2023 Latest web series The biggest new and returning TV shows coming in 2023

 This list is a stab at that: some of the biggest, best, most noteworthy, or just generally most exciting new releases in the world of TV coming in the next calendar year. There’s a lot of premiere dates that haven’t been announced yet, so you’ll see some stuff broken up by when you can expect it, with a healthy dose of unscheduled — but expected — premieres as well. While there’s almost certainly no way to get to all of it, we can absolutely start thinking about how to prioritize the things we want to make time for this year.

MRS. DAVIS

Premieres on Peacock on April 20

Damon Lindelof (The Leftovers, Watchmen) returns to television with an original genre-mashing sci-fi series for Peacock. Co-created with Tara Hernandez, known for her work as a writer and executive producer for The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon, Mrs. Davis is set in a world where humanity has been overtaken by the series’ eponymous benevolent artificial intelligence.

Betty Gilpin (The Hunt) stars as Sister Simone of Reno, a disillusioned nun who is sent on a “quest” by Mrs. Davis in search of the supposed “Holy Grail.” Aside from the obvious theme of “faith versus technology” inherent to the show, Mrs. Davis’ premise seems to also touch on the perils of what might happen to humanity — both as individuals and as a society — when altruism and empathy are programmatically whittled into a gamified system of purely transactional interactions. It’s certainly got the potential to become one of this year’s weirdest and wildest sci-fi shows.

DEAD RINGERS

Premieres on Prime Video on April 21

Showrunner Alice Birch (Succession, Normal People) and Rachel Weisz’s gender-swapped adaptation of David Cronenberg’s 1988 psychological thriller sees Weisz step into the role of Elliot and Beverly Mantle, two identical twins and practicing gynecologists who couldn’t be any different in their respective views on sex, autonomy, morals, and life. The six-episode limited series will feature a broad retelling of the original film’s story, albeit set in a contemporary world where science and technology have begun to blur the lines between what is possible and what is ethical. Also, get ready to see some blood — lots and lots of blood. 

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UNICORN: WARRIORS ETERNAL

Premieres on Adult Swim on May 4

Genndy Tartakovsky’s new adult animated miniseries follows three legendary heroes —Melinda (Hazel Doupe), a powerful sorceress; Seng (Demari Hunte), a stoic and wise cosmic monk; and Eldred (Tom Milligan), a warrior elf — who wage an unwavering battle against an ancient and formidable evil. Continuously reborn in new bodies, the trio of warriors, along with a steam-powered robot named Copernicus, must fight throughout and against time itself in order to save all of existence from certain annihilation. What does any of that have to do with unicorns, you might be asking? Don’t know; we’ll have to watch the series when it premieres to find out.

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SECRET INVASIOn

Premieres on Disney Plus on June 21

Marvel’s Secret Invasion will tell a story about aliens living among us. No, not superheroes exactly, but instead the shapeshifting Skrulls, who have infiltrated every hall of power in the world in an attempt to undermine its protectors before they even see it coming. Secret Invasion is being billed as a massive event and seems likely to be Marvel’s biggest TV show yet. None of that is to say that it will be good necessarily, but with a cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Olivia Colman (The Favourite), and Kingsley Ben-Adir (The OA), this event series should prove to at least be an interesting experiment in the now somewhat stale formula of Marvel’s TV efforts

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RIVERDALE SEASON 7

Expected on the CW in early 2023

In the past six years, Riverdale has explored serial killers, daddy issues, organ-stealing cults, aliens, the epic highs and lows of high school football, and the sudden arrival of the supernatural. Now, for its final season, the show will go somewhere brand-new: the 1950s. Returning to the show’s Archie Comics roots, Riverdale’s final season will essentially hit the restart button on the series, with Archie (KJ Apa) and the gang back at Riverdale High. 

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS

Expected on Hulu in spring 2023

There is no such thing as too much Kathryn Hahn. In addition to starring in next year’s Agatha: Coven of Chaos, Hahn will star in Hulu’s Tiny Beautiful Things. The drama is based on Cheryl Strayed’s novel of the same name, based on Strayed’s experience as an advice columnist. Hahn stars as Clare, a writer with a floundering marriage and a complicated relationship with her teenage daughter, who suddenly gets the opportunity to give out life advice in her own column. The show co-stars Merritt Wever and Quentin Plair, with guest stars including Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon. 

