24 fantasy and sci-fi TV shows to catch up with in 2025 before the next season drops

The sci-fi and fantasy TV world always seems on a paradoxical precipice: Too many good shows get canceled, yet too many keep returning to television. Not that we’re complaining about the latter.

Several long-awaited shows from some of the biggest franchises around, including Marvel, Star Wars, Doctor Who, and The Walking Dead, will return in 2025. Given that most TV shows take a year or longer at least to release the next season, it can be hard to keep track of where we left off in the story. And without catching up with the previous seasons, one could unintentionally commit what is considered in the sci-fi or fantasy community the ultimate blunder: not understanding the references or Easter eggs. 

The following are some of the most exciting genre TV shows dropping their next seasons this year. In addition to the ones listed below, Severance (Prime Video), Invincible (Prime Video) and Solo Leveling are already airing their new seasons weekly, so there's already plenty to watch!

1. Daredevil: Born Again (March 4, 2025)

The masked vigilante of Hell’s Kitchen is coming back to television on March 4, continuing the storyline from the Netflix series. Lawyer by day and a superhero at night, Matt Murdock was part of a four-character Marvel mini-universe on Netflix that also included Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Danny Rand a.k.a Iron Fist.

Netflix canceled the original show after its third season. After the movie and TV rights reverted to Marvel in November 2020, fans went rabid on the internet under the hashtag #SaveDaredevil, demanding the studio bring the show back with Cox in the lead. Marvel, thankfully, listened. The revival will air on Disney+.

Other actors from the Netflix show such as Vincent D’Onofrio (Kingpin), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), and Jon Bernthal (Frank Castle) will also reprise their roles. From the official trailer, the show seems to have retained its gritty undertone and taste for violence.

It is hard to tell whether the social media storm contributed to the show’s revival, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had. This was not the first time fans demanded a character (with the respective actor) be revived. MCU fans went wild with the #CoulsonLives hashtag after the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent’s (Clark Gregg) death in The Avengers, which then paved the way for seven incredible seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

2. The Wheel of Time Season 3 (March 13, 2025)

Fans have been waiting for the third season of The Wheel of Time for two years. It will finally premiere on March 13, 2025, with a three-episode premiere. After that, the remaining five episodes will be released every Thursday.

The first two seasons mainly dealt with Rand al'Thor (Josha Stradowski) coming to terms with being the Dragon Reborn, a prophetic figured destined to clash with the Dark One and his forces. The official teaser, released in December last year, clarified that the season will adapt the fourth book in Robert Jordan’s (and Brandon Sanderson’s) book series, The Shadow Rising. In that book, Rand visits the Aiel waste to bring the warrior-like Aiel people to his side.

This week, Prime Video released the official trailer for season 3. The trailer is chock full of details hinting at new locations and storylines. We get glimpses of Rand’s journey to the Aiel city of Rhuidean, a confrontation between Nynaeve al'Meara (Zoë Robins) and the Forsaken Moghedien (Laia Costa), and a fight in the White Tower between Siuan Sanche (Sophie Okonedo) and Liandrin (Kate Fleetwood), who was revealed to be a member of Black Ajah.

Meanwhile, Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) gets her powers back and has alarming visions about her future. “I have seen a thousand, thousand futures and every future where I lived, Rand dies and the only way he lives is if I don't," she says.

3. The Handmaid's Tale Season 6 (April 8, 2025)

The sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale will premiere on April 8, 2025, and air its season finale on May 27. Hulu had previously shared a photo of series lead Elisabeth Moss holding the slate for the first episode of the season, which she will also be directing. This week, the official trailer for the season was released.

Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, The Handmaid’s Tale is set in a dystopian future where the United States has been taken over by a tyrannical regime called Gilead. Under the pretense of repopulating the country amid low birth rates, the totalitarian powers that be in Gilead assign women who are proven to be fertile to higher-ranked men for the purpose of bearing children. The show follows June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), who is given the name ‘Offred’ and becomes the handmaid of Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and his wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski).

The multiple award-winning show premiered in 2017 and was renewed for season 6 in 2022, shortly before the release of the fifth season. The filming of the final season was delayed by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes as well as Moss’ real-life pregnancy.

