Processed Media’s Most Anticipated New Shows of 2025 (So Far)

2025 TV Preview

Who’s ready for another year of TV? 2025 is shaping up to be another strange, transitional year for television, as we say farewell to the last of the first wave of streaming television hits: Stranger Things, Cobra Kai, and The Handmaid’s Tale are all scheduled to end in 2025 (and so is Outlander, which is somehow still airing new seasons???), and as expected, there’s a glut of new adaptations, sequels, reimaginings, and good ol’ new shows waiting to take their place. Here’s a handful of new shows I’m looking forward to checking out in 2025 (at least, that’s been announced to date):

Going Dutch

Going Dutch

Premiere: January 2, Fox
Episodes: ?
First Impressions review

2025 didn’t exactly get off to the hottest start with Going Dutch, a Denis Leary vehicle about an absent military father assigned to his daughter’s station at the “smallest military station in the world”. Though its combo of “fish out of water” and “father/daughter conflict” comedy is not the most exciting premise, knowing the series comes from Brockmire creator Joel Church-Cooper certainly piqued my interest in checking out this show, and will keep me watching for at least a few more episodes to see if it can iron out its many bumps.

Prime Target

Prime Target

Premieres: January 22, Apple TV+
Episodes: 8

Though Apple TV+ may be best known as the streaming service with a lot of Bill Lawrence shows, Apple TV’s commitment to airing weird dramas with science fiction and/or conspiracy elements is still alive and well in 2025 with Prime Target, a conspiracy thriller about a young mathematician (Leo Woodall) who gets caught up in a conspiracy around prime numbers and controlling every computer in the world. It’s really a golden opportunity, pairing a great cast (including Quintessa Swindell, David Morrissey, and Martha Plimpton) with an idea just silly and self-serious enough to draw me in for a few seasons if calibrated correctly.

Zero Day

Zero Day

Premieres: February 20, Netflix
Episodes: 6

“A new Netflix series from a Today Show producer and the showrunner of Narcos” might not sound like the most enticing proposition; but with perhaps the most high-profile cast of any show debuting in 2025 – including Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allan, Connie Britton, Matthew Modine, Angela Bassett… the list goes on and on – Zero Day‘s potential is obvious (did I mention the six-episode series is directed by Mad Men alum Lesli Linka Glatter?) to revitalize a political conspiracy genre that’s been a glut of mediocrity the past few years.

Daredevil

Daredevil: Born Again

Premieres: March 2, Disney+
Episodes: 9

Given how disappointing the Marvel machine’s output has been over the past few years, I’m almost surprised to see Daredevil: Born Again on my own list. However, the 2015 series (specifically, the incredibly well-crafted first half of season two) still sticks in my brain as one of the more exciting, intriguing action series of recent vintage, which gives me hope the new series will aim for something between that show’s dark tone (and over-reliance on faceless ninja soldiers as cannon fodder) and Marvel’s recent, clumsy attempts to integrate TV shows into its “phase” based storytelling. We’ll find out in March if the show’s creative overhaul in mid-production paid off – as I write that sentence, I suddenly feel pensive, but I’m holding out hope Foggy Nelson’s return to the small screen in 2025 lives up to the hype.

Deli Boys

Deli Boys

Premieres: March 6, Hulu
Episodes: 10

The latest project from Disney’s Onyx Collective brand (Reasonable Doubt, How to Die Alone, Unprisoned) is another “Oops, We’re Criminals” premise – Pakistani brothers down on their luck become entangled in their dead grandfather’s secret life of crime – is one I’ve been intrigued by since it was announced back in 2022. Though details on the series have been rather scarce, the series – created by former Vice reporter and High Maintenance writer Abdullah Saeed – obviously has a ton of potential in its cast (which includes Asif Ali, Kevin Corrigan, Alife Fuller Poorna Jagannathan, and even Seinfeld‘s Brian George), and has the kind of flexible premise that could be taken in any number of satisfying comedic and/or dramatic ways. We’ll find out in March!

Dope Thief

Dope Thief

Premieres: March 14, Apple TV+
Episodes: 8

Dope Thief, an adaptation of Dennis Tafoya’s 2009 novel, is perhaps the show I’m most excited for on this list. Created by Peter Craig (writer of The Town, The Batman, and Top Gun: Maverick) and produced by Ridley Scott (who will direct at least one episode), Dope Thief tells the story of a group of Philly friends – led by Atlanta‘s Brian Tyree Henry – who pose as DEA agents to rob a house, only to discover they’ve uncovered one of the largest narcotics corridors on the East Coast. Despite some early on-set drama (involving Michael Mando, who would eventually be replaced by Wagner Moura), Dope Thief – which was originally greenlit under the title Sinking Spring – is easily one of the strongest new shows of the spring… at least, on paper.

