2020 is in full swing and you know what that means - there are plenty of good TV shows to watch. Knowing this, we have compiled a handy guide and schedule of premieres from the top 20 most anticipated TV series in 2020 according to Kinopoisk and IMDb.
Some of these series are sequels to current franchises, some are adaptations of famous novels, and some are dark horses but with famous “riders”.
Important: not all of these series still have trailers in Russian and even trailers in general. But we tried to find the ones for you that are.
20. Star Trek: Picard
Genre: fantasy, action, drama, adventure
Country: USA
Producer: Hanel M. Culpepper, Jonathan Frakes, Akiva Goldsman
Music: Jeff Russo
Episode duration: unknown
Release date: January 23
This series seems more directed towards older Star Trek fans, starring Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard, who has become one of the most beloved Star Trek characters of all time.
Even though the trailers tease us with a story very similar to Star Wars, in which Picard appears to take on the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi and become the mentor of a young warrior, the fate of the world will still depend on him.
19. Hi-Fi
Genre: comedy
Country: United Kingdom
Producer: Jeffrey Rayner, Natasha Lyonne, Jesse Peretz
Music: various compositions
Duration: unknown
Release date: The 14th of February
The series was inspired by the film of the same name (released in 2000), which itself is based on the novel by Briton Nick Hornby (1995).
Zoe Kravitz, who is also an executive producer, played Rob, a record store owner in a Brooklyn neighborhood. After breaking up with her loved one, Rob will revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, hoping to understand why her relationship continues to fail.
18. Trigger
Genre: drama
Country: Russia
Producer: Dmitry Tyurin
Music: Pavel Yesenin, Ryan Otter
Duration: 52 minutes
The exact date of the premiere is unknown, winter 2020
It seems that this will be “our answer to Sherlock Holmes”, since the main character Artem Streletsky (played by Maxim Matveyev), like the great detective in the BBC series, loves to offend people and push them out of the zone of psychological comfort. But he does this for a reason, but to reveal their deepest problems.
However, it seems that shock therapy methods don't always work as intended. After all, Artyom has his own skeleton in the closet: one of his patients committed suicide. Now the hero's task is to prove that his methods were not to blame.
17. Conspiracy against America
Genre: drama
Country: USA
Producer: Minky Spiro
Music: Hummy Mann
Duration: unknown
Release date: March 16
This adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Philip Roth explores what might have happened if Charles Lindbergh, a hero pilot and ardent supporter of isolationism, defeated Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 elections and turned America towards fascism.
The show stars John Turturro, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder and Zoe Kazan.
16. Developed
Genre: fantasy, thriller, drama
Country: USA
Producer: Alex Garland
Music: Geoff Barrow, The Insects, Ben Salisbury
Duration:unknown
The exact date of the premiere is unknown, spring 2020
Alex Garland has written scripts for the terrific sci-fi movies Out of the Car and Annihilation, and with The Developers has stepped into the world of TV shows.
This time, Garland decided to play the game of "determinism against free will" with the audience through the prism of future technologies and launch a mysterious operation called "Developed". And to unravel all this complex tangle of high technology, crime and technological conspiracies will be computer engineer Lily Chan from Amaya.
15. The Walking Dead: The World Beyond
Genre: horror, fantasy, drama
Country: USA
Producer: Jordan Vot-Roberts
Music: unknown
Duration: 60 minutes
Release date: April 12th
The World Beyond will take the post-apocalypse story a little further down the road. 10 years further, to be precise.
The events focus on the first generation of children who grew up in a world full of zombies. The teenagers will embark on a journey related to the disappearance of Rick Grimes.
14. Documentary. Ghost hunter
Genre: thriller, detective
Country: Russia
Producer: Ilya Kulikov, Nikita Grammatikov, Anya Mirokhina
Music: unknown
Duration: unknown
The exact date of the premiere is unknown, spring 2020
Another Russian project on the list of the most anticipated TV series of 2020 will tell about the fate of the young Russian director Zhenya Morozov, obsessed with the thirst for fame.