The fifth season ends with June and Serena fleeing for Vancouver after anti-refugee sentiments grow in Toronto. She has baby Nichole with her but has to leave her husband Luke (O-T Fagbenle) behind as authorities are looking for him after he beats up and kills a hit-and-run driver who targeted her. The season 6 synopsis confirms that June will continue to fight to dismantle Gilead while Serena Joy tries to reform it. Luke and best friend Moira (Samira Wiley) will join the resistance.

4. The Last of Us season 2 (April 2025)

The second season of The Last of Us will arrive on HBO Max in April 2025, according to the teaser released a month ago. The first season of the TV adaptation of Naughty Dog’s popular video game was a well-loved super-hit, with Pedro Pascal’s Joel and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie leading the superb cast.

At the end of the first season, Joel kills his way through the facility where Ellie, immune to the Cordyceps infection, was going to undergo surgery (and possibly die) to help make the vaccine that could save humankind. After it's over, he lies to her about what happened.

Joel’s relationship with Ellie, which was at the heart of the first season, was strained by the end. Ramsey told Vanity Fair that fans can expect a “darker” story this time about “revenge” and the “dangers of unconditional love.” The second season will also introduce several new characters from The Last of Us Part II video game, such as Dina, Jesse, Abby, Owen, Mel, Nora, and Manny. Here is the first look at some of the new (and old) characters, released by HBO this week.

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5. Star Wars: Andor Season 2 (April 22, 2025)

Set five years before the events of Star Wars: Rogue One, the first season of Andor, released in 2022, revolved around Cassian Andor’s slow induction into the Rebellion. We find out how the battle-hardened fighter in the 2016 movie was once an innocent orphan on Kenari. The Galactic Empire tore through his planet changed the trajectory of his life.

The Diego Luna-led series, overseen by Tony Gilroy, got widespread critical acclaim as one of the best Star Wars shows yet made. It shows the horrors of the Imperial rule as well as the resilience and courage of the common folk. The show does all the characters justice, but Kino Loy’s (Andy Serkis) sacrifice during the prison break, Luthen Rael’s (Stellan Skarsgard) monologue, and Maarva Andor’s (Fiona Shaw) epic speech will be remembered for a long time. To think we almost got Maarva’s hologram saying ‘F*ck the Empire’ but Disney robbed us of it!

The second and final season, which will premiere on Disney+ on April 22, is expected to give us a grittier look at the Rebellion and connect the series with the Rogue One movie.

6. The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 (Spring 2025)

A new teaser for season 2 of The Walking Dead: Dead City, released at New York Comic Con last year, confirmed a spring 2025 premiere on AMC and AMC+ for this spinoff series. The show show follows Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they visit a post-apocalyptic Manhattan isolated and cut off from the mainland. New York City drowns in anarchy and mayhem as the unlikely duo team up despite trust issues to rescue Maggie’s son Hershel (Logan Kim).

Season 2 will delve into the complicated dynamic between Maggie and Negan, especially after the betrayal of the season 1 finale. The Croat (Željko Ivanek) will return and possibly remain as the main antagonist, his connection to Negan and hatred towards Maggie driving much of the season. Manhattan itself is likely to play a bigger role as a backdrop, with new threats emerging for the main characters, both human and walker-related.

7. Squid Game Season 3 (June 27, 2025)

The third and final season of Squid Game, which has taken Netflix by storm, will drop on June 27. This is the most popular original series in the history of the streaming service, so expectations are high for the ending.

The South Korean dystopian thriller follows a large number of people who find themselves short on luck (and money) and sign up for a game where the winner receives a huge sum as a reward. However, losing in this game at any point comes with a very high cost: death.

The season 3 photos confirm the return of the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) and the VIPs, a group of wealthy elites for whom the games are hosted. Season 2 ends with the Front Man shooting lead character Seong Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) friend Park Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan) to prove that Gi-hun’s attempts to topple the games from within wouldn't work.

8. Wednesday Season 2 (2025)

Netflix revealed a five-second glimpse into Wednesday season 2 in their Next on Netflix 2025 video released last month. The first season, released in 2022, became an overnight hit because of its ‘dark academia’ aesthetic, Jenna Ortega’s compelling performance, and the justice it did to the gothic comedy legacy of The Addams Family.

