There is a lot to immerse yourself for the next 12 months, whether Irish comedies, bushy satires about wealth, series on real or dosel documentary crimes. Ellie Harrison and Katie Rosseinsky take a look
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Start planning your viewing schedule now, because the year 2025 promises to bring us many brilliant and engaging television shows.
Colin Firth will return to our screens in Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, a moving drama about the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom. There are also many other exhibits based on real-life stories, with Jack Thorne exploring the Corby poisonings in Toxic Town and James Graham delving into a relationship between Margaret Thatcher and interviewer Brian Walden in Brian and Maggie.
A clutch of streaming heavy hitters are returning for new seasons: it’s very nearly time to check back into The White Lotus (which will be set at a luxury resort in Thailand this time around) and buckle up for another batch of existential dread-inducing Black Mirror episodes. And the much-anticipated (and much-delayed…) Stranger Things finale isn’t too far off, either.
If you prefer slightly lighter fare, look out for the much-anticipated comedy from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee and a brand new millennial romcom from Lena Dunham. Oh, and if you’re in the market for a bonkers-sounding reality concept, Bear Grylls is chasing down famous faces in the jungle in a Netflix competition series.
These are the systems that we hope to continue in the next year.
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Atlantic sky, January 2
A few days before Christmas in 1988, a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 259 passengers and crew members, as well as 11 people on the ground below. Now, 36 years on, Colin Firth is leading a drama about the worst terrorist attack in UK history. He plays Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter dies in the tragedy and who becomes the spokesperson for the families of victims, embarking on a controversial, decades-long campaign for truth and justice. The journey takes him to the deserts of Libya to meet Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and to the Netherlands for the trial of convicted Libyan national, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. Ellie Harrison
Jerry Springer: fights, camera, action
Netflix, 7 January
Over 27 seasons of The Jerry Springer Show, chairs were thrown, secret brothers were discovered and . . . well . . . a man claimed to be in love with a horse (that episode has been prohibited since then). This new two -part documentary draws the stratospheric and darker depths of the screen, with first -hand stories and internal revelations of the sunlight that communicate. There is just over a year after the death of its presenter, Springer, who embraced his reputation as “garbage television” and proudly defined “presenter of communication programs, master of ceremonies of past civilization. ” Hey
Molly-Mae: Behind It All
Prime video, January 17
It was the break-up that launched thousands of impassioned WhatsApp chats. When Love Island golden girl Molly-Mae Hague revealed that she had split from her fiancé Tommy Fury after five years together, the news left their fans alternately mourning and speculating over what might have caused the rift. Now, the 25-year-old is going it alone, and this Prime Video documentary will be taking us behind the scenes as she balances a professional high point (the launch of her fashion label Maebe) with a tricky moment in her personal life. The six-part series will surely only increase the collective fascination with the reigning queen of UK influencers. Katie Rosseinsky
Dry Season 2
Apple TV+, January 17
Expectations for the second run of this strange, inventive workplace thriller, where employees at a shady company “sever” their work selves from their real selves, could not be higher. The first season ended back in April 2022 with one of the most astonishing and nail-biting finales in recent television history. (The show has reportedly been delayed due to an alleged “falling out” between co-showrunners Dan Erickson and Martin Friedman.) The events of that last episode are too complex and mind-bending to go into within this 100-word paragraph, but we can’t wait to see what fresh hell the creators dream up next for Adam Scott’s grieving staffer Mark and his Lumon colleagues. EH
Prime Target
Apple TV, January 22
Leo Woodall is one of the top actors in demand, with his star incredibly temporarily emerging from his cheeky role as chappie in the white lotus to his soulful functionality as Dexter Mayhew in a day, which cemented his prestige at heart. Now, before he looks like a love interest named Roxster (!) In Bridget Jones’ new film, she leads the cast of Prime Target. In the conspiracy thriller, he plays a brilliant young math graduate, Edward Brooks, who is on the verge of a major breakthrough. Hey
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Paradise
Disney, January 28
