The New Shows of the 2024-2025 Winter TV Season

Unless you are a skier, a professional snow sculptor, or a yeti, there isn't a whole lot to do in the winter other than sit inside and watch TV. And you know what? That sounds like a good time to me. What do you expect me to do, go outside?

The winter TV season is one of the best of the year, as streamers and networks know they have a captive audience eager to be passively entertained. (Never underestimate the importance of your role in this business transaction.) And while the returns of your favorite TV shows are always anticipated — Severance Season 2!!! — I'd like to talk to you about the new shows you don't even know are coming. 

Below are all the new TV shows coming this winter that you need to know about, including the latest surefire hit from Harlan Coben, a new mystery box thriller from the creator of This Is Us, and the regular TV series role debut of one Mr. Robert De Niro. Here are the new TV shows coming this winter.

Author George R. Stewart knew what he was talking about when he wrote the 1949 novel Earth Abides, a sci-fi story about a virus that wipes out most of the population and collapses society. MGM+ adapts the book in this new series, which follows the survivors who struggle to avoid extinction. Yes, it's another one of these shows! Alexander Ludwig, Jessica Frances Dukes, and Aaron Tveit star. 

Premieres Sunday, Dec. 1 at 9/8c on MGM+

Gatekeeping Star Wars fans, get your torches and pitchforks ready. The latest from Disney's version of George Lucas' universe is all about... kids. The rest of us will enjoy this younger-leaning series about a quartet of children who uncover a secret somethingorother on their home planet that leads them across the galaxy and into a chance encounter with a mysterious character played by Jude Law sometime during The Mandalorian's time period. If you've ever wondered what one of those pachyderm people from the Star Wars movies looked like as a toddler, this show is for you. 

Premieres Monday, Dec. 2 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on Disney+

Ben Whishaw and Keira Knightley, need we say more? Black Doves is a thriller set in London following a spy (Knightley) who, with the protection of fellow spy Sam (Whishaw), investigates the assassination of her lover (Warrior's Andrew Koji). Why yes, she does uncover a massive conspiracy in the process. How did you know? As if the cast wasn't good enough already, Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley) plays Knightley's boss.

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 5 on Netflix

James Gunn's 2021 film The Suicide Squad and the 2022 series Peacemaker saw Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) use superheroes for less-than-desirable tasks, but due to governmental and general regard for life, she's no longer able to use humans on her secret missions. Who does that leave? The Creature Commandos, a motley crew of monsters and non-human entities with super abilities that includes Circe, G.I. Robot, Doctor Phosphorus, and Weasel (yes!). This animated series is going to be gory and fun.

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 5 on Max

Beef's Ali Wong produces and voices the lead character in the animated series Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld, a coming-of-age story about a high school girl who battles her demons quite literally. It's one of those "kid fights monsters while also trying to figure out how not to embarrass herself in school" shows — and let's be honest, these are always a hoot — but with a healthy dose of sass.  

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 5 on Netflix

Remember that great Canadian maple syrup heist of 2011-2012 that saw thieves make off with more than 3,000 tons of pancake dressing? Well, in the series The Sticky, Prime Video is remembering it for you and adding some dramatic details to make it entertainment. Margo Martindale stars as a syrup farmer whose farm gets shut down by the government, forcing her to team up with a Boston mobster (Chris Diamantopoulos) and a French-Canadian security guard (Guillaume Cyr) to make ends meet by siphoning syrup from the country's national reserve. Jamie Lee Curtis also stars.

Premieres Friday, Dec. 6 on Prime Video 

The creators of Netflix's fun Love, Death + Robots bring their sci-fi adult animation formula to Prime Video with an anthology set in the world of video games. Individual episodes will be based around the lore of games, including well-known classics like Pac-Man and Unreal Tournament, as well as smaller games like Spelunky and The Outer Worlds. The voice cast includes well-known actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Keanu Reeves, as well as smaller actors like Kevin Hart. 

Premieres Tuesday, Dec. 10 on Prime Video 

It's hard to believe that with the way Disney is squeezing its subsidiaries for every drop of creative juice they have to make television series for Disney+, Pixar has not yet created a full-length show for its parental juggernaut. That all changes with Dream Productions, a four-episode series set between Inside Out and Inside Out 2 that follows the creation of dreams inside Riley's head by daydream directors Paula Persimmon (Paula Pell) and Xeni (Richard Ayoade) who are looking to break into the big business of nighttime dreams with a blockbuster. Hey, even core subconscious neurological processes need to make a living.

Premieres Wednesday, Dec. 11 on Disney+   

Dead to Me's Liz Feldman sticks with upper-middle-class neighborhood drama littered with murder and betrayal in her new series No Good Deed, which follows three couples trying to move into a posh Los Feliz neighborhood after a house owned by a troubled couple (Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano) goes up for sale. But the house and the family hold some dark secrets that could affect the market price. Sounds like a messy situation that an all-cash offer can't instantly solve! Denis Leary, Luke Wilson, Abbi Jacobson, and Linda Cardellini also star.

