9 TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch in 2019
A new year means new TV, and we know you’re inundated: So are we! So we’ve made it a little easier by picking nine upcoming TV shows that we can’t wait to watch in the New Year. It seems harder and harder to get a handle on exactly everything that’s out there, so we scoured all the streaming, network, and cable offerings to find exactly what you should have on your radar. The buzziest new project doesn’t even have a name yet—that’s how ahead of the game you’ll be if you keep this list handy. (And while you’re at it, here’s what you should get ready to read this year.) Below, nine upcoming TV shows that we can’t wait to watch in 2019:
Sex Education (Netflix)
Gillian Anderson is back and blonder than ever (honestly, she’s never looked better) in an excellent new British “coming of age dramedy” in which she plays a sex therapist of an awkward teenager who teams up with a friend to help their fellow students navigate high school. Premieres January 11.
Black Monday (Showtime)
David Caspe (Happy Endings) and Seth Rogen are among the producers of this Wolf of Wall Street meets The Big Short black comedy about “October 19, 1987—aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history” and the group of outsiders that caused it. Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, and Regina Hall will star, and the show premieres on January 20.
Untitled Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon Morning Show Project (Apple)
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s coproduced and costarring as-yet-untitled new show for Apple might be the buzziest project of 2019, with Steve Carell also starring. All we know is it’s an “inside look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the women (and men) who carry out this daily televised ritual,” and it’s written by Jay Carson of House of Cards, and we need to see it—now. No word on an exact premiere date yet but Apple has already picked up two seasons of the drama.
Fosse/Verdon (FX)
Almost 20 years after Dawson’s Creek, Michelle Williams returns to TV to star opposite Sam Rockwell as legendary choreographers and real-life couple Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon (who teamed up on iconic musicals like Cabaret and Chicago). Lin-Manuel Miranda and his Hamilton collaborator Thomas Kail will be behind the scenes.
Watchmen (HBO)
Damon Lindelof of Lost and The Leftovers returns to television to adapt Alan Moore’s graphic novel, sending fantasy fandoms everywhere into a frenzy. The cast includes Jeremy Irons and Regina King, with the characters living in a universe where superheroes are not celebrated but are outlaws.
Modern Love (Amazon)
The New York Times’ Modern Love column is now becoming an eight-episode half-hour anthology series starring, well, almost everyone: Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, Dev Patel, John Slattery, Andy Garcia, Cristin Milioti, Olivia Cooke, Brandon Victor Dixon, and Catherine Keener, so far.
The Central Park Five (Netflix)
Ava DuVernay has written, directed, and produced a four-episode series based on the notorious Central Park Five case in which five black teenagers were wrongfully convicted and incarcerated (a miscarriage of justice that is still very relevant). Felicity Huffman, Vera Farmiga, Michael K. Williams, Joshua Jackson, Famke Janssen, and John Leguizamo are starring.
What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s much-beloved New Zealand vampire mockumentary has been transformed into a U.S.-based series set in New York City, which will premiere in Spring 2019. At this year’s Comic-Con, producers said that they “wanted [to explore] the idea that the vampires had been sent maybe 200 years ago to conquer America, but had sort of lost their way and forgotten . . . . They’d gotten to New York, and that’s where the boat dropped them off, and they never went any farther and before they knew it, a lot of time had passed.”
