There are so many Apple TV+ shows to look forward to in 2025! There are new seasons of some of the streamer’s best shows coming, along with new series and even a cool-looking film or two. Get ready for dramas, comedies and lots of sci-fi.
Cult of Mac writers picked the Apple TV+ shows we’re most excited about in the coming year. Keep reading or watch our video to fill out your Up Next queue early.
Apple TV+ shows in 2025
Apple TV+ launched in 2019 with a handful of shows — and a lot of catching up to do if it wanted to compete with big players like Netflix and Amazon. Since then, Apple’s streaming service has continually added to its library of exclusive TV shows and movies. Some proved great — see our list of the best shows on Apple TV+ — while others fell flat. The Apple TV+ library now holds more than 250 shows and movies.
The upcoming year looks like a strong one for Apple TV+, with compelling new offerings as well as new seasons of favorites like Severance and Mythic Quest. Our list of the best Apple TV+ shows to look forward to in 2025 places the upcoming shows and movies into as close to chronological order as possible. Not all the upcoming shows have definite release dates yet.
Table of contents: Apple TV+ shows in 2025
- Severance
- Mythic Quest
- The Gorge
- Dope Thief
- The Studio
- Government Cheese
- Criminal Record
- For All Mankind
- Foundation
- Monarch
- Murderbot
- Neuromancer
- Slow Horses
- Star City
- The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
Severance season 2
Premiere date: January 17
Most people with an interest in Apple TV+’s buzziest and weirdest show, Severance, probably already know its long-awaited second season (watch the trailer) starts airing January 17. The brains behind the show, director Ben Stiller and creator/writer Dan Erickson (both serve as executive producers), took three long years to bring season 2 to air.
That’s a long time to obsess over how to live up to the hugely popular first season. It introduced us to the crew of “innies” and “outies” working for the mysterious and seemingly sinister Lumon Industries. And of course it explored the disquieting weirdness of the company’s Severance brain surgery, which separates work and home memories.
So, with that much preparation to follow up with a second season, hopefully our heroes in Lumon’s Macrodata Refinement department — and great supporting cast like Christopher Walken and Patricia Arquette — won’t suffer the same fate as the castaways on classic head-scratcher Lost. A disappointed viewer base consigned the show to infamy for its bungled ending. Take a sneak peek at the Severance season two’s first 8 minutes. — David Snow
Mythic Quest season 4
Premiere date: January 29
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The previous seasons of Mythic Quest might make it the quirkiest show on Apple TV+, though it has plenty of competition. The gamer-themed workplace comedy is populated with a cast of deeply eccentric characters in one crazy situation after another.
Personality disorders range from one boss who’s immensly egotisic to another that’s deeply neurotic. And don’t forget the sociopath. Yet somehow Mythic Quest’s writers make these people relatable and genuinely likable. You’ll root for them as they deal with underage game critics, racist gamers and so much more.
The series returns to Apple TV+ for the fourth and final season on January 19 to wrap the story up. But a spinoff called Side Quest launches on March 26. — Ed Hardy
The Gorge
Premiere date: February 14
Apple TV+ makes the occasional movie, and the trailer for The Gorge got me intrigued. It sets up a mystery: what’s hidden in the depths of the gorge?
The film focuses on two agents (played by Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) set to guard the creepy opening in the earth and who didn’t know what mysterious evil lurks within. But you know they’re going to find out.
The Gorge has a dose of romance, and it’ll premiere on Apple TV on Valentine’s Day. — Ed Hardy
Dope Thief
Premiere date: March 25
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As a huge fan of The Wire (I even had the DVD boxed set until someone, appropriately, stole it from me), I’m looking forward to Dope Thief, due in mid-March on Apple TV+. Set in Philadelphia, Dope Thief is a crime drama starring Brian Tyree Henry (Bullet Train) and Wagner Moura (Narcos).
These two friends hit on the perfect crime: Pose as DEA agents and rob small-time drug dealers, who will never report it. They hit big, but realize too late that they robbed the wrong guy: Bart (Ving Rhames), a big-time drug dealer who won’t report it — but will kill anyone and everyone involved. It sounds like an interesting premise and has a great cast and crew (including Ridley Scott, who directed one episode). — Leander Kahney
The Studio
Premiere date: March 26
Not unlike a fast-talking hack of a movie producer, I’m taking a risk claiming to look forward to an unknown entity of a type lots of folks love to hate. With The Studio, Apple TV+ adds another in a long line of shows and movies Hollywood makes about itself. So maybe I’m looking forward to hating it. We’ll see. Will the new show, which comes from actor, writer and producer Seth Rogen, be great like Barton Fink or Barry? Or will it just suck self-importantly, as some see The Player and The Last Tycoon?
The Studio features Rogen as the new head of embattled (and totally made up) Continental Studios. With a cast that includes not only the reliably funny Rogen but Catherine O’Hara, Kathryn Hahn and guest star Bryan Cranston, plus guest spots by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Charlize Theron, how bad could it be? Well, it could be a bloated Hollywood monstrosity. Or it could be hilarious. — David Snow
Government Cheese
Premiere date: April 16
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TBH, Government Cheese looks awful. It’s billed as a “surrealist” family comedy set in the San Fernando Valley in 1969. It tells the tale of a man newly released from prison who has trouble re-adapting to family life. It sounds dreadful and “surrealist” sounds like a synonym for silly or wacky; the kind of comedy that’s usually dreadfully unfunny.
