All the television programs you need to watch in 2017
**TV addicts, if our guide to the best tv seriesever wasn't enough, here's the ultimate guide to the best dramas, returning series, and hilarious comedies that had everyone talking in 2017.
Love Netflix? Here's what's new on Netflix in 2017**
VH1Ru Paul's Drag Race
Netflix viewers have all nine seasons to play with, but anyone without a subscription has missed out on Ru Paul and his amazing queens until now – and this is a FABULOUS show. Think America's Next Top Model, but where the entrants can sew, perform and be funny as well as drop-dead gorgeous. Relive classic seasons of Drag Race on truTV from 14 April, with seasons two and three episodes airing every night at 11pm from April 14. Happy Easter!
Getty ImagesNext Of Kin
Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe nominee, Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife, The Fall), and renowned actor, Jack Davenport (Pirates of the Caribbean, Smash), will star in Mammoth Screen’s fast-paced family thriller, Next Of Kin, ITV has announced. The six-part series follows whip-smart GP Mona Shirani (Panjabi) who lives in London with political lobbyist husband Guy Harcourt (Davenport). Family life is shattered when Mona’s brother is brutally murdered whilst working for a medical charity abroad. As the death brings buried secrets to light, Mona’s family finds itself under suspicion, each drawn deep into a tangle of betrayal and conspiracy as they try to protect their loved ones and careers. Mona finds herself facing the ultimate dilemma: how far would you go to keep your family safe?
ITV, air date tbc
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In his first TV series since Luther, Idris Elba plays an underground activist in 1970s London, in this political drama by the Oscar-winning writer of 12 Years A Slave. Welcome back, Idris. He's joined by Frieda Pinto for this new TV show and we can hardly wait.
Sky Atlantic, air date 13 April
SkyGame Of Thrones, S7
The seventh season won’t be with is until June (wah!). But you can bet GoT fanatics (yep, that's us) will be analysing every pap shot, teaser trailer and cast Instagram post for clues as to what’s in store. In the mean time, brush up on your GoT geekery with our 20 Fascinating Facts about the show Fascinating Facts about the show.
Sky Atlantic, 16 July
Read next: Game of Thrones Season 7 everything there is to know.
SkyTwin Peaks
Deep breaths: it’s nearly here. One of the greatest TV shows of all time, we return to David Lynch’s creepy town 25 years after the last season. Even better, many of the original cast are returning - including Kyle MacLachlan and Sherilyn Fenn - with Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost firmly at the helm. For the uninitiated, here's our Twin Peaks 101.
Sky Atlantic, 22 May at 2am (repeated 23 May at 9pm
SkyBig Little Lies
Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern - talk about a first-rate cast. Adapted by Ally McBealcreator David E Kelly, the glossy drama is based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel about a group of mothers whose lives start to unravel.
Sky Atlantic: On now
Channel 4Catastrophe S3
We’ve had to wait a little while for the return of this ferociously funny relationship drama, while co-creator Sharon Horgan worked on Divorce with Sarah Jessica Parker. But thankfully we’re back with Sharon and Rob Delaney after that cliffhanger of sorts. Buckle up for more foul-mouthed, knicker-sniffing, eye-wateringly sharp comedy.
Channel 4: On now.
NetflixSanta Clarita Diet
We heart Drew, big time. So count us in for her new comedy-drama on Netflix. She plays Sheila, a dissatisfied real estate agent living in a LA suburb with her husband (Justified’s Timothy Olyphant), but then she undergoes a major life-change. Read our review of Season One.
Netflix
ITVBroadchurch, S3
Olivia Colman and David Tennant - the dream team - are back in the third season of the insanely addictive crime drama. After the shock verdict at the end of season two, will they ever get justice for Danny?
ITV: Mondays at 9pm
BBCTaboo
You’ve seen the pictures of a topless Tom Hardy – now watch the TV show it’s all for: Taboo is a dark, period drama starring Tom (yes, that's him looking scary, above) as adventurer Jack Delaney, who returns from Africa – along with 14 stolen diamonds - to avenge his murdered father.
BBC Catch up on iPlayer
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Kate Bosworth brings the glamour in this 1940s dystopian thriller, in which the Axis powers won the Battle of Britain. (Similar to the premise for The Man In The High Castle - but set in the UK). She stars as an American journalist opposite Brit boy Sam Riley, who plays a Scotland Yard detective.
