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Premiere dates for new and returning shows and specials
New (
) and returning shows, TV movies, miniseries, and specials (including streaming exclusives) with announced premiere dates are listed below. All times are both ET/PT unless otherwise indicated. Items available to buy or rent through digital outlets (VOD, Prime Video, iTunes, etc.) are marked with a ($).
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| WED / November 16 | |||
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| Ben Gri |
Foreign/Drama |  |
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| Hostel Daze Trailer | Foreign/Comedy | Prime Video | |
In Her Hands  Trailer |
Documentary |  |
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| Leverage: Redemption Trailer | Drama | Freevee | |
| Limitless With Chris Hemsworth Trailer |
Reality | Disney+ | |
| The Lost Lotteries |
Foreign/Comedy | |
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| Martha Cooks |
Reality | The Roku Channel | |
| Master of Light Trailer |
Documentary |  8:30p |
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| Mind Your Manners Trailer |
Reality | |
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| Murder in the Heartland | Reality | ID, 9p | |
| Murder Under the Friday Night Lights | Reality | ID, 10p | |
| Off Track |
Foreign/Comedy/Drama | |
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| Racionais MC's: From the Streets of São Paulo Trailer |
Documentary/Music | |
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The Santa Clauses  Trailer |
Comedy/Family | Disney+ | |
| Tim Allen returns for a miniseries sequel to his 1994 holiday movie The Santa Clause (and its two feature film sequels). Also back are Elizabeth Mitchell and David Krumholtz (who wisely skipped the third film), joined by newcomers like Kal Penn and (in a cameo) Peyton Manning. Jason Winer (Modern Family) directs, while Jack Burditt (30 Rock) produces. | |||
| Where Is Private Dulaney? Trailer |
Reality | |
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| The Wonder Trailer |
Drama/Thriller | |
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| The latest from Sebastián Lelio (Gloria, A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience) is an adaptation of Room author Emma Donoghue’s 1862-set novel about an English nurse (Florence Pugh) who travels to the Irish Midlands to observe an 11-year-old girl who has survived months without food, making her a saint to many in her tiny village. Critics had good things to say about the psychological thriller (which also opens in theaters on November 2nd) when it debuted at Telluride in September. | |||
| THU / November 17 | |||
| 1899 Trailer |
Foreign/Drama/Horror | |
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| No, it's not another Yellowstone prequel. Instead, the team behind Netflix's hit German series Dark returns with a multilingual series that follows an ill-fated steamship voyage from London to New York in the late 19th century. | |||
| Christmas Party Crashers |
Drama | BET+ | |
| A Christmas Story Christmas Trailer |
Comedy/Drama/Family | HBO Max | |
| This sequel to the beloved 1983 holiday comedy A Christmas Story finds Ralphie (played once again by Peter Billingsley, who has spent most of the past few decades on the other side of the camera as a director and producer) returning to his childhood home with his own kids in tow. Also returning from the original film are Zack Ward, Scott Schwartz, Ian Petrella, and R.D. Robb, while new faces include Julie Hagerty (taking over as Ralphie's mom) and Erinn Hayes (as Ralphie's wife). It's technically the third sequel to the original film, though you'd be forgiven if you can't remember 1994's dud It Runs in the Family (aka My Summer Story) or the straight-to-video 2012 sequel A Christmas Story 2. | |||
| Christmas With You Trailer |
Rom-com | |
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| Netflix's first new holiday rom-com of at least the past 48 hours stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Aimee Garcia. | |||
| Dead to Me Trailer | Comedy/Drama | |
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| Dragons: The Nine Realms Trailer | Animation/Family | Hulu/Peacock | |
| First Wives Club Trailer | Comedy | BET+ | |
| Fleishman Is in Trouble Trailer |
Rom-com | |
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| Another FX-but-Really-Only-on-Hulu™ original series, Fleishman Is in Trouble is an eight-episode adaptation of the book of the same name by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (who also scripted the adaptation). Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine), the series stars Jesse Eisenberg as a recently divorced New York doctor who just begins to re-enter the dating pool when his ex-wife (Claire Danes) disappears, leaving him to care for their two young children. Lizzy Caplan and Adam Brody also star, while Josh Radnor and Christian Slater also have recurring roles. Two episodes stream today. | |||
| Gangs of London Trailer Red-band trailer | Drama | AMC+ | |
| I Am Vanessa Guillén Trailer |
Documentary | |
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| Leopard Skin Trailer |
Drama | Peacock | |
| Muxes |
Documentary | HBO Max | |
| Paradise | Foreign/Sci-fi | HBO Max | |
| Pepsi, Where's My Jet? Trailer |
Reality | |
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Pickled  |
Sports-adjacent |  9p |
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| Stephen Colbert hosts a celebrity pickleball tournament. Competitors include Will Ferrell, Aisha Tyler, Daniel Dae Kim, Murray Bartlett, Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Luis Guzman, Max Greenfield, Phil Keoghan, Sugar Ray Leonard, Dierks Bentley, Kelly Rowland, and Emma Watson. | |||
| Santa Camp Trailer |
Documentary | HBO Max | |
| The Sex Lives of College Girls Trailer | Comedy | HBO Max | |
| Season 2 kicks off with two episodes today (and two more arriving each Thursday through December 15). | |||
| Sweet Navidad |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Top Gear | Reality | BBC America, 10p | |
| FRI / November 18 | |||
| Bad Axe Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Best in Snow Trailer |
Reality competition | Disney+ | |
| Blue's Big City Adventure Trailer |
Family | Paramount+ | |
| Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. The World Trailer | Reality competition | WOW Presents Plus | |
| A Country Christmas Harmony |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| The Cuphead Show! Trailer | Animation/Family | |
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| Disenchanted Trailer |
Family/Musical/Fantasy | Disney+ | |
| Rescheduled from November 24. The long-awaited sequel to the 2007 Disney princess movie Enchanted comes from director Adam Shankman (Hairspray) and finds returning cast members Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Idina Menzel, and James Marsden joined by newcomers Maya Rudolph, Oscar Nunez, and Yvette Nicole Brown. | |||
| Elite Trailer | Foreign/Drama | |
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| Emeril Cooks |
Reality | The Roku Channel | |
| Food Affair with Mark Wiens |
Reality | HBO Max | |
| The Good Detective | Foreign/Drama | |
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| The Great British Baking Show: Holidays Trailer | Reality competition | |
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| Inside Job | Animation/Comedy | |
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| Interrupting Chicken |
Animation/Family | Apple TV+ | |
| Inventing the Christmas Prince |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| Josh Turner: King Size Manger |
Music | UP, 7p | |
| Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| The Last Cowboy | Reality | CMT, 10p | |
| The Last Manhunt Trailer |
Western | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Love, Charlie |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Martha Holidays |
Reality | The Roku Channel | |
| Mickey: The Story of a Mouse Trailer |
Documentary | Disney+ | |
| Jeff Malmberg (Marwencol) directs a look at the history of Walt Disney's most famous character, Mickey Mouse. A new animated short, “Mickey in a Minute,” accompanies the documentary. | |||
| Missing |
Foreign/Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| The People We Hate at the Wedding Trailer |
Comedy | Prime Video | |
| A trio of American siblings reconnect at a wedding in Britain in a raunchy Amazon comedy starring Kristen Bell, Allison Janney, and Ben Platt. | |||
| Planet Sex With Cara Delevingne |
Reality | |
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| Poppy |
Drama | IndiePix | |
| Reign Supreme |
Foreign/Drama/Music | |
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| Sam & Kate Trailer |
Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| She Inherited Danger |
Drama | LMN, 8p | |
| Slumberland Trailer |
Family/Adventure/Comedy | |
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| Somebody |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Spirited Trailer |
Comedy/Family/Musical | Apple TV+ | |
| Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell head the cast for a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' holiday classic A Christmas Carol. Octavia Spencer and Sunita Mani also star for director Sean Anders (Daddy's Home). The film, which features new original songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land), will also play in theaters beginning November 11. | |||
| Taurus |
Drama/Music | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| There There |
Drama/Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Jason Schwartzman, Lili Taylor, and Lennie James star in the latest indie dramedy from Andrew Bujalski (Support the Girls), which is also in theaters today. | |||
| The Violence Action |
