• The serial year 2023 will be placed under the sign of science fiction.

  • As usual, there are a good number of prequels, sequels and other reboots or adaptations of well-known franchises.

  • Here are the 23 most anticipated TV dramas of 2023

After a year 2022 under the sign of heroic fantasy (

House of the Dragon

,

The Rings of Power

,

The Sandman

and

Willow

), it's time for science fiction in 2023 with the long-awaited

The Last Of Us

, the series inspired by the “Alien” franchise, the Marvel

Secret Invasion production or even the

Dune, the Sisterhood

adaptation

.

Here are the 23 most anticipated series of 2023.

1. “The Last Of Us” (HBO Max)

A series eagerly awaited by fans of the video game franchise!

The Last Of Us

follows pandemic survivors Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) in a post-apocalyptic world.

A fiction written and produced by Craig Mazin (

Chernobyl

) and Neil Druckmann, the game's creative director.

2. “Alien” (FX and Disney+)

The first serial adaptation of the

Alien

franchise  !

This project, created by Noah Hawley (

Fargo, Legion

) and produced by Ridley Scott, will take place on Earth, in the future.

It will not revolve around Ellen Ripley but around this central question in SF: does Humanity deserve to survive?

3. “Dune, the Sisterhood” (HBO Max)

Adaptation of the novel

The Community of Sisters

, written by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert (the son of Frank Herbert),

Dune, the Sisterhood

is part of the literary sub-cycle "Dune, the origins" and will return to the genesis of Bene Gesserit, the sorority of Paul Atreides' mother.

The series will take place around 10,000 years before the events of Denis Villeneuve's film.

4. “Fallout” (Amazon Prime Video)

Two years ago, Amazon announced its collaboration with Bethesda Game Studio for a series inspired by the cult video game license

Fallout

.

At the helm on the production side, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Jo, the producers of

Westworld,

have developed an original story never before seen in games... In the casting, Walton Goggins will play opposite Kyle MacLachlan and Ella Purnell.

5. “Ahsoka” (Disney+)

A new “Star Wars” series in addition to

The Mandalorian

season 3 , due March 1.

Ahsoka

, created by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, follows ex-Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) in the aftermath of the Empire's fall, as she investigates a latent threat that could upset the balance of a still fragile galaxy.

6. “Greek Salad” (Amazon Prime Video)

Twenty years after

The Spanish Inn

,

Salade Grecque

by Cédric Klapisch follows Wendy and Xavier's children, Tom and Mia (Aliocha Schneider and Megan Northam) as they inherit a building in Athens and create a new Spanish Inn.

Romain Duris, Cécile de France, Kevin Bishop, Kelly Reilly and Barnaby Metschurat will take over the roles of Xavier, Isabelle, William, Wendy and Tobias respectively.

7. “Secret Invasion” (Disney+)

A new Marvel series halfway between espionage and vintage SF!

In

Secret Invasion

, the Skrulls, shape-shifting aliens, have been secretly infiltrating Earth for years.

One of them, Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), nevertheless joins forces with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to fight against these creatures.

The opportunity to discover newcomers to the MCU like Agent Sonya Falsworth (Olivia Colman) or a Skrull named G'iah (Emilia Clarke,

Game of Thrones

).

8. "That '90s Show" (Netflix)

A spin-off of the sitcom

That '70s Show

 !

That '90s Show

follows Eric and Donna's (Topher Grace and Laura Prepon) daughter Leia Forman (Callie Haverda) as she spends the summer of 1995 with her grandparents Kitty (Debra Jo Rupp) and Red (Kurtwood Smith) in Point Place and befriends his neighbor, the rebellious Gwen, his adorable brother Nate, his smart girlfriend Nikki, the sarcastic Ozzie and the seductive Jay.

Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Wilmer Valderrama will appear in this sequel, created and produced by the original team.

9. “Agatha: Coven of Chaos” (Disney+)

A spin-off of the

WandaVision

miniseries centered on the character of Agatha Harkness!

In

Agatha: Coven of Chaos

(formerly titled

House of Harkness

), created by Jac Schaeffer, Kathryn Hahn reprises the role of the witch who revealed Wanda's true potential as a Scarlet Witch.

10. “Queen Charlotte” (Netflix)

A prequel to Shonda Rhimes' hit series

The Bridgerton Chronicle

.

As its name suggests,

Queen Charlotte

will follow the rise of the young Queen Charlotte (who will be played by India Amarteifio, whose resemblance to Golda Rosheuvel is quite disconcerting).

Unlike the original series,

Queen Charlotte

develops a new narrative arc that was not written by Julia Quinn, the author of the initial literary saga.

11. “Velma” (HBO Max)

This is one of the most anticipated anime series of the year!

Velma

tells the backstory of Velma Dinkley, the mastermind of Scooby-Doo's Mystery & Co.

Velma, voiced by Mindy Kaling, will team up with Daphne (Constance Wu), Shaggy (Sam Richardson) and Fred (Glenn Howerton) to solve a murder at their high school.

