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rack the spine of your 2025 planner and start filling in some dates, because we’ve rounded up all the biggest new and returning shows of next year. 2024 has seen the death of plenty of TV shows, some by design—like Larry David’s long-running , the vampire comedy , and the most unlikely spin-off hit of all time, Then there were those that had the rug pulled out from under them, like the Star Wars series , Netflix’s Greek god epic , and Taika Waititi’s fan-favorite . Still, where some TV doors close, new browser windows open, and next year looks to be packed to the rafters with big-budget swings like a new prequel and a positively stacked Apple TV+ originals slate, as well as highly anticipated returning faves like , , and We’ve narrowed down the shows we think will be on everyone’s lips in 2025. Jan. 2 Just days before Christmas in 1988, the UK saw its deadliest terror attack in history when a Pan Am flight was blown up over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 270 people. In , Colin Firth takes on the role of Jim Swire, who lost his daughter in the explosion and became the spokesperson for families who lost loved ones on board. He believes the government is covering up what really happened on the flight, but as 36 years of history reveal, the story is never clear. Jan. 9 If the title of Netflix’s gritty new drama implies something dangerous and evil, well, that’s the idea. chronicles the birth of the American West, with all the perils and violence that came with warring cultures and religions vying for dominance. Taylor Kitsch leads Peter Berg's series as a traumatized man traversing the terrain, with the always excellent Betty Gilpin as a mother looking for a guide across the country. They hope for freedom, but in the frontier, the best they can ask for may be survival. Jan. 9 Noah Wyle as an ER doc? In 2025? It’s more likely than you think. sees Wyle return to the fluorescent-lit hospital halls as the chief attendant at a Pittsburgh hospital. More than , each episode of the series follows one hour in Wyle’s 15-hour shift and aims to show the relentless conditions for modern-day healthcare workers in America, from crammed waiting rooms to nursing shortages. Jan. 22 After the sob-fest that was , we’re grateful that Leo Woodall’s follow-up series looks to be more adrenaline-spiking than tear-jerking. follows Woodall’s Edward Brooks, a math genius (hence the reference to prime numbers) on the brink of a major breakthrough who senses someone may be trying to thwart his discovery. He and the FBI agent sent to spy on him (Quintessa Swindell) will attempt to unravel the conspiracy at the heart of both of their work. Jan. 26 If there are three things that the average TV viewer loves, they are medical dramas, police procedurals, and innovative spins on recognizable IP. Enter , the new series about Sherlock Holmes’ doctor sidekick, which bills itself as part medical mystery, part detective show. Morris Chestnut takes the mantle of John Watson (following Lucy Liu’s run in the character’s last primetime procedural outing in ), who, after the death of Sherlock Holmes, sets up his own practice dedicated to strange and unusual medical issues. Jan. 28 Sterling K. Brown is teaming back up with creator Dan Fogleman for this series centered around the murder of the President of the United States (played by James Marsden, always a joy to see pop up in things). Brown plays the head of security, who just so happens to have been the last person to see him alive after being let in on something top secret and potentially world-altering. Cue the intrigue, espionage, gripping mysteries, and Brown doing what he does best: expertly playing a character we don’t know whether to root for or against. Feb. 16 ’s birthday bash has been a full-season affair so far, with legacy hosts and returning cast members galore. The actual big five-oh celebration for Lorne Michaels’ comedy brainchild will be a three-hour live special dedicated to the sketch show’s half-century run. Details so far are thin on the ground, with no word yet on who will take on hosting duties and who from the show’s illustrious run will be back for some nostalgic commemoration. Based on the show’s 40th anniversary special 10 years ago, we can certainly expect a carousel of big names and multiple musical guests. Feb. 20 , Netflix’s upcoming political thriller, marks Robert De Niro’s first step into the world of prestige TV, an impressive feat to hold off on considering so many of his A-list peers have made the jump over the last few years. He’ll be joined by Jesse Plemons, Dan Stevens, Lizzy Caplan, and Angela Bassett in the series, about a beloved and former United States president (De Niro, naturally) as he leads the