Each broadcast community and streaming platform is targeted on the identical factor heading into 2024: Making an attempt to get again up and operating following a yr through which Hollywood’s historic twin strikes shut down manufacturing for months.
Within the wake of the writers and performers strikes, streamers and networks are trying to solidify their programming pipelines as a number of scripted comedies and dramas have been hampered by the work stoppage. HBO, for instance, was fast to announce that the third seasons of Euphoria and The White Lotus in addition to the sophomore run of The Final of Us will now arrive in 2025. Different platforms, like Amazon, have scrapped programming as a result of delayed manufacturing is now affecting their advertising plans for 2025, when the streamer already has a heavy spend deliberate.
With all that in thoughts, The Hollywood Reporter has surveyed the TV panorama to see what new scripted (and U.S.-produced) comedies and dramas may very well make their debuts within the yr forward. Under is a have a look at every of the key platforms and what to anticipate because the calendar turns to 2024. Bear in mind, as previously, there isn’t a assure at play right here as we’ve seen world pandemics and labor strife delay even the most important of exhibits. (Premiere dates indicated when obtainable. Preserve observe of all the brand new and returning present launch dates with THR’s helpful information.)
AMAZON
The Jennifer Salke-led streamer has excessive hopes for its adaptation of best-selling online game franchise Fallout, from style producers Lisa Pleasure and Jonathan Nolan (Westworld). The massive-budget drama (due April 12) stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) reverse Walton Goggins as Amazon hopes for fulfillment akin to HBO’s The Final of Us. Elsewhere, Donald Glover returns to the display reverse Maya Erskine (PEN15) as a substitute of Phoebe Waller-Bridge within the tweaked reboot of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Feb. 2)that additionally options Sarah Paulson and Sharon Horgan amongst its visitor forged. Rounding out the high-profile expectations for Amazon is Expats (Jan. 26), the Nicole Kidman drama from Lulu Wang that Salke picked up all the way in which again in 2018.
APPLE
Whereas we’re all ready to listen to about the way forward for Ted Lasso, the iPhone maker and streamer continues make a splash with compelling originals characteristic high-profile expertise. Amongst them is the star-studded comedy Palm Royale (spring), a have a look at high-society that includes the likes of Kristen Wiig, Ricky Martin, Laura Dern and none apart from Carol Burnett. Additionally anticipated within the spring is The Huge Cigar, a restricted collection primarily based on the 2012 Playboy article that chronicles the manhunt for the founding father of the Black Panther get together who, with the assistance of a movie producer, tries to flee to Cuba. Andre Holland stars. Within the first quarter, in the meantime, the streamer overseen by Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht debuts The New Look (Feb. 14), a Paris-set historic trend drama that includes Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior, Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel and Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior. And in January, Apple — not HBO — takes flight with Masters of the Air, the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks-produced follow-up to Band of Brothers and The Pacific starring Austin Butler and Callum Turner.
DISNEY+
What’s Disney+ with out Marvel and Star Wars fare? After a yr through which the streamer watched TV takes on legacy titles fizzle (RIP, Muppets Mayhem, Nationwide Treasure, Willow, Mighty Geese), Disney+ is hoping Marvel fatigue gained’t affect Hawkeye spinoff Echo, starring Alaqua Cox alongside Daredevil’s Charlie Cox and Vincent D’ONofrio, when it arrives Jan. 10, or WandaVision offshoot Agatha: Darkhold Diaries with Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza (This fall). On the animated entrance, X-Males ’97 is more likely to be a slam dunk when it arrives early within the new yr. Over at Lucasfilm, count on each Leslye Headland’s Star Wars: The Acolyte starring Amandla Stenberg, Jodie Turner-Smith and Squid Sport breakout Lee Jung-jae, in addition to the Jude Regulation-led Skeleton Crew.
FX
FX is a first-rate instance of the scheduling challenges that everybody throughout the movie and TV spectrum is going through. Shogun, the biggest-budgeted present the John Landgraf-led cable community has ever mounted, was initially poised to bow in 2023 however is now firmly on the schedule to launch Feb. 27 on Hulu, FX’s streaming house. As I wrote this time a yr in the past, the restricted collection primarily based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel guarantees to be the cable community’s largest worldwide scale manufacturing thus far. Elsewhere, the cable community recognized for high quality bows The Veil, starring Elisabeth Moss in a efficiency that business observers are calling one of many Emmy-winner’s greatest but. And what’s a most-anticipated listing with no serving to of Ryan Murphy, who returns to FX after a seven-year break with the second season of Feud. The brand new season of the anthology, Capote vs. The Swans (Jan. 31, the subsequent day on Hulu) that includes Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloe Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Tom Hollander and the late Deal with Williams.
