4 Long-Awaited TV Shows Coming to Apple TV+ in March

One of the streaming world’s leaders in recent years, Apple TV+ remains a home to plenty of movies and shows that prove the streamer’s ability to offer more refreshing ideas to viewers than any other popular platform.

With hit series like Severance, Silo, Ted Lasso, and Slow Horses, Apple TV+ might even count on a more faithful audience than Netflix as the latter is more about quantity rather than quality.

This month will bring some long-awaited and exciting new projects to Apple TV+’s platform, so you better save the date now that it’s definitely approaching.

Dope Thief — March 14

Starring Narcos’ actor Wagner Moura, Dope Thief is a gripping criminal drama you just can’t miss.

Based on Dennis Tafoya’s 2009 novel of the same name, the show will follow two friends seeking adventures and thus disguising as DEA agents to steal from drug dealers, making it all a perfect crime. However, they soon have to question their life choices when it’s revealed that they came across wrong people.

While Dope Thief is still a week away from its release, the show is already a promising new arrival ready to offer new complex characters and a compelling story to its potential viewers. Apple TV+’s reputation earned by high-scale dramas like Severance and Silo does prove so too.

Side Quest — March 26

Coming as a companion anthology series to Apple TV+’s 2020 hit comedy show Mythic Quest, Side Quest will follow into its predecessor’s footsteps, showing the life of employees of the studio that produces a popular video game, as well as how the game’s fans and players are impacted by the new format of anthology that the game adapted.

The upcoming series will star Rob McElhenney, Anna Konkle, Derek Waters, William Stanford Davis, Bria Samoné Henderson among others and will debut on Apple TV+’s platform alongside Mythic Quest’s season 4 finale on March 26.

The Studio — March 26

Directed, co-written and starring Seth Rogan, The Studio will once again delve into the cinema industry’s biggest pressure point as the show will follow Rogan’s Matt Remick, a new head of a studio having hard times amid the competition between cinema theatres and streaming platforms.

Determined to make the classic cinema stay relevant even in the digital era, Remick will have to go through all the hardships that the studio has been suffering from, encountering guest stars like Bryan Cranston, Charlize Theron and Martin Scorsese on his way to success.

The Studio will arrive on Apple TV+ on March 26 with two first episodes and is now scheduled to conclude the first season on May 21.

Number One on the Call Sheet — March 28

A two-part documentary directed by Reginald Hudlin and Shola Lynch, Number One on the Call Sheet promises to become a big celebration of the Black community ’s achievements in Hollywood.

As the show’s official synopsis reads, it’s “an intimate journey with some of Hollywood’s most extraordinary leading Black men and women as they shine a light on the joys and challenges of being a Black actor, share breakthrough moments, discuss blueprints for success and honor legends, while recognizing the next generation’s enormous potential”.

The series will feature some very recognisable figures telling their own story of going through all sorts of hardships to make their biggest dream come true.

Divided into two chapters, the documentary will give a voice to Michael B. Jordan, Daniel Kaluuya, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Denzel Washington and others in its Black Leading Men in Hollywood part.

In its turn, The Black Leading Women in Hollywood chapter will hear stories from actresses like Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Viola Davis and Whoopi Goldberg among others.