Foreign/Action/Drama | |
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| The Wonderful Autumn of Mickey Mouse Trailer |
Animation/Family | Disney+ | |
| Ziwe Trailer | Talk/Comedy |  11p |
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| SAT / November 19 | |||
| 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Trailer |
Music | 8p |
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| Christmas at Pine Valley |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| The Holiday Switch |
Drama | UP, 7p | |
| Life in Colour |
Documentary/Nature | BBC America, 8p | |
| Long Lost Christmas |
Drama | HMM, 10p | |
| Santa Bootcamp |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Three Wise Men and a Baby |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| Vardy vs Rooney: The Wagatha Trial |
Reality | discovery+ | |
| SUN / November 20 | |||
| 2022 American Music Awards |
Live event/Music |  8p |
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| The Case of the Christmas Diamond |
Drama | ION, 8p | |
| Christmas Lucky Charm |
Drama | UP, 7p | |
| Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium Trailer |
Live event | Disney+ | |
| The L Word: Generation Q Trailer | Drama | 8p |
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| Guests in season 3 include Margaret Cho, Kehlani, and Joey Lauren Adams. Each weekly episode will also be available to stream two days early (on Fridays). | |||
| My Favorite Christmas Tree |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| A Show-Stopping Christmas |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| This Is Life With Lisa Ling | Reality | CNN, 10p | |
| A Waltons Thanksgiving |
Drama |  8p |
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| Now do you believe that the average age of a CW viewer is 58? Is this not enough for you? | |||
| When I Think of Christmas |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| Ziwe | Talk/Comedy | 11p |
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| MON / November 21 | |||
| Below Deck | Reality | Bravo, 8p | |
| Death in the Dorms |
Reality | |
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| Kids Baking Championship: Gobble Goodies |
Reality competition | Food, 9p | |
| My Little Pony: Winter Wishday |
Animation/Family | |
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| StoryBots: Answer Time |
Animation/Family | |
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| TUE / November 22 | |||
| The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters |
Reality | History, 10p | |
| Blood Relatives |
Horror | Shudder | |
| Dangerous Breed: Crime. Cons. Cats. Trailer |
Reality | Peacock | |
| Hold Me Tight |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Nocebo Trailer |
Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Our Universe Trailer |
Documentary/Nature | |
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| Poker Face Trailer |
Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would Trailer |
Comedy special | |
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| Welcome to Chippendales Trailer |
Drama | |
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| Kumail Nanjiani stars as Steve Banerjee, the Indian immigrant who founded the Chippendales male-stripping empire, in this eight-episode based-on-a-true-story limited series formerly titled Immigrant. Created by screenwriter Robert Siegel (who also created the recent Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy), Chippendales is not exactly your standard American Dream success story—among other things, it's described as a true crime saga and a dark comedy—but the show does feature a strong cast that also includes Murray Bartlett, Dan Stevens, Annaleigh Ashford, Robin De Jesús, Andrew Rannells, and Juliette Lewis. Jenni Konner (Girls) serves as showrunner alongside Siegel, while Matt Shakman (WandaVision) directs. Two episodes stream today. | |||
| WED / November 23 | |||
| Blood, Sex & Royalty |
Reality | |
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| Christmas on Mistletoe Farm |
Family/Drama | |
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| Daddies on Request |
Foreign/Drama/Comedy | Disney+ | |
| Echo 3 Trailer |
Drama | Apple TV+ | |
| A 10-episode, bilingual action-thriller created by Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) and adapted from an award-winning Israeli series called When Heroes Fly, Echo 3 centers on the disappearance of an American scientist (Jessica Ann Collins) near the border between Colombia and Venezuela. Attempting to track her down are her brother (Luke Evans) and husband (Michiel Huisman), each of whom have military experience but also complicated pasts. Three episodes stream today, followed by weekly single-episode installments on Fridays beginning December 2nd. | |||
| Good Night Oppy Trailer |
Documentary | Prime Video | |
| Director Ryan White (Ask Dr. Ruth) traces what was expected to be a 90-day—but turned out to be a 15-year—mission of the Mars Exploration Rover named Opportunity. The film will also receive a limited theatrical run beginning November 4. | |||
| Lesson Plan |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Marvel Studios Legends: Drax & Mantis |
Special | Disney+ | |
| Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin Trailer |
Comedy | Peacock | |
| Created by non-Emmy-winner Megan Amram (The Good Place), this spinoff from the Pitch Perfect film franchise centers on Adam DeVine's Bumper Allen, who moves to Germany in an attempt to revive his career after one of his songs becomes an unexpected hit in that country. Also returning from the films is fan favorite Flula Borg (as Pieter Krämer, now Bumper's manager), while newcomers include Jameela Jamil, Sarah Hyland, and Lera Abova. | |||
| Shaq Trailer |
Documentary/Sports | 9p |
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| This four-part look at the career of basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal airs (and streams) weekly. | |||
| The Swimmers Trailer |
Drama/Sports | |
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| Taco Chronicles: Cross the Border Trailer | Reality | |
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| But when is the Crunchwrap Supreme going to get its own Netflix series? | |||
| The Unbroken Voice |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Wednesday Trailer Clip |
Comedy/Horror | |
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| Netflix's new Addams Family spinoff series centering on the high school years of the now-teenaged Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) comes from Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and finds Tim Burton directing half of the eight episodes—marking the latter's first TV work since a 1986 episode of Faerie Tale Theatre. Much of the action takes place at Wednesday's school, Nevermore Academy, where she will confront the supernatural mystery plaguing her family and attempt to stop a killing spree in the local town (in between homework assignments, presumably). Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, and Percy Hynes White also star, while Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán will recur as Morticia and Gomez Addams, respectively, while Fred Armisen plays Uncle Fester. Also appearing is Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday in a pair of 1990s Addams Family films but will be portraying a new character in the series. | |||
| Who's a Good Boy? Trailer |
Foreign/Comedy | |
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| THU / November 24 | |||
| Baking All the Way |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| The Christmas Clapback |
Drama | BET+ | |
| A Christmas Mystery Trailer |
Drama | HBO Max | |
| Criminal Minds: Evolution Trailer |
Drama | Paramount+ | |
| Not really a new series, Evolution is a continuation of the CBS drama Criminal Minds, which ended its 15-season run in 2020. Returning cast members include Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, A.J. Cook, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez, and Kirsten Vangsness, while new faces include Zach Gilford. The first two (of 10) episodes stream today—episode one will also air on CBS at 10p tonight—while additional episodes will arrive one per week on Thursdays (with a monthlong holiday break in the middle of the season). | |||
| Deconstructing Karen |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| First Love Trailer |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Good Rivals Trailer |
Reality/Sports | Prime Video | |
| Holiday Harmony Trailer |
Drama | HBO Max | |
| Holiday Hideaway |
Drama | BET+ | |
| Holly & The Hot Chocolate |
Drama | QVC+ | |
| Maybe this whole holiday movie craze has gone too far if even shopping channel spinoff QVC+ (it's a thing—we checked) has an original Christmas movie. | |||
| Laid-Back Camp: The Movie |
Anime | Crunchyroll | |
| Love, Lizzo Trailer |
Documentary/Music | HBO Max | |
| My Southern Family Christmas |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| The Noel Diary Trailer |
Drama | |
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| The Sound of Christmas |
Drama | BET+ | |
| Staged | Comedy | BritBox | |
| The David Tennant and Michael Sheen pandemic comedy, which previously streamed on Hulu in the States, returns for a third season that will be exclusive to BritBox. (The previous two seasons and a holiday special will also stream today on BritBox.) | |||
| Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night |
Anime | Crunchyroll | |
| FRI / November 25 | |||
| Blood & Water Trailer | Drama | |
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| Christmas at the Drive-In |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| The Confession Trailer |
Reality | Prime Video | |
| The Croods: Family Tree Trailer | Animation/Family | Hulu/Peacock | |
| Destination Fear | Reality | Travel, 9p | |
