But the first few months of the year at least offer some definitive promise of new TV to come, and beyond that, there’s plenty more TBD worth staking our hopes on. Shows are still sputtering in and out of production as COVID infections continue seemingly unabated, and while there’s a vaccine-shaped light at the end of the tunnel, just how long and winding that tunnel will be is hard to predict. While many of the shows we were looking forward to at the beginning of last year did end up making their way to us, many others were postponed, moved to that mythical date of “TBD 2021.”Īs we begin the new year, there’s still plenty of TBD that lies ahead - we’re reasonably sure all of these programs will premiere before 2022 rolls around, but, then again, we were reasonably sure of that this time last year. Thanks to a quarantine-friendly distribution system that was already centered on home viewing, and the advent of production bubbles, television had a slightly less chaotic 2020 than film did, but the coronavirus pandemic still wreaked its share of havoc on the small screen. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Photos by HBO, Disney+, Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images and Netflix
