The 20 Most Anticipated TV Shows of 2020: ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Season 6, ‘Outlander’ Season 5, ‘Little Fires Everywhere,’ and More

Coming to: Pop TV

Release Date: January 7, 2020

One of the most charming sitcoms ever is about to come to an end. The sixth and final season of the celebrated Schitt’s Creek hits Pop TV on January 7, 2020, meaning that the season’s finale will likely hit Netflix in October of 2020. However, just because Schitt’s Creek is coming to an end doesn’t mean the laughter has to stop. Creator and star Dan Levy has already teased that he’s hard at work at some new and exciting projects.

Where to stream Schitt's Creek

Coming to: CBS All Access

Release Date: January 23, 2020

CBS All Access continues to be *the* place for all things Star Trek this year with the premiere of the hotly anticipated Star Trek: Picard. Details have been mum on this bold new vision of the aging Starfleet legend’s life, but we know that we’ll see Jean-Luc and his dog hang out in the Picard vineyards, and that the retired officer will be pulled back into action by a crisis. Oh, and Seven of Nine will show up, putting the two Starfleet officers most closely aligned with the Borg together for the first time.

Coming to: Netflix

Release Date: February 7, 2020

If you’re a horror fanatic or graphic novel aficionado, then you’ve been waiting for Netflix’s adaptation of Locke & Key for a long time. Since 2010, there have been three major pushes to get a TV show based on the chilling series off the ground, and finally it’s here and it’s real. The series follows a group of siblings who move into a mysterious mansion called the “Keyhouse” after their father’s murder, and things only get freakier from there.

Coming to: Starz

Release Date: February 16, 2020

Get ready to swoon once more for the epic romance, Outlander. Starz’s steamy (and stalwart) hit is a mix of historic romance, time travel caper, and sudsy soap. Season 5 follows Claire and Jamie Fraser as they continue to try to search for their happily ever after in colonial America. Now, their daughter, her partner, and infant child are all in tow. The series returns just in time for your Valentine’s Day hangover.

Where to stream Outlander

Coming to: Hulu

Release Date: March 18, 2020

Between Big Little Lies and The Morning Show, Reese Witherspoon has shown herself to be a savvy producer with an eye on juicy projects that give actresses a chance to shine. Her latest project, Little Fires Everywhere, is a limited series adaptation of a bestselling novel about the fears and passions of suburban mothers. (Sound familiar?) Add the incandescent Kerry Washington to the mix and you’ve got basically the spring’s most promising binge-watch.

Coming to: Hulu (an FX original)

Release Date: March 2020

Devs reunites rising star Sonoya Mizuno with Ex Machina writer/director Alex Garland. This new series promises to be as weird, audacious, and troubling as the rest of Garland’s oeuvre, but with a twist. Because it’s one of the first major FX series to drop after the Fox/Disney merger, it’s going to be the first FX series exclusive to Hulu. Everything about Devs promises to push the envelope — including how it premieres.

Coming to: FX

Release Date: Spring 2020

Mrs. America marks two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett’s first foray into prestige TV. She stars as the ultra-polarizing Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly in a star-studded mini-series about the fight to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Rose Byrne also stars in the series as Gloria Steinem and Uzo Adubo plays Shirley Chisholm.

Coming to: HBO

Release Date: 2020

HBO has been hyping the long-awaited return of Westworld for what seems like a decade now, but all signs suggest the series’s third season will be worth the wait. Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul joins the cast as a disaffected human struggling to find meaning in his dystopian world. It looks like everything’s going to change when he runs into a mysterious woman who looks an awful lot like Westworld host Dolores….

Where to stream Westworld

Coming to: Netflix

Release Date: 2020

The success of 13 Reasons Why was arguably thanks to the gripping performance of a young actress named Katherine Langford, so it should as no surprise that Netflix was quick to sign Langford up to her own star vehicle. Cursed is based on the Frank Miller novel of the same name and reimagines the story of Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, in stark new terms.

Coming to: Prime Video

Release Date: 2020

One of the biggest smash hits of 2019 was Amazon’s twisted take on superheroes, The Boys. Amazon almost immediately renewed the series for a second season and we’ve already gotten teases for what’s to come. Look for the gritty, violent, and delightfully disturbed series to come back this summer — and with a new “heroine” played by You’re the Worst star Aya Cash. Expect the character to defy all expectations.