investigation into a catastrophic cyberattack. Feb. 23 Move over David Attenborough, is coming for your bag. Hanks takes on narrating duties for this expansive docuseries that shows the beauty of nature spanning the most remote parts of both North and South America. The series was filmed over five years, taking viewers from the top of the world in the Arctic to the bottom in the Antarctic. Feb. 23 If there’s one thing that L.A. has in abundance, it’s lawyers. So it makes sense that the first spin-off of the wildly popular, Meghan Markle-starring series about NYC attorneys that after it ended in 2019, would decamp for the West Coast. The series stars Stephen Amell as a federal prosecutor from New York who moves to Hollywood to represent some of Los Angeles’ most powerful clients. Maggie Grace will also star. March 4 It’s been a long, long road to get us to ’s release. The long-awaited solo return for Charlie Cox’s blind superhero outside of the short-lived Marvel-Netflix partnership was first announced in 2022, but by 2023 it was undertaking a massive creative overhaul with ’s Dario Scardapane brought in as showrunner. The show, which has been billed as a continuation of the character’s initial three-season Netflix run rather than a reboot, will bring back series originals Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio as villain Kingpin, and Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson and Karen Page to the gritty streets of New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. March 14 is another crime novel adaptation set to hit the small screen next year. screenwriter Peter Craig’s 2009 story will star and Wagner Moura as a duo that runs a grift posing as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to realize they’ve stumbled across the biggest narcotics corridor on the East Coast. Ridley Scott will executive produce. March 20 So far, Netflix’s more than $100-million deal with Shonda Rhimes has given us the bodice-ripping behemoth , its spin-off , and the Anna Delvey miniseries . The newest jewel in the crown is , a murder mystery set within the walls of the White House. Described as an “upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs” story, the series stars Uzo Aduba as the eccentric detective alongside Giancarlo Esposito and Randall Park. March 26 The sign of truly making it in Hollywood isn’t an award or a mansion in the hills, it’s wracking up enough caché to get , Ron Howard, Charlize Theron, Zac Efron, and Kathryn Hahn to berate you on screen. stars Seth Rogen as a movie studio head on the brink of existential crisis as he tries to toe the line between making art and “movies with a capital M.” The trailer alone is like a rolodex of big-name cameos playing heightened versions of themselves, which, when executed well, can be delightful. April 11 Jon Hamm as a somewhat sociopathic businessman conning his way through New York? We think we’ve seen this one before. In , Hamm will lead his first TV series since and suit back up as a hedge fund manager who, after losing his job and marriage, starts stealing from the wealthy residents of his suburb. Naturally, the con gets out of hand, and when he steals the wrong thing from the wrong house, his new life of petty crime starts to unravel. The series will also star Olivia Munn and Amanda Peet. April 16 Another series in Apple TV+’s loaded slate is , starring and executive-produced by . The surrealist comedy is set in 1969 and revolves around a quirky family in L.A. Oyelowo plays its patriarch who, after being released from prison, tries to curry favor with his wife and kids who resent his absence and have seemingly built a strange life around lofty pursuits and odd hobbies in the time he’s been away. The show is created by Paul Hunter, dubbed one of the most influential hip-hop music video directors of all time. Unsurprisingly, early images of the series look gorgeous. Summer TBA The franchise has had a long and storied existence in cinema (the latest installment, , came out this year), but will be its first live-action iteration on TV. They’ve brought in the big guns for the xenomorph’s small-screen debut, roping in series creator Noah Hawley to helm the (space) ship. The series is a prequel to the original 1979 Ridley Scott film starring Sigourney Weaver and takes place on Earth after a mysterious vessel containing a dangerous entity (three guesses for what it might be!) threatens life as we know it. TBA Owen Wilson is pitching on the green in , a comedy about golf. He stars as Pryce Cahill, an ex-pro golfer who, after having his career prematurely cut short, becomes the coach for a troubled but talented 17-year-old. If you’ve seen (2016) or (1984), you might get a sense of what we’re in for. There’s still a lot of mystery around