He decides to shoot plots about the supernatural, and performs an ancient ritual on himself, which clearly will not benefit his health.
Ilya Kulikov, who became famous for such hits as "Policeman from Rublyovka" and "Teachers", is responsible for the script of "Documentary".
13. Play back
Genre: drama
Country: USA
Producer: Suzanne Beer
Music: Victor Reyes
Duration: unknown
The exact date of the premiere is unknown, May 2020
Grace, a successful therapist from New York, had it all: a loving husband, a good son, a stable life. Ahead was the release of a book in which Grace advised women to trust their intuition and rely on their first impressions of men.
However, just before leaving, Grace's husband disappeared, and it turned out that he was suspected of a brutal murder. The main character has to figure out herself whether her first impression of this man was true.
12. Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Genre: fantasy, action, drama, adventure
Country: USA
Producer: Kari Skogland
Music: unknown
Duration: 60 minutes
The exact date of the premiere is unknown, fall-winter 2020
One of the most anticipated TV series of this year is preparing for us a meeting with the popular Marvel heroes - Falcon and Bucky. It is known that the action will unfold after the events of "Avengers: Endgame", and the villain, presumably, will be Baron Zemo.
11. Y. The Last Man
Genre: fiction, fantasy, action, drama
Country: USA
Producer: Melina Matsukas
Music: unknown
Duration:60 minutes
The exact date of the premiere is unknown
Is it good to be the last man in a post-apocalyptic world? Let the main character of the series, Yorick Brown, answer this question, who remained the only (not counting the Capuchin monkey Ampersand) surviving carrier of the Y chromosome on Earth. The rest of the men were destroyed overnight by a plague of unknown origin.
With Yorick's help, geneticists may be able to save humanity. Or not?
10. Lovecraft Country
Genre: horror, science fiction, fantasy
Country: USA
Producer: Daniel Sackheim, Ian Demange, Cheryl Dunay
Music: unknown
Duration: 60 minutes
The exact date of the premiere is unknown
If you put the word “Lovecraft” in the headline, it’s immediately clear that monsters and existential fear await us. Add to this the name of Jordan Peel ("Get Out", "We") and it becomes clear that it will be not only scary, but also very interesting.
In the center of the plot - Atticus Black, a young black veteran of the Korean War. In search of his father, he travels to New England, where he faces not only the horrors of racial segregation, but also real monsters.
9. Hunters
Genre: drama
Country: USA
Producer: Nelson McCormick, Wayne Yip, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Music: Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Duration: unknown
The exact date of the premiere is unknown
A group of senior German officials who fled after World War II dream of organizing the Fourth Reich in New York in the 70s. But a group of Hunters is following in their footsteps. I would like to say that it sounds like a bloody and hilarious alternate story from Amazon to replace The Man in the High Castle, but take a look at the trailer and you will realize that this is very serious.
The project involves such venerable stars as Al Pacino and Dylan Baker, as well as smaller stars such as Logan Lerman and Greg Austin.
8. Wanda / Vision
Genre: fiction, fantasy, action,
Country: USA
Producer: Matt Sheckman
Music: Christophe Beck
Duration: unknown
The exact date of the premiere is unknown
So far, very little is known about this series, except that it will appear in 2020 and has already become one of the most anticipated shows according to IMDb.
The story of Wanda and Vision will unfold after the final part of "The Avengers", while it will be connected with the upcoming Marvel project Doctor Strange: Into the Multiverse of Madness, where the Scarlet Witch will be present.
Starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany.
7. Monsters at work
Genre: cartoon, fantasy, comedy
Country: USA
Producer: Rob Gibbs, Keith Goode
Music: unknown
Duration: unknown
The exact date of the premiere is unknown
Ever wanted to know what Mike Wazowski and fuzzy Jaime Sullivan were up to after Monstropolis shifted from preying on childhood fear to childish laughter? Well, soon you will find out everything! After all, the Disney + channel will release a whole series about the new adventures of friends, kind on the inside and not very scary on the outside.
And a third hero will be added to them - Taylor Taskmon, who, judging by his appearance, will take the place of "tyzhinzhiner" in the legendary team.
