2025 TV Premiere Date Schedule: I'm So Hyped For Andor And The Last Of Us Returning, Kevin Bacon Killing Demons And More April TV Highlights

The first quarter of 2025 is now behind us, but the horizon is thankfully peppered with plenty of awesome new Netflix series, all-star reality TV competitions, multiple Marvel TV shows, a couple of upcoming awards shows, and a lot more. Once upon a time, mid-spring offerings were pretty rote and unsurprising, but we're living in more exciting times.

So check out all the biggest April TV premieres below, along with everything else that's yet to arrive on the small screen in 2025, such as Pat Sajak's final episodes hosting Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, a pair of WWE premium live events, and a slew of high-profile finales, some for shows that are confirmed to be ending.

Take note that all times listed in the schedule below are for the ET/EST time zone, and that all brand-new series premieres will be listed in ALL CAPS. Now let's dive into April's biggest TV highlights.

April 2025

In the wake of March Madness comes a wealth of excellent April TV, with quite a few new shows debuting at the same time other fan-favorite series are concluding. And Netflix will become the only place viewers can watch both Pop the Balloon and David Letterman's longform interview show....and Monday Night Raw. Happy April!

THE APRIL 2025 TV PREMIERES AND FINALES I'M MOST EXCITED ABOUT

• The Last Of Us Season 2: Based on one of the most critically acclaimed video games ever (a personal favorite), this second chapter will introduce Kaitlyn Dever's antagonist Abby and a host of new and morally complicated characters for Joel, Ellie, Tommy and more to cross violent paths with.
• The Handmaid's Tale's Sixth And Final Season: Nearly two and a half years after fans were left wondering how June's train ride would fare, The Handmaid's Tale will finally return for its final ten-episode stretch on Hulu, and the stakes couldn't be higher. (Thankfully, the service confirmed a series order for Margaret Atwood's spinoff The Testaments in the weeks ahead of the premiere.)
• Hacks Season 4: Anticipation for Jean Smart's Max comedy has never been higher, thanks in part to the show's big wins at the Golden Globes, Emmys, and beyond in recent years. I can't wait to see the curve balls thrown Deborah's way, and all the guest stars being woven in and out of the chaos.

• The Bondsman: Kevin Bacon plays a bounty hunter in a small town who gets killed, is mysteriously resurrected, and is tasked by the devil with tracking down malevolent demons possessing human bodies. It's both gory and funny as hell, applicably enough, and somehow works country music into the equation with Jennifer Nettles.
• WrestleMania 41: The biggest pro wrestling event of the year will take over the end of April as it often does. Only this year marks John Cena's final 'Mania showdown (vs. Cody Rhodes), with the Rock likely to play into that bout, as well as the Triple Threat Match between Roman Reigns, CM Punk and Seth Rollins.
• Black Mirror Season 7: Netflix's techno-doom anthology returns for another twisted batch of cautionary tales, with the most anticipated installment being an extended-length sequel to the 2017 installment "U.S.S. Callister." Key stars include Paul Giamatti, Issa Rae, Rashida Jones, Tracee Ellis Ross, Chris O'Dowd, Will Poulter, Peter Capaldi and more.

• Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5: Despite a longer hiatus than normal between seasons as it shifted from NBC to Peacock, Elliot Stabler is back and at 'em for the fifth season of the Chris Meloni-led spinoff.
• Behind The Curtain: Stranger Things The First Shadow: As fans continue to survive the extended wait for Stranger Things Season 5, Netflix is dropping a documentary centering on the UK-to-Broadway stage play that tells an origin story of sorts for the Creel family. Hopefully a streaming version of the entire performance will be added at some point later as well.
• All These Other Season / Series Finales:
  • The White Lotus (4/6)
  • The Pitt (4/10)
  • 1923 (4/13)
  • Yellowjackets (4/13)
  • Daredevil: Born Again (4/15)
  • Abbott Elementary (4/16)
  • Bosch: Legacy series finale (4/17)
  • Wheel of Time (4/17)
  • Matlock (4/17)
  • The Conners series finale (4/12)
  • Fire Country (4/25)
  • Dark Winds (4/27)
  • NCIS: Origins (4.28)
  • St. Denis Medical (4/29)

April 2025

May 2025

May is another huge month for finales, as well as for a smorgasbord of network TV cancellations. But in keeping things positive, let's remember there are also lots of great new and returning shows popping up as well. Negan and Maggie are back for more Walking Dead: Dead City surviving, Tom Segura's new Netflix comedy will debut, and J.J. Abrams' long-awaited HBO thriller Duster finally arrives.

June 2025

Summer 2025 will be the first time audiences get to finally lay eyes on Dominique Thorn's Riri Williams at the front of her own series, Marvel's Ironheart, which was expected to debut at an earlier point, but will now serve as the final chapter in the MCU's Phase 5.

July 2025

August 2025

At this time, the only confirmed arrivial for August 2025 is another highly anticipated Marvel series, in this case the animated Black Panther spinoff Eyes of Wakanda, as led by Danai Gurira as Okoye.

2025 TV Premiere Dates TBD

For all that we currently know about the 2025 TV schedule, that information is dwarfed by all of the announcements and reveals that are yet to come for the hundreds of series that establish themselves yearly. Case in point: here is a list comprising many of the fan-favorites that are confirmed to be on the way in 2025, though without any exact release dates set in stone.

Below we have a round-up of the series that are generally expected to be arriving on our screens in 2025, but without networks or streaming services having yet confirmed that particular time window.

January 2025 Premieres

The first month of any new year is filled with all manner of collegiate and professional football, with a slew of NCAA bowl games coinciding with the NFL playoffs. But it's also when fan-favorites return from holiday hiatuses like some of the highlights listed below. and when fans were treated to Tim Allen's return to ABC sitcom-dom , the return of Alexandria Daddario's Mayfair Witches and Jason Kelce's first late night series.

• The critically acclaimed second season of Severance
• The second season of Alexandra Daddario's gothic drama Mayfair Witches
• HGTV's drama-filled The Flip-Off with exes Tarek El Moussa and Christina Hall facing off

February 2025

THE FEBRUARY 2025 PREMIERE SCHEDULE

March 2025 TV Premiere Calendar

Even with so much to already be excited about, keep checking back as the days, weeks and months go by, as CinemaBlend will be updating this schedule as new dates and projects are announced.