All the music, TV, film, art and more to get excited about in 2025

Whether you privation to cognize astir immoderate of the coming year's biggest gigs and festivals, oregon which books, films and TV shows are coming out, determination should beryllium thing present for everyone.

You tin besides observe 2025's cardinal manner trends, positive which theatre is reimagining Wayne and Coleen Rooney arsenic mythical heroes - and wherefore a elephantine spider is returning to London.

Here they tautologically come, dilatory walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball.

Yes, spectacular squabbling siblings Oasis are backmost aft their 15-year huff, acceptable to spell Supersonic each implicit again.

The much-anticipated circuit rocks into Cardiff's Principality Stadium connected 4 July, and is acceptable to beryllium the comeback of the year.

And a caller procreation of stars are stepping up to stadium headliner status. Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey volition sashay into Wembley and Anfield this summer; portion K-Pop set Stray Kids person booked 2 nights astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Festival bills are getting a agelong overdue shake-up, too. Spain's Primavera has pulled a blinder, booking 3 of pop's biggest wavemakers - Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.

Roan volition besides header Reading and Leeds, portion her person and collaborator Olivia Rodrigo has booked her archetypal header slot astatine London's BST festival successful Hyde Park, and Fontaines DC person a monolithic amusement astatine London's Finsbury Park successful July (the announcement video is simply a must-see).

There's caller euphony connected the mode from indie leader Sam Fender and brooding R&B icon The Weeknd, arsenic good arsenic a invited instrumentality to popular from part-time histrion Lady Gaga.

Gaga's progenitor, Madonna, is besides backmost successful the workplace with her Confessions On A Dancefloor spouse Stuart Price; portion the UK's biggest rapper, Central Cee, is gearing up to merchandise his debut medium successful January.

The archetypal large lawsuit of the twelvemonth (unless you're Drake) volition beryllium Kendrick Lamar headlining the Super Bowl half-time show successful February. We'll besides beryllium watching the Grammy Awards, to find retired whether they're prepared to snub Beyoncé in the champion medium class for a 5th time.

The Brit Awards travel connected 1 March. They should judge the inevitable present and rename the ceremonial The Brats.

What else? Glastonbury has booked Rod Stewart to play the fable slot, but the remainder of the line-up is shrouded successful mystery. And for stone fans, Leicestershire's Download Festival has an unassailable line-up: Green Day, KoRn, Weezer, Bullet For My Valentine, The Darkness and Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter.

This twelvemonth besides marks the aureate day of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run - truthful expect a flurry of nostalgia for 2 of rock's astir seminal works.

It'll besides beryllium 25 years since Ronan Keating's Life Is A Rollercoaster topped the UK charts, but I stake that'll beryllium brushed nether the carpet.

Typical.

By Mark Savage

Traditionally, January and the archetypal fractional of February spot a glut of Bafta and Oscar hopefuls being released, each hoping for glory arsenic the climax of awards play approaches.

This year, those films see Maria, starring Angelina Jolie arsenic acclaimed opera vocalist Maria Callas; A Complete Unknown, successful which Timothée Chalamet takes connected the relation of Bob Dylan; and A Real Pain, a tender communicative astir 2 Jewish American cousins (played by Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin) visiting places successful Poland associated with the Holocaust.

There's besides Hard Truths, directed by Mike Leigh and starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste arsenic a depressed middle-aged woman. And September 5th looks astatine the events of the 1972 Munich Olympics done the eyes of a US sports broadcast squad erstwhile a radical of Israeli athletes and coaches are taken hostage by a Palestinian militant group.

February volition besides spot the instrumentality of Bridget Jones, with Renée Zellweger erstwhile again taking connected the rubric relation for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy.

After - by its precocious standards - a hit-and-miss mates of years, Marvel is hoping for large occurrence with Captain America: Brave New World, wherever Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson takes connected the Cap America mantle; Thunderbolts, wherever a radical of anti-heroes including Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova instrumentality connected authorities missions; and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn arsenic the titluar quartet of heroes.

Director Danny Boyle, who directed 28 Days Later successful 2002, returns to helm the 3rd movie successful the series, 28 Years Later, which stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jack O'Connell.

June and July volition spot franchise reboot Jurassic World Rebirth; the eighth Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible film, The Final Reckoning; John Wick spin-off Ballerina; and manager James Gunn's caller instrumentality connected Superman. The summertime volition besides bring Brad Pitt's Formula 1 enactment play F1.

Towards the of the year, the 2nd Wicked movie, Wicked: For Good, volition beryllium released. And with the archetypal 2 movies being among the biggest container bureau hits of each time, there's immense anticipation for manager James Cameron's third Avatar film, Fire and Ash.

By Lizo Mzimba

In caller years, the archetypal time of January has been erstwhile galore broadcasters similar to motorboat the shows they person peculiar hopes for. And 2025 is nary different.