The first season deals with the murders happening on the premises of the hallowed Nevermore Academy, which is a tad creepier than your average fantasy high school. As the mystery unravels, Wednesday Addams learns to properly wield her psychic powers inherited from her mother, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones). At the end of the season, we find out in a somewhat predictable twist that Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan), the local barista courting Wednesday, was the monstrous Hyde all along, and that he was being controlled by the school’s botany teacher Marilyn Thornhill, whose real name is Laurel Gates (Christina Ricci).

However, several mysteries were left unresolved at the end of season 1, such as what happened to Tyler’s mother and who was sending the anonymous messages to Wednesday. Hopefully, the second season will come bearing answers, but not before some delicious twists and turns.

9. Doctor Who Season 2/Season 15 (2025)

Doctor Who will return with Ncuti Gatwa in the lead role in 2025 on Disney+ (BBC and BBC iPlayer in the UK). Varada Sethu will play Belinda Chandra and Millie Gibson will return as companion Ruby Sunday. Although technically it is season 15 of the franchise as revived in 2005 (the original run was from 1963-1989), this new season is being labeled as ‘Season 2’ following Disney’s acquisition of the global broadcasting rights for the show.

The description for season 2, as provided with the trailer released in December 2024, reads, “The Doctor meets Belinda Chandra and begins an epic quest to get her back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, bigger enemies, and wider terrors than ever before.”

Season 2, which follows the 2024 Christmas episode, “Joy to the World,” will consist of eight episodes. Sethu’s casting as Belinda has stirred up theories on the internet, as she played a different character, Mundy Flynn, in an episode last season entitled “Boom.” Will the two be connected? In the Doctor’s world of endless possibilities, nothing can ever be ruled out.

10. Stranger Things season 5 (2025)

Like Wednesday, Netflix’s 2025 video included bits and pieces of Stranger Things, teasing the release of the show’s fifth and final season this year. Given that season 4 came out in 2022 (in two parts), fans are naturally getting impatient to see how the epic sci-fi horror drama ends. In November, a title tease was released announcing a 2025 release. The name of the final episode will be “The Rightside Up,” a fun reversal of the Upside Down, the name for the dark dimension our heroes are always trying to keep at bay.

So far, not much is known about season 5. Netflix shared a photo on social media last week which seems to be a ‘Missing Teen’ poster of Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven. The poster calls her ‘Jane Hopper,’ a 15-year-old white female, born on 06/07/71 who went missing on June 13, 1986. There is a $3,000 reward for “all leads which result in the location of Jane Hopper or her body.”

The season 4 finale ended on a massive cliffhanger that revealed the monster Vecna to be a product of the same program that produced Eleven: he's Number One. A confrontation with Eleven led to him being thrown into The Upside Down, where he evolved and thrived. Season 4 left us with a series of questions, such as whether Max would come out of her coma, Vecna’s full backstory, and the fate of the Upside Down as well as the residents of Hawkins, IN.

11. Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 (2025)

There is no specific date yet set for season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, but filming has officially wrapped. Rick Riordan, the author of the Percy Jackson books, announced on BlueSky that principal photography is done and dusted, and now only post-production remains before an “awesome” season airs on television.

However, the first season had a pretty long post-production process and fans can probably expect a similar delay this time. Season 1 filming ended in February 2023 but the first episode did not drop until mid-December.

So far, we’ve only had a 56-second teaser for the second season, revealing very little but confirming that the new season will adapt the second book in the series, The Sea of Monsters. In that book, Percy has to rescue Grover from the Cyclops Polyphemus and save Camp Half-Blood from Kronos’ siege by finding the Golden Fleece.

He also meets his Cyclops half-brother Tyson, also Poseidon’s son, who is being played by Daniel Diemer in the new season. Courtney B. Vance will take up the mantle of Zeus, the god of thunder, after Lance Reddick’s death last year. Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase), and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) reprise their roles.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians was the most-viewed series on Disney+ in 2024 with over 3 billion minutes watched, according to Luminate’s 2024 analysis. It outperformed Star Wars’ The Acolyte, Ahsoka, The Bad Batch, and The Skeleton Crew as well as Marvel’s Agatha All Along, Echo, and X-Men ‘97. That should give you enough FOMO to catch up with the show right away.

12. Gen V Season 2 (2025)

Set in The Boys universe, Gen V follows a group of young and inexperienced students at Godolking University, a.k.a. God U, a prestigious institution that is supposed to prepare the next generation of superheroes but which is naturally rife with dark secrets and corruption. The characters learn how to wield their powers while navigating the pitfalls of fame and popularity. Eventually, they stumble upon a hidden facility running unethical experimentation under the orders of the school’s dean.

