We’ve been absolutely inundated with incredible new release announcements recently, and with titles such as Leave The World Behind, My Life With the Walter Boys and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget having hit Netflix just recently, we’re looking forward to what the streaming platform has to offer this year. From dramas and thrillers to flicks for the whole family, here’s what to look out for on Netflix in 2024.
1. Fool Me Once (Netflix Limited Series)
The New Year started with a bang as Harlan Coben’s Fool Me Once burst onto our screens, having been filmed in Manchester and Cheshire. The series follows Maya Stern (Michelle Keegan) who is trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of her husband, Joe (Richard Armitage), but when Maya installs a nanny-cam to keep an eye on her young daughter, she is shocked to see a man she recognises in her house. Her husband, who she thought was dead…
Detective Sergeant Sami Kierce (Adeel Akhtar) leads the homicide investigation into Joe’s death while grappling with secrets of his own. Meanwhile, Maya’s niece and nephew, Abby and Daniel, are trying to find the truth about their mother’s murder, several months earlier. Are the two cases connected? Fool Me Once follows these characters on a thrilling hunt for the truth that will reveal shocking secrets and change their lives forever. Joanna Lumley is Judith Burkett, Joe’s protective mother, and will likely boil your blood like she did ours.
📺 Out now on Netflix
2. Griselda (Netflix Limited Series)
GRISELDA is inspired by the life of the savvy and ambitious Griselda Blanco, who created one of the most profitable cartels in history. In 1970s-80s Miami, Blanco’s lethal blend of unsuspected savagery and charm helped her expertly navigate between business and family, leading her to become widely known as “the Godmother.” The series is created by NARCOS and NARCOS: MEXICO showrunner Eric Newman, who comes to the title alongside NARCOS director Andrés Baiz, so you know it’s gonna be good, and it’s set to include six one-hour episodes, so you can really get your teeth stuck into this one.
📺 Out on Netflix January 25
3. The Gentlemen (Netflix Series)
In a return from original The Gentlemen film director Guy Ritchie, The Gentlemen Netflix series will explore the gangster world of modern London. The series follows Eddie Horniman (Theo James), who has inherited his father’s sizeable estate only to discover it’s sitting on top of a weed empire, one that a host of unsavoury characters from Britain’s criminal underworld want a piece of. Determined to extricate his family from their clutches, Eddie has to transform from a straight-up soldier to a straight-up beast and play the gangsters at their own game. And boy, does he know how to play… Prepare yourself for a whole host of familiar faces and, of course, that classic Guy Ritchie action.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
4. One Day (Netflix Series)
One Day is a decades-spanning love story, based on the worldwide bestseller by David Nicholls, telling the story of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew who, on July 15, 1988, the night of their graduation, speak for the very first time. The next morning, they go their separate ways but where will they be on this one ordinary day the next year, and the year after that, and every year that follows?
Each episode finds Dex and Em, one year older, on this one particular date, as they grow and change, move together and apart, and experience joy and heartbreak. You might remember the 2011 film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, and, yes, you’re bound to be heartbroken all over again.
📺 Out on Netflix February 8
5. Good Grief (Netflix Film)
Marc (Dan Levy) was content living in the shadow of his larger-than-life husband, Oliver (Luke Evans). But when Oliver unexpectedly dies, Marc’s world shatters, sending him and his two best friends, Sophie (Ruth Negga) and Thomas (Himesh Patel), on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some hard truths they each need to face. Good Grief marks Levy’s debut as a feature film writer and director. He also produced the film as part of Not a Real Production Company, alongside Sister Pictures.
📺 Out now on Netflix
6. Fertility Fraudster (Netflix Documentary Series)
This documentary series uncovers the gripping tale of a charming Dutch scammer, Jonathan Meijer, who is accused of travelling the world deceiving mothers into having his babies on a mass scale. The three-part series investigates the murky world of the fertility industry and uncovers how due to a lack of global regulations, some international fertility clinics continue to allow anonymous donations.