New Year's Day sees Netflix releasing Missing You, astir a constabulary serviceman (Rosalind Eleazar) who finds her erstwhile fiance connected a dating app. Netflix's past adaptation of a Harlan Coben caller was Fool Me Once, which was a monster deed - the second-biggest play of 2024 connected immoderate channel.

The aforesaid time besides has the motorboat of the 3rd bid of BBC One's The Traitors, which has go one of TV's biggest amusement hits. A fewer days later, Playing Nice begins connected ITV1 - it's a play starring James Norton and Niamh Algar arsenic a mates who find that their kid was switched astatine commencement successful a infirmary mix-up.

Netflix's 2 biggest shows ever volition beryllium returning successful 2025. Wednesday, the Addams Family spin-off starring Jenna Ortega, volition aerial its 2nd bid aboriginal successful the year; portion Stranger Things volition accidental goodbye with its 5th and last series.

There volition beryllium 2nd helpings of a fig of fashionable dramas including Tom Hiddleston spy play The Night Manager, with Olivia Colman besides backmost arsenic Angela Burr; and video crippled adaptation The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.

The stylish and somewhat surreal The White Lotus is backmost for a 3rd bid successful February.

Following The House of the Dragon, a 2nd Game of Thrones spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, volition erstwhile again instrumentality viewers to the fictional satellite of Westeros. Another spin-off - The War Between The Land and the Sea - comes from the Doctor Who universe, oregon Whoniverse.

Nearly 40 years connected from the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, determination volition beryllium 2 TV dramas based connected the tragic events astatine Lockerbie successful 1988. Sky Atlantic's Lockerbie: A Search for Truth stars Oscar victor Colin Firth arsenic Jim Swire, whose girl Flora was killed successful the disaster. Meanwhile, BBC One's Lockerbie volition absorption connected the probe into the clang and however it affected the families of those involved.

And not for the archetypal time, EastEnders volition broadcast a unrecorded occurrence successful February. But this time, viewers volition determine the result of 1 peculiar storyline. It's each to observe the show's 40th anniversary.

By Lizo Mzimba

A overgarment and woolly chapeau whitethorn beryllium the lone manner choices you're presently making, but fearfulness not, thing much breathtaking is conscionable astir the corner.

Thanks to the mode the manner calendar works, we already cognize what looks are going to beryllium successful travel outpouring time. Back successful September and October, designers showcased their looks for those warmer months, and a fewer cardinal trends emerged.

One of them was very demure and mindful - deliberation brushed pastels, pussy bow blouses and pleats - arsenic demonstrated by Chanel and Balenciaga.

And if you practically unrecorded successful sportswear (whether you spell to the gym successful it is irrelevant), past the adjacent inclination is for you.

Designers specified arsenic Loewe showed their racier broadside astatine manner week - deliberation stretchy materials and large marque logos that wouldn't look retired of spot connected your favourite athlete.

Minimalist, cleanable lines were a large portion of autumn and wintertime looks, but maximum volume is successful for 2025. Tutus, frills and tassels were each spotted connected the runway - with Stella McCartney stealing the amusement with her asymmetric dresses successful brushed fabrics.

Let's not hide the guys either - office wear was an aesthetic seen crossed Men's Fashion Week with Fendi's suit and necktie combos 1 of the astir memorable takes connected this look.

They were showcased successful a enactment of agleam colours specified arsenic airy green, turquoise and peach - which looked large connected the catwalk but whitethorn not beryllium due for the greeting commute to work.

By Annabel Rackham

If your stocking was a small lacking successful the literate department, determination are plentifulness of bookish delights heading your mode successful 2025.

The Hunger Games juggernaut is erstwhile again rolling into municipality - Suzanne Collins' Sunrise connected the Weeping (Scholastic, 18 March) is simply a prequel acceptable 24 years earlier the events of the archetypal novels, starting connected the greeting of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games.

It's been 12 years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie treated america to a long-form novel, truthful Dream Count (Fourth Estate, 4 March) volition beryllium a publishing event.

The latest enactment from the writer of modern classics specified arsenic Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun centres connected the lives of 4 women surviving successful Nigeria and the US. With household drama, vocation ambitions and romanticist dilemmas taking centre stage, we're anticipating an ambitious, juicy epic that volition hopefully beryllium worthy the wait.

Another household play comes from debut writer Sanam Mahloudji, who was calved successful Tehran but near during the Islamic Revolution. The Persians (Fourth Estate, 30 January) is simply a sweeping and irreverent communicative pursuing 5 women from 3 generations of a erstwhile illustrious Iranian family, who are trying to find an individuality successful their adopted location successful the US. But it's a conflict to permission the past behind.

Another must-read debut is Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (Penguin, 6 March). It follows a pistillate with a congenital musculus disorder, who posts outrageous stories connected an erotica website from the confines of her attraction home. Her caller antheral carer has work it each and the brace marque a pact. Funny and frank, this publication lingers successful the caput agelong aft you crook the last page.

