Category: FIRST LOOK
BBC crowns King & Conqueror in 2025
FIRST LOOK: James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau star in King & Conqueror, a historical epic retelling the relationships and conflicts that led to the Battle of Hastings, coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2025.
Virdee on the case for BBC One
FIRST LOOK: Staz Nair is Harry Virdee, the detective at the heart of the BBC’s latest crime drama Virdee, based on the novels by AA Dhand.
Netflix hits Adolescence
FIRST LOOK: Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters and Erin Doherty lead the cast of Adolescence, a one-take crime drama coming to Netflix in 2025.
Netflix counts down to Zero Day
FIRST LOOK: Robert De Niro, Angela Bassett and Lizzy Caplan head the cast of Zero Day, a Netflix limited series debuting in February 2025 that is set in the aftermath of a devastating cyber attack on the US.
Apple TV+ welcomes Your Friends & Neighbors
FIRST LOOK: John Hamm (Mad Men) stars in Your Friends & Neighbors, a nine-part drama coming to Apple TV+ in April 2025.
Channel 4 wants more Change
FIRST LOOK: Bridget Christie’s comedy The Change returns to Channel 4 for a second season in 2025.
BBC, Masterpiece meet Miss Austen
FIRST LOOK: Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie star in Miss Austen, a four-part drama that will air on the BBC and Masterpiece in the US in 2025 to mark 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth.
BBC reveals new Wolf Hall opening scenes
FIRST LOOK: Watch the opening scenes from Wolf Hall: The Mirror & The Light now ahead of the show’s debut on BBC One and BBC iPlayer this Sunday.
Don Gilet finds Death in Paradise
FIRST LOOK: Sherwood and EastEnders star Don Gilet takes the lead in Death in Paradise, and will make his debut in a feature-length Christmas special later this year.
BBC faces new Strike action
FIRST LOOK: Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger return for Strike – The Ink Black Heart, the sixth installment in the BBC detective drama based on the novels by JK Rowling (as Robert Galbraith) that will launch in December.
BBC preps Call the Midwife Xmas double
FIRST LOOK: Call the Midwife will return to the BBC this Christmas with, for the first time, a two-part festive story.
Prime Video dials up On Call
FIRST LOOK: On Call, the first scripted series for streaming from Dick Wolf’s Wolf Entertainment (Law & Order, Chicago, FBI), will debut on Prime Video on January 9, 2025.
Prime Video heads back to The Rig
FIRST LOOK: Iain Glen, Martin Compston and Emily Hampshire return for the second season of The Rig, the Prime Video thriller that first debuted in 2023.
Black Snow S2 falls on Stan
FIRST LOOK: Travis Fimmel returns for the second season of Australian mystery drama Black Snow, which debuts on Stan on January 1, 2025.
UKTV, Mark Gatiss build Bookish
FIRST LOOK: Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) stars in Bookish, a six-part series he has also created coming to UKTV’s Alibi in 2025.
The Split to reappear on BBC One
FIRST LOOK: Legal drama The Split returns to the BBC for a two-part special titled The Split: Barcelona, picking up the story two years after the series originally ended in 2022.
S4C, UKTV prepare to visit Mudtown
FIRST LOOK: Erin Richards and Tom Cullen star in Mudtown (Ar y Ffin), a six-part drama centring on a Newport magistrate that is coming to Welsh language broadcaster S4C and UKTV’s Alibi.
Netflix, Harlan Coben are Missing You
FIRST LOOK: Rosalind Eleazar, Ashley Walters and Richard Armitage head the cast of Missing You, the latest Netflix limited series from Harlan Coben.
Channel 4, HBO partner to Get Millie Black
FIRST LOOK: Tamara Lawrance takes the title lead in Get Millie Black, a crime noir series based on Marlon James’s novel of the same name. It will debut on HBO on November 25 and on Channel 4 in 2025.
BBC reunites SAS Rogue Heroes
FIRST LOOK: Jack O’Connell, Connor Swindells, Sofia Boutella and Dominic West reunite for the second season SAS Rogue Heroes, coming soon to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.