--- title: Best New TV Shows of March 2025 description: From 'Adolescence' to 'The Studio' to 'Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light' canonical: https://time.com/7272531/best-tv-shows-march-2025/ author: Judy Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-03-28T15:47:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-11T00:08:48.281Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: The Best New TV Shows of March 2025 og:description: From 'Adolescence' to 'The Studio' to 'Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light' og:url: https://time.com/7272531/best-tv-shows-march-2025/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt173423ee54f7bf6e/6998c54a25f3ee50c86447de/ELJM_RW_031225_00661.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: ELJM_RW_031225_00661 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Best New TV Shows of March 2025 twitter:description: From 'Adolescence' to 'The Studio' to 'Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt173423ee54f7bf6e/6998c54a25f3ee50c86447de/ELJM_RW_031225_00661.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Best New TV Shows of March 2025 > Sponsored content. 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A crime comedy centered on a dysfunctional but loving Pakistani American family. A sequel to one of the [marquee miniseries of the 2010s](https://time.com/5727531/best-miniseries-2010s-decade/), a decade in the making. March’s best new TV shows comprise a real variety pack—one that includes a few of the all-around greatest series we’re likely to see in 2025\. ## _Adolescence_ (Netflix) The British miniseries _Adolescence_ has become Netflix’s breakout hit of the season, and for good reason. Co-creator and writer Jack Thorne’s third riveting social drama to hit stateside streaming services in two months, after Acorn premiered [_Best Interests_ and _Toxic Town_](https://time.com/7262562/best-tv-shows-february-2025/)arrived on Netflix in February, this saga of a 13-year-old boy charged with killing a female classmate speaks profoundly to the impact of social media and that oxymoron “[incel culture](https://time.com/7267884/adolescence-netflix-explained/)” on sensitive young minds. The cast—led by co-creator and writer Stephen Graham (_Peaky Blinders_) and featuring remarkable performances from _Top Boy_’sAshley Walters, Graham’s [_A Thousand Blows_](https://time.com/7262562/best-tv-shows-february-2025/)co-star Erin Doherty ([_The Crown_](https://time.com/5726869/the-crown-prince-charles/), [_Chloe_](https://time.com/6190101/chloe-review-amazon/)), procedural stalwart Christine Tremarco, and newcomer Owen Cooper as the diminutive defendant—is a hall of fame of undersung UK television talent. The show is also a technical achievement, with director Philip Barantini’s camera following the characters through each real-time episode in a single dynamic shot. **\[**[**Read about the sweetest—and most devastating—moment in the** **_Adolescence_** **finale**](https://time.com/7271212/adolescence-finale-netflix/)**.\]** ## _Deli Boys_ (Hulu) Ah, the American Dream. Step 1: Arrive in Philadelphia with $3 in your pocket. Step 2: Get a job at a deli. Step 3: Buy said deli. Step 4: Invent a ludicrously large to-go cup. Step 5: Use the proceeds to open 40 delis. Step 6: Diversify into the golf course and mango pickle industries. Step 7: Drop dead after taking a golf ball to the head, in front of your two adult sons, who have no idea that you’re a crime boss using your fleet of delis as a front for cocaine distribution. That, at least, is how Baba Dar (Iqbal Theba) amassed his considerable fortune. The Pakistani-born patriarch (Baba is Urdu for father) gets his skull shattered within the first few minutes of the rollicking crime comedy Deli Boys, whose first season is now streaming on Hulu. Which leaves his sons, Raj (Saagar Shaikh) and Mir (Asif Ali), to claim their places atop a hierarchy of gangsters they’d been led to believe was a legitimate business. The brothers are both unsuited to succeed Baba for different reasons. Raj, the elder of the two, spends his days partying with his woo-woo “twin flame,” Prairie (Alfie Fuller), and squandering Baba’s money on drugs. A cleancut junior-executive type, Mir has an MBA; a high-maintenance fiancée, Bushra (Zainne Saleh), and ambitions of rising within Baba’s public-facing company, DarCo. \[[Read the full review](https://time.com/7265265/deli-boys-review-hulu/).\] ## _Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney_ (Netflix) [John Mulaney](https://time.com/4675663/nick-kroll-john-mulaney-spirits-awards-interview/)’s six-night stint as a talk show host last May, in which he assembled celebrities in town for Netflix Is a Joke Fest for an endearingly messy live Netflix broadcast called _Everybody’s in L.A._, was a [resounding success](https://time.com/6976672/john-mulaney-everybodys-in-la-netflix/). Accordingly, the platform has welcomed him back for 12 more weekly episodes of an hourlong program that is now called _Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney_. New title aside, Mulaney has made minimal changes to the original format. National treasure Richard Kind is back at the announcer’s podium. Each episode is themed, with eclectic panels of famous guests ([Michael Keaton](https://time.com/4587671/twilight-cowboy-michael-keaton/), [Joan Baez](https://time.com/4159359/joan-baez-75-discrimination/), [Pete Davidson](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177795/pete-davidson/), [Quinta Brunson](https://time.com/6259193/quinta-brunson-interview/), etc.) and relevant experts responding to viewers’ live call-in anecdotes on the topic du jour (lending money, cruises, funerals). The host’s cultural geekery fuels such gloriously apropos-of-nothing segments as a [discussion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9tf7adaWjs) with 11 actors who’ve played Willy Loman in [_Death of a