As soon as the clock strikes midnight and you’ve kissed the nearest stranger on the mouth, it’s time to stop thinking about 2022 and start planning for 2023. By erasing that ever-growing list of shows from last year that you were “absolutely” going to watch and establishing a new list with hundreds of series that you will “certainly” watch in 2023, you may use this chance to start over.
Our list of the most eagerly awaited new shows for 2023 only includes new programs, not new seasons of previously enjoyed series. These 10 shows will therefore be making their premieres throughout the course of the next 12 months, even though we cannot wait for Succession Season 4 and The Mandalorian Season 3. Disclaimer: Although we think these shows will air this year, there is a chance that some of them won’t until 2024 or later due to production delays, viral outbreaks, and alien invasions.
All the Light We Cannot See
Shawn Levy of Stranger Things is sticking with wide-eyed teenagers in peril for his upcoming project, an adaptation of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning book All the Light We Cannot See, which will be released on Netflix. A blind French girl who lives with her war veteran uncle and a smart young German boy who is made to fight for Nazi Germany are the focus of the story, which takes place during World War II. We hope the four-part miniseries follows the book’s non-linear format and draws connections between the lives of the two young people.
Daisy Jones & The Six
on Prime Video on March 3
We need a terrific premium streaming music drama, and Daisy Jones & The Six on Prime Video just might blow everyone away. The series covers the ups and downs of a rock band in the 1970s as they grow from playing small venues to being one of the biggest bands in the business. It is based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel from 2019, which was inspired by the true story behind Fleetwood Mac. star is Riley Keough.
Extrapolations
TBD on Apple TV+
Sometimes all you need to do to decide whether a show is worth watching is look at the actors. Additionally, Meryl Streep, Kit Harington, and Sienna Miller are featured in Apple TV+’s Extrapolations. Impressive! However, it also features Gemma Chan, Daveed Diggs, and Matthew Rhys. Aside from them, there’s David Schwimmer, Forest Whitaker, Marion Cotillard, Tobey Maguire, and Indira Varma. As well as Heather Graham, Judd Hirsch, Yara Shahidi, Keri Russell, Cherry Jones, Murray Bartlett, Edward Norton, and The only other information available about the program is that it is an anthology of connected tales concerning how climate change will affect humanity. But what more do you need to know with such a strong cast?
Justified: City Primeval
On FX, TBD
Since FX’s venerable neo-Western Justified was cancelled in 2015, TV has gotten much less poetic, but it’s coming back, so get ready for some bright one-liners. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), who is currently stationed in Miami and is also the father of a 14-year-old daughter, dons the uniform once more in City Primeval, which is set eight years after the series. Raylan comes across a sociopath named the Oklahoma Wildman and travels to Detroit to resolve matters. Elmore Leonard’s City Primeval: High Noon is Detroit served as the inspiration for the limited series, and do you know what? It is going to be wonderful.
Masters of the Air
TBD on Apple TV+
Following Band of Brothers and The Pacific, the third miniseries in Steven Spielberg’s World War II trilogy will undoubtedly be another monumental television event. This time, as the title suggests, Spielberg is taking to the skies to follow the actions of the Mighty Eighth, a section of the Air Force, as its pilots went on bombing flights and fought in air-to-air combat in the European theater of World War II. With Barry Keoghan and Austin Butler on the cast, which is perfect for awards season, this film has incredible potential.
Mrs. Davis
On April 20, Peacock was heartbroken. Fans of the Warrior Nun, may I comfort you with Mrs. Davis? In one of the year’s oddest plots, Betty Gilpin portrays a nun in this Peacock series who faces “Mrs. Davis,” an artificial intelligence. Damon Lindelof, the show’s creator, continues to stir up conversation with his ideas, which frequently center on religion and technology. Mrs. Davis appears to be one among the new films that might make 2023 a huge year for Peacock, especially with a supporting cast that included Jake McDorman, David Arquette, Margo Martindale, and Katja Herbers.
Poker Face
26 January on Peacock
Anything starring Natasha Lyonne is automatically a must-watch, but when she teams up with Knives Out director Rian Johnson, you get something special. The series will use an inverted murder mystery structure — we’ll see who did the crime and how they did it early on in the episode — to focus on how Lyonne’s character cracks the case and navigates the eccentric characters she meets along the way. Lyonne plays a road-trippin’ wanderer whose uncanny ability to detect when someone is lying is used to solve crimes in her many stops.
Shogun
TBD on Hulu
Since FX announced in 2018 that they would be adapting James Clavell’s 1975 novel about a Westerner who observes the development of a strong new shogunate in feudal Japan, we have been keeping an eye out for Shogun TBD on Hulu. However, there have been a number of setbacks for the show, including a complete rewrite after two years of preparation. But as part of that reset, Justin Marks—the man behind Counterpart on Starz—was brought in to take over. When it first came out, the book was a huge bestseller; when the miniseries eventually airs, it might be a huge hit for Hulu.
The Last of Us
HBO, 15 January
While narrative computer games have advanced significantly since “eat pellet, eat ghost” days, few can match the emotion and immersion of a television show. With a plot — and acting — so brilliant that it might have been the best movie, program, or game published that year, The Last of Us on the PlayStation 3 was a breakthrough in game writing. Years in the future, it centers on the relationship between Joel (Pedro Pascal) and young girl Ellie (Bella Ramsey) as they navigate a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with parasitic mutant humans. They also have to contend with danger at every turn. The Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and the game’s writer and director Neil Druckmann are in charge of making sure everything is done properly because they are both enormous fans of the game. HBO’s adaptation is a direct adaptation of the game, in contrast to other adaptations that expand upon the game’s universe.
White House Plumbers
HBO, TBD March
The title of HBO’s miniseries, which was inspired by the name of the clandestine team of White House operatives deployed by then-President Richard Nixon to prevent the transmission of critical information to the press and destroy Nixon’s adversaries, is already the best show title of the year. It has a gigantic caterpillar for G. Gordon Liddy’s mustache, Justin Theroux as E. Howard Hunt, and Woody Harrelson as G. Gordon Liddy.