this series, but we do know that Timothy Olyphant and Judy Greer will also star. TBA Taron Egerton will team back up with creator for , a fictionalized take on the true-crime podcast of the same name about the hunt for an arsonist who seemed to confess their crimes in a novel manuscript. Egerton will star as an enigmatic arson investigator on the hunt for two serial arsonists terrorizing the area. The series will also star Jurnee Smollet, John Leguizamo, and Rafe Spall. TBA Jason Momoa wears multiple hats in a series he wrote, executive produced and stars in. It tells the story of the bloody and brutal colonization of Hawaii from the indigenous point of view, and Momoa stars as the warrior Ka'iana, known as the "most famous Hawaiian in the world.” TBA The universe continues to expand its reach. Along with , 2025 will see another prequel come our way. The series is set 100 years before ’s Targaryen turf war and is based on the novellas in George R. R. Martin’s original series. It revolves around a naive knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his squire known as Egg. Martin will write the series and has said it will have a different tone to its successors but it’s still Westeros so “No one is truly safe.” TBA “ ” is extending its run into 2025 with , a comedy series Powell co-created with Michael Waldron based on Eli Manning’s character of the same name. Taking inspo from Manning’s ESPN docuseries in which he went undercover during college football tryouts, Powell will play a disgraced college quarterback who tries to get a second shot at his big break by disguising himself on a new college team under a different identity (bad wig and prosthetics included!). TBA For those pleading for the return of good old-fashioned classic rom-coms, you may be in luck with , Tina Fey’s remake of the 1981 Alan Alda and Carol Burnett comedy, which was a love story about friendship as much as it was a romance. The story follows three couples who vacation with each other each season, but their harmony is thrown off balance when one of them gets divorced and brings a new partner into the fold. Fey will lead the show and reunite with her co-star Steve Carrell. Elsewhere in the cast, we have Will Forte, Colman Domingo, Kerri Kenney-Silver, and Erika Henningsen. TBA The snapshots of the child-murdering sewer clown Pennywise’s history that we got in (2017) and (2019) inform the story of , the prequel series about Maine’s most haunted town. Taking place 27 years before Stephen King’s original novel (because Pennywise only shows up in 27-year intervals), the show will explore the town’s first sightings and experiences with the dancing clown. Set in the 1960s, expect all the hallmarks of King’s penchant for vintage vignettes, including the looming fear of the Cold War as well as whatever monsters live beneath the sewer grates. TBA Liz Moore’s novel topped multiple year-end critics lists and was named one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year when it was released in 2020, so naturally, it is heading to the small screen with an adaptation. Amanda Seyfried will star in the series which follows a beat cop working as the opioid crisis grips the streets of Philadelphia. Her sister, who she’s more or less estranged from, battles on the fringes of addiction and the latest danger that sweeps the city, a killer who targets sex workers. TBA After Mindy Kaling wrapped up her Netflix high school rom-com last year, questions turned to where she’d go next. The answer is not very far. She is back with the streamer for her next creation, , a Kate Hudson-starring series about a woman who inherits the top seat of her family business—one of the biggest basketball franchises in the country. Sitcom lovers will rejoice at the show’s supporting cast, which includes Drew Tarver, of the sublimely hilarious , Brenda Song, whose renaissance the internet is cheering on enthusiastically, and Max Greenfield, who’s not playing Schmidt from but who will always be Schmidt in our hearts. TBA If you, like seemingly the rest of the world in 2024, decided to rewatch and now yearn for more of Lena Dunham’s specific lens on the world of friendship and romance, you’re in luck! She’s back with , a series she’s written with her husband Luis Felber, about a New Yorker who moves to London after a painful breakup and meets a handsome and kind local. Considering Dunham herself moved from the Big Apple to the other side of the pond and married a hot Brit, we sense there could be some autobiographical license. If the premise wasn’t enough, Dunham has roped in Meg Stalter, consistently one of the funniest people on screen (watch !) and Season 2’s hunky nerd Will Sharpe. We’re so back, baby! TBA Although Netflix’s mononymous David Beckham 2023 docuseries focused on