The UK’s Most Anticipated TV Shows in 2024: From The Traitors to Bridgerton

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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.

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Arrow Video Amazon Channel
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Hayu
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BritBox Amazon Channel
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Acorn TV
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True Story
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CuriosityStream Amazon Channel
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Fandor Amazon Channel
Full Moon Amazon Channel
ITV Amazon Channel
Pokémon Amazon Channel
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Eros Now Amazon Channel
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Studiocanal Presents Amazon Channel
Sundance Now Amazon Channel
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Sooner Amazon Channel
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Sun Nxt
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Runtime
OUTtv Amazon Channel
HistoryPlay Amazon Channel
Crime+ Investigation Play Amazon Channel
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  1. Fool Me Once

    Fool Me Once

    2024

    IMDB 6.8 (54k)

    #1

    Widowed mum Maya is disturbed by an image of her late husband captured on her toddler's nanny cam.

  2. The Traitors

    The Traitors

    2023

    IMDB 7.7 (4k)

    #2

    Hosted by Alan Cumming, this unscripted competition series is a nail-biting psychological adventure in which treachery and deceit are the name of the game. Twenty contestants (including reality A-listers) come together to complete a series of challenges with the objective of earning a cash prize. The catch? Three of the contestants coined "the traitors" will devise a plan to steal the prize from the other contestants coined "the faithful."  

  3. Mr Bates vs The Post Office

    #3

    One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

  4. Criminal Record

    Criminal Record

    2024

    IMDB 7.1 (9k)

    #4

    Follows two brilliant detectives in a tug of war over a historic murder conviction, dealing with issues of race, institutional failure, and the quest to find common ground in a polarized Britain.

  5. The Brothers Sun

    The Brothers Sun

    2024

    IMDB 7.6 (23k)

    #5

    Charles Sun, a Taipei gangster who's settled into his life as a ruthless killer, must go to L.A. to protect his mother and younger brother after his father is shot by a mysterious assassin.

  6. RuPaul's Drag Race

    RuPaul's Drag Race

    2009

    IMDB 8.5 (23k)

    #6

    Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top drag queens in the U.S. will vie for drag stardom as RuPaul, in full glamazon drag, will reign supreme in all judging and eliminations while helping guide the contestants as they prepare for each challenge.

  7. Echo

    Echo

    2024

    IMDB 6.0 (36k)

    #7

    Pursued by Wilson Fisk's criminal empire, Maya's journey brings her home and she must confront her own family and legacy.

  8. True Detective

    True Detective

    2014

    IMDB 8.9 (659k)

    #8

    An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

  9. One Day

    One Day

    2024

    IMDB 8.1 (44k)

    #9

    Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways.

  10. Griselda

    Griselda

    2024

    IMDB 7.2 (39k)

    #10

    Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization shows Griselda Blanco's journey from Medellín to becoming "the Godmother" of Miami's drug empire.

  11. Masters of the Air

    Masters of the Air

    2024

    IMDB 7.8 (46k)

    #11

    During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.

  12. Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    2024

    IMDB 7.0 (40k)

    #12

    Meet the Smiths: two lonely strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and identities to be thrown together as partners – both in espionage and in marriage.

  13. Abbott Elementary

    Abbott Elementary

    2021

    IMDB 8.2 (35k)

    #13

    In this workplace comedy, a group of dedicated, passionate teachers — and a slightly tone-deaf principal — are brought together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do — even if they don’t love the school district’s less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.

  14. Avatar: The Last Airbender

    #14

    A young boy known as the Avatar must master the four elemental powers to save a world at war — and fight a ruthless enemy bent on stopping him.

  15. The Regime

    The Regime

    2024

    IMDB 6.1 (10k)

    #15

    An authoritarian regime is about to unravel. Follows a story of one year within the walls of its palace.

  16. Grey's Anatomy

    Grey's Anatomy

    2005

    IMDB 7.6 (343k)

    #16

    Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

  17. 3 Body Problem

    3 Body Problem

    2024

    IMDB 7.5 (117k)

    #17

    Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

  18. Fallout

    Fallout

    2024

    IMDB 8.4 (191k)

    #18

    In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.

  19. Bridgerton

    Bridgerton

    2020

    IMDB 7.4 (176k)

    #19

    Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.

  20. Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    2005

    IMDB 8.6 (248k)

    #20

    The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.