23 of the Best Shows Coming to Sling TV in 2023
Between outstanding final seasons of shows like Atlanta and Better Call Saul, intriguing new series like Ann Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, and ongoing dramas like Yellowstone, 2022 was a very good year for TV. 2023 could be even better.
From new seasons of short-lived but cultishly-loved shows to spin-offs of old favorites to fresh episodes of past award-winners, there is plenty to get excited for as the calendar rolls over to the new year. Check out our list of 23 of the most-anticipated shows of 2023 below. To watch the most new content on Sling TV, use the link at the bottom of this page and sign up for Sling Orange + Blue and add extras like SHOWTIME and Starz.
NOTE: All dates and titles are based on the latest information and are subject to change.
Winter/ Spring Premieres
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Ann Rice's Mayfair Witches - AMC (Jan. 8 at 9pm ET)
As mentioned above, Interview With the Vampire – AMC’s first foray into the novels of gothic horror legend Ann Rice – was one of the best new shows of the year. We’ll see if they can keep that momentum aloft with Mayfair Witches, which is based on Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. Starring Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin, and Jack Huston, the show is about “an intuitive young neurosurgeon, Rowan Fielding (Daddario), who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.” In addition to its premiere on AMC, Ann Rice's Mayfair Witches will debut across all of AMC’s linear networks (BBC AMERICA, IFC, SundanceTV and WEtv).
Your Honor - SHOWTIME (Jan. 13)
Season 1 of the SHOWTIME crime drama Your Honor was powerful, well-made, and featured Bryan Cranston doing what he does best: trying mightily to hold it together while navigating a series of impossible, escalating choices. Although the first season seemed to wrap up the story of a New Orleans judge (Cranston) who attempts to cover up his son’s deadly hit-and-run, Your Honor is returning for a second season with several new cast members (including Rosie Perez and Cranston’s former Breaking Bad costar Mark Margolis), as well as a new showrunner, Joey Hartstone.
Godfather of Harlem - MGM+ (Jan. 15)
Epix is rebranding to MGM+ in 2023, but fans of the channel’s signature drama Godfather of Harlem can still get their fix. Based on the true story of crime kingpin Bumpy Johnson (Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker), the series’ backdrop of the 1960’s civil rights movement adds a fascinating dimension to its story. In addition to Whitaker (who is riveting in the title role), the cast for season 3 also includes Vincent D’Onofrio, Ilfenesh Hadera, Lucy Fry, Whoopi Goldberg, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, and Giancarlo Esposito.
Murph the Surf - MGM+ (Jan. 15)
This new four-part true crime docuseries premieres alongside the new season of Godfather of Harlem on MGM+ (Sling subscribers will have a free preview of MGM+ that weekend). Officially titled Murf the Surf: Jewels, Jesus, and Mayhem in the USA, the series focuses on Jack Roland Murphy, one of the most infamous jewel thieves in American history. Featuring exclusive interviews conducted before Murphy’s death in 2020, “the series will address the blurred line between fact and fiction, faith and delusion, sanity and madness - raising the timely question of who and how we believe.”
Miracle Workers - TBS (Jan. 16 at 10pm ET)
If you saw him in the title role of the recent Weird Al biopic you know that Daniel Radcliffe is a genuinely gifted comedic performer. For more evidence, check out the first three seasons of his underappreciated anthology series Miracle Workers. Featuring a recurring stable of actors that also includes Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, and Jon Bass, past seasons have been set in the dark ages and along the Oregon Trail. The newest season takes place in a dystopian future, but based on its trailer, the show’s punny, parachronistic style of humor appears to have survived the time jump.
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The Lazarus Project - TNT (Jan. 23 at 9pm ET)
TNT is bringing this eight-episode British sci-fi drama to American audiences in January and its premise sounds intriguing. According to the show’s official site, “The Lazarus Project [is] a secret organization that has harnessed the ability to turn back time whenever the world is at the threat of extinction.” However, after joining the organization, new recruit George (Paapa Essiedu) must choose to “stay loyal or go rogue” when someone he’s close to is harmed. A second season is already in production.