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 12 on Netflix

Uhhhhhh... what the heck? Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, friends and co-stars in the reality series The Simple Life, are reuniting for a three-episode series that catches up the world on their lives and friendship, thank god! In their latest blight on your eyeballs, the duo attempt to craft an opera around their "famous" catchphrase "Sanasa." Hopefully these two will finally catch a break.

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 12 on Peacock

Call it Young Dexter! Your favorite serial killer with a conscience gets the origin story all great TV characters deserve in Dexter: Original Sin. Set in 1991, the prequel series shows us how Dexter Morgan (played here by Patrick Gibson) became a murderer and introduces Dexter to other familiar faces from the Showtime series. Christian Slater plays Dexter's dad Harry, and Patrick Dempsey and Sarah Michelle Gellar also star.

Premieres Friday, Dec. 13 on Paramount+ with Showtime

Grab an empty Gatorade bottle full of ayahuasca and go crawl into a dark cave to watch this docuseries about New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers as he spouts misinformation and admonishes anyone who isn't on his off-world wavelength. Wow, what a mysterious guy.

Premieres Tuesday, Dec. 17 on Netflix

In the docuseries The Secret Lives of Animals, narrator Hugh Bonneville combs through the garbage of animals to dig up salacious gossip on them. Or maybe he just gives fun facts about them? You really shouldn't name your show The Secret Lives of Animals unless you deliver the goods, Apple! I know that seal has some skeletons in its closet.

Premieres Wednesday, Dec. 18 on Apple TV+

What happens when you realize that your "body count" is becoming an actual body count? In the twisted rom-com Laid, a young woman (Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu) discovers that all the people she has had sex with are dying under mysterious circumstances. Creators Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna promise a heartwarming reaffirmation of the power of love... beneath all the blood and death. Zosia Mamet, Michael Angarano, and Tommy Martinez also star. 

Premieres Thursday, Dec. 19 on Peacock

Harlan Coban could fart and the Netflix adaptation would rocket to the top of the streaming charts. The author behind the Netflix hits Stay Close, The Innocent, and Fool Me Once, which was the most-watched Netflix series of the first half of 2024 by a long ways, returns with Missing You, an adaptation of his 2014 novel of the same name. In the thriller, a detective (Rosalind Eleazar) whose fiancé disappeared from her life over a decade ago discovers him on a dating app, leading her down a path that uncovers old secrets and might give her answers to her father's murder. 100 bucks says this hits No. 1 on Netflix on its second day of release.

Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 1 on Netflix

In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 259 passengers and crew, as well as 11 more people on the ground. This drama (obviously) follows the efforts of Dr. Jim Swire (played by Colin Firth), whose daughter was killed in the crash, as he battles uphill in his search for the truth behind what happened and for justice for those who suffered. This is not a cheery story.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 2 on Peacock

Yes, there has been an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition before (most recently in 2020 on HGTV), but ABC insists this is a new series. That's probably because it has new hosts in Joanna Teplin and Clea Shearer, better known as the organizational gurus behind the Home Edit brand. Expect what you already know what to expect: Teplin and Shearer visit people in need of help with their house, get their personal stories, and go to work... extremely.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 2 at 8/7c on ABC

Tim Allen returns to ABC, where he became a megastar during Home Improvement's run in the 1990s and cemented his status as an outspoken conservative actor in Last Man Standing in the 2010s (following comments he made comparing being a Republican in Hollywood to living in Nazi Germany, Last Man Standing was canceled but picked up by Fox and ran for three more seasons). Where was I? Oh yeah, Allen stars as the owner of a car restoration shop whose life gets turned upside down when his daughter (Kat Dennings) moves in. Wake me up when Tim Allen plays a florist or head chef of a vegan restaurant.

Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 8/7c on ABC

The TV industry's recent Yellowstone-induced love affair with Westerns isn't done yet. Executive producer Peter Berg's gritty story of the untamed West looks to be violent and merciless, with men and women fighting for survival against each other and the land. It's got a standout cast, with Betty Gilpin, Taylor Kitsch, Kim Coates, and Jai Courtney.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 9 on Netflix

This Japanese series might be a surprise hit of the new year. Renowned director Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters) follows four sisters who suspect their aging father may have had an affair, but opt to keep the details from their mother. If I'm being completely honest, I included this mostly because the trailer looks so darned intriguing!

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 9 on Netflix

Dick Wolf, save some TV for the rest of us! The prolific producer behind the Law & Order franchise is expanding with a new series about cops in Long Beach, Calif. This one won't be as polished as what's on broadcast networks, though. On Call will use various types of camerawork — handheld cameras, body cams, and dash-cam footage — to dial up the intensity of the job, as a veteran officer (Troian Bellisario) takes an ambitious rookie (Brandon Larracuente) under her wing. Eriq La Salle and Lori Loughlin also star.