BBC One: Catch up on iPlayer
AmazonZ: The Beginning Of Everything
This US period drama stars Christina Ricci as Zelda Fitzgerald, the celebrated novelist, and wife of F Scott Fitzgerald. This biopic, following her life during the glory of the Jazz Age (fuelled by booze, scandal and parties aplenty) takes her out of her husband's shadow.
Amazon Video
SkyRiviera
A sumptuous thriller - with The Night Manager vibes - set in the South of France. Bourne’s Julia Stiles stars as Georgina, who is newly wed to a billionaire when he is killed in a yacht accident. Following his death she discovers that the fortune that funded their lavish lifestyle is tainted with crime, corruption and killings.
Sky Atlantic, air date TBC
NetflixA Series Of Unfortunate Events
While the film adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s delightfully miserable books for kids might have been a dud, we’ve got high hopes for the Netflix series, starring Neil Patrick Harris as the dastardly villain, Count Olaf. Doom and gloom, guaranteed.
Netflix
NBC/GettyEmerald City
Our obsession with The Wizard Of Oz has spawned countless adaptations and spin-offs - the latest is an edgier, alternative re-telling. Familiar faces include Joely Richardson as Glinda, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Lucas (the scarecrow), with newcomer Adria Arjona as Dorothy.
Channel 5
Stranger Things, S2
Is there anyone on the planet that didn’t get swept up in Stranger Thingsfever? (If so, perhaps they belong in the ‘upside down world’). The Duffy Brothers, who created the show, say that season two will be a sequel but not a 'direct continuation’ of season one, adding “there are definitely some dangling threads”. Here's everything we know about season two so far.
Netflix, 31 October
BBCDoctor Foster, S2
Suranne Jones was a marvel in the first season of this perfectly paced psychological drama, about a wife unravelling her husband’s affair. It had the entire nation gripped. Jones has said that season two is a continuation of the couple’s story but at a ‘very different time in the life’.
BBC One, air date TBC
SkySick Note
Love an outrageous comedy? Rupert Grint plays pathological liar, Daniel Glass, who is misdiganosed with cancer (his doctor is played by Nick Frost). When he finds out it was a mistake, he decides not to tell everyone he’s ok. Dark and brilliant.
Sky Atlantic, TBC
GettyGypsy
Naomi Watts is the latest A-lister to recognise the power of your own Netflix drama, starring in this psychological drama as a therapist who gets caught up in 'dangerous and intimate relationships' involving her patients.
Netflix, on now
AmazonAmerican Gods
For those not familiar with Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods, on which this series is based, it’s a grungy, epic, badass tale, which imagines the gods of old living amongst everyday humans in modern day America. Brit actor Ricky Whittle stars alongside Gillian Anderson, Deadwood’s Ian McShane and Emily Browning (Sucker Punch). Read our review of episode one.
Amazon Video, air date May 1
RexWatership Down
Why, BBC? Why?! It’s a classic, yes, but sheer bloody murder on the heartstrings and the tear ducts. If you’re a glutton for punishment, the BBC has a new animated adaptation in a four-part series, featuring the voices of Gemma Arterton, James McAvoy, John Boyega, Nicholas Hoult and Olivia Colman. Post-viewing therapy optional, or if you really like a good weep here's our best sad films to make to cry.
BBC One, air date TBC
FOXLegion
Downton star turned Hollywood beefcake, Dan Stevens, lands his own superhero show. An X-Men spin-off, he plays David Haller, a psychiatric patient who may really have psychic superpowers. Dan Stevens could not be hotter RN.
FOX
Hope for Haiti Now / PA PhotosFargo, S3
The blackly comic (not to mention, incredibly violent) anthology crime series returns for a third instalment, and this time Ewan McGregor takes the lead. Doubling up, he will play the two Stuffy Brothers: the successful family man, Emit, and his pot-bellied loser little bro, Ray, who blames Emit for his misfortunes.
Channel 4, air date TBC
AmazonSneaky Pete
Fond of a gritty crime drama? Giovanni Risini play a conman on the run from a vicious gangster (Bryan Cranston - who will forever and always be Walter White of Breaking Bad to us). To hide from his past he assumes the identity of Pete, his prison cellmate. “Reuniting” with Pete’s family, he’s dragged into their equally shady world.
Amazon Video
ITVPrime Suspect 1973
Helen Mirren’s DCI Jane Tennison was the original bad ass female cop in Prime Suspect. This prequel sees a young Jane (Stefanie Martini) starting out in the police force.
ITV, catch up now
