2025 may be drawing to a close, but there's still a lot of exciting new TV shows to keep an eye out for as we head into the final months of the year.
With spooky season upon us, it's a great time to get stuck into another upcoming Stephen King show thanks to It: Welcome to Derry, and the genre fare keeps on coming with a new season of The Witcher and the final outing of Stranger Things on the way, too. Beyond that, we can expect new offerings from both the MCU and the DCU, as well as a new drama from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. And that's just the start of it...
Upcoming 2025 TV shows
One-Punch Man season 3
Release date: October 12
Available on: Crunchyroll
One of the hottest new anime is finally here, and honestly, we couldn't be more excited. One Punch Man season 3 has been a long time coming; in fact, fans have been waiting for Saitama's return since 2019. We can all look forward to the upcoming season continuing the Monster Association arc from the manga as well as seeing more bloody battles and our titular hero's iconic single death blows. Currently, Crunchyroll is the only platform confirmed. We'll keep you posted if any more streaming services get announced.
It: Welcome to Derry
Release date: October 26, 2025
Available on: Max
This show is set to explore the origins of Pennywise, focused on the Hanlon family (Mike Hanlon is one of the kids in the Losers Club). "It's so rich with characters and events, we thought we would do justice to the book and the fans by going back into this world," Andy and Barbara Muschietti told EW of the show. "Specifically, we are telling the stories of the interludes, writings by Mike Hanlon based on his investigation that includes interviews he conducts with the older people in the town. In Welcome to Derry, we touch on the usual themes that were talked about in the movie – friendship, loss, the power of unified belief – but this story also focuses on the use of fear as a weapon, which is one of the things that is also relevant to our times."
Mayor of Kingstown season 4
Release date: October 26, 2025
Available on: Paramount Plus
Mayor of Kingstown is hands down one of the best shows on Paramount Plus right now, and fans have been waiting patiently for just over a year for its new season. Season 4 of the hit show will see Mike McLusky have to deal with some new threats as a gang war threatens to hurt everything and everyone he cares about. Some ghosts from his past are also teased to be haunting him. Basically, it all sounds very juicy, and we can't wait for Mayor of Kingstown’s grand return.
Star Wars: Visions season 3
Release date: October 29, 2025
Available on: Disney Plus
Over two years after the last installment, animated anthology series Star Wars: Visions is back for a third season. Consisting of nine new episodes, three of these are sequels to season 1 episodes (The Duel, The Village Bride, and The Ninth Jedi, specifically). This time around, new animation studios enlisted behind the scenes include Polygon Pictures, who recently worked on Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Wit Studio, who also make Spy x Family.
Hazbin Hotel season 2
Release date: October 29, 2025
Available on: Prime Video
One of the best animated series on Prime Video is coming back, just in time for Halloween. Hazbin Hotel is a demon's dream of a show, packed full of stunning character designs, dark humour and some very catchy tunes. The series will see Charlie Morningstar returning with her mission to rehabilitate demons via her kooky hotel. This show is one of the most creative titles we've seen in a while and we're so pleased a second season is heading our way.
The Witcher season 4
Release date: October 30, 2025
Available on: Netflix
The Witcher has been one of Netflix's biggest crowd pleasers for years, and now The Witcher season 4 is on its way to hopefully keep fans on the happy fantasy train. This is the first season without Henry Cavill as the leading man, with Liam Hemsworth now taking on the role of Geralt of Rivia. So far, the casting has divided fans, but hopefully the story will bring us all together as the new season picks up after the explosive events of season 3. What’s more uniting than a tense plot involving a war-ravaged Continent and tons more demons, right?
Pluribus
Release date: November 9, 2025
Available on: Apple TV Plus
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is back at it with a new sci-fi show...that continues to be shrouded in mystery, and yet has already been greenlit for a second season at Apple TV Plus. The official synopsis reads, "[Pluribus] is a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness." The series stars Rhea Seehorn, who played Kim Wexler in Better Call Saul, Karolina Wydra (Sneaky Pete), Carlos-Manuel Vesga (The Hijacking of Flight 601), Miriam Shor (American Fiction), and Samba Schutte (Our Flag Means Death).
Stranger Things season 5
Release date: November 26 (Part 1), December 25 (Part 2), December 31 (Part 3)
Available on: Netflix
Stranger Things season 5 is the final installment in the hit Netflix show, which means it's not one to miss. So far, the plot is shrouded in mystery, but we're expecting an emotional send-off for the Hawkins cohort. "We know what the ending is," Matt Duffer previously said during an interview with our sister publication SFX. "It's conceivable that it changes, but I think it's unlikely because it's one of those endings that just feels, and has always felt, right. It also feels sort of inevitable. Then when you come up with it, you're like, 'Oh yeah, well, that is absolutely what it has to be.'"
Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2
Release date: December 10, 2025
Available on: Disney Plus
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, one of Disney Plus' biggest original shows ever, finally returns for season 2 this December. Based on the series of YA books by Rick Riordan, the show follows the adventures of Percy, a tweenage demigod and the son of Poseidon, and his best friends Annabeth and Grover. After season 1's mishaps, Percy and pals return to Camp Half Blood one year later only to find more trouble waiting for them: they're under threat from Kronos, and Percy must venture into the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece to save them.
Fallout season 2
Release date: December 17, 2025
Available on: Prime Video
Viva Las New Vegas! Fallout is heading towards the bright lights of the wasteland's former gambling paradise as the Ghoul and Lucy's hunt for answers after that Vault-Tec rug-pull goes on.
As glimpsed by the Fallout season 2 trailer, we're once again diving into the Ghoul's glitzy past as actor Cooper Howard, while there are also deathclaws in the post-apocalyptic present. On top of that, fans of New Vegas will be keen to see what part the shadowy Mr. House has to play in proceedings. Better still, it's releasing weekly - so there's plenty of discussion to be had well into 2026.
Upcoming 2026 TV shows
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Release date: January 18, 2026
Available on: HBO Max
Get ready to return to Westeros with new Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Based on George R.R. Martin's Dunk and Egg novellas and set around 100 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the show stars Peter Claffey as Ser Duncan the Tall and Dexter Sol Ansell as his young squire Egg. Per the official synopsis, the show is "set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, great destinies, powerful foes, and dangerous exploits all await these improbable and incomparable friends."
Wonder Man
Release date: January 27, 2026
Available on: Disney Plus
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars in this new Marvel show as Wonder Man, which was first announced back in 2022. The show follows Simon Williams, a superpowered actor and stuntman, who finds himself up for the role of a lifetime: the lead in a superhero TV show. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton and Hawkeye's Andrew Guest are on board as showrunners, and Ben Kingsley returns as Trevor Slattery.
Lanterns
Release date: Early 2026
Available on: HBO Max
The next small-screen installment in James Gunn's DCU Chapter One is Lanterns. The new series will follow veteran member of intergalactic peacekeeping organization the Green Lantern Corps Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) as he trains up new recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) while they investigate a murder in Nebraska. Gunn has previously compared the show to True Detective and The Leftovers showrunner Damon Lindelof is on board as co-creator, so we're expecting big things.
For more on new releases, check out our lists of the most exciting movie release dates to look out for and upcoming DC movies and shows.
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