the footballer’s ascent to “Golden Balls” status, it was his wife Victoria, the fashion designer and former Spice Girl, who came out as the real star. The series reminded viewers that behind the pout, Victoria has always had a razor-sharp wit and isn’t precious when it comes to joking about herself (as seen in her previous satirical reality show ). Unsurprisingly, the streamer has jumped on that goodwill and greenlit another series, this time focused on Victoria and her shift from extravagant pop star to quiet luxury fashion mogul. Jan. 9 The most gripping reality TV series out there, is thankfully returning very early on in 2025. Happy New Year to us! The show where celebrities are pitted against each other in a high-stakes party game of Mafia, in which some are designated secret “traitors” who are vying to get others eliminated to steal the top prize, is heading back to the Scottish Highlands with Alan Cumming as host (we would riot if not!) and the likes of Bob the Drag Queen, Chrishell Stause, Dorinda Medley, and Tom Sandoval competing in the mix. Jan. 17 The wait between Seasons 1 and 2 of Ben Stiller’s high-concept workplace drama felt longer than that stretch between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the office on any given Wednesday, but finally, it’s upon us. Adam Scott is back as Mark, an employee of , where employees can separate their work memories from their real-life memories. Season 1 gave us plenty of mysteries about what Lumon is actually up to; let’s hope Season 2 gives us some answers before it clocks out for the end of its shift. Jan. 23 After its first season launched as one of the most watched shows in Netflix’s history, it was only a matter of time (a month, to be exact) before was greenlit for a second (and third) series. Gabriel Basso’s FBI agent Peter Sutherland is back for more explosive twists and turns as he gets further immersed in Night Action, a secret organization full of danger. Jan. 30 semi-autobiographical comedy series about his life as a Palestinian refugee in Houston is back for a second season. The show, which is co-created by Ramy Youssef, will pick up with Mo’s continued attempts at seeking asylum in the U.S., but in Season 2 he’s stranded across the border in Mexico without a passport. Feb 14 What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with a bit of survival-based cannibalism? Season 2 of , the dual-timeline series about a group of teens who got stranded in the wilderness, created even more tension and questions than its first outing. In Season 3, it looks like the team is getting hunted by someone who knows their secret—but everyone who knows the story is “us or dead.” Feb. 16 The third installment of Mike White’s resort-based murder mystery is one of the most anticipated shows of 2025, especially after the in late 2022. Following from Hawaii and then Italy, this series takes place at the White Lotus branch in Thailand. Naturally, White has cobbled together a killer (literally, perhaps) cast including Parker Posey, Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, and Lisa from the K-pop girl group Blackpink. April 22 spin-off shows haven’t had the most success lately, but among the expansive galaxy’s offerings. The show chronicles the events leading up to 2016’s , with intelligence officer Cassian Andor anchoring the series. While Season 1 took place over a single year, Season 2 will span four years. Spring TBA It will have been almost three years since the last season of by the time Season 6, the show’s last, lands in our laps next year, but the creators have promised that the wait will have been worth it. Season 5 left us with an unlikely team-up and an increasingly authoritarian threat in Canada. TBA ’s popularity has bubbled over like a pot of boiling water since its debut. Its second season swept every award going and while its third season was met with a more mixed bag of reviews, it's still one of the most talked about shows on TV right now—not least because it's banging out seasons in a way we haven’t seen in decades. Four seasons in four years? We forgot we could live like this! TBA satirical anthology about technology’s chokehold on us will be back for a seventh season, so be prepared to start looking at your cell phone or air fryer with some suspicion again. The series will include Emma Corrin, Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones, Cristin Milioti, and Chris O’Dowd. TBA Apple TV+’s answer to is the story of five ambitious high-society American women navigating the culture clash of 1870s London. Greg Wise and Leighton Meester will be joining the show’s second season. TBA Never has a TBA been more TBA than when it comes to , Sam Levinson’s dive into the drug-addled, sex-fueled lives of teenagers. While its