TCA Members Name Their Most Anticipated TV Shows of the Rest of 2025

The results are in! The Television Critics Association membership has spoken and TV critics are most excited to see the next chapter of Joel and Ellie’s story in The Last of Us Season 2, which premieres on HBO in April. In a close second place, TCA members are eager to see what Fargo boss Noah Hawley is going to do with Alien: Earth in his upcoming FX series.

Continuing series or sequels made up the majority of the most anticipated titles with Andor Season 2 and Daredevil: Born Again all making the list. The latter has just begun its own first season run, while Andor is set to debut this April. Stranger Things Season 5, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, The Bear Season 4, Apple TV+’s The Studio, and Your Friends and Neighbors rounded out the rest of the list. The latter two are the only brand-new series in the Top 10.

The top titles on the list were spread pretty evenly among the biggest streaming services and premium cable networks, with HBO, Apple TV+, FX/Hulu, and Disney+ all scoring two titles each in the top tier of the list. Netflix notched one title in the top tier with Stranger Things, and TCA stalwart PBS also clinched a top-tier spot with the follow-up to 2015’s Wolf Hall.

The shows below the top ten ran the gamut of streaming and broadcast but included titles. Returning shows included 1923 Season 2 (Paramount+), Poker Face Season 2 (Peacock), The Handmaid's Tale Season 6 (Hulu), and The Righteous Gemstones Season 4 (HBO/Max). New shows lower on the list include robot thriller Murderbot (AppleTV+), starring Alexander Skarsgård, Shondaland murder mystery The Residence (Netflix), oddball comedy Government Cheese (Apple TV+), and Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO).

Below, please find the most anticipated series, as voted on by the TCA membership:

A few comments from the TCA membership about the most anticipated shows...

"Since their seasons ended, I've been thinking about two returning shows, The Handmaid's Tale and The Last of Us. I long to see where these series will go." — Jacqueline Cutler (freelance, TCA President)

"Alexander Skarsgård as a socially awkward killing machine in Murderbot is pretty much all you need to know." — Tim Surette (TV Guide)

"Noah Hawley hasn't missed yet (on TV at least) and even if Alien: Earth wasn't the first ever Alien TV series, a movie franchise that has consistently taken enormous swings, a new Hawley show is a reason to celebrate." — Alexander Zalben (freelance)

"Despite some uneven seasons, I want to see where Stranger Things ends. As for The Studio, anything with Schitt's Creek goddess Catherine O'Hara in it gets my attention, especially when it has a Sarah Polley cameo." — Debra Yeo (Toronto Star)

"Andor Season 1 was the unexpected canary in the coal mine series roadmapping the march of Fascism and how communities stand up to it. Seeing how they chart Cassian's choice to fight and how it lines up to Rogue One is can't miss for me; Star Wars fan or not." — Tara Bennett (freelance)

"In the era of streaming television, nothing has quite lived up to the hype of Stranger Things Season 1. With virtually no promotion, the nostalgic sci-fi horror series unexpectedly took over the cultural conversation when it dropped in 2016. It'll be exciting to see how the Duffer brothers finally wrap things up in the show's home stretch almost a decade later." — Caralynn Matassa (Business Insider)

"From the 'howcatchem' thrills of Poker Face to the full-on fantasy of Westeros in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, genre television in 2025 is so varied — even among the superheroes — in terms of tone, subject, and world-building." — Erik Amaya (freelance)

"LOTS of great genre television coming back this year, which I feel like I always have to go to bat for as a sci-fi/fantasy fan — but also, Righteous Gemstones' victory lap!" — Carly Lane-Perry (Collider)

"With the exception of BoJack and the last season of Barry, I'm having a hard time remembering the last truly great entertainment industry satire. It's a difficult move to master, but I believe The Studio can pull off mocking Hollywood in a way that doesn't go so inside baseball as to be unrelatable." — Jason Tabrys (freelance)