The biggest TV shows to watch in 2025: from The Night Manager to Reacher season 3
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The Christmas specials are over and the New Year’s Day blockbusters are in the rearview mirror. But fans of TV drama need not despair as 2025 is shaping up to be a stellar year. From returning favourites such as Stranger Things, Reacher and The White Lotus to brand-new dramas – including the Victorian-era A Thousand Blows, which stars Stephen Graham as a boxer – there is much to be excited about.
Here’s our pick of the best shows to look forward to. Pack the tissues for this one. James Norton (he of Happy Valley fame) plays as Pete Riley, one half of a couple who are plunged into a nightmare when they discover that their infant son is actually not theirs – he was in fact switched at birth with another couple’s baby in the hospital. Things go rapidly downhill from there, and its fraught mood chimes very nicely with the time of year. ITV, January 5.
Are you sleeping on Severance? Don’t. The show’s stellar first season served up twists, tension and satirical takes on the modern workplace. Three years later, it’s back. Adam Brody returns as Mark, one of many employees who has been ‘severed’: had his brain split in two, between working and leisure time. His working personality can’t remember anything of the outside world, and vice versa, but of course things rarely aren’t simple and in season one things spiralled. This season looks set to continue the struggle between the ‘innies’ and ‘outies’, with explosive results. Apple TV+, January 17.
Women dressed in gaudy costumes and smashing the patriarchy? Yes please. This BBC show is going to be a hoot. Set in the streets of 1918 Soho, it picks up after the Armistice. A generation of men are returning from the front, and with them, the expectation that women will be returning to the kitchen where they belong. But guess what? They don’t want to, and soon Soho’s budding clubbing scene is ground zero for a feminist revolution. BBC, February.
