What2Watch January 2019

What2Watch January 2019

RENT

A Live Musical Event Based On Actual UFO Sightings

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NEW NETFLIX SERIES AND MOVIES

PROJECT BLUE BOOK TRUE DETECTIVE Returns!

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GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS

Black Monday: Don Cheadle: © 2018 Showtime Networks, Inc. Credit: Michael Lavine.

THE TITAN GAMES THE MASKED SINGER

SCATHINGLY DELIGHTFUL

BLACK MONDAY

DON CHEADLE AT HIS BEST

FREE

MOVI COUP E INSIDON E!

Prince Poppycock

Lim and Piff the Magic Dragon; the ladder trick act; opera singers Paul Potts and Prince Poppycock; contortionist Sofie Dossi; LED dance group Light Balance; standup comics Tom Cotter and Taylor Williamson; Holland’s Got Talent jump rope team DDF Crew; Tape Face; the danger roller skaters; The Texas Tenors; and more. Fifty acts from among 194 markets around the world will be judged by Simon Cowell, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel, while Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Terry Crews hosts.

YANKED!: Recently Canceled Shows

Good Behavior

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Bad news for Good Behavior. TNT’s drama starring Michelle Dockery couldn’t con its way to a third season. … It’s the end of the world for CBS summer series Salvation after two seasons. …

NBC woke up from dreamy sci-fi crime drama Reverie after only

one season. … School’s out forever for TV Land’s Teachers. The final episodes begin airing Jan. 15. … Alone Together and Freeform have broken up after two seasons. … American Vandal and The Good Cop have been canned at Netflix.

Susan Boyle: © 2014 Getty Images, Credit: Karwai Tang/Getty Images.

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h, this is going to be good!

America’s Got Talent is bringing back the most popular and memorable acts from around the world to compete in an all-star competition in America’s Got Talent: The Champions (Mondays on NBC beginning Jan. 7).

“This is the Olympics of talent,” tells Simon Cowell. “The best in the world takes on the best in the world.” For fans that means the return of Britain’s Got Talent singing sensation Susan Boyle; singer Kechi; ventriloquists Darci Lynne Farmer and Paul Zerdin; magicians Shin

America’s Got Talent: © 2018 NBCUniversal Media, LLC

Shin Lim

“AMERICA’S GOT TALENT’S” TOP STARS GET A CALLBACK!

Good Behavior: © Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc A Time Warner Comapny. Credit: Vincent Peters.

Susan Boyle

Shin Lim: © 2018 Walter McBride. Credit: Walter McBride/Getty Images.

Prince Poppycock: © NBC Universal, Inc. Credit: Justin Lubin/NBCU Photo Bank

TV NEWS

Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg will host the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards airing on NBC Sunday, Jan. 6. Idris Elba’s daughter, Isan Elba, will serve as ambassador, presenting the trophies to award winners and escorting them offstage. Here’s a quick look at just some of the nominees this year: Best Television Series — Drama

Best Television Series — Comedy

Best TV Movie Or Limited Series

Best Motion Picture — Drama

The Americans (FX)

Barry (HBO)

The Alienist

Black Panther

The Good Place (NBC)

The Assassination of Gianni Versace

BlacKkKlansman

Escape at Dannemora

If Beale Street Could Talk

Sharp Objects

A Star Is Born

Bodyguard (Netflix) Homecoming (Prime Video) Killing Eve (BBC America) Pose (FX)

Kidding (Showtime) The Kominsky Method (Netflix) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video)

They’re Back, Baby!:

The Purge: © 2018 USA Network Media, LLC. Credit: Patti Perret/USA Network.

2019 Golden Globe Awards: © 2019 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Credit: NBC.

Recently Renewed Shows

USA Network has an urge for more of The Purge — the series based on the hit horror film franchise will return for a second season. … In other USA news, the network has picked up reality series Chrisley Knows Best for Season 7 and will debut a spinoff series, Growing Up Chrisley, sometime this year. … ABC has picked up America’s Funniest Home Videos for Seasons 30 and 31.

