TV Show Excited to Watch in 2021（10）

Central Park (Season 2)

Apple TV , June 25

Bob's Burgers creator Loren Bouchard's animated series for Apple TV  is on to Season 2. Expect more NYC shenanigans, and many, many more original songs.

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Disney , June 25

An adaptation of the popular YA books of the same name, this eight-part series tells the story of four gifted orphans who are mysteriously contacted and sent to investigate what's really going on at a strange boarding school called The Institute.

Monsters at Work

Disney , July 2

Even though Monsters, Inc. hit theaters 20 years ago, Pixar fans are (finally? just now?) getting a spin-off. Mike and Sully are back (as are their voice actors Billy Crystal and John Goodman), and the series takes place six months after the events of the first movie as the monsters are transitioning from spreading scares to sharing laughter.

Turner & Hooch

Disney , July 16

Remember the 1989 movie starring Tom Hanks and a drooly but loveable Dogue de Bordeaux? Well, it's getting a series adaptation over on Disney —this time with Josh Peck starring as a US Marshall who gets partnered with a pup.

2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony

NBC, July 23

It's hard to say what this year's Olympics Opening Ceremony, or even the Olympic Games themselves, will look like—but after a year of delays due to the pandemic, it's all finally going down in Tokyo in Summer 2021.

Lisey's Story

Apple TV , Summer TBA

Lisey's Story is an adaptation of Stephen King's 2006 novel of the same name, which stars Julianne Moore as a woman who is having trouble cleaning out the office of her late novelist husband (Clive Owen), and uncovers repressed memories of their marriage while she reminisces. Joan Allen, Dane DeHaan, and Sung Kang also star.

Physical

Apple TV , Summer TBA

Cue up the Olivia Newton-John hit: Rose Byrne is about to get physical. In this dramedy from Annie Weisman (Desperate Housewives) and Alexandra Cunningham (Desperate Housewives, Dirty John), Byrne plays a bored housewife in the '80s who finds she can escape the doldrums of her daily life by taking up the hottest trend at the time, aerobics.

Schmigadoon!

Apple TV , Summer TBA

From the writers of the Despicable Me franchise, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, and executive producer Lorne Michaels, comes a musical comedy series starring Keegan-Michael Key and SNL's Cecily Strong who, while on a backpacking trip, stumble upon the town of Schmigadoon where everyone acts like they're living in the 1940s and no one's allowed to leave until they've found true love. The series prides itself on parodying famous musicals—but theater fans, don't worry because iconic Broadway legends like Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, and many others make an appearance to round out the show.

2021 Dates TBA

American Horror Story (Season 10)

FX

Though it's not totally clear what the theme of the landmark tenth season of Ryan Murphy's campy horror series will be (maybe mermaids?), tons of AHS favorites—including Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, and many more—are returning to make this cryptic seaside screamfest a special one. Get excited for whatever cast addition Macauly Culkin's role will be, and treat all of this as a creepy amuse bouche for Murphy's spinoff series American Horror Stories—plural—that's coming down the road.

Atlanta (Season 3)

FX

As a social commentary on race and class masked as a show about a rising rapper that frequently experiments from episode to episode, it's hard to say, without a trailer, what exactly will happen in the upcoming seasons of Atlanta. One thing is for sure, though: It's likely to continue following the ceaseless struggle of Earn and Al trying to make it and failing miserably at both the hands of the music industry, systemic racism, and Earn's own poor decision-making. Expect to see that all play out on Paper Boi's first-ever tour, since Season 2 ended just as he and Earn were about to take off on a flight to Europe to join Clark County on tour.