The reliably compelling Sterling K Brown has teamed up once more with This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman, but the pair’s next TV project couldn’t be further from that wonderfully weepy family saga. In Paradise, Brown plays a security officer to a former president (James Marsden). When it’s discovered that he was the last person to see the ex-Potus alive, he becomes a suspect in a murder case. Did the bodyguard bump off his boss? Or is the investigation a fix? KR
The White Lotus season 3
Sky Atlantic, February 2025
Each series of Mike White’s spiky wealth satire opens with a shot of a dead body in a glamorous, sun-drenched holiday destination. (Warning: spoilers for seasons one and two to follow!) First, it was the remains of Murray Bartlett’s hotel manager being flown out of Hawaii. Then, it was the corpse of Jennifer Coolidge’s billionaire Tanya McQuoid floating in the Ionian sea. This time, we’re on our jollies with a group of rich, vapid tourists in Thailand. But who will snuff it this time? Jason Isaacs, Aimee Lou Wood, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey and Walton Goggins are all part of the cast, meaning any of them could be going on a one-way trip to paradise. EH
Small town, history
Sky Max, February 2025
Written and directed by IT Crowd favourite Chris O’Dowd, Small Town, Big Story zooms in on the chaos that ensues when a big-budget Hollywood TV show comes to a tight-knit Irish community. Christina Hendricks appears as a local woman who found success as a TV producer in Los Angeles and returns to her rural village (we are looking forward to hearing the Mad Men star’s take on the Irish accent), and Paddy Considine plays a doctor who’s been hiding a secret for decades. EH
The Studio
Apple TV, March 26
Expect things to get more than a little meta in the studio’s next Seth Rogen comedy. Rogen plays a Hollywood executive who has just accepted his dream job as the head of a movie studio. But the company is scrambling, desperately seeking to remain viable (and stay afloat financially) in the streaming era. Schitt’s Catherine O’Hara and Agatha Kathryn Hahn are also on board, and a slew of film industry faces, including Martin Scorsese, Zac Efron and Charlize Theron, make cameos as. . . themselves. I hope other people call my agent! Expert-style fun. krot
Mlle austen
BBC One, early 2025
2025 marks 250 years since Jane Austen was born, so this adaptation of Gill Hornthrough’s best-selling novel is in perfect timing. After the death of her beloved younger sister, Cassandra Austen burned almost all of her correspondence. It’s a resolution that has lost many words from the author’s biographers and their legions of enthusiasts ever since, and one that Miss Austen is looking to fall apart. Keeley Hawes plays Cassandra, who goes to the home of her deceased fiancé’s niece (played by Rose Leslie) to locate a stash of letters that can tarnish Jane’s reputation. And if that’s not enough for Austen, the BBC will also bring Bennet’s other sister, a novel that imagines the studious Lives and Loves of Pride and Prejudice, overlooked by Mary Bennet, to the small screen. Krot
Celebrity Bear Hunting
Netflix, early 2025
Following his most recent role as Russell Brand’s Baptist assistant on the Thames, Bear Grylls ventures into darker lands for this new Netflix show, in which he tracks down celebrities in the jungles of Costa Rica. We have not yet revealed who precisely their prey is, but we have reviewed the programming and can see that there are well-known names who, we are sure, are not natural survivors and who will make for very entertaining television. Hey
A thousand blows
Disney, early 2025
The last generation drama of the author of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, has a great impact. Set in the most vulnerable part of the old Victorian London, he follows Hezekiah Moscow by Malachi Kirthrough, who has just reached the eastern end of the Western Indies. He is attracted to the capital’s boxing scene, where he knows the fearsome leader of a gang played by Erin Doherty and faces the infamous Goodon fighter, played by Stephen Graham, who temporarily becomes his fatal rival. Krot
Toxic Town
Netflix, early 2025
If a drama has the so-called Jack Thorne attached to it, it’s probably very clever and aims to make the global a more wonderful position in some way. The screenwriter has led a case involving the Treasury and National Care formula in aid, and now turns his attention to the genuine story of the Corby poisonings, one of the kingdom’s biggest environmental scandals, united. And it’s packed with wonderful British talent, from Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood to Rory Kinnear. Hey
Black rabbit
Netflix, 2025
Jude Law’s premise and Jason Bateman’s new Netflix drama have nuances of succession and the bear, which can only be a smart thing. Another of his chaotic brother’s tumultuous lifestyles (Bateman, sporting a very scruffy hairstyle). When he allows his brother back into his life, he directs the threat of destroying the reputation he worked so hard for. In Bateman, he directs two episodes, featuring Sope Dirisu’s gangs and London’s succession Dagmara Dominczyk (aka Karolina, Waystar Royco’s PR Manager) also protagonizan. Kr.
