The year’s best TV shows may have mostly been adaptations, remakes, or spinoffs, but that doesn’t make them anything less than great. That may be what characterized TV in 2024: shows that took old ideas and spun them into something fresh. Whether that be an adaptation of a post-apocalyptic video game led by an oddly sexy irradiated cowboy, a remake of an iconic samurai epic, or a spinoff of an iconic Batman villain, the best TV shows this year offered something new and exciting.

Using highly scientific methods (which included making our own personal rankings and mushing them together), the Inverse Entertainment team put our heads together to compile the best TV shows of the year.

Here are the 25 best TV shows of 2024, according to the Inverse Entertainment team.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has left behind an indisputable legacy in the video game industry – with everything from Assassin’s Creed to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth taking inspiration from its masterful open world. Following up a gargantuan game like that is no small task, but nearly a decade later CD Projekt Red is ready to take a confident stab at it. But the plan has been in place for longer than you’d think.

“We decided nine years ago that whenever we get back to the IP, the spotlight needs to be on Ciri,” game director Sebastian Kalemba tells Inverse.

With a shocking reveal at The Game Awards, we now know The Witcher 4 will star Geralt’s adopted daughter Ciri, who’s come into her own as a Witcher. For fans of the series, that change has some huge connotations. After the reveal Inverse had the chance to chat with Kalemba and executive producer Małgorzata Mitręga, to talk about the wild ambitions of the Witcher 4 – from a bigger emphasis on player choice, to the lesson learned from the last four years of polishing Cyberpunk 2077.