There is a whole calendar year ahead of us and that means one thing: A ton of exciting new sci-fi and fantasy TV shows are coming our way.
The year is going to kick off with some truly fun ones, including HBO’s Avenue 5 starring Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad, as well as CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Picard, which not only brings us back into the world of Star Trek, but also back into the life of beloved Star Trek: The Next Generation character Jean-Luc Picard.
We should expect the good times to keep on keepin’ on as we go through 2020, too, because there are tons of shows, both new and returning, which are set to return on various cable channels and streaming services to help keep us entertained.
Below you’ll find a line-up of sci-fi and fantasy TV shows coming in 2020, some of which have already been scheduled and some which don’t have premiere dates yet, but we know for sure will arrive before December 31.
Also, be mindful this list includes shows we only know about and can confidently announce; there could be some surprise new shows that may come to a certain streamer or TV channel soon. Here’s what we have so far.
Scheduled
Avenue 5
HBO’s upcoming comedy Avenue 5 comes from Veep creator Armando Iannucci and stars Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad, and Zach Woods. Set in the future where you can take a cruise in space, the series highlights the misadventures a space cruise liner’s crew and guests face after a technical malfunction. Check out the hilarious trailer here. (Premieres Jan. 19 on HBO)
Picard
Patrick Stewart returns to the world of Star Trek in his best-known and most beloved role of Jean-Luc Picard. The CBS All Access series Picard picks up years after Picard’s retirement from Starfleet, a move which occurred following a tragic incident involving himself and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members.
Picard finds himself drawn back to the vastness of space when a young woman, Dahj (Isa Briones), who may or may not have ties to the collective known as the Borg, finds him and asks for his help. The former Starfleet captain assembles a new crew (played by Allison Pill, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, Harry Treadaway, and Evan Evagora) and re-teams with old friends including Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), and Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco) as he tries to figure how to help Dahj before time runs out. Watch the trailer here. (Premieres Jan. 23 on CBS All Access)
Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia alum Rob McElhenney puts a Silicon Valley-esque spin on the world of gaming with his new Apple TV+ series Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet. The show’s title is taken from the fictional game cocky video game designer and his development team as they try to create an epic fantasy video game. Watch the trailer here. (Premieres Feb. 7 on Apple TV+)
Locke & Key
One of the first, big Netflix original series, Locke & Key, arrives in early February. The series is adapted from the comic book series of the same name written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez.
In Locke & Key, we follow the Locke siblings — Tyler (Connor Jessup), Kinsey (Emilia Jones), and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) — who move back to their recently deceased father’s childhood home with their mother (Darby Stanchfield).
The Lockes quickly discover keys of all shapes and sizes hidden around the home and realize each key opens a different door and each door is a portal to a different world. When the siblings accidentally wake an ancient evil, they soon learn about the power of the keys and how their father was connected to the being they’re fighting. Watch the trailer here. (Premieres Feb. 7 on Netflix)
Dispatches From Elsewhere
AMC is seeking to serve up a puzzle box of a story with Dispatches From Elsewhere starring Sally Field, Jason Segel, André Benjamin, and Richard E. Grant. The series focuses on four unconnected individuals who find themselves roped into a puzzle they are told is hiding in plain sight in their everyday lives. As they search for answers to the puzzle, questions over what’s really going on and why they were chosen come into focus. Check out the trippy trailer here. (Premieres March 1 on AMC)
Devs
Alex Garland (Annihilation, Ex Machina) returns with a new, strange sci-fi tale called Devs. The series follows Lily Chan (Crazy Rich Asians’ Sonoya Mizuno), a computer programmer who is drawn into the secretive development branch of the tech company she works for after her boyfriend, Sergei (Karl Glusman), goes missing shortly after he begins working there. Lily soon comes up against the branch’s overseer, Forest (Nick Offerman), and soon discovers the wild secrets of his program. Check out the enigmatic trailer here. (Premieres Mar. 5 on FX and FX on Hulu)
Westworld (Season 3)
The supremely twisty and unexpected series we all love to puzzle over, HBO’s Westworld, is coming back for Season 3 in mid-March.
Series regulars Evan Rachel Wood, Tessa Thompson, Ed Harris, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, and Rodrigo Santoro are set to return as new cast members including Aaron Paul, Lena Waithe, and Vincent Cassel join the story.
That story? Well, we don’t know too much, but the trailer have revealed to us that Wood and Thompson’s characters, Hosts Dolores and Charlotte, seem hellbent on freeing all tech from human control and Paul’s character will no doubt get swept up in the revolution. Meanwhile, Newton’s character, Maeve, is living in a new theme park world set in World War II France.
Check out the latest trailer here as well as the Season 3 premiere date trailer which teases how the world falls apart in the fictional near future of the show. (Premieres Mar. 15 on HBO)
Unscheduled/Coming in 2020
The Boys (Season 2)
The first season of The Boys ended in a very surprising place after we spent a season with Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and his team (played by Laz Alonso, Tomer Capon, Jack Quaid, and Karen Fukuhara) as they tried to wrangle and untangle the mysteries of an elite group of corporate-owned superheroes.