Bohemian Rhapsody

A Very English Scandal

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Black Monday Project Blue Book What’s New Returning Favorites Understanding TVE ON Demand New Releases New on HBO New on Showtime New on Starz New on Cinemax On Netflix

The Purge

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both content and style to emulate some of the great ’80s film comedies with the “underdog outsiders versus upper-crust snobs” theme. The show also uses a nothing-off-limits approach to its comedy that allows it to not shy away from finding humor in the raunchy sex-and-drug habits of many of its protagonists.

The energy of the series also mirrors the intense, often coke-inspired bravado of its main character — Don Cheadle’s Maurice Monroe. Cheadle enthusiastically inhabits Maurice, who refers to himself as “black Moses” and promises to “put the ‘brother’ in ‘Lehman Brothers’” as he works to crash the old boys club of Wall Street alongside the other outsiders of his small trading house (Cheadle is matched in his energy by an outstanding cast including Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall).

In the real world, Cheadle, too, was working tirelessly on completing the series

Black Monday: © 2018 Showtime. Credit: Miller Mobley/Showtime

Although Showtime’s wild new series Black Monday deals with a devastating economic event — it Don Cheadle opens on the titular Oct. 19, 1987, Headlines A the date of the biggest Wall Superb Cast In Street crash in history — the New Wall Street series draws uproarious and Comedy. By Jeff Pfeiffer outrageous comedy from the crash as viewers are treated to a fictionalized accounting of how a group of outsiders eventually caused that crash.

The manic ’80s energy Showtime, of Black Monday not only Sundays perfectly fits its setting and beginning time period, but also may Jan. 20 come from the fact that its producing partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (who also co-direct the pilot episode) appear to have been inspired in

Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall

— often filming 14-hour days — when we caught up with him to talk about Black Monday.

Are Maurice and the other characters in Black Monday based on real people, or are they satiric constructs put together from Wall Street archetypes?

Don Cheadle: The latter. It would be nearly impossible to find this particular makeup of people in one house. There’s a line in the series where Maurice talks about how they’re the ones nobody ever wanted. At that time, — hell, even now — a black man at the head of a trading house with a black woman as his right hand is pretty unheard of. But it affords the opportunity to play with and talk about all that stuff in the context of the show, so it’s cool. But mostly, we’re hoping people laugh. It’s a comedy, after all.

Although Black Monday deals with a specific historical crash and has fun satirizing the excess of the 1980s, do you think it also has lessons even for today?

As James B. Stewart talks about in his book Den of Thieves, which focuses on Wall Street in the ’80s, the one thing that cannot be eliminated from the way the market works is the inherent greed of people in general and their inability to refrain from letting it run amok.

Will our show serve as a cautionary tale? I doubt it. And it’s not really the point. I think our job is to hopefully provide some comic relief as people try not to slide down razor blade mountain.

If they take away something substantive, that’s cool, too.

This isn’t the first time you’ve starred in a Showtime series that has scathingly satirized an industry that some people may not look too kindly on — this time it’s finance, in House of Lies it was management consulting. Do you see any similarities or differences between Maurice Monroe and your Emmynominated House of Lies role as Marty Kaan?

The biggest difference for me is that Maurice isn’t a world-beater. No matter what Marty faced, I think the prevailing thinking was that he was always as smart, if not smarter, than everybody in the room, and that given any crack, he could exploit it and land on his feet. Maurice more lives on his cunning and insane gambles. He’s not a thoughtful plotter as much as a dude who’s gotten lucky so far and would rather push his chips in the middle on a hope to get a winning hand rather than be a lock going in. It can’t last.

You were just a few years starting into your acting career on Oct. 19, 1987. Do you recall reading/hearing about the events of Black Monday?

I had just moved to L.A. and started trying to make it in the business. That hustle was allconsuming. Although the economy everywhere was affected, my brown-rice-and-broccoli diet didn’t really take a discernible hit, and finding work didn’t get appreciably harder. It was kind of a blip for me. 2007 definitely caught my attention, though, and not unlike everywhere, our business definitely changed for the tougher.

