On New Year's Eve, we sing, "Should old acquaintance be forgot." But we never forget the biggest TV deaths of the past year.
Ned Stark (Sean Bean) lost his head on "Game of Thrones" in 2011. That still hurts. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) departed "Grey's Anatomy" in a 2015 car accident we're still dissecting. The brutal 2024 death of "Yellowstone" cornerstone John Dutton (Kevin Costner) lasted so long in the second half of Season 5 that it almost spilled into 2025.
But 2025 had its own traumatic televised casualties. Here are the most significant TV deaths of the past year.
And once more in 2025! Spoiler Alert for any 2025 show you haven't seen.
Despite internet rumors, Marge Simpson did not die in 2025 on "The Simpsons." But longtime church organist Alice Glick, who started in 1991's Season 2 (when the first George Bush was president), croaked.