| Fantasy Football Trailer |
Comedy/Family/Sports | Paramount+ | |
| Fatal Family Reunion |
Drama | LMN, 8p | |
| Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich Trailer |
Documentary | |
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| The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Trailer |
Sci-fi/Action/Comedy | Disney+ | |
| James Gunn writes and directs a one-off TV special based on the Marvel film series (and returning the Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista-led cast) that finds the Guardians heading to Earth to pick up a Christmas present. And what are they shopping for, you might ask? Actor Kevin Bacon—but he's not going without a fight. | |||
| The Hip Hop Nutcracker Trailer |
Musical | Disney+ | |
| How Do They Do It? | Reality | Science, 9p | |
| Jeff Dunham: Me the People |
Comedy special |  8p |
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| Khakee: The Bihar Chapter Trailer |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| The King of Laughter |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Korea No. 1 Trailer |
Foreign/Reality | |
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| The Last Bookshop of the World Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Rent (IndiePix) | |
| ¡Que Delicioso! |
Foreign/Reality competition | The Roku Channel | |
| A Royal Corgi Christmas |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| Steppin' Into the Holiday |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| We're Here Trailer | Reality | 10p |
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| #Xmas |
Drama | Hallmark, 6p | |
| SAT / November 26 | |||
| The 12 Days of Christmas Eve |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Faith Heist: A Christmas Caper |
Drama | Bounce, 8p | |
| Haul Out the Hollly |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| I'm Glad It's Christmas |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| Soul Train Awards |
Special | BET, 8p | |
| A Tale of Two Christmases |
Drama | Hallmark, 6p | |
| Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas |
Drama | HMM, 10p | |
| SUN / November 27 | |||
| Candace Cameron Bure Presents: A Christmas ... Present |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe |
Drama | Hallmark, 6p | |
| A Christmas Spark |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Dognapped: Hound for the Holidays |
Drama | ION, 8p | |
| A Holiday Spectacular |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| Homicide Hunter: Devil in the Mountains |
Reality | ID, 9p | |
| The Howard Stern Interview: Bruce Springsteen Trailer |
Talk | 10p |
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| The Kingdom Exodus Trailer |
Foreign/Drama/Horror | MUBI | |
| Rivalling only David Lynch's Twin Peaks (a clear influence) for its blend of supernatural horror, dark comedy, and out-and-out strangeness, Lars von Trier's Danish hospital TV series The Kingdom ran for two seasons in 1994 and 1997. (It was later remade in America by Stephen King, but not successfully.) But if Lynch could bring Peaks back for another round, why can't von Trier do the same with The Kingdom? And so we have Exodus, a third (and said to be final) set of five episodes, all directed by von Trier and featuring a mix of old and new faces (including, respectively, Udo Kier and Alexander Skarsgard), with the latter group mostly replacements for actors who have died since the prior miniseries. This time, the director gets, well, "meta" as he opens the series with a woman angered by watching that previous Kingdom season and winds up entering the hellish hospital herself. Episodes stream weekly, and if you have yet to see the original two seasons, those hard-to-find episodes will also begin streaming on MUBI on November 13 (for season 1) and November 20 (for the second season). | |||
| Krapopolis Clip |
Animation/Comedy |  tbd |
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| Special sneak preview of the new Dan Harmon animated series (set in the world of Greek mythology) that will make its proper series debut in early 2023. | |||
| Mickey Saves Christmas |
Animation/Family | 7p |
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| Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen Trailer |
Documentary | CNN, 8p | |
| The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration |
Special | 8p |
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| Written in the Stars |
Reality | discovery+ | |
| MON / November 28 | |||
| The Action Pack Saves Christmas |
Animation/Family | |
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| Family Reunion: Love & Hip Hop Edition | Reality | VH1, 8p | |
| The Great Christmas Light Fight | Reality competition | 8p |
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| Kids Baking Championship: All-Star Holiday Homecoming |
Reality competition | Food, 9p | |
| Southern Hospitality |
Reality | Bravo, 9p | |
| Whitstable Pearl Trailer | Drama | Acorn TV | |
| TUE / November 29 | |||
| Battle for Saipan Trailer |
Action/Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Behind the Music Trailer | Reality/Music | Paramount+ | |
| Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies Trailer |
Reality | Peacock | |
| The Creature Cases | Animation/Family | |
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| Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields Trailer | Reality | |
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| Fixer to Fabulous | Reality | HGTV, 9p | |
| Love Actually: 20 Years Later |
Special | 8p |
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| My So-Called High School Rank Trailer |
Documentary | 9p |
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| Piano y Mujer II Trailer |
Music | HBO Max | |
| Planet Sex With Cara Delevingne |
Reality | |
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| The Race to Alaska Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Reindeer in Here |
Animation/Family | 9p |
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| Romesh Ranganathan: The Cynic |
Comedy special | |
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| The Story of Home |
Reality | Magnolia, 9p | |
| WED / November 30 | |||
| Christmas Full of Grace Trailer |
Foreign/Comedy | |
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| Christmas in Rockefeller Center |
Special |  8p |
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| The Creature Cases Trailer | Animation/Family | |
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| Irreverent Trailer |
Drama | Peacock | |
| This 10-episode Australian drama (actually a co-production with Netflix, though it's a Peacock exclusive in America) centers on a Chicago criminal played by Colin Donnell (Chicago Med). After botching a heist at home, he goes on the run and winds up in a small town in northern Australia, where he poses as the local church's reverend. | |||
| The Lost Patient |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Love Without Borders Trailer |
Reality | Bravo, 9p | |
| The Low Tone Club Trailer |
Foreign/Comedy/Drama | Disney+ | |
| A Man of Action Trailer |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Money Court | Reality | CNBC, 10p | |
| My Name Is Vendetta Trailer |
Foreign/Drama/Thriller | |
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| Snack vs. Chef |
Reality competition | |
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| Take Your Pills: Xanax |
Documentary | |
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| Willow Trailer |
Drama/Fantasy | Disney+ | |
| A Lucasfilm-produced TV series sequel to Ron Howard's 1988 fantasy film of the same name, Willow finds Warwick Davis reprising his role as the title character, a dwarf sorcerer, in a story that takes place 20 years later. The cast is otherwise entirely new and includes Ruby Cruz (effectively the lead, as she plays the princess Kit who leads a rescue party to save her kidnapped twin brother), Ellie Bamber, Erin Kellyman, Christian Slater, and Tony Revolori. The TV adapation comes from Jonathan Kasdan, who also serves as showrunner alongside Wendy Maricle. | |||
December premieres
| THU / December 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Branson Trailer |
Reality | 10p |
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| Rich guy Richard Branson is the subject of a four-part docuseries. | |||
| CMA Country Christmas |
Music | 9p |
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| Crossing |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas |
Musical | 8p |
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| Flip or Flop: The Final Flip |
Reality | HGTV, 8p | |
| Gossip Girl Trailer | Drama | HBO Max | |
| A Hollywood Christmas Trailer |
Drama | HBO Max | |
| Hush |
Drama | ALLBLK | |
| Inside the Black Box | Reality | Crackle | |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean | Anime | |
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| Luxe for Less |
Reality | HGTV, 9p | |
| Qala Trailer |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Rolling Into Christmas |
Drama | BET+ | |
| Serving Up the Holidays |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Sort Of Trailer | Comedy | HBO Max | |
| Troll Trailer |
Foreign/Action-adventure | |
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| Wicked City |
Drama/Fantasy | ALLBLK | |
| A Wounded Fawn Trailer |
Horror | Shudder | |
| FRI / December 2 | |||
| Angry Neighbors |
Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| A Big Fat Family Christmas |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| Christmas With the Campbells Trailer |
Rom-com | AMC+ | |
| Cloudy With a Chance of Christmas |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Confessions of a Hitman |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Darby and the Dead Trailer |
Drama/Fantasy/Comedy/Horror | |