Mindy Kaling, also executive producer of the series, indicated that the main character will be of South Asian origin and will explore her sexual preferences.

12. “Wolf Pack” (Paramount+)

Attention Buffy

fans

 !

Sarah Michelle Gellar returns to the world of the supernatural, but not to fight vampires… Based on the book series by Edo Van Belko and written and produced by Jeff Davis (

Teen Wolf

), Wolf Pack follows a gang of four teenagers, who are bitten by a werewolf during a California wildfire.

13. Shrinking (Apple TV+)

In the comedy he wrote,

Shrinking

, Jason Segel (

How I Met Your Mother

) plays a Jimmy Johns, a grieving therapist, who begins telling his clients exactly what he's thinking, despite the lack of ethics .

He shares his practice with Gaby (Jessica Williams) and Dr. Phil Rhodes (Harrison Ford), a therapist specializing in cognitive-behavioral therapy, suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Jimmy Johns' new method will change their lives and those of patients.

14. Freeridge (Netflix)

A spin-off of On

My Block

 !

The coming-of-age comedy

Freeridge

follows a new group of four friends - siblings Gloria (Keyla Monterroso Mejia) and Ines (Bryana Salaz) and their friends Demi et (Ciara Riley Wilson) and Cameron (Tenzing Norgay Trainor) - and their adventures in the Freeridge district of Los Angeles.

Some cast members of On My Block will make appearances over the eight expected episodes.

15. “The Three-Body Problem” (Netflix)

The series adaptation of Chinese author Liu Cixin

's sci-fi literary trilogy

The Three-Body Problem .

This series is expected because it signs the return of the showrunners of

Game of Thrones

, David Bienoff and DB Weiss.

The Three-Body Problem

follows Ye Wenjie, an astrophysicist who participates in a research program aimed at making contact with potential extraterrestrial civilizations.

16. “The Continental” (Amazon Prime Video)

The John Wick saga continues as a series called

The Continental

.

The latter will follow a young Winston Scott (Colin Woodell) in the slums of 1970s New York, where he will face the demons of his past while trying to take control of the iconic hotel - a hotel that serves as a point of meet the world's most dangerous criminals.

17. “BRI” (Canal+)

The heiress of

Gears

 ?

At the

BRI

(research and intervention brigade) of Versailles, a historical unit specializing in organized crime, Saïd succeeds Patrick, charismatic and respected leader, and takes the lead of a team made up of young elite cops as reckless that effective.

He will have to find his place within his group while preventing a gang war from breaking out between the family of Eric, head of a Parisian underworld clan who collaborated for twenty years with Patrick, and that of the El Hassani brothers.

18. "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" (Paramount +)

Paramount+ takes a serious look at its heritage.

After

The Offer

, a behind-the-scenes miniseries of The

Godfather

,

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies

serves as a prequel to the acclaimed musical

Grease

.

The action takes place in 1954, four years before the events of the film worn by Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, Rydell High School was then not yet run by the T-Birds, but by a band of four independent women and rebels, the Pink Ladies…

19. “The Penguin” (HBO Max)

In the eight episodes of

The Penguin

, Colin Farrell takes over from Oswald Cobblepot, alias the Penguin, a role he camped in the film

The Batman

by Matt Reeves.

The story of

The Penguin

picks up just after the events of the feature film and follows the adventures of this gangster in the middle of the crime of Gotham.

20. “Mrs.

Davis” (Peacock)

Take two titans of television whose universes are a priori very distant like Damon Lindelof (

Lost, The Leftovers, Watchme

n) and Tara Hernandez (

The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon

), combine them to create a series.

You'll get "an absurd and epic tale of an unconventional heroine," namely a nun, Simone (Betty Giplin) who comes up against an all-powerful AI known as

Mrs Davis.

21. “Dear Edward” (Apple TV+)

The creator of the cult

Friday Night Lights

, Jason Katims, finally finds Connie Britton, the interpreter of Tami Taylor.

Adapted from

Ann Napolitano 's

Don't Forget to Live ,

Dear Edward

is a story of survival, resilience and humanity, which tells the story of Edward Adlet (played by Colin O'Brien), a boy from 12 years old who survives the terrible crash of a plane which cost the life of all the passengers, including his own family.

22. “White House Plumbers” (HBO Max)

New year, new series on Watergate!

After the excellent

Gaslit

on Lionsgate+,

White House Plumbers

features Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, respectively, two men who accidentally destroyed Nixon's presidency while working in his team.

Lena Headey, Judy Greer, Domhnall Gleeson, Toby Huss, Ike Barinholtz and Kathleen Turner round out the cast.

23. “Daisy Jones & The Six” (Amazon Prime Video)

Based on the novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid,

Daisy Jones & The Six

chronicles the rise and fall of a fictional 1970s rock band fronted by two charismatic singers, Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin ).

The implosion of an emblematic group at the height of its glory.

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