The New Shows of the 2024-2025 Winter TV Season

Author George R. Stewart knew what he was talking about when he wrote the 1949 novel Earth Abides, a sci-fi story about a virus that wipes out most of the population and collapses society. MGM+ adapts the book in this new series, which follows the survivors who struggle to avoid extinction. Yes, it's another one of these shows! Alexander Ludwig, Jessica Frances Dukes, and Aaron Tveit star. 

Premieres Sunday, Dec. 1 at 9/8c on MGM+

Gatekeeping Star Wars fans, get your torches and pitchforks ready. The latest from Disney's version of George Lucas' universe is all about... kids. The rest of us will enjoy this younger-leaning series about a quartet of children who uncover a secret somethingorother on their home planet that leads them across the galaxy and into a chance encounter with a mysterious character played by Jude Law sometime during The Mandalorian's time period. If you've ever wondered what one of those pachyderm people from the Star Wars movies looked like as a toddler, this show is for you. 

Premieres Monday, Dec. 2 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on Disney+

Ben Whishaw and Keira Knightley, need we say more? Black Doves is a thriller set in London following a spy (Knightley) who, with the protection of fellow spy Sam (Whishaw), investigates the assassination of her lover (Warrior's Andrew Koji). Why yes, she does uncover a massive conspiracy in the process. How did you know? As if the cast wasn't good enough already, Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley) plays Knightley's boss.

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 5 on Netflix

James Gunn's 2021 film The Suicide Squad and the 2022 series Peacemaker saw Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) use superheroes for less-than-desirable tasks, but due to governmental and general regard for life, she's no longer able to use humans on her secret missions. Who does that leave? The Creature Commandos, a motley crew of monsters and non-human entities with super abilities that includes Circe, G.I. Robot, Doctor Phosphorus, and Weasel (yes!). This animated series is going to be gory and fun.

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 5 on Max

Beef's Ali Wong produces and voices the lead character in the animated series Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld, a coming-of-age story about a high school girl who battles her demons quite literally. It's one of those "kid fights monsters while also trying to figure out how not to embarrass herself in school" shows — and let's be honest, these are always a hoot — but with a healthy dose of sass.  

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 5 on Netflix

The first TV series set in the Has Fallen universe — most notable for the 2013 Gerard Butler film Olympus Has Fallen — is a thriller set in France, where a former Foreign Legion soldier is taking revenge against the government through terrorism, leading a protection officer and an MI6 agent to hunt him down. 

Premieres Friday, Dec. 6 on Hulu

Remember that great Canadian maple syrup heist of 2011-2012 that saw thieves make off with more than 3,000 tons of pancake dressing? Well, in the series The Sticky, Prime Video is remembering it for you and adding some dramatic details to make it entertainment. Margo Martindale stars as a syrup farmer whose farm gets shut down by the government, forcing her to team up with a Boston mobster (Chris Diamantopoulos) and a French-Canadian security guard (Guillaume Cyr) to make ends meet by siphoning syrup from the country's national reserve. Jamie Lee Curtis also stars.

Premieres Friday, Dec. 6 on Prime Video 

The creators of Netflix's fun Love, Death + Robots bring their sci-fi adult animation formula to Prime Video with an anthology set in the world of video games. Individual episodes will be based around the lore of games, including well-known classics like Pac-Man and Unreal Tournament, as well as smaller games like Spelunky and The Outer Worlds. The voice cast includes well-known actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Keanu Reeves, as well as smaller actors like Kevin Hart. 

Premieres Tuesday, Dec. 10 on Prime Video 

It's hard to believe that with the way Disney is squeezing its subsidiaries for every drop of creative juice they have to make television series for Disney+, Pixar has not yet created a full-length show for its parental juggernaut. That all changes with Dream Productions, a four-episode series set between Inside Out and Inside Out 2 that follows the creation of dreams inside Riley's head by daydream directors Paula Persimmon (Paula Pell) and Xeni (Richard Ayoade) who are looking to break into the big business of nighttime dreams with a blockbuster. Hey, even core subconscious neurological processes need to make a living.

