The 14 TV shows we’re most excited about in 2024
LOS ANGELES — Last year was a tough one for Hollywood with the dual strikes slowing down production, resulting in fewer shows for viewers in the fall. Now that writers and actors have a new contract, production is back in full force. It’s one of the reasons to be hopeful in 2024. New series and new seasons that were held back are on the horizon, so you can expect lots more television to make its way to your screen.
Here, The Times’ television writers weigh in on a sampling of shows that they’re looking forward to watching in the new year and that they recommend you put on your calendar and in your queue.
‘True Detective: Night Country’ (HBO, Jan. 14)
It’s been four years since the last season of “True Detective,” but after a long hiatus the anthology series finally returns to HBO on Jan. 14. “True Detective: Night Country” puts an icy, female-driven spin on the regional crime drama. The action unfolds during the dark of winter in Ennis, Alaska, where eight scientists vanish from a remote research facility. Detectives Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) and Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster, in her first on-camera TV role in nearly 50 years) investigate the disappearance and, according to the show’s logline, “will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that
