The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (2024)

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January


Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale: Season 1 (AMC+/Sundance Now)
Starring: Elaine Cassidy, Hazel Doupe, Amy de Bhrun
Premiere Date: January 4, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (1) 84% The Brothers Sun: Season 1 (2024) (Netflix)
Starring: Justin Chien, Michelle Yeoh, Sam Li, Highdee Kuan, Joon Lee
Premiere Date: January 4, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (2) 100% All Creatures Great and Small: Season 4 (2023) (PBS)
Starring: Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Anna Madeley, Callum Woodhouse, Rachel Shenton
Premiere Date: January 7, 2024

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.

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Gemma Arterton stars in Funny Woman on PBS. (Photo by © Potboiler Productions; © Sky UK Limited.)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (4) 73% Funny Woman: Season 1 (2022) (PBS)
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Rupert Everett, David Threlfall, Tom Bateman, Clare-Hope Ash*tey
Premiere Date: January 7, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (5) 73% Ted: Season 1 (2024) (Peaco*ck)
Starring: Seth MacFarlane, Max Burkholder, Alanna Ubach, Scott Grimes, Giorgia Whigham
Premiere Date: January 11, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (6) 89% Criminal Record: Season 1 (2024) (Apple TV+)
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Cush Jumbo, Charlie Creed-Miles, Dionne Brown, Shaun Dooley
Premiere Date: January 12, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (7) 83% The Traitors: Season 2 (2024) (Peaco*ck)
Starring: Alan Cumming
Premiere Date: January 12, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (8) 77% Monsieur Spade: Season 1 (2024) (AMC/AMC+/Acorn TV)
Starring: Clive Owen, Cara Bossom, Denis Ménochet, Louise Bourgoin, Chiara Mastroianni
Premiere Date: January 14, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (9) 92% True Detective: Night Country (2024) (HBO)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kali Reis
Premiere Date: January 14, 2024

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.

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Violett Beane as Imogene Scott in Hulu’s Death and Other Details. (Photo by Hulu)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (11) 55% Death and Other Details: Season 1 (2024) (Hulu)
Starring: Violett Beane, Mandy Patinkin, Lauren Patten, Rahul Kohli, Angela Zhou
Premiere Date: January 16, 2024

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.

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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+.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (13) 79% Hazbin Hotel (Prime Video)
Starring: Erika Henningsen, Stephanie Beatriz, Blake Roman, Amir Talai, Keith David, Alex Brightman, Kimiko Glenn, Joel Perez, Christian Borle
Premiere Date: January 19, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (14) 76% The Woman in the Wall: Season 1 (2023) (Showtime)
Starring: Ruth Wilson, Daryl McCormack, Simon Delaney, Philippa Dunne, Mark Huberman
Premiere Date: January 19, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (15) 87% Griselda: Season 1 (2024) (Netflix)
Starring: Sofía Vergara, Alberto Guerra, Christian Tappán, Martín Rodríguez, Juliana Aiden Martinez
Premiere Date: January 25, 2024

Sofía Vergara stars as Griselda Blanco, the ruthless Colombian businesswomen who created one of the most profitable cartels in history.

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In the Know: Season 1 (Peaco*ck)
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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (17) 85% Masters of the Air: Limited Series (2024) (Apple TV+)
Starring: Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Nate Mann
Premiere Date: January 26, 2024

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.

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Brian Tee as Clarke and Nicole Kidman as Margaret in Prime Video’s Expats.

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (19) 84% Expats: Limited Series (2024) (Prime Video)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Brian Tee, Sarayu Blue, Jack Huston, Ji-young Yoo
Premiere Date: January 26, 2024

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.

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FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans premieres Jan. 31 on FX. (Photo by Courtesy of FX)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (21) 77% Feud: Capote vs. The Swans: Capote vs. The Swans (2024) (FX)
Starring: Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Tom Hollander, Treat Williams
Premiere Date: January 31, 2024

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).


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (22) 71% Echo: Season 1 (2024) (Disney+)
Starring: Alaqua Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Cody Lightning, Charlie Cox, Devery Jacobs, Zahn McClarnon
Premiere Date: January 10, 2024

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.

February


Genius: MLK/X (Nat Geo)
Starring: Kelvin Harrison Jr.; Aaron Pierre
Premiere Date: February 1, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (23) 90% (2024) (Prime Video)
Starring: Donald Glover, Maya Erskine
Premiere Date: February 2, 2024

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.

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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.”

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The cast of Abbott Elementary. (Photo by ABC)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (26) 100% Abbott Elementary: Season 3 (2024) (ABC)
Starring: Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter
Premiere Date: February 7, 2024

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.

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(Photo by Ludovic Robert/Netflix)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (28) 91% One Day: Limited Series (2024) (Netflix)
Starring: Leo Woodall, Ambika Mod, Amber Grappy, Tim McInnerny, Jonny Weldon
Premiere Date: February 8, 2024

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.

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Justin Hartley stars in Tracker on CBS. (Photo by CBS)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (30) 88% Tracker: Season 1 (2024) (CBS)
Starring: Justin Hartley, Fiona Rene, Robin Weigert, Abby McEnany, Eric Graise
Premiere Date: February 11, 2024

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.

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Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior in Apple TV+’s The New Look. (Photo by Apple TV+)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (32) 58% The New Look: Season 1 (2024) (Apple TV+)
Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, Maisie Williams, John Malkovich, Emily Mortimer
Premiere Date: February 14, 2024

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.

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The American remake of Ghosts premieres its third season on February 15 on CBS. (Photo by CBS)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (34) 100% Ghosts: Season 3 (2024) (CBS)
Starring: Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones, Danielle Pinnock, Richie Moriarty, Asher Grodman, Sheila Carrasco, Devan Chandler Long, Rebecca Wisocky and Román Zaragoza
Premiere Date: February 15, 2024

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.

