The New Shows of the 2025 Spring TV Season

It's not just flowers and allergy meds popping up in the spring; the season of rebirth has become one of the most fruitful for quality television series, as networks look to get their best out in time for Emmy voting season and before the doldrums of the summer. But good luck keeping track of everything coming out on your own! With eleventy billion streaming services out there competing for your hard-earned dollars, new shows are pouring down faster than you can watch them. 

We're here to help! To aid in your quest to be on top of all things TV, we've assembled all the noteworthy new series coming out this spring. From a Marvel superhero reborn to Jon Hamm starring in yet another show (how does he find the time?), from killer fathers to alleged scheming adopted daughters, from video game adaptations to a series that's just about the love of video games, here are the new shows to watch out for. 

ALSO: TV Guide's spring TV guide / The most anticipated TV shows of the spring

The descriptive title gives a lot of the story away: When a small plane carrying nine passengers crashes in the jungles of Mexico, an unknown killer begins brutally picking them off one by one. MGM+ promises the mystery thriller has a huge reveal worth sticking around for in the finale. (But what else is it going to say?) Eric McCormack stars.

Premieres Sunday, March 2 at 9/8c on MGM+

Championship team bandwagoners, here's your chance to brush up on the history of your new favorite basketball squad so the next time you get a bowl of chowder you can seem legit while chatting hoops with a real Celtics fan. This docuseries, produced by Bill Simmons (who else?), charts the history of the Boston Celtics, the winningest team in the NBA.

Premieres Monday, March 3 at 9/8c on HBO and Max

Netflix's brutal Marvel series Daredevil is getting a second chance at life after it was canceled in 2018. This continuation heads to Disney+ with a lot of the same cast, including Charlie Cox as the blind superhero who also passed the New York State Bar Exam. Daredevil: Born Again will skip forward a few years to catch up with the current MCU timeline, when Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Vincent D'Onofrio) is running for mayor. 

Premieres Tuesday, March 4 on Disney+

Was Denise Richards and Her Starship Troopers already taken? Denise Richards rejoins the ranks of Bravolebrities — she was a main cast member on Seasons 9 and 10 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills — with her own docuseries following her family life, which, sure, fine, as long as this fast-tracks her to being on the next season of The Traitors. 

Premieres Tuesday, March 4 at 9/8c on Bravo

Literal duchess Meghan Markle attempts to fulfill her and her hubby's disastrous contract with Netflix with this lifestyle show about how to "take something pretty ordinary and elevate it" Martha Stewart-style, be it in the kitchen, garden, or dining room of your breathtaking California estate. Or basement studio apartment. Whichever you have!

Premieres Tuesday, March 4 on Netflix

The docuseries follows the case of a woman who was beaten to death by Akshaya Kubiak, a former star of the Showtime series Gigolos, which ran for six seasons from 2011 to 2016. Sin City Gigolo will feature footage from that series and examine how Kubiak's participation in it may have played a part in the murder.

Premieres Tuesday, March 4 on Paramount+

Two spoiled Pakistani American brothers (Saagar Shaikh and Asif Ali) living off their father's success story as the owner of a franchise of corner stores learn the value of a work ethic when their dad dies and they try to take over the business. One catch: They didn't know their dad was secretly a big-time drug dealer. 

Premieres Thursday, March 6 on Hulu

You know you've made it as a celebrity when you get a show about your life as a kid. Following in the footsteps of Chris Rock and Dwayne Johnson (and Sheldon Cooper), Kevin Hart relives his childhood in this animated series set in 1993 Philadelphia. Wanda Sykes and Deon Cole join Hart as voice actors.

Premieres Thursday, March 6 on BET+

The four-part docuseries' goooooooooal is to bring viewers inside the world of the 2024 National Women's Soccer League playoffs and championship. 

Premieres Thursday, March 6 on Prime Video

Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville stars as a British television journalist whose career goes down the loo after an online accusation that he made a sexist joke. Sherlock's Stephen Moffat created the series, which dives headfirst into the idea of cancel culture. Karen Gillan also stars.

Premieres Thursday, March 6 on BritBox

Treasured trash! Garbagey goodness! Rubbish riches! Wasteful wealth! Littered lavishness! You get the idea. Some guys find valuables in other people's trash in this docuseries.

Premieres Sunday, March 9 at 10/9c on Discovery

The latest animated series on Adult Swim follows a trio of female friends in a future version of South Central Los Angeles, and like most Adult Swim shows, it is as weird as it is hilarious.

