What to Watch in March: 30 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies
March is overstuffed with new and returning shows—easily the biggest single-month haul since the start of the pandemic. Among other titles the month ahead will bring the long-awaited sci-fi series based on the Halo game franchise, the return of what might be TV's best comedy series (Atlanta), a new pirate comedy from the creator of What We Do in the Shadows, Adam McKay's dramatized look at the 1980s Lakers, a new Marvel series and Pixar film on Disney+, spinoffs from The Boys and Big Mouth, and new seasons of Bridgerton and Star Trek: Picard. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.
Additional content by Keith Kimbell.
Sci-fi series debuts March 24 on Paramount+
What does it take to bring one of the 21st century's most popular videogame franchises to the small screen? About nine years, two showrunners, and two different networks, for starters. Development on the Steven Spielberg-produced Halo first began in 2013 for Showtime, and after many years of little or no progress the project gained new life last year when it was traded to Paramount+ (in exchange for a new series adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth, which is now at Showtime).
Now guided solely by showrunner Steven Kane after Kyle Killen left the project prior to production—though Kane, too, is departing prior to beginning work on the just-greenlit second season—Halo follows the 26th century conflict between humanity and the alien Covenant, though the series canon (set in a new "Silver Timeline") will remain distinct from that of the game franchise to enable it to follow story avenues that would otherwise be impossible. Pablo Schreiber stars as Spartan supersoldier Master Chief, the sci-fi FPS franchise's main playable character—and, yes, you'll get to finally see his face—while Jen Taylor reprises her role from the games as the AI named Cortana. Filling out the main cast are Natascha McElhone, Bokeem Woodbine, Charlie Murphy, Yerin Ha, and Olive Gray.
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