Premieres Wednesday, Dec. 11 on Disney+   

This odd true-crime documentary from the creators of Wild, Wild Country is a story of two friends who became rivals and features Elvis impersonators, elephants, credible threats against President Obama, karate instructors, and more. Just another story from the South. 

Premieres Wednesday, Dec. 11 on Netflix

Dead to Me's Liz Feldman sticks with upper-middle-class neighborhood drama littered with murder and betrayal in her new series No Good Deed, which follows three couples trying to move into a posh Los Feliz neighborhood after a house owned by a troubled couple (Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano) goes up for sale. But the house and the family hold some dark secrets that could affect the market price. Sounds like a messy situation that an all-cash offer can't instantly solve! Denis Leary, Luke Wilson, Abbi Jacobson, and Linda Cardellini also star.

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 12 on Netflix

Uhhhhhh... what the heck? Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, friends and co-stars in the reality series The Simple Life, are reuniting for a three-episode series that catches up the world on their lives and friendship, thank god! In their latest blight on your eyeballs, the duo attempt to craft an opera around their "famous" catchphrase "Sanasa." Hopefully these two will finally catch a break.

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 12 on Peacock

Call it Young Dexter! Your favorite serial killer with a conscience gets the origin story all great TV characters deserve in Dexter: Original Sin. Set in 1991, the prequel series shows us how Dexter Morgan (played here by Patrick Gibson) became a murderer and introduces Dexter to other familiar faces from the Showtime series. Christian Slater plays Dexter's dad Harry, and Patrick Dempsey and Sarah Michelle Gellar also star.

Premieres Friday, Dec. 13 on Paramount+ with Showtime

Doctor Who vet Jenna Coleman goes small-town detective in The Jetty, which will air on both BritBox and Hulu. The series follows Detective Ember Manning (Coleman) as she makes connections between a fire, an old missing persons case, and an illicit relationship between a man and two underage girls. 

Premieres Friday, Dec. 13 on BritBox and Hulu 

Grab an empty Gatorade bottle full of ayahuasca and go crawl into a dark cave to watch this docuseries about New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers as he spouts misinformation and admonishes anyone who isn't on his off-world wavelength. Wow, what a mysterious guy.

Premieres Tuesday, Dec. 17 on Netflix

In the docuseries The Secret Lives of Animals, narrator Hugh Bonneville combs through the garbage of animals to dig up salacious gossip on them. Or maybe he just gives fun facts about them? You really shouldn't name your show The Secret Lives of Animals unless you deliver the goods, Apple! I know that seal has some skeletons in its closet.

Premieres Wednesday, Dec. 18 on Apple TV+

YouTuber MrBeast continues his world takeover with the reality competition show Beast Games, a Squid Game copycat series featuring 1,000 contestants battling for a $5 million prize. Or they DIE. Well, they'll die eventually, I mean. Amazon and MrBeast appear to be ignoring the allegations reported by The New York Times that contestants were horribly mistreated, and so far it's working. But I will never forget!

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 19 on Prime Video

If someone asks if there is too much TV out there, point to Fast Friends, a new game show on Max that's a glorified version of trivia night based around a 30-year-old sitcom. Whitney Cummings hosts the series, which pits superfans of the beloved NBC comedy Friends against each other in quizzes and games and blah blah blah what is Warner Bros. Discovery doing? They canceled South Side for this?

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 19 on Max

What happens when you realize that your "body count" is becoming an actual body count? In the twisted rom-com Laid, a young woman (Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu) discovers that all the people she has had sex with are dying under mysterious circumstances. Creators Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna promise a heartwarming reaffirmation of the power of love... beneath all the blood and death. Zosia Mamet, Michael Angarano, and Tommy Martinez also star. 

