To ring in the new year, the most anticipated brand-new TV shows of January 2025 bring intriguing reality series, franchise spinoffs, awards specials, and some exciting procedural dramas. Partnering with predictive media analytics company Diesel Labs, Screen Rant has exclusive data analyzing the new TV shows with the most online engagement before their series premieres. Each new TV release is given a hype score, which is measured by chatter across various platforms.
The most-talked-about new TV shows of January 2025 are ranked by Attention Signals, which are calculated by measures such as likes, shares, comments, and views on social and video channels like Facebook and YouTube. These online engagement metrics reveal valuable insight into which brand-new series have made the biggest virtual impact prior to release – regardless of their reviews and ratings.
The attention scale metric is the percentage of attention based on the show or movie in the number one spot (which is represented as 100%).
Excluding the returns of established TV shows, such as The Night Agent season 2 and Severance season 2, the most-hyped new series launching in January 2025 feature a great variety in storytelling, genre, and audience appeal. From this year’s Golden Globes Awards to a new Star Trek show, this month’s TV releases both wrap up 2024’s fantastic slate of shows and have the potential to yield some long-lasting hits. Based on Diesel Labs’ data, here’s Screen Rant’s list of January 2025’s top 10 brand-new TV releases with the most online hype.
Top 10 Most Anticipated New TV Shows – January 2025
The Titles Range From The Critics’ Choice Awards To The Flip Off
Title | Premiere Date | Platform | Genre | Attention Scale | Attention Signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Critics’ Choice Awards 2025 | 1/12/2025 | E! | Special | 100.00% | 63,243,204 |
Hollywood Squares | 1/9/2025 | CBS | Reality Competition | 31.03% | 19,624,961 |
Star Trek: Section 31 | 1/24/2025 | Paramount+ | Sci-Fi | 30.63% | 19,368,762 |
Baylen Out Loud | 1/13/2025 | TLC | Reality | 28.46% | 17,997,471 |
On Call | 1/9/2025 | Amazon Prime Video | Drama | 23.63% | 14,943,726 |
Molly-Mae: Behind It All | 1/17/2025 | Amazon Prime Video | Docuseries | 20.81% | 13,162,973 |
The Golden Globe Awards 2025 | 1/5/2025 | CBS | Special | 14.97% | 9,469,570 |
Doc | 1/7/2025 | Fox | Drama | 14.39% | 9,103,327 |
Paradise | 1/28/2025 | Hulu | Drama | 13.11% | 8,292,792 |
The Flip Off | 1/29/2025 | HGTV | Reality | 9.29% | 5,874,832 |
According to Diesel Labs’ data, the most anticipated new TV release of January 2025 is this year’s Critics’ Choice Awards ceremony. The 2025 awards ceremony celebrates the achievements of film and TV releases from 2024, including nominees like Dune: Part Two, Wicked, Evil, and Shogun. The second-most hyped release of the month is Hollywood Squares, a reboot of the popular 1960s game show now hosted by Drew Barrymore. Following up in anticipation are the Paramount+ TV movie Star Trek: Section 31, the reality series about Baylen Dupree, Baylen Out Loud, and Troian Bellisario’s new police procedural, On Call.
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Also among the most-talked-about new TV releases of January 2025 are the Love Island UK veteran’s docuseries Molly-Mae: Behind It All, the 2025 Golden Globe Awards ceremony, and Fox’s medical drama Doc, inspired by the true story of a doctor with memory loss. Rounding out the top 10 most anticipated new shows of January 2025 are the Sterling K. Brown-starring drama Paradise and HGTV’s real-estate flipping reality contest The Flip Off. While January 2025 may be relatively light with major new TV titles, there’s plenty to enjoy for fans of procedurals, reality series, and those keeping up on the 2025 awards season.
Diesel Labs is a Content Intelligence company that produces audience insights for the entire media landscape. With a sophisticated machine-learning based approach, they measure millions of audience members’ attention with content across many sources including major social and video platforms YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok (beta), and Reddit (beta). For more information, visit www.diesellabs.com.
