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In a modern world where witchcraft is real, witches have lived out in the open and as valued members of society in an idyllic town called Sanctuary. Elaine Cassidy plays Sarah Fenn, Sanctuary’s resident witch and the person the town goes to when conventional remedies have failed. But then local teen rugby star Dan Whithall dies in an apparent accident and a terrifying undercurrent of suspicion and fear toward Sarah and her teenage daughter, Harper (Hazel Doupe) spreads. It’s lead by Abigail (Amy de Bhrun), the mother of the dead boy who was once Sarah’s closest friend.
84%
The Brothers Sun: Season 1
(2024)
(Netflix)
When the head of a Taiwanese triad is shot by an assassin, his eldest son, Charles “Chairleg” Sun, heads to Los Angeles to protect his mother and brother, who’s been completely sheltered from the truth of his family until now.
100%
All Creatures Great and Small: Season 4
(2023)
(PBS)
The fourth season of the adaptation of the beloved book series opens in spring 1940. While World War II is in full swing elsewhere, life in the Yorkshire country still has some lovable antics involving the local veterinarians and their charges.
Gemma Arterton stars in Funny Woman on PBS. (Photo by © Potboiler Productions; © Sky UK Limited.)
75%
Funny Woman: Season 1
(2022)
(PBS)
Beauty queen Barbara Parker moves to London to find her place as a comedy star in the male-dominated sitcom industry of the 1960s in this adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel.
74%
Ted: Season 1
(2024)
(Peacock)
This prequel to the raunchy Ted films is set in 1993. Ted the bear’s moment of fame has passed. He’s now living back home in Framingham, Massachusetts with his best friend, 16-year-old John Bennett, and his family. Ted is both a lousy influence on John and a loyal pal.
90%
Criminal Record: Season 1
(2024)
(Apple TV+)
An anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives into a confrontation over an old murder case. One is a young woman in the early stages of her career and the other is a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy.
71%
The Traitors: Season 2
(2024)
(Peacock)
Here’s some news you can trust: The second season of the Alan Cumming-led “whodunnit”-style reality series is back for more cat-fights and double-crossing. The show’s shtick is that it brings together stars of other reality programs and other people for a game of wits where anointed “traitors” try to take out “faithfuls.” This year’s players include Chris ‘C.T.’ Tamburello, Trishelle Cannatella and Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio from The Challenge, Peter Weber from The Bachelor and Larsa Pippen, Shereé Whitfield and Tamra Judge from the Real Housewives franchise.
77%
Monsieur Spade: Season 1
(2024)
(AMC/AMC+/Acorn TV)
A televised look at book author Dashiell Hammett’s dashing detective, the character Humphrey Bogart made infamous in the film adaptation of Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, this show is set 20 years after the events of that story. Sam Spade has retired in the small town of Bozouls in southern France. It’s 1963 and the war has ended. Unfortunately for Spade, so too will his tranquility.
93%
True Detective: Night Country
(2024)
(HBO)
The first of the crime anthology not written by creator Nic Pizzolatto, this chapter is written by Issa López and stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as Alaskan detectives investigating the disappearance of six people at a research center.
Violett Beane as Imogene Scott in Hulu’s Death and Other Details. (Photo by Hulu)
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Death and Other Details: Season 1
(2024)
(Hulu)
Imogene Scott finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and becomes the prime suspect in a locked-room murder mystery. To prove her innocence, she must partner with a man she despises: Rufus Cotesworth, the world’s greatest detective.
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert announces Taylor Tomlinson as the host of the upcoming After Midnight. (Photo by CBS)
After Midnight (CBS/Paramount+)
Starring: Taylor Tomlinson
Premiere Date: January 17, 2024
With James Corden having signed off from his duties as host of The Late Late Show, CBS did some rebranding with its late-night format. Instead of letting a traditional late-night talk show follow The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, comedian Taylor Tomlinson hosts a new show that’s a rebranding of the Chris Hardwick Comedy Central series @midnight. With Colbert as an executive producer, Tomlinson (as well as a host of other guest comics) riff on the news and bizarre things found online.
The series airs on CBS and streams on sister site, Paramount+.
81%
Hazbin Hotel
(Prime Video)
A new American adult animated musical television series created by Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano, the series stars Erika Henningsen as Charlie Morningstar, the princess of Hell. She is dreaming the seemingly impossible dream of opening a hotel where she can rehabilitate sinners. It has already been renewed for a second season.