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 19 on Peacock

Harlan Coben could fart and the Netflix adaptation would rocket to the top of the streaming charts. The author behind the Netflix hits Stay Close, The Innocent, and Fool Me Once, which was the most-watched Netflix series of the first half of 2024 by a long ways, returns with Missing You, an adaptation of his 2014 novel of the same name. In the thriller, a detective (Rosalind Eleazar) whose fiancé disappeared from her life over a decade ago discovers him on a dating app, leading her down a path that uncovers old secrets and might give her answers to her father's murder. 100 bucks says this hits No. 1 on Netflix on its second day of release.

Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 1 on Netflix

Idiotic British program presenter Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) returns to baffle academics with her buffoonery in Cunk on Life, the latest special from Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker. After musing about our planet in Cunk on Earth, which Netflix aired in 2022, Cunk will ponder the meaning of life while asking scholars some of the dumbest questions they've ever heard. Cunk on Earth was fantastic; this should also be a hoot.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 2 on Netflix

Going Dutch stars Denis Leary as an Army colonel whose mouth gets him in so much trouble that he's sent to the least important base, which just so happens to be in the Netherlands. Let's hope the show is better than the title. Danny Pudi and Catherine Tate also star.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 2 at 9:30/8:30c on Fox

In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 259 passengers and crew, as well as 11 more people on the ground. This drama (obviously) follows the efforts of Dr. Jim Swire (played by Colin Firth), whose daughter was killed in the crash, as he battles uphill in his search for the truth behind what happened and for justice for those who suffered. This is not a cheery story.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 2 on Peacock

Yes, there has been an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition before (most recently in 2020 on HGTV), but ABC insists this is a new series. That's probably because it has new hosts in Joanna Teplin and Clea Shearer, better known as the organizational gurus behind the Home Edit brand. Expect what you already know what to expect: Teplin and Shearer visit people in need of help with their house, get their personal stories, and go to work... extremely.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 2 at 8/7c on ABC

First it sold Sunset. Then it sold Tampa. Then it sold the OC. Now it's selling the City. Netflix's real estate reality franchise heads to the Big Apple for more vanity-fueled drama from people whose job is to hold on to a set of keys. 

Premieres Friday, Jan. 3 on Netflix

The doctor becomes the patient (and then a doctor again) in Fox's new medical drama Doc. Molly Parker stars as a chief of internal medicine who suffers a brain injury that erases the memories of the last eight years of her life. That seems terrible, but she can experience the teen treasure-hunting adventures of Netflix's Outer Banks for the first time again, so it isn't all bad.

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 9/8c on Fox

Tim Allen returns to ABC, where he became a megastar during Home Improvement's run in the 1990s and cemented his status as an outspoken conservative actor in Last Man Standing in the 2010s (following comments he made comparing being a Republican in Hollywood to living in Nazi Germany, Last Man Standing was canceled but picked up by Fox and ran for three more seasons). Where was I? Oh yeah, Allen stars as the owner of a car restoration shop whose life gets turned upside down when his daughter (Kat Dennings) moves in. Wake me up when Tim Allen plays a florist or head chef of a vegan restaurant.

Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 8/7c on ABC

The TV industry's recent Yellowstone-induced love affair with Westerns isn't done yet. Executive producer Peter Berg's gritty story of the untamed West looks to be violent and merciless, with men and women fighting for survival against each other and the land. It's got a standout cast, with Betty Gilpin, Taylor Kitsch, Kim Coates, and Jai Courtney.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 9 on Netflix

This Japanese series might be a surprise hit of the new year. Renowned director Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters) follows four sisters who suspect their aging father may have had an affair, but opt to keep the details from their mother. If I'm being completely honest, I included this mostly because the trailer looks so darned intriguing!

