Spring TV Preview 2024: The 21 Best Shows Coming Your Way

The Regime (March 3, HBO)

The creators of Succession bring you Kate Winslet as the leader of a crumbling Central European autocracy menaced by an opposition leader (Hugh Grant, 63), with Martha Plimpton, 53, as the U.S. secretary of state trying to make everything work out to America’s benefit.

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Animal Control (March 6, Fox)

Joel McHale, 52, returns for a second season as an irascible, fired ex-cop who becomes a Seattle Animal Control officer — a good career move, since he gets along with critters better than people. Fans are eager to see his Community costar Ken Jeong, 54, join the cast as Lee Park, a respectable, “moderately unhinged” dog whisperer.

Grey’s Anatomy, Season 20 (March 14, ABC)

In the 20th season of the steamy hospital drama, we’ll see the aftermath of multiple cliff-hangers featuring two crucial smooches and two near-death experiences, by a patient (Sam Page) and his surgeon (Kim Raver, 54). The titular Dr. Grey (Ellen Pompeo, 54), won’t be a regular anymore, but she’ll do voice-overs and maybe even appear on screen. “It’s not a complete goodbye,” Pompeo says.

9-1-1 (March 14, ABC)

Fox canceled this action procedural, its number 1 hit, so ABC scooped it up. In Season 7, LAPD first responder Athena Grant (Angela Bassett, 65) and fire Capt. Bobby Nash (Six Feet Under’s Peter Krause, 58) take a secret honeymoon cruise — and there’s an explosion on a cruise ship. Are they toast?

Apples Never Fall (March 14, Peacock)

In a twist-filled mystery based on the book by the author of Big Little Lies, Annette Bening, 65, and Sam Neill, 76, play an all-American family whose scary secrets erupt.

Manhunt (March 15, Apple TV+)

In what sounds like the ultimate American true-crime miniseries — if a bit fictionalized — Game of Thrones’ Tobias Menzies, 49, is Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war, and Lili Taylor, 57, is Mrs. Lincoln, both driven to the brink of madness on the 12-day hunt for the president’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle). Two-fisted detective Lafayette Baker (Patton Oswalt, 55), who shared in the $100,000 reward for nabbing Booth before he could get a hero’s welcome in the South, is on the case.

Nolly (March 17, PBS)

Helena Bonham Carter, 57 (The Crown, Harry Potter) plays the real-life 1960s-’70s Brit celebrity Noele “Nolly” Gordon, who refused to play by the industry’s anti-woman rules and got sacked from her hit TV show. Created by Doctor Who auteur Russell T. Davies, it got rave reviews in the U.K.