It seems like the Netflix juggernaut is unstoppable at this point. Every week, the streaming titan announces a slate of new Netflix movies and TV shows that its global fanbase can look forward to in 2024 – but why stop there? What’s stopping Netflix from revealing other projects in the works that won’t hit the popular platform until 2025 or even 2026?
It turns out: nothing. Last night (March 14), the UK edition of Netflix’s Next On… series was held in London – an event that saw Anne Mensah, Netflix UK’s Vice President of Content, attend a ton (and I mean a ton tons) of new films and series that will appear on the service in the coming years.
Now, I’m as big a movie fan as all of you, but I’m convinced that Netflix makes better TV shows than movies. With that in mind, I’ve picked four exciting shows that I think you’ll want to keep an eye on between now and, well, when they’re officially released.
Black Mirror season 7
Date of publication: 2025
Number of episodes: 6
Creator: Charlie Brooker
Main characters: TB
Black mirror Season 6, which debuted on Netflix in June 2023, was a divisive take on Charlie Brooker’s critically acclaimed dark, satirical anthology series. According to Rotten tomatoescritics loved it, but audiences were left in awe of the latest batch of episodes of the hit show.
Despite the mixed reception, season 6 won’t be one of the final episodes of Netflix’s best shows. Indeed, during Next on Netflix UK, Mensah confirmed that a seventh season will be released sometime in 2025. In even more surprising news: Black mirror season 7 will be a first for the sci-fi-focused series, with the upcoming entry featuring a sequel to season 4’s fan-favorite episode “USS Callister.”
Erik
Date of publication: 2024
Number of episodes: 6
Creator: Abi Morgan
Main actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Gaby Hoffman and McKinley Belcher III
Marvel star Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Doctor Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), trades in the mystic arts and sentient capes for a grounded ’80s thriller with Erika new series of Suffragette screenwriter Abi Morgan.
Cumberbatch plays Vincent, a fictional and famous puppeteer from New York who struggles with the guilt he feels when his nine-year-old son Edgar suddenly goes missing on his way to school. Using Edgar’s drawings of a blue monster doll – the titular Eric – as a coping mechanism, an increasingly delusional and emotionally destructive Vincent convinces himself that, if he can get Eric on TV, it will help reunite him with Edgar. *Ahem* I’m intrigued.
Kaos
Date of publication: 2024
Number of episodes: TB
Creator: Charlie Covel
Main actors: Jeff Goldblum, Janet McAteer, David Thewlis, Cliff Curtis, Killian Scott, Billie Piper, Susan Izzard and Aurora Perrineau
I love Jeff Goldblum. You love Jeff Goldblum. Everyone loves Jeff Goldblum. So when I heard that the beloved Jurassic Park And Thor: Ragnarok actor was going to star in a Netflix TV Original, my interest was certainly aroused.
What I didn’t expect, however, was what kind of story he would be involved in. It turns out that Goldblum – using his unique acting style – will be the latest actor to take on the role of Zeus, the Greek god of the world. Thunder.
However, his take on Zeus will reportedly be unlike anything we’ve seen before. Goldblum’s Zeus will indeed take center stage Kaosa daring and darkly comic series by Charlie Covell (The end of the damn world) that gives a new twist to Greek mythology. Without giving at much about its plot, Kaos will see Goldblum’s immortal King of Olympus grow increasingly neurotic and paranoid as an unsuspecting physical harbinger appears to confirm the beginning of his demise. Goldblum as a distrustful, emotionally unstable Lord of Lightning? Where do I register?
Supercell
Date of publication: 2024
Number of episodes: 6
Creator: Rapman
Main actors: Tosin Cole, Nadine Mills, Eric Kofi Abrefa, Calvin Demba, Josh Tedeku and Eddie Marsan
A Netflix Original that has seemingly been in development for ages, Supercell will finally hit Netflix sometime this year. It will be the latest attempt by the world’s top streaming service to bring a unique superhero story to its global audience, after mixed genre results such as The Umbrella Academy fly high and Jupiter’s legacy back to earth with a bump.
What is it about? Perhaps unsurprisingly, it tells the story of a group of individuals who acquire superpowers. What’s different about it? SupercellHowever, the fact is that the five characters who gain these abilities are black residents of a South London neighborhood. With films worth billions, including Black Panther By shining a light on Black superheroes—not to mention Black excellence, identity, and cultures—there’s a good chance that Supercell will succeed in its goal of increasing diversity within the superhero genre.
Want a full rundown of everything else mentioned at Next on Netflix UK? Check out the list below, which reveals their titles, whether they’re a movie or a TV show, and when they’ll be released or likely to be released:
- Adolescence – TV programme, 2025
- Atlas – film, May 24, 2024
- 3 Body problem – TV programme, March 21, 2024
- Baby reindeer – TV programme, April 2024
- Back in action – movie, 2024
- Bank of Dave: The Sequel – movie, 2025
- Bear hunt – TV programme, 2025
- Beverly Hills cop – film, July 3, 2024
- Black pigeons – TV programme, 2024
- Bridgerton season 3 – TV show, May 16, 2024 (part 1) and June 13, 2024 (part 2)
- Buy London – TV programme, 2024
- Continue – movie, 2024
- Cobra Kai season 6 – TV show, 2024
- Department Q – TV programme, 2025
- Emily in Paris season 4 – TV show, 2024
- Fatherhood with my father – TV programme, September 2024
- Adults – TV program, TBC
- Heart stopper season 3 – TV show, 2024
- Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar season 1 – TV show, 2024
- Touch man – film, June 7, 2024
- House of Guinness – TV program, TBC
- Joy – movie, 2024
- Love is blind, Britain season 1 – TV show, 2024
- Millennium diamond heist – TV programme, 2024
- Miss you – TV programme, 2024
- Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez – TV programme, 2024
- Mourinho – docuseries, 2025
- Our living world – TV programme, 2024
- Rebel Moon, Part Two: The Scargiver – movie, April 19, 2024
- Spoon – movie, April 5, 2024
- Senna – TV programme, 2024
- Six Nations: full contact season 2 – docuseries, 2024
- Six Triple Eight – movie, 2024
- Enchanted – animated film, 2024
- Steve – film, to be confirmed
- Squid game season 2 – TV show, 2024
- That Christmas – animated film, 2024
- The beautiful game – film, March 29, 2024
- The choice – TV programme, 2025
- The diplomat season 2 – TV show, 2024
- The final: attack on Wembley – docuseries, 2024
- The imaginary – movie, 2024
- The Undercurrent – TV programme, 2025
- The witness – TV program, TBC
- Too many – TV program, TBC
- Ultraman: Get up – film, June 14, 2024
- Untold Britain – docuseries, 2025