cast, including Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, and Sydney Sweeney, have entered bonafide Hollywood A-list status began in 2022, Levinson has confirmed that the show will be back for a third season that’s due to start filming in January. It’s said there will be a time jump from last season, meaning the characters will have aged out of being teenagers. TBA Julian Fellowes’ , set in late-1800s New York, proves that great drama can be found anywhere, even in high-society quibbles over who has the superior opera house. Season 3 will see an evolving New York, where the old guard has been usurped and new socialites run the town. became one of the most popular and gripping shows with its 2023 debut, putting to bed the idea that video games can’t be successfully adapted to the screen and solidifying Pedro Pascal’s “Internet Daddy” status. Season 2 will be based on the game’s second installment, , meaning we’re time-jumping a few years into the future with Bella Ramsey’s Ellie being 19 rather than 14. TBA Rian Johnson has truly cornered the market in whodunits or, as he calls , a howcatchem. will return as Charlie Cale, a case-of-the-week Las Vegas detective, pointing fingers at all manner of big-name guest stars. Kumail Nanjiani, Katie Holmes, John Mulaney, Ego Nwodim, and Sam Richardson will all pop by this season. TBA It’s been so long since ’ last season that we’re almost ready to bring “Running Up That Hill” for its second cultural renaissance just to feel something. Still, the wait will hopefully be worth it as we get ready to say goodbye to Hawkins, the Upside Down, and all the characters who are definitely still supposed to be 15-year-olds despite this show nearing its 10th anniversary. After Hawkins gave way to Vecna’s destruction last season, the gang will have to pool together one last time to save their town from its biggest villain yet. TBA Season 1 launched to unprecedented levels of popularity in 2023, usurping ’ chokehold when it came to streaming numbers. Its second installment has a lot to live up to, but if Jenna Ortega’s sardonic take on the classic pigtail-braided character has taught us anything, it’s that we should never underestimate The Addams Family (and that black really does look good with everything). TBA Will finally get what’s coming to him? That’s the question we’ll all be asking as we head into ’s final season. After murdering his way through New York, California, and London with varying degrees of success, Penn Badgley’s stalking serial killer is back on home turf, although this time he’s got a multi-millionaire wife to hide behind.In a city with no shortage of grisly, tragic or depraved crimes, 2024 stood out as a particularly violent year in New York history. Several disturbing murders shocked even the most jaded New Yorkers for their sheer savagery and brutality, whether it was the assassination of a health care CEO on a Midtown street, the heart-wrenching starvation death of a 4-year-old Harlem boy allegedly at the hands of his own parents, or the gruesome death of a homeless woman set on fire on a Brooklyn subway train as the accused killer calmly watched her burn to death from a platform bench. In a killing that grabbed worldwide attention, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson , 50, on a Midtown sidewalk on Dec. 4. After a five-day interstate manhunt , Mangione was found in an Altoona, Pa., McDonald’s with a 3D printed ghost gun, the fake ID he used to check into a Manhattan hostel and a handwritten manifesto that read, in part, “Frankly, these parasites had it coming.” Mangione, valedictorian of his Baltimore private high school and an Ivy league computer science major, was extradited to New York City on Dec. 19. Initially charged with first-degree murder and terrorism charges by New York State, Mangione was instead arraigned in Federal Court on charges of murder, stalking and firearm offenses. The federal charges could result in the death penalty. Despite being accused of the cold-blooded murder of a father of two, Mangione’s apparent anger toward the health insurance industry prompted an outpouring of support and sympathy for him. He is due back in court in Manhattan in January. Nadia Vitels, a 52-year-old woman found dead inside a duffel bag in the closet of a Kips Bay apartment on March 14 by her son was later discovered to have been attacked and killed by a pair of squatters four days earlier, who then stole her credit card and car and went on the run, according to prosecutors. Nadia Vitels was killed by blunt force trauma to the head , said the city’s Medical Examiner. The duo — Halley Tejada, 19, of Manhattan, and Kensly Alston, 18, of the Bronx — were grabbed by U.S. Marshals in York, Pa., after cops said they had crashed Vitels’ car and gotten