Television, after decades as Hollywood’s neglected younger sibling, is finally getting its turn in the spotlight. More content than ever is pumped and this will not change in 2019. Alongside a few favorite returning TV shows, a number of new ones have us excited about the next months to come. Below, I rounded up a list of old and new TV shows, that we can’t wait to watch.
The Crown
The Crown is entering its third season, with a new cast and it’s likely to feel like a new TV show all over again. The show will reportedly cover the 1960s into the 1970s, highlighting Prince Charles’s investiture, the Space Race, the 1976 Montreal Olympics, and more historical events from that period.
Netflix, third season premieres 2019
Game of Thrones
It’s the end of an era: this will be the last season of the fantastical cultural phenomenon. We will finally know who will finish out the series atop the iron throne—however, if the past seven seasons are any indication, it’s going to truly make this final season worth watching.
HBO, eighth season premieres 2019
Mrs. America
Cate Blanchett will make her US television debut in Mrs. America, a series based on the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. She will play Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative woman who vehemently opposed the piece of legislation—and in the eyes of 1970s feminists, the enemy incarnate.
FX, premieres 2019
Big Little Lies
Big Little Lies’s first season was a masterpiece of the pathologies of the suburban life, and the second season promises to keep up the hype. The only thing that could make this show better, is adding Meryl Streep to the cast.
HBO, second season premieres 2019
Les Misérables
Masterpiece PBS is bringing us the non-musical, non-movie version of Les Misérables. The all-star cast, lead by Lily Collins, Olivia Colman, David Oyelowo, and Dominic West, only fuels our anticipation.
BBC One, premieres 2019
Good Omens
Neil Gaiman’s novels have truly broken into the mainstream with Starz’s adaptation of American Gods, and now Amazon’s Good Omens. While there’s always a touch of humor in Gaiman’s work, Good Omens is perhaps his funniest story. David Tennant and Michael Sheen will lead the cast.
Amazon Prime Video, premieres 2019
Mrs.Wilson
Actress Ruth Wilson will play her own grandmother in this British period drama. The three-part mini-series, based on Alison Wilson’s memoirs, follows Wilson’s journey after the death of her husband—a man who, we soon learn, Mrs. Wilson may not have actually known very well at all.
PBS, premieres March 31, 2019
The Twilight Zone
For a few years there, sci-fi TV shows fans were touting Black Mirror as the new Twilight Zone—so it will be interesting to see how the actual reboot carves out space for itself.
CBS All Access, premieres 2019
Our Planet
Sometimes, you just need to hear Sir David Attenborough narrate the world. Netflix enlisted the creator of Planet Earth to make Our Planet, another docu-series.
Netflix, premieres April 5, 2019
The Eddy
As Netflix expands overseas, it’s naturally getting into foreign language shows. Such is the case with The Eddy, a Paris-based show from the mind of La La Land director Damien Chazelle (above). The series will feature dialogues in French, English, and Arabic.
Netflix, premieres 2019
Russian Doll
Amy Poehler puts her comedic stamp on this new TV show and we are more than happy to watch. Add in that Russian Doll will star Orange Is the New Black‘s Natasha Lyonne.
Netflix, premieres February 1, 2019
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy is yet another reboot with promise—although, showrunner Monica Owusu-Breen would like fans to know that it’s more of a sequel.
Network TBA, premieres 2019
Fosse/Verdon
This new FX series, starring Michelle Williams, is based on the lives of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, whose creative and romantic partnership helped to shape the midcentury Broadway scene.
FX, premieres 2019
Central Park Five
Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay is bringing the story of the Central Park Five—a group of wrongly convicted young black men—to the small screen. The four-part limited series will star Michael K. Williams, Vera Farmiga, and John Leguizamo.
Netflix, premieres 2019