HBO
The Casey Bloys-led premium cable community might have had one of many worst exhibits of 2023 with since canceled The Idol, however its 2024 seems to be stacked. How’s this for a combo: Sam Mendes and Veep’s Armando Iannucci with a showrunner, Jon Brown, who counts each Veep and Succession amongst his credit taking over the beleaguered superhero style in a half-hour comedy concerning the behind-the-scenes of a fictional struggling superhero film with Aya Money (You’re the Worst) and Himesh Patel (Yesterday) main the forged of The Franchise (fall). Then there’s The Regime (spring), which can fill The Crown thirst and includes a forged that features Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Hugh Grant and Martha Plimpton. To not be outdone, the cabler has the A24 mini The Sympathizer, primarily based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the identical title, that options Robert Downey Jr. taking part in a number of roles reverse Sandra Oh.
HULU
Showtime might have handed on Mandy Patinkin’s household comedy however Hulu has the beloved star on the case in Dying and Different Particulars, a White Lotus-like murder-mystery drama set aboard a cruise liner due Jan. 16. Elsewhere, restricted collection We Had been the Fortunate Ones brings The Act grad Joey King again to the streamer for the Holocaust survival drama. Then there’s Inside Chinatown, against the law drama that appears like a present inside a present meets Jury Obligation starring Jimmy O. Yang and directed by Taika Waititi. Rounding out Hulu’s high-profile bows is Beneath the Bridge, a real crime collection starring Riley Keough, Lily Gladstone and Archie Panjabi and exec produced by Hulu’s go-to hitmaker, Liz Tigelaar.
MAX
Sure, Max continues to be the simplest method to watch HBO originals with out cable however its originals nonetheless have a distinguished place on the platform. Timed to election yr, the Bloys-led streamer will get political with Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec’s The Ladies on the Bus, primarily based on a chapter in creator Amy Chozick’s memoir, Chasing Hilary. The collection stars Supergirl grad Melissa Benoist and marks a brand new chapter in Berlanti’s prolific TV profession. Max will even lean exhausting into mum or dad firm Warner Bros. Discovery’s trove of IP with Dune: Prophecy, the long-gestating prequel collection starring Emily Watson, Olivia Williams and Travis Fimmel, as DC’s James Gunn TV period formally begins with The Batman offshoot The Penguin starring Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti.
NETFLIX
Like FX, one of many streamer’s highest-profile new exhibits was bumped out of 2023 and into 2024 as 3 Physique Drawback — the primary post-Sport of Thrones present from creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss — lastly arrives March 21. Within the works since 2020, the drama that counts Alexander Woo as co-showrunner on the sci-fi epic stars Eiza González (Child Driver), Sport of Thrones grads John Bradley, Liam Cunningham and Jonathan Pryce, amongst others. Elsewhere, to say the curiosity within the live-action Avatar: The Final Airbender (Feb. 22)is excessive can be an understatement as Netflix began the advertising push for the drama that includes Daniel Dae Kim, Amber Midthunder and Utkarsh Ambudkar in November tied to the 100-day marker. On the comedy entrance, The Good Place creator Mike Schur re-teams with Ted Danson for a brand new tackle The Mole Agent and Lifeless to Me’s Liz Feldman has lined up an all-star forged for No Good Deed with Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow, Linda Cardellini, Luke Wilson and Abbi Jacobson.
PARAMOUNT+
Billy Bob Thornton heads to West Texas for Taylor Sheridan’s latest collection, Land Man, primarily based on the Boomtown podcast concerning the oil business. The streamer can also be anticipated to see Showtime’s George Clooney-directed The Division bow in 2024.
PEACOCK
A remnant from the Susan Rovner period on the streamer, Seth MacFarlane’s live-action Ted (Jan. 11) prequel collection takes the speaking teddy again to 1993 with Parenthood’s Max Burkholder taking over the function beforehand performed by Mark Wahlberg within the movies. Elsewhere, the streamer brings Annette Bening again to tv in Apples By no means Fall, primarily based on the novel by Huge Little Lies’ Liane Moriarty. Sam Neill and Alison Brie co-star within the household/thriller drama. Additionally coming is These About to Die, impressed by Daniel Mannix’s acclaimed novel, is a multi-season drama set on the planet of historical Rome’s gladiatorial sports activities from director and exec producer Roland Emmerich and starring Anthony Hopkins and Iwan Rheon.
