It’s been a cold and crazy winter. But as the weather starts to warm up and days get longer, a new batch of new and returning TV shows arrives to give us something to enjoy at home.
Across the various networks and streamers, springtime typically brings high-profile projects to catch the attention of viewers and awards pundits just in time for the start of Emmy season. It’s also a time of high stakes for networks luring advertisers with big-event television and old favorites, like CBS’ “The Amazing Race.” Disney+ will unveil the long-gestating reboot “Daredevil: Born Again” along with the second and final season of “Andor.” Netflix’s “Adolescence” might have the ingredients to be this year’s “Baby Reindeer”-like phenomenon, while other limited series tap into adapting true crime, like Paramount+’s “Happy Face” and Hulu’s “Good American Family.” Then there are big returns like HBO’s “The Last of Us,” Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Peacock’s “Poker Face” and Max’s “Hacks,” gearing up to wow viewers again with award-winning storytelling. Apple TV+ already has “Severance” for drama, but Seth Rogen’s “The Studio” is coming for the comedy crown with fresh Hollywood satire and Catherine O’Hara.
There’s a lot of TV to choose from, even in a contracted Hollywood, but here’s a starting point. Check out TheWrap’s staff picks for the 25 most anticipated shows set for release this spring.
“Daredevil: Born Again” (Disney+) — March 4
Netflix’s “Daredevil” represented the height of superhero storytelling during its peak — not just on TV, but wholesale. The three-season series charted ambitious, character-driven narratives, cast some of the finest actors in the industry to play them, and crafted a stylistically cohesive Hell’s Kitchen where the Man Without Fear fought to root out injustice with his bare hands. Now, the series is “Born Again” on Disney+ with several key cast members returning and a new creative team at the helm, including “Loki” Season 2 directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, “The Punisher” writer and executive producer Dario Scardapane, and Marvel comics writer turned MCU producer Sana Amanat. Can the combo create something as good or better than the original run? We can’t wait to find out. — Haleigh Foutch
“The Amazing Race” Season 37 (CBS) — March 5
Believe it or not, it’s been nearly a year since “The Amazing Race” was last on the air (in order to make room for “The Summit” on the fall 2024 schedule). Luckily for fans of the long-running, Emmy-winning CBS competition series, host Phil Keoghan is back for the show’s biggest race ever with Season 37. Not only will 14 brand-new teams of two be racing around the world this spring — marking the largest cast to date — but the 90-minute episodes will be chock-full of new twists and returning fan-favorite tasks. Case in point: the Fork in the Road, which forces pairs to choose between two routes, creating two parallel races and a double elimination in the process. “I’m really interested to see how the audience reacts to it. It definitely stirs things up,” Keoghan told TheWrap, teasing a new midseason twist. Plus, diehard “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fans may recognize a familiar face this time around. — JD Knapp
“Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney” (Netflix) — March 12
John Mulaney first played around with the idea of a talk show last year during the Netflix Is a Joke Festival. Now, the comedian is back with a series order that should last more than six episodes. Little is known about “Everybody’s Live” other than the fact that it’s, well, live and that its executive producers include Ashley Edens, Dave Ferguson and John Foy. But if this new talk show is anything like “Everybody’s in LA” prepare for delivery robots, random bouts of sunglasses and celebrity guests secretly calling in. There was a bizarre magic around “Everybody’s in LA,” a talk show that treated its celebrity guests with the same degree of respect and gravitas as it gave to random Angelenos and its experts. If “Everybody’s Live” is anything like its predecessor, prepare for surprising conversations and an astounding amount of compassion brought to this tired format. — Kayla Cobb
“The Wheel of Time” Season 3 (Prime Video) — March 13
“The Wheel of Time” — Amazon’s other big fantasy book adaptation — returns for a third season after a year off. Season 3 brings a resurgence of excitement to the show from book fans as the story begins adapting one of the strongest entries in the series — “The Shadow Rising.” With Rand (Josha Stradowski) revealed as The Dragon Reborn, he and his friends are once again on the run as some move to rally behind him while others operate to bring him down. Meanwhile, the Aes Sedai find themselves in a full-on civil war as the mages draw their battle lines for the coming battles. — Jacob Bryant
“Adolescence” (Netflix) — March 13
What would you do if your 13-year-old son was arrested for murdering a classmate? That’s the haunting question that lies at the center of Jack Thorne (“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “Enola Holmes”) and Stephen Graham’s (“This Is England,” “Boardwalk Empire”) “Adolescence.” Each episode of the four-episode drama is filmed in one continuous shot that drifts between characters. Unrelentingly tense, “Adolescence” holds a mirror to the hell that is being a teenager these days and refuses to let the audience look away. — KC
“Long Bright River” (Peacock) — March 13
Amanda Seyfried is back for another limited series — this time as a cop. “Long Bright River” follows Mickey (Seyfried), a police officer who patrols the Philadelphia neighborhood where she grew up. The neighborhood has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic, leaving several of her former classmates on the streets. When a series of murders, disguised as overdoses, begin to take place in her territory, Mickey realizes they’re hitting a little too close to home. Based on Liz Moore’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, the eight-episode limited thriller series will keep you wanting more. Seyfried executive produced the show alongside the author and showrunner-writer-director Nikki Toscano. — Tess Patton
