March 2024 TV preview: The Regime, Palm Royale, X-Men '97, and 26 other big shows

Abe Sylvia’s period comedy Palm Royale has amassed an enviable ensemble that includes Laura Dern, Kristen Wiig, Allison Janney, Leslie Bibb, and Carol Burnett. The show follows manipulative Maxine Simmons (Wiig) as she seeks to carve out her spot in Palm Beach high society during the 1960s. What will she sacrifice to achieve what she wants—and what have others around her already sacrificed? The show is loosely based on Juliet McDaniel’s satirical novel Mr. And Mrs. American Pie. [Saloni Gajjar]

An obvious nostalgia play that we can’t help but feel some genuine nostalgia for, Disney+’s X-Men ’97 purports to pick up exactly where FOX’s old X-Men animated series left off 27 years ago—including hiring tons of that Saturday morning staple’s original voice cast to once again play a crew of heroic mutants defending a world that hates and fears them. Building on plot threads from the original show—most notably, per trailers, the death of Professor X himself—the series will have a tricky but exciting road to walk between playing the hits and being Disney’s first major stab (Snkt!) at making use of these beloved characters. [William Hughes]

team up with True Blood writer Alexander Woo to adapt the first book in Liu Cixin’s sci-fi series Remembrance Of Earth’s Past, a sweeping narrative concerning humanity’s first intergalactic contact with an alien race. The eight-episode Netflix series juggles several parallel storylines, from China’s cultural revolution in the late 1960s to present-day London, as a series of strange scientific phenomena and unexplained suicides start to add up to a worldwide conspiracy. The large ensemble cast includes Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Rosalind Chao, Liam Cunningham, Benedict Wong, and Jonathan Pryce. [Cindy White]

British true-crime drama The Long Shadow dives into the case of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, a.k.a. The Yorkshire Ripper (Mark Stobbart). Toby Jones plays Dennis Hoban, a cop who leads the investigation but is sidelined by his peers. After subsequent murders, George Oldfield (David Morrissey) is ultimately ordered to take over the case. As the killer keeps striking, the police take their pleas to the public via the media, hoping to apprehend Peter before more women lose their lives. [Saloni Gajjar]

and Logan Lerman headline the World War II drama We Were The Lucky Ones, based on Georgia Hunter’s novel. King and Lerman play siblings Halina and Addy Kirc, the only survivors from a Polish Jewish family torn apart during the war. The series charts their sometimes arduous, sometimes hopeful journey to find each other against all odds. Robin Weigert and Henry Lloyd-Hughes also star. [Saloni Gajjar]

Amor Towles’ 2016 novel A Gentleman In Moscow gets a limited-series adaptation led by Ewan McGregor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Leah Harvey. McGregor portays Count Alexander Rostov, who is banished by the Soviet tribunal to live in an attic hotel room for decades after the Revolution. As years pass, he builds a new life for himself inside the walls of the hotel while tumultuous events take place outside. [Saloni Gajjar]

star Louisa Harland tackles young fugitive Nell Jackson in the British series Renegade Nell. After being framed for murder, she goes on the run and ends up as a robber in 18th-century England, becoming what some call the most feared thief around. But when a magical spirit called Billy Blind (Nick Mohammed) appears, Nell realizes her destiny is bigger than her criminal pursuits. Renegade Nell is helmed by Happy Vally and Gentleman Jack’s Sally Wainwright, and its ensemble features Joely Richardson, Adrian Lester, Pip Torrens, and Frank Dillane. [Saloni Gajjar]

is having quite the month, leading AMC’s Parish in addition to appearing in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. The AMC crime drama centers on Gray Parish, a guy with a troubled past who is now a sincere family man. However, when his son is brutally killed, old habits return, with Gray going on a quest for revenge that will make him question his morality. Bradley Whitford, Arica Himmel, Skeet Ulrich, and Paula Malcolmson co-star. [Saloni Gajjar]