| | | Comments count:0 Here's a handy guide to release dates on UK television in 2024.
Put down the stilton! Step away from that tub of Cadbury’s Celebrations and refrain from pouring yourself a lunchtime Snowball – Christmas is over, people. It’s time to get serious. The UK TV schedules have got the memo at least; they’ve stopped airing tinselly specials and getting dewy-eyed over Gavin & Stacey, and started airing crime shows again – just the thing to toughen us up so we can face down 2025 with a steely glare. Grantchester series nine’s finally airing in the UK after its 2024 US debut, there’s new Silent Witness, NCIS, Father Brown and all kinds of police-based business with Patience, Playing Nice and more.
If crime’s not your bag, then look forward to Western American Primeval on Netflix, the second series of mind-bending sci-fi Severance on Apple TV+, the second and final series of sci-fi Beacon 23, the Star Trek: Section 31 movie, plus a new run of From, all coming in January. Beyond that, we have more Yellowjackets, Reacher, Cobra Kai and The White Lotus, arriving on streaming in Feb, along with new six-part UK drama A Thousand Blows, from the creator of Peaky Blinders.
As well as all that, here’s a big look ahead to the new British drama coming up, all the big returning British series this year, and for crime fans, a list of the new UK crime dramas to anticipate in 2025.
We’ll update this list of TV highlights weekly with more shows, dates and times as the release announcements arrive. If you’re based in the US, here’s where to look for the relevant info.
| DATE | SHOW | CHANNEL/STREAMER |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, Jan 6, 9 p.m. | playing nice (4 episodes) | ITV |
| Monday, Jan 6, 9 p.m. | 24 Hours in Police custody: breakout | Channel 4 |
| Monday, Jan 6, 9 p.m. | Silent Witness series 28 (10 episodes) | BBC One/BBC iPlayer |
| Tuesday, Jan 7, 9 p.m. | accused: the fake grooming scandal | Channel 4 |
| Wednesday, Jan 8, 9 p.m. | Grantchester series 9 (8 episodes) | ITV |
| Wednesday, Jan 8, 9 p.m. | Patience (6 episodes) | Channel 4 |
| Wednesday, Jan 8 | NCIS series 22 | Disney+ |
| Thursday, Jan 9 | American Primeval (6 episodes) | Netflix |
| Thursday, Jan 9 | On Call (8 episodes) | Prime Video |
| Friday, Jan 10, 2 p.m. | Father brown series 12 (10 episodes) | BBC One/BBC iPlayer |
| Friday, Jan 10, 9 p.m. | the good ship murder series 2 (8 episodes) | Channel 5 |
| Friday, Jan 10 | Goosebumps series 2 (8 episodes) | Disney+ |
| Sunday, Jan 12, 7.45 p.m. | the great pottery throw down series 7 (10 episodes) | Channel 4 |
| Monday, Jan 13 | Bump series 5 (10 episodes) | BBC iPlayer |
| Tuesday, Jan 14, 9 p.m. | From series 3 (10 episodes) | Sky Max |
| Friday, Jan 17 | Severance series 2 (10 episodes) | Apple TV+ |
| Wednesday, Jan 22 | Prime Target (8 episodes) | Apple TV+ |
| Thursday, Jan 23 | Beacon 23 series 2 (8 episodes) | Paramount+ |
| Thursday, Jan 23 | High potential (7 episodes) | Disney+ |
| Thursday, Jan 23 | The Night Agent series 2 (10 episodes) | Netflix |
| Friday, Jan 24 | Star Trek: section 31 (feature film) | Paramount+ |
| Friday, Jan 24, 10 p.m. | The last leg (new episodes) | Channel 4 |
| Tuesday, Jan 28 | Paradise (8 episodes) | Disney+ |
| Wednesday, Jan 29 | your friendly neighborhood spider-man (10 episodes) | Disney+ |
| Wednesday, Jan 29 | Mythic quest series 4 | Apple TV+ |
| Thursday, Jan 30 | The recruit series 2 (6 episodes) | Netflix |
| Thursday, Feb 13 | Cobra kai series 6c (5 episodes) | Netflix |
| Friday, Feb 14 | Yellowjackets series 3 (10 episodes) | Paramount+ |
| Monday, Feb 17, 9 p.m. | The white lotus series 3 (8 episodes) | Sky Atlantic |
| Thursday, Feb 20 | Reacher series 3 (8 episodes) | Prime Video |
| Friday, Feb 21 | A thousand blows (6 episodes) | Disney+ |
| Monday, Feb 24 | 1923: yellowstone series 2 | Paramount+ |
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Louisa Mellor is the Den of Geek UK TV Editor. She has written about TV, film and books for Den of Geek since 2010, and for…