Series to Watch: March 2025

Series to Watch: March 2025


By DQ
February 27, 2025

Ones to Watch

DQ checks out the upcoming schedules to pick 10 new series to watch this March, from an Italian historical drama and Spanish crime series to a White House murder mystery and a one-shot limited series from the team behind Boiling Point.

Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero
From: UK
Original broadcasters: BBC, BritBox International
Producers: Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Ltd
Distributor: Fifth Season
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Matthew Rhys, Clarke Peters, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ella Lily Hyland, Mimi Keene, Anjana Vasan, Jack Farthing, Adam Hugill and Grace Doherty
Launch date: March 2 (BBC)
England, 1936. After a scandalous celebrity divorce, Nevile Strange (Jackson-Cohen) and his ex-wife Audrey (Hyland) make the unthinkable decision to spend a summer together at Gull’s Point, their childhood home and the coastal estate of Nevile’s aunt, Lady Tressilian (Huston). With unfinished business between the former childhood sweethearts, plus the presence of Nevile’s new wife Kay (Mimi Keene), tensions are running high. Add to this a long-suffering lady’s companion, a mysterious gentleman’s valet, an exiled cousin with a grudge, a venerable family lawyer, an inquisitive orphan and a French con man, and soon there will be murder. A troubled detective must rediscover his purpose to untangle a toxic web of jealousy, deceit and dysfunction. Can he solve the crime before another victim meets their death?
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The Leopard
From: Italy
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producers: Indiana Production and Moonage Pictures
Starring: Kim Rossi Stuart, Benedetta Porcaroli, Deva Cassel, Saul Nanni, Paolo Calabresi, Francesco Colella, Astrid Meloni and Greta Esposito
Launch date: March 5
Based on the novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard is set against the backdrop of revolution in 1860s Sicily, where Don Fabrizio Corbera (Stuart), the Prince of Salina, leads a life surrounded by beauty and privilege. But as Italy moves towards unification and the old aristocratic order is threatened, he realises his family’s future is in jeopardy. Eventually, Don Fabrizio is faced with an impossible choice. He has the power to engineer a marriage, between the rich and beautiful Angelica (Cassel) and his nephew Tancredi (Nanni), that could secure his family’s legacy, but doing so would break the heart of his favourite daughter, Concetta (Porcaroli).
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Daredevil: Born Again
From: US
Original broadcaster: Disney+
Producer: Marvel Television
Starring: Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Margarita Levieva, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Wilson Bethel, Zabryna Guevara, Nikki M. James, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Clark Johnson, Michael Gandolfini
Launch date: March 5
Matt Murdoch (Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm while former mob boss Wilson Fink (D’Onofio) pursues his own political endeavours in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.
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Cuando Nadie Nos Ve (When No One Sees Us)
From: Spain
Original broadcaster: Max
Producer: Zeta Studios
Starring: Maribel Verdú and Mariela Garriga
Launch date: March 7
The first Spanish original series on Max, the drama explores a series of crimes in the political and cultural frontier of so-called “deep Spain,” and one of the largest US military bases abroad, during the celebration of Holy Week in Morón de la Frontera, near Seville.
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Adolescence
From: UK
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producers: Warp Films, Plan B and Matriarch Productions
Starring: Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Erin Doherty, Owen Cooper, Christine Tremarco, Jo Hartley, Mark Stanley, Faye Marsay, Emilia Holliday, Amélie Pease and Hannah Walters
Launch date: March 13
Boiling Point director Philip Barantini and star Stephen Graham reunite for this four-part limited series where each episode is shot in one take. Adolescence tells the story of how a family’s world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Cooper) is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school.
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Long Bright River
From: US
Original broadcaster: Peacock
Producers: Original Film, Pascal Pictures, Sony Pictures Television and UCP
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Nicholas Pinnock, Ashleigh Cummings, Callum Vinson and John Doman
Launch date: March 13
Based on the novel by Liz Moore, this eight-part series (also pictured at the top of this page) tells the story of Mickey (Seyfried), a police officer who patrols a Philadelphia neighbourhood hit hard by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders take place in the neighbourhood, Mickey realises her personal history might be related to the case.
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Dope Thief
From: US
Original broadcaster: Apple TV+
Producer: Apple Studios
Starring: Bryan Tyree Henry, Wagner Moura, Marin Ireland, Kate Mulgrew, Nesta Cooper, Amir Arison and Ving Rhames
Launch date: March 14
Ridley Scott directs the first episode of this drama based on Dennis Tafoya’s book of the same name. The series follows long-time Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to have their small-time grift become a life-and-death enterprise, as they unwittingly reveal and unravel the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern Seaboard.
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The Marlow Murder Club S2
From: UK
Original broadcaster: U&Drama
Producer: Monumental Television
Distributor: ITV Studios
Starring: Samantha Bond, Jo Martin, Cara Horgan and Natalie Dew
Launch date: March 19
Following the show’s debut last year with a two-part pilot that introduced amateur sleuths Judith Potts (Bond), Suzie Harris (Martin) and Becks Starling (Horgan), as well as DCI Tanika Malik (Dew), the murder-mystery series returns with three new stories set in the idyllic titular town. The stories centre on a seemingly impossible murder inside the locked study of a sweeping mansion; the mysterious case of a man with no connection to the town who is killed in the middle of a sleepy cul-de-sac; and an unexpectedly brutal accident at the prestigious Marlow sailing club.

The Residence
From: US
Original broadcaster: Netflix
Producer: Shondaland
Starring: Uzo Aduba, Giancarlo Esposito, Edwina Findley, Molly Griggs, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Al Mitchell, Randall Park, Dan Perrault, Bronson Pinchot, Julieth Restrepo, Mel Rodriguez, Susan Kelechi Watson, Isiah Whitlock Jr and Mary Wiseman
Launch date: March 20
132 rooms. 157 suspects. One dead body. One wildly eccentric detective, Cordelia Cupp (Aduba). One disastrous state dinner. The Residence is a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs and backstairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world’s most famous mansion.
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Happy Face
From: US
Original broadcaster: Paramount+
Producers: CBS Studios, King Size Productions, iHeartPodcasts and Semi-Formal Productions
Distributor: Paramount Global Content Distribution
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Annaleigh Ashford, James Wolk, Tamera Tomakili, Khiyla Aynne and Benjamin Mackey
Launch dates: March 20 (US), March 21 (UK, Australia)
In this true crime series inspired by the life of Melissa Moore, Happy Face (Quaid) is an imprisoned serial killer who is also Melissa (Ashford)’s father. After decades of no contact, he finds a way to force himself back into her life. But in a race against time, Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. As she discovers the impact her father had on his victims’ families, Melissa must face a reckoning with her own identity.
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