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The Unmissable New TV Shows To Add To Your Watch List

Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri in The Bear

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…

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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 goes behind the scenes with media mogul Alex Cooper

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

l-r: Lola Tung, Gavin Casalegno, Christopher Briney, Rain Spencer and Sean Kaufman star in The Summer I Turned Pretty

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

Jenna Ortega returns as Wednesday in Tim Burton’s The Addams Family spin-off

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

Jennifer Aniston in season four of The Morning Show

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

Julianne Moore stars in Sirens

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 StrangersOn Netflix now

Nicole Kidman returns as the enigmatic Masha Dmitrichenko in Nine Perfect Strangers

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

Sarah Jessica Parker and Sarita Choudhury complementing the kitchen decor in And Just Like That

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

L-R: Josie Totah, Alisha Boe, Aubri Ibrag and Kristine Frøseth star in The Buccaneers

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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