With revelations about the connection Billy has with his archnemesis, the Captain America-like hero Homelander (Antony Starr) now out in the open as well as the secrets about how superheroes are manufactured rather than naturally-occurring, Butcher and his boys are going to be on the warpath as they try to bring all superheroes to justice. Watch the Season 2 trailer here. (Coming in 2020)
Carnival Row (Season 2)
Fantasy series Carnival Row stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne living in a world where magical creatures like fairies, witches, and satyrs co-exist with humans.
In Season 1, we watched Philo (Bloom) and Vignette (Delevingne), two star-crossed lovers, meet after years apart and tried to survive in their city as the government sought to control all magical beings.
Along the way, huge truths about the past came to light and in Season 2, we’ll see Philo and Vignette fight the power while also trying to stay together. With filming on Season 2 done or close to done, this Amazon series should be coming in mid- to late 2020. (Coming in 2020)
The Wheel of Time
It’s been a long time coming, but Robert Jordan’s beloved fantasy series of the same name is coming to Amazon Prime Video in 2020.
Starring Rosamund Pike, The Wheel of Time follows Moraine, a member of a group of women with magical abilities who saves a group of children from a growing dark force and believes one of those children may be part of a prophecy which reveals how to stop these evil forces from taking over the land.
Filming on The Wheel of Time began in September 2019 so it’s likely we’ll see this show in mid- to late 2020. (Coming in 2020)
The Walking Dead: World Beyond
The world of The Walking Dead expands as we follow a newer, younger generation of survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Specific story details have, for the most part, been kept under wraps, but TWD creative chief officer Scott M. Gimple revealed World Beyond is set in a Nebraska community around the same time as the current season of TWD. The series will focus on teenagers who have grown up in this entirely new world and who eventually leave their community and go out into the zombie-ridden landscape. Watch the first trailer here. (Coming Spring 2020)
See (Season 2)
The Jason Momoa-led series See comes from Steven Knight (Peaky Blinder) and takes viewers a few centuries into the future, where humans have lost their eyesight. When Baba Voss (Momoa) and his partner, Maghra (Hera Hilmar) discover their infant twins have the power of sight, they must do everything they can to protect them from those in power who don’t want their status threatened. Season 2, set to arrive later in 2020, will focus on Baba and Maghra’s continued efforts to protect their children, as major shifts in their community set big events in motion. (Coming in 2020)
For All Mankind (Season 2)
Apple TV+’s For All Mankind offers an alternate look at the space race of the 60s and 70s and comes from the mind of Battlestar Galactica alum Ronald D. Moore.
In Season 1, we watched as the U.S. space program lost the race to get to the moon first and the Soviets claim the honor. Spurred to make radical advancements, the season grappled with the introduction of female astronauts and talks of building a colony on the moon.
Season 2 will not only expand the personal dramas of those working as NASA, but will show how history continues to diverge and even more innovations in the space race are made. (Coming in 2020)
The Twilight Zone (Season 2)
Jordan Peele will return to narrate a new season of The Twilight Zone in 2020. The anthology series is an update on the classic mid-century sci-fi TV show which presents singular, unsettling tales with different lessons to be learned. The Season 2 cast includes Billy Porter, Tony Hale, Ethan Embry, Chris Meloni, Jenna Elfman, Tavi Gevinson, and Joel McHale. (Coming mid-2020)
The Stand
Stephen King’s The Stand is getting adapted once again for TV, this time at CBS All Access. It was announced at the TCAs in Los Angeles in January that the updated take on The Stand would debut in late 2020. The series will tell the story of a man-made plague which ravages America and divides the survivors into two factions and end up clashing for the soul of humanity. One group is led by a centenarian with possible psychic powers, while the other is led by a man who is the definition of evil. The series stars James Marsden, Amber Heard, Alexander Skarsgärd, Whoopi Goldberg, Greg Kinnear, and Nat Wolff. (Coming Winter 2020)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Currently in production is The Falcon and the Winter Soldier starring Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, a.k.a. Falcon, and Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, a.k.a. the Winter Soldier. Also joining them for the ride is Emily VanCamp, who returns as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter and Daniel Bruhl as Zemo, the big bad in Captain America: Civil War who was responsible for activating Bucky as the Winter Soldier. We still don’t know too much about the plot, but those details should be coming soon to Disney+. (Coming Fall 2020)
WandaVision
Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen reprise their MCU roles in WandaVision, which was officially confirmed to debut some time in 2020.
Details are slim on the new series, but it has been teased as having sitcom elements and may even involve Wanda, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch (Olsen), creating an alternate reality where her true love, Vision (Bettany) is still alive.
