Throughout this year, we have been blessed with a seductive television landscape and, thankfully, that trend shows no signs of slowing or fading. In fact, the 2025 television line-up is packed with a lot of genuinely inspired new releases.
In the next 12 months there will be stories for every taste and every genre out there. Prestige dramas about the U.S. Presidency? Yes. Big-name movie stars competing for streaming audiences? Yes. A new epic Game of Thrones spin-off? Check, check and check.
This year the small screen is giving us plenty of reasons to live.
Without further ado, these are the TV series we are looking forward to in 2025. By the looks of it, it’s going to be very, very hard to tear ourselves away from our screens.
1. Watson
CBS | Season Premiere | Release date: Sunday, January 26
If you enjoyed the CBS series Elementary, a contemporary adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories, don’t miss the network’s upcoming release, Watson.
Like Elementary, it updates the Sherlock Holmes mythos for the modern audience.
Watson takes place six months after Sherlock Holmes’ death at the hands of Moriarty. The series stars Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson as he decides to resume his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to the treatment of rare diseases.
According to the official CBS synopsis:
“Watson’s old life isn’t done with him, though – Moriarty and Watson are set to write their own chapter of a story that has fascinated audiences for more than a century. Watson is a medical show with a strong investigative spine, featuring a modern version of one of history’s greatest detectives as he turns his attention from solving crimes to solving medical mysteries.”
Watson will premiere in the U.S. following the AFC Championship Game on January 26, 2025 on CBS and will also be available for streaming on Paramount+.
2. Paradise
Hulu | Season Premiere | Release date: Tuesday, January 28
Hulu’s upcoming thriller Paradise is shaping up to be a thrilling exploration of political machinations, power, and deception. Created by the talented Dan Fogelman (Stupid, Love, This Is Us, Crazy), the fiction blends political intrigue with personal drama.
The story is set in a peaceful, affluent community inhabited by influential people. But, this calm is shattered when a grisly murder occurs and a high-stakes investigation is set in motion.
Did Randall Pearson murder Cal Bradford, the president of the United States? That’s the basic premise of this thriller, starring Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown as the Secret Service agent who discovers POTUS’ dead body and immediately becomes the prime suspect.
Paradise will officially premiere on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 with three episodes. More episodes will air every Tuesday throughout the season.
3. Win or Lose
Disney + | Season Premiere | Release date: Wednesday, February 19
It looks like 2025 will be another big year for Pixar fans. Not only is there a new feature film on the way, an intergalactic adventure, titled Elio, but they will also be introducing their first full-length animated series Win or Lose, a family comedy about a softball team going through high school.
In its official description of Win or Lose, Pixar states:
“Win or Lose, Pixar Animation Studios’ first-ever original long-form animated series, follows the Pickles, a co-ed middle school softball team, in the week leading up to their championship game. Each episode offers a look inside the off-the-field life of a character-a player, their parent, the umpire-revealing their funny, emotional and always relatable point of view in a unique visual style.”
The series is created, written and directed by Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates, who previously worked on Toy Story 4. Win or Lose will have eight episodes and each episode will follow a different player.
4. Daredevil: Born Again
Disney +| Season Premiere | Release date: Tuesday, March 4
Daredevil is back, and he’s darker and more dangerous than ever!
The next installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Daredevil: Born Again, will once again see blind, super-powered lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) take on New York crime boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio).
In a recent interview with the Official Marvel Podcast, producer Brad Winderbaum described Born Again as “incredible” and compared it to recent hit revival X-Men ’97. What’s interesting is that in this new season Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk actually form an uneasy, but urgent alliance.
“It’s reviving something that the fans love, but it is taking it in a new direction. These characters have matured. The universe is different than it was… Matt and Wilson have changed, and their characters are going to collide in ways we’ve never seen before. It’s no longer enough to try and murder each other. There’s a whole game of politics at play,” Winderbaum explained.
Officially, Daredevil: Born Again is a sort of soft reboot that aims to bridge the gap between Daredevil’s third season and a new future.
The series will run 18 episodes despite being billed as a “miniseries.”
5. Alien: Earth
FX | Season Premiere | Release date: Summer 2025
Good news: the Alien franchise is coming to television.
It’s no secret that the successful Alien: Romulus (2024) directed by Fede Alvarez breathed new life into the long-running sci-fi franchise, and in 2025 we’ll see a new entry, this time on the small screen.
According to the official synopsis, FX’s Alien: Earth brings the carnage to our planet:
“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.”
