
Push your buttons: the most anticipated TV series of 2025

The coming year will be incredibly rich in both new series projects and sequels to already beloved stories. The viewers are waiting for a painful parting with "Very Strange Things" and the long-awaited return of the superhero Daredevil. The "Alien" and "Major Thunder" franchises will get serialized versions for the first time, and "It" will have a prequel. While waiting for the new season of "House of Dragons" we will be pleased with the new "Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" from the universe of "Game of Thrones" and the premiere of "Outsource" - the most anticipated Russian series. "Izvestia" - about what projects viewers are waiting for in 2025.
"Very Strange Things" (fifth season)
Netflix
The exact date of release is still unknown
In 2025 we will say goodbye to the town of Hawkins, the mysterious Iznanka, Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin and Lucas. A company of teens will have to band together in the final season of one of Netflix's biggest hits to save their town in an epic battle against the monster Vekna. The show's creators, brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, compared the finale of "Very Stranger Things" to "Return of the Jedi" and revealed that the streaming service's executives wept while reading the script for season five.
"Outsourced"
Okko
The exact release date is still unknown
The winner of last year's New Season festival and literally the most anticipated series from director Dushan Gligorov. A gloomy and heavy slice of a difficult era - the action unfolds in 1996 in the Far East special purpose prison, where a new employee Kostya, played by Ivan Yankovsky, is transferred. His moral principles are slightly higher than those of his colleagues, but it is he who decides to make a business model out of the death penalty. Outsourcing in this case - the execution of the death sentence for money by the relatives of the victims of criminals who are serving their sentences.
"One of Us" (Season 2)
Max
The exact release date is not yet known
The first season of the post-apocalyptic series "One of Us" (the pilot episode was supposed to shoot Kantemir Balagov, but did not work out) with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Ellie came out in 2023, made a lot of noise and disproved the popular belief that video games can not be adapted into movies. The second season of the project is based on the second installment of the game of the same name. We will move forward a few years and see already grown up, like Bella Ramsey herself, Ellie.
"Overheard in Rybinsk"
PREMIER
Will be released on January 23
Yura, a journalist for a Rybinsk newspaper, is hard to call both an exemplary employee and an exemplary family man (a charming role for Timofey Tribuntsev). Hedrinks, writes completely unremarkable notes, cannot find a common language with his wife or teenage daughter. Suddenly Yura discovers an unusual gift (or curse): he gets visions predicting murders. Overnight, Rybinsk is shaken by a series of murders, and the suspect becomes Yura himself, who tried to prevent these crimes. Realizing that the police will just hang everything on him, he himself takes up the investigation, and helps him in this former lover of one of the victims.
"Alien: Earth"
Hulu
The exact date of release is still unknown
The first multi-episode project from the famous franchise about xenomorphs. The new "Alien" - a prequel to the original film by Ridley Scott in 1979 with Sigourney Weaver in the title role. Events will unfold 30 years before the meeting Ellen Ripley with xenomorphs. A mysterious spaceship crashes on Earth, and it's not hard to guess what's on board. Director and showrunner of the project was the author of the series "Fargo" Noah Hawley, and executive producer Ridley Scott.
"There's chemistry between us."
Wink
The exact release date is still unknown
A poignant dramedy from director Karina Chuvikova with Sasha Bortich in the title role. Her Tanya is a cab driver and a single mother who is left alone with a terrible diagnosis. Tanya has cancer, but in between courses of chemotherapy, she is more concerned with what kind of man she should go on a date with. No, the romantic component of the relationship heroine is not interested at all, Tanya is worried about who her children will be left with when she will not be. One of the best roles of Sasha Bortich, also noted at the festival of serials "New Season", where the project premiered.
"Daredevil: Born Again."
Disney+
It comes out March 1
It's been a very long time since Charlie Cox, aka series blind lawyer Matt Murdock, has tried on a Daredevil costume. This is a direct sequel to the Netflix series, which has gone through several reboots. Murdock is once again protecting New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood from criminals, specifically the returning villain Kingpin.
"Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears"
Wink
The exact release date is still unknown
Directors Zhora Kryzhovnikov and Olga Dolmatovskaya swung at a modern adaptation of the Soviet hit about the conquest of the capital. This time the plot will first unfold in Moscow in the noughties, where moves a young single mother Ksyusha, hiding from her abuser husband. Here she will enlist the support of two friends Oli and Masha. Each of them dreams of finding love and happiness. This series is one of the main intrigues of the year in the Russian streaming field. The creators revealed part of the cast: Ivan Yankovsky, Andrei Maximov, Anastasia Talyzina, Maria Kamova.
"Silent Harbor"
"Amedyateka"
Will be released on January 10
Detective thriller with the stars of "Game of Thrones" Alfie Allen and Jack Gleeson (yes, yes, that's Joffrey Baratheon) in the main roles. Gifted hacker Tobias and his friend Marco dream of becoming tech millionaires, but so far they've only succeeded at small-time scams and database hacking. The chance to get rich comes when they are approached for help by representatives of the Irish mafia. Tobias and Marco are asked to hack into the security system to stealthily import huge shipments of illegal substances into the Netherlands.
