There are just too many TV series that are ongoing, and yet we still get hundreds more every year. New titles, new seasons in anthology shows, new stars, new writers, new directors; it's impossible to keep up with all of the noise!
But fear not, as we've collected the most likely shows to dominate your television sets (and maybe tablets or phones) in 2024, from the biggest hits to the most likely awards contenders.
'True Detective: Night Country' — January 12
HBO had a breakout hit on their hands with the first season of "True Detective." And then they made a second season and nobody liked it. But the third season was a return to form, so let's hope that trend continues with Jodie Foster leading this ice-cold mystery of a story.
'Monsieur Spade' - January 14
Clive Owen plays Sam Spade, the most famous detective in the world. AMC knows how to make a great show, and this seems to fit the bill of something that will at least be watchable, if not super addicting. Spade gets called back into action after six nuns are murdered, and things all lead back to a mysterious child.
'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' — February 2
Did we need another version of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" with different actors? No. But does it help that Donald Glover is in it? Immensely. This show almost had Phoebe Waller-Bridge as one of its stars, which would have vaulted the show into a stratosphere only the heights that "Fleabag" could reach, but we'll settle for a thrilling action romance series from the mind behind "Atlanta."
First poster for the ‘MR & MRS SMITH’ remake, starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine.
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 6, 2023
Trailer releases tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/zfnYz6bYNa
'Fallout' — April 12
Amazon Prime has a hell of a line-up set for '24 (as you will see below). The long-running Fallout franchise has been gestating in development hell for far too long. That is, until Jonathan Nolan and the team behind HBO's "Westworld" got the rights. If you need to catch up to speed with the property, the premise and expectations then here's a handy explainer of what's going on behind this one.
'The Boys' Season 4 — TBA
Secretly the best show on TV has been the comic book adaptation of "The Boys." Maybe the best work of art to tackle the Trump era of American politics and culture, it's extremely violent, ludicrous and audacious. Anthony Starr's turn as Homelander is beyond a meme, it's a star-making performance (pun intended).
'The Regime' — TBA
Kate Winslet only picks elite TV projects to be a part of. She won every award under the sun for HBO's "Mare of Easttown," and is set to repeat that again as Madame Chancellor on "The Regime," starring alongside Hugh Grant and Matthias Schoenaerts in a politcal satire about a crumbling autocratic entity.
'The Sympathizer' — TBA
Park Chan-wook is a devious, demented and imaginative filmmaker. His works are dark, brooding, twisty and oftentimes violent. But you cannot help look away from his works, and his upcoming HBO series is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It stars Sandra Oh and Robert Downey Jr. so this was an easy entry on the list, just based on the trailer alone.
The Star Wars shows: 'The Mandalorian,' 'Andor,' 'Ahsoka,' 'The Acolyte' and 'Skeleton Crew'
You know what has been better than the recent Star Wars movies? The recent Star Wars TV shows, and now we might get up to four of them in one year! The odds of this are low, but never tell us the odds when it comes to being hyped about "Andor" and Jude Law going to outer space.
Super hero hype: 'Daredevil: Born Again,' 'The Penguin' and 'Agatha: Darkhold Diaries'
These shows are all getting clumped together mostly because we don't have release dates, we don't have trailers and we don't have solid guarantees that any of them are coming out in 2024. But on paper, each of these has a compelling lead — Colin Farrell, Charlie Cox and Kathryn Hahn — and an interesting take on each of the their characters.
New pics!
— Colin Farrell Updates💚🤍🧡 (@CFarrellUpdates) December 6, 2023
Colin Farrell gets back in character as the Penguin for the upcoming Max (HBO Max) series
December 5, 2023#ColinFarrell #ThePenguin#TheBatman pic.twitter.com/ya98D56Fjd
And finally, some returning shows to watch out for: "Abbott Elementary" season 3, "Squid Game" season 2, "Stranger Things" season 5, "Severance" season 2, "Poker Face" season 2, "House of the Dragon" season 2, "The Rings of Power" season 2 and "Tokyo Vice" season 2.
2024 Oscars Shifts to Earlier Live Time Slot Before ‘Abbott Elementary’
— Candice Frederick (@ReelTalker) December 1, 2023
(Some good news)https://t.co/7m7LuI7bsz
If you enjoyed this list, we also listed our most anticipated films of 2024.
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