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1 Riches
A super-rich family tussles over its patriarch's business empire – sound familiar? Except where the focus of Succession is on a bunch of white Americans, in this new series the focus is shifted to a black British clan. Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso) and Deborah Ayorinde (Them) are among the glammed-up ensemble, and from the looks of the trailer, it’s going to contain lots of great outfits and delicious melodrama.
Riches premieres on 2 December on Amazon Prime in the US, and on 22 December on ITVX in the UK
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2 Three Pines
Alfred Molina, aka the Spiderman films' villainous Doctor Octopus, is the latest esteemed thespian to play TV detective in this new series, adapted from Canadian author Louise Penny's novels centring on the Quebec Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. In this first eight-part run, Ganache finds himself investigating a murder in the titular small town, which leads to revelations about police corruption in the local area, as well as the cases of a series of missing indigenous girls.
Three Pines premieres on 2 December on Amazon Prime internationally
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3 George and Tammy
Having won an Oscar playing one Tammy – televangelist Tammy Faye – Jessica Chastain will now be hoping for an Emmy playing another, in this bio-drama about country music greats George Jones and Tammy Wynette. With Michael Shannon playing Jones, the six-episode miniseries will explore their tempestuous, seven-year relationship which saw them come up with some of the genre's most enduring classics even as they struggled with alcohol and drug addictions.
George and Tammy premieres on 4 December on Showtime in the US
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4 Kindred
Octavia E Butler is one of the greatest sci-fi writers who ever lived, and so it's welcome to see this adaptation of perhaps her most well-known novel come to fruition. The "speculative fantasy" plot concerns Dana, a young black woman living in Los Angeles who finds herself time travelling between the present day and the horror of a plantation in Maryland in 1815. Maverick directors Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, the Whale) and Janicza Bravo (Zola) are both involved in the production, as is brilliant scriptwriter/playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, which all bodes extremely well indeed for what promises to be tough but rewarding viewing.
Kindred premieres on 13 December on Hulu in the US
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5 A Spy Among Friends
Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis star in this real-life spy drama, based on Ben Macintyre's book, about the relationship between Nicholas Elliott (Lewis) and Kim Philby (Pearce): two MI6 agents in the post-war period whose friendship was complicated, to say the least, when Elliott discovered that Philby – "the man I trusted most," as Elliott says in the trailer – was in fact a double agent working for the KGB. What's more, Elliott was then the man tasked with extracting a taped confession from Philby. One to jangle the nerves.
A Spy Among Friends premieres on 8 December on ITVX in the UK, with a US release date yet to be announced
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6 Litvinenko
Meanwhile, Russia-UK relations are also the focus of this tragic miniseries retelling the story of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB officer and Russian dissident who was poisoned in London in 2006 with radioactive material. David Tennant plays Litvinenko, while the drama will explore the investigation by British police officers, alongside his dogged wife Marina, to confirm who was behind the poisoning. George Kay, the man behind Netflix smash-hit crime drama Lupin, has written the script.
Litvinenko premieres on 15 December on ITVX in the UK, and on 16 December on AMC+ and Sundance Now in the US
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7 Strike: Troubled Blood
In this latest adaptation of J K Rowling's crime novels, written under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Tom Burke (as private detective Cormoran Strike) and Holliday Grainger (as his business partner Robin Ellacott) return to investigate another knotty case. This time, it opens in Cornwall where Strike is visiting his aunt, and is approached by a woman about her mother's disappearance 40 years ago. As ever, there's an impressive guest cast which includes Linda Bassett, Kenneth Cranham, Cherie Lunghi, and Burke's mother Anna Calder-Marshall.
Strike: Troubled Blood premieres on 11 December on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, with a US release yet to be announced
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8. 1923
Few people are more powerful in TV right now than Taylor Sheridan, the writer and showrunner who is quickly building an empire of shows led by his soapy modern Western drama Yellowstone, which has been extraordinarily popular with US audiences, even if it hasn't charmed critics or awards-voters in quite the same way. That might change however, with this Yellowstone prequel series, that undoubtedly boasts this year's most impressive star pairing, Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, playing the heads of the very same Dutton family back in the early 20th Century, as they try to maintain the prosperity of their Montana ranch in the face of rival ranchers and changes in cattle farming.
1923 premieres on 18 December on Paramount+ in the US, and 19 December on Paramount+ in the UK
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9 I Hate Suzie Too
Back in 2020, British comedy-drama I Hate Suzie was one of the very best series of the year: complementing a brilliantly sharp and witty script by award-winning playwright and Succession writer Lucy Prebble, Billie Piper gave a tour-de-force performance as the titular character, a frazzled actress dealing with the fallout from a photo leak. So it's great to see it return for this three-part sequel, in which Suzie hopes for a career boost with an appearance on a dancing reality TV show – but of course, nothing does run smooth. This time, Douglas Hodge (The Great) and Omari Douglas (It's a Sin) are among those making an appearance.
I Hate Suzie Too premieres on 20 December on Sky Atlantic and NOW in the UK, and 22 December on HBO Max in the US
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10 The Witcher: Blood Origin
A Christmas treat for fantasy fans comes in the form of this prequel series to Netflix hit The Witcher, set 1,200 years before the original series, which fortuitously stars the wonderful Michelle Yeoh, who may well soon be an Oscar- winner, thanks to her performance in dazzling multiverse drama Everything Everywhere All At Once. Here, she plays a character Scian, who is the last in the line of so-called sword-elves (ie she can do nifty things with a blade), and is on a mission to hunt down a stolen sacred sword. Expect Yeoh to put her action skills to good use, and lots of bone-crunching violence – so you may want to make sure you've fully digested your Christmas dinner before starting a binge.
The Witcher: Blood Origin premieres on 25 December on Netflix internationally
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