76%
The Woman in the Wall: Season 1
(2023)
(Showtime)
Lorna Brady is a survivor of one of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, the asylums for “fallen women.” She wakes to find a corpse in her house but has no idea who the dead woman is or if she’s responsible for the apparent murder.
86%
Griselda: Season 1
(2024)
(Netflix)
Sofía Vergara stars as Griselda Blanco, the ruthless Colombian businesswomen who created one of the most profitable cartels in history.
In the Know: Season 1 (Peacock)
Starring: Zach Woods, Mike Judge, Caitlin Reilly
Premiere Date: January 25, 2024
Zach Woods plays Lauren Caspian, NPR’s third most popular host and a well-meaning, hypocritical nimrod. Also, he and his staff are all stop-motion puppets. Each episode follows the making of an episode of Lauren’s show In the Know, in which Lauren conducts in-depth interviews with real world-human guests.
Woods created the show with Mike Judge (King of the Hill) and Brandon Gardner, who serves as showrunner. Judge is also part of the voice cast, playing a culture critic named Sandy.
85%
Masters of the Air: Limited Series
(2024)
(Apple TV+)
Another big-budget World War II epic from the teams who produced the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific, this one focuses on members of 100th Bomb Group.
Brian Tee as Clarke and Nicole Kidman as Margaret in Prime Video’s Expats.
85%
Expats: Limited Series
(2024)
(Prime Video)
Creator Lulu Wang’s adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee’s novel, The Expatriates, follows the lives of various Hong Kong transplants and the people who work for them.
FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans premieres Jan. 31 on FX. (Photo by Courtesy of FX)
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Feud: Capote vs. The Swans: Capote vs. The Swans
(2024)
(FX)
Tom Hollander plays Truman Capote, the acclaimed writer who betrays his relationships with members of New York high society by writing thinly-veiled accounts of their personal lives. Based on Laurence Leamer’s Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era and with a screenplay by Jon Robin Baitz, this is still a series executive produced by Ryan Murphy and therefore has lots of famous people playing once-famous people (Naomi Watts as influential editor and socialite Babe Paley; Calista Flockhart as Lee Radziwill, the socialite and Jackie Kennedy’s younger sister).
70%
Echo: Season 1
(2024)
(Disney+)
A spin-off to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Hawkeye series, it follows Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez/Echo as she returns to her hometown in Oklahoma. There, she reconnects with her Native American roots while also coming to terms with events of her past.
The show also brings in other MCU talent like Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin and Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil.
The latest chapter in the biopic franchise about noteworthy individuals will break tradition and look at two important figures of the Civil Rights movement; each with his own ideologies but both with the same goal. Kelvin Harrison Jr. plays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Aaron Pierre portrays Malcolm X.
91%
Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Season 1
(2024)
(Prime Video)
A new take on the Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie movie in almost name only, the story stars two lonely strangers who land jobs working for a mysterious spy agency but must hold identities as a married couple.
Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. (Photo by HBO)
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 12 (HBO)
Starring: Larry David
Premiere Date: February 4, 2024
Send out the clowns. Curb Your Enthusiasm star and creator Larry David has said that the upcoming 12th season will be the final chapter of his cringey commentary on the social norms and expectancies of a particularly niche group of Angelenos (as well as a few others).
“As Curb comes to an end, I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this ‘Larry David’ persona and become the person God intended me to be: the thoughtful, kind, caring, considerate human being I was until I got derailed by portraying this malignant character,” David said in a statement. “And so ‘Larry David,’ I bid you farewell. Your misanthropy will not be missed. And for those of you who would like to get in touch with me, you can reach me at Doctors Without Borders.”
The cast of Abbott Elementary. (Photo by ABC)
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Abbott Elementary: Season 3
(2024)
(ABC)
After the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes delayed its premiere, school is finally back in session for creator/star Quinta Brunson’s Emmy-winning comedy series.
(Photo by Ludovic Robert/Netflix)
92%
One Day: Limited Series
(2024)
(Netflix)
Based on David Nicholls’ best-selling novel, the story focuses on young lovers Emma and Dexter. They go their separate ways; however, fate has other plans. The book also saw a 2011 film adaptation starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. And, yes, it has been compared to Hulu’s adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People.
