17 most anticipated TV series of 2024. There is also a Russian anniversary

The year 2024 has just begun, and we are already waiting for a large number of new products in the film industry.

We are already discussing the most anticipated films of this year, and now we move on to games. As always, the list is compiled based on expectation ratings. It included both foreign and Russian projects.

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Content:

• ▪ 1. Penguin
  ▪ 2. Echo
  ▪ 3. Avatar. The Last Airbender
  ▪ 4. Fallout
  ▪ 5. Lords of the air
  ▪ 6. Three body problem
  ▪ 7. Acolyte
  ▪ 8. House of the dragon. Season 2
  ▪ 9. True Detective. Season 4
  ▪ 10. The Walking Dead. Survivors
  ▪ 11. Agatha: The Darkhold Diaries
  ▪ 12. Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
  ▪ 13. The last hero. Heritage
  ▪ 14. Crime and consequences
  ▪ 15. Others
  ▪ 16. GDR
  ▪ 17. Give a show

1. Penguin

Rating: –
Genre: fantasy, drama, crime
A country: USA
CastStars: Miles Humphus, Berto Colon, Alex Anagnostidis, Craig Walker, Colin Farrell
Director: Craig Zobel

Based on DC Comics’ The Penguin, the project is a spin-off of The Batman (2022) and chronicles the Penguin’s rise to power over Gotham City’s criminal underworld.

Premiere date: 2024

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2. Echo

Rating: –
Genre: fantasy, action, drama, crime, detective, adventure
A country: USA
CastStars: Alaqua Cox, Devery Jacobs, Vincent D’Onofrio, Zahn McClarnon, Charlie Cox
DirectorStars: Catriona McKenzie, Sydney Freeland

Maya Lopez returns to her hometown, where she must come to terms with her return, reconnect with the Indian parishes, and accept her family and local community.

Premiere date: January 9

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3. Avatar. The Last Airbender

Rating: –
Genre: fantasy, action, drama, comedy, adventure
A country: USA
CastStars: Gordon Cormier, Tamlyn Tomita, Daniel Dae Kim, Paul Lee, Ken Leung
DirectorStars: Michael Goy, Roseanne Liang, Jabbar Raisani

The plot tells about a boy from a tribe of air nomads, Aang, who is able to enslave the element of air. At the age of 11, he learned that he was the Avatar – the ruler of the four elements. The world is mired in the decades-long Second Fire Nation War against the rest of the world, in which certain people are able to conquer one of the four elements – water, earth, fire or air.

Aang is the only one who has learned to conquer all the elements and, as the Avatar, he must save the world from the destruction of the Fire Nation. One day, after escaping from his tribes, he was caught in a storm and, in his Avatar state, froze himself in the depths of the sea. Quite by accident, 100 years later, teenagers from the southern water tribe find him and free him.

With his new friends, Katara and Sokka, Aang sends to master the elements, along the way they are pursued by the exiled prince of the Fire Nation – Zuko, who wants to regain glory by capturing the Avatar.

Premiere date: February 22

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4. Fallout

Rating: –
Genre: fantasy, action, drama, adventure, military
A country: USA
CastStars: Moises Arias, Johnny Pemberton, Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan
Director: Jonathan Nolan

The action takes place hundreds of years after a nuclear war in 2077, which destroyed (or greatly modified) all life on the planet. The series is based on the cult computer game of the same name, released in 1997.

Premiere date: 12th of April

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5. Lords of the Air

Rating: –
Genre: military, action, history
A country: USA
CastStars: Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Barry Keoghan, Raff Lowe
DirectorStars: Cary Joji Fukunaga, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

The series is from the producers of the films “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific” – Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman.

The pilots of the 100th Bomb Group—a brotherhood united by courage, loss and victory—risked their lives on the fronts of World War II.

Premiere date: January 26

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6. Three body problem

Rating: –
Genre: science fiction, fantasy, drama, detective, adventure
A country: USA
CastStars: Marlo Kelly, Saamer Usmani, Jess Hong, Jovan Adepo, Rosalind Chao
DirectorStars: Minky Spiro, Derek Tsang

During the Cultural Revolution, the PRC sends a signal into space to find a response from extraterrestrial civilizations. It comes at the beginning of the 21st century: unknown forces are trying to slow down the scientific progress of mankind.

Premiere date: 21 March

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7. Acolyte

Rating: –
Genre: science fiction, fantasy, action, thriller, drama, detective, adventure
A country: USA
CastStars: Dafne Keen, Amandla Stenberg, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jonas Suotamo, Amy Tsang
DirectorStars: Leslie Headland, Alex Garcia Lopez

The plot looks at the Dark Forces and their dark secrets. The story centers on a former Padawan who teams up with his Jedi Master to investigate a series of fallout.

Premiere date: 2024

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8. House of the dragon. Season 2

Rating: 8.1 (Kinopoisk)
Genre: fantasy, action, drama, melodrama
A country: USA
CastStars: Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint
DirectorStars: Claire Kilner, Gita Vasant Patel, Miguel Sapochnik

About the distribution of power between the two branches of House Targaryen. The second season will focus on the Dance of the Dragons.

George R.R. Martin has confirmed that there will be no more jumps in the series over time. The writers spend time on the war and the characters’ relationships. The cast for the second season has not yet been announced, but it is known that the sequel will show Winterfell, the Stark ancestral castle.