With exclusive access to a group of passionate and aggrieved mothers, this series unravels the twisting and turning story of this Dutch YouTuber who defrauded mothers from all around the world, and how those mothers are now on a mission to push for a change in the law to prevent him deceiving more.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
7. Fatherhood With My Father (Netflix Unscripted Series)
This four-part series will see Jack Whitehall embark on one of life’s great journeys as he becomes a father for the first time. Fatherhood With My Father will reunite Jack with his father Michael on a path of discovery and adventure as they try to crack the answers to parenthood’s endless questions. In their own inimitable and hilarious way, Jack and Michael will travel the world, examining what fatherhood means across the globe, discussing the Dad that Michael is and the one that Jack wants to be.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
8. Love Is Blind UK (Netflix Unscripted Series)
Netflix is in production on an adaptation of the hit series Love Is Blind, where singletons in the UK who want to be loved for who they are, rather than what they look like, will sign up for a less conventional approach to modern dating. Love Is Blind: UK will see singles talk to a host of potential love interests without the distractions from the outside world, with the hope of building a meaningful connection.
Once Cupid’s work is done, they will propose to their chosen partner and then lay their eyes on their fiancée for the first time. Engaged and back in the real world, as the couples plan their wedding day, they will attempt to add a physical connection to their emotional bond. When their much-awaited wedding day arrives, will they discover that love is indeed blind? Or will the realities of everyday life and external factors have sabotaged them? Matt and Emma Willis will guide the hopeful singles on their path to finding true love.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
9. 3 Body Problem (Netflix Series)
A young woman’s fateful decision in 1960s China reverberates across space and time to a group of brilliant scientists in the present day. As the laws of nature unravel before their eyes, five former colleagues reunite to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history. From the makers of Game of Thrones, the series will include on-screen talent from the likes of Benedict Wong, Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, The Crown); Rosalind Chao (Better Things, The Laundromat, Mulan); Ben Schnetzer (Y: The Last Man); and Eve Ridley (Peppa Pig, Casualty).
📺 Out on Netflix March 21
10. The Kitchen (Netflix Film)
Written, produced and directed by star British actor Daniel Kaluuya, The Kitchen is set in a dystopian 2044 London where the gap between rich and poor has been stretched to its limits. All forms of social housing have been eradicated and London’s working classes have been forced to live in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city. We follow an estranged father and son who come together to build a relationship as they battle to survive in a system that is stacked against them.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
11. Eric (Netflix Limited Series)
Set in 1980s New York, Eric is a new emotional thriller from Abi Morgan following the desperate search of a father when his nine-year-old son disappears one morning on the way to school. Vincent, one of New York’s leading puppeteers and creator of the hugely popular children’s television show, ‘Good Day Sunshine,’ struggles to cope with the loss of his son, Edgar, becoming increasingly distressed and volatile.
Full of self-loathing and guilt around Edgar’s disappearance, he clings to his son’s drawings of a blue monster puppet, ERIC, convinced that if he can get ERIC on TV then Edgar will come home. As Vincent’s progressively destructive behaviour alienates his family, his work colleagues, and the detectives trying to help him, it’s Eric, a delusion of necessity, who becomes his only ally in the pursuit to bring his son home.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
12. The Brothers Sun (Netflix Series)
An irreverent action series that follows two brothers who fight to save their family from warring Triad factions in Los Angeles. When the head of a powerful Taiwanese triad is shot by a mysterious assassin, his eldest son, legendary killer Charles “Chairleg” Sun (Justin Chien) heads to Los Angeles to protect his mother, Eileen (Michelle Yeoh), and his naive younger brother, Bruce (Sam Song Li) — who’s been completely sheltered from the truth of his family until now.
But as Taipei’s deadliest societies and a new rising faction go head-to-head for dominance, Charles, Bruce and their mother must heal the wounds caused by their separation and figure out what brotherhood and family truly mean before one of their countless enemies kills them all. An action-packed comedy and family drama, consisting of eight 30-minute episodes.
📺 Out now on Netflix
14. Bodkin (Netflix Series)
BODKIN is a darkly comedic thriller about a motley crew of podcasters who set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three strangers in an idyllic, coastal Irish town. But once they start pulling at threads, they discover a story much bigger and weirder than they could have ever imagined. As our heroes try to discern fact from fiction — about the case, about their colleagues, and, most painfully, themselves — the series challenges our perception of truth and exposes the stories we tell ourselves to justify our beliefs or validate our fears. BODKIN was filmed in Ireland and from Higher Ground Productions (Barack and Michelle Obama) independent studio, wiip.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
15. Ripley (Netflix Limited Series)
Starring Andrew Scott, Johnny Flynn and Dakota Fanning, Ripley follows Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, as he is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder. The limited series drama is based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling Tom Ripley novels.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
16. The Beautiful Game (Netflix Film)
Written by iconic author Frank Cottrell Boyce, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME follows a team of English homeless footballers, led by their coach Mal (Bill Nighy), who travel from London to Rome to compete in a global annual football tournament – The Homeless World Cup. At the last minute, they decide to bring with them a talented striker Vinny (Micheal Ward), but he must confront his own issues and once-promising past, in order to help the team win the cup and move on with his own life. In Rome just as in life, everything’s to play for.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
17. The Diplomat S2 (Netflix Series)
In the midst of an international crisis, a career diplomat lands a high-profile job she’s unsuited for, with tectonic implications for her marriage and her political future. In season one, Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) was the new US Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Kate has to diffuse international crises, forge strategic alliances in London, and adjust to her new place in the spotlight — all while trying to survive her marriage to fellow career diplomat and political star Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell).