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| Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Trailer |
Animation/Family | Disney+ | |
| The Eternal Daughter Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Writer-director Joanna Hogg adds a somewhat less successful coda to her very personal and critically acclaimed duet—The Souvenir and The Souvenir: Part II—with this ghost story starring Tilda Swinton in dual roles as Julie (originally played by Swinton’s daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne) and her mother Rosalind. Set in contemporary times, Daughter follows Julie as she takes her widowed mother to a deserted hotel in Wales, hoping to make a breakthrough on a film about her mother. | |||
| Firefly Lane Trailer | Drama | |
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| This second and final season of the Katherine Heigl/Sarah Chalke series will stream in two parts: The first nine episodes arrive today, and seven more will stream in 2023. | |||
| The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday Trailer |
Reality competition | The Roku Channel | |
| The American version of The Great British Baking Show, which formerly aired on ABC, returns with an all-new celebrity special on the show's new home, The Roku Channel, in advance of a full (non-celebrity) season next year. Ellie Kemper and Zach Cherry take over as hosts, while UK series regulars Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith serve as judges. | |||
| Hot Skull Trailer |
Foreign/Drama/Sci-fi | |
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| Hotel for the Holidays Trailer |
Drama | Amazon Freevee | |
| Hunt Trailer |
Foreign/Action/Drama/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| A spy thriller set in 1980s South Korea, this feature directorial debut from Squid Game star Lee Jung-Jae received mixed reviews when it debuted earlier this year at Cannes, where critics praised the action sequences but warned of an overly convoluted plot. It also opens in theaters today. | |||
| Lady Chatterley's Lover Trailer |
Drama | |
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| Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (The Mustang) directs this latest adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s classic novel of class, love and sex. The Crown's Emma Corrin plays Lady Chatterley, a woman of privilege who begins an affair with the the gamekeeper (Jack O’Connell) on the estate where she lives with her disabled husband. Reviews were fairly good out of the film's festival premiere, and Netflix will also bring it to theaters beginning November 23rd. | |||
| Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power Trailer |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Matt Rogers: Have You Heard of Christmas? |
Comedy special | 10p |
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| My Unorthodox Life | Reality | |
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| Pentatonix: Around the World for the Holidays Trailer |
Special | Disney+ | |
| Riches Trailer |
Drama | Prime Video | |
| A co-production with ITV, this six-episode British drama from Abby Ajayi (How To Get Away With Murder) follows members of a wealthy family as they compete for control of the family business following the sudden death of the family patriarch. | |||
| Savage Salvation Trailer |
Action/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Trailer |
Animation/Family/Musical | |
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| Netflix's animated musical take on the classic Dickens holiday story features the voices of Luke Evans, Olivia Colman, and Jessie Buckley. It'll also play in theaters in November. | |||
| Slow Horses Trailer | Drama | Apple TV+ | |
| The second of what will eventually be at least four seasons of Apple's British spy drama based on the novels by Mick Herron arrives with its first two episodes today. This season is based specifically on the book Dead Lions and is directed in full by Jeremy Lovering (Sherlock, MI-5). | |||
| Sr. Trailer |
Documentary | |
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| Chris Smith (American Movie) directs a profile of iconoclastic filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. | |||
| Three Pines Trailer |
Drama | Prime Video | |
| Alfred Molina stars as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in a Québec-set crime drama adapted from Louise Penny's award-winning mystery novel series. Two episodes stream weekly. | |||
| Warriors of Future Trailer |
Foreign/Sci-fi/Action-adventure | |
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| What Remains |
Drama/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Your Christmas or Mine? Trailer |
Comedy | Prime Video | |
| SAT / December 3 | |||
| Christmas on Candy Cane Lane |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| A Fabled Holiday |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| The Holiday Stocking |
Drama | HMM, 10p | |
| A New Orleans Noel |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| SUN / December 4 | |||
| B&B Merry |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| Fit for Christmas |
Drama | 8:30p ET / 8p PT |
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| George & Tammy Trailer |
Drama/Music | 9p |
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| Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain star as country music legends George Jones and Tammy Wynette in a six-episode biographical miniseries that was originally set to debut on Spectrum and then the Paramount Network before a last-minute move to Showtime. (Tonight's opener will still air on Paramount Network, but the remaining episodes are exclusive to Showtime.) John Hillcoat (The Road) directs the series, which is adapted from Georgette Jones' book The Three of Us by Abe Sylvia, while Steve Zahn, Walton Goggins, and Kelly McCormack also star. | |||
| Home Town | Reality | HGTV, 8p | |
| Housebroken | Animation/Comedy | 8:30p |
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| Merry Textmas |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| The Search for Secret Santa |
Drama | ION, 8p | |
| Undercover Holiday |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| MON / December 5 | |||
| Back in the Groove Trailer |
Reality | |
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| Barmageddon |
Game show | USA, 9p | |
| His Dark Materials Trailer | Drama/Fantasy | 9p |
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| The eight-episode third and final season, adapted from Philip Pullman's novel The Amber Spyglass, will roll out with two episodes each Monday. | |||
| The Tetris Murders Trailer |
Reality | ID, 9p | |
| TUE / December 6 | |||
| 200 Meters Trailer |
Foreign/Drama/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| 2022 People's Choice Awards |
Live event | 9p |
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| Bering Sea Gold | Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| Homebody |
Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy also on Fandor |
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| Liam Gallagher: Knebworth 22 Trailer |
Documentary/Music | Paramount+ | |
| Sebastian Maniscalco: Is It Me? |
Comedy special | |
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| Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo |
Documentary | 9p |
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| WED / December 7 | |||
| Connect |
Foreign/Drama/Fantasy | Disney+ | |
| Is this Disney's least-kid-friendly show yet? Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (13 Assassins) directs a six-part Korean supernatural thriller (adapted from the webtoon of the same name) about an immortal human who tracks down the serial killer who has stolen one of his eyes. | |||
| Greatest Holiday Commercials Countdown 2022 |
Special | 9p |
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| Too Hot to Handle Trailer | Reality | |
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| THU / December 8 | |||
| Christina on the Coast | Reality | HGTV, 8p | |
| CMA Country Christmas Trailer |
Music | 9p |
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| Doom Patrol Trailer | Drama | HBO Max | |
| Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles | Reality | Bravo, 9p | |
| A Miracle Before Christmas |
Drama | BET+ | |
| Retrograde Trailer |
Documentary | Nat Geo, 9p | |
| Matthew Heineman's Afghanistan war documentary also streams on Disney+ tomorrow and on Hulu beginning December 11. | |||
| Scentsational Christmas |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| FRI / December 9 | |||
| America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation Trailer |
Reality competition | Amazon Freevee | |
| Battle of the Bling |
Reality competition | HGTV, 10p | |
| Big Box Christmas |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| Christmas Bloody Christmas |
Horror | Shudder | |
| Dragon Age: Absolution Trailer |
Anime | |
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| Dream Home Makeover Trailer | Reality | |
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| Emancipation Trailer |
Drama/Action/Thriller | Apple TV+ | |
| Also playing in theaters (starting 12/2), actor Will Smith's first film since The Slap™ is a true-story-inspired historical drama in which Smith plays a brutally tortured but newly escaped slave who journeys to the North and joins the Union Army. Antoine Fuqua directs, while Ben Foster also stars. In a normal year, Emancipation likely would have been Apple's best chance at the Oscar best picture race, but did we mention The Slap™? Because of the presumed backlash following Smith's last (unscheduled) Oscar ceremony appearance, Apple weighed delaying the film into 2023, and by the time they finally made a decision, Emancipation had missed all of the key film festivals usually used to launch Oscar contenders. | |||
| Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Trailer |
Animation/Family/Musical | |
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| The second Pinocchio remake of 2022 is fully animated, unlike Disney's somewhat live-action version that arrived in September. Also unlike that other film: It's terrific. Directed by Guillermo del Toro (making his animation debut) along with Mark Gustafson (whose level of fame, apparently, doesn't merit inclusion in the title), this stop-motion musical features the voices of Ewan McGregor, Gregory Mann, Christoph Waltz, David Bradley, Tilda Swinton, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, and Cate Blanchett. | |||
| Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage? Trailer |
Documentary/Music | Disney+ | |
| It's a Wonderful Binge |
Comedy | |
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| Little America Trailer | Anthology/Comedy/Drama | Apple TV+ | |
| All eight episodes of the anthology's second season stream today. | |||
| Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area Trailer | Foreign/Drama | |
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| The Most Colorful Time of the Year |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again |
Animation/Adventure/Comedy | Disney+ | |
| An animated, streaming-only spinoff from the Night at the Museum film series. | |||
| Nr. 10 Trailer |
Foreign/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| A Recipe for Joy |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Something From Tiffany's Trailer |
Rom-com | Prime Video | |
| We hear their breakfast is good. | |||
| SAT / December 10 | |||
| Atsuko Okatsuka: The Intruder Trailer |
Comedy special | 10p |
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| Christmas Class Reunion |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| The Gift of Peace |
Drama | HMM, 10p | |
| Kirk Franklin's The Night Before Christmas |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| A Prince for the Holidays |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| SUN / December 11 | |||
| A Belgian Chocolate Christmas |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| The Holiday Sitter |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| Must Love Christmas |
Drama | 9p |
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| National Christmas Tree Lighting: Celebrating 100 Years |
Special | 8p |
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| A Prince and Pauper Christmas |
Drama | ION, 8p | |
| Single and Ready to Jingle |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| MON / December 12 | |||
| Baking It | Reality competition | Peacock | |
| Amy Poehler replaces Andy Samberg as co-host alongside a returning Maya Rudolph for season 2 of the baking competition series. New episodes stream weekly, and a special one-off celebrity episode will also stream today (and air on NBC). | |||
| Baking It [Celebrity Holiday Special] |
Reality competition | 10p |
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| Competitors in this one-off broadcast special include Kristen Bell, JB Smoove, Fred Armisen, and Nicole Richie. | |||
| Dogs of the Year 2022 |
Special | 8p |
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| TUE / December 13 | |||
| 30 for 30: Jeanette Lee Vs. |
Documentary/Sports | ESPN, 8p ET | |
| Dr. Seuss Baking Challenge Trailer |
Surreality competition | Prime Video/Freevee | |
| Kindred Trailer |
Drama/Sci-fi | |
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| This FX-produced adaptation of Octavia Butler's influential 1979 novel Kindred comes from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (a producer on Watchmen and Outer Range). Newcomer Mallori Johnson heads the cast as Dana James, an aspiring writer who relocates to Los Angeles but then finds herself shifting back and forth through time between the present day and a 19th century plantation that played a major role in her family's history. Producers on the series include Darren Aronofsky and The Americans team of Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, while directors include Janicza Bravo (Zola). All eight episodes are available to stream today. | |||
| Last Chance U: Basketball Trailer | Reality/Sports | |
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| Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Single's Inferno Trailer | Foreign/Reality competition | |
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| WED / December 14 | |||
| Finding Harmony |
Reality | 10p |
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| Grails Trailer |
Reality | |
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| Masters of Illusion: Christmas Magic 2022 |
Reality | 9p |
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| National Treasure: Edge of History Trailer |
Drama | Disney+ | |
| A series spinoff from the National Treasure film franchise, Edge of History centers on Jess (Lisette Alexis), a DREAMer whose search for answers about her family takes her on an adventure to save a lost treasure. There's no Nicolas Cage to be found, but Justin Bartha and Harvey Keitel will reprise their roles from the films, while other cast members include Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jordan Rodrigues, Jake Austin Walker, and Zuri Reed. Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) directs. The first two (of 10) episodes stream today. | |||
| A Very Backstreet Holiday |
Music/Variety | 8p |
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| THU / December 15 | |||
| Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration |
Fantasy/Musical/Animation | 8p |
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| Clips from the original Disney animated Beauty and the Beast film are interspersed with new staged live-action performances of the film's musical numbers, performed live in front of an audience by a cast including H.E.R. (singing Belle's parts), Josh Groban (Beast), David Alan Grier, Martin Short, Shania Twain, and Rita Moreno. | |||
| A Blackjack Christmas |
Drama | BET+ | |
| Christmas Around the USA |
Reality | 8p |
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| The Game | Comedy/Drama | Paramount+ | |
| Love for the Ages |
Reality | Peacock | |
| The Parent Test Trailer |
Reality | 10p |
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| Record Breaking Christmas |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Sonic Prime Trailer |
Animation/Family | |
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| FRI / December 16 | |||
| 90th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade |
Special | 8p |
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| The Almond and the Seahorse Trailer |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| The Apology Trailer |
Thriller | Shudder/AMC+ | |
| Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Trailer |
Foreign/Comedy/Drama | |
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| Alejandro González Iñárritu's first film since 2015's The Revenant (and his first Mexico-set feature since Amores Perros over two decades ago) is a Spanish-language dramedy centering on a Mexican journalist and documentarian who returns to his native country from his new home in Los Angeles after winning a prestigious award, only to be thrown into an existential crisis. The film arrives on Netflix today after first debuting at Venice in September and opening in theaters on November 4. Note that the film has been re-edited and slimmed down since it received disappointing reviews at its Venice premiere (though Bardo is still a long movie at around 150 minutes). | |||
| A Christmas to Treasure |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Cook at All Costs |
Reality competition | |
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| Dance Monsters |
Reality competition | |
|
| If you are expecting amateur dancers to dress up in monster costumes and perform, you're on the right track—though the costumes will be CGI. | |||
| Far From Home Trailer |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Holiday Heritage |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| If These Walls Could Sing Trailer |
Documentary/Music | Disney+ | |
| Mary McCartney directs a look at the history of Abbey Road Studios and some of the legendary work produced there. | |||
| Le pupille |
Short film | Disney+ | |
| Litvinenko Trailer |
Drama | AMC+/Sundance Now | |
| David Tennant stars as the poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in a four-part series from George Kay (Lupin). | |||
| Lupin Zero |
Anime | HIDIVE | |
| Nanny Trailer |
Horror/Thriller | Prime Video | |
| The winner of the top prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the feature debut from writer-director Nikyatu Jusu draws on West African folklore to tell the story of a Senegalese immigrant (Anna Diop) who leaves her own son behind (temporarily, she hopes) to find work in America, where she secures a job as a nanny for the young daughter of wealthy white Manhattanites. But her already difficult life becomes more so as a series of haunting dreams plagued by an ominous supernatural presence begin to blur into reality. The film will also play in theaters beginning November 23rd. | |||
| Paradise PD | Animation/Comedy | |
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| The Recruit Trailer |
Drama | |
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| Noah Centineo (The Fosters) plays a young lawyer for the CIA in an eight-episode spy thriller from The Rookie creator Alexi Hawley. Daniel Quincy Annoh, Colton Dunn, Aarti Mann, Laura Haddock, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Orphan Black's Kristian Bruun also star, while directors include Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity). | |||
| Snow Day |
Family/Musical | Nickelodeon, 7p | |
| A new musical adaptation of the 2000 family comedy film also streams on Paramount+ today. | |||
