Best New TV Shows of 2025: Must-See Series & Documentaries

As we step into 2025, the small display screen is gearing up for a giant 12 months. With an thrilling lineup of brand-new reveals, gripping documentaries and extremely anticipated new seasons of fan favourites, there’s by no means been a greater time to improve your watchlist.

Whether or not you’re craving edge-of-your-seat drama, binge-worthy comedies, or a deep dive into the subsequent viral docuseries, this 12 months’s releases have you ever coated.

Right here’s your final information to one of the best new TV reveals hitting screens in 2025.

Jerry Springer: Fights, digicam, motion

7 January, Netflix

Straight into the 12 months with a basic Netflix documentary charting a revolutionary however finally questionable determine or TV phenomenon (see: 2024’s Mr McMahon).

This two-part sequence tells the story of The Jerry Springer Present’s beginnings and meteoric rise, in addition to, presumably, the inevitable darkness and Pandora’s field of cultural ramifications.

Severance Sequence 2

17 January, Apple TV+

It’s obtained to be mentioned, Apple TV+ is beginning the 12 months extraordinarily robust with a bunch of latest and continued reveals. When you didn’t see the primary sequence of Severance, make it a precedence to catch up.

The dystopian black comedy drama completed on a large cliffhanger, so we’re gagging to renew. Dystopia apart, the present’s potential to poke enjoyable on the banality of workplace life is second to none.

The White Lotus Sequence 3

16 February, Sky Atlantic

Farewell Jennifer Coolidge, you’ll be sorely missed. Sequence 3 of The White Lotus will test right into a luxurious resort in Thailand and have Aimee Lou Wooden, Walton Goggins and Jason Isaacs, amongst others.

Anticipate the standard sun-soaked chaos with the trademark nod to the native cultural setting. Sequence 2 will likely be a tough act to beat.

Zero Day

20 February, Netflix

The one and solely Robert De Niro makes his huge stream debut (assuming you didn’t watch Argentine drama, Nada) with a Netflix political cyber hacking conspiracy drama.

De Niro performs a former president tasked with discovering the perpetrators of a devastating cyber assault. Angela Bassett, Dan Stevens, Jesse Plemons, Gaby Hoffmann and Lizzy Caplan make up a blockbuster solid.

A Thousand Blows

21 February, Disney+

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight returns with one other interval piece, this time an unlawful boxing drama set in Victorian East London starring a jacked Stephen Graham (every part) and Malachi Kirby (Small Axe).

The 2 face off out and in of the ring as Malachi’s Hezekiah Moscow, recent to East London from Jamaica, befriends an all-female shoplifting gang.

Sequence two has already been filmed, one thing to maintain you heat while you await the Peaky movie.

Fits: LA

TBD

Dropping within the US in February, with the UK launch date and streamer TBD, cult authorized drama Fits is swapping East for West Coast, with a brand new Los Angeles spin-off.

4 lead characters (Stephen Amell, Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis and Bryan Greenberg) will exchange the unique’s emphasis on two, with the notorious Harvey Spector predicted to be a recurring character.

If it’s something like the unique, it’s more likely to turn into an especially bingeable watch, albeit with extra solar.

Dope Thief

14 March, Apple TV+

One other Apple TV+ banger. Based mostly on Dennis Tafoya’s novel of the identical title, Dope Thief tells the story of childhood associates from juve, Ray and Manny, and their formidable plans to rob medicine with pretend badges and thrift retailer Drug Enforcement Company windbreakers.

The e book is nice; hopefully, Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura will do it justice.

The Studio

26 March, Apple TV+

If the solid, trailer (Seth Rogan getting shouted at by a myriad of well-known cameos, notably Scorsese) and premise of The Studio are something to go by, we ought to be in for a deal with right here.

Rogan stars as a studio head who fears the demise of his business (very meta) amid the push to presumably make huge cash dross. Catherine O’Hara, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz and Chase Sui Wonders additionally star.

Your Associates & Neighbours

11 April

John Hamm in a tux, to not be confused with the Ben Stiller movie from the early 2000s. After being fired in shame, hedge fund supervisor Hamm chooses a lifetime of crime, stealing from his prosperous neighbours to assist his luxurious way of life.

As soon as he begins, nonetheless, he quickly realises that these residing round him aren’t what they appear.

The Loss of life of Bunny Munro

TBD, Sky

Nick Cave’s second novel, The Loss of life of Bunny Munro, a couple of road-tripping father-and-son duo roaming round Brighton, is getting an intriguing TV adaptation.

Matt Smith performs a sex-addicted, self-confessed lothario who sells magnificence merchandise door to door. When his spouse commits suicide, he’s saddled together with his younger son, and the 2 embark on a visit throughout Southern England attempting to course of their grief.

The Final of Us Sequence 2

TBD, Sky Atlantic

The Final of Us took the online game to huge display screen transfer critically, offering sufficient Easter eggs and winks for the players whereas telling a narrative as if it’d been written with out the necessity for buttons and controllers.

Sequence 2 of the Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey-starring post-apocalyptic drama is ready to be emotional, intense and true to many scenes from the sport.

This Metropolis is Ours

TBD, BBC

We’re at all times out there for a gritty British Sean Bean drama smacking of the scent of Jimmy McGovern’s writing, and we expect that the Liverpool-set This Metropolis Is Ours would be the 12 months’s closest.

Filmed in Liverpool and Spain, the crime drama will inform the story of a person who has spent his grownup life in organised crime, trying to find a brand new life after his boss hints at retirement.