March TV Preview (2024)

To help you plan your viewing options, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in March 2024, listed in order by premiere date.

tbd The Completely Made-up Adventures of Dick Turpin

New comedy series
Premieres March 1 on Apple TV+

Apple's new British comedy is an irreverent take on the tales of legendary English outlaw Dick Turpin, a highway robber in the early 18th century, as he becomes an unlikely leader of a gang of rogues. Turpin is played by Noel Fielding, who stars alongside Hugh Bonneville (as Turpin's nemesis, the corrupt lawman Jonathan Wilde), Tamsin Greig, Ellie White, Marc Wootton, Mark Heap, and Asim Chaudhry. Two episodes stream on the 1st followed by weekly single-episode installments.

tbd The Regime

Limited series
Premieres March 3 on HBO and Max

Kate Winslet (Mare of Easttown) returns to HBO for another limited series—her fourth!—this one coming from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning Succession and The Menu writer Will Tracy. As those credits suggest, The Regime isn't strictly a drama but will be laced with black comedy. The six-episode series traces a year inside the highest levels of a crumbling authoritarian government of an unnamed, present-day European country, with Winslet playing the country's chancellor. Andrea Riseborough, Matthias Schoenaerts, Hugh Grant, and Martha Plimpton also star, while directing duties are split between Stephen Frears and Jessica Hobbs.

tbd Apples Never Fall

Limited series
Premieres March 14 on Peacock

The latest Liane Moriarty novel to get the TV miniseries treatment (following Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers) is her 2021 mystery Apples Never Fall. Adapted by Melanie Marnich (Big Love), the seven-episode series (streaming in its entirety on day one) centers on retired tennis coaches Stan and Joy Delaney (Sam Neill and Annette Bening), whose lives are upended when a mysterious woman knocks at their door, setting off a series of events that includes the disappearance of Joy and the revealing of long-held family secrets. Alison Brie and Jake Lacy also star.

tbd The Girls on the Bus

New drama series
Premieres March 14 on Max

Originally developed for Netflix in 2019 (and then The CW after that), Max's new drama series follows four female political journalists covering a (fictitious) presidential campaign. The series is inspired by former New York Times reporter Amy Chozick's nonfiction book Chasing Hilary and was created by Chozick and TV veteran Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries). Melissa Benoist, Carla Gugino, Natasha Behnam, and Christina Elmore star alongside Griffin Dunne, Scott Foley, Mark Consuelos, and Brandon Scott.

tbd Girls5eva

Returning comedy series (S3)
Premieres March 14 on Netflix

There's a good chance that you haven't seen Tina Fey's newest comedy series yet: Its two critically acclaimed seasons streamed on Peacock. Now moving to Netflix for a six-episode third season, Girls5Eva (created by Fey's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt collaborator Meredith Scardino) follows the surviving members of a one-hit wonder 1990s girl group that attempt to mount a comeback in the present day. (Yes, there's plenty of original music, and yes, the songs are hilarious.) This new season finds the group (played by Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps, and Paula Pell) hoping to mount a comeback tour in support of their just-completed album, Returnity.

Missed the Emmy-nominated series when it aired on Peacock? Seasons 1 and 2 will also begin streaming on Netflix on the 14th.

tbd Manhunt

Limited series
Premieres March 15 on Apple TV+

Tobias Menzies (playing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton) heads the cast of a seven-part limited series based on James Swanson's book detailing the events of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the search for his killer. Carl Franklin directs a cast that also includes Hamish Linklater as Lincoln, Lili Taylor as Mary Todd Lincoln, Anthony Boyle as John Wilkes Booth, Matt Walsh as Booth conspirator Dr. Samuel Mudd, Patton Oswalt as a detective working for Stanton, and Lovie Simone as the former slave who gave shelter to Booth while he was on the run. The series adaptation comes from Monica Beletsky (Fargo, Friday Night Lights) and begins with a pair of episodes on launch day.

tbd Palm Royale

New comedy series
Premieres March 20 on Apple TV+

Yes, it's a rare busy month for Apple TV+. Also on tap for the streamer is this new comedy set in Palm Beach in 1969, where a woman (Kristen Wiig) attempts to gain entrance into that city's high society. The adaptation of Juliet McDaniel's book Mr. and Mrs. American Pie comes from Abe Sylvia (George & Tammy) and also stars Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Leslie Bibb, and Josh Lucas. Not enough big names for you? Guest stars include Carol Burnett (fresh off her Emmy nomination for Better Call Saul) and Bruce Dern. Tate Taylor (The Help) and Sylvia are among the directors for the 10-episode season, and you'll be able to stream the first three of those episodes on day one.

