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20 TV shows everyone will be talking about in 2024, from One Day to the return of The Traitors

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The year 2024 is going to be quite the ride when it comes to what’s on television. We’ve got gun-slinging duo Donald Glover and Maya Erskine starring as married spies in the reboot of Mr & Mrs Smith, the movie where Brangelina was birthed. Then there’s the return of The Traitors, one of the biggest reality TV success stories of recent years, for a scheming second series. And an adaptation of Rachel Clarke’s poignant memoir Breathtaking, about working on the frontline of the Covid pandemic, is landing on our screens, no doubt with an emotional thud.

More bestsellers being brought to life are David Nicholls’ romance novel One Day, along with Heather Morris’s Holocaust story The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster Rivals.

And there are comedies in the form of Big Boys series two, which reunites fans with uni students Jack and Danny, and Truelove, which revolves around a group of septuagenarians determined to die gracefully. Here’s what we’re most looking forward to over the next 12 months…

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