Snowfall - FX (Feb. 22 at 10pm ET)
FX’s acclaimed crime drama returns for its sixth and final season in February. Tracking the rise of crack cocaine in south central Los Angeles in the ‘80s, the new season finds a desperate Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) turning against his family following the betrayal of former CIA officer Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson). If Franklin is to survive, he’ll need to maneuver around “the KGB, the DEA and the CIA, as well as avoiding the LAPD’s fully militarized, fully corrupt, C.R.A.S.H units.”
Party Down - Starz (Feb. 24 at 9pm ET)
If you watched Party Down during its original two-season run, chances are you told someone else to check it out. Now, 12 years after its final episode, enough people have heeded your advice that Starz is bringing back the cult comedy for a six-episode revival. Ken Marino, Adam Scott, Jane Lynch, Martin Starr, Ryan Hansen and Megan Mullally are all set to reprise their roles (sadly, scheduling issues prevented Lizzie Caplan from joining), and Jennifer Garner, Tyrel Jackson Williams, Zoë Chao, and James Marsden are joining the cast.
Yellowjackets - SHOWTIME (March 24)
Yellowjackets was one of the breakout hits of 2021, a clever, well-cast exploration of the bonds forged by deception and trauma. Cutting seamlessly between the past and present, Yellowjackets stars former teen actors Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, and Christina Ricci as the grown survivors of a plane crash that occurred when they were teenagers in the ‘90s. Lauren Ambrose, Simone Kessell, and Elijah Wood join the cast for the second season, and Yellowjackets has already been renewed for a third.
Spring/ Summer TBD
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The Walking Dead: Dead City - AMC (TBD April)
With the main series finally in its grave, a number of Walking Dead spin-offs are in the works, the first of which is expected to release in April. The Walking Dead: Dead City features the unlikely pair of Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Neegan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) returning for this new show, which is set in undead Manhattan. A description of the show says that, "The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror."
Cruel Summer - Freeform (Spring TBD)
The first season of the mystery series Cruel Summer prompted a ton of social media theorizing before dropping a major twist in its finale. The second season will feature an all-new story and cast, but many of the storytelling elements will remain. According to Freeform, the new season approaches “the story from three different timelines surrounding Y2K,” and focuses on “the early friendship between Megan (Sadie Stanley), Isabella (Eloise Payet), and Megan’s best friend Luke (Griffin Gluck), the love triangle that blossomed, and the mystery that would impact all of their lives going forward.”
Snowpiercer - TNT (Spring TBD)
The fourth and final season of TNT’s dystopian thriller is expected to premiere sometime this Spring. New additions to the cast include Clark Gregg and Michael Aronov, while Paul Zbyszewski takes over as showrunner. Daveed Diggs, Jennifer Connelly, and Rowan Blanchard are expected to return for the show’s final season, which centers on the tension between those looking for New Edan and the desperate passengers still aboard the titular train.
Dark Winds - AMC (Summer TBD)
This adaptation of Tony Hillerman’s acclaimed Leaphorn & Chee book series was one of AMC’s breakout hits in 2022, and it should be back in 2023 with a new six-episode season. An outstanding Zahn McClarnon returns as Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, along with Kiowa Gordon as his deputy Jim Chee, and Hell on Wheels producer John Wirth is joining as showrunner. The first season incorporated elements of two of the books, and it sounds like the new season will also adapt one of the novels, but with 18 books in the series, there’s plenty of material to choose from.
Yellowstone - Paramount Network (TBD)
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It’s been good news/ bad news for fans of Paramount’s smash hit Yellowstone. On the one hand, season 5 – which premiered in November– has been upgraded from 10 episodes to 14. However, Sunday’s mid-season finale is the last new episode of the series we’ll be getting for some time. Right now, it’s not clear when the second half of the season will return, and according to a new interview with co-star Piper Perabo, it sounds like the second half of the season hasn’t yet been shot. If that’s the case, the earliest you can expect Yellowstone to return would be this summer.