Brian and Maggie
Channel 4, 2025
Why is it a mendacity you bastard of mendacity to me? is the notably named e-book through Rob Burley on which this new TV series by Political James Graham is based. It stars Steve Coogan as interviewer Brian Walden and Harriet Walter as Margaret Thatcher, and dramatizes their assembly in 1989, a 45-minute confrontation that has become one of the highest political exchanges of all time and set off a chain of occasions that led to Thatcher’s death. renuncia. eh
Stranger Things season 5
Netflix, 2025
It is the maximum moment to say goodbye to the monstrous fate of Netflix. But before saying goodbye to our brave teenage heroes (well, most young actors now have twenty years old) and their fellow citizens in Hawkins, Stranger Things The fifth circular promises a series of almost cinematographic episodes. Maya Hawke, aka Robin, said that the last season would consist “mainly 8 films. ” Although the main points of the plot are rare at this time, we can actually expect a final confrontation between the gang and the bad neighbors, and we may discharge answers to certain persistent mysteries. Ah, and the Terminator star, Linda Hamilton, has an still unknown role. KR
Am I unreasonable? Season 2
BBC One, 2025
Daisy May Cooper’s comedy, the first to ever be named after a Mumsnet thread, was one of the best surprises of 2022, with the writer and actor showing she had much more to offer than the Bafta-winning This Country. As AIBU returns to the rolling hills of the West Country, Cooper’s Nic is forced to move into a caravan with her not-so-trustworthy best friend Jen (Selin Hizli). Wonderful chaos will certainly ensue. EH
Black Mirror season 7
Netflix, 2025
Charlie Brooker’s dystopian satire has an unsettling ability to predict the future, so you’d be forgiven for coming into Black Mirror season seven with caution. This time, Brooker has promised to take the exhibition back to basics, back to its SCI. -Se Roots, and one of the episodes will be a sort of sequel to USS Callister season 4, which followed a struggling game developer (Jesse Plemons). He presides over a Star Trek-style spaceship simulator. is on board: expect appearances from Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Tracee Ellis Ross, Paul Giamatti and Harriet Walter. krot
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
Netflix, 2025
Lisa McGee is back with her first new series since Derry Girls, her daring, smash-hit show about a group of schoolgirls living through the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Unsurprisingly, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast brings fans back to Ireland, but we’re introduced to a whole new set of protagonists in their thirties, who reunite after the death of an old classmate. When an eerie set of events take place at the wake, the women – played by homegrown talent Roísín Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan and Caoilfhionn Dunne – end up trying to solve a mystery that takes them on a wild, hilarious journey through the country. EH
Apple Cider Vinegar
Netflix, 2025
Based on a true story, this drama stars Kaitlyn Dever, last noticed on TV in the brilliant dopesick, as Belle Gibson, a wellness guru who tricked globals into thinking she had been cured of terminal brain cancer through healthy food. Through the 2017 eBook, The Woman Who Fooled the World, written through the first two in which they laid out the main points of Gibson’s deception.
Adolescence
Netflix, 2025
It turns out that starring in the stressful 2021 film Caldera has given Stephen Graham a taste for dramas in one fell swoop. He reunited with the film’s director, Philip Barantini, for Adolescent, a four-part series where the episode is filmed in one take without stopping. Graham plays the father of 13-year-old Jamie, accused of murdering a classmate. A disturbing story unfolds in real time, as the family and those close to them face questions of duty and blame. The Scouse star is supported by an impressive cast, including Top Boy’s Ashley Walters, Crown’s Erin Doherty, and Happy Valley’s Mark Stanley. Krot
The Undertow
Netflix, 2025
What could be simply bigger than a TV screen with Jamie Dornan? A television screen with two Jamie Dornans, of course. On bass, Dornan plays a pair of the same twins (think Parent Trap but much, much darker). Nicola, played through Mackenzie Davis, is unfortunately married to Adam (Dornan), but also has a romantic history with his brother Lee (also Dornan). When Lee has a chaotic back out of his life and a shocking twist of fate leaves Adam dead, the old flames check in to remove a horrible hoax. Can they convince the police that Lee was the one who died? It is based on the Nordic Noir series Twin, which in the past aired on the BBC and played by Kristofer from Game of Thrones. Krot
Too much
Netflix, 2025
Eight years after they finished their innovative examination of the millenary New Yorkers, Woguy designer, Lena Dunham, returns with some other story about a millenary New Yorker, but who leaves the Big Apple to start a new life in London. Jessica, played Through Megan Salter (spinning in hacks), he is a thirty -thirty work addict that moves through the pond after his quotes are broken. There, she, bureaucracy, a link with a British boy named Felix (the white lotus). Derta two of the most productive actors in the business, and is done through love manufacturers. What else can you ask for? Hey
The Last of Us season 2
Atlantic Sky, 2025
HBO’s gripping and grueling PlayStation game-based drama The Last of Us was one of the biggest TV hits of 2023, and it seemed to break the lingering curse of video game adaptation (whereby almost everyone tries to port a hit. The screen game finally ends as a massive flop). The component of the moment takes position five years after Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) and Joel’s (Pedro Pascal) Odyssey through post-apocalyptic America. The two are on the verge of locating peace in an agreement for the survivors, until a number from beyond threatens to re-surrender their hard-won stability. Kaitlyn Dever, Catherine O’Hara, and Jeffrey Wright (reprising their role as Isaac in the video game) sign up for the cast this time around. KR
Wednesday 2
Netflix, 2025
Jenna Ortega will rock Wednesday Addams’ ponytails and monochromatic costumes for the second season of Netflix’s atmospheric Addams Family spin-off. Plot details are scarce at this point, but the showrunners have promised that Wednesday’s return to Nevermore Academy will be “darker and more complex. “In addition, it seems that this time they have upped the ante with the supporting cast, with figures such as Joanna Lumley and Thandiwe Newton making special appearances. Oh, and Lady Gaga (whose song “Bloody Mary” went viral last year when enthusiasts used it as a soundtrack to Ortega’s dance scene) also makes an appearance. KR
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