The best new shows coming to Netflix in 2024 and 2025 — including Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy’s new projects

RIPLEY (April 4)

In what feels like perfect casting, Andrew Scott is the latest actor to play Patricia Highsmith’s amoral conman and serial killer Tom Ripley on screen. Writer-director Steven Zaillian’s eight-part adaptation of the first novel, The Talented Mr Ripley, which was made into a film with Matt Damon (miscast, in my opinion) in 1999, is shot in beautiful black and white.

STEVE (date TBC)

Man of the moment Cillian Murphy plays the headteacher of a last-chance reform school who tries to keep his students in line while his mental health deteriorates in this intense film, set over 24 hours.

HOUSE OF GUINNESS (due this summer)

Steven Peaky Blinders Knight turns his attention to the Guinness family in this drama series, set in 19th century Dublin and New York. It focuses on the impact of patriarch Benjamin’s death on his four children.

THE UNDERTOW (due 2025)

We get two Jamie Dornans for the price of one in this twisty tale of death and deception, currently in production. He plays identical twins. If it sounds familiar, it’s because it’s a remake of the Norwegian series Twin, which ran on BBC4 a few years ago.

GROWN UPS (TBC)

Marian Keyes’s bestselling novel comes to the screen as an ensemble family drama that focuses on the ups and downs of three couples. Currently at the casting stage.

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SCOOP (April 5)

Film telling the behind-the-scenes story of Prince Andrew’s disastrous, self-damaging interview on BBC2’s Newsnight. Rufus Sewell is Andrew and Gillian Anderson plays his inquisitor Emily Maitless.

BRIDGERTON (May 16)

Season three of the costume drama that’s like a sexed-up cross between Jane Austen and Gossip Girl, is split into two batches, with the second arriving on June 16. Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) decides she needs to find a husband.

ERIC (TBC)

Intriguing six-part thriller from Abi Morgan. In 1980s New York, puppeteer Vincent (Benedict Cumberbatch) is devastated when his nine-year-old son Edgar disappears on the way to school. Growing increasingly desperate and distressed, Vincent convinces himself that if he can just get ERIC, a blue, seven-foot puppet Edgar loves, on TV, the boy will return home.

SQUID GAME 2 (TBC)

It’s been four years since the South Korean dystopian drama about a deadly gameshow became a global phenomenon, so viewers might need a refresher before diving back in.

BLACK DOVES (TBC)

Television seems to be overrun lately by spies posing as ordinary people, but here comes another one. Kiera Knightly is a politician’s wife who’s been passing state secrets on to the titular organisation for 10 years. Sarah Lancashire plays her spymaster boss.

KAOS (TBC)

Dark, comedic modern-day take on Greek mythology. Jeff Goldblum plays the god Zeus, who fears the sudden appearance of a wrinkle on his forehead signals that an ancient prophecy about his destruction is about to come true.

MONSTERS (TBC)

After the inexplicable popularity of season one of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series, which dealt with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the new run focuses on brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of murdering their parents. Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny star.

SUPACELL (TBC)

In this tantalising new series, five ordinary people unexpectedly develop superpowers. They have only one thing in common: they’re all black South Londoners.

MOURINHO (due 2025)

Coming from the people who gave us documentaries about David Beckham, Lewis Capaldi and Robbie Williams, this one-off film looks at the life and turbulent career of the self-anointed Special One, Jose Mourinho.

MILLENNIUM DIAMOND HEIST (due 2025)

Guy Ritchie switches from geezer-gangster movies to geezer-gangster documentaries with this three-parter about London crims who planned to ram-raid the Millennium Dome and steal the world’s second-largest flawless diamond. ​