Whether it’s a gruesome new series from the creator of American Horror Story or some of the decade’s best TV shows, these series should be on your Disney Plus watch list for January.
Maybe you’re interested in Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, despite those franchises being advertised across Disney Plus, the streaming platform has a lot more to offer.
So, if you’ve already watched the best TV shows of 2025 and you’re looking ahead to what’s next, you’re in the right place.
The best Disney Plus TV shows
15. The Beauty
- Genre: Sci-fi, Horror
- Year: 2026 (premieres on January 21)
- Cast: Evan Peters, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope, Ashton Kutcher, Rebecca Hall
- Creator: Ryan Murphy, Matt Hodgson
- Length: 1 season, 11 episodes (airing weekly)
What it’s about: When international supermodels begin dying in gruesome and mysterious ways, FBI Agents Cooper Madsen and Jordan Bennett are sent to Paris to uncover the truth.
Why to watch: All’s Fair may have been a cringe-fest, but we don’t need to write off Ryan Murphy yet. The Beauty is firmly in his wheelhouse of disgusting, irresistible TV, and it looks to be a high-camp ode (coincidentally or otherwise) to The Substance.
14. Alien: Earth
- Genre: Sci-fi, Horror
- Year: 2025 – present
- Cast: Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant
- Creator: Noah Hawley
- Length: 1 season, 8 episodes (season 2 confirmed)
What it’s about: Two years before the events of Alien, this spin-off series sees the USCSS Maginot crash-landing on Earth. A genetically-engineered child and her fellow science experiments are then tasked with cleaning up the extraterrestrial mess.
Why to watch: From the mastermind behind quirky anthology Fargo, Noah Hawley, this riveting action-thriller unleashes the Xenomorph on a futuristic Earth populated by billionaire idiots, synths, cyborgs and five ruling corporations. Highlights include a sentient eyeball and Timothy Olyphant’s snow-haired robot.
13. Tell Me Lies
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2022 – present (premieres on January 13)
- Cast: Grace Van Patten, Jackson White, Catherine Missal
- Creator: Meaghan Oppenheimer
- Length: 3 seasons, 28 episodes (third season airing weekly)
What it’s about: Lucy and Stephen have rekindled their tumultuous romance in time for spring semester at Baird College. While they promise things will be different this time, past indiscretions hinder their best intentions, and Lucy finds herself embroiled in a controversy she wants nothing to do with.
Why to watch: After the sprawling, relentless drama of the second season, now is the perfect time to get into Tell Me Lies. Speaking to ELLE, Van Patten promised season 3 will be “as crazy as ever” and “fans are in for a ride”.
12. 24
- Genre: Action, Thriller
- Year: 2001 – 2014
- Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard
- Creator: Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran
- Length: 9 seasons, 204 episodes
What it’s about: Counter Terrorist federal agent Jack Bauer is on a mission to keep the United States of America safe from exterior attacks.
Why to watch: Like Lost, it’s now sadly a bit dated. Yet, each season of this espionage drama thrillingly covers 24 consecutive hours as Kiefer Sutherland’s hero races against the clock to squash assassination attempts, nuclear threats, and terrorism schemes.
11. Loki
- Genre: Superhero, Sci-fi
- Year: 2021 – 2023
- Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
- Creator: Michael Waldron
- Length: 2 seasons, 12 episodes
What it’s about: Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, an alternate version of the God of Mischief is apprehended by the Time Variance Authority. They monitor the universal timeline.
Why to watch: Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson sharing scenes together… does that not whet your whistle? If you’re still on the fence, Loki’s time-hopping antics and kaleidoscopic sense of adventure should reel you in.
10. The X Files
- Genre: Sci-fi, Drama, Horror
- Year: 1993 – 2018
- Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
- Creator: Chris Carter
- Length: 11 seasons, 218 episodes
What it’s about: FBI workers Fox Mulder and Dana Scully team up to crack the X-Files. They are unsolved cases of a potentially paranormal constitution.
Why to watch: Monster of the Week episodes are where it’s at. In them, Mulder and Scully encounter a soul-eater, lizard man, The Great Mutato, and self-shrinking murderer Eugene Victor Tooms. The theme tune will send shivers down your spine, too.
9. Peep Show
- Genre: Comedy
- Year: 2003 – 2015
- Cast: David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman, Matt King
- Creator: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Andrew O’Connor
- Length: 9 seasons, 54 episodes
What it’s about: Mark Corrigan, a somewhat misanthropic loan manager, and Jeremy Usbourne, his unemployed weed-smoking mate, share a flat in Croydon.
Why to watch: British comedy’s finest hour, no doubt about it. Distinctive point-of-view camera shots and accompanying character voice-overs make the Peep Show experience stupidly funny. The diametrically different duo try to make it through the day with as little embarrassment as possible.