LOKI SEASON 2

Expected on Disney Plus in mid-2023

Last we saw the God of Lies, he was deep in the well on some time-travel shenanigans that had unleashed the maniacal Kang the Conqueror on the multiverse. This year, Loki Laufeyson returns to Disney Plus after Kang is done playing the antagonist in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. If you think keeping track of MCU plotlines is hard, imagine keeping track of the whole multiverse.

X-MEN ’97

Expected on Disney Plus in fall 2023

Ever since its original run in the 1990s, X-Men: The Animated Series has earned praise for its skillful adaptation of Marvel Comics’ most political X-Men storylines, using the bigotry mutants face as a metaphor for the real-life experiences of various oppressed minorities. It’s still a kid-friendly show with some goofy and skippable episodes, but it’s also a show about how the X-Men — unlike their peers, the Avengers — can’t and don’t work with the government or local police. That’s because those institutions are the enemies of the show’s heroes, alongside right-wing religious leaders and bloodthirsty anti-mutant hate groups. The show’s commitment to radical politics make it hold up surprisingly well, even though it’s 30 years old — and based in part on comics that are even older than that.

ECHO

Expected on Disney Plus in late 2023

laqua Cox returns as the antihero Echo in 2023, in a series that will feature her returning to her hometown to confront her past and reconnect with her Native American family — but it seems like violence will follow her home. At the end of 2021’s Hawkeye series, Echo seemed to have avenged her father by executing Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio). But readers know that when that happened in the comics, Fisk only lost his sight, not his life. D’Onofrio is, indeed, signed on for the series. 

IRONHEART

Expected on Disney Plus in late 2023

After her debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Dominique Thorne (If Beale Street Could Talk) returns to the MCU to star in her own series, Ironheart. The child prodigy made a name for herself in the movie by building her own Iron Man suit and creating a machine that could detect vibranium underneath the ocean floor on a dare. Thorne has made a name for herself with how instantly charming her Riri Williams was in Wakanda Forever, and we’re excited to see her again.

AGATHA: COVEN OF CHAOS

Expected on Disney Plus in 2023

After stealing the show as Agnes/Agatha Harkness in WandaVision, Kathryn Hahn will star in her own Marvel spinoff show, Agatha: Coven of Chaos. Not much is known about the show’s plot, but the cast is rumored to include Aubrey Plaza, Patti LuPone, Sasheer Zamata, Joe Locke, Emma Caulfield Ford, and more.

The last we saw Agatha, the exceedingly powerful witch, was in the season finale of WandaVision. She was trapped in Westview as Agnes, her normal next-door neighbor alter-ego. Some reports suggest that Coven of Chaos will pick up where WandaVision left off, though, based on what we saw of Agatha’s backstory in the Salem Witch Trials, it seems likely we’ll get at least a few glimpses of what she’s been up to over the centuries.

AHSOKA

Expected on Disney Plus in 2023

Star Wars’ most famous animated Jedi is finally getting her own live-action series, almost two years after Rosario Dawson first brought the character to life on season 2 of The Mandalorian. Along with Ahsoka, the show will also bring in a couple other famous animated faces from the Star Wars universe, like Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) and Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi), as well as bringing Hayden Christensen back as Darth Vader. 

AMERICAN BORN CHINESE

Expected on Disney Plus in 2023

Gene Luen Yang’s terrific graphic novel is a standout piece of 21st-century literature for young people, and it gets a Disney Plus adaptation by way of creator Kelvin Yu (Bob’s Burgers) and directors Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi) and Lucy Liu (Lucy Liu!!!!). The cast includes all three stars of Everything Everywhere All at Once — Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu — as well as the reliably handsome and charismatic Daniel Wu as the mythic figure Sun Wukong. 

BABYLON BERLIN SEASON 4

Expected on Netflix in 2023

Perhaps nothing speaks to the anticipation of this show more than this: Babylon Berlin season 4 was supposed to be a 2022 property (and in Germany it was; congrats, guys!). So what happened to Gereon and Charlotte after that tumultuous fall of 1929? Where will that dragon in the sewers pop up next? Give me my great twisty 1920s German mystery show back!!