Justin Hartley stars in Tracker on CBS. (Photo by CBS)
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Tracker: Season 1
(2024)
(CBS)
This Is Us alum Justin Hartley stars as Colter Shaw, a lone-wolf survivalist who roams the country and uses his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve mysteries while contending with his own fractured family.
Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior in Apple TV+’s The New Look. (Photo by Apple TV+)
60%
The New Look: Season 1
(2024)
(Apple TV+)
Fashion is on display in this miniseries centering on the lives of Christian Dior and Coco Channel (portrayed by Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche, respectively). But it’s also a World War II drama that stars Maisie Williams as Christian’s sister, and French Resistance fighter, Catherine Dior.
The American remake of Ghosts premieres its third season on February 15 on CBS. (Photo by CBS)
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Ghosts: Season 3
(2024)
(CBS)
After a delayed premiere due to the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, the comedy about newlyweds who run a bed-and-breakfast haunted by (very friendly) ghosts will return for its third season. This means audiences will finally get answers to the second season’s cliffhanger and learn which ghost (or ghosts) was “sucked off” to another afterlife and is no longer stuck in that house.
71%
Constellation: Season 1
(2024)
(Apple TV+)
Noomi Rapace plays a woman who returns to Earth upon a disaster during her mission and finds parts of her life seemingly missing.
60%
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Season 1
(2024)
(Netflix)
A live-action remake of the animated series, the show is set in a war-torn world where some people have the ability to “bend” one of the four classical elements. Gordon Cormier as Aang, a 12-year-old who is the “bridge” between the mortal and spirit worlds and someone who can bend each of the elements.
The series has suffered some behind-the-scenes drama. Original creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko left the project in 2020, with DiMartino publishing an open letter on his website that read, in part, “whatever version ends up on-screen, it will not be what Bryan and I had envisioned or intended to make.” Albert Kim took over as showrunner a year later.
A film version of The Last Airbender from M. Night Shyamalan famously flopped with critics and fans. It has a 5% Tomatometer.
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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Season 1
(2024)
(AMC)
The Walking Dead spin-off infection continues to spread with this anticipated series that focuses on Andrew Lincoln’s former sheriff Rick Grimes and his former flame, the warrior Michonne (Danai Gurira). Pollyanna McIntosh, who briefly appeared in the first series as well as the spin-off World Beyond, is also part of this cast.
99%
Shōgun: Limited Series
(2024)
(FX/Hulu)
Created by Rachel Kondo and Counterpart’s Justin Marks, the period drama based on the James Clavell novel stars Cosmo Jarvis as the shipwrecked Pilot Major John Blackthorne and Hiroyuki Sanada as the shrewd and powerful daimyo Lord Yoshii Toranaga. Anna Sawai also stars as Toda Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties.
A film version and another TV version of the book were released in 1980.
91%
Elsbeth: Season 1
(2024)
(CBS)
The latest spin-off of the CBS hit The Good Wife focuses on Emmy winner Carrie Preston’s Elsbeth Tascioni. This show finds the quirky and unconventional attorney leaving her job as a defense attorney in Chicago to help the NYPD solve creative crimes.
Ken Watanabe in the second season of Max’s Tokyo Vice. (Photo by Max)
94%
Tokyo Vice: Season 2
(2024)
(Max)
Based on the 2009 Jake Adelstein book, Ansel Elgort stars as an American journalist in Japan who learns about the country’s notorious organized crime unit the yakuza while following a detective on the police department’s vice squad (Ken Watanabe’s Hiroto Katagiri).
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BMF: Season 3
(2024)
(Starz)
The series is inspired by the true story of brothers in 1980s southwest Detroit who founded one of America’s most influential crime families. With Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as an executive producer, the show frequently features musicians as guest stars. In the third season, this means rapper 2 Chainz and R&B performer and songwriter Ne-Yo.
52%
The Regime: Limited Series
(2024)
(HBO)
Created by Will Tracy and directed by Stephen Frears and Jessica Hobb, this miniseries is a political satire that presents one year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel.
Busy Philipps as Summer, Paula Pell as Gloria, Renee Elise Goldsberry as Wickie and Sara Bareilles as Dawn in Girls5Eva Season 3. (Photo by Emily V Aragones / Netflix)
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Girls5eva: Season 3
(2024)
(Netflix)
They got the band back together. Creator Meredith Scardino’s show about the adult members of a ’90s one-hit-wonder girl group hits the road to Netflix for its third season, which will be the new home for all seasons of the musical comedy since Peacock cut its mic after Season 2. Sure, they’re now grown women balancing spouses, kids, jobs, aging parents and debt. But they also will never stop being Girls5Eva.
