While the television schedule for 2024 might not be exactly what we wanted nor expected following the strikes, but there are still a good number of tv shows on our list of most anticipated tv shows of 2024.
The list is in no particular order.
Echo (Disney+)
Following the events of Hawkeye in New York City, Maya Lopez is being pursued by Wilson Fisk’s organization, leading her to return to her hometown in Oklahoma, where she must come to terms with her past, reconnect with her Native American roots, and embrace her family and community.
Premieres: January 9
Criminal Record (Apple TV+)
Follows two brilliant detectives in a tug of war over a historic murder conviction, dealing with issues of race, institutional failure, and the quest to find common ground in a polarized Britain.
Premieres: January 10
The Women in the Wall (Showtime)
Lorna Brady wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house with no idea who the dead woman is. She doubts herself, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking.
Premieres: January 19
In the Know (Peacock)
Lauren Caspian is the host of In the Know, public radio’s third most popular interview program. He’s a well-meaning, hypocritical nimrod. He’s also a stop motion puppet.
Premieres: January 25
Genius: MLK/X (National Geographic / Hulu)
Genius: MLK/X follows both King and X from their formative years, where they were molded by strong fathers and traumatic injustices, to their rich, parallel stories as they shaped their identities and became the change they wished to see in the world.
Premieres: February 1
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Amazon Prime Video)
Two strangers land jobs with a spy agency that offers them a life of espionage, wealth, and travel. The catch: new identities in an arranged marriage.
Premieres: February 2
Ghosts: Season 3 (CBS)
Married New Yorkers Samantha and Jay Arondekar believe that their dreams have come true when they inherit a beautiful country house from Sophie Woodstone, Sam’s great aunt, only to find that it is falling apart and inhabited by ghosts who died on the property and are now bound to the area, appearing as they did at the times of their deaths, until they can reach the afterlife. Jay cannot see or hear the ghosts, but Sam can after a near-death experience.
Premieres: February 15
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)
The love story between Rick and Michonne, changed by a world that is constantly changing, will they find themselves in a war against the living or will they discover that they too are The Walking Dead.
Premieres: February 25
3 Body Problem (Netflix)
Ye Wenjie is an astrophysicist who saw her father brutally murdered during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Later, she was conscripted by the military because of her scientific background and sent to a secret radar base in a remote region of China. Her fateful decision in the 1960s echoes across space and time to a group of scientists in the present day, forcing them to face humanity’s greatest threat.
Premieres: March 21
Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
The show depicts the aftermath of an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in an alternate history where advancements in nuclear technology after WWII led to the emergence of a retrofuturistic society and a subsequent resource war. The survivors took refuge in fallout bunkers known as Vaults built to preserve humanity in the event of nuclear annihilation. Two centuries later, a young woman, a descendant of the original “Vault Dwellers” from one of many Vaults, leaves behind the only life she’s ever known to venture out into the dangerously hostile and savage Wasteland of a devastated Los Angeles.
Premieres: April 12
The Acolyte (Disney+)
The Acolyte is set at the end of The High Republic era in a world of “shadowy secrets and emerging dark side powers”, approximately 100 years before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.
Premieres: TBA 2024
Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+)
Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk try to put their rivalry and darker alter-egos aside to help the people of New York, only for their pasts to “catch up to them”.
Premieres: TBA 2024
Agatha: Darkhold Diaries (Disney+)
Agatha Harkness finds herself powerless after breaking out of her containment in Westview, New Jersey. She looks to some unlikely allies to join her on her quest to regain her former powers.
Premieres: TBA 2024
Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas (Netflix)
Scott Ward and his rescue crew’s efforts to protect all they love during the first phases of the mysterious zombie outbreak in Vegas.
Premieres: TBA 2024
Kite Man: Hell Yeah! (MAX)
The adventures of the minor villain Kite Man as he commits crimes to support the purchase of Noonan’s, Gotham’s seediest dive bar.
Premieres: TBA 2024
Marvel Zombies (Disney+)
Re-imagines the marvel universe as a new generation of heroes battle against an ever-spreading zombie scourge.
Premieres: TBA 2024
The Night Agent: Season 2 (Netflix)
Low-level FBI agent Peter Sutherland works in the basement of the White House manning a phone that never rings – until the night it does, propelling him into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the Oval Office.
Premieres: TBA 2024
Parish (AMC)
Follows a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to pick-up a Zimbabwean gangster mostly known for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
Premieres: TBA 2024
The Penguin (MAX)
Taking place one week following the events of The Batman, the series explores the rise to power of Oswald “Oz” Cobblepot / Penguin in Gotham City’s criminal underworld.
Premieres: TBA 2024
X-Men ’97 (Disney+)
X-Men ’97 was created by Beau DeMayo for the streaming service Disney+, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team X-Men. It serves as a revival of X-Men: The Animated Series, and the plot will continue where the original series left off.
Premieres: TBA 2024
