Best TV Shows 2021: Drag Race, Riverdale, Emily In Paris, Dead To Me

If there was one good thing to come out of 2020, it was TV shows. There was the LOLS (Schitt's Creek season 6), the creepy (The Haunting of Bly Manor), the groundbreaking (I May Destroy You), the gripping (The Undoing), the regal (The Crown season four), the sexy (Normal People) and the absolutely downright batsh*t (Tiger King, obv).

So you know it's a pretty big deal when we say that 2021 is looking even better. Yep, this year's TV line-up looks set to have us glued to our sofas for some serious binge-watching sessions (which is pretty good news in lockdown 3.0!), from brand new dramas to highly-anticipated returns of some of our favourite shows (Line of Duty season 6, anyone?)

One such return is the second series of Drag Race UK which is giving us much-needed LIFE in lockdown. Since landing on our screens on 14th January, the new season has been serving some serious sass as well as some catchy jingles (if you aren't singing 'UK Hun?' to yourself at least three times a day, you are not a true fan). With the remaining queens trying to impress judges Michelle Visage, Alan Carr, Graham Norton and Mama Ru, who will be the next to sashay away?

In terms of new series that we predict everyone will be talking about, it doesn't get much more exciting than Vigil, from the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard (so you just know it's going to be gripping stuff). It tells the story of a mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board a Trident nuclear submarine, bringing the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services.

The cast features some of the very best names in British TV – Doctor Foster's Suranne Jones, Line of Duty's Martin Compston. Game of Thrones's Rose Leslie and Sex Education's Connor Swindells. How's that for a line-up?

Plus, if you loved Normal People (we mean, who didn't?), the TV adaption of Sally Rooney's first novel Conversations With Friends is due to drop on the BBC in 2021.

Elsewhere, there's plenty of comebacks of our best-loved shows, including Love Is Blind, Dead To Me, Top Boy, Never Have I Ever, Dear White People, Emily In Paris, Russian Doll and Ozark to name just a few.

So get excited, because 2021 is looking to be an absolutely stellar year for TV. Here are the TV shows we can't wait for – and some are out already!...

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