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

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Jess Bacon

Jess Bacon

JustWatch Editor

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 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 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, 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 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 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.

  1. Fool Me Once

    Fool Me Once

    2024

    # 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

    # 2

    America’s most cunning contestants, a mix of famous faces and everyday Americans, play the ultimate murder mystery game. Hosted by Alan Cumming at an ancient castle in Scotland, they will work together on exhilarating missions to build a prize fund worth up to $250,000. But hidden amongst the Faithful contestants are the Traitors, whose goal is to eliminate the Faithful and claim the prize for themselves.

  3. Mr Bates vs The Post Office

    # 3

    The story of 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 ing due to a defective IT system.

  4. Criminal Record

    Criminal Record

    2024

    # 4

    Follows two brilliant detectives in a tug of war over a historic murder conviction and the quest to find common ground in a polarized Britain.

  5. The Brothers Sun

    The Brothers Sun

    2024

    # 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

    # 6

    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

    # 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

    # 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

    # 9

    Emma, a sharp English major, and Dexter, a campus playboy, meet on their graduation night from the University of Edinburgh. Attraction sparks between them, but reality quickly gets in the way, and they go their separate ways the day after.

  10. Griselda

    Griselda

    2024

    # 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

    # 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

    # 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

    # 13

    A workplace comedy centered on a group of dedicated teachers - and an oblivious principal - in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life.

  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

    # 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

    # 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

    # 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

    # 18

    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.

  19. Bridgerton

    Bridgerton

    2020

    # 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

    # 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.