Hamish Linklater as Abraham Lincoln in Apple TV+’s Manhunt. (Photo by Apple TV+)
87%
Manhunt: Limited Series
(2024)
(Apple TV+)
One of America’s earliest true-crime stories makes its way to the prestige miniseries format. Based on James L. Swanson’s nonfiction book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, this drama stars Tobias Menzies as Edwin Stanton, the president’s friend and colleague who lead the hunt for his assassin, John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle). Other stars include Matt Walsh as Samuel Mudd, the physician who aided Booth, and Hamish Linklater as our 16th president.
100%
Nolly: Miniseries
(2023)
(PBS)
Created by Doctor Who’s Russell T. Davies, this is a biographical miniseries about Noele “Nolly” Gordon. The British TV star rose to fame on the show Crossroads. Then she was betrayed and fired.
Kristen Wiig in Palm Royale on Apple TV+. (Photo by Apple TV+)
56%
Palm Royale: Season 1
(2024)
(Apple TV+)
A period comedy created by George & Tammy’s Abe Sylvia and based on the Juliet McDaniel book Mr. & Mrs. American Pie, Kristen Wiig plays Maxine Simmons. She’s attempting to achieve a place in Palm Beach high society. But at what cost?
79%
3 Body Problem: Season 1
(2024)
(Netflix)
Adapted from Liu Cixin’s book series The Three-Body Problem by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and The Terror: Infamy showrunner Alexander Woo*, this drama looks at how one incident that happens during China’s Cultural Revolution leads to events that cross space and time.
33%
Parish: Season 1
(2024)
(AMC/AMC+)
A reimagining of the BBC One series The Driver, this hour-long thriller series follows Giancarlo Esposito’s Gray Parish. A good man with a troubled past, Gray gave up his life of crime for life as a family man. But old habits return when his son is violently murdered and he begins a relentless quest with moral intentions and dangerous consequences.
Sam Neill as Stan and Annette Bening as Joy in Peacock’s Apples Never Fall. (Photo by Jasin Boland / Peacock)
48%
Apples Never Fall: Limited Series
(2024)
(Peacock)
Based on the book by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty and created by Melanie Marnich, the miniseries is a family drama mixed with mystery. Annette Bening and Sam Neill play Joy and Stan, retirees who have just sold their tennis academy and are getting ready to kick back, relax and spend time with their now-adult children. Things change when a mysterious young woman comes to their door. And things only get weirder when Joy disappears.
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A Brief History of the Future: Limited Series
(2024)
(PBS)
Hosted by futurist Ari Wallach, who is also one of the executive producers on the show with his Futurific Studios co-founder Kathryn Murdoch, the six-part series promises to challenge “the dystopian framework embraced by popular culture by offering a refreshing take on the future exploring potential solutions to our existential threats.”
Another producer? Drake and Adel ‘Future’ Nur’s DreamCrew Entertainment.
86%
Ripley: Limited Series
(2024)
(Netflix)
Created by Steven Zaillian and based on the Patricia Highsmith crime novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, this miniseries follows Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott) after a case of mistaken identity leads him to a world of riches, infatuation and murder. Other stars include Johnny Flynn as Dickie Greenleaf and Dakota Fanning as Marge Sherwood.
94%
Fallout: Season 1
(2024)
(Prime Video)
Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s adaptation of the role-playing video-game franchise is a post-apocalyptic drama that is an alternative history set in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Ella Purnell plays Lucy, a descendant of survivors of the war who leaves the only life she’s ever known to venture into the hostile and savage area known as Wasteland.
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Olle Strand as Dogge, Ardalan Esmaili as Farid, Yasir Hassan as Billy in Deliver Me. (Photo by Netflix)
Deliver Me (Netflix)
Starring: Yasir Hassan, Olle Strand, Yusra Warsama, Ane Dahl Torp, Henrik Norlén, Ardalan Esmai
Premiere Date: April 24, 2024
A Swedish series based on the Malin Persson Giolito novel, this is less a whodunnit than a who’s-to-blame for whodunnit. It follows a community reeling after a 14-year-old commits a heinous crime — and as they all wonder what events in that child’s life allowed this to happen.