6. Confrontation
Genre: horror, science fiction, fantasy
Country: USA
Producer: Josh Boone
Music: Snuffy Walden
Duration: unknown
The exact date of the premiere is unknown
And again, in the selection of the most interesting TV series of 2020, post-apocalypse awaits us. Due to the flu epidemic, 99% of the world's population is dead. And several main characters team up with an elderly African-American woman with the gift of clairvoyance. The old lady is played by Whoopi Goldberg.
And to confront the clairvoyant and her team, they picked up good rivals - a fascist with a messiah complex and a Man in Black, one of the main antagonists of the "Dark Tower".
Previously, there was an attempt to film King's "Confrontation"; in the 90s of the twentieth century, a mini-series of four episodes was released. But such a short format was clearly not enough to fully convey such a large-scale book with a large number of characters and storylines.
5. The legacy of Jupiter
Genre: fiction, fantasy, action
Country: USA
Producer: Charlotte Brandstrom, Mark Jobst, Chris Byrne
Music: unknown
Duration: unknown
The exact date of the premiere is unknown
Boys and girls, as well as their parents! Would you like to see a story about elderly superheroes? After all, the plot of The Legacy of Jupiter focuses on the world's first generation of superheroes who began defending the world back in the 1930s.
And while some in a large family are completely devoted to the cause of justice, others question the path chosen by their parents, or are even more concerned with worldly affairs than superhero.
4.Zuleikha opens her eyes
Genre: drama, melodrama
Country: Russia
Producer: Egor Anashkin
Music: unknown
Duration: unknown
The exact date of the premiere is unknown
Perhaps this particular series will be able to become one of the most popular domestic shows in 2020. In this film adaptation of the novel by the Tatar writer Guzel Yakhina, Chulpan Khamatova played the main role, and such famous actors as Sergei Makovetsky, Roman Madyanov, Alexander Bashirov and Yulia Peresild "assist" her.
The main character of Zuleikh is a Tatar woman exiled to Siberia in the 30s of the twentieth century. In the harsh taiga conditions, without food and warm clothing, a handful of exiles had to settle their way of life.
3. Underground railway
Genre: drama
Country: USA
Producer: Barry Jenkins
Music: unknown
Duration: unknown
The exact date of the premiere is unknown
The adaptation of the classic novel by Colson Whitehead is the next project from Moonlight director Barry Jenkins. He directs every episode of this movie show and takes a fictional approach to the historical event.
So, by the will of the director, the secret underground route by which American slaves in the 19th century fled to the northern states of the United States and Canada turned into a real railway. The main characters of the series, Cora and Caesar, travel along it, and an experienced bounty hunter Ridgway follows in their footsteps.
2. The Mandalorian, season 2
Genre: fantasy, action, adventure
Country: USA
Producer: Deborah Chow, Rick Famuyiva, Dave Filoni
Music: Ludwig Joransson
Duration: 30 minutes
The exact date of the premiere is unknown, approximately October 2020
Admit it, do you also miss baby Yoda and the brave mercenary who became the adoptive father of the eared adorable? Well good news folks! The sequel to the series that has bypassed the latest Star Wars trilogy in popularity will be, and pretty soon.
But what it will be about is unknown. Jon Favreau's "Pope" show added fuel to the raging fire of audience interest by accompanying the announcement of the sequel to "The Mandalorian" with a photo of a Gamorrean statue. Whether it will be associated with the second season or not - decide for yourself.
1. Boys, season 2
Genre: fiction, action, comedy, crime
Country: USA
Producer: Philip Sgrikchia, Daniel Etties, Eric Kripke
Music: Christopher Lennertz
Duration: 60 minutes
Release date: July 13, 2020
It's time to put the brazen and star-studded superheroes in their place. And who can do this job better than a detachment of simple "Boys" (even if some of them are bearded).
The second season will have 8 episodes and two new members - Goran Visnich and Claudia Dumit.
“What about the Witcher?” You ask. Yes, we haven't added this series to our list of the most anticipated in 2020, but only because it will be released on March 5, 2021.