14 British TV shows we're excited about in 2024 | 24TAA9U | 2024-01-30 10:08:01
2023 was a great year for British TV (and for TV in general), however it appears like 2024 is already shaping up nicely.
Not only do we've got new seasons of Heartstopper, We Are Lady Parts and Bridgerton to sit up for, however there are also new royal dramas in the form of Mary & George and The Regime. Plus, there's an adaptation of Holly Jackson's wildly in style e-book A Good Woman's Information to Murder and a model new present from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
Without additional ado, listed here are the British TV exhibits we're most excited about in 2024 — and in the event you're outdoors the UK, you might need a VPN to see some of them before they hit Hulu, Max et al.
1. The Vacationer, Season 2
The Tourist's first outing was an entertaining mix of darkish comedy, thriller and Memento-style thriller within the Australian outback, following a man (Jamie Dornan) who wakes up with amnesia after a automotive accident and has to race to discover who he is — all while individuals are (you guessed it!) making an attempt to kill him. The six-episode BBC miniseries made for a twisty journey with loads of surprises, so it's going to be fascinating to see the place Harry and Jack Williams' show goes next as the primary characters journey to Ireland to find Dornan's character's roots.
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Olwen Fouéré, Diarmaid Murtagh, Nessa Matthews, Mark McKenna, Francis Magee, and Conor MacNeill.
Easy methods to watch: The Tourist is currently streaming on BBC iPlayer in the UK.
2. Physician Who
</div> A brand new collection of Physician Who all the time brings with it recent pleasure, nevertheless it's in all probability truthful to say that Ncuti Gatwa's upcoming season — following on the heels of a popular Christmas special — needs to be one of the crucial highly-anticipated in a while. As Mashable's Chris Taylor pointed out, moderately than being often known as Season 14, the upcoming collection shall be Season 1 — a recent start.
"That is New, New Who, then: A really Gen Z reboot," Taylor wrote. "As older fans deal with exploded brains and (probably) seething anger, the Doctor merrily shape-shifts once extra, changing what we thought knew but once more. And the show proves it has the chops to last another 60 years. As a result of it all the time takes us where we need to go."
Starring: Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson, Yasmin Finney, Bonnie Langford, Jinkx Monsoon, Jonathan Groff, Indira Varma, Lenny Rush, Michelle Greenidge, Angela Wynter, Anita Dobson, Jemma Redgrave, Alexander Devrient, and Aneurin Barnard.
The best way to watch: The new season of Doctor Who will be streaming on BBC iPlayer in May 2024.
3. A Good Woman's Guide to Murder
</div> Based mostly on the primary novel in Holly Jackson's wildly in style YA thriller collection, A Good Woman's Information to Homicide follows teenage scholar Pip (Wednesday star Emma Myers) as she digs into a five-year-old homicide case — and tries to prove that the individual blamed wasn't truly the one accountable. This crime mystery is more likely to get plenty of attention from the e-book's large fanbase alone.
Starring: Emma Myers, Zain Iqbal, Yali Topol Margalith, Asha Banks, Jude Collie, Raiko Gohara, Anna Maxwell Martin, Gary Beadle, Mathew Baynton, Henry Ashton, Mitu Panicucci, India Lillie Davies, Rahul Pattni, Orla Hill, Ephraim O.P. Sampson, Carla Woodcock, Yasmin Al-Khudhairi, Jessica Webber, Matthew Khan, Georgia Aaron, Adam Astill, Jackson Bews, Oliver Wickham, Annabel Mullion, and Adam Astill.
How you can watch: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder will be streaming on BBC iPlayer in the UK, launch date TBC.
4. Heartstopper, Season 3
</div> Netflix's adaptation of Alice Oseman's beloved graphic novel Heartstopper will return for a third season this yr, reuniting you with Charlie and Nick and their delightful gang of buddies. They decided to make it official at the finish of Season 1 and dabbled with saying "love" out loud in Season 2. Meanwhile, Tao and Elle finally found out their feelings, Isaac found a name for his personal sexuality, whereas Darcy's turbulent residence life boiled over. Filming has wrapped for Season 3, with the first episode titled "Love." As far as characters go, the toxic Ben (Sebastian Croft) won't be back, however Oseman announced graphic novel character Michael Holden (Darragh Hand) will be a part of the story. Can't bloody wait. — Shannon Connellan, UK Editor
Starring: Package Connor, Joe Locke, Yasmin Finney, William Gao, Corinna Brown, Kizzy Edgell, Tobie Donovan, Jenny Walser, and Rhea Norwood.
