The Most Anticipated TV Shows Of 2024
Book adaptations, reimaginings, and royal romances… we’re talking about the most anticipated TV shows of 2024. As a new year begins, Pop Culture Planet is sharing recommendations of both new and returning shows you need to add to your watch list.
Abbott Elementary Season 3
The end of Abbott Elementary season 2 focused on Janine and Gregory addressing their feelings and ultimately deciding to remain friends… for now.
What’s next for the teachers of Abbott? Find out when season 3 premieres on February 7, 2024 with a special hour-long episode on ABC.
Agatha: Darkhold Diaries
The plot has been mainly kept under wraps for this anticipated 2024 show, but the cast alone has people anxiously awaiting the premiere. The miniseries was created by Jac Schaeffer and is based on the Marvel Comics character Agatha Harkness.
In the comics, Agatha Harkness is a powerful witch and one of the original witches from the Salem witch trials who first appeared in Fantastic Four #94. The irresistible Kathryn Hahn will star as the powerful witch and show’s main protagonist, alongside a prominent cast including Aubrey Plaza, Debra Jo Rupp, Patti LuPone, Joe Locke, Isabelle Fuhrman, Emma Caulfield, and Miles Gutierrez.
Agatha: Darkhold Diaries is set for release on Disney+ in fall 2024.
- Danielle Forte
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The hit Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting a highly anticipated live-action adaptation on Netflix. In the series, Aang (Gordon Cormier) works to bring peace and balance to the world with his powers as the last living Airbender.
The show hits Netflix on February 22, 2024.
- Kristen Maldonado
Bridgerton Season 3
The third season of Bridgerton is back and finds Penelope Featherington finally over Colin Bridgerton after hearing him talk badly about. Now she’s ready to marry and allows Colin to help mentor her in gaining confidence. Perhaps his lessons work too well as now he must grapple with newfound feelings for her. Meanwhile, she has to keep her Lady Whistledown identity a secret.
Part 1 launches on Netflix on May 16, 2024, while part 2 drops June 13, 2024.
- Kristen Maldonado
Chucky Season 3 Part 2
Our favorite killer doll is taking over the White House! That’s right, Chucky returns for season 3 part 2 in 2024.
Due to the strikes, season 3 was split in half. In the first part, we got our biggest cliffhanger yet as the red headed killer is aging — and badly — after being forsaken by his idol Damballa.
- Kristen Maldonado
Death and Other Details
Imogene Scott becomes the main suspect in a murder on a fancy Mediterranean ocean liner in Death and Other Details. To clear her name, she has to partner with the world’s greatest detective who happens to be a man she hates.
Violett Beane, Mandy Patinkin, and Rahul Kohli star in the whodunnit series out January 16, 2024 on Hulu.
- Kristen Maldonado
Echo
Marvel’s newest series Echo finds Maya Lopez’s (Alaqua Cox) ruthless behavior catching up to her as she faces her past in her hometown. It’s the first Marvel production to drop all its episodes at once, have an TV-MA rating, and be led by a deaf, Native American character.
Echo hits Disney+ on January 10, 2024.
Fallout
Based on the video game series, Fallout is set 200 years after an apocalypse. Citizens of LA live in underground bunkers, but one woman decides to venture out in the unknown wasteland. Ella Purnell, Moises Arias, Sarita Choudhury, and Michael Emerson star.
Fallout premieres April 12 on Prime Video.
Grimsburg
Jon Hamm stars and executive produces the new FOX animated series Grimsburg. Marvin Flute is a great detective, but there’s one mystery he can’t crack — his own family. Now that he’s back in Grimsburg, a town full of secrets, he’s looking for ever lead to get back into his family’s good graces.
Grimsburg premieres January 7 on FOX.
- Kristen Maldonado
Hazbin Hotel
Dedicated fans have been obsessed with the world of Hazbin Hotel since Vivienne Medrano dropped the original animated pilot on YouTube in 2019. The story follows Charlie Morningstar, the princess of Hell, as she pursues the seemingly impossible dream of rehabilitating demons to peacefully reduce overpopulation in her kingdom… oh yeah, and it’s a very NSFW musical! With its stunning and unique visuals, loveable characters, and catchy musical numbers, it garnered over 90 million views and caught everyone’s attention — including that of A24, who have made this their first ever animated series.
Get ready to head to hell when Hazbin Hotel hits Prime Video on January 19, 2024.
- Kristen Maldonado
Heartbreak High Season 2
From the representation to the writing to the fashion and the way they center queer characters and characters of color, Heartbreak High solidified itself as a must-watch teen drama. Netflix delivers a high stakes and high energy series with well-rounded characters that you won’t be able to help but fall in love with. Luckily they’ve picked up the show for a second season that is bound to be as authentic, edgy, and genuinely diverse as the first season.
Production for season 2 began in 2023 and we’ve already got two new characters added to the Hartley High roster. Sam Rechner joins the cast as Rowan Callaghan, a country boy with a passion for classic cinema who finds himself in a love triangle, while Kartanya Maynard plays Zoe Clarke, a celibacy advocate who threatens to bring down the SLT class from within.
