The Unmissable New TV Shows To Add To Your Watch List
The small-screen offering for summer 2025 is truly thrilling – from long-awaited returns of award-winning shows to a new docu-series. Here’s what we’re tuning in to…
The Bear
Jeremy Allen White and his motley crew of wannabe chefs – Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Lionel Boyce et al – are back for a hotly anticipated fourth season, diving in straight after last season’s cliffhanger of a finale. Expect more starry cameos from Jamie Lee Curtis, Olivia Colman and Sarah Paulson – and, of course, lashings of high-octane culinary drama. Yes, chef! On FX now
Call Her Alex
Alex Cooper, the media mogul behind the chart-topping podcast Call Her Daddy – on which Cooper has interviewed everyone from Kamala Harris to Hailey Bieber – is one of the internet’s greatest success stories. This two-part docu-series explores Cooper’s meteoric ascent from young aspiring soccer player to founder of a flourishing media empire, as she prepares for her first live tour. On Hulu now
The Summer I Turned Pretty
What started as a modest YA trilogy by author Jenny Han has turned into a multi-generational TV obsession that has lasted two years and counting. Now, the grand finale is here, and millions the world over will be tuning in to find out how this high-drama love triangle between Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung) and brothers Conrad (Chris Briney) and Jeremiah Fisher (Gavin Casalegno) will end. On Prime Video from July 16
Wednesday
Goth girls rejoice: Jenna Ortega is back, dishing out more death stares in her sophomore season of Tim Burton’s glorious The Addams Family spin-off, Wednesday. This series promises even more misadventures, darker dalliances, shadier secrets and witchy weirdness, as well as a suspicious new headmaster, played by Steve Buscemi. And, in true Burton style, there is an original Danny Elfman score to really raise the eerieness levels. On Netflix from August 6
The Morning Show
It’s difficult to believe we are on the fourth season of the mesmerizing madness that is The Morning Show. Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon are back as the sparring executives at the top of the freshly merged UBA/NBN news network, and, as ever, this season is part-thriller, part-black comedy. With Jeremy Irons and Marion Cotillard joining the cast, it seems there is more mayhem just around the corner. On Apple TV+ from September 17
Sirens
Julianne Moore and Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) take top billing in this thrilling new Netflix series written by rising star Molly Smith Metzler (creator of 2021’s acclaimed show Maid, with Margaret Qualley.) When Devon DeWitt (Fahy) becomes concerned about her younger sister Simone’s involvement with an enigmatic philanthropist Michaela Kell, she follows her out to a luxurious beach estate where a series of strange events unfold over one tense weekend… Think Big Little Lies meets Nine Perfect Strangers… On Netflix now
Nine Perfect Strangers
Here to fill the White Lotus-shaped hole on our screens, Nicole Kidman is back as sinister guru Masha Dmitrichenko, mentoring a new group of unsuspecting, well-heeled strangers at her wellness retreat from hell. The action moves to the snowy Austrian Alps for this series, with a cast just as star-packed as the first: Annie Murphy (Schitt’s Creek), Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians), Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus) and Christine Baranski (Mamma Mia) are all on board to join Kidman for the ride. On Hulu from May 22
And Just Like That
Sex and the City icons Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda are back for another instalment of the SATC spin-off show. Expect more of their quintessential misadventures around New York, including martini sipping, dating and excellent outfits, courtesy of stylist Patricia Field. Will Carrie finally end up with Aidan? All will be revealed… On HBO Max from May 29
The Buccaneers
Corsets and comedy abound in this breakout show inspired by Edith Wharton’s 1938 novel. It follows a group of good-time girls who arrive from America into a repressed 1870s London – sparking a culture clash like no other. Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) joins the cast for season two, alongside regulars Kristine Froseth, Imogen Waterhouse and Alisha Boe. On Apple TV+ from June 18
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