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 9 on Netflix

Dick Wolf, save some TV for the rest of us! The prolific producer behind the Law & Order franchise is expanding with a new series about cops in Long Beach, Calif. This one won't be as polished as what's on broadcast networks, though. On Call will use various types of camerawork — handheld cameras, body cams, and dash-cam footage — to dial up the intensity of the job, as a veteran officer (Troian Bellisario) takes an ambitious rookie (Brandon Larracuente) under her wing. Eriq La Salle and Lori Loughlin also star.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 9 on Prime Video

Yinz get ready for an ER reunion in Pittsburgh. John Wells, longtime showrunner of the hit medical drama, is teaming up with Noah Wyle for a new series following healthcare workers at a Pittsburgh hospital. Wyle will play a doctor pulling things out of people's bodies and helping out a new set of interns, and yes, it will be stressful. Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Marron Ball, Supriya Ganesh, and Fiona Dourif also star.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 9 on Max 

Network TV's solution to deteriorating ratings, rising overhead expenses, increased competition, and finicky viewers is the primetime game show, for better or worse. Well, mostly for worse. Drew Barrymore plays the center square and former NFL player Nate Burleson hosts this reboot of the celebrity-stuffed game show, which features Kristen Schaal, RuPaul, Kevin Nealon, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and more. But where's JM J. Bullock? 

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 9 at 8/7c on CBS

If Sam Heughan's thing is getting steamy with his shirt off, I don't think that will be too much of a problem with many of you. The Outlander star sticks with Starz for this six-episode series about a couple who move to an idyllic community and start a complicated sexual dalliance with their neighbors. It's all fun and games until it's not. Eleanor Tomlinson, Jessica De Gouw, and Alfred Enoch also star.

Premieres Friday, Jan. 17 at 9/8c on Starz

TBS is reviving The Joe Schmo Show, a social experiment in which one rube believes he is on a reality television show with other real contestants, when in actuality everyone else is an improv actor and he's the focus of everything. This time, the Joe believes he's on a game show trying to win $100,000. Amazon's popular (and great) series Jury Duty was influenced heavily by the original The Joe Schmo Show, which premiered in 2003.

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 9/8c on TBS

I'm on the verge of uncovering a conspiracy in the TV industry about the amount of conspiracy thrillers it produces, and my next bit of evidence is Prime Target. The series stars One Day's Leo Woodall as a mathematician whose work with prime numbers could give him access to any computer in the world. But as he gets closer to the solution, mysterious figures seek to destroy his work. It's a conspiracy!

Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 22 on Apple TV+

Sir David Attenborough just can't stop talking about animals. This new nature docuseries sees Attenborough school you on the fauna of Asia, from red-crowned cranes to Persian leopards to panda bears, across seven episodes (plus a bonus "making of" episode) that stretch from Russia to Nepal. 

Premieres Saturday, Jan. 25 at 8/7c on BBC America and AMC+

It's not Elementary, dear Watson; it's just Watson, son. Morris Chestnut stars as a modern-day Dr. Watson, the famous sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, as he opens a new clinic that deals with rare diseases in the wake of Holmes' murder at the hands of Moriarty. Though Watson comes from some of the same producers who worked on CBS's Holmes-centric Elementary, the two shows are not canonically related.

Premieres Sunday, Jan. 26 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on CBS following NFL football

This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman re-teams with Sterling K. Brown in this drama, but it doesn't sound like there will be any tears over combusting crock pots. Details are being kept under wraps, but what we do know is that Brown's character lives in a peaceful community with some of the world's most prominent individuals, which gets rocked when one of them ends up murdered. Expect some huge twists and questions that get answered by asking more questions.

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 28 on Hulu; special airing on ABC on Jan. 29 at 10/9c and on FX on Feb. 1 at 10/9c

Marvel's incorporation of multiverses means it is literally limitless and nothing it does really means anything anymore, but the most important part of its infinite universes — for corporate overlord Disney — is that it means an endless supply of Marvel content. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man follows the web slinger (voiced by Hudson Thames) in his high school days, but poses the question of what would happen if he were mentored by Norman Osborn (voiced by Colman Domingo) instead of Tony Stark.

Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 29 on Disney+

Scavengers Reign creator Joe Bennett and Veep writer Steve Hely created this animated series about a dude who discovers a mushroom that has the ability to cure almost anything. Of course the mushroom falls into the crosshairs of pharmaceutical companies and insurance providers, who obviously don't want something so good for humanity getting out into the world and cutting their profits. Hmmm... kind of relevant. 

Premieres Sunday, Feb. 2 at 11:30/10:30c on Adult Swim

Melissa Roxburgh (Manifest) stars in this crime procedural about investigators who are tracking down the country's most dangerous killers who just escaped from a secret prison. Hmmm, I clearly have a different definition of "party." 

Premieres Sunday, Jan. 19 at 10/9c; regular time slot starts Monday, Feb. 3 at 10/9c on NBC

This true crime limited series centers on Tracyraquel Berns' investigation into the mysterious accidental death of her younger brother Matthew, which happened when she was just 2 years old. Not only does she learn that she was blamed for his death, but it was a homicide protected by family secrets.

Premieres Tuesday, Feb. 4 on Paramount+

Don't be fooled by the title: This U.K. show doesn't feature stars dropped in the wilderness hunting down bears. But it does feature celebs dropped in the woods being hunted by celebrity survivalist Bear Grylls. But don't be fooled by that description! Bear doesn't kill them, sadly. Shouldn't it be called Bear Celebrity Hunt? This is awfully confusing, Netflix.

Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 5 on Netflix

TV loves a scammer. Apple Cider Vinegar is based on the "true-ish" story of Belle Gibson (played by Kaitlyn Dever), an Australian woman who used her cancer survival story to build internet clout and create a wellness media empire. Except she's a big ol' liar and never had cancer. Alycia Debnam-Carey and Aisha Dee also star, but I'm here for Dever's Australian accent.

Premieres Thursday, Feb. 6 on Netflix

The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist gang that you don't want any part of, is examined in this four-part documentary. The Takedown focuses on a major bust in the late 2000s that was triggered by the torture and murder of a young woman, meth dealing, and other violent crimes, detailed by the cops who stopped some of the cult-like gang's biggest leaders.

Premieres Thursday, Feb. 6 on Max

Comedy legend George Wallace stars as a car wash owner whose perception of life gets turned around when his estranged child, now a proud trans woman (Laverne Cox), moves back home to Mobile, Alabama. 

Premieres Thursday, Feb. 6 on Prime Video

Gilmore Girls gal Lauren Graham leads this Tubi comedy about an ad exec (Graham) who gets fired from her job and replaced by lower-level Gen-Z employees, starting a generational war between her and the social media-friendly youngsters. Superstore's Nico Santos also stars. 

Premieres Thursday, Feb. 6 on Tubi

Korean TV does two things very well: zombie apocalypses and romantic dramas. So why not combine them? When a couple (Blackpink's Jisoo and Smugglers' Park Jeong-min) break up on the same day the undead rise, they struggle to reunite amid all the chaos. Despite the severe settings, Newtopia looks like it has fun with its bizarre premise. 

Premieres Friday, Feb. 7 on Prime Video

Network television is getting into the hardcore survival business with Extracted, which tosses competitors into the wild with very few resources to see how long they can last. The twist here is that the families of the survivalists are in a control room watching the whole thing, and have the power to get them out of there if they can't hack it, or leave them in the woods for a chance to make some money even if they're begging to come home. 

Premieres Monday, Feb. 10 at 8/7c on Fox

Can you love someone you don't remember? This docuseries follows the unusual case of Nesh Pillay, who, after a traumatic brain injury, lost years of her memory and could no longer remember her fiancé. Likened to a real life 50 First Dates, the limited series will chart the ups and downs as the two look to repair their relationship. 

Premieres Tuesday, Feb. 11 on Prime Video 

Netflix's true crime series American Murder, which last profiled the killing of Laci Peterson, returns with a recount of the 2021 high-profile case of Gabby Petito, a van life vlogger who was murdered by her boyfriend Brian Christopher Laundrie while on a trip.

