned in the description — is enough for The Chair Company to make this list.
‘Duster’
Max, TBD
J.J. Abrams’ megadeal with Warner Bros. Discovery didn’t yield a lot of finished products (which is partly why he signed a much smaller-scale, first-look deal with the conglomerate late last year). Duster did result from the deal, and the throwback series — co-created by LaToya Morgan and Abrams — promises a lot of action as it follows the first Black female FBI agent (Rachel Hilson) as she heads to the Southwest in 1972 and teams with a getaway driver (Josh Holloway) to take down a crime syndicate.