Premieres Monday, March 10 at 12:15 a.m. ET on Adult Swim

Following seasons dedicated to the Boston Marathon bomber and O.J. Simpson, Netflix's docuseries continues with a recounting of the pursuit of Osama bin Laden following the 9/11 attacks. 

Premieres Monday, March 10 on Netflix

As Netflix continues to break the mold of television, it is also somehow trying to be a lot like traditional television? The streamer's long quest for a competent live talk show seems to have come to an end with John Mulaney's experimental series, which is molded on the successful limited run of 2024's John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA. The new version will keep Richard Kind as co-host and air weekly on Wednesdays for 12 weeks.

Premieres Wednesday, March 12 on Netflix

This four-episode British crime drama about a 13-year-old boy who is arrested for the murder of one of his classmates is already pretty intense, but things get extra intense because of the show's gimmick/technical approach: Each of the four hour-long episodes is shot in a single, continuous take. The always great Stephen Graham, who co-created the show, stars.

Premieres Thursday, March 13 on Netflix

Amanda Seyfried plays a Philadelphia cop whose beat covers a neighborhood hard hit by the opioid crisis in this suspense thriller, and after a series of murders rocks the community, she becomes personally connected to the case.

Premieres Thursday, March 13 on Peacock

Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura star as two pals from Philadelphia who pose as DEA agents to rob a drug house in the countryside, only to accidentally stumble on one of the biggest illegal narcotics operations on the East Coast. Despite the serious subject matter, Dope Thief cuts the drama with comedy as the two get more than they can handle.

Premieres Friday, March 14 on Apple TV+

Natalia Grace fans, Grey's Anatomy fans, epic handshaking meme. Ellen Pompeo stars in this limited series based on the true case of a Midwestern couple (Pompeo, Mark Duplass) who adopted a child they believed had dwarfism, but later came to believe that she may have been an adult posing as a child.

Premieres Wednesday, March 19 on Hulu

Peep Show's David Mitchell — need we say more? The comedian is perfectly cast as a persnickety puzzle pro who investigates the disappearance of his identical twin, who just so happens to be a police detective. So what does he do? He pretends to be his brother! The only catch is he also has to solve random murder cases. This is one for all you Monk fans.

Premieres Thursday, March 20 on BritBox

Happy Face is inspired by the true story of Melissa G. Moore, who as a teen learned that her father was the notorious Happy Face Killer. In the drama, Melissa (Annaleigh Ashford) must reconnect with her incarcerated father (Dennis Quaid) in order to stop a man from being charged with a murder her father may have committed. 

Premieres Thursday, March 20 on Paramount+

This series stars Uzo Aduba as a detective investigating a murder at the White House, where everyone is a suspect. It sounds serious, but it's a whodunit comedy. Randall Park, Giancarlo Esposito, and Ken Marino also star. 

Premieres Thursday, March 20 on Netflix

Magician David Blaine travels the world in search of people who accomplish astonishing feats without the use of deception, mirrors, flamboyant shirts, and other magic trickery. 

Premieres Sunday, March 23 at 9/8c on Nat Geo

The latest love child to come from the union of mystery author Harlan Coben and Netflix is Caught, an adaptation of Coben's 2010 novel about a journalist investigating the disappearance of a missing girl. Like many of Coben's previous Netflix adaptations, Caught is an international production, this time coming from Argentina. 

Premieres Wednesday, March 26 on Netflix

Netflix's answer to The Traitors sees 12 strangers assemble in a large house where one is secretly given $1 million, and the others have to deduce who the millionaire is; if they get it right, the cash-holder is eliminated and the money passes to someone else. Whoever is last with the cash takes it home. Peter Serafinowicz hosts.

Premieres Wednesday, March 26 on Netflix

Seth Rogen opens up his Rolodex and calls in favors from all of his celebrity friends for The Studio, a cameo-packed comedy about a new film studio head (Rogen) trying to make cinema in an industry that only wants to make movies — preferably based on well-recognized brands. Guest stars playing themselves include Martin Scorsese, Zac Efron, and Olivia Wilde, and the regular cast features Ike Barinholtz, Catherine O'Hara, and Kathryn Hahn. 

Premieres Wednesday, March 26 on Apple TV+

Many of Mythic Quest's best episodes are standalone stories that break away from the show's day-to-day (Season 1's "A Dark Quiet Death" and "Quarantine," Season 2's "Backstory!"), so Apple decided to make Mythic Quest's standalone episodes into their own spin-off. Side Quest's four episodes are tangentially connected to Mythic Quest, covering different aspects of the gaming industry, with a few MQ cameos. Expect lots of humor and heart.

