As we fire up our SAD lamps and prepare to weather the coldest, grayest months of the year, it's comforting to look ahead to the shows that will keep us company as we trundle towards spring (and beyond).
2024 is already shaping up to deliver some gems on the small screen, from more Star Wars spin-offs to long-awaited returning seasons and sparkly new debuts. If you need some light at the end of the dark-by-3pm tunnel, here's everything we know about the most anticipated 2024 TV shows.
True Detective: Night Country (season 4)
Release date: January 14
The anthology crime series that kicked off with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey in the deep South now heads north to the inhospitable terrain of Alaska. This new season stars Jodie Foster as a detective on the hunt for a serial killer. What's scarier than a villain who operates in almost perpetual nighttime? Think blood-soaked snow patches and grumbly, monotone police officers who've seen too much shit in their lifetime. Chilling stuff, literally.
Expats
Release date: January 26
Chinese-born American filmmaker Lulu Wang made a name for herself with her sophomore effort, touching coming-of-ager The Farewell. Expats, starring Nicole Kidman and Jack Huston and bankrolled by Amazon, will mark her first foray into TV. An official synopsis describes the film as following “the vibrant lives of a close-knit expatriate community: where affluence is celebrated, friendships are intense but knowingly temporary, and personal lives, deaths and marriages are played out publicly — then retold with glee.”
Masters of the Air
Release date: January 26
Are you in search of every buzzy actor in the biz right now? Look no further than Masters of the Air, which boasts a cast that includes Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, Ncuti Gatwa, Callum Turner and Jude Law offspring Raff Law. The series takes to the skies as it follows the 100th Bombardment Group of the United States Air Force during the Second World War. It's a companion series to Band of Brothers, another equally stacked series full of then-up-and-coming superstars.
The New Look
Release date: February 14
This Christian Dior origin story (how's that for an extremely GQ-ish-sounding premise?) will star Ben Mendelsohn as the debonair designer amid his post-war beginnings, with the launch of his “New Look” fashion line. French fave Juliette Binoche (an Oscar winner for 1996's The English Patient and all-round mother) stars as Coco Chanel, with Glenn Close (it's a mother-off!) as Carmel Snow and Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior.
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Release date: February 22
Based on the hugely popular animated series of the same name, this Netflix live-action series seeks to right the wrongs of the famously terrible Avatar: The Last Airbender film that we got back in 2010. The show follows a war-torn world where people can bend the elements. Aang, the last known “airbender,” has to keep order in the fragile world and fend off plans for total takeover. Daniel Dae Kim stars alongside a host of newcomers.
3 Body Problem
Release date: March 21
David Benioff and D. B. Weiss have left the rudimentary tools of Westeros behind and have entered into the science-fiction game with this adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name. It follows an astrophysicist who, after seeing her father brutally murdered during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, is conscripted by the military sent to a secret radar base in a remote region of the country. There, decisions she makes in the 1960s ripple through time. So popular is this property that it's also just had an unrelated Chinese adaptation released.
Fallout
Release date: April 12
We'll all crawl out through the Fallout come April, when the TV adaptation of Bethesda's super mutant of a video game behemoth comes to Prime Video. Historically the game-to-screen pipeline has been more clogged toilet than Mario warp pipe, but all signs point to this one being a hit, with the first trailer ratcheting hype for franchise fans up to eleven.
It's set in future post-apocalyptic L.A., 200 years after a nuclear war has laid waste to humankind, with subterranean vault dwellers emerging to rebuild from the ashes. It's hardly all doom and gloom: with its tongue-in-cheek satire of ‘50s Americana and caustic sense of humour, Fallout brings the a-ha’s to the apocalypse. Get those geiger counters ready.
Bridgerton (season 3)
Release: Part 1 — 16 May, Part 2 — 13 June
Prepare for more bodices to be ripped. The Ton will be abuzz once Bridgerton returns to our screens with a new season focusing on the love story between Penelope (Lady Whistledown, in case you didn't know) and Colin. After insulting her to the rest of the lads in the final episode of last season, it's going to take some hard graft to get Colin back in the good books.
Expect much of the same—dresses, balls, vague ideas of Regency England—and settle in for the sauciest show on TV, which Netflix recently announced will drop as a two-part series in May and June.