The Studio

Premieres: March 26, Apple TV+
Episodes: 10

It’s been a couple years since we heard of Apple TV+’s straight to order series for Seth Rogan’s untitled showbiz comedy. Now known as The Studio, Rogan and frequent collaborator Evan Goldberg’s new satirical comedy (co-crated with Frida Perez, Peter Huyck, and Alex Gregory) is one of 2025’s most high-profile new debuts – and couldn’t be more timely, telling the story of Rogen’s Matt Remick, head of a fictional movie studio trying to stay afloat in the Age of Content Enshittification. Though there’s obviously ample opportunity for this series to crawl incredibly far up its own ass, Rogen’s mostly solid track record gives me hope this series will be a properly eviscerating satire of current entertainment (which we almost had with Reboot… oh, we used to to dream).

Plus, if Kathryn Hahn is in the cast, you already know I’m watching it. What are you, new here?

Murderbot

Murderbot

Premieres: 2025 (hopefully?), Apple TV+
Episodes: ?

Murderbot was one of those book adaptations greenlit by a streaming services during COVID that I said “boy, I should really read that series before the show comes out!”. Here we are in 2025, and the Murderbot Diaries adaptation is finally here, in the form of the aptly-tited Murderbot. Like in Rachel Wells’ award-winning series (which I’m still planning to read, I swear!) Alexander Skarsgard plays the titular Murderbot, a sentient security android trying to mask its ability for free thought while trying to navigate the world of modern dating. Ok, maybe it’s “completing dangerous assignments and reflections on humanity” instead of “navigating the world of modern dating” – but still, Muderbot sounds like yet another Apple TV+ sci-fi curiosity we can pour ourselves into during 2025.

Death by Lightning

Premieres: 2025, Netflix
Episodes: ?

Look, if “Michael Shannon plays 20th President James Garfield” isn’t an intriguing enough premise, then what are we doing here? Based on Candice Millard’s 2011 book Destiny of the Republic, Death by Lightning features Shannon as Garfield during his presidency, leading up to his assassination by Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfayden) in 1881. Given the series finished filming in the fall, I’d expect it to premiere in 2025; and though some might wince at the whole “executive produced by the Game of Thrones guys” aspect of it, their ability to adapt written text into compelling images remained a strength through the worst of Game of Thrones, so I’m interested to see how their vision combines with director Matt Ross (known for many things, but will always be fondly remembered by me as Agent Loomis in Face/Off). I also hope the series touches on the events in the days and weeks after Guiteau shot Garfield, which are as fascinating as the stories leading up to that fateful moment.

Golf

Premieres: 2025(?), Netflix
Episodes: 10

Though we still know next to nothing about this series (“professional golfer becomes the face of a new league competing with the PGA Tour”) or when it will debut, the fact Ramy Youssef (whose Ramy was one of the best shows of the past decade) and Will Farrell are making a comedy series for Netflix is all I need to hear to put it on this list. Though Farrell’s output the past decade-plus has been largely disappointing, Golf could be a true comeback vehicle for him as a performer – and there’s almost nobody writing television right now I’d trust more than Ramy to find the place where narrative and performance meet. Golf could be one of numerous forgettable golf comedies this year, but I have high hopes it will be one of the year’s best.

The Chair Company

The Chair Company

Premieres: 2025(?), HBO/Max
Episodes: ?

Had enough random shows about normies getting pulled into wide-ranging conspiracies? Even if you’re like me and are getting a bit worn out on the premise, The Chair Company will be one to watch, especially as HBO/Max tries to figure out its post-Curb and Barry comedic identity. Co-created and starring I Think You Should Leave‘s Tim Robinson, The Chair Company‘s simple premise – “after an embarrassing work incident, a man finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy” – is exactly the kind of open-ended concept I want to see Robinson (and writing partner Zach Kanin) run absolutely wild with.

Chad Powers

Premieres: 2025, Hulu
Episodes: ?

Can Chad Powers pull a Ted Lasso? Based on Eli Manning’s “secret identity” from the ESPN+ Eli’s Places docuseries, Chad Powers is Hulu’s attempt to cash in on the dual trends of Glen Powell’s meteoric star rise and the aforementioned series about soccer coaches and their feelings. Powell (who is also producing and co-writing the pilot alongside Michael Waldron) stars as Russ Holliday, a college quarterback who tries to find his way back to glory by donning the fake identity of Chad Powers. The appeal here seems simple – like many of these high-profile 2025 debuts, it will all come down to execution, though as an avid Everybody Wants Some! fan, I’m just glad to see someone else taking advantage of Powell’s obvious talents in this genre.

Long Story Short

Premieres: 2025(?), Netflix
Episodes: ?

(image of Waksberg’s previous animated “family”, because I got nothing here)

Long Story Short is a series about, according to its tagline, “a family, over time.” In all honesty, we don’t know shit about this series except that it is the latest Netflix animated comedy from Raphael Bob-Waksberg, whose BoJack Horseman remains one of the pinnacles in the streamer’s decade-long catalog. Given the animation is already deep into production, most expect this series to launch in 2025 – and if it doesn’t, that just means you’ll see it again on next year’s list.

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