"Eterna."
"Kinopoisk"
The exact release date is still unknown
Kinopoisk's second attempt to screen the fantasy bestseller "Reflections of Eterna" by Vera Kamsha. In 2022, the feature film "Eterna: Part One" was released as a prologue to the upcoming multi-part project. The action in Sergei Trofimov's series is set in the fictional world of Caertian, very similar to Renaissance Europe. The creator gods predicted the imminent end of the world, so the whole world is engulfed in internecine strife and power struggles. Everything is here: the heir to a deposed ruling dynasty in exile, religious fanatics, magic, and, of course, love.
"Lily of the valley. Such tender love."
Wink
Coming out January 1st.
A romantic story about two very different people from very different backgrounds. She is a spoiled girl who grew up in London. He is an ordinary guy from a provincial town. The heroes willfully meet and get married right on the day they meet. Expectedly, on the way to happiness they meet a ton of obstacles, the main of which is the struggle of their two opposites.
"Wansday" (season two).
Netflix
The exact release date is still unknown
In the first season, Wansday successfully survived her first year at Nevermore Academy and even made friends. Now the heroine will have to find out who has been sending her anonymous messages. Details of the continuation Netflix keeps in strict secrecy. It is known that in the second season in the universe of "The Addams Family" will return Christopher Lloyd, Steve Buscemi will play the new director of the academy, and teen romance will give way to horror. Wansday performer Jenna Ortega became an executive producer on the series and was heavily involved in the script for the second season.
"Fisher" (season two)
Wink
The exact release date is still unknown
Tru-crime series, whose name still refers to the Odintsovo maniac, is going for a second season. It is known that the continuation will be based on real events, but whose criminal case will figure in the script, have not yet disclosed. To the roles of investigators Evgeny Bokov and Valery Kozyrev will return Ivan Yankovsky and Alexander Yatsenko. Company them this time will make up the heroines played by Irina Starshenbaum and Alexandra Rebenok.
"Smersh 1994"
REN TV, Wink
The exact date of release is still unknown
In the center of the plot of the third part of the franchise two captains of Soviet counterintelligence Smersh ("Death to spies!") Konstantin Lavrov and Pavel Semyonov. The war is nearing its finale. Heroes, risking their lives, perform the most difficult and dangerous tasks of the command to counteract the plans of the Germans both behind the front line and in the Soviet rear. The TV premiere will take place on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory.
"Van Pees"
Neflix
The exact date of release is still unknown
Continuation of the adventures of the Straw Hat Pirates team based on the cult manga by Eiichiro Oda. Monki D. Luffy still dreams of becoming the greatest pirate king in history, so in the company of his friends he will continue the search for the legendary treasure.
"Major Thunder: The Series"
"Kinopoisk"
The exact release date is still unknown
The new project on the comic book universe of the Russian publisher Bubble will tell not only about the new adventures of Major Igor Grom of the St. Petersburg police, but will also reveal the stories of other major characters surrounding the main character. For example, we will finally see a little more of Yulia Pchelkina, who is not only Major Grom's love interest, but also a talented journalist.
"Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"
Max
The exact release date is still unknown
The "Game of Thrones" movie universe continues to expand. Along with the start of filming of the third season of "House of the Dragon" Max will show another prequel based on the cycle of novels by George R. R. Martin. The series is set in the same world as the events of "Game of Thrones", but 100 years before the Targaryen feuds in "House of the Dragon". The main character is a rather naive knight Duncan the Tall, wandering through the lands of the Seven Kingdoms in the company of squire Egg, who actually turns out to be Prince Aegon Targaryen. The script for the series was written by Martin himself, who has not yet finished his main series of novels "A Song of Ice and Fire". The writer promises that the new series will be very different from the previous projects of this universe, but since this is still Westeros - "no one is safe".
"Welcome to Derry."
Max
The exact release date is still unknown
The prequel to the "It" prequel will tell how the killer clown Pennywise appeared, who has been torturing children in the American town of Derry for decades. The action will unfold 27 years before the events of the original novel by Stephen King. The director of the series was the director of the "It" Andres Muschetti, and Bill Skarsgard will again play a creepy Pennywise.
"Andor" (season two)
Disney+
Coming out April 22
The most expensive series in the "Star Wars" universe. Production of the second season alone will exceed $290 million, which exceeds the budget of the movie "Star Wars: Skywalker: Rise." And the spending will likely be justified. The first season of "Andor" is one of the best spin-offs of George Lucas' franchise. The series is told on behalf of rebel intelligence officer Cassian Andor about the events leading up to the action in "Outcast One " - the most adult, mature and tragic story in the world of "Star Wars."
"Operation Carpathians-2"
REN TV
The exact date of release is still unknown
In 1949, a saboteur nicknamed Raven is thrown into the Carpathian Mountains to carry out sabotage and sabotage. But his handlers from the British intelligence MI6 do not realize that Raven is a Soviet undercover intelligence officer, a lieutenant of the MGB, who has obtained top-secret information that will help to expose the agents of foreign intelligence in the USSR. True, working against Voron is another high-class professional, long embedded in the structures of the MGB.
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