Premieres Monday, Feb. 17 on Netflix

Pixar's second full-length TV series (after the Inside Out spin-off Dream Productions) for Disney+ follows a kids softball team as they prepare for the championship game, with each of the eight episodes focusing on a different character, even an umpire! This looks frickin' adorable and imaginative, just like most Pixar things!

Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 19 on Disney+

Leighton Meester leads the cast of this detective dramedy procedural about a pair of siblings (Meester and Luke Cook) solving small-town crimes in the Pacific Northwest under the watch of the police chief (Clancy Brown), who also happens to be their father. The series is being co-produced by Australia's Stan.

Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 9/8c on The CW

OK, TV has finally officially arrived. Robert De Niro, pretty much Hollywood's last A-list holdout, has given in and taken a series regular role on a television show. The conspiracy thriller Zero Day stars Bobby as a former U.S. president in charge of a government commission formed to find those responsible for a devastating cyber attack. Another reason to be excited: Zero Day boasts a Friday Night Lights reunion with Connie Britton and Jesse Plemons. The rest of the outstanding cast includes Angela Bassett, Matthew Modine, Dan Stevens, Joan Allen, and Lizzy Caplan. 

Premieres Thursday, Feb. 20 on Netflix

Hulu is getting into the ring with A Thousand Blows, a bare-knuckle boxing drama from Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders. If that's not a match made in the seedy underbelly of heaven, I don't know what is. Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty, and Malachi Kirby star. 

Premieres Friday, Feb. 21 on Hulu

NBC has found something even more rare than the endangered Vancouver Island marmot: the primetime network nature docuseries! The Americas comes from the same producer that gave us Planet Earth II and educates viewers on the vast variety of wildlife that inhabit North and South America. NBC is promising a first look at a new species, in addition to never-before-seen animal behavior, across 10 episodes that each focus on a different region. And what can be more American that having Tom Hanks narrate it?

Premieres Sunday, Feb. 23 at 7/6c on NBC

The data says you love Suits, so you're getting more Suits. The USA Network legal procedural, which somehow reached the height of its popularity years after its original run thanks to Netflix, is getting spun off with an L.A. branch, starring Arrow's Stephen Amell as a former New York prosecutor who moves out west and now represents powerful new clients. Enjoy the traffic, pal! Here's everything we know about Suits LA.

Premieres Sunday, Feb. 23 at 9/8c on NBC

This drama follows a group of people who work together in a community garden growing beautiful produce and flowers. And in between planting peonies and harvesting cherry tomatoes, they're also covering up a murder. Ben Rappaport, Aja Naomi King, and AnnaSophia Robb star.

Premieres Sunday, Feb. 23 at 10/9c on NBC

The biblical story of David, he who felled Goliath (sorry for the spoiler), comes to life in this new series on Prime Video. Michael Iskander stars as the future king of Israel, as King Saul (Ali Suliman) loses his throne to his own pride. 

Premieres Thursday, Feb. 27 on Prime Video

This four-episode British miniseries dramatizes the legal battle over the Corby poisonings in the 1980s and 1990s, when toxic chemicals were unsafely transported by a steelmaking corporation through a populated town, resulting in increased birth defects in the English town of Corby. The cast is stacked with British greats, including Jodie Whittaker, Robert Carlyle, Rory Kinnear, and Brendan Coyle. 

Premieres Thursday, Feb. 27 on Netflix

It is entirely unsurprising that Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss is an executive producer of this comedy co-created by Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, Elaine Ko, and David Stassen. Kate Hudson stars as the new president of the storied pro basketball franchise the Los Angeles Waves after her brother (Justin Theroux) gets tossed into rehab. She faces a full-court press of doubt by other league owners and her other brothers (played by Scott MacArthur and Drew Tarver) on her way to bringing the Waves back to the top.

Premieres Thursday, Feb. 27 on Netflix

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