| The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari |
Documentary | |
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| SAT / December 17 | |||
| A Brush With Christmas Romance |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| Five More Minutes: Moments Like These |
Drama | HMM, 10p | |
| The Holiday Dating Guide |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2022 |
Music | 8p |
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| Twas the Night Before Christmas |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| SUN / December 18 | |||
| 1923 Trailer |
Drama | Paramount+ | |
| The latest installment in Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone Expanded Universe arrives almost exactly one year after the debut of the previous prequel, 1883 and, like that series, will be a streaming exclusive. We're going to guess that it's set roughly 40 years after the latter (but not in 1932, as the new series was originally titled, which means that it will take place during Montana's local economic downturn and not the nationwide Great Depression), and it will center on several additional generations of Duttons—including family members played by Harrison Ford (in his first regular TV role), Helen Mirren, Darren Mann, James Badge Dale, and Michelle Randolph. Non-Dutton regulars include a sheriff played by Robert Patrick and a wealthy and powerful local played by Timothy Dalton. | |||
| The Art of Christmas |
Drama | GAF, 8p | |
| Hanukkah on Rye |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| When Christmas Was Young |
Drama | 8:30p ET / 8p PT |
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| Wrapped Up in Love |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| MON / December 19 | |||
| LEGO Masters: Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular |
Reality competition | 8p |
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| This special holiday edition of the Will Arnett-hosted competition series airs over three consecutive nights. | |||
| TUE / December 20 | |||
| Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All! |
Music | 8p |
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| The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge Of Edinburgh Part 1 |
Anime | |
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| The Super 8 Years |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| TUE / December 21 | |||
| Emily in Paris Trailer | Comedy/Drama | |
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| Jack Ryan Trailer | Drama | Prime Video | |
| THU / December 22 | |||
| The Best Man: The Final Chapters Trailer |
Comedy/Drama | Peacock | |
| This second sequel to Malcolm D. Lee's 1999 film The Best Man (following a 2013 holiday film sequel) is a 10-episode Peacock miniseries that returns pretty much everyone from the terrific original cast, including Terrence Howard, Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Regina Hall, Morris Chestnut, Sanaa Lathan, and Harold Perrineau. Newcomers include Nicole Ari Parker and Brandon Victor Dixon. | |||
| A Christmas Gift |
Drama | BET+ | |
| Snap |
Drama/Anthology/Sci-fi | ALLBLK | |
| FRI / December 23 | |||
| 24th Annual A Home for the Holidays at the Grove |
Variety | 8p |
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| Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Trailer |
Drama/Thriller | |
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| Rian Johnson's first sequel to his 2019 hit Knives Out returns star Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc but otherwise features a new, unrelated mystery story (set in Greece) and a new cast. Joining Craig in that cast are Edward Norton, Kathryn Hahn, Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, and Leslie Odom Jr. The film will also open in theaters shortly before debuting on Netflix (exact date tbd). | |||
| Joyride Trailer |
Comedy | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| SAT / December 24 | |||
| The Ancient Magus' Bride OAD | Anime | Crunchyroll | |
| FRI / December 25 | |||
| Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical Trailer |
Musical/Family/Fantasy | |
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| Also playing in theaters this month, this Matilda is a film adaptation of the Tony-winning stage musical (baed on Roald Dahl's children's book) directed by Matthew Warchus (who returns to direct the film) and featuring original music by Tim Minchin. | |||
| The Witcher: Blood Origin Trailer |
Drama/Fantasy | |
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| You'll have to wait until summer to stream the third season of Netflix's game-to-TV adaptation The Witcher. But today brings a six-part prequel miniseries set 1,200 years before the time of Geralt of Rivia. Blood Origin traces the origin story of the very first Witcher and stars Sophia Brown (a replacement for the originally cast Jodie Turner-Smith). Michelle Yeoh, Laurence O’Fuarain, and Minnie Driver. | |||
| SAT / December 26 | |||
| 25th Annual Family Film Awards |
Special | 8p |
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| Bake It 'Til You Make It |
Reality | Food, 9p | |
| Kids Baking Championship | Reality competition | Food, 8p | |
| The Year: 2022 |
Special | 9p |
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| SUN / December 27 | |||
| Chef Dynasty: House of Fang |
Reality | Food, 9p | |
| Chelsea Handler: Revolution |
Comedy special | |
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| José Andrés and Family in Spain |
Reality | discovery+ | |
| Ocean Emergency: Currents of Hope |
Documentary | 8p |
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| WED / December 28 | |||
| Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl |
Music | Disney+ | |
| THU / December 29 | |||
| Popstar's Best of 2022 |
Special | 8p |
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| FRI / December 30 | |||
| They Cloned Tyrone Trailer |
Sci-fi/Comedy | |
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| Jamie Foxx, John Boyega, and Teyonah Parris star in a sci-fi caper about a government cloning conspiracy. | |||
| White Noise Trailer |
Comedy/Drama | |
|
| Also playing in theaters (beginning Thanksgiving weekend), Noah Baumbach's latest Netflix feature and follow-up to 2019's Marriage Story is an adaptation of Don DeLillo's darkly comedic 1985 novel that reunites the writer-director with two of his frequent collaborators: Adam Driver (here, playing Jack Gladney, the midwestern college professor of Hitler studies who serves as the protagonist of book and film) and Greta Gerwig (who plays Jack's wife, Babette). Don Cheadle, André 3000, Alessandro Nivola, and Jodie Turner-Smith also star in the 1980s-set film, which features a new song by LCD Soundsystem. | |||
| Wildcat Trailer |
Documentary | Prime Video | |
| SAT / December 31 | |||
| Dick Clark New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2023 |
Live event | 8p |
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| Miley's New Year's Eve Party |
Live event | 10:30p |
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| New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash |
Live event | 8p |
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| A Toast to 2022! |
Special | 8p |
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January premieres
| SUN / January 1, 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over |
Documentary/Music | CNN, 9p | |
| MON / January 2 | |||
| America's Got Talent: All-Stars |
Reality competition | 8p |
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| Fantasy Island | Drama | 8p |
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| Rescheduled from May. | |||
| Quantum Leap | Drama | 10p |
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| TUE / January 3 | |||
| Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Reality |  tbd |
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| New Amsterdam | Drama | 10p |
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| The Resident | Drama | 8p |
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| The Rookie | Drama | 8p |
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| Moves to a new night. | |||
| The Rookie: Feds | Drama | 9p |
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| Will Trent Trailer |
Drama | 10p |
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| Ramón Rodríguez stars in a Georgia-set crime procedural based on Karin Slaughter's novel series. | |||
| WED / January 4 | |||
| 1,000-Lb. Best Friends | Reality | TLC, 10p | |
| Abbott Elementary | Comedy | 9p |
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| Big Sky | Drama | 10p |
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| Chicago Fire | Drama | 9p |
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| Chicago Med | Drama | 8p |
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| Chicago P.D. | Drama | 10p |
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| Home Economics | Comedy | 9:30p |
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| The Lying Life of Adults Trailer |
Foreign/Drama | |
|
| The golden age of Elena Ferrante adaptations continues with this Italian-language series based on the author's recent coming-of-age novel set in 1990s Naples. All six episodes stream today. | |||
| Special Forces: World's Toughest Test Trailer |
Reality competition | 8p |
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| Celebrities (and "celebrities") including Tyler Florence, Anthony Scaramucci, Mike PIazza, Dr. Drew, Montell Jordan, Kate Gosselin, and Jamie Lynn Spears compete in a series of gruelling physical challenges drawn from actual Special Forces qualification exercises. (Obviously, Scaramucci will be eliminated in the first week.) | |||
| Star Wars: The Bad Batch | Animation/Sci-fi | Disney+ | |
| Rescheduled from September. | |||
