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True TV: Best new shows of 2025
Pluribus, The Studio, The Lowdown, It: Welcome to Derry, The Chair Company, I Love LA and more of the year’s best.
Let’get this out of the way right now: NBC’s Suits LA and Netflix’s Celebrity Bear Hunt were 2025’s worst new TV offerings, hands down. Suits LA arrived almost two years after the streaming resurgence of the already meh 2011–2019 series Suits , and Celebrity Bear Hunt featured no actual bears and zero mauled celebrities.
Maybe Trump’s new real-life Hunger Games series will right this wrong in 2026. But before we leave 2025 behind, I’ve assembled my picks for the best new TV shows that premiered during the past year.
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