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NEAL MCDONOUGH as Gen. James Harding

LAURA MENNELL as Mimi Hynek AIDAN GILLEN as Dr. J. Allen Hynek

MICHAEL HARNEY as Gen. Hugh Valentine

PROJECT

BLUE BOOK F History, Tuesdays beginning Jan. 8

or seven seasons Aidan Gillen portrayed the cunning Lord Petyr Baelish (a.k.a.

Littlefinger) on Game of Thrones. So when it came time to bid adieu to the man and his misdeeds, Gillen said he knew what he needed to do. “That was quite a momentous release to just walk away from. But that’s what I do. When I’m finished with a part, I just stop thinking about it.

I literally just walk away. Take the jacket off and don’t look back.”

Although he wouldn’t have had time to even if he wanted. This past year the Irish actor has been immersed in high-profile projects that found him playing a hitman in Peaky Blinders, Queen’s manager in Bohemian Rhapsody and 6

a brilliant astrophysicist in History’s new thriller Project Blue Book.

Based on top-secret investigations into UFOs and other related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force during 1952-69, the series tells the story of Dr. J. Allen Hynek (played by Gillen), who the government recruited to debunk reports surrounding the unexplained. Hynek spent years meticulously researching thousands of cases, hundreds of which were never solved, trying to have science prove the unexplainable.

“I was always quite taken by Star Trek. It was a big show for me when I was a kid, and Close Encounters was a huge film for me when I was growing up. So you could say I didn’t have to be

Project Blue Book: © 2018. Credit: Ed Araquel

From Villain To Scholarly Debunker, “Game Of Thrones” Favorite Aidan Gillen Stars In New Twisty Thriller. By Barb Oates

KSENIA SOLO as Susie Miller

MICHAEL MALARKEY as Capt. Michael Quinn

converted to get involved in this project,” Gillen shares. “What’s interesting about it is that it is fact-based and science-based and history-based.

This is a real character. It’s based on real events that happened in a very interesting era.”

Some of these stories covered in Project Blue Book will put goose bumps on the back of your neck — you’ll be dumbfounded that these events actually took place. It’s really a fertile ground for a TV series to cover, as Project Blue Book ran for 17 years, and the first season alone only covers six months into Hynek’s tenure. “Truth is stranger than fiction,” Gillen attests. “All of [Blue Book’s] stories are based on actual reports of things that people reported. They said they saw

it. They believed they saw it, in most cases and sometimes not. We’re not afraid to dramatize a hoax either because once people start seeing the stuff, people start faking it, too. Even people who do go to massive lengths to create a story to fool people, to keep that story up for years, you know, why would you do that? That’s also of interest to me. What puts somebody in that mindset?

“Also cases with multiple witnesses — UFOs in the 1950s over Washington, D.C.? There were mass reports,” he continues. “They sent up fighter jets, and were scrambled to go up and try and shoot them down. These were seen by hundreds of people. I mean, that’s pretty interesting.”

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WHAT’S NEW

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I Am the Night

Inspired by true events, TNT’s limited drama series from Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins tells the gripping and mysterious story of Fauna Hodel (India Eisley), a teenage girl who is given away at birth. When Fauna begins to investigate the secrets of her past, she meets a ruined reporter (Chris Pine), haunted by a case that undid him.

Together they follow a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Los Angeles gynecologist, Dr. George Hodel (Jefferson Mays), a man involved in some of Hollywood’s darkest debauchery, and possibly its most infamous unsolved crime.

Premieres on TNT Jan. 28

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Silicon Valley spawned some of the world’s most influential people and recognizable brands during the 1990s.

It’s also where the new phenomenon of the overnight tech millionaire was born, and where the dot-com bubble busted. Mixed into this six-part limited drama are actual interviews from experts from the era — Mark Cuban, Dan Goodin and Arianna Huffington — as well as prominent tech figures from the companies featured.