The series will also star Teyonah Parris as a grown-up Monica Rambeau, Kathryn Hahn as Wanda and Vision’s nosy neighbor, Randall Park as the FBI agent last seen in Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis, who we last saw in Thor: The Dark World. (Coming in 2020)
The Mandalorian (Season 2)
The first original Star Wars series from Jon Favreau, The Mandalorian, has already been renewed for Season 2 with Favreau writing up the script as we head into 2020. Series regulars Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Carl Weathers, and Giancarlo Esposito will all return for a new season which sees the Mandalorian (Pascal) and his charge, Baby Yoda, searching the Outer Rim for answers about the Force-sensitive child’s origins while being hunted down by the Moff Gideon (Esposito). (Coming in 2020)
Lovecraft Country
Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions is behind the forthcoming HBO series Lovecraft Country. The series is set in 1954 and stars Jonathan Majors (The Last Black Man in San Francisco) as Atticus Black, a young Korean war vet who embarks on a cross-country mystery to find his father, Montrose Freeman (Michael K. Williams). Atticus brings childhood friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and his uncle, George (Courtney B. Vance), to help in the search. Along the way, the trio encounter the sinister racism burbling at the heart of America as well as actual supernatural terrors the could have come right out of a Lovecraftian novel. (Coming in 2020)
Solar Opposites
Rick and Morty fans are gonna love Solar Opposites, the new animated series from Justin Roiland. The animated Hulu series features the voice talents of Roiland, Mary Mack (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), and Sean Giambrone (The Goldbergs). Over the course of the first 16 episodes, we’ll follow an alien family as they move to middle America and try to blend in with humans in their new world. Considering this is springing from the mind of one of the Rick and Morty co-creators, we should expect lots of nutty hijinks to ensue on Solar Opposites. (Coming in 2020)
Helstrom
The last gasps of Marvel’s formerly massive TV line-up at Hulu takes the form of a new series, Helstrom. Adapted from the comics series of the same name, Helstrom follows Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana (Sydney Lemmon) Helstrom, two siblings who also happen to be the children of a mysterious and powerful killer who may or may not have a connection to Satan.
Daimon is an ethics professor who moonlights as an exorcist and is thoroughly disillusioned with the world, but is committed to ridding the world of supernatural evil, while Ana is an auctioneer during the day but at night, becomes a vigilante hellbent (no pun intended) on ridding the world of evil. Inevitably, these siblings will soon discover the true identity of their dad as they get more and more involved in supernatural events. (Coming in 2020)
Cursed
This Netflix series starring Knives Out and 13 Reasons Why lead Katherine Langford has been in the works since 2018, but it’s finally coming to the streaming giant this year.
Cursed is a fantasy series based in Arthurian legend which follows Nimue (Langford), a young woman who discovers she has magical abilities and goes with Arthur on his quest to find the legendary sword Excalibur. Cursed is a live-action series adapted from the illustrated novel of the same name from Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler. (Coming in 2020)
Space Force
Coming to Netflix is the Steve Carell-led comedy Space Force. The show is based on the very real and very unfortunate announcement made back in June 2019 that our president wanted to create a sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, a Space Force. The series will fictionalize what the creation of the Space Force would look like and will be filmed in a documentary/cinema vérité style, just like The Office. (Coming in 2020)
Stranger Things (Season 4)
Details are still sparse on Stranger Things Season 4, but we do know it’s coming later in 2020. It’s likely Season 4 will pick up where Season 3 left off as the Byers family, plus their new, adopted family member Eleven, will be starting over after leaving Hawkins, Indiana, while the rest of the kids try to move on. But, we still have to find out who “the American” is that is currently being held prisoner over in Siberia and we need answers on whether Hopper is truly dead. (Coming in 2020)
Snowpiercer
Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly star in the TV adaptation of Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, which originally starred Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, and Ed Harris.
The TV series will have a similar premise to the film, but with a few interesting twists. The basics remain the same: Following humanity’s failed attempt to reverse the effects of global warming, which results in the activation of a new Ice Age, just 3,000 humans across the entire world have managed to survive by finding safe passage on a large, transcontinental train called Snowpiercer.
The train becomes a caste system, with the wealthy living at the front of the train and the poor living at the end. The big twist is the TV series takes place just six years after the failed global warming reversal process, which means it happens before the events of the movie.
It seems Diggs’ character, a tail-ender named Andre, is planning one of the many revolts mentioned in the Snowpiercer feature film — but we’ll have to wait and see to be sure. Watch the first trailer here. (Coming in 2020)
Brave New World
Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones), and Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) star in a new, nine-episode TV adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World.
Lloyd plays Bernard Marx and Findlay stars as Lenina Crowne, two residents in the utopian society of New London where wealth, power, and pleasure come together.
When Bernard and Lenina venture outside the borders of New London, they discover and entirely different world where humans live comparatively more on the edge. They encounter John (Ehrenreich) and bring him back to New London, but his arrival exposes the darker side of New London’s utopian lifestyle. The series is coming to USA Network later this year. (Coming in 2020)
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