2025 will feature the return of lots of beloved science fiction shows, but what if you're in the mood for something completely new? We're talking aliens, demons, gunfights, explosions, horror, and spinoffs of a lot of popular franchises.
Here are seven brand new shows that could stratch that sci-fi itch. Are you ready?
Ironheart (Disney+)
Every year, Disney brings us a couple new Marvel series, and 2025 will be no exception. On June 24, they're release Ironheart, a show about an Iron Man superfan named Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) who builds her own mechanical flying suit.
Actually, we already got to know Riri in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, where she had a supporting role. She's have the spotlight in Ironheart, going on a new adventure alongside cast members like alongside cast members like Anthony Ramos, Lyric Ross, Alden Ehrenreich, Regan Aliyah, Manny Montana, Matthew Elam, and Anji White. The plot will involve her coming home to Chicago and getting caught in a conflict between technology and magic.
Disney has released a lot of Marvel TV shows since WandaVision kicked off the movement in 2021. They've kind of been giving us diminishing returns, but the studio keeps trying. Cast in point:
Eyes of Wakanda (Disney+)
The fictional country of Wakanda has advanced technology the rest of the people in the Marvel Cinematic Universe can only dream of. The Black Panther movies put this country on the map, and Eyes of Wakanda will drill down into the details.
Eyes of Wakanda will follow a group of Wakandan warriors known as the Hatut Zaraze who travel all over the world retrieving artifacts made of vibranium, the fictional metal that has allowed Wakanda to achieve technological miricles. It sounds like it could be something of an anthology series, with familiar characters from the movies popping up in cameo roles.
Eyes of Wakanda will premiere on Disney+ on August 6. And that's the last of the Marvel series on our list.
Alien: Earth (FX)
One of the biggest science fiction franchises in history is Alien. Like Terminator and Predator, the lore continues to grow, and this year the franchise is getting its first TV show.
So far, every Alien movie has been set somewhere out there in the galaxy, as humans deal with the "perfect" life form that is the alien Xenomorph. The new show will take the action to Earth for the first time. When a spaceship crashes onto the planet, it's up to characters played by the likes of Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Michael Fassbender, and Alex Lawther to confront the horrors inside.
Alien: Earth will air on FX (and stream on Hulu) sometime this summer.
Murderbot (Apple TV+)
From now, we don't have firm release dates or even release windows for any of the shows. It's possible that some of these might not even come out in 2025, but we hope they do, because they all look promising.
Exhibit A is Murderbot, a new sci-fi show based on The Murderbot Diaries books by Martha Wells. Don't let the title fool you: although the main character is a robot, he doesn't do a lot of murdering, instead dealing with his boredom by consuming a lot of media and forming relationships with humans and other artificial intelligences, none of which he likes very much.
The tone here is archly funny, which could make for a nice change of pace from a lot of other self-serious sci-fi shows on this list. To voice titular robot, Apple has tapped Alexander Skarsgård, for his work in stuff like True Blood and The Northman. This is definitely an interesting series worth keeping an eye on. Hopefully it doesn't get pushed into 2026.
Star City (Apple TV+)
Have you seen the show For All Mankind on Apple TV+? It's an alternate history series that posits what might have happened to the world if the space race run by the United States and the Soviet Union starting in the 1950s had never ended. The show has produced four seasons of very solid sci-fi drama so far, with a fifth on the way. But first, we'll see a spinoff called Star City, which takes us back to the 1960s and shows us what the Soviet astronauts (or cosmonauts) were doing while the Americans were trying to beat them to the stars.
Every season of For All Mankind jumps forward several years into the future, where the scientific advances made thanks to the space race mean we're much further along technologically than we otherwise would be. It's hard to know what approach Star City will take. Will each season mirror the corresponding season of For All Mankind, or will it go in a direction we're not expecting?
What we know is that For All Mankind is an excellent TV show, so we're happy to give Star City a shot. If you like what you see there, consider sticking around Apple TV+, because they might love sci-fi series more than any other streamer. They have a ton of them on there, including solid shows like Foundation, Silo and Severance.
Revival (SyFy)
This show is bit on the edge when in terms of genre, but it's coming to the SyFy network, so we think we can sneak it in.
Based on a comic series of the same name by Tim Seeley and Mike Norton, Revival takes place in a small Wisconsin town where, one day, everyone who's died comes back to life. But they're not zombies; they're just alive again, which means there are suddenly a lot of new people in town...or a lot of old people. Expect folks like police detective (Wynonna Earp's Dana Cypress) to work through questions like that as she tries to untangle a murder mystery where both the living and the dead are suspects.
Blade Runner 2099 (Prime Video)
Michelle Yeoh has been dominating Hollywood as of late, especially in the science fiction realm. It's only proper that she should play the lead in Blade Runner 2099, a new TV show coming to Prime Video! Hunter Schafer, Lewis Gribben and Dimitri Abold will also star in this sequel series to the iconic sci-fi franchise.
The Blade Runner movies are set in a dystopian future where powerful corporations control much of the world, while life-like robots called replicants move among ordinary human beings. In the new series, Yeoh will star as a replicant named Olwen who is nearing the end of her life.
The original Blade Runner movie from 1982 is a classic and the sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017) was positively received. Will the television show be able to live up to fan expectations?
As of now, Blade Runner 2099 has a projected 2025 release date, although it's possible it could get pushed to 2026. We look forward to any and all future updates regarding this exciting show show.
Which of these shows are you looking forward to watching the most? Any we missed?
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