89%
The Sympathizer: Limited Series
(2024)
(HBO)
Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this miniseries is both an espionage thriller and a cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War (and his resulting exile in the United States).
42%
The Spiderwick Chronicles: Season 1
(2024)
(The Roku Channel)
Based on the book series by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, this fantasy series follows siblings who move into an old estate and discover a world of fairies and other creatures. Christian Slater appears in the series as the ogre Mulgarath.
A film adaptation came out in 2008 and starred Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker and Sarah Bolger.
85%
The Jinx: Part Two: Part Two
(2024)
(HBO)
Wait. There’s more to say? Director Andrew Jarecki’s 2015 documentary miniseries The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst was true-crime catnip: A detailed exploration of a wealthy eccentric who’d been on the lam for years and maybe also had killed a bunch of people … only to have said individual confess everything on a hot mic in the finale, resulting in his arrest for first-degree murder (“Killed them all, of course,” Robert Durst famously said). But a new segment, which will chronicle what’s happened in the eight years since that series’ release, will be out in 2024.
Also, a potential complication: Durst died in January 2022.
75%
Knuckles: Limited Series
(2024)
(Paramount+)
This show focuses on Idris Elba’s hot-headed Knuckles the Echidna from the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. Set between the events of Sonic 2 and Sonic 3, it will find Knuckles on Earth and attempting to train deputy sheriff Wade Whipple (Adam Pally) into an Echidna Warrior.
98%
Hacks: Season 3
(2024)
(Max)
The second season of the Emmy-winning comedy Hacks saw comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and comedy writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) rehabilitate their careers with the success of a stage show that they’d workshopped. But then Deborah fired Ava, effectively ending their dysfunctional partnership. How will Ava do now that she’s flying solo as a successful writer?
76%
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: Limited Series
(2024)
(Peacock)
Based on the Heather Morris novel, this miniseries follows Harvey Keitel’s Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who is tasked with tattooing identification numbers on fellow prisoners’ arms.
98%
Interview With the Vampire: Season 2
(2024)
(Max)
The second season of the sultry adaptation of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles book series comes with some recasting (Delainey Hayles is replacing Bailey Bass as the forever young Claudia). It will also introduce a new character to the TV series: Ben Daniels’ Santiago, the lead player in the Theatre des Vampires performance troupe who has a keen interest in Louis (Jacob Anderson).
87%
Bridgerton: Season 3
(2024)
(Netflix)
The upcoming third season of Bridgerton will break from tradition and not focus as much on one member of the titular siblings as it will on one of their biggest fans: Nicola Coughlan’s Penelope. Having given up her long-held torch for third Bridgerton son Colin (Luke Newton) and scorned by the comments she heard him make about her last season, Penelope decides it’s time she find a husband. She’d prefer one who will both take her away from her awful mother and sisters and provide her with enough independence to continue her double life as Lady Whistledown.
Lucie Shorthouse as Momtaz, Faith Omole as Bisma, Anjana Vasan as Amina, Juliette Motamed as Ayesha and Sarah Kameela Impey as Saira in We Are Lady Parts. (Photo by Laura Radford / Peacock)
95%
We Are Lady Parts: Season 2
(2024)
(Peacock)
Get ready to rock out. The comedy about a Muslim punk band will be back in 2024 and creator Nida Manzoor cryptically told The Guardian in 2023 that it will feature “new characters and an expanded world.”
100%
Ren Faire: Miniseries
(2024)
(HBO)
Created by Lance Oppenheim and David Gauvey Herbert with executive producers that include Josh and Benny Safdie, this three-part documentary series tells about the power struggle for ownership of the Texas Renaissance Festival.
88%
Clipped: Limited Series
(2024)
(Hulu)
A dramatic retelling of the saga that brought down Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling (portrayed here by Ed O’Neill), this is the latest news-story-turned-prestige miniseries from FX Productions and others.
78%
Star Wars: The Acolyte: Season 1
(2024)
(Disney+)
The latest streaming series set in the Star Wars universe will tell the story of a Jedi Padawan (Amandla Stenberg) reuniting with her Master (Lee Jung-jae) to investigate a series of crimes at the end of the High Republic era, which is set about 100 years prior to the events of The Phantom Menace.
