From new sitcom Mid-Century Modern to Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire The Studio, we round up our top 10 shows to watch this week
1. Laid – Monday, March 24, W Network | Series Premiere
In this dark comedy, Seattle party planner Ruby Yao (Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once) is shocked and baffled when her former lovers begin to kick the bucket in a series of strange and unexpected circumstances — in the order that she slept with them. Joined by her best friend AJ (Girls alum Zosia Mamet), Ruby must play amateur sleuth as she embarks on a quest to find a pattern to these mysterious deaths and prevent any more of her exes from shuffling off this mortal coil. Click here to watch trailer.
2. Chelsea Handler: The Feeling – Tuesday, March 25, Netflix
A fixture on the entertainment landscape for the past two decades, Chelsea Handler is an accomplished talk show host (Chelsea Lately), author (Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea) and, of course, standup comic.
While she’s currently without a talk show, early 2025 has already seen the charmingly acerbic funnywoman debut both a new book (I’ll Have What She’s Having), and now a new Netflix special, which finds Handler quipping about such formative life experiences as having a wild summer fling, ruining Thanksgiving and meeting Bill Cosby.
Coming as they do in the wake of her 50th birthday, both the memoir and this special are reflections of just how different Chelsea the woman and Chelsea the comedian are these days.
Speaking with the website Oprah Daily, she reflected: “I think going to therapy is really the gift of gaining self-awareness. And in my case, it’s kind of lackadaisical to go through the world and not know that I’m impacting as many people as I am. It’s lazy not to think about what I’m putting out there. So I’ve done the work, and I read whatever I can to make myself a better person, to be understanding of others, to have patience with people you find stupid or annoying, to actually have empathy and say, ‘No, no, that’s not for me to decide if this person is worthwhile’ . . . I was a little girl for so long and kind of in arrested development. I’m turning 50, and I finally feel like a woman. I feel hot and sexy and self-actualized.”
“You spend so much of your youth worrying about the mistakes you’ve made, and then worrying about the future,” she continued. “And at a certain point . . . you realize there’s enough data that you’ve accumulated to instill the confidence to know that you’re the one who got yourself here, and you’re the one who’s going to get you there, and to the next place and to the next place.” Click here to watch trailer.
3. Million Dollar Secret – Wednesday, March 26, Netflix | Series Premiere
U.K. comedian Peter Serafinowicz (late of The Tick) hosts this game show that invites 12 people to partake in “a thrilling game of predator and prey,” wherein one amongst them is secretly awarded $1 million — but any of the others can swipe the prize for themselves if they’re wily enough to figure out who it is.
4. The Studio – Wednesday, March 26, Apple TV+ | Series Premiere
Why is it that so many movies these days are just plain awful? That’s the question at the heart of The Studio, a Hollywood-skewering comedy co-created by and starring Seth Rogen.
He plays Matt Remick, executive with Continental Studios. When the head of the studio (Catherine O’Hara) is sacked by the mercurial CEO (Bryan Cranston), Matt is bumped up as her replacement. It doesn’t take long for his dream job to become a nightmare as his life becomes an endless parade of self-absorbed actors, rogue directors and terrible product-driven concepts (Kool-Aid: The Movie!) spearheaded by the studio’s head of marketing (Kathryn Hahn) — to say nothing of the backstabbing fellow execs (Chase Sui Wonders and Ike Barinholtz) angling for his job.
“As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their own insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films,” notes the Apple TV+ synopsis. “With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps and breathes movies, it’s the job Matt’s been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him.”
The Studio is chockablock with cameos from actual Hollywood luminaries, including Martin Scorsese, Olivia Wilde, Ron Howard, and Zoë Kravitz, who serves up a hilarious master class on how to fake surprise and humility when winning a Golden Globe.
Ultimately, Matt is faced with a paradox: he got into the business because of his passion for movies — but faces the grim realization he’s now the guy responsible for ruining them. Click here to watch trailer.
5. Small Town, Big Story – Thursday, March 27, W Network | Series Premiere
Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids) is creator, director and writer of this dramedy centring on hard-nosed Hollywood producer Wendy Patterson (Mad Men alum Christina Hendricks), who returns to her quaint hometown in Northern Ireland, after a quarter-century in Los Angeles, to shoot a major motion movie. Upon arriving, she runs into her former beau, Séamus (Paddy Considine, late of House of the Dragon), now the town doctor. Both have been keeping a secret: together, as teenagers, they experienced an extraterrestrial encounter that left them both changed forever.
“I’m hoping the alien storyline will feel allegorical for the overall mad traumas that everyone is going through,” said O’Dowd, who also has a small role. “I think people are going to really enjoy it. I think people will enjoy Paddy and Christina hitting it off, Eileen Walsh being glorious, the cast of terrific young actors, and the beautiful rolling hills of western Ireland with some great jokes . . . just come along.”