Described as a sci-fi horror series, Alien Earth follows the trail of the tactical team as they search for survivors, but instead, they encounter predators more terrifying than they could have ever imagined.
Above all, it looks like the series will explore the synths of the Alien universe in depth, tackling the question of artificial intelligence and the increasingly blurred lines between artificial and human life.
FX’s latest offering is created by Noah Hawley, the showrunner of the Legion and Fargo series, and is executive produced by Ridley Scott.
6. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight
HBO | Season Premiere | No release date
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight was first announced in 2023, but development was halted during the Hollywood strikes that affected the industry that year. This is the second Game of Thrones spinoff to come to HBO, and is scheduled to premiere in late 2025.
Let’s start with a basic review. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the title given to the compilation of three short stories written by George R. R. Martin, which includes: The Hedge Knight (1998), The Sworn Sword (2003) and The Mystery Knight (2010). This compilation is also known as Tales of Dunk and Egg.
Both the events of The Hedge Knight book and the new HBO series are set in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, 89 years before Game of Thrones, and follow a wandering knight named Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey), a future member of Aegon V’s Kingsguard, and his squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), future Aegon V. The story chronicles the duo’s travels, from a tournament that goes rather wrong to a treacherous wedding in the Riverlands.
Per the official HBO description:
“A century before the events of “Game of Thrones,” two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros… a young, naïve but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg. Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, great destinies, powerful foes, and dangerous exploits all await these improbable and incomparable friends.”
As stated by executive producer Ryan Condal, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight focuses on “the little people who suffer the consequences of the game of thrones at the hands of the nobles.”
7. IT: Welcome to Derry
HBO | Season Premiere | No release date
It’s always good to know that Stephen King’s universe continues to expand with new and chilling additions.
In recent years, there have been more than 10 film adaptations and several TV series of his works. Now, following the success of the two most recent IT films, directed by Argentine Andy Muschietti, the green light was given to the prequel IT: Welcome to Derry.
Set in the 1960s, this series focuses on the origin story of Pennywise the clown, and the sinister past of Derry, Maine, explaining events that took place before Muschietti’s films IT (2017) and IT Chapter Two (2019).
“We are telling the stories of the interludes, writings by Mike Hanlon based on his investigation that includes interviews he conducts with the older people in the town. In Welcome to Derry, we touch on the usual themes that were talked about in the movie,” explained Muschietti.
This prequel was developed by filmmaker Andy Muschietti, his sister and producing partner Barbara Muschietti, and screenwriter Jason Fuchs, who collaborated on 2019’s It Chapter Two.
Taylour Paige and Jovan Adepo will join the franchise as the leads with Bill Skarsgård reprising his role as Pennywise.
8. Stranger Things
HBO | Season 5 | No release date
After one of the biggest cliffhangers in series history, fans are eager for the premiere of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, the hit sci-fi series from brothers Matt and Ross Duffer.
While Netflix has yet to reveal the official plot of season five, it will most likely follow the teens of Hawkins as they attempt to defeat the dreaded Vecna once and for all, especially now that the Upside Down has openly invaded their town.
As far as Eleven and her Hawkins friends are concerned, Season 5 will be the last chapter of this story, but that doesn’t mean it will be the last Netflix series that will be set in the Stranger Things universe.
In several interviews the Duffer brothers have hinted at a possible spin-off, commenting that “there are still many more exciting stories to tell within the world of Stranger Things. New mysteries, new adventures, new unexpected heroes.”
The fifth season of Stranger Things consists of eight episodes, with the finale titled The Rightside Up.
9. El Eternauta
Netflix | Season Premiere | No release date
One of the most anticipated titles in Latin America for 2025 is undoubtedly El Eternauta, with Bruno Stagnaro as writer and director. With six exciting episodes, this project marks Ricardo Darín’s debut in a Netflix original production.
El Eternauta is a series that adapts the iconic Argentine comic book by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López. The plot centers on the resistance of a group of survivors led by Juan Salvo (Ricardo Darín), facing an alien invasion in Buenos Aires triggered by a toxic snowstorm.
10. Apple Cider Vinegar
Netflix | Season Premiere | No release date
Created by award-winning Australian writer Samantha Strauss (Nine Perfect Strangers, Dance Academy), and inspired by a true story, Apple Cider Vinegar follows an influencer who claims to have cured her terminal brain cancer through health and wellness.
According to Netflix’s synopsis, Apple Cider Vinegar is a six-episode series set at “the birth of Instagram.” It follows two young women who strive to cure their life-threatening illnesses through health and wellness. Along the way, they build an audience and begin to influence people globally.
The catch? None of it is true.