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The best TV shows are coming in 2025

The best TV shows are coming in 2025

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    Anna Maxwell Martin as Lucy Betts-Taylor.

Credit: BBC/Big Talk Studios/Colin Hutton

Clear your calendars for 2025, because it will be a banner year for television. Small screen favorites like ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘The Bear’ are returning for new seasons, while new shows promise to keep us entertained.

A knight of the seven kingdoms

The latest prequel to ‘Game of Thrones’, based on GeorgeRR Martin’s The “Tales of Dunk and Egg” novellas will premiere on HBO in 2025. The series follows Ser Duncan the Tall, played by Peter Claffey, and Aegon Targaryen (Egg), played by Dexter Sol Ansell, through a series of adventures. . Next “House of the Dragon”this upcoming drama has been criticized for deviations from Martin’s source material, but the author visited the set and has only positive feedback for “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” wrote Screen Rant. The characters “look like they walked out of the pages of my book,” he said.

Severance (season two)

“One of TV’s best shows” will return for a highly anticipated second season on Apple TV+ in January, Rufus Punt said in The handbook. The critically acclaimed workplace thriller stars Adam Scott, of “Parks and Recreation” and “Big Little Lies,” who undergoes a procedure to separate work and personal memories. It’s been a three-year wait for the resolution of the first season’s cliffhanger, but the new series will finally tackle the redundancy barrier and delve deeper into the world of Lumon Industries.

The other Bennet sister

“Bridgerton” Fans should be excited because the BBC’s latest ‘Pride and Prejudice’ spin-off will be spiky, Ben Jureidini said in Tatler. The ten-part series, based on the novel of the same name by Janice Hadlow, follows Mary, Jane Austen’s ‘clearest’ Bennet sisters. The fresh twist on the classic will transform the clumsy, forgotten character into a true historical heroine. The BBC noted that while we all dream of being Lizzy in reality, “most of us are just like Mary” and that writer Sarah Quintrell, who grew up watching the BBC adaptations, plans to write a “beautiful story ” to write for “all the Marys out there”.

Black rabbit

The showrunners are keeping mum on the details, but Jason Bateman and Jude Law will star, with comparisons already being made to ‘Succession’ and ‘The Bear,’ Miles Ellingham said in GQ. The only details the team has released are a brief log line, he said Variety: “When the owner of a New York City hot spot lets his turbulent brother back into his life, he opens the door to escalating dangers that threaten to tear down everything he’s built.” The limited series will hit Netflix in early to mid-2025.

The Last of Us (season two)

The ‘overwhelming’ season finale of “The Last of Us” The left crowd has been eagerly awaiting the return of the video game adaptation and now fans can “finally rejoice” as season 2 has been confirmed for 2025, said Stand. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey return for more post-apocalyptic adventures, along with newcomers Isabela Merced and Jeffrey Wright. Not much is known about the next chapter, but “brace yourself for more heartbreaking moments.”

Ludwig (season two)

After millions devoured the first season of BBC’s comedy detective drama “Ludwig”‘, hopes the new season will prove just as edible, said Radio times. Season one introduced David Mitchell’s John, a puzzle-solver who discovered a talent for solving crimes while posing as his missing police detective brother James, and his sister-in-law Lucy, played by Anna Maxwell Martin. Now John is officially helping the force, but James is still missing.

Wild Cherry

Two-time Bafta-winning ‘Mood’ creator Nicôle Lecky is back with the highly anticipated thriller ‘Wild Cherry’, Max Goldbart said in Term. The ‘provocative and wonderfully honest’ show follows Lorna (Carmen Ejogo), a self-made, successful black businesswoman, and her privileged best friend Julia (Eve Best), as they are forced to choose sides during a ‘shocking’ scandal at the exclusive private school of their daughters.

The Bear (season four)

This season he won eleven Emmys, “The Bear” is one of the most critically acclaimed shows on TV right now and the new season is expected to air in June, Somiyah DeMercado said in CBR. The ending of season three was “disheartening”, leaving the restaurant’s fate up in the air as Sydney prepared to start her own venture. When we return to the high-stress kitchen, things will be more tense than ever as season four will be “filled with even more emotional breakdowns and foul language.”

The White Lotus (season three)

Fans are in for another drama-packed season as a whole new group of guests check into a White Lotus luxury resort, this time in Thailand, said Stand. The season will feature a new ensemble, led by stars like Leslie Bibb, BLACKPINK’s Lisa, Jason Isaacs and Michelle Monaghan, and season one’s Belinda Lindsey, played by Natasha Rothwell returns for a cameo. The faces may be new, but the season “promises all the drama we’ve come to love.”

Daredevil: Born Again

Fans have been clamoring for more of Matt Murdock since the end of Charlie Cox’s three-year stint on Netflix’s “Daredevil.” Now the fan-favorite superhero is back, this time as part of Marvel’s interconnected cinematic universe, said Allison Hambrick in Screen Rant. Murdock, a blind lawyer with a double life as a crime fighter, joins the fight for justice in New York alongside a handful of cast members from the original series, including Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin and Jon Bernthal’s Punisher. This latest edition to the Marvel canon will debut on Disney+ in March.