The UK’s Most Anticipated TV Shows in 2024: From The Traitors to Bridgerton
2024 is already off to a strong start for British television. Claudia Winkleman is back in a Scottish Castle for the second season of the murder mystery series that enthralled the world, The Traitors, when it first debuted on the BBC in November 2022. The debut season reached at its peak 3.3 million viewers for the gripping finale, with 34 million people having caught up with the show by February 2023. With new twists, 22 new cast members and £120,000 to be won, fans have high hopes that season 2 will live up to the drama of the first outing.
Netflix has another Harlan Coban on the cards for fans of his thrilling book adaptations such as Safe and The Stranger with Fool Me Once that has already risen to the UK Top 10 on the platform. Meanwhile, lords and ladies are waiting in anticipation for the first part of the third season of Bridgerton long-awaited arrival in May. The regency romp is one of Netflix’s best-performing shows with the second season eclipsing the first season's success with 627.11 million hours viewed in the first four weeks since its debut in March 2023.
As you wait in baited breath for the English dukes and viscounts to return, RuPaul’s Drag Race returns for its sixteenth season and long-running medical drama Grey’s Anatomy releases season 20 in the Spring. Popular school sitcom Abbott Elementary is back for its third season, while a live-action series of the animated Nickelodeon series, Avatar: The Last Airbender is heading to Netflix in February. Meanwhile Marvel is days away from the debut of their latest limited series, Echo, which continues on from the events of Hawkeye and Daredevil.
Towards the end of the year, Ncuti Gatwa finally lands on the small screen with his first season as the Time Lord in season 14 of Doctor Who. After the disruptions of the SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, some upcoming TV series are still expected to be released in 2024 but a release date has not yet been confirmed.
Sequels and spin-offs such as House of the Dragon season 2, DC’s The Penguin, Star Wars: The Acolyte and Marvel’s WandaVision spin-off Agatha: Darkhold Diaries are all scheduled to land on streamers sometime in 2024. There’s also a host of original shows such as Apple TV+ wartime epic Masters of the Air, Netflix’s action-packed The Brothers Sun and BBC Three’s supernatural drama, Domino Day.
With genre-defying TV on the horizon, here’s the most anticipated series of 2024, where to stream them and when they’re released.
