Netflix 2025 release schedule: Big-name new and returning series abound

Tina Fey, Guillermo del Toro, John Mulaney, and CM Punk were just a few of the stars on hand Wednesday night to promote the seemingly endless supply of new programming coming to Netflix in 2025. With multiple offerings across the wide spectrum of film, series (both scripted and unscripted), documentary, and live productions, the streamer seems intent on offering something for every viewer out there. Many fan-favorite programs are scheduled to launch new seasons throughout the year.

Here is a sampling of the popular series that will be furthering their stories in 2025, along with new programs that will launch. Drop dates have been announced for some, but most remain unknown at this point.  

Squid Game airs its third and final season on June 27. The South Korean thriller has been one of the most popular programs in streaming history and is expected to pick up on the heels of the high drama that ended season 2.

Netflix's 2025 slate of releases is extremely exciting

Jenna Ortega returns as Wednesday Addams in Wednesday. It will be the second season of the black comedy about a rebellious girl’s attempts to navigate Nevermore Academy. No release date has been announced.

The Duffer Brothers conclude Stranger Things with the fifth season of the sci-fi suspense series. One final chance to understand the Upside Down. A drop date has yet to be announced.

The hit comedy Nobody Wants This gets a second season to explore the mismatched romantic couple Joanne – a podcaster with few filters, and Noah – a cool young rabbi.

Other returning programs include the mother-daughter dramedy Ginny & Georgia (June 5), Ryan Murphy’s true-crime anthology Monsters, and the Lily Collins romantic comedy Emily in Paris, which is entering its fifth season.

The UK’s Black Mirror is back for its seventh installment, and sneak peeks promise a sequel of sorts to season 4’s “USS Callister” episode.  Vince Staples gets a second season of his innovative, satiric, pseudo-autobiographical The Vince Staples Show. Melanie Halsall’s adaptation of Ali Novak’s My Life With the Walter Boys also returns for a second season of heart-warming chaos.

There will also be plenty of brand-new series to check out in 2025, highlighted by Death by Lightning. The historical drama depicts the assassination of President James Garfield and is executive produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creative team behind the television adaptation of Game of Thrones. It boasts an all-star cast headed by Michael Shannon as Garfield.

Robert DeNiro stars in the political thriller Zero Day, dropping on February 20. Jude Law and Jason Bateman play brothers in Black Rabbit, a drama by acclaimed screenwriter Zach Baylin. And Claire Danes teams up with Matthew Rhys for the mystery thriller The Beast in Me from former X-Files producer Gabe Rotter.

Netflix also announced a collection of unscripted programming, both returning and new shows. The streamer will be picking up the long-running reality show Temptation Island (March 12) for a ninth season. A brand-new experiment in creating a successful musical group premieres when Nicole Scherzinger, Liam Payne, and Kelly Rowland help guide total strangers in Building the Band. And Peter Serafinowicz hosts the cutthroat competition series Million Dollar Secret.

Documentary series are represented by American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden, a third installment in the series (March 10), the Spike Lee executive-produced Katrina: Come Hell or High Water (August), and Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, which follows a 13-year investigation which eventually resulted in the capture of the suspect in 2023.

Finally, there will be more live series, which have already kicked off with the premiere of WWE Raw earlier this year. Comedian John Mulaney builds on the success of his Emmy-winning live comedy show John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA with a new weekly series Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, arriving on March 12.

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