But it stars the amazing David Oyelowo, an award-winning British-American actor best known for playing Martin Luther King in Selma. Oyelowo is always great, but I’ve never seen him in a comedy, so I’ll be checking out Government Cheese, surrealist or not. — Leander Kahney
Criminal Record season 2
Premiere date: Unknown
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Criminal Record is a pretty typical crime mystery drama. You start with a simple phone call to the police that isn’t entirely what it seems, kicking off an investigation that adds a brand-new twist or revelation at just the right pace to keep you hooked the whole way through.
There are dozens of shows in that format, but only Criminal Record features Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who, The Thick of It) — one of the most captivating, magnetic, and finest actors on television today. You come for Peter Capaldi, and learn to appreciate his co-star and co-executive producer, Cush Jumbo, along the way. I’m looking forward to seeing more of the pair in season two. — D. Griffin Jones
For All Mankind season 5
Premiere date: Unknown
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For All Mankind is an alternate history series that begins with the Soviet Union landing on the moon before the US in 1969. The space race never ends, with the Cold War superpowers continuing to up the ante over the years, causing rippling effects throughout history that multiply as the seasons go on. The rotating cast of characters rarely has a miss — they’re all brilliantly written, perfectly cast and captivating actors to watch.
Season four ended with a Mars colony going rogue, capturing a valuable asteroid for its own use. Margo, one of the main characters and brilliant rocket scientist, was arrested by authorities. How will this affect life when season 5 skips forward again to 2012? — D. Griffin Jones
Foundation season 3
Premiere date: Unknown
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Apple TV+ deserves heaps of credit for not only adapting Isaac Asimov’s epic series of novels about a galactic empire in decline, but for making a lavishly expensive and great-looking hit out of the first two seasons. Now, after cost-cutting delays and some cast questions, season 3 resumed production in March 2024 and should air in 2025. The question is: Will it stay great? Probably.
In Asimov’s classic story, much-abridged to make for the series’ modern cinematic TV, brilliant mathematician Dr. Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) realizes the Galactic Empire, spanning solar systems and galaxies like a metastasized Rome run by a long line of cloned emperors, is doomed to collapse. And his efforts to create the Foundation group to preserve humanity and civilization becomes outlaw activity across time and space. — David Snow
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2
Premiere date: Unknown
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The first season of the Apple TV+ series starring Godzilla was a hit, and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 is expected before the end of 2025.
Season one had our characters (one played by screen legend Kurt Russell) discovering that there are giant monsters in hiding all over the Earth. The Monarch organization from the Monsterverse films studies them while trying to keep the U.S. military from killing them. We already know season two takes place on Skull Island so expect King Kong to be in the upcoming episodes.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is fun, well made and where else are you going to find a show about kaiju? — Ed Hardy
Murderbot
Premiere date: Unknown
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Murderbot has a great premise: The sc-fi thriller explores the complicated feelings of a killer robot that’s become sentient and is starting to empathise with its victims. Murderbot must hide its free will and secret ambitions: to be left alone to watch TV in peace.
Based on an award-winning series of acclaimed novels, the 10-part series stars Alexander Skarsgård, is directed by Chris and Paul Weitz, and Foundation’s David S. Goyer is running the show. — Leander Kahney
Neuromancer
Premiere date: Unknown
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Though it became a video game and a graphic novel, William Gibson’s landmark 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer never turned into a TV show. Until now, or at least somewhat soon on Apple TV+, as the streamer said way back in February. But with no air date yet stated, it’s not clear if the 10-episode series will stream in 2025 or 2026.
At any rate, if Apple TV+ can render a sci-fi behemoth like Foundation credibly on-screen, maybe it can make the most of Neuromancer, too. Perhaps many fans of neither would have thought it possible. Gibson’s novel, which won the prestigious Nebula, Philip K. Dick and Hugo awards, served as part one of the Sprawl trilogy. Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive followed. So good luck to show creators Graham Roland (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Dark Winds) and JD Dillard (Devotion, The Outsider). At least they’re working directly with Gibson on it. — David Snow
Slow Horses season 5
Premiere date: Unknown
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When Apple TV+ began adapting Mick Herron’s Britain-based Slough House spy novels to the Slow Horses series, I loved the show and quickly devoured all eight books. They’re as compulsively readable as the darkly funny thriller series about a crew of MI5 intelligence agents one step away from dismissal is watchable. And we can look forward to rumpled former super spy Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), tightly wound MI5 number two Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) and the rest of the stellar cast in season five’s six heart-pounding new episodes in 2025. And good news: Season six already greenlighted, too. — David Snow
Star City
Premiere date: Unknown
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Star City is a For All Mankind spin-off, depicting the same events from the perspective of the Soviet Union. While the latest season of For All Mankind has taken the series well into the 2000s, Star City will take a peek behind the iron curtain starting back in the late ’60s.
In real life, the CCCP never succeeded in building its lunar N1 rocket — perhaps we’ll see what it would have taken to make that possible. Fans of the alt history series are also looking forward to seeing some familiar faces again, like Roscosmos director Sergei Nikulov. — D. Griffin Jones
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin season 2
Premiere date: Unknown
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You’d be hard-pressed to find someone less suited to be a highwayman than English actor Noel Fielding. And that’s what makes The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin such a fun comedy. What if England’s most infamous robber and murderer was actually a really nice guy? Turpin and his band of misfits must deal with guards, thieftakers, witches and genuinely dangerous rival highwaymen and yet somehow always come out on top.
Season two of The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is on the way, but we don’t know exactly when. — Ed Hardy
About Apple TV+
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