Premiere date: June 2024

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9. True Detective. Season 4

Rating: 8.5 (Rotten Tomatoes)
Genre: detective, thriller
A country: USA
CastStars: Jodie Foster, Kali Reyes, Christopher Eccleston, Fiona Shaw, John Hawkes
Director: Cary Fukunaga

The season takes place in Ennis, Alaska. Six men who worked at a research station disappear without a trace and are investigating a mysterious case taking place in the women’s police force.

Premiere date: January 14

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10. The Walking Dead. Survivors

Rating: –
Genre: horror, fantasy, drama
A country: USA
CastStars: Frankie Quinones, Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Pollyanna McIntosh
Director: Greg Nicotero

A spin-off of the cult zombie drama “The Walking Dead.” The plot centers on the fate of Rick Grimes after the Civil Republic declared troops, as well as the story of Michonne, who continues to search for the man she loves.

Premiere date: 25 February

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11. Agatha: The Darkhold Diaries

Rating: –
Genre: science fiction, fantasy, action, comedy, adventure
A country: USA
CastStars: Kathryn Hahn, Patti LuPone, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Aubrey Plaza, Maria Dizzia
DirectorStars: Rachel Goldberg, Ganja Monteiro, Jaclyn Schaeffer

This series is a spin-off of the game WandaVision about a witch named Agatha. The series will be produced by Marvel Studios and will be part of the fifth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Premiere date: autumn 2024

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12. Mr and Mrs Smith

Rating: –
Genre: action, thriller, comedy, crime
A country: USA, UK
CastStars: Donald Glover, Maya Erskine, Paul Dano, Parker Posey, John Turturro
Director: Christian Sprenger

The couple, John and Jane, know virtually nothing about each other, but their relationship takes them to the next level when they agree to work together as spies for a secret organization.

Premiere date: February 2

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13. The last hero. Heritage

Rating: –
Genre: fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
A country: Russia
CastStars: Victor Khorinyak, Arina Rozhkova, Evelina Mazurina, Elena Yakovleva, Vladislav Vetrov
Director: Anton Maslov

Ivan, who just turned 50, has two daughters: the eldest, the heroic Marya, and the youngest, the aspiring sorceress Sophia. Everything in Belogorye goes one by one, but the sorcerer visits Severina that she has seen a terrible disaster and brings confusion into the measured life of the wizards.

To save both Belogorye and the life of her own father, Sophie organized a campaign to Moscow last year, where the young and unsuspecting Ivan still live, and Marya – to fight evil in the city itself.

Premiere date: 2024

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14. Crime and punishment

Rating: –
Genre: drama
A country: Russia
Cast: Ivan Yankovsky, Lyubov Aksyonova, Tikhon Zhiznevsky, Vladimir Mishukov, Alena Mikhailova
Director: Vladimir Mirzoev

Summer, St. Petersburg of the XXI century. Student Rodion Raskolnikov is exhausted by lack of money, unemployment and sees the meaninglessness of his existence. But at the heart of his problems is the idea that some people are “right to do” the most vile things if they make great discoveries and move the world forward.

To test the impact on himself, he kills an old woman who is a microcreditor. Following Raskolnikov, investigator Porfiry Petrovich comes out, who wants to extract a sincere confession from him.

Premiere date: 2024

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15. Others

Rating: –
Genre: fantasy, adventure
A country: Russia
CastStars: Irina Martynenko, Ilya Malanin, Wolfgang Czerny, Alexey Serebryakov, Linda Lapinsh
Director: Vladimir Raksha

Alternative 1940s, Leningrad. The rescued brother, a fragile girl throws this truck and tram with the help of supernatural force, does not know how to control. They call themselves Others because they were born with a special gift.

How to dispose of it is up to everyone to decide for themselves. But the collision of two worlds is only a matter of time. The mysterious foreigner Neumann begins the hunt for an unusual girl from Leningrad, marking the beginning of the largest war in human history.

Premiere date: The 25th of January

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16. GDR

Rating: –
Genre: detective, drama
A country: Russia
Cast: Alexander Gorbatov, Alexander Golubev, Evgeny Kharitonov, Daria Ursulyak, Tatyana Lyutaeva
Director: Sergey Popov

1989-1990 General Secretary of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev begins global transformations in the USSR. He passionately wants to become a star in world politics and for this he is ready to go as far as he can to meet the West.

But the restructuring he planned led to fatal, irreversible consequences. First, the Warsaw bloc of socialist countries collapsed, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Premiere date: February 20th

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17. Give a show

Rating: –
Genre: comedy, drama
A country: Russia
CastStars: Milos Bikovich, Oleg Savostyuk, Anastasia Krasovskaya, Victoria Tolstoganova, Igor Vernik
Director: Dmitry Litvinenko

The famous singer Kirill Artemyev is accused of raping Vera, the former girlfriend of the scandalous television talk show “Pravda” Pasha. In unsuccessful attempts to investigate the events of that day, Pasha goes to extreme measures, Vera quotes on the live talk show.

Going on television has an unexpected effect on everyone. Despite the name of the show, the main goal of the participants is not to search for the truth.

Premiere date: 2024