Source: FX Network / ATLANTA
As with every season of television, we see shows come — shoutout to HBO’s
House Of The Dragon and the
Bel-Air reboot on Peacock! — while also seeing shows come to an end. The latter can be a bit more painful for a diehard TV aficionado, especially if a specific character garners fan-favorite status. Many of the series finales we’ve seen so far, and a few shows still wrapping up final episodes well into the 2022 holiday season, feature more than a handful of sidekicks and co-leads who we could easily see as the star of their own series.
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The power in Audra McDonald’s performance from the latest and last season of
The Good Fight in the short featured clip alone (seen above) is proof enough that she could be the lead of a new legal series with a powerful Black female as the lead — still-grieving fans of
How To Get Away With Murder need something! We explore that option and a handful of others that could make for great additions to the 2023 TV season and beyond. Other standouts on our list include the dark humor that Zazie Beetz delivers on FX’s
Atlanta, the literal king status of Khary Payton on sci-fi favorite
The Walking Dead and rising Young Black Hollywood sensation Marsai Martin continuing the story of beloved
black-ish standout Diane Johnson outside of foreseeable cameos on the Shahidi-starring spinoff,
grown-ish.
Although it’s always great to welcome in new shows that feature new characters we’ll inevitably fall in love with, it doesn’t hurt to hold on to hope for a few of our fictional faves…right?
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Take a look below at our full list of standout characters from shows ending in 2022 that we think would make great stars of their own series. Let us know if you agree as well, and as always feel free to sound off with your own suggestions on the few we may have missed:
