25 Most Hotly Anticipated New TV Shows Of 2020

25. Snowpiercer

From all reports, TNT are producing a TV adaptation of Bong Joon-Ho's strange, bleak 2013 film Snowpiercer to premiere next year, which was itself an adaptation of the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette.

Set seven years after a climate catastrophe turns the planet into an icy hellscape, Snowpiercer follows the fortunes of the last of the human race, living on a huge train that, never stopping, constantly travels around this fallen, freezing world.

It’s a great, really weird high concept - The Walking Dead meets Murder On The Orient Express? - but playing out over a series allows showrunner Graeme Manson time and space to really get into the politics and class warfare that the movie only skated over.

Snowpiercer would be higher on this list, but it’s been a troubled production: the original showrunner and writer was fired from the project and the movie-length pilot’s director Scott Derrickson (of Sinister and Doctor Strange fame) refused to return for reshoots, claiming that new guy Manson’s vision for the script wasn’t what he signed up for.

Let’s see whether his fears were justified - TNT certainly have faith in Manson, having already greenlit season two.