Promising New Shows, a list by Riz

8.6

/117337/

83

/3317/

84

/698/

93

/108/

Audience

89

73

/33/

age 16+

The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

84

8.1

/33122/

76

/614/

82

/98/

4.2

/78317/

97

/36/

Audience

84

87

/10/

age 16+

When a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their lives.

89

8.9

/87945/

87

/2069/

87

/537/

4.4

/17742/

99

/92/

Audience

91

85

/39/

3.5

age 16+

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

80

8.2

/22895/

76

/392/

83

/77/

4.0

/12586/

86

/123/

Audience

80

75

/41/

age 15+

A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy and begins a life of deceit, fraud and murder.

75

7.6

/95251/

75

/2757/

75

/585/

80

/105/

Audience

78

70

/41/

age 15+

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

78

8.1

/90560/

80

/1619/

81

/263/

74

/70/

Audience

87

67

/26/

age 15+

When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.

74

69

7.9

/5785/

70

/104/

80

/23/

81

/68/

Audience

70

67

/25/

age 15+

An enigmatic private detective struggles with personal demons as he investigates the disappearance of a Hollywood producer's beloved granddaughter.

77

65

7.3

/1222/

66

/45/

85

/15/

3.7

/502/

88

/49/

Audience

79

79

/30/

3.0

age 15+

An espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States.

85

9.0

/12856/

83

/338/

87

/176/

82

/14/

age 9+

The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

80

68

7.4

/1004/

71

/32/

86

/29/

85

/40/

Audience

79

70

/27/

4.0

age 15+

Reena Virk, a fourteen-year-old girl, went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Seven teenage girls and a boy were accused of the savage murder.

68

51

7.0

/1099/

70

/37/

91

/9/

64

/28/

Audience

55

57

/22/

3.0

age 13+

In December 1776, Benjamin Franklin is world-famous for his electrical experiments. But his passion and power are put to the test when he embarks on a secret mission to France—with the fate of American independence hanging in the balance.

65

58

6.7

/4468/

62

/96/

81

/16/

56

/63/

Audience

69

57

/31/

age 14+

In 1969, an ambitious woman aspires to cross the line between the haves and have-nots to secure her seat at America's most exclusive, fashionable, and treacherous table: Palm Beach high society.

70

63

6.6

/2380/

61

/70/

59

/16/

91

/33/

Audience

72

74

/21/

age 14+

Count Alexander Rostov finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution. A Soviet tribunal banishes him to the attic room of an opulent hotel, where, oblivious to the world outside, he discovers the true value of friendship, family and love.

67

6.8

/5781/

70

/224/

75

/37/

Audience

61

64

/13/

age 14+

Lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family.

77

76

7.4

/5859/

72

/198/

73

/53/

86

/29/

Audience

89

70

/13/

age 11+

England, 1705: Framed for murder and on the run with her sisters, Nell Jackson turns her hand to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason. A reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.

68

67

7.2

/4175/

67

/194/

71

/21/

3.5

/475/

87

/47/

Audience

68

65

/22/

2.0

age 13+

A conspiracy thriller about one of the best known but least understood crimes in history. This is the astonishing story of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination—as the fate of the country hangs in the balance.

80

7.2

/7444/

73

/440/

76

/111/

100

/9/

Audience

81

When unidentified parasites violently take over human hosts and gain power, humanity must rise to combat the growing threat.

77

64

7.8

/3095/

75

/108/

84

/9/

Audience

81

71

/15/

age 13+

After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.

73

7.8

/42335/

79

/1445/

79

/260/

3.9

/13877/

86

/97/

Audience

71

72

/41/

2.0

age 15+

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

71

47

6.7

/1410/

63

/30/

64

/9/

3.2

/253/

Audience

91

age 13+

Carina brings her family together for a traditional Swedish midsummer, but the happy occasion goes awry when long-held secrets start to come to light.

74

71

7.0

/3609/

67

/134/

75

/23/

3.8

/3722/

95

/43/

Audience

69

72

/23/

In 17th century England, Mary Villiers molds her beautiful son, George, to seduce King James I, intending to gain riches and influence through outrageous schemes.

78

63

6.8

/1367/

61

/38/

78

/8/

95

/22/

Audience

82

80

/13/

3.5

age 15+

The true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite.

85

8.4

/19703/

84

/853/

87

/287/

100

/8/

Audience

74

MAL

8.3

/302294/

They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back with the System, a program only he could see, that’s leveling him up in every way. Now, he’s inspired to discover the secrets behind his powers and the dungeon that spawned them.

79

8.1

/24578/

75

/763/

82

/282/

3.9

/3876/

88

/26/

Audience

89

61

/12/

age 16+

The love story of Rick Grimes and Michonne is changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. Can they find each other and who they were in a situation unlike any they've ever known?

67

57

6.7

/5520/

65

/107/

73

/10/

3.0

/1180/

Audience

42

55

/22/

4.0

age 14+

Follow the Delaneys, who from the outside appear to be an enviably contented family. Former tennis coaches Joy and Stan are parents to four adult children. After fifty years of marriage, they have finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. But after Joy disappears, her children are forced to re-examine their parents’ marriage and their family history with fresh eyes.