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The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (36) 71% Constellation: Season 1 (2024) (Apple TV+)
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Jonathan Banks
Premiere Date: February 21, 2024

Noomi Rapace plays a woman who returns to Earth upon a disaster during her mission and finds parts of her life seemingly missing.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (37) 60% Avatar: The Last Airbender: Season 1 (2024) (Netflix)
Starring: Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, Dallas Liu, Paul Sun-hyung Lee
Premiere Date: February 22, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (38) 87% The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Season 1 (2024) (AMC)
Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Pollyanna McIntosh
Premiere Date: February 25, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (39) 99% Shōgun: Limited Series (2024) (FX/Hulu)
Starring: Cosmo Jarvis, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai
Premiere Date: February 27, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (40) 94% Elsbeth: Season 1 (2024) (CBS)
Starring: Carrie Preston, Wendell Pierce
Premiere Date: February 29, 2024

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.

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Ken Watanabe in the second season of Max’s Tokyo Vice. (Photo by Max)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (42) 93% Tokyo Vice: Season 2 (2024) (Max)
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe
Premiere Date: February 2024

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).

March


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (43) - - BMF: Season 3 (2024) (Starz)
Starring: Demetrius Flenory Jr., Da’Vinchi, Michole Briana White
Premiere Date: March 1, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (44) 52% The Regime: Limited Series (2024) (HBO)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Matthias Schoenaerts, Hugh Grant, Martha Plimpton
Premiere Date: March 3, 2024

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.

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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)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (46) 100% Girls5eva: Season 3 (2024) (Netflix)
Starring: Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell, Busy Philipps
Premiere Date: March 14, 2024

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 Peaco*ck 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.

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Hamish Linklater as Abraham Lincoln in Apple TV+’s Manhunt. (Photo by Apple TV+)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (48) 88% Manhunt: Limited Series (2024) (Apple TV+)
Starring: Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle, Lovie Simone, Will Harrison, Brandon Flynn, Patton Oswalt, Matt Walsh, Hamish Linklater
Premiere Date: March 15, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (49) 100% Nolly: Miniseries (2023) (PBS)
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter
Premiere Date: March 17, 2024

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.

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Kristen Wiig in Palm Royale on Apple TV+. (Photo by Apple TV+)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (51) 55% Palm Royale: Season 1 (2024) (Apple TV+)
Starring: Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Ricky Martin, Amber Chardae Robinson, Carol Burnett
Premiere Date: March 20, 2024

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?


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (52) 79% 3 Body Problem: Season 1 (2024) (Netflix)
Starring: Jess Hong, Jovan Adepo, Sea Shimooka, Benedict Wong
Premiere Date: March 21, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (53) 33% Parish: Season 1 (2024) (AMC/AMC+)
Starring: Giancarlo Esposito, Zachary Momoh, Paula Malcomson
Premiere Date: 2024

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.

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Sam Neill as Stan and Annette Bening as Joy in Peaco*ck’s Apples Never Fall. (Photo by Jasin Boland / Peaco*ck)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (55) 46% Apples Never Fall: Limited Series (2024) (Peaco*ck)
Starring: Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Alison Brie, Jake Lacy, Conor Merrigan-Turner, Essie Randles
Premiere Date: March 2024

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.

April

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The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (57) - - A Brief History of the Future: Limited Series (2024) (PBS)
Starring: Ari Wallach
Premiere Date: April 3, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (58) 85% Ripley: Limited Series (2024) (Netflix)
Starring: Andrew Scott
Premiere Date: April 4, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (59) 93% Fallout: Season 1 (2024) (Prime Video)
Starring: Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins
Premiere Date: April 12, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (61) 90% The Sympathizer: Limited Series (2024) (HBO)
Starring: Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan, Robert Downey Jr.
Premiere Date: April 14, 2024

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).

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (62) 42% The Spiderwick Chronicles: Season 1 (2024) (The Roku Channel)
Starring: Christian Slater, Lyon Daniels, Noah Cottrell, Joy Bryant
Premiere Date: April 19, 2024

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.

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (63) 88% The Jinx: Part Two: Part Two (2024) (HBO)
Starring: TBD
Premiere Date: April 21, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (64) 75% Knuckles: Limited Series (2024) (Paramount+)
Starring: Idris Elba, Adam Pally
Premiere Date: April 26, 2024

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.

May


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (65) 97% Hacks: Season 3 (2024) (Max)
Starring: Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder
Premiere Date: May 2,2024

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?


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (66) 76% The Tattooist of Auschwitz: Limited Series (2024) (Peaco*ck)

Starring: Harvey Keitel, Melanie Lynskey, Jonah Hauer-King and Anna Próchniak
Premiere Date: May 2, 2024

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.


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (67) 98% Interview With the Vampire: Season 2 (2024) (Max)
Starring: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Delainey Hayles
Premiere Date: May 12, 2024

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).


The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (68) 85% Bridgerton: Season 3 (2024) (Netflix)
Starring:
Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton, Claudia Jessie
Premiere Date: May 16, 2024 (Part 1); June 13, 2024 (Part 2)

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.

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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 / Peaco*ck)

The Most Anticipated TV and Streaming Shows of 2024: New and Returning Shows We Can’t Wait to See (70) 94% We Are Lady Parts: Season 2 (2024) (Peaco*ck)
Starring: Anjana Vasan, Sarah Kameela Impey, Juliette Motamed, Faith Omole, Lucie Shorthouse
Premiere Date: May 30, 2024

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.”

June – December

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