8. Shōgun
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2024 – present
- Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, Cosmo Jarvis
- Creator: Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks
- Length: 1 season, 10 episodes (season 2 confirmed)
What it’s about: This historical piece of fiction captures the collision between shipwrecked sailor Jack Blackthorne and Japan’s powerful Lord Toranaga.
Why to watch: Shōgun is epic from all angles, and its predominant Japanese language sweeps you off into a richly unfamiliar world. It set a new record as the most-awarded single season of TV in Emmy history. It collected 18 prizes on the night.
7. Daredevil and Daredevil: Born Again
- Genre: Superhero, Action
- Year: 2015 – present
- Cast: Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Wilson Bethel, Deborah Ann Woll
- Creator: Drew Goddard, Dario Scardapane, Matt Corman, Chris Ord
- Length: 3 seasons, 39 episodes (original), 1 season, 9 episodes (season 2 confirmed for Born Again)
What it’s about: In the neighbourhood of Hell’s Kitchen, blind lawyer Matt Murdock stalks the night as a masked vigilante.
Why to watch: Daredevil and revival series Born Again might not be equals in terms of storytelling finesse or face-smashing action, but this Marvel superhero series deserves to be on your watchlist simply because of the dynamic between Charlie Cox’s avenger and Vincent D’Onofrio’s crime lord Kingpin.
6. Modern Family
- Genre: Comedy
- Year: 2009 – 2020
- Cast: Ed O’Neill, Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell
- Creator: Christopher Lloyd, Steven Levitan
- Length: 11 seasons, 250 episodes
What it’s about: We flit between three different families that call LA home. They are related through patriarch Jay Pritchett and his offspring Claire and Mitchell.
Why to watch: The cast of Modern Family cobble their boundless talent together to create a sitcom for the ages. What’s precious about this one is the confessional interview segments delivered right down the camera lens.
5. Catastrophe
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Year: 2015 – 2019
- Cast: Rob Delaney, Sharon Horgan, Mark Bonnar, Ashley Jensen
- Creator: Rob Delaney, Sharon Horgan
- Length: 4 seasons, 24 episodes
What it’s about:Rob and Sharon have a steamy six-day fling during a business trip to London. When she realizes she’s pregnant, he moves to the UK, determined to make their relationship work – no matter their (many) differences.
Why to watch: If “a Yank and an Irish woman have a one-night stand” sounds like the beginning of a joke, Catastrophe works tirelessly to find the funniest and emotionally resonant punchlines possible across four seasons.
It wouldn’t work without Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s infectious chemistry; lovers and foils to one another, often in the same scene. However, special credit is owed to The Celebrity Traitors star Mark Bonnar, whose deadpan Scottishness secures some of the show’s biggest laughs.
4. Normal People
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Year: 2020
- Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Paul Mescal
- Creator: Alice Birch, Sally Rooney, Mark O’Halloran
- Length: 1 season (12 episodes)
What it’s about: Popular student Connell and social outcast Marianne engage in a secret romance during their last days of high school.
Why to watch: Normal People was a pandemic-era sensation, launching the careers of both Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Tenderly directed by Lenny Abrahamson, this Sally Rooney adaptation is 12 episodes of doomed bliss. Seek it out if you somehow haven’t already.
3. The Bear
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Year: 2022 – present
- Cast: Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
- Creator: Christopher Storer
- Length: 4 seasons, 38 episodes (season 5 confirmed)
What it’s about: Carmen Berzatto inherits his brother’s Italian beef sandwich shop in Chicago following a tragedy.
Why to watch: The Bear feels like it’s always been with us despite only starting three years ago. A carousel of personalities keeps the madness spinning as the talented Michelin-star-chaser deals with family trauma, his own pain, and a rundown business.
2. The Simpsons
- Genre: Animation, Comedy
- Year: 1989 – present
- Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright
- Creator: Matt Groening
- Length: 37 seasons, 796 episodes (two more seasons confirmed)
What it’s about: What’s happening today in the lives of Springfield’s Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson?
Why to watch: Come on… there’s a reason why The Simpsons is the longest-running American sitcom in history. Admittedly, the animation’s humour and parody targets have gone down the toilet in the last 10 years or so. But it’s still far superior to anything done by Seth McFarlane.
1. Andor
- Genre: Action, Sci-fi
- Year: 2022 – 2025
- Cast: Diego Luna, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona
- Creator: Tony Gilroy
- Length: 2 seasons, 24 episodes
What it’s about: Officially the best Disney+ series available to stream; this prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story details thief-turned-rebel-spy Cassian Andor’s radicalisation.
Why to watch: Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tony Gilroy hijacks a galaxy far, far away, casting off its lightsaber-duelling legacy to hone in on various political machinations. It’s Star Wars for grown-ups and ranks in many minds as the greatest production this iconic franchise has ever birthed.
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