The 33 Most Anticipated New Shows of 2025 (and 9 We Already Love)

Looking for a brutal Western? American Primeval is one of your best bets. This six-episode limited series tells the story of the American west in 1857 Utah, where the Mormons were dangerous and traveling anywhere was, essentially, a death wish. The show is very violent, very intense, and has an incredible Shea Whigham performance at its center. A good watch if you know what you’re getting into.

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There have been a lot of great spy shows of late—Slow Horses, Black Doves, Day of the Jackal—but Paramount+’s The Agency is probably the most star-studded one. Centered on interesting characters getting into problems of both a personal and professional nature, The Agency is a really engaging and exciting watch. And the fact that it features big stars like Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, and Richard Gere is just a bonus. The show debuted in 2024, but finished its first season in 2025—so we’re counting it.

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This out-there political thriller marks a reunion between This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman and Emmy-winning star Sterling K. Brown. It’s a wild story that is actually best gone into as blind as possible—so we’re going to spare you too much of the plot details. But just know that it’s well done and has a strong cast, with James Marsden and Julianne Nicholson joining Brown at the top of the cast.

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If you’re wanting to get in on the ground floor of what might just be the next big cult/beloved adult animation comedy, Common Side Effects might just be it. Coming from co-creators Joseph Bennett (who was behind the excellent Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (who wrote for 30 Rock, Veep, and The Office), Common Side Effects is a show about two longtime friends who serendipitously link back up after one discovers a miracle drug that can cure all illnesses (including death)—and a pharma conspiracy emerges to stop them from revealing it to the world. Greg Daniels and Mike Judge are on board as executive producers as well to give the show some bonus credibility. This show is an awesome, and hilarious, thriller—and just so happens to come in the form of an animation on Adult Swim.

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Mindy Kaling and Kate Hudson is the kind of feeling that is so perfect that we’re kind of wondering why it didn’t already happen ten years ago. Nonetheless, Hudson puts her best comedic chops to the test as a Jeannie Buss-esque leader of the NBA team that her family owns (Buss herself is a producer of the show). Hudson has always been an extremely talented comedic performer (think How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and 2023’s Glass Onion) but she feels like a natural in this format. Running Point doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it’s the kind of sitcom you’ve probably watched and enjoyed five times over in your life, and that’s never a bad thing. The show’s cast also includes Max Greenfield, Brenda Song, Drew Tarver, and more.

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Matt Murdock is back! After being teased a number of times—in Spider-Man: No Way Home, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Echo—Daredevil himself is finally the star again in Daredevil: Born Again. Charlie Cox once again plays (and is a natural) as Marvel’s most famous lawyer (and crimefighter) in Hell’s Kitchen, while Vincent D’Onofrio again returns (he too was featured in Hawkeye and Echo) to play the Kingpin. Fan favorites from the Netflix run of the show, like The Punisher and Bullseye, are also back. If you are into Daredevil, you should be pleased!

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Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura star in Dope Thief, where the duo play a pair of Philadelphia dudes who rob a house while posing as DEA agents—only to realize they’ve gotten in way over their heads because they actually robbed a major drug operation. The show comes from writer Peter David, an Academy Award-nominated scribe who counts The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, and The Town among his credits, and counts Ridley Scott (Ever heard of him?) as an executive producer and director of the first episode. Dope Thief is a good old fashioned fun crime thriller.

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Every year, there always seem to be a couple shows that come out of nowhere and totally blow you away—and 2025’s early winner is Adolescence. The four-part Netflix limited series is about a 13-year-old boy accused of a horrible, violent crime, and the real-time reaction to the aftermath of it; with each episode shot in one continuous take, it’s one of the most technically impressive things you’ll ever see on TV. But there’s also a tension to Adolescence that brings to mind HBO’s The Night Of. There’s something compelling about this story, one that centers on fathers and sons and the ways masculinity has been weaponized in our modern culture. Stephen Graham, always a great actor and best known for his roles in Boardwalk Empire and The Irishman, is co-creator and star of the show.

