Series to Watch: December 2025

Series to Watch: December 2025


By DQ
November 27, 2025

Ones to Watch

DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this December, from a Doctor Who spin-off and a Spanish crime thriller to a darkly comedic Australian series and two new period dramas charting the life of iconic composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Silencio (Silence)
From: Spain
Original broadcaster: Movistar Plus+
Producers: Gamera Films, Apoyo Positivo and Antonio Abeledo
Starring: Lucía Díez, Ana Polvorosa, María León, Mariola Fuentes, Leticia Dolera, Omar Ayuso and Carolina Rubio
Launch date: December 1
The first series from writer-director Eduardo Casanova, this three-parter is set in the shadows of an imagined history during which vampire sisters survived the scarcity of “pure human blood” during the Black Death. Centuries later, one of their descendants faces the same conflict during the AIDS pandemic in Spain, when the love between the “sick” and the “healthy,” humans and vampires, continues to provoke the same terror. What happens when eternity is measured in centuries of silence?
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The Abandons
From: US
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producer: Sutterink
Starring: Lena Headey, Gillian Anderson, Nick Robinson, Diana Silvers, Lamar Johnson, Natalia del Riego, Lucas Till, Aisling Franciosi, Toby Hemingway, Michael Greyeyes, Ryan Hurst, Katelyn Wells, Clayton Cardenas, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Brían F. O’Byrne, Marc Menchaca, Patton Oswalt, Michael Ornstein, Jonathan Koensgen, Jack Doolan, Michiel Huisman, Haig Sutherland and Sarah White
Launch date: December 4
From creator Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy), this western drama opens in Washington Territory, 1854. The matriarchs of two very different families – one of wealth and privilege bound by blood, the other a found family of orphans and outcasts bound by love and necessity – find their fates linked by two crimes, an awful secret, a star-crossed love and a piece of land with silver underneath. The collision echoes the American struggle of the haves and have-nots, in a place just beyond the reach of justice.
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The War Between the Land & the Sea
From: UK
Original broadcasters: BBC (UK), Disney+
Producers: Bad Wolf, BBC Studios
Starring: Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jemma Redgrave, Ruth Madeley, Alexander Devrient and Colin McFarlane
Launch dates: December 7 (BBC), 2026 (Disney+ outside UK)
This five-part Doctor Who spin-off – the final part of the BBC-Disney+ pact that supercharged the classic sci-fi series in 2022 – follows Barclay (Tovey), a low-level UNIT staff member whose ordinary life becomes a world of terror when an ancient species rises from the sea. Barclay becomes humanity’s ambassador when the mysterious Salt (Mbatha-Raw) emerges from the Tank at a summit on the Thames. UNIT, led by Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Redgrave), fights for control as humanity faces destruction.
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The Revenge Club
From: UK
Original broadcaster: Paramount+ UK & Ireland
Producer: Gaumont
Distributor: Fremantle
Starring: Martin Compston, Aimée-Ffion Edwards, Meera Syal, Sharon Rooney, Douglas Henshall, Cheneil Kular and Amit Shah
Launch date: December 12
Based on the darkly comic novel The Othello Club by JD Pennington, this six-part series follows six lonely, hapless strangers brought together by a divorce support group, each reeling from betrayal and heartbreak. With little in common beyond their emotional baggage, they form an unlikely bond and come up with a wildly misguided idea: to take revenge on the people who broke their hearts.
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Mozart/Mozart
From: Austria
Original broadcasters: ARD Mediathek & Das Erste (Germany), ORF (Austria)
Producers: Story House Pictures, The Dreaming Sheep Company
Distributors: Bavaria Media, Beta Film
Starring: Havana Joy, Eren M Güvercin, Eidin Jalali, Verena Altenberger, Peter Kurth, Philipp Hochmair, Sonja Weißer, Lisa Vicari and Annabelle Mandeng
Launch dates: December 12 (ARD Mediathek), December 16 (Das Erste)
A “fresh and bold” reimagining of the Mozart legacy, with a story that centres on the equally talented Maria Anna Mozart. When her younger brother begins to spiral out of control, Maria Anna steps into his shoes to save the family’s legacy.
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Ciudad de sombras (City of Shadows)
From: Spain
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producer: Arcadia
Starring: Isak Férriz, Verónica Echegui, Ana Wagener, Manolo Solo and Jordi Ballester
Launch date: December 12
A macabre crime has occurred at La Pedrera – Casa Milà: a burned body has been found on the façade of Gaudí’s iconic building. Inspector Milo Malart (Férriz), recently suspended from the Mossos d’Esquadra for insubordination, returns to duty in Barcelona. Together with Deputy Inspector Rebeca Garrido (Echegui), he sets out to track down the perpetrator of the crime.
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Human Specimens
From: Japan
Original broadcaster: Prime Video
Producer: Amazon MGM Studios
Starring: Somegorô Ichikawa and Hidetoshi Nishijima
Launch date: December 18
Adapted from the novel by Japanese mystery writer Kanae Minato, this dark tale follows Professor Shirô Sakaki (Nishijima), a butterfly researcher, who confesses to turning six young boys, including his own son Itaru (Ichikawa), into “human specimens.” The story unfolds through multiple perspectives, revealing layers of truth behind Professor Sakaki’s disturbing actions, while examining the complex dynamics of father-son relationships and the human obsession with preserving beauty.