| Tough as Nails | Reality competition | 9p |
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| Subsequent episodes air Wednesdays at 10p starting 1/11. | |||
| THU / January 5 | |||
| Call Me Kat | Comedy | 9:30p |
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| Celebrity Jeopardy! | Game show | 8p |
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| Moves to a new night. Looking for your Shondaland dramas? Those will return to ABC's Thursday lineup in late February. | |||
| The Chase | Game show | 10p |
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| Moves to a new night. | |||
| Hell's Kitchen | Reality competition | 8p |
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| January 6th |
Documentary | discovery+ | |
| Documentarians Gédéon and Jules Naudet retrace the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 from the viewpoints of survivors of the attack and first responders. Before you ask: Yes, this is really debuting on January 5th. | |||
| Law & Order | Drama | 8p |
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| Law & Order: Organized Crime | Drama | 10p |
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| Law & Order: SVU | Drama | 9p |
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| The Parent Test Trailer |
Reality | 9p |
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| Returns following a sneak preview in December. | |||
| Welcome to Flatch | COmedy | 9p |
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| FRI / January 6 | |||
| Candy Land |
Horror/Thriller | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Dateline NBC | Newsmagazine | 9p |
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| Lopez vs. Lopez | Comedy | 8p |
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| The Pale Blue Eye Trailer |
Thriller | |
|
| Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) directs a gothic crime thriller based on the novel of the same name by Louis Bayard. Set in the 1830s at West Point, the film finds a detective (Christian Bale) investigating a series of murders at the United States Military Academ with the help of a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling). Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Toby Jones, and Charlotte Gainsbourg also star. | |||
| Shark Tank | Reality competition | 8p |
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| Young Rock | Comedy | 8:30p |
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| SUN / January 8 | |||
| Alert Trailer |
Drama | 8p ET / 5p PT* |
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| * airs immediately following NFL coverage. Scott Caan and Dania Ramirez head the cast for a Philadelphia-set cop drama centering on the city's Missing Persons Unit. Another new episode airs in the show's regular timeslot on Monday 1/9 at 9p. | |||
| All Creatures Great and Small Trailer | Drama | 9p |
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| Miss Scarlet and the Duke | Drama | 8p |
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| Mayfair Witches Trailer |
Drama | AMC+ | |
| Rescheduled from January 5. AMC's latest Anne Rice adaptation (and there will be more) is based on the author's Lives of the Mayfair Witches series. The eight-episode series comes from Masters of Sex veterans Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford and stars Alexandra Daddario as a neurosurgeon who discovers that she comes from a family of witches. Jack Huston, Tongayi Chirisa, and Harry Hamlin also star. The first two episodes stream today, followed by weekly installments, and the show should eventually head to cable's AMC as well. | |||
| TUE / January 10 | |||
| 80th Golden Globe Awards |
Live event | 8p ET / 5p PT |
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| After serving a one-year exile, the awards show returns to national television (and Peacock). Will anyone show up? | |||
| WED / January 11 | |||
| Celebrity Name That Tune |
Game show | 8p |
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| The Conners | Comedy | 8p |
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| The Goldbergs | Comedy | 8:30p |
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| Lingo |
Game show | 9p |
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| THU / January 12 | |||
| The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House |
Foreign/Drama | |
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| Accomplished Japanese film director Hirokazu Kore-eda, best known for his Cannes-winning film Shoplifters, detours into television for his first Netflix series. The Makanai is also the first live-action adaptation of the award-winning manga series Kiyo in Kyoto and, like the comics, will focus on a young woman who becomes a Makanai—one who cooks meals for a house shared by apprentice geishas (or Maiko). Kore-eda directs multiple episodes in addition to serving as writer and showrunner on the series. | |||
| FRI / January 13 | |||
| Hunters | Drama | Prime Video | |
| Loudmouth |
Documentary | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Servant Trailer | Drama/Horror | Apple TV+ | |
| SAT / January 14 | |||
| How to Murder Your Husband |
Drama | Lfietime, 8p | |
| SUN / January 15 | |||
| 28th Critics Choice Awards |
Live event | 7p |
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| Godfather of Harlem | Drama | MGM+, tbd | |
| The Forest Whitaker-led drama's third season debuts tonight in conjunction with the renaming of cable channel Epix to MGM+. Years from now, we'll all remember where we were the moment that Epix changed to MGM+. | |||
| The Last of Us Trailer |
Drama | 9p |
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| The latest videogame franchise to make the jump to television (but the first such series for HBO), The Last of Us comes from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin along with Neil Druckmann, the co-president of the game studio (Naughty Dog) that created the critically acclaimed PlayStation games. Retaining the post-apocalyptic setting and many of the characters from those games but expanding the story, the nine-episode series follows the smuggler Joel (played by The Mandalorian's Pedro Pascal) and Ellie, the orphaned teen girl in his care (Bella Ramsey, Game of Thrones) as they attempt to escape from a quarantine zone and travel across the remains of the United States two decades after human civilization has been mostly wiped out by a fungal pandemic. Gabriel Luna, Anna Torv, Nick Offerman, Nico Parker, Murray Bartlett, and Melanie Lynskey also star, and some of them will be portraying new characters who were not in the games. (And a few voice actors from the game series, most notably Merle Dandrige, who plays Marlene, will also make the jump to the TV show.) Directors include Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider) and Jasmila Zbanic (Quo Vadis, Aida?) as well as Druckmann himself. HBO reportedly spent well over $100 million on the Canadian-filmed series, though you can probably pick up the games at Best Buy for far less. | |||
| Mayor of Kingstown Trailer | Drama | Paramount+ | |
| YOLO: Silver Destiny | Animation/Comedy | Adult Swim, midnight | |
| Your Honor | Drama | 9p |
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| Rescheduled from December. The second and final season of the Bryan Cranston-led series features Rosie Perez, Margo Martindale, and Amy Landecker in guest roles. | |||
| MON / January 16 | |||
| Miracle Workers: End Times Trailer | Comedy | TBS, 10p | |
| The fourth season of TBS's sole remaining scripted series—a comedic anthology from Simon Rich—is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which a Mad Max-style couple (Daniel Radcliffe and Geraldine Viswanathan) attempts to settle down in the suburbs. Other returning cast members include Steve Buscemi, Jon Bass, and Karan Soni, while guests include Paul F. Tompkins, Ego Nwodim, Quinta Brunson, and Lolly Adefope. | |||
| TUE / January 17 | |||
| 1,000-Lb. Sisters | Reality | TLC, 9p | |
| 9-1-1: Lone Star | Drama | 8p |
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| Gunfight at Rio Bravo |
Western | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| Night Court |
Comedy | 8p |
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| A revival of NBC's hit 1980s sitcom returns one of that show's stars, John Larroquette, who reprises his role of proscecutor Dan Fielding. Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory) also stars as judge Abby Stone, a new character who is the daughter of the original show's judge (played then by the late Harry Anderson). Two episodes air back-to-back tonight. | |||
| WED / January 18 | |||
| grown-ish | Comedy | Freeform, 10:30p | |
| THU / January 19 | |||
| Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre |
Anime/Horror/Anthology | |
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| FRI / January 20 | |||
| Game Theory With Bomani Jones | Talk/Comedy | 11p |
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| SAT / January 21 | |||
| Bad Behind Bars: Jodi Arias |
Drama | Lfietime, 8p | |
| SUN / January 22 | |||
| Accused Trailer |
Drama/Anthology | 9p |
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| An episodic anthology with a new cast and setting each week, The Accused is adapted from a BBC series by Homeland's Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa along with The Good Doctor's David Shore. Each of its 15 episodes features a fast-paced crime thriller told through flashbacks from the point of view of a defendant on trial for a crime. Guest stars include Michael Chiklis, Margo Martindale, Wendell Pierce, Rachel Bilson, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Baron Vaughn, Rhea Perlman, Jack Davenport, Abigail Breslin, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and Whitney Cummings, while directors include Michael Cuesta, Billy Porter, and Marlee Matlin (making her directorial debut). Subsequent episodes air Tuesdays at 9p (beginning Jan. 24). | |||
