Series to Watch: January 2025

Series to Watch: January 2025


By DQ
December 19, 2024

Ones to Watch

DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this January, from the latest Harlan Coben Netflix drama and a dark crime series starring Eve Myles to a Sherlock Holmes spin-off that puts Watson centre-stage and Law & Order creator Dick Wolf’s first procedural to land on a streamer.

Missing You
From: UK
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producer: Quay Street Productions
Starring: Rosalind Eleazar, Ashley Walters, Jessica Plummer, Richard Armitage, Lenny Henry, Steve Pemberton, Marc Warren, Samantha Spiro, Lisa Faulkner, Mary Malone, James Nesbitt and Matt Jay-Willis
Launch date: January 1
The latest Harlan Coben adaptation from the team behind Stay Close and Fool Me Once begins 11 years ago, when detective Kat Donovan (Eleazar)’s fiancé Josh (Walters) – the love of her life – disappeared. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face and her world explodes all over again. Josh’s reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.
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Queen of Fucking Everything
From: Finland
Original broadcaster: YLE
Additional broadcasters: ZDF (Germany), NPO (Netherlands), VRT (Belgium), NRK (Norway) and RUV (Iceland)
Producer: Rabbit Films
Distributor: Rabbit Fillms
Starring: Laura Malmivaara, Jussi Nikkilä
Launch dates: January 1 (YLE Areena), January 5 (YLE1)
The first project from the NEW8 collaboration of European public broadcasters in Scandinavia, Benelux and Germany, this is the story of leading Helsinki real-estate agent and high-society fixture Linda Saarniluoto (Malmivaara), who wakes up one morning to find her husband Mikael (Nikkilä) missing, probably dead, leaving her owing millions of dollars of debt. Unwilling to give up her lifestyle, Linda is determined to keep up appearances. Forced to steal to survive, she starts from small-time theft but is then drawn deeper into Helsinki’s criminal underworld. There, she uses her business expertise to thrive in everything from money laundering to corrupt business deals and, in the end, murder. A woman who loses everything but fights hard – and sometimes dirty – to regain success in two opposing worlds, Linda has to balance her moral limits and relationships. Eventually she rises to become… the Queen of Fucking Everything.

Lockerbie: The Search for Truth
From: UK
Original broadcasters: Sky, Peacock (US)
Producers: Carnival Films and Sky Studios
Distributor: NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution
Starring: Colin Firth, Catherine McCormack
Launch dates: January 2 (Sky in UK & Ireland, Peacock in US), 2025 (Sky in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria)
This five-part limited series follows a father, Dr Jim Swire (Firth), driven by love and loss, on a journey that spans three decades in his quest for answers about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed his beloved daughter Flora. As he questions his long-held beliefs and allegiances, he mounts a controversial campaign that takes him to the deserts of Libya, where he meets Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and to the Netherlands for the trial of convicted Libyan national Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. The series charts the devastating impact of the Lockerbie disaster on Jim and Jane Swire and their family, as well as the families of victims across the world.
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On Call
From: US
Original broadcaster: Prime Video
Producers: Universal Television and Amazon MGM Studios in association with Wolf Entertainment
Starring: Troian Bellisario, Brandon Larracuente, Lori Loughlin, Rich Ting and Eriq La Salle
Launch date: January 9
Dick Wolf (Law & Order) brings his brand of procedural television to a streaming platform for the first time with On Call, an adrenalised and visceral police drama that follows a rookie-and-veteran officer duo as they go on patrol in Long Beach, California. Shot with a mixture of handheld cameras, bodycam and dash-cam footage to create a cinema verité effect, the innovative series explores the morality of protecting and serving a community.
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A Better Place
From: Germany
Original broadcasters: ARD (Germany), Canal+ (France, Austria)
Producers: Komplizen Serien, StudioCanal Series, Film AG, WDR and ARD Degeto
Distributor: StudioCanal
Starring: Steven Sowah, Maria Hofstätter, Katharina Schüttler, Alev Irmak, Youness Aabbaz and Aysima Ergün
Launch dates: January 10 (ARD Mediathek), Jan 22 (Das Erste)
Set in the fictional city of Rhinestadt, A Better Place brings together progressive mayor Amir (Sowah) and scientist Petra (Hofstätter), who decide to launch a revolutionary experiment that will see the local prison closed and its prisoners – ranging from murderers to petty thieves – reintegrated into society. Instead of being punished behind bars, they are given work, housing and therapy – and must face the consequences of their crimes in the real world.
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The Crow Girl
From: UK
Original broadcaster: Paramount+
Producer: Buccaneer
Distributor: ITV Studios
Starring: Eve Myles, Katherine Kelly, Dougray Scott, Elliot Edusah, Clara Rugaard, Raphael Sowole, Michael Lumsden, Trevor White, Victoria Hamilton and Roger Jean Nsengiyumva
Launch date: January 16
When the bodies of unidentified young men start to show up, beaten and full of the anaesthetic lidocaine, DCI Jeanette Kilburn enlists the help of psychotherapist Dr Sophia Craven to hunt the killer, taking them down a dangerous path of historical abuse, murder and dark secrets.

Prime Target
From: US
Original broadcaster: Apple TV+
Producers: New Regency, Scott Free Productions
Starring: Leo Woodall, Quintessa Swindell, Stephen Rea, David Morrissey, Martha Plimpton, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Jason Flemyng, Harry Lloyd, Ali Suliman, Fra Fee and Joseph Mydell
Launch date: January 22
One Day and The White Lotus star Woodall plays Edward Brooks, a brilliant young maths postgraduate on the verge of a major breakthrough. If he succeeds in finding a pattern in prime numbers, he will hold the key to every computer in the world. Soon he begins to realise an unseen enemy is trying to destroy his idea before it’s even born, which throws him into the orbit of Taylah Sanders, an NSA agent (Black Adam’s Swindell) who’s been tasked with watching and reporting on mathematicians’ behaviour. Together they start to unravel the troubling conspiracy Edward is at the heart of.

Watson
From: US
Original broadcaster: CBS
Producers: CBS Studios, Kaplan Entertainment
Distributor: Paramount Global Content Distribution
Starring: Morris Chestnut, Eve Harlow, Peter Mark Kendall, Ritchie Coster, Inga Schlingmann and Rochelle Aytes
Launch date: January 26
Six months after the death of the titular character’s friend and partner Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty, Dr John Watson (Chestnut) resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders.But Watson’s old life isn’t done with him – and Moriarty and Watson are set to write their own chapter of a story that has fascinated audiences for more than a century.
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Paradise
From: US
Original broadcasters: Hulu (US), Disney+
Producer: 20th Television
Starring: Sterling K Brown, James Marsden, Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Aliyah Mastin and Percy Daggs IV
Launch date: January 28
Paradise is set in a serene, upscale community inhabited by some of the world’s most prominent individuals. But this tranquillity explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high-stakes investigation unfolds.
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The Pitt
From: US
Original broadcaster: Max
Producer: John Wells Productions and Warner Bros Television with Sky Studios
Starring: Noah Wyle, Tracey Ifeachor, Patrick Marron Ball, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, Shabana Azeez and Katherine LaNasa
Launch date: January TBC
A realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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