There's already a glut of hugely popular shows we already love returning in 2016.
Game Of Thrones, VEEP, Daredevil, The X-Files and loads more are due to return for their next seasons in the next twelve months.
However, we're taking a look at the brand new shows that are looking to get a slice of our precious and ever-dwindling free time.
11.22.63
James Franco plays a high-school teacher who discovers a time-portal that may allow him to go back in time and stop JFK from being assassinated. Based on the novel by Stephen King, J.J. Abrams is involved as producer, with director Kevin McDonald (The Last King Of Scotland, State Of Play) taking up the director's chair for some of the episodes.
BIG LITTLE LIES
Nicole Kidman, Reece Witherspoon and Laura Dern play three mothers who bond over their kids at kindergarten, but soon their relationship ends with murder. Director Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club, The Wild) is directing all seven of the new episodes, with the HBO show set to co-star Alexander Skarsgard, Adam Scott, James Tupper and Zoë Kravitz. Filming is set to begin this month, so the show won't be with us until quite late in the year.
BILLIONS
Looking to be the TV version of The Wolf Of Wall Street, Damian Lewis (Homeland) plays a hedge-funder who is getting investigated by Paul Giamatti. Written by a New York Times reporter, the first episode is currently floating around online, with the full show being aired starting from January 17th in the States.
COLONY
One of the creators of Lost is reteaming with one of the show's stars Josh Holloway to tell this story of alien invasion. The vibe is closer to the likes of District 9 or The Leftovers than a wham-bam action series, and it will premiere on USA from January 14th, the same network that brought us the best but least-seen show of 2015, Mr. Robot.
DIVORCE
While the idea of Sarah Jessica Parker heading back to HBO for a comedy series about a woman dealing with the aftermath of her (you guessed it) divorce will have them hiding under their beds expect another Sex & The City-style world domination, breath easy. The reason we're looking forward to this - aside from the killer supporting cast of Thomas Hayden Church, Molly Shannon, Robert Forster and Jermaine Clement - is that is was created by none other than our own Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe).
THE GET DOWN
Set in 1970's New York, we're being given the birth of disco and hip-hop scenes with Studio 54 and the World Trade Centre as their backdrop. The 13-episode Netflix series has yet to be given a proper release date, but the fact that the show is being written and directed by Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge) means its definitely in a pair of safe hands.
IDIOTSITTER
Jillian Bell has played second-fiddle in pretty much all of her projects to date (22 Jump Street, Workaholics, The Night Before, Eastbound & Down), but her she finally gets to be front-and-center, playing a maniac ex-con whose father hires a grown-up babysitter to keep an eye on. Premieres on Comedy Central in the U.S. on Jan 14th, and it shouldn't be too long before we get it here.
LUKE CAGE
Following on from Jessica Jones and Daredevil, the next Marvel/Netflix show will focus on Luke Cage. We've been introduced to the unbreakable superhero during our times spent with Ms Jones, the show will catch us up on everything that happened to him prior to meeting his new partner in fighting crime. No word yet on an exact release date.
THE NIGHT MANAGER
Adapted from the John Le Carre novel (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, A Most Wanted Man), this six-part mini-series tells the story of a former soldier/hotel concierge (Tom Hiddleston) who is recruited by the British intelligence service in order to bring down an arms smuggler. Hugh Laurie, Elizabeth Debicki, Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander co-star, and its expected to arrive on BBC before Summer.
THE PATH
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Michelle Monaghan (True Detective) are the parents in a family caught up in the web of a new cult, heading by Hugh Dancy (Hannibal). Due to arrive on U.S. streaming service Hulu from March 30th, it comes from the creators of Friday Night Lights.
PREACHER
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (This Is The End) are back tackling a thorny subject, having directed and co-written the pilot for this series with one of the lead writers for Breaking Bad. Dominic Cooper plays the titular priest from the much-acclaimed graphic novel, who heads off an a road trip with his ex-girlfriend (Ruth Negga) and an Irish vampire (Joe Gilgun) to find God, who has apparently gone AWOL. Expect controversy when the show arrives this summer.
TABOO
This eight episode mini-series sees Tom Hardy reunite with his director of Locke (who also wrote and/or directed Eastern Promises and Peaky Blinders). This time he plays an adventure in 1813, who returns back home to Britian to avenge the death of his father. Due to hit BBC late Autumn/early Winter.
VINYL
The story of a record label trying to save his business and his own life during the the prime-time of the 1970's rock'n'roll scene has the best of the best involved. Exec-produced by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, Wolf Of Wall Street), with Scorsese directing the two-hour pilot and visionary Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go) also directing an episode, expect big things from this one when it debuts on Feb 14th.
WESTWORLD
Based on a novel by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Disclosure) this has J.J. Abrams (Star Trek: The Force Awakens) on as a producer and Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight, Interstellar) on as a writer. Then we've got the hugely impressive cast - Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Rodrigo Santoro, Ben Barnes, Clifton Collins Jr, Ed Harris - involved in an interactive wild west theme park that goes off the rails. Expect it to arrive just as Game Of Thrones Season 6 comes to an end this summer.
