TOP 10: Anticipated Television Series of 2025
Are we still living in the Second Golden Age of Television? It’s debatable. As streamers like Paramount+ and Disney+ start to pull back on projects, and much-hyped and big-budgeted returning shows like The Bear and House of Dragons floundered in their latest seasons, it’s starting to feel that the gold may be tarnishing a bit.
Still, there looks to be plenty of great television coming our way in 2025. Read on for my personal picks for the 10 most-anticipated seasons announced for 2025. Note that I’m not necessarily these will be the best shows of the year, but they are certainly among the buzziest and most headline-grabbing new and returning series.
Is there another series coming up that you’re dying to see? Tell us about it in the comments.
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Honorable Mentions:
Severance Season 2 (Apple TV+ 1/17)
Zero Day (Netflix 2/20)
The Residence (Netflix 3/20)
The Studio (Apple TV+ 3/26)
Your Friends & Neighbors (Apple TV+ 4/11)
The Four Seasons (Netflix TBD)
The Last of Us Season 2 (HBO Max TBD)
Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu TBD)
10. Suits L.A. (NBC, February 23)
Suits was a legal drama that ran on USA Network from 2011 to 2019. A great run! But when Netflix added the series to its library in 2023, its popularity exploded – it was the most-streamed show of that year, with nearly 58 billion minutes watched. That’s “billion” with a B. Seeing money on the table, NBC greenlit this revival show that will bring back Gabriel Macht from the original series in a recurring role, and star Stephen Amell (Oliver Queen on Arrow) and Josh McDermitt (Eugene from The Walking Dead). Will a spinoff focusing on an entirely new firm with a mostly new cast attract the existing fan base? And will a certain former Suits cast member and estranged British royal make an appearance? We’ll see.
9. Paradise (Hulu, January 28)
Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us) stars in this new drama as a Secret Service officer swept up in a conspiracy surrounding the assassination of the President of the United States (James Marsden). Also starring Julianne Nicholson (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) and Sarah Shahi (The L Word, Person of Interest).
8. The Pitt (Max, January 9)
Do you miss ER? So do John Wells and Noah Wyle, apparently, as the former producer and star of NBC’s legendary series reunite for this new medical drama – which is, per a lawsuit, a totally original show and definitely NOT a sequel. Three decades removed from being a fresh-faced med-student wunderkind, Wyle is now the long-suffering head of the emergency room in a Pittsburgh hospital, guiding a crop of eager new medical professionals including Isa Briones (Star Trek: Picard) through a 15-hour shift told over 15 one-hour episodes.
7. Wednesday Season 2 (Netflix, Release TBD)
Did you see the massive Wednesday float during the 2024 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? Even though we don’t have a release date for Season 2 yet? That’s an indication of how invested Netflix is in this Addams Family spinoff, which had a massively popular first season in 2022, and which will feature a star-studded sophomore bow. Joining Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday will be Steve Buscemi, Thandiwe Newton, Billie Piper, Joanna Lumley, Frances O’Connor, Haley Joel Osment, Heather Matarazzo, and – wait for it – Lady Gaga. Also expect more Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzman), who have both been promoted to series regulars.
6. Chief of War (Apple TV+, Release TBD)
Jason Momoa and Temuera Morrison (the actor behind Boba Fett) star in this historical epic about an 18th Century Hawaiian war chief who attempts to unify various tribes in conflict to stand against the oncoming onslaught of colonization.
5. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO, Release TBD)
The latest Game of Thrones spinoff will focus on the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire, Egg (secretly Prince Aegon Targaryen, AKA Daenaerys’ grandfather), set roughly 100 years before the events of Thrones. The show will loosely adapt George R.R. Martin’s Hedge Knight/Tales of Dunk and Egg short stories, which is lovely, but god forbid the man finish A Song of Ice and Fire (it will never happen, at least not so long as he’s alive). Given how badly House of the Dragon Season 2 shit the bed, this franchise desperately needs this one to hit the mark. It cannot survive another audience-enraging flop.
4. It: Welcome to Derry (HBO, Release TBD)
This prequel series to the 2010s It movies explores the terrifying demon Pennywise’s arrival in Derry, Maine, primarily set in the 1960s. In addition to Bill Skarsgard returning to play Pennywise, James Remar (Harry Morgan in Dexter) and Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) star.
3. The White Lotus Season 3 (HBO, February 16)
Mike White’s blistering satire on entitled rich people in paradise returns, this time set in Thailand. Natasha Rothwell returns as Belinda, the masseur featured in Season 1; this time she’s joined by Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb, and Michelle Monaghan as old friends reuniting for a girls’ trip; Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey as a wealthy couple vacationing with their improbably named children; Walton Goggins as a sugar daddy traveling with his much-younger girlfriend; and Patrick Schwarzenegger (Arnold’s son). Who will die horribly this time?
2. Star Wars: Andor Season 2 (Disney+, April 22)
I am apparently the only person who was not enamored of Season 1 of this Star Wars: Rogue One prequel – I found the scope unnecessarily broad and the pacing glacial. Get ready for 13 more episodes (good lord) of Tony Gilroy turning Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor into a revolutionary against the Empire.
1. Stranger Things Season 5 (Netflix, Release TBD)
It’s the final season for the Duffer Brothers’ sci/fi-fantasy drama that brought the Upside Down to Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s. And good thing, because those kids – who started out as preteens when the show debuted in 2016 – are now literally in their early 20s. Expectations for this season are as high as the stakes, with immensely powerful psychic bastard Vecna bringing his rot to bear in the real world. Can the kids and adults of Hawkins save their town? Will the Duffers actually kill off any of their darlings from this astonishingly large cast? Can they possibly stick the landing of this largely brilliantly executed series? We can’t wait to find out.
What television series are YOU looking forward to in 2025? Leave a comment below!