The first trailer for Gen V season 2 was screened behind closed doors at San Diego Comic-Con 2024. According to GamesRadar, the footage opens with Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Emma (Lizze Broadway), and the other students who were imprisoned by Homelander in the climactic season 1 finale being brought back to God U. There’s also a cameo from the Deep (Chace Crawford) in a hooded gown.

Season 2 is set to premiere in 2025, but the exact date has not yet been revealed. Filming wrapped up in November 2024, putting the show in post-production. Production was delayed due to the passing of Chance Perdomo, who played Andre. Prime Video has not recast the character.

13. One-Punch Man Season 3 (2025)

Some modern-day anime shows are notorious for making fans wait forever for new seasons. One-Punch Man last released new episodes in 2019. Season 3 was officially announced in August 2022, with Makoto Furukawa and Hikaru Midorikawa as returning as Saitama and Garou. The series, created as a parody-gag of the shonen genre, will return on Hulu in 2025, 10 years after the first season aired.

An update on the much-awaited third season is expected to drop during AnimeJapan 2025. The event will take place from March 22-25 in Tokyo, Japan. The season is expected to adapt the Monster Association arc, with intense battles against Orochi and Gyoro Gyoro. In a season 3 visuals reveal, we meet two new characters — Puri-Puri Prisoner and Handsome Kamen Amai Mask — who will be important in the next season.

14. Black Mirror Season 7 (2025)

After six mind-boggling seasons, Black Mirror will return for a seventh run on Netflix in 2025 with six new episodes. We do not have a firm date yet, but we have some tidbits about the season shared by showrunner Charlie Brooker as part of Geeked Week, Netflix’s annual fandom festival. 

Brooker told the audience that the six new episodes will be “a mix of genres and styles,” two of which will be feature-length. “Some of them are deeply unpleasant, some are quite funny, and some are emotional.” Fans can expect a vibe similar to the “OG Black Mirror” with some episodes having a “disturbing” horror element.

Black Mirror is not known for keeping continuity between episodes, but season 7 will have a direct sequel to the epic season 4 opener, “USS Callister.” It’s the first time the show has produced a sequel episode; Brooker credits his growth “as a human” for the decision. A short synopsis for the episode confirms the death of Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), but says that the problems for the crew of the USS Callister were just beginning.

Cristin Miloti, Jimmi Simpson, Paul G Raymond, and Osy Ikhile, who starred in “USS Callister,” are all returning. Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Rashida Jones, Paul Giamatti, Chris O'Dowd, and Emma Corrin are coming on board the new season.

15. Alice in Borderland Season 3 (2025)

Alice in Borderland was a surprise inclusion in the Next on Netflix video, as the show had pretty much covered the original souce material by the end of the second season, which aired in 2022. Based on a manga series by Haro Aso, the Japanese apocalyptic series follows Ryohei Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), Yuzuha Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya), and other characters who are trapped in Tokyo’s Borderland and have to survive life-threatening games to collect all the cards of a deck.

Shinsuke Sato, who directed the first two seasons, will return as showrunner once again. Yamazaki and Tsuchiya will also reprise their roles, hinting that season 3 might adapt one of Aso’s spinoff mangas.

The first spinoff, released between 2015 and 2018 and titled Alice on Border Road, followed a different set of characters. The second one, Alice in Borderland: Retry, is more likely to get adapted into season 3 of the Netflix show. Alternatively, they could go in a completely different direction with an original storyline, especially with the season 2 finale not revealing Joker’s true identity as the manga does.

16. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 (2025)

Production on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 was delayed by seven months due to the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, but it is still set to premiere sometime in 2025. Paramount+ has yet to share a date, but one of the cast members revealed that filming had wrapped by May of last year.

The season is expected to pick up from the cliffhanger ending of Season 2, which aired nearly two years ago. As Pike (Anson Mount) and his Enterprise crew run a rescue mission for the survivors of the Gorn attack on Parnassus Beta, Batel’s (Melanie Scrofano) USS Cayuga is destroyed, and she gets infected with Gorn eggs. Pike is forced to retreat, leaving his ground team behind.