Renegade Nell
Release date: Spring
Happy Valley was the sort of televisual success that would grant showrunner Sally Wainwright an effective blank check to do whatever the hell she wanted for her next project, and enter Renegade Nell, marking a shift from dark police procedural to… period plunderer? Arriving on Disney+ at some point in the spring, this one is set to star Louisa Harling as the titular Nell Jackson, a real-life historical figure who became a fearsome highway(wo)man after she was framed for murder. Bo Bragason and Florence Keen star as Nell's sisters, with Joely Richardson, Ted Lasso's Nick Mohammed and Trigger Point's Adrian Lester.
House of the Dragon (season 2)
Release date: Summer
Perhaps the most welcome surprise of 2022 was a return to form for Game of Thrones apropos of Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy and Paddy Considine's delightful scenery-chewing, the latter putting in the single-most underappreciated TV shift of the year as the waning King Viserys. (That final monologue! Chalk it up as one of the greatest Emmy snubs of all time.) Whether they can keep it up for a second, Considine-less season is an open question, but all signs point to continued dominance on the fantasy front.
The Penguin
Release date: Autumn
Colin Farrell is packing himself back into the prosthetics to reinhabit his role as Gotham's greatest crime lord from 2022's The Batman. Landing on HBO's Max, the series will explore Oswald Cobblepot's rise to the echelons of the city's criminal underworld and consist of eight episodes. Not much is known about the series yet, but that's the shadowy, tight-lipped world of organized crime for you.
Originally slated for an early 2024 release, The Penguin was pushed back by the actors' strikes that put Hollywood on ice for six months last year. A preview of Max's slate in November suggested that we'll now see The Penguin by autumn, but let's see how that bears out.
The Acolyte
Release date: At some point in 2024
You might need your own separate Rolodex for the number of Star Wars shows to keep tabs on. Acolyte, set in the High Republic era before the events of the main Star Wars films, will hit our screens next year. Part crime procedural, part space quest, the series will track the emerging dark powers of the galaxy, playing ominously on our understanding of what's to come. The Good Place's Manny Jacinto, Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae, and Amandla Sternberg star.
The good news for Star Wars heads: while a specific release date remains forthcoming, Disney+ has confirmed that we'll encounter The Acolyte in 2024, somewhen.
2024 release to be confirmed:
The Sympathizer
Release date: TBA
If there's one thing that Marvel's aughts culture takeover taught us it's that, if you have Robert Downey Jr, you better make the most of him. In The Sympathizer, he plays a master of disguise, inhabiting a host of different characters representing the broader notion of The Man in this story about a Viet Cong spy infiltrating the South Vietnamese community in 1970s LA. Directed by legendary South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, the series has been described as part thriller and part satire.
The Night Manager (season 2)
Release date: TBA
The world fell to its knees when the first season of The Night Manager hit our screens in 2016, introducing us to Tom Hiddleston's former military officer Jonathan Pine. Based on the John le Carré novel, it was a slick and sexy spy offering—but one we thought we'd seen the last of in the '10s. However, it was announced this year that not only will The Night Manager be back, but Hiddleston will be returning too. There's no word yet on where this espionage caper will take us (and no word yet on when). Shooting was due to begin late last year, which could give us a 2024 release—if not early 2025.
Squid Game (season 2)
Release date: TBA
The biggest show that Netflix ever released is, of course, getting a second series. How couldn't it? It's a good thing the first series, about a deadly game inflicted on the most debt-ridden people in society, ended on a cliffhanger. After taking home the massive winnings, Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) has his sights set on the game masters who want nothing more than for him to keep quiet so they can keep playing their evil games. Season 2 looks set to crack the whole thing wide open, but we still have to wait some time before a release date is delivered (hopefully not through ominous playground speakers).
Wednesday (season 2)
Release: TBA
The moodiest girl in the world will be back for round two. Wednesday's first season broke Stranger Things season 4's viewing records at lightning speed, so it's only natural the Addams Family spin-off will be back for more. Jenna Ortega's take on the sullen sibling finds her at Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for outcasts. After fending off a literal beast in season 1, there are plenty more monstrous and familial battles in store for round two.
You (season 5)
Release: TBA
Hello, you, again (and again and again and again). You just can't get rid of Joe Goldberg—stalkers are like that, after all. Coming back with one final season, season five of You, the series about a stalker slash hopeless romantic slash murderer slash book enthusiast, will land is back where it all started in New York City. Joe (Penn Badgely) is happily settled down with Kate, who knows (most of) his dirty little secrets, but homecomings always entail a few reunions. According to Netflix, a familiar face is back to haunt Joe, and with the mammoth list of victims left in his wake, the identity of the avenger is anyone's guess. Goodbye, you.
The show was originally slated to drop in 2024, but the writers' and actors' strikes may see it pushed back to 2025. Only time will tell.
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