engaged on the road with a ring they bought with Vitels’ card, cops said. They were hit with multiple charges, including murder, concealment of a human corpse and grand larceny. Family, friends and neighbors were devastated to find out that the body found wrapped in a sleeping bag, placed on a dolly and left by the trash on E. 27 th St. near Third Ave. on July 5 was 31-year-old Buffalo State College grad Yazmeen Williams, who had lived for a time in the nearby Straus Houses. Residents of the Straus Houses began to immediately suspect 55-year-old Chad Irish, who lived two blocks away — especially after video of a man in a wheelchair dumping Williams’ body was widely seen on social media. Williams had also been his roommate. After being confronted by several neighbors and pulling a gun in response , Irish was swarmed by an angry crowd just as police came to arrest him on July 8. Cops and medics had to fight their way through the irate mob while carrying Irish on a gurney. Irish was charged with murder , concealment of a human corpse, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon. On Nov. 26 Aliya Fakhri, the sister of Bollywood movie star Nargis Fakhri , was arrested for murder and arson, accused of setting the fire that killed her ex Edward Jacobs, 35, and his new pal Anastasia “Star” Ettienne, 33. The blaze was set in a cluttered two-story garage Jacobs was squatting in behind a private home in Jamaica,Queens on Nov. 2. Jacobs was asleep when Fakhri allegedly came in screaming “You’re going to die today!” before starting the fire, according to a witness. Ettienne died while trying to wake Jacobs to get him out of the burning garage. “It was an abusive relationship,” a man who escaped said of the relationship between Jacobs and the accused arsonist. “She told everybody [in the past] she was going to burn his house down, that she was going to kill him. We just laughed at her.” The murder of Jacklyn Timinski— struck in the head with a kettlebell by former celebrity photographer Benjamin Lozovsky, according to cops— sent her boyfriend Juan Boria on a downward spiral of grief that included a string of arrests, desperate attempts to get him help and finally ending with him being fatally stabbed weeks later in a tussle with a homeless man over a box to sleep in. Lozovsky, 41, was found naked and bloody on Timinski’s Bronx lawn Sept. 8, after police say he smashed her head in with a kettlebell. According to law enforcement sources, the pair had gone to the victim’s home to do drugs. Boria, 51, continued living among blood spatter in the Throggs Neck house where Timinski was attacked and was not taking medication for his bipolar disorder, according to his heartbroken son, Joshua Boria. After an encounter with Robert Brent, a 52-year-old homeless man who was mourning his own loss, Boria was fatally stabbed in the abdomen in the bustling commercial area of the Bronx called the Hub on Oct. 26. Lozovsky is due back in court Jan. 15. It was horrific enough that the boy was being starved to death by his own parents . But what took 4-year-old Jahmeik Modlin’s death over the top was that he died in a Harlem apartment that was reportedly stocked with food. Prosecutors said the home where the malnourished boy lived his last days was a feces-covered hellhole where the cupboards were locked with zip ties and the refrigerator was turned to the wall so Jahmeik and his sisters couldn’t open it. His sisters, ages 5, 6 and 7, managed to survive under the same conditions, although none of them were able to ingest solid food when they were rescued in October. The boy’s mom, Nytavia Ragsdale, 26, was jailed and charged with criminally negligent homicide and endangering the welfare of a child after Jahmeik was found unconscious, malnourished and suffering from hypothermia outside their apartment on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. near W. 145th St. Days later, the boy’s father, Laron Modlin, 25, was arrested on similar charges. Relatives said the family had been on the radar of the city’s child welfare agency, whose handling of the case is being reviewed by the city’s Department of Investigation. Grisly doesn’t begin to describe this head-scratching caper, which somehow managed to link Yonkers and the South Bronx to a pair of severed hands found in a bleach-filled crockpot. It started with burning body parts dumped under a Yonkers bridge in August that cops traced back to a Bronx apartment. There, investigators found a black bag in a freezer that contained a human leg in an apartment in a building on Rogers Place near Dawson St. Caught on camera were a man and a woman who rented a room in the apartment. Muhammad Aadil, 40, and Ronei Harris, 18, were indicted for murder and related charges in the death of 46-year-old Lutalo Henderson, the Bronx DA said. Aadil and Harris allegedly killed Henderson after a dispute in the home that Aadil shared with Henderson, the Bronx DA said. The two then wrapped the torso in trash bags and took it in a shopping cart to Yonkers on the Metro North Train. They set the shopping cart on fire under the Oak Street Bridge, the DA said. Police, using surveillance videos, traced the murder back to the Bronx. “This was brutal disregard for a human being.” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said when she announced the indictments. New York City was rocked by a murder-suicide in July that unfolded on an Upper East Side street just a block away from the mayor’s heavily-guarded residence. Police said single mom, Marisa Galloway, 45, was shot to death by her former mother-in-law in a bitter custody battle that reached its deadly climax just a half-block away from Gracie Mansion. Shooting suspect and grandmother Kathleen Leigh’s son is the father of Galloway’s 4-year-old daughter. Authorities said Leigh, 65, escalated the contentious custody fight by shooting Galloway outside a white Honda Civic on E. 88th Street around 9 a.m. on July 26 before shooting herself. Galloway’s other daughter, a 1-year-old girl, was in the car. She was unhurt. In a suicide note, Leigh described herself as a terminally-ill cancer patient and accused Galloway of child abuse, an accusation debunked by city child’s services investigators. Galloway was a special education teacher, described by neighbors and friends as a loving, doting mother. A Brooklyn artist was murdered in October at an upscale Hamptons wellness spa by an ex-boyfriend who later killed himself in a shocking murder-suicide filled with emotion and intrigue. Sabina Rojas, 33, was part of the 2021 Technology Immersion Program at Harvestworks, a New York-based nonprofit that helps artists creating work with technology. She received a scholarship from the organization that spring. More recently, Rosas had won her first residency, which was due to begin in Portugal in November. She launched a GoFundMe over the summer asking for contributions as a birthday gift. Her boyfriend Thomas Gannon, who went on to kill her, contributed $1,000, making him the top donor. “You have an amazing gift and soon all the world will see,” he posted on the fundraising page. “I love you.” Rosas, 33, was staying at the posh Shou Sugi Ban House in Water Mill with Gannon, 56, who was later seen leaving the spa alone, according to cops. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his home in Honesdale, Pa., according to Suffolk County police. Rosas was married, but was estranged from her husband, authorities said. He set her on fire, then he watched her burn. That’s what cop said a Guatemalan immigrant did to a homeless woman on a Brooklyn subway train last Sunday, just days before Christmas. Cops said Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, approached the sleeping woman without saying a word and set fire to her clothes , engulfing her in flames “in a matter of seconds.” Surveillance video appears to show him sitting on a bench watching the woman burn as police officers quickly responded around 7:30 a.m. on an F train pulling into the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn. Zapeta-Calil has been charged with first- and second-degree murder and first-degree arson, according to police. “The depravity of this horrific crime is beyond comprehension, and my office is committed to bringing the perpetrator to justice. This gruesome and senseless act of violence against a vulnerable woman will be met with the most serious consequences,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. Police released body camera images of the suspect to the public, and three high school-age New Yorkers recognized him and called the police, officials said.

The slump in the number of people heading to the shops during Boxing Day sales signals a return to declining pre-pandemic levels, an analyst has said. Boxing Day shopper footfall was down 7.9% from last year across all UK retail destinations up until 5pm, MRI Software’s OnLocation Footfall Index found. However, this year’s data had been compared with an unusual spike in footfall as 2023 was the first “proper Christmas” period without Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, an analyst at the retail technology company said. It found £4.6 billion will be spent overall on the festive sales. Before the pandemic the number of Boxing Day shoppers on the streets had been declining year on year. The last uplift recorded by MRI was in 2015. Jenni Matthews, marketing and insights director at MRI Software, told the PA news agency: “We’ve got to bear in mind that (last year) was our first proper Christmas without any (Covid-19) restrictions or limitations. “Figures have come out that things have stabilised, we’re almost back to what we saw pre-pandemic.” There were year-on-year declines in footfall anywhere between 5% and 12% before Covid-19 restrictions, she said. MRI found 12% fewer people were out shopping on Boxing Day in 2019 than in 2018, and there were 3% fewer in 2018 than in 2017, Ms Matthews added. She said: “It’s the shift to online shopping, it’s the convenience, you’ve got the family days that take place on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.” People are also increasingly stocking-up before Christmas, Ms Matthews said, and MRI found an 18% increase in footfall at all UK retail destinations on Christmas Eve this year compared with 2023. Ms Matthews said: “We see the shops are full of people all the way up to Christmas Eve, so they’ve probably got a couple of good days of food, goodies, everything that they need, and they don’t really need to go out again until later on in that week. “We did see that big boost on Christmas Eve. It looks like shoppers may have concentrated much of their spending in that pre-Christmas rush.” Many online sales kicked off between December 23 and the night of Christmas Day and “a lot of people would have grabbed those bargains from the comfort of their own home”, she said. She added: “I feel like it’s becoming more and more common that people are grabbing the bargains pre-Christmas.” Footfall is expected to rise on December 27 as people emerge from family visits and shops re-open, including Next, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis that all shut for Boxing Day. It will also be payday for some as it is the last Friday of the month. A study by Barclays Consumer Spend had forecast that shoppers would spend £236 each on average in the Boxing Day sales this year, but that the majority of purchases would be made online. Nearly half of respondents said the cost-of-living crisis will affect their post-Christmas shopping but the forecast average spend is still £50 more per person than it was before the pandemic, with some of that figure because of inflation, Barclays said. Amid the financial pressures, many people are planning to buy practical, perishable and essential items such as food and kitchenware. A total of 65% of shoppers are expecting to spend the majority of their sales budget online. Last year, Barclays found 63.9% of Boxing Day retail purchases were made online. However, a quarter of respondents aim to spend mostly in store – an 11% rise compared with last year. Karen Johnson, head of retail at Barclays, said: “Despite the ongoing cost-of-living pressures, it is encouraging to hear that consumers will be actively participating in the post-Christmas sales. “This year, we’re likely to see a shift towards practicality and sustainability, with more shoppers looking to bag bargains on kitchen appliances and second-hand goods.” Consumers choose in-store shopping largely because they enjoy the social aspect and touching items before they buy, Barclays said, adding that high streets and shopping centres are the most popular destinations.3rd China-Indian Ocean Forum: Pakistan underlines Gwadar development under CPEC

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Thiruvananthapuram: Higher education minister R Bindu has emphasised the critical need for collaboration between cutting-edge research and dynamic startup ecosystems to address pressing global challenges. She was speaking after inaugurating the International Conference on Advanced Materials and Startup Ecosystem ( ICAMSE ). The conference was organised by Trivandrum Engineering Science and Technology Research Park at the College of Engineering, Trivandrum (CET). ICAMSE featured an illustrious lineup of plenary sessions and keynote talks by global experts from renowned institutions such as Gdansk University of Technology (Poland), Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan), Heriot-Watt University (UK), and leading Indian institutes, including IITs, NITs, IIST, Banaras Hindu University, and others. The event also hosted technical presentations and poster sessions, offering participants a platform to showcase innovative research. It provided ample networking opportunities and fostered meaningful collaborations poised to drive impactful innovations. Interactive discussions explored key themes such as entrepreneurial finance, green innovation, and sustainable business practices. Panel discussions highlighted the transformative potential of interdisciplinary research in addressing challenges across critical sectors, including healthcare, FinTech, climate tech, and education, while tackling hurdles within the startup ecosystem. Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , and Mini Crossword .