Where to stream The Boys

Coming to: Disney+

Release Date: 2020

Disney+ launched in November with the first-ever live action Star Wars series, and in 2020, Marvel will follow suit. Sure, we’ve seen Marvel television shows before, but The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will be the first live action series directly produced by MCU titan Kevin Feige’s team. That means you can expect a higher level of production value and storylines that explicitly tie into the saga of the films. After the events of Avengers: Endgame, Captain America’s two best friends Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) have to team up to face down the return of the villainous Baron Zemo (Daniel Bruhl) and the rise of a new super soldier, US Agent (Wyatt Russell).

Coming to: Netflix

Release Date: 2020

Damian Chazelle is one of the most promising auteurs to emerge in the ‘10s, thanks to projects like Whiplash and La La Land. The Eddy is his long-awaited limited series project for Netflix. Starring Andre Holland and Julia Kulig, set in a Parisian nightclub, and featuring musical numbers, like all of Chazelle’s work, it’s thought to be half throwback, half pioneering step forward for storytelling.

Coming to: HBO

Release Date: 2020

When 2019 started, Game of Thrones was the biggest show on TV, but by the year’s end, Succession was the most obsessed-over show on HBO. The bleak comedy about the personal politics behind a major media conglomerate hit its stride in the second season and ended with a game-changing twist. When Succession Season 3 returns in 2020, the Roys will have to contend with a new king in their midst, and we’ll happily follow him into the crazy drama bound to lie ahead.

Where to stream Succession

Coming to: FX

Release Date: September 27, 2020

The first two seasons of American Crime Story plumbed the human emotions behind two of the greatest scandals of the 1990s: the O.J. Simpson trial and the assassination of Gianni Versace. Now, Ryan Murphy and company are coming back with a bold take on the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. Slated already for September 2020, this latest series will star Clive Owen as President Clinton and Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky.

Coming to: HBO

Release Date: 2020

Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams are teaming up on this explosive new horror series based on the novel by Matt Ruff. Lovecraft Country weaves together the ghoulish terror of H.P. Lovecraft with the real life terror of living in the Jim Crow South. Jonathan Majors stars as Atticus Black, a young man looking for his missing father (Michael K. Williams). Unfortunately, Atticus and his friends will have to deal with literal and figurative monsters on their journey.

Coming to: Disney+

Release Date: Fall 2020

Almost as soon as the credits rolled on The Mandalorian’s bracing first season, fans were looking for word on Season 2. (After all, we’ve gotta know about that Darksaber!) Luckily, showrunner Jon Favreau confirmed that the second season was in production and due to hit Disney+ in the Fall of 2020. He also teased that we’ll get to see at least one Gamorrean, along with the return of Din Djarin and “The Child,” aka Baby Yoda.

Where to stream The Mandalorian

Coming to: Disney+

Release Date: 2020

The powers that be at Marvel and Disney+ gave us something of a surprise over the holidays. WandaVision, the upcoming MCU series that lets Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch live out a dream world where she and her lost love Vision (Paul Bettany) live in a 1950s sitcom, will hit Disney+ in 2020. This is earlier than the original 2021 release date, but we still don’t expect to be binging it until the end of the year.

Coming to: Netflix

Release Date: 2020

Shonda Rhimes is one of the biggest showrunners that Netflix has lured to its roster, and Bridgerton is set to be her big splashy debut on the streaming service. Set in the early 1800s, Bridgerton is a tongue-in-cheek look at the soapy lives of society’s elite. Judging by star Nicola Coughlan’s unbridled enthusiasm for the show on Twitter, it’s going to be a dishy, hilarious, sexy romp.

Coming to: Netflix

Release Date: 2020

Produced by the family of the legendary Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, Selena: The Series will be a look at the life of the fallen star. Christian Serranos will play Selena as she comes of age on the road and struggles to find herself in an ever-evolving musical scene.

Coming to: Netflix

Release Date: 2020

After the huge success of The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix announced that writer-director Mike Flanagan would be doing something a little different in the second season. Instead of returning to Hill House, he would reinterpret Henry James’s gothic novel, The Turning of the Screw with a returning cast of favorites from Hill House. Victoria Pedretti, who played Nell in Hill House, will once again be Flanagan’s muse and star. Though this time, she’ll be a governess in charge of two, uh, interesting kids.

Where to stream The Haunting of Hill House