The best new TV shows coming your way in 2025

Our list for the best new TV shows coming up in 2025 keeps growing, as fan-favorite series like Stranger Things and Slow Horses have confirmed return release dates. To make your life easier, we've gathered all the most exciting TV series releasing this year on the best streaming services out there, from Prime Video to Apple TV Plus, so you just have to keep reading and learn everything you need.

So far, 2025 has brought us some excellent shows that should be in your radar, like Netflix's streaming hit Adolescence, and highly anticipated returns like Andor season 2 and The Last of Us season 2. With summer only starting, there is still much to see, from the best Netflix shows to a few unmissable upcoming Marvel movies and shows like Ironheart.

Below, we've rounded up the best of the best new TV shows, so you can get up to speed at a glance on what the year has in store. You can also see our breakdown of the most exciting upcoming movies in cinemas this year, which includes hits-to-be like Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman. But for now, let's go through the biggest new TV shows to write down in your calendar.

Ironheart

Release date: June 24, 2025
Available on: Disney Plus

While not much is known yet about Ironheart, featuring Dominique Thorne's Riri Williams following in the footsteps of her idol, Tony Stark, we do have a release date. The show has been a long time in the making, and picks up with the character after the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Anthony Ramos, Lyric Ross, Alden Ehrenreich, Regan Aliyah, Manny Montana all also star in the show.

Squid Game season 3

Release date: June 27, 2025
Available on: Netflix

Squid Game season 3 will bring Netflix's mega-hit to an end. Set after the dramatic events of the second season, the new outing will begin in the middle of the games. With Gi-hun and the Front Man on opposing sides once more, it's unclear just who will succeed, and what it will cost them. Netflix has confirmed the third season arrives in June, so we don't have long to wait. The first trailer has also arrived, teasing the first deadly game.

The Sandman Season 2 Volume 1

Release date: July 3, 2025
Available on: Netflix

If you love watching all the best fantasy movies on Netflix, then you're in luck because one of the streamer's best fantastical shows is coming back to our small screens in July. Dream is returning to Hell to meet with Lucifer Morningstar, who makes a fateful decision to abdicate her throne. However, her choice comes with consequences. The Sandman season 2 is the final season of the series and will be broken into two parts, so keep your eyes peeled for future updates here as well.

Twisted Metal Season 2

Release date: July 31, 2025
Available on: Peacock (US), Paramount Plus (UK)

We love a good video game adaptation, so it should shock no one to see that we've put the new season of Twisted Metal on this list. If you're unfamiliar with the iconic PlayStation franchise, Twisted Metal is set in a post-apocalyptic world where basically combat in zany looking cars is the order of the day. This upcoming season will throw us into the Twisted Metal tournament, "a sinister demolition derby hosted by a mysterious man known as Calypso." It's exciting times.

Eyes of Wakanda

Release date: August 6, 2025
Available on: Disney Plus

We've been waiting for an animated series about Wakanda ever since 2023, and now our patience is paying off. Eyes of Wakanda is set to hit Disney Plus in August this year and will follow the Hatut Zaraze (Wakandan warriors) as they embark on dangerous missions and search for vibranium artifacts. This is going to be the first Marvel series we see in Marvel Phase 6, so it's a big moment for all fans of the franchise. It also just has a really cool premise, and we can't wait to see it for ourselves once August 6 rolls around.

Wednesday season 2

Release date: August 6, 2025
Available on: Netflix

Jenna Ortega is back in Wednesday season 2, the next installment in one of the most popular Netflix shows ever. Intriguingly, Joker: Folie à Deux star Lady Gaga has also joined the cast for the second season, though her role is a mystery for now. Expect more delightfully spooky, gothic vibes in this installment.

Alien: Earth

Release date: August 12 (US), August 13 (UK)
Available on: FX on Hulu (US), Disney Plus (international)

Alien: Earth is coming to FX from Noah Hawley, and it already looks seriously terrifying just from the early trailers. The show stars Syndey Chandler as a young woman who goes up against a deadly threat following a mysterious crash-landing on Earth. We're assuming that the threat is xenomorph-related…

Peacemaker season 2

Release date: August 21, 2025
Available on: Max

John Cena returns as Peacemaker in season 2 of the hit DC show, which is arriving this summer. It's debuting as part of the new DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters, too, but it remains to be seen how that might affect what is and isn't canon from season 1. Like season 1, it will be eight episodes long.

Gen V season 2

Release date: September 17, 2025
Available on: Prime Video

Gen V season 2 is bringing us back to Godolkin University, and we can't wait to see what's next. Season 1 ended with the main characters trapped in the lab, and we know that what happened in The Boys season 4 (you know, Homelander taking over the Oval Office) will directly affect Gen V's timeline. This means that the new episodes won't see the Supe students doing much studying, for better or worse.

The new season will introduce a mysterious new Dean who preaches a curriculum that promises to make students more powerful than ever, while Marie, Jordan, and Emma deal with months of trauma and loss. The spin-off show is coming back this year ahead of The Boys season 5, so make sure you tune in for the action.

Slow Horses season 5

Release date: September 24, 2025
Available on: Apple TV Plus

Gary Oldman and his team of MI5 rejects are coming back this year for Slow Horses season 5, which has confirmed its release date for September. We can't think of a better way to go back to school, honestly, as we get ready for more unexpected plot twists and espionage action.

Based on Mick Herron's book London Rules, the new episodes of the fan-favorite Apple TV Plus show will see everyone feeling suspicious of Roddy Ho's new girlfriend, which will only be the start of a series of bizarre events happening across London. The Slow Horses will have to try to work out how everything is connected.

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 – there's not even a trailer yet – but we're expecting an emotional send-off for Hawkins. "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 is has to be.'"

Wonder Man

Release date: December 2025
Available on: Disney Plus

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars in this new Marvel show as Wonder Man, which was first announced back in 2022. "We have a show coming up that we've talked very little about called Wonder Man, that I won't talk about much today either except to say it's extremely different," Kevin Feige has previously teased of the show.

It: Welcome to Derry

Release date: 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."

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Release date: Early 2026
Available on: HBO/Max

Get ready to return to Westeros with upcoming Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. This show is based on George R.R. Martin's Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas, with Peter Claffey starring as Ser Duncan the Tall and Dexter Sol Ansell playing Egg. Here's hoping this tides us over while we wait for House of the Dragon season 3.

For more on new releases, check out our lists of the most exciting movie release dates to look out for and upcoming Marvel movies and shows.