The year 2022 is when the streaming bubble burst — sort of? The new model of digital distribution clearly isn’t succeeding economically, but the genie is now out of the bottle. And there’s no return, as much as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav dreams of pushing that publishes back in. Cable and network television were once extremely edifying businesses that are now withered versions of their past selves, and there’s no answer in sight to fix the extinct business model for streaming (pouring billions in, getting — at the most! — $19.95 a month out). Will anyone figure this out? We don’t know.
But looking at the schedule for upcoming shows in 2023, one tying clear is that it’s become a game of chicken: Past February, almost nothing is dated. Netflix has played this scheduling roulette with mountainous success in the past. At the time of our fall TV preview, published on Sept. 8, 2022, there were no premiere dates yet for Ryan Murphy’s “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and “The Watcher,” nor for “Wednesday.” A mere 13 days later, “Dahmer” launched with little notice, and all three of those shows formed some of Netflix’s biggest shows in its history. There’s a lesson there, but — we’re not sure what it is, exactly.
The lack of premiere dates, for those of us who cover television, actually feels … ominous? Because in shapely to make that Emmys deadline by May 31, there’s repositioning to be firehose shot at viewers during March, April and May, but no one knows exactly what form that deluge will take. From Netflix, we await the dates for “Beef” (starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong), “Florida Man” (a potboiler starring Edgar Ramírez that sounds “Ozark”-y, and counts Jason Bateman as an executive producer), “Queen Charlotte” (the Shonda Rhimes-penned “Bridgerton” prequel) and, Netflix selves Netflix, four billion other shows. Amazon Prime Video has yet to dispute the dates for dark comedy “The Consultant” starring Christoph Waltz, “The Boys” offshoot “Gen V,” its long-in-the-making adaptation of dystopian recent “The Power,” and the TV version of “Dead Ringers.”
Apple TV+ hasn’t said when we’ll see Jennifer Garner’s television comeback in the adaptation of the best-selling current “The Last Thing He Told Me,” nor has Hulu — a mainly Emmys player these days — revealed when it much release “Faraway Downs” (Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman) and “Saint X,” a psychological drama near a missing girl.
There is no greater offender in hiding the ball, view, than Disney+. Because the highly anticipated (and based on mainly properties) “Ahsoka,” “Secret Invasion” and “Agatha: Coven of Chaos” are all coming to the streaming repair in 2023, and no one knows when we can inaugurate to get excited.
But enough of what we don’t know! Let’s get to what we do. Here are 23 of the most anticipated new shows premiering in the next few months (that do have some sort of dates available). The below is in chronological order by premiere date.