Premieres Wednesday, March 26 on Apple TV+

Sibling YouTube superstars Logan and Jake Paul star in this unfiltered* reality series about their lives, because I guess the two pro athletes, content creators, internet icons, self-care businessmen, Mike Tyson punchers, and sports drink makers didn't have enough exposure. 
(*We'll see how unfiltered!)

Premieres Thursday, March 27 on Max

Hailing from Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, the creators of Will & Grace, this comedy stars Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer, and Nathan Lee Graham as three gay friends who move in together in Palm Springs. 

Premieres Friday, March 28 on Hulu

Liane Moriarty could write her name on a cocktail napkin and streamers would enter a bidding war to adapt it. The Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers author's next adaptation will be another drama stuffed with secrets; in it, a woman (Teresa Palmer) inherits her ex's great-aunt's house and becomes entangled with his family's lives.

Premieres Sunday, March 30 on Sundance Now and AMC+

MobLand didn't even announce its title or premiere date until just over a month before its premiere date; should you be worried? Not with The Gentlemen's Guy Ritchie behind it and a cast that includes Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, and Helen Mirren. Though the series started as a prequel to Showtime's Ray Donovan, it's now a standalone drama about an organized crime family. 

Premieres Sunday, March 30 on Paramount+

The team behind the Emmy-winning 9/11: One Day in America looks at the Oklahoma City Bombing in this three-part docuseries (premiering all in one night) that offers a moment-by-moment account of the attack and the manhunt that ensued. 

Premieres Wednesday, April 2 at 8/7c on National Geographic and Thursday, April 3 on Disney+ and Hulu

Kevin Bacon plays Hub Halloran, a bounty hunter who gets a second chance at life after he's murdered, courtesy of a resurrection by the devil himself. (Is there a catch?) Now he's hunting down wayward demons and sending them back to hell, while giving life — and country music (!?!?) — a second chance. 

Premieres Thursday, April 3 on Prime Video

Hungry for more video game adaptations and anime-style series, Netflix is killing two birds with one stone with Devil May Cry. The series is an adaptation of the popular Capcom games following demon hunter Dante. Adi Shankar, who developed Netflix's Castlevania show, is behind it. A Devil May Cry anime was previously released in 2007, but this is not related to it.

Premieres Thursday, April 3 on Netflix

As if rising prices and tasteless dating shows weren't enough signs that streaming TV is just like your old TV, here come the procedurals. Willa Fitzgerald and Colin Woodell star in Pulse, a medical procedural drama follow doctors during their high-intensity work days and romantic work nights. It's Grey's Anatomy, but because it's on Netflix, you might hear a few bad words and see a butt cheek or two.

Premieres Thursday, April 3 on Netflix

Inspired by the true story of Molly Kochan, which was the source of a Wondery podcast, FX's Dying for Sex stars Michelle Williams as a woman who, after a Stage IV cancer diagnosis, leaves her husband (Jay Duplass) to explore the "what ifs" of her sexual desires. Jenny Slate also stars.

Premieres Friday, April 4 on Hulu

Cowboy Bebop (the anime, not the Netflix show) director Shinichirō Watanabe brings his unique flair to this new anime, which follows a band of secret agents on a search for a vaccine to save the world after a miracle drug has deadly side effects. We can already hear the groovy tunes Watanabe is known for.

Premieres Saturday, April 5 at midnight on Adult Swim

The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox follows the Beantown baseballers through the 2024 season, which is perfect for fans of the team this year because they can relive a time when Rafael Devers could hit a baseball.

Premieres Tuesday, April 8 on Netflix

Students at a prestigious Pennsylvania high school were thrilled when they were issued new MacBooks, but little did they know that school authorities were peeping into their personal lives by activating webcams, collecting screengrabs, and tracking their messages. The four-part docuseries follows a 15-year-old student who filed a lawsuit against the school after he was accused of selling drugs.

Premieres Tuesday, April 8 on Prime Video

This three-episode docuseries dives into the world of child YouTube influencers, specifically Piper Rockelle and The Squad, and the totally disgusting and vile alleged behavior of Piper's mom, Tiffany Smith, who, according to the series, took advantage of children for the sake of monetizing a brand. It's a heartbreaking look at horrific parenting and the dangers of social media. Touch some grass, kids! And don't film it! 

Premieres Wednesday, April 9 on Netflix

This comedy stars Anna Lambe as an Inuk woman living in a small Arctic town as she struggles with the very public fallout of her marriage. North of North is noteworthy for its authentic portrayal of the culture in Nunavut, featuring a writing staff, directors, and crew primarily of Indigenous origins.