She’s great in a crisis zone. In a historic home… less so. War is brewing on one continent and boiling over on another. The Diplomat is a high-stakes, contemporary political drama about the transcendence and torture of long-term relationships, between countries and people.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
18. The Night Agent S2 (Netflix Series)
Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent is an action-thriller centring on a low-level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings – until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast-moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office. Season two is currently filming in New York, and will hopefully be released later this year.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
19. SCOOP (Netflix Film)
The inside track of the women that broke through the Buckingham Palace establishment to secure the scoop of the decade, leading to the catastrophic fall from grace of The Queen’s ‘Favourite son’. From navigating Palace vetoes to penetrating Prince Andrew’s inner circle, from the high-stakes negotiations and rehearsal – to the jaw-dropping interview itself.
SCOOP is the insider account of the inner workings of the Palace and the BBC, twin bastions of the British Establishment, spotlighting the journalists whose tenacity and guts broke through the highest of ceilings – and into the inner sanctum and calculations of a man with everything to lose. SCOOP stars Gillian Anderson, Keeley Hawes, Billie Piper and Rufus Sewell.
📺 Out on Netflix March 21
20. Six Nations: Full Contact (Netflix Documentary Series)
One for the sports fans, Six Nations and producers of Formula 1: Drive to Survive are planning to get fans closer than ever to this year’s Guinness Six Nations Championship. The series will take us inside the exhilarating world of the oldest and greatest annual international rugby tournament, giving fans an insight into pulsating behind-the-scenes moments, as the best teams in Europe battle it out in some of the biggest matches in the rugby calendar to take home the prestigious trophy. As the pressure and intensity build, who will claim one of the sport’s biggest prizes?
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
21. Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix Series)
A live-action reimagining of the beloved animated series follows Aang, the young Avatar, as he learns to master the four elements (Water, Earth, Fire, Air) to restore balance to a world threatened by the terrifying Fire Nation. With a crew that worked on the likes of Sleepy Hollow and Stranger Things, we’re looking forward to getting stuck into this one.
📺 Out on Netflix February 22
22. Emily in Paris S4 (Netflix Series)
One year after moving from Chicago to Paris for her dream job, Emily finds herself at a crucial crossroads in every aspect of her life. Faced with two very different paths, Emily will have to decide exactly where her loyalties lie — at work and in her romantic life — and what those decisions mean for her future in France, all while continuing to immerse herself in the adventures and surprising twists and turns that life in Paris provides.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
23. Einstein and the Bomb (Netflix Film)
In the wake of the success of Oppenheimer, Einstein and The Bomb is a feature documentary which explores Albert Einstein’s complex relationship with Hitler, Germany, the atom bomb and its devastating aftermath in Japan. With a mix of archive and dramatisations, the film will explore key points in Einstein’s life, and how his work changed the course of history forever. Everything Einstein says in the film is taken from words he said or wrote in his life, bringing us close to the greatest mind of the 20th century as he faces the greatest evil the world has ever known.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
24. Heartstopper S3 (Netflix Series)
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. When gentle Charlie and rugby-loving Nick meet at secondary school, they quickly discover that their unlikely friendship is blossoming into an unexpected romance. Charlie, Nick and their circle of friends must navigate the ever-relatable journey of self-discovery and acceptance, supporting each other as they learn to find their most authentic selves. The much-loved Heartstopper will be back in 2024 for season three.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed
25. Toxic Town (Netflix Series)
Based on one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals, Toxic Town is the story of the people at the heart of the Corby poisonings. Focusing on the mothers, who took on a David and Goliath battle for justice, the series traces through the years of their fight as a terrible truth comes to the surface. Starring Jodie Whittaker and Robert Carlyle, part of Toxic Town was one of many productions filmed in Bolton last year, so we can’t wait to get stuck in and see what we recognise.
📺 2024 Netflix release date to be confirmed