'The Lord of the Rings', the return of David Simon and other series that we will see in 2022

The television industry is a train that cannot stop and needs more and more gasoline to keep going.

There are many series that the channels and platforms already have in their portfolio for 2022, and few will be the ones that will be remembered at the end of the year.

In addition, very often, the real successes are those that nobody expects (see,

).

In any case, the agenda can already be filled with some titles that will arrive (pandemic through) in the next twelve months and that continue with some of the great trends that have emerged in recent years.

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In 2021 there was more television than ever (again)

The great battle in television fiction will be fought this year between two great epic fantasy stories.

The goal is the successor title to

.

Dated one year in advance, the

It will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on September 2 after the platform paid about $ 250 million to acquire the rights to adapt JRR Tolkien's novels and allegedly spent between $ 100 and $ 150 million more to produce the the first season.

For its part,

will be the first fiction derived from

to see the light to tell the story of the Targaryens about 200 years before the events of the mother series.

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First preview of the series 'The House of the Dragon'

Emma D'Arcy and Matt Smith, in a picture from 'House of the Dragon'.

From fantasy worlds to reality. One of the great trends of recent years is to look at authentic facts or characters, making good the saying that reality surpasses fiction.

(February 2 on Disney +) will tell in eight chapters the story of the extremely popular sex video starring Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, played by Lily James and Sebastian Stan, in the nineties. Shonda Rhimes' new creation is

(February 11 on Netflix), starring Julia Garner as Anna Delvey, a wealthy German heiress who turned out to be a phony. In

(HBO Max), Sarah Lancashire will play TV chef Julia Child, who was brought to life by Meryl Streep in the film

.

And David Simon will once again enter the underworld of Baltimore that he already traveled on

to tell in

(HBO Max) the fabric of a criminal conspiracy in the city police department.

Sebastian Stan and Lily James, in 'Pam & Tommy'.

Coinciding with its 50th anniversary, the Watergate case will be the focus of both

(HBO Max), with Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, and

(Starz), with Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. The Lakers' sporting exploits of the 1980s will be turned into a drama on HBO, and the story of the first months of the UK covid pandemic, with Kenneth Branagh as Prime Minister Boris Johnson, will be a miniseries on Sky. Amanda Seyfried will play the scammer Elizabeth Holmes on

(Hulu), while Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto will be the protagonists of

(Apple TV +), which will tell the rise and fall of the WeWork company.

There is also room for fictions based on gruesome real crimes.

will be David E. Kelley's new production for HBO Max, about the murder with an ax of a woman by her best friend in 1980. The same platform will premiere

, based on the popular documentary series of the same name, now with Colin Firth playing writer Michael Peterson, accused of murdering his wife, played by Toni Collette.

The protagonists of 'The White House Plumbers'.

If the list of television stories based on real events is not short, neither is that of those inspired by comics.

(January 13 on HBO Max) will be the first to arrive, with John Cena bringing back the character from

. Disney + will be home to several of these productions, including

featuring a 16-year-old Muslim Pakistani-American heroine;

, with a superhero with multiple personalities played by Oscar Isaac; and

with Tatiana Maslany as the Hulk's super strength attorney.

There will also be a Star Wars ration, with the adventures of Obi-Wan Kenobi played by Ewan McGregor, also for Disney +.

As for another of the great trends in current television fiction, the adaptation of video games, its main representative this year will be

(Paramount +), which will come after many ups and downs in its production.

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Trailer of the series 'The Peacemaker'

John Cena, in 'The Peacemaker'.

The inevitable nostalgia will be present in the form of a revision of iconic titles of the last decades.

(Peacock) proposes a dramatic version of the story that Will Smith starred in the 1990s in the form of a comedy.

(Hulu) flips

, now with a woman, Hilary Duff, as the main character.

(Disney +) will serve as a sequel to the 1988 film of the same title.

And Tim Burton will direct the mystery comedy

(Netflix), starring Wednesday Addams, with Jenna Ortega as the young girl and Catherine Zeta-Jones as her mother Morticia.

An image of the cast of 'How I Met Your Father'.

More books will be serialized, such as

or

And there will also be comedies with an original twist, like the mystery story with a different point of view in each chapter

(Apple TV +), the fiction directed by Ben Stiller

(Apple TV +), about employees undergoing a surgical procedure that allows them to completely separate the memories of the work and personal sphere, or the animated comedy created by Dan Harmon and set in ancient Greece

(Fox).

The Spanish vintage also already has an arsenal of titles ready to see the light throughout this year. Movistar + has already set a date for the

(January 28), in February the comedy

, and in the following months it will be the turn of

, from the creators of

with the story of Los Miami, and the dystopia of

. HBO Max keeps

In the bedroom

another national contribution to the trend of comic adaptations. Amazon Prime Video will tell the story of the narco-submarine captured in Galicia in 2019 in the miniseries

, which opens in February.

Among Netflix's bets are the first series by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo,

, and Atresplayer Premium highlights, among others,

, an adaptation of the novel of the same name.

Álex González, protagonist of 'Operación Marea Negra'.

All these novelties will try to gain the attention of the spectator in a panorama in which many other titles will return with the advantage of having already done that job. One of the most anticipated returns is that of the Danish political drama

, whose fourth season can be seen on Netflix. That same platform will host new deliveries of heavyweights such as

and

all scheduled for this year. The youth drama

will be one of the first comebacks this year and its second season begins on HBO Max on January 10. Until February 18 we will have to wait for the new adventures of

and

are other titles that will see new episodes in a new year in which, of course, the shortage of series will not be a problem.

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