Amadeus
From: UK
Original broadcaster: Sky
Producers: Two Cities Television and Sky Studios
Distributor: NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution
Starring: Will Sharpe, Paul Bettany and Gabriella Creevy
Launch date: December 21
Based on Peter Shaffer’s stage play and adapted by Joe Barton (Black Doves, Giri/Haji, The Lazarus Project), this five-part reimagination explores the meteoric rise and mythic downfall of one of history’s most iconic composers – and rockstar virtuoso of the 18th century – Wolfgang ‘Amadeus’ Mozart. When 25-year-old Amadeus arrives in bustling Vienna, no longer a child prodigy and craving creative freedom, his world collides with two pivotal figures: his fiercely loyal future wife, Constanze Weber, and devoutly religious court composer, Antonio Salieri.
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Sunny Nights
From: Australia
Original broadcaster: Stan
Producers: Jungle Entertainment, Echo Lake Entertainment
Distributor: Cineflix Rights
Additional broadcasters: ITV (UK), Bell Media (Canada), Pro-Sieben (Germany), Canal+ (Netherlands), TVNZ (New Zealand), TG4 (Ireland) and Yes (Israel)
Starring: Will Forte, D’Arcy Carden, Rachel House, Jessica De Gouw, Miritana Hughes, Ra Chapman, Megan Wilding and Patrick Brammall
Launch date: December 26
This eight-part darkly comic crime drama stars Forte as strait-laced American Martin Marvin, who teams up with his loose cannon sister, Vicki (Carden), to set up a spray tan business in Sydney. But as Martin and Vicki attempt to turn their company from a start-up operating out of the back of a van into a multimillion-dollar empire, the siblings become tangled up in Sydney’s criminal underworld. And when a ruthless gangster begins to catch up with them, the two must figure out how to stay alive, out of prison and in the black.

The Copenhagen Test
From: US
Original broadcaster: Peacock
Producer: UCP
Distributor: NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution
Starring: Simu Liu, Melissa Barrera, Sinclair Daniel, Brian D’Arcy James, Mark O’Brien, Kathleen Chalfant
Launch date: December 27
This espionage thriller series follows first-generation Chinese-American intelligence analyst Alexander Hale (Liu) who realises his brain has been hacked, giving the perpetrators access to everything he sees and hears. Caught between his shadowy agency and the unknown hackers, he must maintain a performance 24/7 to flush out who’s responsible and prove where his allegiance lies.
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