94%
Fantasmas: Season 1
(2024)
(Max)
Torres’ previous show Los Espookys walked so that Fantasmas could run. This six-part story is ostensibly about Torres’ character’s hunt for his lost gold oyster earring. But it’s really about people looking for meaning, purpose and connection in an increasingly isolating world.
78%
Presumed Innocent: Season 1
(2024)
(Apple TV+)
The latest splashy program from David E. Kelley (albeit this one set in Chicago instead of Boston), this is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s best-selling novel starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a prosecutor caught up in a horrific murder. The book was previously adapted into a 1990 film starring Harrison Ford.
92%
The Boys: Season 4
(2024)
(Prime Video)
The penultimate season of the satirical superhero show finds Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher at a crossroads as he attempts to lead his titular squad to overthrow the capitalist society that controls them. Meanwhile, Antony Starr’s Homelander continues to dabble in politics.
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Hotel Cocaine: Season 1
(2024)
(MGM+)
This biographical drama focuses on the life of Roman Compte (Danny Pino), a Cuban exile and CIA operative who was also the general manager of the Hotel Mutiny, the glamorous epicenter of the late ’70s and early ’80s Miami cocaine scene. If Compte’s last name sounds familiar, it might be because his son Maurice Compte is an actor who has appeared in NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Breaking Bad.
83%
House of the Dragon: Season 2
(2024)
(HBO)
If you play with dragons, you’re bound to get burned. The second season of the Game of Thrones prequel will again follow the in-fightings and bloody battles for power in the Targaryen family in the lead-up to a civil war known as the “Dance of the Dragons.” Adapted from George R.R. Martin’s novel Fire & Blood, it will also have five new dragons.
60%
Orphan Black: Echoes: Season 1
(2023)
(AMC/AMC+)
A story set after the events in Orphan Black that ricocheted from Tatiana Maslany’s Sarah’s surprise encounter with one her (turns out) many clones at a train station, Orphan Black: Echoes takes a deep dive into the exploration of the scientific manipulation of human existence. It stars Krysten Ritter as Lucy, a woman with an unimaginable origin story who is trying to find her place in the world. But is also follows a group of women as they weave their way into each other’s lives and embark on a thrilling journey, unravelling the mystery of their identity and uncovering a wrenching story of love and betrayal.
90%
Land of Women: Season 1
(2024)
(Apple TV+)
Created by Ramón Campos and inspired by Sandra Barneda’s novel, this miniseries is about a New York socialite who is forced to flee to a Spanish wine town with her mother and daughter. There, she finds herself navigating small-town quirks while also confronting her deepest family secrets and a pair of bumbling hit men.
75%
That '90s Show: Season 1
(2023)
Part 2 (Netflix)
Hello, Wisconsin! The second part of That ’90s Show is ready to start summer break off with a bong … er bang. The follow-up to the comedy That ’70s Show again focuses on Callie Haverda’s Leia, the daughter of Topher Grace and Laura Prepon’s Eric and Donna from the first show, as she spends a summer in her grandparents’ basement with other bored teens who have ties to her parents’ own childhood. And get comfy on that sofa: Part 3 comes Oct. 24.
89%
The Bear: Season 3
(2024)
(Hulu)
The fast-paced family comedy that’s really a family drama heats up for a third season as chef Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) sees if he can handle the pressures of running a restaurant and having a life. Also, can his restaurant grab that elusive Michelin star?
95%
My Lady Jane: Season 1
(2024)
(Prime Video)
A light and comedic alternate history of Jane Grey that finds the ill-fated queen saved from the executioner’s axe and free to have a happy life of romance and adventure.
90%
Sunny: Season 1
(2024)
(Apple TV+)
This dark “comedy” from Katie Robbins and based on the novel The Dark Manual by Colin O’Sullivan stars Rashida Jones as a woman in Kyoto who is gifted a robot after her husband and son are killed in a plane crash.
46%
Sausage Party: Foodtopia: Season 1
(2024)
(Prime Video)
A sequel to the raunchy 2016 animated film Sausage Party, this story finds Seth Rogen’s sausage Frank, Kristen Wiig’s hot dog bun Brenda, Michael Cera’s deformed sausage Barry, and Edward Norton’s bagel Sammy attempting to build their own food community.