| MON / January 23 | |||
| The Bachelor | Reality competition | 8p |
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| Darcey & Stacey | Reality | TLC, 8p | |
| Extreme Sisters | Reality | TLC, 9p | |
| The Good Doctor | Drama | 10p |
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| TUE / January 24 | |||
| American Auto | Comedy | 8:30p |
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| I Am Jazz | Reality | TLC, 10p | |
| THU / January 26 | |||
| Poker Face Trailer |
Drama/Comedy | Peacock | |
| In a world where every new TV series is billed as a 50-hour movie (give or take), is there still room for a case-of-the-week procedural? The answer might be yes—okay, it is yes—when that series comes from Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Looper) and stars Natasha Lyonne as Charlie, who travels the country to solve a variety of cases using her innate ability to detect when someone is lying. Along the way, she'll run into characters played by the likes of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nick Nolte, Adrien Brody, Benjamin Bratt, Chloe Sevigny, Lil Rel Howery, Rhea Perlman, Simon Helberg, Tim Blake Nelson, Brandon Micheal Hall, Cherry Jones, Dascha Polanco, Ellen Barkin, and Judith Light—among others. Johnson himself directs the entire 10-episode first season (four episodes stream today, with the rest arriving weekly), adding to a list of TV credits that already includes some of the most memorable episodes of Breaking Bad. | |||
| Teen Wolf: The Movie Clip |
Drama/Action/Fantasy | Paramount+ | |
| Tyler Hoechlin, Tyler Posey, Crystal Reed, and Holland Roden are among the returning stars for this sequel to the MTV series Teen Wolf that is set 15 years later. | |||
| Wolf Pack Trailer |
Drama/Fantasy | Paramount+ | |
| Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rodrigo Santoro, Armani jackson, and Bella Shepard are among the stars of a series adaptation of Edo Van Belkom’s book series (about a supernatural force awakened by a California wildfire) from Teen Wolf creator Jeff Davis. | |||
| FRI / January 27 | |||
| Lockwood & Co. Trailer |
Drama/Fantasy/Horror | |
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| Created and directed by Joe Cornish (Attack the Block)—and also produced by Edgar Wright—this eight-episode, supernatural YA series is based on the novels by Jonathan Stroud. Like those books, the series follows a group of teenage ghost hunters in London—in a world where a single touch from a ghost is lethal. | |||
| Shotgun Wedding Trailer |
Rom-com | Prime Video | |
| Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel star in a rom-com (about a destination wedding that is taken over by criminals) directed by Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect). | |||
| SAT / January 28 | |||
| Sherri Papini: I Kidnapped Myself |
Drama | Lfietime, 8p | |
| MON / January 30 | |||
| The Watchful Eye Trailer |
Drama | Freeform, 9p | |
| TUE / January 31 | |||
| Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World |
Documentary/Music | tbd |
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| Greetings, youths: PBS explores the exciting, brand new genre of rapping music in this four-part, Chuck D-produced docuseries. | |||
| La Brea | Drama | 9p |
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February premieres
| WED / February 1 | |||
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| My 600-Lb. Life | Reality | TLC, 8p | |
| FRI / February 3 | |||
| Ocean Boy |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| SAT / February 4 | |||
| Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation |
Drama | Lfietime, 8p | |
| Say Yes to the Dress | Reality | TLC, 8p | |
| SUN / February 5 | |||
| 65th Grammy Awards |
Live event/Music | 8p ET / 5p PT |
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| WED / February 8 | |||
| A Million Little Things | Drama | 10p |
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| Not Dead Yet | Comedy | 8:30p |
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| Broke and newly single, a "self-described disaster" (Gina Rodriguez) attempts to re-start her life—as an obituary writer—in a series adapted from Alexandra Potter's book Confessions of a 40-something F**k Up. Hannah Simone and Lauren Ash also star. A second new episode will air tonight at 9:30p, the show's regular timeslot going forward. | |||
| FRI / February 10 | |||
| Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Trailer |
Animation/Family | Disney, tbd | |
| You | Drama | |
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| Set in England, the drama's fourth season will stream in two parts, with the concluding batch of episodes due to arrive on March 10. | |||
| Your Place or Mine |
Rom-com | |
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| Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher star as friends living on opposite coasts who decide to swap homes for a week. | |||
| SUN / February 12 | |||
| Next Level Chef | Reality competition | 10:30p ET* |
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| * airs immediately following Super Bowl coverage in all time zones. Another new episode airs this week in the show's regular timeslot on Thursday 2/16 at 8p. | |||
| Super Bowl LVII |
Sports/Live event | tbd |
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| A Rihanna concert is bookended by two teams playing a game of American football. | |||
| THU / February 16 | |||
| Animal Control |
Comedy | 9p |
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| A rare new live-action comedy series from Fox, Animal Control comes from the team behind The Moodys.The workplace comedy follows a group of animal control employees led by Joel McHale. | |||
| Star Trek: Picard Trailer | Drama/Sci-fi | Paramount+ | |
| Did we give up watching Picard halfway through season 2? Who can say. But consider us intrigued by the third and final season, which finds Patrick Stewart joined by most of his Star Trek: The Next Generation co-stars, including Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, and Brent Spiner (as Lore, not Data). (What, no Dwight Schultz?) Also back from prior seasons of Picard are Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd, while newcomers include Amanda Plummer. | |||
| FRI / February 17 | |||
| Carnival Row Trailer | Drama/Fantasy | Prime Video | |
| This second and final season (arriving well over three years after the first season aired) will stream weekly. | |||
| Sharper |
Drama/Comedy/Thriller | Apple TV+ | |
| Also playing in select theaters beginning February 10, the A24-produced feature debut for Emmy-winning TV director Benjamin Caron (The Crown, Andor) follows a group of con artists who target New York billionaires. Sebastian Stan, Julianne Moore, John Lithgow, Justice Smith, and Briana Middleton star, and the script (an entry in the 2020 edition of The Black List) comes from Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka (Superstore). | |||
| Who Are You People |
Drama | ($) Rent/Buy | |
| SUN / February 19 | |||
| America's Funniest Home Videos | Reality | 7p |
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| American Idol | Reality competition | 8p |
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| The Company You Keep |
Drama | 10p |
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| A remake of the Korean series My Fellow Citizens centers on the romantic and professional entanglements between a con man (Milo Ventimiglia) and a CIA officer (Catherine Haena Kim). | |||
| Found |
Drama | 10p |
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| Shanola Hampton and Mark-Paul Gosselaar head the cast of a missing persons procedural. | |||
| Magnum P.I. | Drama | 9p |
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| The series moves from CBS to NBC for its fifth season. | |||
| THU / February 23 | |||
| Alaska Daily | Drama | 10p |
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| Grey's Anatomy | Drama | 9p |
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| Station 19 | Drama | 8p |
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| True Lies |
Drama | 9p |
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| The first series adaptation of James Cameron's 1994 film stars Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga as husband-and-wife spies. Subsequent episodes will air Wednesdays at 10p starting 3/1. | |||
| SUN / February 26 | |||
| The Blacklist | Drama | 8p |
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Later 2023 premieres
| WED / March 1 | |||
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| Survivor | Reality competition | 8p |
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| MON / March 6 | |||
| The Voice | Reality competition | 8p |
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| TUE / March 7 | |||
| That's My Jam | Game show | 10p |
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| FRI / March 10 | |||
| You | Drama | |
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| TUE / March 14 | |||
| Return to Amish | Reality | TLC, 10p | |
| FRI / March 31 | |||
| Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King Trailer |
Anime | |
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| SUN / March 12 | |||
| 95th Academy Awards |
Live event | 8p ET / 5p PT |
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| Jimmy Kimmel hosts. | |||
| SUN / April 2 | |||
| 2023 CMT Music Awards |
Live event/Music | 8p |
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| THU / April 20 | |||
| Quasi |
Comedy | |
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| THU / May 11 | |||
| 58th Academy of Country Music Awards |
Live event | Prime Video, tbd | |
| SAT / May 27 | |||
| World Electronic Music Awards |
Music | 8p |
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