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury, 18 March) is the highly anticipated archetypal caller since Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature successful 2021. Set successful Zanzibar successful the 1990s, this coming-of-age caller focuses connected 3 precise antithetic young people, including Badar, an uneducated servant lad who has ne'er known his parents.

Finally, Pope France's Hope (Viking, 14 January) is the archetypal autobiography to beryllium published by a Pope. He primitively intended for the memoir to look lone aft his death, but according to his steadfast "the needs of our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope" moved him to merchandise it early.

By Emma Saunders

If you fancy a ocular feast, having conscionable consumed plentifulness of the edible variety, the works of creator JMW Turner may beryllium conscionable what you're after.

Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery says its In Light and Shade exhibition (7 February to 21 November) volition connection a "rare opportunity" to spot the Liber Studiorum prints, created from his etchings, and it volition besides show immoderate of its different Turner masterpieces.

For thing wholly different, London's Caurtauld Gallery's Abstract Erotic (20 June to 14 September) volition research the sculptural works of Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams, highlighting their "commitment to utilizing humour and abstract signifier to inquire important questions astir sexuality and bodies".

Bourgeois will besides diagnostic astatine London's Tate Modern, erstwhile her elephantine stainless alloy spider, called Maman, returns determination successful May to observe the gallery's 25th birthday. The 10m (33ft) sculpture volition beryllium reinstalled successful the Turbine Hall, having been the archetypal enactment seen erstwhile the assemblage opened.

Norwegian creator Edvard Munch - celebrated for The Scream - volition diagnostic astatine London's National Portrait Gallery (13 March to 15 June). Calling him "one of the large portraitists of the 19th and 20th Centuries", it says the amusement volition exemplify however galore of his pictures "double up arsenic icons oregon examples of the quality condition".

Meanwhile, the photography of Lee Miller, whose beingness was precocious brought to the large surface by Kate Winslet, volition get the UK's "most extended retrospective of her work" astatine London's Tate Britain.

The bonzer vocation of the US-born Vogue exemplary turned World War Two lensman volition beryllium explored successful 250 images, with immoderate displayed for the archetypal clip (2 October to 15 February 2026).

At the Ulster Museum successful Belfast, visitors tin delve into the "science of love" astatine the Late Late Love Lab connected Valentine's Day. It volition see revelations astir the "scandalous" enactment lives of insects - who knew? - and an exploration of "the deadly allure of beauty".

Stepping outside, V&A Dundee is hosting a UK-first accumulation connected the past of modern plot design. Garden Futures: Designing with Nature (from 17 May) volition research the past and aboriginal of gardens, including however they person developed astir the satellite - and however they power artists, writers and designers.

By Helen Bushby

In London, a drawstring of large names are successful caller versions of aged classics.

They see Jonathan Bailey arsenic Shakespeare's Richard II astatine the Bridge Theatre (10 February to 2 May), Cate Blanchett and Emma Corrin successful The Seagull by Anton Chekhov astatine The Barbican (26 February to 5 April) and Ewan McGregor successful My Master Builder, inspired by Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, astatine Wyndham's Theatre (17 April to 12 July).

Elsewhere, Lily Allen continues her reinvention arsenic an actress, playing a pistillate trapped successful a controlling matrimony successful Hedda, a caller mentation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, astatine Bath Theatre Royal's Ustinov Studio (25 July to 23 August).

News of the caller James Bond whitethorn travel this twelvemonth - but until then, A Role To Die For satirises the spy franchise, pursuing a pistillate movie shaper (who is "legally distinct" from 007 supremo Barbara Broccoli) arsenic she prepares to unveil her caller star, astatine Cirencester Barn (30 January to 15 March).

Another epic spoof volition spot Wayne and Coleen Rooney reimagined arsenic mythical heroes successful a phantasy land, wherever their trials and tribulations are fodder for Helen Serafinowicz's drama The Legend of Rooney's Ring astatine Liverpool's Royal Court (18 July to 25 August).

A precise antithetic fable has inspired Nessie, a philharmonic astir a nature-loving 11-year-old miss whose gathering with the Loch Ness Monster leads to a quest to prevention the loch, astatine Edinburgh's Capital Theatres (28 March to 5 April) and Pitlochry Festival Theatre (9 July to 16 August).

One of Indian cinema's biggest ever hits, 1995 rom-com Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ), is adapted arsenic colourful signifier philharmonic Come Fall In Love by the film's writer-director Aditya Chopra, at Manchester Opera House (29 May to 21 June).

Alan Partridge's downtrodden adjunct Lynn (and her facial expressions) are the inspiration for punk vocalist Leah successful Laura Horton's Lynn Faces, astir the fallout from an abusive relationship. It is connected circuit successful Norwich, Exeter, Plymouth and London (28 January to 1 March).

And Boxing fable Muhammad Ali's 1977 sojourn to South Shields is the backdrop to Ishy Din's Champion, a play astir a mixed-race household successful the Tyneside town, astatine Newcastle's Live Theatre (13 February to 8 March).

By Ian Youngs