74

64

7.1

/1817/

68

/61/

66

/22/

80

/5/

Audience

86

age 16+

A priceless coin puts rival gangs across Europe at odds, forcing a retired safecracker to team up with a two-bit gangster for one last heist.

78

8.1

/41020/

78

/607/

79

/133/

4.1

/91801/

91

/46/

Audience

85

76

/22/

2.5

age 15+

After spending graduation night together, Emma and Dexter go their separate ways — but their lives remain intertwined.

82

55

8.4

/654/

75

/44/

87

/27/

MAL

8.2

/18038/

In a world plagued by creatures known as Kaiju, Kafka Hibino aspired to enlist in The Defense Force. He makes a promise to enlist with his childhood friend, Mina Ashiro. Soon, life takes them in separate ways. While employed cleaning up after Kaiju battles, Kafka meets Reno Ichikawa. Reno's determination to join The Defense Force reawakens Kafka's promise to join Mina and protect humanity.

80

7.8

/22631/

81

/905/

90

/850/

3.3

/15419/

79

/28/

Audience

86

69

/8/

age 17+

In attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption.

85

84

8.6

/10117/

81

/253/

77

/18/

3.9

/1872/

94

/17/

Audience

96

80

/7/

age 13+

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.

80

55

8.6

/1746/

76

/66/

82

/8/

77

/6/

age 14+

Conan O'Brien visits new friends he met through his podcast, "Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan," where he dives deep with listeners from across the country and the world.

80

58

6.7

/1058/

66

/30/

88

/18/

3.5

/204/

Audience

100

age 15+

After a plane is hijacked, two flight attendants must outwit their assailants amid intense negotiations in the air and on the ground. Based on real events.

72

7.0

/37533/

68

/1183/

63

/156/

90

/110/

Audience

66

75

/39/

age 15+

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.

73

7.0

/39950/

71

/1924/

79

/679/

Audience

78

68

/26/

age 13+

After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrotting adventure to learn the truth about her family—and the mysterious organization known as Monarch.

68

6.8

/14194/

68

/759/

75

/147/

71

/51/

Audience

63

63

/23/

When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life—including her young daughter—have changed.

69

?

7.1

/972/

74

/28/

62

/8/

age 16+

At an Arkansas detention facility, a sheriff implements a radical social experiment to grant men who are incarcerated more agency in this reality series.

76

7.6

/8775/

74

/336/

80

/99/

3.7

/34901/

77

/4/

age 15+

Discover the untold story of the toxic and abusive environment inside '90s kids' TV. Hear harrowing accounts from former child stars and crew who probe the balance of power in the industry and reveal an era that inflicted lasting wounds still felt today.

72

42

7.6

/1067/

74

/17/

70

/4/

62

/13/

Audience

80

An extended family and four young people are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, uniting black, white and Asian youths.

63

6.8

/52655/

69

/1320/

73

/243/

3.1

/9865/

69

/16/

Audience

45

55

/4/

age 15+

When ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.

64

62

7.4

/5553/

70

/152/

79

/39/

Audience

67

62

/23/

1.5

age 15+

The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.

74

7.9

/26632/

75

/922/

80

/334/

3.8

/15134/

72

/39/

Audience

90

51

/18/

It's 1993 and Ted the bear's moment of fame has passed, leaving him living with his best friend, 16-year-old John Bennett, who lives in a working-class Boston home with his parents and cousin. Ted may not be the best influence on John, but when it comes right down to it, he's willing to go out on a limb to help his friend and his family.

81

78

8.0

/4476/

78

/177/

87

/164/

MAL

7.8

/25647/

age 16+

A team of assassins exacts a bloody retribution on Joe Logan – a former ninja who escaped his clan – and his family for betraying their ancient code. Rising from his seeming "death," Joe will re-emerge as his former self – Ninja Kamui – to avenge his family and friends and bring down the very clan that made him.

68

7.5

/44080/

75

/904/

76

/177/

3.5

/12974/

Audience

81

36

/26/

age 15+

A blind French girl and a young German soldier's paths collide during WWII.

90

8.7

/65566/

86

/2037/

86

/312/

4.4

/43292/

100

/24/

Audience

96

88

/6/

age 16+

Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

71

?

6.8

/753/

68

/29/

77

/7/

London police officer DC Hana Li is escorting Dr Matthew Nolan back to Beijing where he has been accused of a crime. However, on board flight 357, she finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy and a growing number of murders.

80

8.0

/10974/

78

/475/

80

/92/

Audience

96

67

/11/

age 14+

In 1850s Australia, in the lively colony of Port Victory, Jack Dawkins aka The Artful Dodger, has transferred his fast fingers as a pickpocket to the nimble skilled fingers of a surgeon. Dodger's past returns to haunt him with the arrival of Fagin, luring him back into a world of crime. A greater threat – to Dodger's heart – is Lady Belle, the Governor's daughter, determined to become the colony's first female surgeon.

71

7.2

/37335/

71

/973/

74

/236/

3.6

/13302/

87

/53/

Audience

71

64

/19/

2.5

age 16+

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

68

66

7.0

/12036/

70

/334/

80

/163/

Audience

70