Premieres Thursday, April 10 on Netflix

Netflix's love for anime continues with Moonrise, the latest from WIT Studio (Spy X Family) and director Masashi Koizuka (Attack on Titan). The series is set in the far future, when moon colonists rise up against the Earth, which has essentially scuttled everything it doesn't want — including hardened criminals — to the orbiting space rock.

Premieres Thursday, April 10 on Netflix

Hulu's new reality competition series Got to Get Out locks 20 people — almost half of them reality stars — in a house where the object is to stay as long as you can to split an ever-increasing pot of up to $1 million... or bolt early and take what's accumulated for yourself. The problem? Everyone else is watching and will do whatever they can to keep everyone inside. Simu Liu hosts, and cast members include Spencer Pratt and Omarosa. 

Premieres Friday, April 11 on Hulu

Jon Hamm, TV's busiest leading man, plays an upper-crust financier whose crumbled marriage and job loss leave him with little choice but to find an alternative source of income to maintain appearances. The problem is that his solution is to steal from his neighbors. Amanda Peet and Olivia Munn also star.

Premieres Friday, April 11 on Apple TV+

It wouldn't be a season of TV without a Sherlock Holmes series, would it? Just a few months after CBS's Watson premiered, The CW is offering its own take in Sherlock & Daughter, which, you'll never guess, is about the legendary detective (played by David Thewlis) and his daughter (played by Blu Hunt). Well, maybe, as the American girl heads to England because she thinks Sherlock is her dad. This is like old school CW!

Premieres Wednesday, April 16 at 9/8c on The CW

David Oyelowo stars as a man freshly out of jail trying to reconnect with his family and make his own way as an inventor in this oddball comedy-drama set in the 1960s. With flourishes of divine intervention, Government Cheese dabbles in the surrealistic story of a man guided by destiny.

Premieres Wednesday, April 16 on Apple TV+

Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady created this adult animated series that follows the Husseins, an upbeat and patriotic Muslim family living in post-9/11 America. Youssef, Alia Shawkat, Chris Redd, and Mandy Moore provide voices.

Premieres Thursday, April 17 on Prime Video

Trotting along in the hoofprints of Yellowstone's success is this romance-fueled Western set in Texas Hill Country, following three ranching families and their intersecting relationships. Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly star.

Premieres Thursday, April 17 on Netflix

This five-part limited series stars Euphoria heartthrob Jacob Elordi as Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor whose older years are troubled by his memories of having an affair with his uncle's wife (Odessa Young) and being a prisoner of war during WWII. It is based on the 2014 Booker Prize winning novel by Richard Flanagan.

Premieres Friday, April 18 on Prime Video

Netflix is recycling its reality stars in Battle Camp, which sees leads from Squid Game: The Challenge, Cheer, Too Hot to Handle, and more compete against each other in challenges to win a bunch of money. As if the randomness of reality competition eliminations weren't enough, this one involves a spinning wheel that decides who stays and who goes.

Premieres Wednesday, April 23 on Netflix

Carlos Alcaraz, the most exciting tennis player in years, gets his own docuseries following his 2024 campaign, in which he won the French Open and Wimbledon to become the youngest player ever to win both in the same year. My Way will also follow Carlos off the court, where he's become one of the most magnetic figures in sport.

Premieres Wednesday, April 23 on Netflix

Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, brings her signature chatterbox dialogue to the world of ballet in this new series, which kicks off with an eight-episode first season and has already been renewed for Season 2. Set in New York City and Paris, it follows a pair of renowned dance companies as they enact a grand plan to save their troupes by swapping stars. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Luke Kirby star.

Premieres Thursday, April 24 on Prime Video

Someone at NBC really likes The Bear and devised this cooking competition show that's supposed to emulate the chaos of the kitchen. A dozen chefs specifically selected for their short tempers (isn't that redundant? Ha ha, kidding chefs, please don't hurt me!) will be put through difficult challenges to weed them out one by one. Martha Stewart and José Andrés host.

Premieres Monday, April 28 at 10/9c on NBC

In Wear Whatever the F You Want, style icons Clinton Kelly and Stacy London help clients out by showing them how to wear whatever the F they want, to their fullest potential. The sartorial series encourages people to buck fashion trends by staying true to themselves. 