“Dope Thief” (Apple TV+) — March 14
Ray (Brian Tyree Henry) and Manny (Wagner Moura) thought they had figured out the perfect crime: pose as DEA agents and rob low-level drug dealers. But when they accidentally rob a branch of a large-scale narcotics operation, their plan to scoop up drugs and money without hurting anyone turns into a waking nightmare. Created by “Top Gun: Maverick” and “The Batman” screenwriter Peter Craig with at least one episode directed by Ridley Scott, “Dope Thief” continues Apple’s delightful talent of pairing underrated critical darlings and letting them run loose. If you loved Henry in “Atlanta” and Moura in “Narcos,” chances are high you’re going to love this limited series. — KC
“Good American Family” (Hulu) — March 19
The curious case of Natalia Grace is getting the prestige limited series treatment at Hulu, and television powerhouse Ellen Pompeo is leading the charge. The actress stars (in her first TV leading role since cutting back on her “Grey’s Anatomy” commitments) and executive produces this eight-episode dramatization of the viral case of a family who adopt a little girl, only for strange events to lead them to believe she might be a lot older than she appears. “Good American Family” peels back the layers of the complicated legal battle through the perspective of Kristine Barnett (Pompeo), her husband Michael (Mark Duplass) and Natalia (Imogen Faith Reid). Just when you think you have a sense of what’s going on with this family, shifting views on past events and where things stand in the present day will keep you questioning who is the real monster in their midst. — Jose Alejandro Bastidas
“The Residence” (Netflix) — March 20
What happens when a state dinner at the White House is interrupted by a murder? You put the world’s most detail-oriented detective on the case. No, this isn’t the latest chapter of Rian Johnson’s hit whodunit film franchise. This is the premise of Shondaland’s latest TV show for Netflix. “The Residence” enlists Uzo Aduba to play Cordelia Cupp, and quickly makes her case for the murder mystery genre’s next favorite detective with her witty words, killer investigative instincts and love of birding. Created by Paul William Davies, “The Residence” plops Cordelia into the upstairs-downstairs dynamics inside the most famous house in the world to investigate the murder of the head usher — the man behind keeping the trains running behind the scenes. Each episode offers clues to the central mystery, while also highlighting the people in charge of the White House regardless of who is living in it at that moment. Come for the great performances from Aduba, Susan Kelechi Watson, Randall Park, Giancarlo Esposito, Kylie Minogue (yes, that Kylie Minogue) and so many more, and stay for the possibility of this being only the first of Cordelia Cupp’s sleuthing adventures. — JAB
“Happy Face” (Paramount+) — March 20
Don’t confuse this with the similarly named “Happy’s Place,” the Reba McEntire Peacock sitcom! This new series from “Elsbeth” and “Evil” producers Robert and Michelle King is an adaptation of the iHeartPodcasts 2018 true-crime podcast by Melissa Moore about her father Keith Jesperson, the infamous Happy Face Killer. Dennis Quaid stars as the imprisoned title character, who demands to see his daughter after years of no contact. Melissa, played by Annaleigh Ashford of “Welcome to Chippendales,” must determine if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. James Wolk (“Ordinary Joe”) and David Harewood (“Supergirl”) costar. — Sharon Knolle
“The Studio” (Apple TV+) — March 26
Get ready for the Hollywood industry satire of your dreams in “The Studio,” which stars Seth Rogen as a studio head struggling to balance the art of filmmaking with the company’s bottom line. Rogen plays Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of Continental Studios, who can’t help but make the wrong choice at all times in his quest to please the higher-ups and his own personal heroes. Along his path of misguided decisions, he’s backed up — sometimes to a fault — by his team, including Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Hahn and, at times, Catherine O’Hara. The Hollywood-centric TV show doesn’t disappoint in bringing star-power either, with Zac Efron, Charlize Theron and Martin Scorsese making appearances in the first teaser. — Loree Seitz
“Bosch: Legacy” Season 3 (Prime Video) — March 27
It’s been well over a year since the finale of “Bosch: Legacy” Season 2 debuted on Amazon’s now-defunct, ad-supported Freevee streaming service. Fans have been left waiting ever since to see the fallout of Maddie Bosch’s (Madison Lintz) discovery that her father, series lead Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver), ordered another man’s murder. Season 3 won’t just give viewers the resolution to that tense emotional cliffhanger, but also the conclusion of the “Bosch” spinoff series’ entire story. Amazon announced last year that the police procedural’s third season would be its last — much to the dismay of fans. As hard as it may be for viewers to let go of “Bosch: Legacy,” though, the series seems primed to go out with the same hard-hitting thrills and laid-back, confident swagger that have made it one of streaming’s most reliable Dad TV procedurals (complimentary) ever since it premiered. — Alex Welch
“Pulse” (Netflix) — April 3
It seems that medical dramas are popping up in every network and streaming service imaginable in 2025 — because we can’t get enough of them. “Pulse” is Netflix’s first English-language medical drama, from creators Carlton Cuse and Zoe Robyn, and promises to pack plenty of drama into the lives of these medical professionals. Dr. Danielle “Danny” Sims (Willa Fitzgerald) is a third-year surgical resident and rising star at the Miami hospital where she works. But personal relationships start to complicate the work dynamics just as she is named chief resident — and a hurricane is about to hit the city, which only makes things more tense. Justina Machado (“Once Upon a Time”) oversees the team of surgeons, which also includes C