A preview of the season was released last year at San Diego Comic-Con. Pike is expected to return for Batel and the stranded crew. The new character Montgomery Scott (Martin Quinn) is likely to have a larger role this season. Star Trek veteran Jonathan Frakes, who directs an episode in season 3, has called his story “a Hollywood murder mystery.”

17. The Sandman Season 2 (2025)

The second season of The Sandman, which will also be its last, will arrive on Netflix sometime in mid- to-late 2025. The decision to end the expensive phantasmagorical drama series was reportedly already in place before multiple sexual misconduct accusations were leveled at original Neil Gaiman, the creator of the original comic series. New characters include the likes of Dream's siblings Delirium (Esme Creed-Miles), Destiny (Adrian Lester), and The Prodigal’s (Barry Sloane). 

Showrunner Allan Heinberg told Variety in January 2025 that the show was always meant to exclusively focus on Dream’s (Tom Sturridge) story. According to him, that meant they could wrap the show up in just one more season.

The second season will follow the “Season of Mists” arc from the comics, where Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) expels demons and damned souls from hell, abdicates as its ruler, and hands over the keys to Hell’s Gate to Dream. This leads many to bargain for the key, among them Odin (Clive Russell) with his sons Loki (Freddie Fox) and Thor (Laurence O’Fuarain). Game of Thrones alum Jack Gleeson (King Joffrey Baratheon) will appear as Puck, the malevolent hobgoblin from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

18. The Witcher Season 4 (2025)

Netflix has confirmed that The Witcher will return for season 4 in 2025, with Liam Hemsworth now playing the lead role of Geralt of Rivia. He's stepping in for Henry Cavill, which means he has rather big shoes to fill.

The fifth and final season will be filmed back-to-back with season 4, completing the adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher books. Filming wrapped up in October 2024 and the season is expected to drop in the year’s second half.

A teaser released in May 2024 offered the first look at Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia. Laurence Fishburne and Danny Woodburn (Watchmen) are also joining the cast in season 4 as fan-favorite characters Regis and Zoltan.

The fourth and fifth seasons will cover Sapkowski’s three remaining books: Baptism of Fire, The Tower of the Swallow and Lady of the Lake. By the end of season 3, Geralt, Ciri (Freya Allan), and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) are separated once again. Ciri takes on a new name and identity — Falka — and joins a gang of teenaged criminals calls the Rats after escaping from her captors near the Korath Desert. Yennefer grieves her maternal figure Tissaia (MyAnna Buring), and prepares to fill her shoes as Aretuza’s new leader.

Geralt, wounded and injured after Vilgefortz’s (Mahesh Jadu) treachery, is barely healed when he sets out toward Nilfgaard to find Ciri. He is on a dangerous and wild chase.

The Witcher movie Sirens of the Deep, which came out in February, does not have any direct ties to season 4. Based on Sapkowski’s short story “A Little Sacrifice,” this animated film is set between episodes 5 and 6 of season 1. It follows Geralt as he investigates a series of attacks in a seaside hamlet and gets drawn into a human vs. merpeople war. You can stream the movie right now on Netflix.

19. Outlander Season 8 (2025)

Filming for Outlander season 8 wrapped up in September 2024 in Scotland. An official premiere date has yet to be announced. There's a chance Starz could choose to push the episodes into 2026, but we think it's more likely they'll start to drop in late 2025. This will be the show’s last season.

The story will pick up after the huge reveal in the seventh season's finale. In the episode, Claire (Caitríona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) discover that their daughter Faith, who they thought had died in infancy, could be alive. They overhear their new ward Fanny (Florrie May Wilkinson) singing the same song Claire sang to her stillborn child Faith in the second season, hinting that Faith may have been Fanny's mother.

Season 8 is supposed to be adapted from Outlander creator Diana Gabaldon's novel Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone,” the ninth in her series. But Faith potentially surviving hints that the story could go in another direction. But there should still be a way for Claire to use her blue-aura healing power. 

While you wait for the show to drop its final season, you can watch the prequel show Outlander: Blood of My Blood. It is a love story about howJamie’s parents met in 18th century Scotland, and how Claire’s parents met during World War I in England. The 10-episode first season will premiere in the summer of this year.