Salesman_](https://time.com/3860666/death-of-a-salesman/)_._ The music is next-level; Mulaney pulled off the ultimate indie-rock flex of hosting Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Pixies’ Kim Deal for their [first-ever live duet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFyUV4gwCas). Surprise and delight can be hard to find these days, in the increasingly stale environs of late night, but _Everybody’s Live_ is accomplishing it weekly. ## _The Studio_ (Apple TV+) Ten minutes into the Apple TV+ comedy, just about everything we need to know about the new head of Continental is apparent. Movies are Matt’s world. As we soon discover, he has no significant other, no kids, no real social life. His knowledge of cinema, from action franchises and Oscar winners to obscure indies and the international art house, rivals that of any film geek. And, for the most part, he has good intentions; when he gets his promotion, he keeps a promise to make his assistant (Chase Sui Wonders’ Quinn) a creative exec. Yet he’s so desperate to succeed in an industry that is now, itself, desperate to succeed in the face of technological upheaval, labor unrest, audience fragmentation, and a post-pandemic slump in theater attendance, that he is in effect no better than any other spineless suit. Which is precisely how the filmmakers and actors Matt reveres see him. Worse still, he’s insecure enough that this constant rejection sends him into a spiral of self-loathing buffoonery that gives _The Studio_, created by Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, and Frida Perez, the rhythms of a [_Curb Your Enthusiasm_](https://time.com/6590886/larry-david-curb-your-enthusiasm-season-12/)_, Studio Head Edition_. _The Studio_ is a timely, funny, and exuberantly—though not uncritically—cinephilic panorama of a business caught in the latest battle of a war between art and commerce that has raged since studios like Warner Bros. were still run by their namesakes. It’s also 2025’s best new show to date, and one of Hollywood’s sharpest self-portraits in ages—which is saying something, considering how much the entertainment industry loves to celebrate and satirize itself. **\[**[**Read the full review**](https://time.com/7264756/the-studio-review-seth-rogen-apple/)**.\]** ## _Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light_ (PBS) Tyrants giveth when it serves their purposes, but mostly they taketh away. This is the grim lesson—one that the ambitious sycophants who attach themselves to power have always been slow to learn—of [Hilary Mantel](https://time.com/5797396/hilary-mantel-the-mirror-and-the-light/)’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, a series of fat, dense novels that filter the reign of Henry VIII through the rise and fall of his Machiavellian advisor, [Thomas Cromwell](https://world.time.com/2012/10/19/a-man-for-changing-seasons-what-hillary-mantels-thomas-cromwell-teaches-about-power/). The [first BBC adaptation](https://time.com/3768601/a-real-game-of-throneswolf-hall/), which aired on PBS in 2015, covered Mantel’s books [_Wolf Hall_](https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379%5F1943868%5F1943870,00.html)and [_Bring Up the Bodies_](https://entertainment.time.com/2012/12/04/top-10-arts-lists/slide/hilary-mantel-bring-up-the-bodies/), tracing Cromwell’s brilliantly played ascent. A commoner’s son, he reaches the peak of his influence over the crown in the miniseries’ finale, which finds him delivering [Anne Boleyn](https://time.com/5739697/anne-boleyn-biography-women-history/) to her gruesome death. The pendulum swings in the opposite direction in _Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light_, named for the [final volume](https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2020/5904257/the-mirror-and-the-light/) of the trilogy and filmed in the wake of Mantel’s death in 2022\. Which makes this long-awaited sequel miniseries a much more melancholy affair than its predecessor. Happily, the change in tone doesn’t mean a dip in quality. [Mark Rylance](https://entertainment.time.com/2013/11/27/now-is-the-rylance-of-our-discontent/) reprises one of the best TV performances of all time, giving us an older, wearier Cromwell who’s prone to dark-night-of-the-soul conversations with the ghost of his mentor, Cardinal Wolsey (the great Jonathan Pryce). [Damian Lewis](https://time.com/4180272/billions-review-showtime/) remains wonderfully bratty as Henry. Writer Peter Straughan ([_Conclave_](https://time.com/7098657/conclave-review/)) and director Peter Kosminsky return as well, pulling together a subtle, unabashedly dialogue-heavy adaptation that serves Mantel’s language and the cast’s virtuosity instead of competing with them. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7272531/best-tv-shows-march-2025/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7272531/best-tv-shows-march-2025/"},"headline":"The Best New TV Shows of March 2025","datePublished":"2025-03-28T15:47:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-11T00:08:48.281Z","description":"From 'Adolescence' to 'The Studio' to 'Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light'","url":"https://time.com/7272531/best-tv-shows-march-2025/","keywords":["Television","list","culturepod"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt173423ee54f7bf6e/6998c54a25f3ee50c86447de/ELJM_RW_031225_00661.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Judy Berman","jobTitle":"TV Critic","url":"https://time.com/author/judy-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt173423ee54f7bf6e/6998c54a25f3ee50c86447de/ELJM_RW_031225_00661.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ELJM_RW_031225_00661","caption":"Michael Keaton, Joan Baez and John Mulaney at Everybody's Live with John Mulaney at The Sunset Gower Studios on March 12, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. 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