00:002025 introduced TV viewers to a neurotic studio exec, a happiness hive mind, and a couple hot hockey players.
00:07And that's just to name a few of the new characters that small screen audiences met this year.
00:11We're breaking down five new shows that had viewers glued to their screens in 2025.
00:16The Pit premiered in January 2025 and quickly became a massive hit for streamer HBO Max.
00:22We got skills!
00:24That was baptism by fire.
00:27That was more like baptism by blood.
00:29According to Warner Brothers Discovery, the first season averaged 10 million viewers per episode.
00:34But it wasn't just a hit with audiences. Awards voters loved it too.
00:38The Pit was nominated for 13 Emmys in 2025 and took home five, including the awards for Best Drama Series
00:44and Outstanding Lead Actor for star Noah Wiley.
00:48Being here means no matter how good you are or how hard you try, someone might die.
00:58And there's more where that came from coming very soon. Season 2 of The Pit premieres on January 8th, 2026.
01:04Another new series that took the awards circuit by storm in 2025 was The Studio.
01:09And I got into all this because, you know, I love movies, but now I have this fear that my
01:18job is to ruin them.
01:19The Apple TV Plus comedy about a passionate yet often ineffectual movie studio executive received 23 Emmy nominations, setting a
01:27record for the most nominations ever for a debut comedy.
01:31The show starring and co-created by Seth Rogen went on to win 13 Emmys, including the trophy for Best
01:36Comedy Series, and set another record for the most Emmy wins for a comedy series in a single night.
01:41I get it. You want to make great art and make a billion dollars doing it. Well, guess what? That
01:46never happens, and you're going to screw everything up trying to make it happen.
01:49The highly anticipated series, It, Welcome to Derry, also premiered this year.
01:54Do you think somebody could kidnap a kid and keep him underground? In the sewers?
02:00The show is a prequel to the hit It Films, which adapted Stephen King's horror masterpiece about the small town
02:05of Derry, Maine.
02:06It's cursed by the presence of a shape-shifting killer clown that returns to murder a slew of children every
02:1227 years.
02:13The new series, set in 1962, sees a couple and their son move to Derry just as a young boy
02:18disappears.
02:19We have 25 disappearances, 7 confirmed deaths, mostly children.
02:30Plus, Ray Seahorn's reunion with Better Call Saul co-creator, and of course Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, titled Pluribus,
02:37finally premiered in 2025.
02:39The show sees Seahorn play Carol Sterka, a successful author who is suddenly one of the last 13 normal people
02:45on Earth.
02:46When a virus born from an alien RNA sequence turns the whole planet into a hive mind.
02:52Hey Carol!
02:53Hey Carol!
02:55We just want you to be happy.
02:57Seahorn opened up about the positive viewer response to the show at the Hollywood Reporter's recent Women in Entertainment Gala.
03:04One of the most gratifying things after you just get past relief, which is the main reaction, is the fact
03:10that it's inspiring so many conversations.
03:12And finally, the hot hockey romance-heated rivalry premiered near the end of 2025 and quickly became a word-of
03:18-mouth breakout.
03:20You're an awesome player to watch.
03:22Yes.
03:23Ouch.
03:24You're very good at hockey.
03:26The best, probably.
03:27We will be seeing each other a lot.
03:29The series is based on a novel by Rachel Reid and follows a romance over several years between two hockey
03:35players who play for rival teams, but can't deny their attraction to one another.
03:39Canadian streamer Crave says the show is its biggest original series launch to date.
03:43You can stream the series on HBO Max in the U.S.
03:46How much pressure do you feel from the fans, from the hockey world in general?
03:50I find it hard being so high-profile.
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03:58This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