Premieres Tuesday, April 29 on Prime Video

Be sure to clean your TV screen this spring, because you might be licking it frequently while watching Apple TV+'s drama Carême. The series stars Benjamin Voisin as Antonin Carême, possibly the world's first celebrity chef, whose rock-star world was filled with food, romance, and, in Apple's take, espionage. 

Premieres Wednesday, April 30 on Apple TV+

In this adaptation of the 1981 film of the same name, three couples vacation together only to learn one of them is breaking up, altering their dynamic as well as the three other vacations they have planned that year. Midlife crises and friend groups do not mix well. The stellar cast includes Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Will Forte, and Colman Domingo.

Premieres Thursday, May 1 on Netflix

Lucasfilm's Dave Filoni continues the Stars Wars: Tales of series with Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, which follows assassin Asajj Ventress and bounty hunter Cad Bane. This series of animated shorts will consist of six episodes.

Premieres Sunday, May 4 on Disney+

Keeley Hawes stars as another Austen, Jane's sister Cassandra, in this adaptation of Gill Hornby's 2020 novel that follow's Cassandra's life and loves, while exploring her relationship with Jane.

Premieres Sunday, May 4 at 9/8c on PBS

Judy Blume's groundbreaking 1975 book (and frequent target of censorship) about teenagers exploring their sexuality during their high school years gets adapted by The Game's Mara Brock Akil, this time set in 2018 Los Angeles. 

Premieres Thursday, May 8 on Netflix

Comedian Tom Segura writes and stars in the oddball anthology comedy Bad Thoughts, which is a collection of vignettes that takes the creepiness of Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone and infuses Segura's demented humor into them. 

Premieres Tuesday, May 13 on Netflix

Josh Holloway as a getaway car driver for a Southwestern crime family in the 1970s is about as perfect as it gets. J.J. Abrams, reuniting with Holloway after Lost, produces this drama that also stars Rachel Hilson and Keith David. 

Premieres Thursday, May 15 on Max

Benito Skinner and Wally Baram star in this comedy about a closeted football player (Skinner) and an outsider (Baram) as they tear it up in college and hopefully learn a few life lessons along the way. Charli XCX guest stars in the show and produced the original soundtrack.

Premieres Thursday, May 15 on Prime Video

This adaptation of Martha Wells' award-winning novels stars Alexander Skarsgård as a security android that's good at killing things, and whose developing AI gives it a certain amount of free will... which has made it annoyed at humans and a passionate fan of sci-fi soap operas. Yes, it's funny.

Premieres Friday, May 16 on Apple TV+

Teenage romance and street racing get into a head-on collision in Motorheads, a new Prime Video YA drama about falling in love with that cutie in high school and your first car. Ryan Phillippe stars as a retired NASCAR mechanic trying to keep his auto shop afloat in a Pennsylvania town.

Premieres Tuesday, May 20 on Prime Video

If you own a restaurant and keep seeing a customer come in reading a newspaper with eye holes cut out of it, it might be Gordon Ramsay! The TV chef has another Fox series coming, and this time he's going undercover to save restaurants from sucking.

Premieres Wednesday, May 21 at 9/8c on Fox

Movies and shows about rich socialites hiding a more sinister motive abound, and that trend continues with Sirens, a dark comedy from Maid's Molly Smith Metzler. Meghann Fahy stars as a woman concerned about her sister's (Milly Alcock) unusual relationship with her boss (Julianne Moore), and things come to a head during a weekend retreat on a lavish beach resort. Kevin Bacon and Glenn Howerton also star.

Premieres Thursday, May 22 on Netflix

Look who's quack! Err, back! Willie and Korie Robertson show off their flock and new roost in this spin-off of the wildly popular reality series Duck Dynasty. 

Premieres Wednesday, May 28 at 9/8c on A&E

If you can believe it, members of Gen Z are now technically adults, but only in the legal sense. FX's comedy Adults — a Hulu exclusive — follows a friend group of twenty-somethings as they take on the hard things that come with adulting, like finding love, holding a job, and getting health insurance.  

Premieres Wednesday, May 28 at 9/8c on FX. The full season drops Thursday, May 29 on Hulu and airs Wednesdays on FX.

Sibling rivalry ignites when two estranged sisters — one extremely successful, the other not — reconnect after one of their husbands is murdered. Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel play the sisters, and the rest of the cast includes Corey Stoll, Gloria Reuben, and Matthew Modine.

Premieres Thursday, May 29 on Prime Video

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• TV Guide's spring TV guide
• The new shows of the winter TV season
• The best movies on Max
• The best movies on Netflix
• The best movies on Prime Video
• The best movies on Hulu
• The best movies on Peacock