The release schedule is changing after Hollywood’s historic double strikes. Here’s a platform-by-platform guide to what it takes to really make it on air in the new year.
Every broadcast network and streaming platform is focused on the same thing going into 2024: trying to get back up and running after a year in which Hollywood’s historic twin strikes shut down production for months.
Every broadcast network and streaming platform is focused on the same thing going into 2024: trying to get back up and running after a year in which Hollywood’s historic twin strikes shut down production for months.
In the wake of the writers and cast strike, streamers and networks are attempting to strengthen their programming pipelines as the work stoppage has disrupted many scripted comedies and dramas. For example, HBO quickly announced that third seasons of Euphoria and The White Lotus, as well as a sequel to The Last of Us, will now arrive in 2025.
Other platforms like Amazon have scrapped programming now that production delays are impacting their marketing plans for 2025, when the streamer has already planned heavy spending.
With all this in mind, The Hollywood Reporter has surveyed the TV landscape to see which new scripted (and U.S.-produced) comedies and dramas might actually make their debut in the coming year. Below is a look at each major platform and what to expect when the calendar turns to 2024. Remember, as in the past, there are no guarantees at play here as we have seen the global pandemic and labor strife result in even the biggest delays. Shows. (Premiere dates are indicated when available. Keep track of all the new and returning show launch dates with THR’s handy guide.
Amazon
The Jennifer Salke-led streamer has high hopes for the adaptation of the best-selling video game franchise Fallout from genre creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan (Westworld). The big-budget drama (out April 12) stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) alongside Walton Goggins, as Amazon hopes for success on par with HBO’s The Last of Us. Elsewhere, Donald Glover returns to the screen opposite Maya Erskine (PEN15) instead of Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the revised reboot of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Feb. 2), which also includes guest stars Sarah Paulson and Sharon Horgan. Set to meet high-profile expectations for Amazon is The Expats (January 26), Lulu Wang’s Nicole Kidman drama which Salke originated in 2018.
Apple
While we all wait to hear about the future of Ted Lasso, the iPhone maker and streamer continues to make a splash with compelling originals from high-profile talent. Among them is the star-studded comedy Palm Royale (Spring), a look at high society starring none other than Kristen Wiig, Ricky Martin, Laura Dern and Carol Burnett. Also expected in the spring is The Big Cigar, a limited series based on a 2012 Playboy article that chronicles the search for the founder of the Black Panther Party, who tries to escape to Cuba with the help of a filmmaker . Andre Holland stars. Meanwhile, in the first quarter, the streamer helmed by Jack Van Amburg and Jamie Ehrlich debuted The New Look (Feb. 14), a Paris-set historical fashion drama starring Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior, Juliette Binoche as Coco. Shown as Chanel and Maisie Williams. Catherine Dyer. And in January, Apple – not HBO – takes off with Masters of the Air, Band of Brothers produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, and The Pacific starring Austin Butler and Callum Turner.
Disney+
What is Disney+ without Marvel and Star Wars? After a year that saw the streamer watch legacy titles fizzle on TV (RIP, Muppets Mayhem, National Treasure, Willow, Mighty Ducks), Disney+ hopes Marvel fatigue won’t affect Hawkeye spinoff Echo, which stars Daredevil’s Charlie Cox stars alongside Alaqua Cox. Vincent D’Onofrio, when it arrives January 10, or the WandaVision offshoot Agatha: Darkhold Diaries with Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza (Q4). On the animated front, X-Men ’97 is likely to be a slam dunk when it arrives early in the new year. Over at Lucasfilm, expect both Leslie Headland’s Star Wars: The Acolyte starring Amandla Stenberg, Jodie Turner-Smith and Squid Game breakout Lee Jung-jae, as well as the Jude Law-led Skeleton Crew.
FX
FX scheduling is a prime example of the challenges everyone across the film and TV spectrum is facing. Shogun, the John Landgraf-led cable network’s biggest-budget show ever, was originally set to premiere in 2023, but is now set to launch on FX’s streaming home Hulu on February 27. As I wrote this time a year ago, the limited series based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel promises to be the cable network’s biggest international production to date. Elsewhere, the cable network known for quality beats The Veil, with Elisabeth Moss turning in a performance that industry observers are calling one of the Emmy-winner’s best ever. And what’s a highly anticipated list without the help of Ryan Murphy, who returns to FX after a seven-year break with the second season of Feud. The new season of the anthology, Capote vs. The Swans (January 31, next day on Hulu) stars Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, Tom Hollander and the late Treat Williams.