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We’re game for just about any Whodunit, and this one features Uzo Aduba as the main sleuth figure with a stacked cast that also includes Giancarlo Esposito, Randall Park, and Ken Marino. Fun stuff!

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Seth Rogen has had some major success on Apple TV+ in the past with his series Platonic (which is returning for its second season at some point in 2025 as well), but The Studio, where he plays a troubled movie studio executive who interacts with all kinds of Hollywood talent (including Martin Scorsese, Zac Efron, and Catherine O’Hara) playing heightened versions of themselves. It feels a bit like Curb Your Enthusiasm mixed with Robert Altman’s The Player, and quite frankly that is awesome.

While The Associate was originally developed as a Ray Donovan prequel, it eventually got Guy Ritchie involved and then became its own beast. We’re psyched about that, because Ritchie managed to convince Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Helen Mirren to join the cast of this story about a fixer (Hardy) who works for a crime family (led by Brosnan and Mirren). Do we need to go much deeper than that? Those are some awesome names. Fine, we’ll go a bit further: hell yeah.

Kevin Bacon broke down The Bondsman when we spoke to him last year:A lot of stuff happens. I’m fighting demons, there’s humor, there’s music, there’s a shit ton of blood. There’s a lot of family dynamics… it’s really fun. I think people are going to really get a kick out of it.I mean, yeah. We can go for that, and we suspect you can too.

Based on the podcast of the same name, Dying For Sex tells the real-life story of a woman named Molly Kochan (played here by the fantastic Michelle Williams) who is diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and then decides to leave her husband and go on a journey of sexual desire. Liz Meriwether, who was behind New Girl and The Dropout, is the driving creative force for what should be one of the year’s most bittersweet and exciting dramedies.

We can call Your Friends & Neighbors, a new Apple TV+ series of which Jon Hamm is both the star and executive producer, a sort of suburban, white collar drama. In the show, Hamm plays a rich finance dude who lives a lavish lifestyle before his life drastically changes: he loses his job, and gets divorced. In order to maintain his lifestyle, he decides to turn to a life of crime. The show comes from writer Jonathan Tropper, who has had success with little-seen shows like Banshee and Warrior before; Apple is hoping this can be a breakthrough hit, as it’s already ordered a second season of the show long before its premiere.

Jacob Elordi leads The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a limited series based on the award-winning novel of the same name about an Australian doctor and prisoner of war in 1943. The series comes from writer Shaun Grant, who worked on Mindhunter among other projects, and is directed in its entirety by The Order director Justin Kurzel.

The popular series The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells comes to life this year with Apple TV+’s Murderbot, starring Alexander Skarsgård in the titular role; sounds like pretty fantastic casting to us. There are currently seven books in the series, so we could see this show go on for a good while if all goes according to plan.

Owen Wilson plays a washed-up golfer in Ramber & the Birdie Machine, which also stars Marc Maron and Judy Greer. Have you ever read a better premise for a comedy show? No, probably not.

Ironheart is a Marvel Studios production that’s been in production for a loooooong time. Remember when Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) was introduced in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? Well, that was late 2022, and this show has been basically ready to go ever since then. Anyway, despite the fact that it kind of feels like the MCU has no real direction right now, this should be a pretty fun show if all things go according to plan; Thorne will be joined by Anthony Ramos and Alden Ehrenreich among others in the cast.

Zombies! Based on a popular What If…? episode and a Robert Kirkman comic run, Marvel Zombies will do… exactly what you think it will do: pit our Marvel heroes in a world filled with the undead. It’s going to be a TV-MA series, so violence is to be expected.

Chad Powers finds Glen Powell looking to bring his recent ascendant superstar run to the small screen, this time in a show from writer Michael Waldron (Heels, Loki). Based on an Eli Manning character (seriously!) that he debuted during a trip to Penn State, Powell will play the titular QB—a dude who ruined his promising college football career by getting himself in trouble, so he disguises himself to go play at a much lower-tier school. The show also features the great Steve Zahn and should be a whole lot of fun.