20. Fire Force Season 3 Part 1 (Fall, 2025)

It was announced at the Anime Expo 2024 that Fire Force will release its final season in parts, with its first half debuting in April 2025 and the second one in January 2026. According to the Crunchyroll description, the season will follow Shinra (Derick Snow/Gakuto Kajiwara) and the Fire Force as they try to snuff out the spontaneous human combustions happening all around Tokyo. However, Shinra’s past is catching up with him as he keeps working with Company 8. A trailer with key visuals was released at CCXP in December.

It is safe to assume that the early episodes of season 3 will conclude the events of the Stigma arc that were left unresolved at the end of season 2. According to Atsushi Ohkubo’s manga, the next arc is Captain Akitaru Obi’s Rescue. Fans will also find out the truth about the origins of The Evangelist and White-Clad organization.

The trailer is mainly a recap of previous seasons and is light on details about what's coming next, but it does hint that Fire Force and Ohkubo’s other manga Soul Eater may share the same world.

21. My Hero Academia Season 8 (Fall 2025)

In December 2024, it was announced at the Jump Festa in Japan that My Hero Academia’s eighth and final season will begin airing in the fall of 2025. A spinoff series, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, was also announced for an April 2025 release.

Season 7, which ran from May to October last year, covered the Star and Stripe arc and the UA traitor arc. It also covered the beginning of the Final War arc. Season 8 will take off from there, paving the way for the final confrontation between Midoriya and Shigaraki.

The latter is currently battling Deku, and the two will eventually end up at the foot of Mount Fuji. Expect some breathtaking scenery amidst all the bloodshed. All Might and All for One’s battle was left unfinished in season 7, so it is likely to be the first thing we see next season.

Season 8 will also cover the epilogue arc, tying up the loose ends of the story and showing what becomes of the heroes who survive in the post-war world.

22. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 3 (Fall 2025)

The other Walking Dead spinoff coming this year is Darly Dixon, and it's already wrapped production for season 3. AMC has not revealed a hard release date, but the season is set to drop in fall 2025.

Daryl had his long-awaited reunion with Carol (Melissa McBride) in season 2, and the pair finally left France behind in the season finale. Despite season 3 being set in Spain, we see Daryl and Carol head towards England through the Channel Tunnel. After hallucinations, dealing with grief, a couple of walkers, and a bit of betrayal from fellow travelers, the two resolve to finally go home together. But things will naturally not be easy.

The third season teaser shows the pair in different regions of Spain. At one point, they admit to each other that they had almost given up. 

The season will feature comedy legend Stephen Merchant as well as several Spanish actors, including Eduardo Noriega (The Devil's Backbone), Oscar Jaenada (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), and Alexandra Masangkay (The Platform).

23. For All Mankind Season 5 (Late 2025)

Apple TV+'s original show For All Mankind finished filming for season 5 by mid-December 2024, which means a late 2025 release can be expected. The series has been one of the most-loved and longest-running original programs on the platform.

Set in an alternate universe where the Soviet Union beats the United States to the moon back in the 1960s, For All Mankind explores what kind of world we would live in if the space race had never stopped. We don't have a plot synopsis for the next season yet, but we can expect to jump forward in time to the 2010s, when mankind has established a mining operation on an asteroid orbiting Mars.

Although the main cast members are expected to return, there are rumors that we may have seen the last of some, such as Wren Schmidt (Margo) and Krys Marshall (Dani). The question of Ed Baldwin’s (Joel Kinnaman) increasing age and declining health hovers over season 5, as does the corporate control over the Martian colony known as Happy Valley.

24. Foundation Season 3 (Late 2025)

Another one of Apple TV+’s big-budget sci-fi shows, Foundation, is expected to return in 2025. Loosely based on Isaac Asimov’s work, this space drama is set in a galaxy far, far away ruled in perpetuity by the revolving triumvirate of Emperor Cleon’s clones. Or at least that's the idea; their expansive civilization begins to crumble around them, while others labor to preserve what of it they can.

Filming for the third season halted because of the 2023 Hollywood strikes, but resumed in 2024 and was finished by August. While Apple TV+ hasn’t confirmed a release window, season 3 is rumored to premiere in late 2025. Lee Pace and Lou Llobell are expected to reprise their roles. New faces like Cody Fern, Cherry Jones, and Piloue Asbaek will join in season 3. 

Season 2 introduced The Mule (Mikael Persbrandt) as a major antagonist. He will dominate the story of the next season, according to showrunner David Goyle.

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