When it was time to predict what the 2023 series would be, we failed in some of the candidates. The idol, instead of being a quality phenomenon, became the target of all critics, who despised both the creative outlook and the performance of the singer The Weeknd. But there were also The Messiah, The Body on Fire, Bronca or The Last of Us as some of the most interesting proposals of the then-coming harvest, and they did achieve their goal of making rivers of ink flow. So it’s time to repeat the play with what’s coming. What will be the best series that will premiere in 2024?
Celeste is the big star of Latin music. Her songs are a global phenomenon. Her concerts fill stadiums. But this series is not about her. The real protagonist of Celeste is Sara Santano, a tax inspector who has dedicated her entire life to collecting taxes and who, when she is about to retire early, receives the most important assignment of her career: to prove that Celeste resides in Spain and You have to pay taxes here. Who wouldn’t want to see a comedy thriller inspired by Shakira and written by Diego San José (Vota Juan)?
Screenwriter Steven Zaillian, Oscar winner for Schindler’s List and the man behind the texts of Mission: Impossible, Gang of New York, American Gangster and The Irishman, signs a new adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith with Andrew Scott in the role made popular by Matt Damon in the movies.
After releasing Foundation, Invasion and For All Mankind, Apple TV deserves the trust and expectation of science fiction lovers. In Constellation, which is described as a psychological thriller, Noomi Rapace returns to Earth after experiencing a disastrous accident on a space mission. The problem? That she feels that she is not all back and that parts of her life have disappeared. Jonathan Banks, after Breaking bad and Better call Saul, completes the cast. He arrives on February 21.
After producing two cult war miniseries such as Blood Brothers and The Pacific, Steven Spielberg, Gary Goetzman and Tom Hanks return with another perspective on World War II: an aerial one about the bombers during the conflict. The cast is also made up of young actors with bright futures such as Austin Butler (Elvis), Barry Keoghan (Inisherin Banshee) and Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who). It premieres on January 26.
British screenwriters Ben Vanstone and Nessah Muthy bring to the small screen Amor Towles’ novel about Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, who spends decades in a Moscow hotel after being tried by a Bolshevik court. Ewan McGregor is the knight of the title in this production that should delight lovers of period fiction.
At first, it was surprising that Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, two such renowned authors on the current television scene, decided to join forces with an adaptation of Mr and Mrs Smith, the film in which Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fell in love. Ultimately, Waller-Bridge dropped out of the project due to creative differences. But, if we pay attention to the trailer, the result written by Glover and Francesca Sloane, who already collaborated with him on his cult comedy, points out ways. It premieres on February 2.
Perhaps you could say that the universe of The Walking Dead, on a commercial level, is in low hours. He said goodbye after reaching minimum ratings and the spin-offs have been irregular, although Daryl Dixon’s was a pleasant surprise. But, let’s see, if Andrew Lincoln returns to apocalyptic reality to say goodbye to Rick’s character with Danai Gurira as Michonne, we must be attentive. Scott M. Gimple and Gurira will sign the scripts.
At Warner Bros. they have a new philosophy: big box office bets can have derivative projects for television. From Matt Reeves’ Batman with Robert Pattinson, for example, they decided to use the character of the Penguin played by an unrecognizable Colin Farrell to tell how he rose in the world of Gotham’s organized crime. They also have Derry Girls, a prequel to It, and Dune: Prophecy, a prequel to Dune focused on the founding of the Bene Gesserit sect, in production.
Between 2006 and 2010, Liu Cixin published a trilogy about an astrophysicist who grew up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and who comes into contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. The message he receives from the planet Trisolaris (because it revolves around three suns) is discouraging: it is a totalitarian regime and the interlocutor advises the astrophysicist to never contact him again to prevent the Earth from becoming the victim of an invasion.
Why should we be vigilant? Because it is a cult literary trilogy and because it is the first series written by David Benioff and Dan Weiss after Game of Thrones. Those who want to get ahead of the phenomenon can always watch the Chinese version of the trilogy, available on the Viki platform, which has 30 episodes.
On January 5, one of the most intriguing proposals arrives: the union of Nathan Fielder, creator of the unclassifiable The rehearsal, director Benny Safdie of Uncut Gems and Emma Stone who, while releasing The curse, also aspires to the Oscar with Poor things . Fielder and Stone play a couple trying to have children while presenting a reform program and suffering, in theory, a curse. Critics, for the moment, argue that it is an experience as painful to watch, as masochistic, as it is unmissable.
