The best new TV shows still coming your way in 2025

The year is almost over, but there are still plenty of new TV shows to look forward to as we head into the final act of 2025.

October is particularly stacked. Not only are we getting a ton of new anime this month with One-Punch Man and Spy x Family, but there is also the last season of Solar Opposites, some Netflix fantasy outings, and an upcoming Stephen King show on the way as well. Basically, whether you love horror, superheroes, the supernatural, or a good ol' fight to the death in space...there's something for everyone when it comes to our list of new TV shows.

Scroll on down for our brief but comprehensive guide on all the best new TV shows that are still set to premiere in 2025 on all the best streaming services out there, from Netflix and HBO Max, to Apple TV Plus. Happy binge-watching!

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.

Solar Opposites Season 6

Release date: October 13, 2025
Available on: Hulu/ Disney Plus

Solar Opposites season 6 is the final chapter of the beloved sci-fi comedy. So if you're a Shlorpian fan, you'll want to tune in for sure. For years, we've seen Korvo, Terry, Jesse, and Yumyulack navigate Earth life while they wait for the Pupa to terraform the planet and destroy all life. Will the Pupa kill us all, or will they have to face the corrupt intergalactic SilverCops first, who have been rounding up Shlorpians? Only time will tell, but we can't wait to find out.

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch

Release date: October 14, 2025
Available on: Netflix

2025 truly has been a great year for video game adaptations, so why not keep the ball rolling with a new animated show based on the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series? Produced by Ubisoft Film & Television, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is heading to Netflix in October and has Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber as the voice of series protagonist Sam Fisher. From the trailer, the series looks incredibly cool and violent. Sign us up!

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).

The Diplomat season 3

Release date: Fall 2025
Available on: Netflix

Keri Russell returns as Kate Wyler, the US ambassador to the UK, in the third season of Netflix's hit political thriller The Diplomat. Along with returning cast members Rory Kinnear, Rufus Sewell, and Allison Janney, The West Wing's Bradley Whitford joins the cast for the new installment. "Season 3 flips the chessboard," creator Debora Cahn previously told Tudum. "In season 3, Kate lives the particular nightmare that is getting what you want."

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.

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. 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.

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.