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 9 on Prime Video

Network TV's solution to deteriorating ratings, rising overhead expenses, increased competition, and finicky viewers is the primetime game show, for better or worse. Well, mostly for worse. Drew Barrymore plays the center square and former NFL player Nate Burleson hosts this reboot of the celebrity-stuffed game show, which features Kristen Schaal, RuPaul, Kevin Nealon, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and more. But where's JM J. Bullock? 

Premieres Thursday, Jan. 9 at 8/7c on CBS

If Sam Heughan's thing is getting steamy with his shirt off, I don't think that will be too much of a problem with many of you. The Outlander star sticks with Starz for this six-episode series about a couple who move to an idyllic community and start a complicated sexual dalliance with their neighbors. It's all fun and games until it's not. Eleanor Tomlinson, Jessica De Gouw, and Alfred Enoch also star.

Premieres Friday, Jan. 17 at 9/8c on Starz

I'm on the verge of uncovering a conspiracy in the TV industry about the amount of conspiracy thrillers it produces, and my next bit of evidence is Prime Target. The series stars One Day's Leo Woodall as a mathematician whose work with prime numbers could give him access to any computer in the world. But as he gets closer to the solution, mysterious figures seek to destroy his work. It's a conspiracy!

Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 22 on Apple TV+

It's not Elementary, dear Watson; it's just Watson, son. Morris Chestnut stars as a modern-day Dr. Watson, the famous sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, as he opens a new clinic that deals with rare diseases in the wake of Holmes' murder at the hands of Moriarty. Though Watson comes from some of the same producers who worked on CBS's Holmes-centric Elementary, the two shows are not canonically related.

Premieres Sunday, Jan. 26 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on CBS following NFL football

This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman re-teams with Sterling K. Brown in this drama, but it doesn't sound like there will be any tears over combusting crock pots. Details are being kept under wraps, but what we do know is that Brown's character lives in a peaceful community with some of the world's most prominent individuals, which gets rocked when one of them ends up murdered. Expect some huge twists and questions that get answered by asking more questions.

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 28 on Hulu

Marvel's incorporation of multiverses means it is literally limitless and nothing it does really means anything anymore, but the most important part of its infinite universes — for corporate overlord Disney — is that it means an endless supply of Marvel content. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man follows the web slinger (voiced by Hudson Thames) in his high school days, but poses the question of what would happen if he were mentored by Norman Osborn (voiced by Colman Domingo) instead of Tony Stark.

Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 29 on Disney+

Yinz get ready for an ER reunion in Pittsburgh. John Wells, longtime showrunner of the hit medical drama, is teaming up with Noah Wyle for a new series following healthcare workers at a Pittsburgh hospital. Wyle will play a doctor pulling things out of people's bodies and helping out a new set of interns, and yes, it will be stressful. Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Marron Ball, Supriya Ganesh, and Fiona Dourif also star.

Premieres January TBD on Max 

Pixar's second full-length TV series (after the Inside Out spin-off Dream Productions) for Disney+ follows a kids softball team as they prepare for the championship game, with each of the eight episodes focusing on a different character, even an umpire! This looks frickin' adorable and imaginative, just like most Pixar things!

Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 19 on Disney+

OK, TV has finally officially arrived. Robert De Niro, pretty much Hollywood's last A-list holdout, has given in and taken a series regular role on a television show. The conspiracy thriller Zero Day stars Bobby as a former U.S. president in charge of a government commission formed to find those responsible for a devastating cyber attack. Another reason to be excited: Zero Day boasts a Friday Night Lights reunion with Connie Britton and Jesse Plemons. The rest of the outstanding cast includes Angela Bassett, Matthew Modine, Dan Stevens, Joan Allen, and Lizzy Caplan. 

Premieres Thursday, Feb. 20 on Netflix

NBC has found something even more rare than the endangered Vancouver Island marmot: the primetime network nature docuseries! The Americas comes from the same producer that gave us Planet Earth II and educates viewers on the vast variety of wildlife that inhabit North and South America. NBC is promising a first look at a new species, in addition to never-before-seen animal behavior, across 10 episodes that each focus on a different region. And what can be more American that having Tom Hanks narrate it?

Premieres Sunday, Feb. 23 at 7/6c on NBC

The data says you love Suits, so you're getting more Suits. The USA Network legal procedural, which somehow reached the height of its popularity years after its original run thanks to Netflix, is getting spun off with an L.A. branch, starring Arrow's Stephen Amell as a former New York prosecutor who moves out west and now represents powerful new clients. Enjoy the traffic, pal! Here's everything we know about Suits LA.

Premieres Sunday, Feb. 23 at 9/8c on NBC

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