Vikings: Valhalla: Season 3 (Netflix)
Starring: Leo Suter, Sam Corlett, Frida Gustavsson
Premiere Date: July 11, 2024
Set eight years after the events of Season 2, the final season of this historical drama finds Freydís Eiríksdóttir (Frida Gustavsson) to be the undisputed leader of pagan Jomsborg while Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett) and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter) have achieved glory in Constantinople. But greater challenges lie ahead in order for each to reach their ultimate destiny …
82%
Cobra Kai: Season 6
(2024)
Part 1 (Netflix)
The first part of the final countdown to the end of Cobra Kai begins July 18 (Part 2 comes in November and Part 3 comes in 2025). The series, a sequel to the events in the Karate Kid movies, focuses on the complicated relationship between Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso and William Zabka’s Johnny Lawrence.
48%
Those About to Die: Season 1
(2024)
(Peacock)
An epic drama about gladiators in Ancient Rome that’s based on the Daniel P. Mannix novel, this series comes with some splashy pedigree. Anthony Hopkins plays Roman emperor Vespasian and Masters of the Air’s Dimitri Leonidas plays noted charioteer Scorpus. It also counts Roland Emmerich as an executive producer and director and is written by Band of Brothers and Falling Skies’ Robert Rodat.
75%
Lady in the Lake
(Apple TV+)
Based on the Laura Lippman novel, this period drama is set in 1966 Baltimore. It’s about what happens to two women with vastly different lives when a little girl goes missing.
76%
Time Bandits
(Apple TV+)
Based on the Terry Gilliam film and created by Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi and The InBetweeners’ Iain Morris, this comedy series is about a ragtag group of thieves who travel through time and space with their newest recruit: an 11-year-old history nerd.
94%
Batman: Caped Crusader
(Prime Video)
Moving to Prime Video after the series was axed at Max, this is executive producers J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves and Bruce Timm’s reimagining of the Batman mythology that will also build upon the universe of Batman: The Animated Series (which Timm co-created).
55%
The Umbrella Academy: Season 4
(2024)
(Netflix)
Ready the mic drops. The final season of Umbrella Academy is promised for 2024. Beyond that, not much is confirmed. But Netflix did release a fun featurette of the cast struggling to tease the new season without giving away spoilers.
90%
Industry
Season 3 (HBO)
HBO’s other whip-smart and acid-tongued drama that’s really a comedy (this one is about investment bankers while Succession was about media moguls) returns for a third season. Joining the cast for the third season are Kit Harington as the CEO of green tech energy company, Sarah Goldberg as a portfolio manager and Fady Elsayed.
Vince Vaughn in Bad Monkey, premiering August 14, 2024 on Apple TV+. (Photo by Bob Mahoney)
93%
Bad Monkey: Season 1
(2024)
(Apple TV+)
Based on the Carl Hiaasen novel and developed by Scrubs and Ted Lasso’s Bill Lawrence, this series stars Vince Vaughn as a washed-up police detective reduced to conducting restaurant inspections. Then a severed arm drags him back into Southern Florida’s criminal underbelly.
100%
Bel-Air: Season 3
(2024)
(Peacock)
The third season of this retelling of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air story has plenty of pool parties and hijinks. But, as the series is wont to do, it will also hit upon more important social concerns (in this season, that includes the topic of gentrification).
66%
Emily in Paris: Season 4
(2024)
(Netflix)
The fourth season of the fashion-favorite series checks in with Lily Collins’ titular Chicago transplant as she’s dealing with a messy love triangle involving her crush Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) and his pregnant fiancee, Camille Razat as Camille. Complicating the matter is that Emily’s British beau Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) is still in the picture for Season 4. Ah, c’est la vie. Netflix is dropping the first five of this season’s 10 episodes in August and the second half on September 12, 2024.
96%
Only Murders in the Building
Season 4 (Hulu)
The trio of amateur sleuths thought they were heading to Los Angeles when Hollywood producers said they wanted to make a film about the events depicted in their podcast. But something keeps bringing them back to New York’s Arconia building (hint: it’s a dead body. It’s always a dead body).
84%
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 2
(2024)
(Prime Video)
Based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s history of Middle-earth, the second season of the flashy fantasy series depicts the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron (Charlie Vickers) and the creation of more Rings of Power.
(Photo by Netflix)
Terminator: Zero (Netflix)
Starring: Timothy Olyphant
Premiere Date: August 29, 2024
Timothy Olyphant voices the titular Terminator, who is sent back in time to eliminate a scientist who is developing a competitive AI. The anime series is created by The Batman’s Mattson Tomlin.