Justified: City Primeval - FX (TBD Summer)
Party Down isn’t the only beloved, critically-acclaimed series to get a revival in 2023. FX’s deftly-written series Justified will be returning in the summer for a new series entitled Justified: City Primeval. Timothy Olyphant will be returning as U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens but in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Dave Andron said that, being set in a new city 10 years after the events of the finale, City Primeval will feel “very, very new.” "Only people who read the [titular Elmore Leonard novel] might have an idea, but I think people who haven't, who just expect the old thing, are going to be very surprised," Andron said.
What We Do in the Shadows - FX
FX’s vampire mockumentary is widely considered one of the funniest shows on TV and even before its fourth season premiered this summer, it was renewed for two more seasons. Just as the show’s third season finale set up the “Baby Colin Robinson” storyline of season 4, we’re tremendously excited to see how the show resolves its latest cliffhanger with Guilermo (Harvey Guillén) in this upcoming season, which should premiere on FX at some point this summer.
2023 TBD
The Curse - SHOWTIME (TBD)
The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder’s meta mind-f**k of a “reality” show, was one of the best things we saw in 2022. That makes his follow-up, the SHOWTIME-produced The Curse, easily one of our most-anticipated shows of the coming year. Co-starring Fielder (who also directs) and Oscar-winner Emma Stone, the half-hour comedy will explore how “an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show.”
Shōgun - FX (TBD)
Like HBO and AMC, FX is one of those channels whose proven track record for quality and innovation gets us excited to watch whatever they release. Among their upcoming slate of shows is an adaptation of James Clavell’s celebrated 1975 novel Shōgun. Originally announced in 2018, the limited series has had a long journey to the screen, but the wait should be worth it, as the show centers on, “the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds and a mysterious female samurai: John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko (Anna Sawai), a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties, who must prove her value and allegiance"
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South Park - Comedy Central
Given Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s unique agreement with Paramount+, we can’t say for certain that South Park will be returning with new episodes on Comedy Central in 2023. But we can say that Casa Bonita – the Denver-based Mexican restaurant that was the subject of one of the most iconic episodes in the series’ long history and was purchased by Parker and Stone in 2021 – will be reopening in May, and we promise you that What’s On Sling will be there to give you a tour.
Great Expectations - FX
Following its dark reimagining of A Christmas Carol in 2019, FX is also working on its second adaptation of a Charles Dickens classic, Great Expectations. Like the previous adaptation, this six-episode limited series was created by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) and stars T om Sweet and Fionn Whitehead as young and older Pip, respectively, as well as Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham. The rest of the cast includes Ashley Thomas, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Hayley Squires, Owen McDonnell, Trystan Gravelle, and Matt Berry.
Ripley - SHOWTIME
The brilliant second season of Fleabag lifted the boats of all involved, particularly “Hot Priest” Andrew Scott. Shortly after winning the BAFTA award for his performance in that show, it was announced that Scott would take on the starring role in Ripley, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s class-focused crime novels. The eight-episode first season is being written and directed by acclaimed writer-director Steven Zaillian, and it will follow the events of the first novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, which was adapted into a 1999 film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Retreat - FX
A brilliant sleuth is among the guests summoned to the exotic retreat of a billionaire; murder ensues. No, we’re not describing the plot of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - This is also the plot of the new FX limited series Retreat. Emma Corrin (who was excellent as Lady Diana on The Crown) will play the Gen Z gumshoe, and Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, Alice Braga, Jermaine Fowler, Joan Chen, and Brit Marling fill out the cast. Marling and Zal Batmanglij – creators of the overlooked Netflix series The OA – wrote and directed the series
Rick and Morty - Adult Swim
Lastly, we don’t know for sure that the Adult Swim hit Rick and Morty will be back for season 7 in 2023, but we also don’t know for sure that it won’t be, which is good enough for us to put it on this list. Featuring a more serialized format and finally resolving some of the series’ longest-running mysteries, Season 6 was a major return to form following the somewhat disjointed fifth season, so we’re optimistic the upcoming season will be more “Dub-Dub” than “Wubba Lubba.”