The TV calendar for 2025 sizzles with several shows that look to be worth our time and discussion.
This year hits the final stretch and 2025 looms in the distance. For some, it's an opportunity to make fresh resolutions and hope for the best. For others, they know it's likely more of the same nonsense and only look forward to what the television calendar has to offer. The good news is, 2025 is shaping up to be a goodie with a plethora of returning shows but also a bunch of exciting new series. The latter is what interests us the most here since shiny things make the eyes grow larger and the heart grow fonder.
So, let's take a look at which 2025 TV shows will be the water cooler topics of the upcoming year.
What's the deal with Hollywood's obsession with Sherlock Holmes and Watson? Who knows, but we'll watch every single adaptation because everyone loves to scream out, "Elementary, my dear Watson." Craig Sweeny, the showrunner who helmed Elementary, handles this latest modern reimagining titled Watson. According to the synopsis, Holmes is dead in this series and Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) is now at the forefront of a clinic that treats those in need of his magical hands. When the dastardly Moriarty shows up once more, Watson needs to roll up his sleeves and deal with his old foe. Considering the bang-up job CBS did with Elementary, much is expected of Watson too. Look, let's be real here for a second: The medical drama-meets-mystery show already sounds like a winning formula and it should find its niche audience in no time.
Daredevil: Born Again feels like it's been in development for as long as Mahershala Ali's Blade now. The show hasn't been without its challenges, though, as the previous showrunners made way in 2023 and plans were entirely overhauled. The good news is the change sounds like it was for the better as the series is now reportedly more connected to its predecessor, Netflix's sensational Daredevil series. Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, and Elden Henson all return to reprise their roles as Matt Murdock, Wilson Fisk, Karen Page, and Foggy Nelson respectively, and much is expected of this continuation/soft reboot to carry on the story of Daredevil fighting for the soul of Hell's Kitchen. If it can capture the boots-on-the-ground, grittier storytelling approach from before, it holds the potential to be the best Marvel show on Disney+ - something that's much needed after the slew of duds!
Netflix's anime selection hardly ever misses. In fact, its Castlevania adaptation might be one of the best shows on the platform - period. So, when the news broke that the streaming service would be tackling the anime adaptation of the video game series Devil May Cry, audiences had every reason to celebrate. Plus, what's even better is how Johnny Yong Bosch will reprise his role from the video games and voice Dante on the show too. For those unfamiliar with the game, Dante is a demon hunter, who possesses a flashy, stylized move set (and a head of great hair), and battles against all sorts of monsters and entities that want to destroy Earth. It's not exactly Shakespeare, but who doesn't need one more show about a demon slayer?!
The legal drama Suits ended five years ago, but no one forgot it for a single second, thanks to its revival in popularity after debuting on Netflix. Now, the story continues in a spinoff titled Suits: L.A. It remains uncertain if any of the original cast members will return here, but this new story follows Ted Black (Stephen Amell), a New Yorker who starts up a legal firm in Los Angeles that handles criminal and entertainment cases. Not much is known about the series at the time of writing, but other confirmed cast members include Josh McDermitt and Lex Scott Davis. Will it be able to generate the same lightning-in-a-bottle greenback boogie effect of its predecessor, though? Time will tell, but more Suits is never a bad thing.
After a few disappointing movies, the Alien franchise returned to its glory days in Alien: Romulus. However, the Xenomorph isn't only sticking around and spitting acid in theaters, as it heads over to the small screen in a 2025 TV show titled Alien: Earth. The information surrounding the show remains deliberately scarce with the only story details being it's a prequel to Alien and follows the events after a spaceship crashes on Earth - and that can only mean bad news for the Earthlings. The show stars Sydney Chandler and Timothy Olyphant, while the showrunner is Noah Hawley, who is best known for Fargo and Legion. Hold thumbs it's more like Alien: Romulus than Alien: Covenant!
Despite no one giving it - pardon the pun - a chance when first announced, Andy Muschietti's It more than carries the fright and fear factor of the Stephen King novels. After the second film wrapped, everyone believed that was that for the story. However, news dropped that a television series was in the works - not a new adaptation of the horror novel, but a prequel. In a way, the basic premise behind It: Welcome to Derry makes sense, since everyone knows Pennywise had been around for ages before the main story, so there's history there - but is this a strong-enough idea to expand on? That's still the million-dollar question; however, the return of Bill Skarsgård as the evil entity gives fans hope that it could be a worthwhile addition to the lore.