6. Holland – Thursday, March 27, Prime Video
After headlining TV series Nine Perfect Strangers and Expats, Nicole Kidman continues her fruitful relationship with streamer Prime Video via this mind-bending new film.
Fresh off a premiere at the SXSW festival, Holland casts the Oscar-winner as Nancy Vandergroot, a homemaker living in the quirky yet idyllic town of Holland, Michigan, alongside her stalwart husband Fred (played by Succession alum Matthew Macfadyen) and son Harry (Belfast’s Jude Hill). Alas, lurking beneath that veneer of perfection is something altogether more sinister, as Nancy and her cohort Dave (Gael García Bernal, Mozart in the Jungle) uncover a secret at the heart of Nancy’s family, leading to the revelation that “nothing in their lives is what it seems.”
Variety’s Peter Debruge hailed the film as “a fun one for those that like teetering in that ‘Is she crazy, or is she the only sane one here?’ zone.” Click here to watch trailer.
7. Bosch: Legacy – Thursday, March 27, Prime Video | Season Premiere
Following seven acclaimed seasons of the original show and two of this spinoff, Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) is set to close his last case as the third and final season of Legacy debuts on Thursday with four episodes (followed by two more per week through April 17).
After making a career out of ruffling feathers and bending the rules, the L.A. cop turned private eye finds himself in the crosshairs of the justice system yet again after the jailhouse murder of serial rapist Kurt Dockweiler — the man who abducted and nearly killed his little girl. Did Harry order the hit? We’re betting not, but either way, the investigation will dredge up certain revelations that spell big trouble for Harry, daughter Maddie (Madison Lintz) and their lawyer pal Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers).
Beyond that, season three finds Harry grappling with the mysterious disappearance of a family, which ultimately “forces him to confront the limits of justice.” Meanwhile, Maddie continues to make her bones as a rookie LAPD officer, tackling a slew of vicious follow-home robberies, and Honey fights to become the next district attorney of Los Angeles.
Expect some familiar faces from both Bosch series to pop back up, including the return of Harry’s old partner J. Edgar (Jamie Hector). Plus, we’ll meet an intrepid fellow investigator by the name of Renée Ballard. She’s one of author Michael Connelly’s most popular literary creations alongside Bosch and The Lincoln Lawyer’s Mickey Haller, and will appear near the end of this season, setting the stage for a spinoff in which Ballard is tapped to head the LAPD’s new cold case squad — described as a badly underfunded, all-volunteer sort of outfit. Bringing the character from page to screen will be actress Maggie Q, of Nikita and Designated Survivor fame.
8. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip – Friday, March 28, Disney+
Over a decade after Disney adapted Judith Viorst’s beloved children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, this sequel arrives. Newcomer Thom Nemer replaces Ed Oxenbould as Alexander, a boy who is positively convinced he’s got the worst luck in the world. It’s a fear that isn’t exactly assuaged when his mother piles the family into an RV for a bonding vacation to Mexico City that goes “chaotically, hilariously wrong” — possibly thanks to an ancient cursed idol. Replacing original mom and dad Jennifer Garner and Steve Carell are Eva Longoria and Jesse Garcia. Landman’s Paulina Chávez and the great Cheech Marin also star. Click here to watch trailer.
9. The Life List – Friday, March 27, Netflix
A young woman (Sofia Carson) embarks on a journey of self-discovery as she works through a list of goals she wrote as a teenager, at the request of her late mother (Connie Britton). As she navigates the messy process of her second coming-of-age, she confronts her grief while finding the courage to live fully again.
10. Mid-Century Modern – Friday, March 28, Disney+ | Series Premiere
A new romp from Will & Grace co-creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick follows three “gay gentlemen of a certain age” (White Collar’s Matt Bomer, The Producers’ Nathan Lane and Zoolander’s Nathan Lee Graham) who, following an unexpected death, move in together in Palm Springs alongside one of their mothers (Linda Lavin). Banding together to weather the perfect storm of life, love and aging, these pals ultimately prove that “no matter how hard things get, there’s always someone around to remind you it would be better if you got your neck done.”
Mutchnick and Kohan brought one of their old Will & Grace cohorts along for this ride: legendary sitcom director James Burrows, also known for helming such classics as Cheers, Friends and a show to which Mid-Century Modern is already drawing comparisons: The Golden Girls. Plus, 9-1-1 and American Horror Story’s Ryan Murphy is on hand as an exec producer.
Unfortunately, the show itself was rocked by an unexpected death midway through production when the aforementioned Lavin — iconic star of 1970s comedy Alice — passed away due to complications from lung cancer, having only filmed seven of the season’s 10 episodes. She will be written out of the story in a loving tribute episode titled “Here’s to You, Mrs. Schneiderman.” Click here to watch trailer.