Nicole Kidman’s television career is as prolific as it is irregular. Big Little Lies was masterful, The Undoing was nonsense, Nine Perfect Strangers was enjoyable and in Lioness, in a more supporting role, she offers a conventional thriller. What will Expats, which adapts the novel by Janice Y. K. Lee, hold?
The end of Coco Chanel’s reign and the unstoppable rise of Dior with an impeccable cast: Juliette Binoche and Ben Mendelsohn in the shoes of the designers with John Malkovich as Lucien Lelong, Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior, Emily Mortimer as Elsa Lombardi and Glenn Close like Carmel Snow, the editor of Harper’s Bazaar magazine. It arrives on February 14 and is signed by Todd A. Kessler, who worked with Close on Damages.
And, making 2024 the television year of fashion, starting on January 19, Disney will show Alberto San Juan as Cristóbal Balenciaga, who in 1937 presented his first haute couture collection in Paris. It is the transformation of an artist who, after leaving Spain, has problems fitting into a more sophisticated fashion world in France, where Chanel, Dior and Givenchy are the benchmark.
Will Tracy and Frank Rich, who worked on Succession, sign this miniseries starring Kate Winslet, who returns to HBO after Mare of Easttown with a change of record: the president of a European country who sees its democracy eroded. A political satire with a defined aesthetic that has Stephen Frears (The Queen) as director.
Ryan Murphy put Feud, his anthology series about rivalries, to rest after the first season focused on Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, played by Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange. In this second installment, Tom Hollander will play the writer Truman Capote, surrounded by female high society, full of rivalries. How can you not be encouraged by a cast that includes Naomi Watts, Calista Flockhart, Chloë Sevigny, Diane Lane and Demi Moore?
One of the great surprises for Atresmedia in recent years has been the good performance of Turkish fiction in primetime. How can the perfect cross between the Iberian and the Turkish that is The Turkish Passion work for you, then?
Olivia, a Spanish Fine Arts professor with a brilliant professional career, wakes up from a coma in an Istanbul hospital after having attempted suicide. There she answers the questions of an inspector who investigates Olivia’s collaboration in an art smuggling network with Yaman, her Turkish lover. Maggie Civantos and Ilker Kaleli play the protagonists that Ana Belén and Georges Corraface already played in Vicente Aranda’s film.
The planet is divided between the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. They all have teachers who master the element of their community and, fortunately, there is a messianic figure who helps them maintain balance: the Avatar, who has the ability to control the four elements, and whose powers are reincarnated from generation to generation. But, inexplicably, he has been missing for a century, a time that the Fire Nation has taken advantage of to subjugate the rest of the communities. It is Netflix’s big family bet for 2024.
At HBO they were not willing to scrap the True Detective brand despite Nic Pizzolatto’s poor results after the first season that dominated the television conversation. So they’ve given Issa Lopez free reign to develop her version of a disturbing murder investigation with Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as the cop tandem. They investigate the disappearance of eight men at the Tsalal Arctic Research Station in a winter where the night sky reigns all day. Starting January 15th.
A period series set in 1969 and centered on a woman who tries to gain a foothold in Palm Beach high society by wearing an older woman’s out-of-fashion clothes. Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Carol Burnett and Ricky Martin make up the cast.
Mary de Villiers belonged to the lower nobility but ensured that her son George had the proper education to penetrate the inner circle of King James I of England. She did it in an unconventional way: as her lover, taking advantage of the fact that he was homosexual. And, if we trust the first images, Mary
Video game adaptations do not usually have the best track record in film and television but, after The Last of Us, perhaps it is time to be more aware of the potential of this type of productions. Fallout is set in a retrofuturistic society that, after a nuclear catastrophe, must live locked in bunkers. Two centuries later, a girl decides to go out and face the outside world. Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who was behind Captain Marvel, signs the project.
Four children embark on an adventure to return home. This classic premise of coming-of-age narratives would go unnoticed if it weren’t for the fact that it is a Star Wars series that aims to recover the adventurous and family spirit of Amblin Entertainment. Jude Law and Kerry Condon will play the adults in this cast. It remains to be seen if the writers’ strikes have not prevented it from being ready to premiere in 2024, like The Acolyte, the other new big bet in George Lucas’s universe on television.
And, if we talk about historical franchises, Ridley Scott produces a prequel to Alien set three decades before the events of the 1979 film with Sigourney Weaver. The most interesting? That hands the creative baton to a screenwriter with as much personality as Noah Hawley, the man behind the television adaptation of Fargo and the schizophrenic Legion.