Crossing my fingers it’s coming in 2024 to Netflix.
- Kristen Maldonado
Masters of the Air
Based on the book by Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air follows airmen who risk their lives during World War II with the 100th Bomb Group. It explores the dangerous conditions they dealt with and the brotherhood they forged. Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, and Ncuti Gatwa star.
Masters of the Air debuts January 26 on Apple TV+.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Smith follows two lonely strangers who land jobs working for a mysterious spy agency. Their new identities find them in an arranged marriage where they fight bad guys… and their budding feelings for each other. Created by Francesca Sloane and Donald Glover, the show is based on the 2005 film of the same name that featured Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star as John and Jane Smith. Erskine is most widely known for her hilarious role in the comedy series PEN15. Glover has had lead roles in comedy series as well, such as the cult classic Community and his outstanding series Atlanta. This duo is unexpected but also once put together, makes the perfect comedic sense. I, for one. am so excited to see these comedy legends pair up and to see their energy play out on screen — and absolutely smash it in this highly anticipated series.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith is set to premiere on February 2, 2024 on Prime Video.
- Danielle Forte
Palm Royale
Kristen Wiig stars as Maxine Simmons, a woman trying to break into Palm Beach high society in Palm Royale. Loosely based on Juliet McDaniel’s novel Mr. and Mrs. American Pie, the series also stars Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Leslie Bibb, Kaia Gerber, Laura Dern, Allison Janney, and Carol Burnett.
Palm Royale hits Apple TV+ on March 20.
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin Season 2
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin returns for a second season with an updated title that teases a summer mystery for our Little Liars. Bailee Madison even shared BTS photos from filming.
Coming in 2024.
- Kristen Maldonado
Squid Game Season 2
Squid Game became the most popular series in Netflix’s history in September of 2021. To this day, it remains as the first Korean show to hit number 1 on Netflix and altered the trajectory of how TV shows gain popularity.
With the cult following this show has gained, it’s safe to say that viewers have been missing the weekly tense, violent episodes that got them through the global pandemic. Lucky for us, the widely renowned series will be back in 2024!
- Danielle Forte
Ted
In a prequel to the 2012 film Ted, Seth MacFarlane is back as the foul mouthed teddy bear. Set in 1993, we learn the origins of Ted and John’s friendship.
Ted hits Peacock on January 11, 2024.
- Kristen Maldonado
The Brothers Sun
When an assassin kills the patriarch of a family, his eldest son heads home to protect his mother and brother who have been in the dark about the crime world he was in.
Michelle Yeoh stars in The Brothers Sun, out January 4 on Netflix.
- Kristen Maldonado
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's fantasy books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The books follow the adventures of the Grace children — twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory — after they move into the Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of fairies that they never knew existed.
The books were reimagined as a movie of the same name in 2008, but never as a series. Now, 16 years after the film, we get a TV series that will follow the Grace children on their explorations, episode by episode. The show is set to release exclusively on The Roku Channel sometime in 2024, with no specific date set.
- Danielle Forte
True Detective: Night Country
In True Detective: Night Country, detectives must dig into the haunted truths beneath the ice as they search for missing men who operated the Tsalal Arctic Research Station.
Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star in the fourth season of True Detective premiering January 14, 2024 on HBO.
- Kristen Maldonado
The Umbrella Academy Season 4
Umbrella Academy season 3 ended with the super siblings saving the world yet again, but this time ending up in a new universe without their powers.
While we don’t know too much about what’s next for the Hargreeves, this fourth and final season will be its shortest yet with only six episodes dropping in 2024.
- Kristen Maldonado
The Way Home Season 2
The Way Home picks up right where we left off after that insane cliffhanger at the end of season 1. Kat is convinced she knows where her missing brother went, but, as she works to bring Jacob home, new family secrets are uncovered in the past. Chyler Leigh, Sadie Laflamme-Snow, Andie MacDowell, and Evan Williams star.
The time travel family drama returns to Hallmark Channel on January 21.
- Kristen Maldonado
You Season 5
You follows the dangerously charming and obsessive Joe Goldberg as he seeks love in all the wrong places. After a mixed fourth season where it seems he finally found his match, what’s next for Joe?
Based on Caroline Kepnes’ debut novel, the series stars Penn Badgley and gained tremendous momentum when the show moved from Lifetime to Netflix. The fifth and final season is coming in 2024.
- Jordan Bohan
Young Royals Season 3
After two seasons of suspense, romance, and royal drama, fans could not be more excited for the third and final season of Young Royals.
The hit Swedish show details the life of Prince Wilhelm (Edvin Ryding) who falls for fellow classmate Simon (Omar Rudberg) at their private boarding school. From sex tape scandals to emotional breakups, Simon and Wilhelm always seem to come back to each other. In the end, will Wilhelm choose the crown or love?
The final season is set to premiere in March on Netflix.
- Jordan Bohan