HBO
The Casey Bloys-led premium cable network’s show may have had one of the worst shows of 2023 since The Idol’s cancellation, but its 2024 is looking stacked. How’s that for a combo: Sam Mendes and Veep’s Armando Iannucci with a showrunner, John Brown, who takes on the beleaguered superhero genre in a half-hour comedy about the behind-the-scenes of a fictional Veep and Succession, among his credits. Counts both. Aya is leading the cast of the struggling superhero film, The Franchise (Fall), alongside Cash (You’re the Worst) and Himesh Patel (Yesterday). Then there’s The Regime (Spring), which will fill that thirst for The Crown and stars Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Hugh Grant and Martha Plimpton. Not to be outdone, the cabler has the A24 mini The Sympathizer, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, starring Robert Downey Jr. alongside Sandra Oh in multiple roles.
Hulu
Showtime on Mandy Patinkin’s family comedy may have passed, but Hulu has the beloved star back in Death and Other Details, a White Lotus-like murder-mystery drama set aboard a cruise liner, premiering January 16. Elsewhere, limited series We Were the Lucky Ones brings The Act grad Joey King back to the streamer for a Holocaust survival drama. Next is Interior Chinatown, a crime drama that feels like a show within a show, Jimmy O. Meets Jury Duty starring Yang and directed by Taika Waititi. Completing Hulu’s high-profile bows is Under the Bridge, a true crime series starring Riley Keough, Lily Gladstone and Archie Panjabi and produced by Hulu’s renowned hitmaker, Liz Tigelaar.
Max
Yes, Max is still the easiest way to watch HBO Originals without cable but its originals still have a prominent place on the platform. Just in time for the election year, the Bloys-led streamer will get political with Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec’s The Girls on the Bus, based on a chapter from author Amy Chozick’s memoir, Chasing Hillary. The series stars Supergirl graduate Melissa Benoist and marks a new chapter in Berlanti’s prolific TV career. Max will also be hard at work with parent company Warner Bros. Discovery’s IP on Dune: Prophecy, the long-running prequel series starring Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, and Travis Fimmel, as DC’s James Gunn TV era officially begins. The Batman offshoot is The Penguin. Starring Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti.
NETFLIX
Like FX, one of the streamer’s highest-profile new shows moved out of 2023 to 2024 as 3 Body Problems — creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss’ first show since Game of Thrones — finally aired March 21. Comes to. In the works since 2020, the drama which counts Alexander Wu as co-showrunner of the sci-fi epic stars Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver), Game of Thrones graduate John Bradley, Liam Cunningham and Jonathan Pryce. Elsewhere, to say that interest in the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender (February 22) is high would be an understatement as Netflix launched a marketing campaign for the drama featuring Daniel Dae Kim, Amber Midthunder and Utkarsh Ambudkar in November Was. 100-day marker. On the comedy front, The Good Place creator Mike Schur has re-teamed with Ted Danson for a new version of The Mole Agent and Dead to Me, Liz Feldman joins Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow for No Good Deed An all-star cast has been prepared. Linda Cardellini, Luke Wilson and Abbi Jacobson.
Paramount+
Billy Bob Thornton is heading to West Texas for Taylor Sheridan’s latest series, Land Man, based on the Boomtown podcast about the oil industry. The streamer also hopes to see Showtime’s George Clooney-directed The Department arrive in 2024.
Peacock
A relic of the Susan Rovner era at the streamer, Seth MacFarlane’s live-action Ted (January 11) prequel series takes Talking Teddy back to 1993, with Parenthood’s Max Burkholder taking on the role previously played by Mark Wahlberg in the films. Elsewhere, the streamer brings Annette Bening back to television in Apples Never Fall, based on the novel by Big Little Lies’ Liane Moriarty. Sam Neill and Alison Brie co-star in the family/mystery drama. Also coming is Those About to Die, inspired by Daniel Mannix’s acclaimed novel, a multi-season drama set in the world of ancient Rome’s gladiatorial games from director and executive producer Roland Emmerich and starring Anthony Hopkins and Iwan Rheon.
