10. “Lanterns”
A grounded, detective-leaning swing inside the DCU, “Lanterns” follows Green Lantern veterans Hal Jordan and John Stewart as they investigate a murder on Earth. This ominous case begins locally and expands into something far more cosmic. The series was created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, with Mundy serving as showrunner, aiming for a prestige “buddy-cop” texture inside superhero mythology. Kyle Chandler plays Jordan as a legendary Corps member nearing retirement, while Aaron Pierre is Stewart, the new recruit being trained to replace him. Kelly Macdonald co-stars as a small-town sheriff, and Nathan Fillion appears as Guy Gardner. HBO has said the season will run eight episodes and is positioned as part of the DCU’s Chapter One: Gods and Monsters
Premiere Date: Mid-to-late summer 2026 on HBO / HBO Max.
9. “Carrie”
Master of modern horror Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass”) writes, executive-produces, and serves as showrunner on this limited-series reimagining of Stephen King’s debut novel. Summer H. Howell stars as Carrie White, the bullied teen whose emerging telekinesis collides with cruelty, shame, and small-town repression. Samantha Sloyan co-stars as Margaret White, Carrie’s fanatically religious mother, anchoring the story’s most suffocating relationship. The cast also includes Alison Thornton, Matthew Lillard, Kate Siegel, Amber Midthunder, and Thalia Dudek, rounding out the classmates and adults who help turn humiliation into catastrophe.
Premiere Date: TBD on Prime Video.
8. “The Bear” (Season 5)
FX’s kitchen-pressure juggernaut pushes forward with its core ensemble intact, led by Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto, Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richie Jerimovich. The returning cast also includes Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Matty Matheson, and Corey Hendrix, with the show continuing to blur the line between workplace comedy and an emotional endurance test. The series is created and showrun by Christopher Storer, whose precise, character-first approach has turned escalating stress into a signature formal device. Following the restaurant’s fragile transition into fine dining, Season 5 is expected to track the long-term cost of ambition—on friendships, mental health, and the idea of “success” itself—without abandoning the ensemble’s sharp comic rhythm. FX has confirmed the show’s continuation beyond Season 4, underscoring its status as one of the network’s defining series.
Premiere Date: TBD on FX / Hulu.
7. “Spider-Noir”
For years, Amazon has been trying to establish an entire “Spider-Man” live-action universe, to no avail, despite numerous attempts. But suddenly, Spider-Man Noir, the character made famous by Nicolas Cage in the animated hit “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse,” kicked into motion exceptionally quickly in 2024. Developed by Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, Cage reprises his Noir character in a story about an aging, down-and-out private investigator grappling with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero in 1930s New York. Brendan Gleeson, Lamorne Morris, Jack Huston, and Li Jun Li co-star.
Premiere Date: TBD via MGM+ for Amazon Studios.
6. “Euphoria” (Season 3)
A significant time jump pushes “Euphoria” out of the high school hallways and into adulthood, where the consequences don’t end when the bell rings—they compound. Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, and Jacob Elordi remain the anchor points, but the big headline is an unusually stacked wave of new faces: Natasha Lyonne, Danielle Deadwyler, singer Rosalía, Sharon Stone, Trisha Paytas, Eli Roth, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Toby Wallace, Sam Trammell, Gideon Adlon, and Marshawn Lynch. Creator and showrunner Sam Levinson utilizes the expanded ensemble to broaden the show’s ecosystem beyond teen melodrama into something closer to an adult sprawl—new pressures, new predators, and new forms of self-medication. And with so many of the series’ core actors now bona fide movie stars, Season 3 feels less like a routine continuation than a late-stage statement: the kind of return that plays like an event, and—if the scheduling realities are any indication—almost certainly the end of the road.
Premiere Date: 2026 on HBO.
5. “Industry” (Season 4)
Created by former bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, “Industry” returns with Pierpoint in flux and its players scrambling for leverage as the market—and their own appetites—shift again. Myha’la (Harper), Marisa Abela (Yasmin), Ken Leung (Eric), and Sagar Radia (Rishi) remain the show’s acidic core, with Season 3 addition Kit Harington expected to stay in the mix after Sir Henry Muck’s disruptive run. Season 4 also widens the board with a notable influx of new cast: Max Minghella, Kiernan Shipka, Toheeb Jimoh, Amy James-Kelly, Kal Penn, Charlie Heaton, and Claire Forlani, suggesting fresh power centers beyond Pierpoint’s familiar corridors. Same thesis, sharper knives: money is abstract, but humiliation is always personal.
Premiere Date: January 11, on HBO (U.S.) / BBC (U.K.).
4. “Blade Runner 2099”
Every piece of film intellectual property demands its own TV spin-off, right? The latest is Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner,” and yes, as its title suggests, it is set after the events of “Blade Runner 2049.” In a limited series created by “Shining Girls” creator Silka Luisa for Amazon Prime Video, Michelle Yeoh stars as a Blade Runner facing the end of her life. Hunter Schafer, Tom Burke, Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, and more co-star.
Premiere Date: TBD via Prime Video. Filming wrapped in December 2024, so the announcement should be forthcoming soon.
3. “Margo’s Got Money Troubles”
A24 and Apple TV+ team for a bold, heartwarming comedy-drama adaptation of Rufi Thorpe’s bestselling novel, with Elle Fanning starring and executive producing as Margo, a college dropout and aspiring writer, suddenly juggling a newborn, crushing bills, and a shrinking list of options. The stacked cast includes Michelle Pfeiffer as her mother, an ex-Hooters waitress, and Nick Offerman as her father, an ex-pro wrestler, alongside Thaddea Graham, executive producer Nicole Kidman, Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Kinnear, Michael Angarano, Rico Nasty, and Lindsey Normington. The eight-episode series is written and showrun by multi–Emmy winner David E. Kelley, with Dearbhla Walsh directing the pilot (and executive producing) and additional directors Kate Herron and Alice Seabright.
Premiere Date: April 15, on Apple TV+.
2. “East Of Eden”
Does it get more prestige and anticipated than this? Zoe Kazan (“The Plot Against America,” “The Deuce”) writes and exec produces a seven-episode limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s “East Of Eden.” The cast, which includes Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, and Ciarán Hinds, is terrific and also features Hoon Lee, Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, and more. The director’s list is excellent, too, including Garth Davis (“Lion,” “Top Of The Lake”), helming the bulk of the series along with Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (“The Mustang”).
Airdate: TBD via Netflix.
1. “Beef” (Season 2)
After dazzling critics, audiences, and Emmy voters with season one, “Beef” turns into an anthology series about airing your grievances. And holy hell, they have a fantastic cast. Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, Yuh-Jung Youn, andSong Kang-ho (“Parasite”) will all be part of the ensemble that battles it out in A24’s round two. ShowrunnerLee Sung Jin returns, and the incident in part two revolves around a young couple who witness an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering a series of chess moves involving favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner.
Premiere Date: TBD via Netflix, with an expected release around spring.
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