X-Men '97

New animated series
Premieres March 20 on Disney+

Need a cure for MCU fatigue? Disney's latest Marvel title offers comic book fans something a bit different than the streamer's somewhat lackluster recent MCU entries. In fact, it's not part of the MCU at all but instead a revival of Fox's 1990s cartoon X-Men: The Animated Series, picking up right where that series ended in 1997—with the death of Professor X—and returning some of the original voice cast. Season 1 will run for 10 episodes, and a second season has already been greenlit. Never saw the original series? That, too, is streaming on Disney+.

tbd 3 Body Problem

New sci-fi/drama series
Premieres March 21 on Netflix

Reportedly costing $20-ish million per episode to film (hint: that's a lot!), the first new series from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss under their massive Netflix contract—here teaming with writer Alexander Woo (True Blood, The Terror)—is an adaptation of the wildly popular sci-fi book trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past by Chinese author Cixin Liu that traces events leading up to and following mankind's first communications with extraterrestrial intelligence. (Let's just say that a lot happens after that first contact.)

How will this English-language adaptation tackle a story that features mostly Chinese characters and eventually spans many centuries? The latter question remains to be seen—the eight-episode Season 1 is sticking with the Hugo Award-winning first book, which begins in the 1960s and doesn't head too far into the future. But casting has an international (if not exclusively Asian) emphasis, with stars including Rosalind Chao, Benedict Wong, John Bradley, Eiza González, Liam Cunningham, Jess Hong, Jovan Adepo, Saamer Usmani, and Jonathan Pryce. Look for the first reviews to arrive after the show's world premiere at South by Southwest on March 8.

The Netflix series isn't the first TV adaptation of the book series. Last year, a Chinese production called Three-Body debuted in that country. All 30 episodes of that series, said to be much more faithful to the source material (possibly to its detriment), are now streaming with subtitles on Peacock.

tbd Road House

Streaming movie
Premieres March 21 on Prime Video

Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow, The Bourne Identity) directs a (controversially) streaming-only remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze-starring cult classic. The new film, which deviates a bit from the first one, has been in development for over a decade. That typically isn't a good sign, but critics definitely did not like the original film, so there's a low bar for improvement. (And this remake reportedly tested very well in advance screenings last summer.) Jake Gyllenhaal essentially takes over the Swayze role and plays a former UFC fighter now working as a bouncer at a Florida Keys dive bar. Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Darren Barnet, Lukas Gage, Arturo Castro, and actual UFC champion Conor McGregor (in his film debut) also star.

tbd Shirley

Streaming movie
Premieres March 22 on Netflix

Regina King stars as Shirley Chisholm—the first Black woman elected to Congress—in a biopic that centers on Chisholm's presidential run in 1972. The script comes from Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley, who also directs, and his cast includes the late Lance Reddick, Lucas Hedges, Christina Jackson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Terrence Howard, and Andre Holland.

tbd We Were the Lucky Ones

Limited series
Premieres March 28 on Hulu

Joey King and Logan Lerman head the cast of an eight-episode limited series based on Georgia Hunter's 2017 best-seller of the same name recounting the true story of a Jewish family's years-long quest to reunite after being separated in Poland at the start of WWII. The adaptation comes from The Morning Show and Julia writer/producer Erica Lipez

tbd A Gentleman in Moscow

Limited series
Premieres March 29 on Paramount+ With Showtime and March 31 on Showtime

An eight-episode adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Amor Towles, Moscow stars Ewan McGregor as (the fictional) Count Alexander Rostov, who is banished to live out his remaining years as a prisoner in the Hotel Metropol following the Russian Revolution. In the years that follow, he begins to build a new life within the confines of the hotel. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Alexa Goodall, and Johnny Harris also star.

tbd Parish

New drama series
Premieres March 31 on AMC

Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito heads the cast of a six-episode adaptation of BBC series The Driver as a man with a troubled past who has built a new life as a family man and owner of a New Orleans luxury car service. But he becomes entangled with a crime syndicate following the murder of his son. Bradley Whitford, Skeet Ulrich, Paula Malcomson, Zachary Momoh also star.