The best way to watch: Heartstopper Season 3 will be streaming on Netflix, date TBC.
5. We Are Woman Elements, Season 2
</div> It has been a while since Nida Manzoor's comedy about an all-female Muslim punk dangerous made a splash with its first season, but fans can be happy to listen to that it will not be lengthy before Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey), Ayesha (Juliette Motamed), Bisma (Faith Omole), Momtaz (Lucie Shorthouse) and Amina (Anjana Vasan) are back on our screens.
"The primary critique for We Are Woman Elements remains that it's too brief," wrote Mashable's Proma Khosla about Season 1. "I would like eight episodes, or 10, or 50. Finishing the primary season feels so much like performing a stage gig; you will not keep in mind every detail but you will keep in mind the feeling, a rush of pleasure and adrenaline that you simply have been grateful to share with this motley, magnificent crew."
Starring: Sarah Kameela Impey, Juliette Motamed, Religion Omole, Lucie Shorthouse, and Anjana Vasan.
Learn how to watch: We Are Lady Parts will be streaming on Channel 4 in the UK, then doubtless streaming on Peacock in the U.S.
6. This City
</div> Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is again with a new present set round Birmingham, UK — a six-part mini-series that trades 1900s gangs for the early 1980s music scene while preserving the strain, violence and family drama that made Knight's earlier present such successful. We don't have an excessive amount of more information to go on at this stage, however the story will apparently comply with the formation of a band "towards a backdrop of violence." Sounds ominous.
Starring: Levi Brown, Jordan Bolger, Ben Rose, Eve Austin, Geraldine James, Peter McDonald, Freya Parks, Shyvonne Ahmmad, John Heffernan, Stefan Asante-Boateng, Séainín Brennan, George Somner, and Brendan Gibson.
Find out how to watch: This Town is available on BBC iPlayer from spring 2024.
7. Queenie
</div> Candice Carty-Williams has already had an enormous 2023 with her awesome BBC series Champion, but this yr has much more on the horizon. The writer has adapted her widespread 2020 debut novel Queenie as a buzzy collection with Onyx Collective and Channel four, with Dionne Brown in the lead as the eponymous protagonist. With Carty-Williams at the helm as showrunner and government producer, the collection revolves round Queenie, a 25-year-old Jamaican-British journalist who's going by way of a break-up, navigating the mess of recent courting, and determining tips on how to maintain her job together, all while connecting together with her household and incredibly tight group of buddies.
Starring: Dionne Brown, Jon Pointing, Samuel Adewunmi, Bellah, Sally Phillips, Tilly Keeper, Elisha Applebaum, Mim Shaikh, Llewella Gideon, Michelle Greenidge, Cristale De'Abreu, Joseph Marcell, Joseph Ollman, Melissa Johns, and Laura Whitmore.
The right way to watch: Queenie will premiere in 2024 on Channel 4 in the UK and Ireland and can stream on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America, and Disney+ in all other territories.
eight. The Responder, Season 2
</div> The corrupt antics of Liverpool cop Chris Carson (a gritty Martin Freeman) in The Responder's first outing made our record of the best British TV shows of 2022, so we're wanting ahead to seeing the place Tony Schumacher's police thriller goes next. Alongside Freeman, Adelayo Adedayo additionally returns as fellow officer Rachel Hargreaves, this time separate from Carson and making an attempt to rebuild her life after the grim occasions of Season 1.
Starring: Martin Freeman, Adelayo Adedayo, Warren Brown, MyAnna Buring, Emily Fairn, Josh Finan, Philip S McGuinness, Faye McKeever, Mark Womack, Adam Nagaitis, Bernard Hill, and Ian Puleston-Davies.
Find out how to watch: The Responder will be streaming on BBC iPlayer in the UK, date TBC.
9. The Gents
</div> Followers of Snatch, Lock, Stock and indeed the 2019 movie The Gentlemen will need to maintain an eye fixed out for writer/director Guy Ritchie's new series, which takes that film as its start line and weaves a new story of weed empires and the legal underworld. The eight-episode spin-off follows Eddie Horniman (The White Lotus Season 2's Theo James), who realises his newly-inherited household property is definitely embroiled in a drug ring run by British gangsters. As this can be a Guy Ritchie show it is in all probability protected to anticipate black comedy and explosive violence.
Starring: Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Serafinowicz, and Vinnie Jones.
