Netflix Sets 'Adolescence' Release Date, Confirms 2025 Series

Netflix likes to present itself as an underdog in the entertainment world, an upstart rebel here to improve television. In reality, Netflix is the 650-pound gorilla of the streaming world, dwarfing the competition and all but guaranteeing the death of basic cable now that it’s taking away live sports, the last reason people still haven’t cut their cords. Case in point: With January nearly over, Netflix is flooding the entertainment ecosystem with a day-long series of announcements hyping some of the biggest titles heading to the streaming service in 2025, including Adolescence, the Stephen Graham series from the makers of Boiling Point.

The Graham series was one of over half a dozen titles announced in March 2024, taking the real-time one-take format and applying it to the story of Jamie Miller, who is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school. Newcomer Owen Cooper is the 13-year-old Jamie, and Graham plays Jamie’s father and ‘appropriate adult,’ Eddie Miller. Ashley Walters (Missing You) stars as Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe, and Erin Doherty (A Thousand Blows) is Briony Ariston, the clinical psychologist assigned to Jamie’s case. The series will premiere with all four episodes on March 13, 2025.

Adolescence is the only series with an official release date; most of the other British (and British-ish) series and movies on the list merely got “coming 2025” or, like the upcoming film The Woman in Cabin 10, starring Black Doves’ Keira Knightley, “coming in the fall of 2025.” At least Netflix decided to debut a first-look photo.

Most of the British series and films confirmed to debut in 2025 are projects announced previously or new seasons of fan favorites. Black Mirror, for example, and F1: Drive to Survive both return for their respective Season 7s; British-ish shows The Witcher and Stranger Things were hyped as returning in the summer. However, there are a few projects that have been flying under the radar that should be highlighted: 

• Steve: Based on Max Porter's novel Shy, Cillian Murphy stars in a feature film that has nothing to do with Peaky Blinders.
• Department Q: Based on the Danish series by Jussi Adler-Olsen, starring Matthew Goode and Kelly MacDonald.
• My Oxford Year: A romcom based on Julia Whelan's romance of the same name, starring Corey Mylchreest and Dougray Scott.
• Havoc: A gangland film/police procedural starring Tom Hardy and Jessie Mei Li.
• The Hostage: Suranne Jones stars in this thriller series that was initially called The Choice.
• Too Much: Romcom from Lena Dunham, starring Will Sharpe and Richard E. Grant.

And in British-ish series that star major A-list U.K. talent:

• Death By Lighting: A four-episode period piece starring Matthew Macfadyen about the assassination of President James Garfield.
• The Abandons: A period western starring Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson, about the Westward expansion in 1850s Oregon.
• Frankenstein: The classic monster story from Guillermo del Toro starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, and Charles Dance.

Here is the full list of Netflix's confirmed British shows and films for 2025.

• The Abandons (Netflix Limited Series)
• Adolescence (Netflix Limited Series)
• The Ballad of a Small Player (Netflix Film)
• Black Mirror Season 7
• Death by Lightning (Netflix Limited Series)
• Department Q 
• The Diplomat Season 3 
• Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 7
• Frankenstein (Netflix Film)
• Havoc (Netflix Film)
• The Hostage (formerly The Choice)
• My Oxford Year (Netflix Film)
• The Sandman Season 2
• The Seven Dials Mystery
• Steve (Netflix Film)
• Stranger Things Season 5
• The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix Film)
• Too Much
• The Twits (Netflix Film)
• Victoria Beckham Documentary
• The Witcher Season 4
• The Woman in Cabin 10 (Netflix Film)
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix Film)

Plus: 

• Untitled Film from Katheryn Bigelow with Idris Elba to star

Adolescence will premiere on Thursday, March 13, 2025, with all episodes on Netflix. The rest of the list will reveal release dates as the year progresses.