The best way to watch: The Gentlemen is streaming on Netflix from March 2024.
10. One Day
</div> On the lookout for some romance to tide you over this coming Valentine's Day? One Day, based mostly on David Nicholls's novel of the same identify, is right here to fill that void. (You might keep in mind the 2011 film adaptation with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess.) The collection takes us via a decades-long love story between college students Emma and Dexter, who meet for the very first time the night time of their graduation from college. Although they go their separate methods, the subsequent years discover them reconnecting in sudden places, with every episode cataloging what they're doing on the same date annually. Might this be 2024's Normal People?*
Starring: Ambika Mod, Leo Woodall, Essie Davis, Tim McInnerny, Amber Grappy, Jonny Weldon, Eleanor Tomlinson, Joely Richardson, and Toby Stephens.
Easy methods to watch: One Day is streaming on Netflix from Feb. 8.
11. Bridgerton, Season 3
</div> Dearest mild readers, it is high time we reunite with the Bridgerton family, would not you agree? After the swoon-worthy story of Queen Charlotte and King George, Netflix's juggernaut Bridgerton returns to its roots for a 3rd season, this time specializing in the romance between Penelope Featherington (who is secretly gossip maven Woman Whistledown) and Colin Bridgerton. For the first time in Bridgerton historical past, Netflix will launch the collection in two elements — so remember to time your binge viewing accordingly!*
Starring: Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton, Claudia Jessie, Luke Thompson, Golda Rosheuvel, Adjoa Andoh, Ruth Gemmell, Lorraine Ashbourne, Hannah Dodd, Simone Ashley, Jonathan Bailey, Harriet Cains, Bessie Carter, Jessica Madsen, Florence Hunt, Martins Imhangbe, Will Tilston, Polly Walker, and Julie Andrews.
Learn how to watch: The first four episodes of Bridgerton Season 3 premiere May 16 on Netflix, and the last four on June 13.
12. Mary & George
</div> Royal court-based treachery is all the time enjoyable, is not it? Sounding like a fusion of Game of Thrones and The Crown, Mary & George stars Julianne Moore as real-life historic determine Mary Villers, who teamed up together with her personal son George (Nicholas Galitzine) to scheme her method up the ranks of the Aristocracy. As with many historical dramas we might have to take this one's accuracy with a pinch of salt, nevertheless it definitely looks like an entertaining, Bridgerton-style romp.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Nicholas Galitzine, Tony Curran, Nicola Walker, Niamh Algar, Trine Dyrholm, Sean Gilder, Adrian Rawlins, Mark O'Halloran, Laurie Davidson, Samuel Blenkin, Jacob McCarthy, Tom Victor, Alice Grant, Amelia Gething, Mirren Mack, Rina Mahoney, and Simon Russell Beale.
Tips on how to watch: Mary & George premiere's on Sky and NOW TV in March 2024, and Starz in the U.S.
13. The Regime
</div> Beloved the Kate Winslet-led HBO restricted collection Mare of Easttown? Then brace yourself for The Regime, another Kate Winslet-led HBO restricted collection — albeit one with a very totally different vibe. A political satire via and thru, the present charts the unraveling of a modern European regime over the course of 1 yr. The chancellor of stated regime? None aside from Winslet, who spends The Regime's first teaser alternating between delivering ice-cold threats to overseas dignitaries and having a breakdown within the woods.*
Starring: Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton, Hugh Grant, Danny Webb, David Bamber, Henry Goodman, Stanley Townsend, Louie Mynett, Rory Keenan, Karl Markovics, and Pippa Haywood.
Easy methods to watch: The Regime is streaming March 3 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and Max in the U.S., and will stream on on Sky Atlantic and NOW in 2024, dates TBC.
14. Find out how to Get to Heaven From Belfast
In case you've seen the superior Derry Girls, you will know that any new present from Lisa McGee is a trigger for celebration. How you can Get to Heaven From Belfast follows three old-fashioned buddies, now of their thirties, who get pulled into a wierd thriller after attending the wake of a childhood classmate. Described within the press release as "Not so much a 'whodunit' as a 'what the hell occurred,'" this one sounds prefer it'll be as a lot of a thriller as a comedy. We don't yet know something concerning the forged or when it's going to be on, however we're protecting this one firmly on our radars.
Starring: But to be announced.
Find out how to watch: How to Get to Heaven From Belfast is streaming on Channel 4 in 2024, actual date TBC.
*This blurb has appeared on a previous Mashable listing.
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