Premieres on National Geographic Jan. 13

Valley of the Boom: Credit: National Geographic/Bettina Strauss

Valley of the Boom

January

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Rent

Jonathan Larson’s Tony Awardand Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comes to television in a live spectacular. The musical is loosely based on Puccini’s opera La Bohème and tells the story of artists struggling to follow their dreams in a gritty but bohemian New York City East Village neighborhood at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The FOX broadcast stars Jordan Fisher, Vanessa Hudgens, Kiersey Clemons, Brandon Victor Dixon, Brennin Hunt, Mario, Tinashe and Valentina, plus Keala Settle (The Greatest Showman) in a special role to perform the musical’s seminal song “Seasons of Love.

Premieres on FOX Jan. 27

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The Passage: © 2018 Fox Broadcasting Co. Credit: Steve Dietl/FOX

The Passage Based on author Justin Cronin’s bestselling trilogy, The Passage is an eerie yet heartwarming thriller that focuses on a secret medical facility where scientists are experimenting with a dangerous virus that could lead to the cure for all disease, but also carries the potential to wipe out the human race. When a young girl is chosen to be a test subject, federal agent Brad Wolgast (MarkPaul Gosselaar) refuses to bring her in and sets out to protect her at any cost.

Premieres on FOX Jan. 14 9

WHAT’S NEW

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The Titan Games

Watch as The Titan Games puts both male and female athletes in physically and mentally taxing obstacles to prove that they have what it takes to be the next Titan and to potentially walk away with $100,000. Created

by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, it’s an emotional, personal battle designed to push the competitors beyond their limits and reward those who exemplify hard work and determination.

Premieres on NBC Jan. 3

A dozen brave celebrities don outlandish costumes while trying to impress the audience and the celebrity judging panel of Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke with their best vocal performance. Each week, one costume-clad celeb will be eliminated from the competition and forced to reveal his or her identity. FOX teases that among them, this season’s secret contestants have earned a combined 65 Grammy Award nominations, 16 Emmy Award nominations, four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and four Super Bowl titles. Nick Cannon hosts.

Premieres on FOX Jan. 2

Deadly Class

The Titan Games: © 2018 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Credit: Art Streiber/NBC.

Masked Singer: Hippo: © 2018 FOX Broadcasting. Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.

Based on Rick Remender and Wes Craig’s bestselling graphic novel, this series is set in a dark, heightened world within the late-’80s counterculture. It follows Marcus (Benjamin Wadsworth), a teen living on the streets, who is recruited into Kings Dominion — an elite private academy where the world’s top crime families send their kids. Can Marcus maintain his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques and his own adolescent uncertainties? Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange) and Lana Condor (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) Premieres on Syfy Jan. 16 also star.

Deadly Class: © 2018 SYFY Media, LLC. Credit: Katie Yu/SYFY

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The Masked Singer

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January

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Schooled

This ’90s-set spinoff of The Goldbergs follows the grownup adventures of Lainey Lewis (AJ Michalka) and her fellow teaching cohorts at William Penn Academy. “We’ve run around the halls for the last six years, and now Lainey’s kind of running the halls,” says Michalka. “She’s actually helping guide these young students through life while still trying to figure it out herself.” Also making the leap to the new series are Tim Meadows’ Mr. Glascott, who is now the school’s principal, and Bryan Callen as Coach Mellor, with Brett Dier playing a very eager new teacher named Charlie Brown.

Premieres on ABC Jan. 9

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Schooled: © 2018 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Escaping The Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story: © Lifetime 2018. Credit: Michelle Faye.

Love, Gilda: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story This film stars Christina Ricci as Nellie Bly, a reporter who went undercover in a mental hospital to expose abuse in the 1800s. As she endures horrific treatment at the hands of the head nurse (Judith Light), Bly is left with no memory, wondering if she really belongs there after all.

Premieres on Lifetime Jan. 19

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Love, Gilda

This intimate documentary shares the life of legendary comedian and entertainer Gilda Radner, presenting her successes and her struggles in her own words.

Premieres on CNN Jan. 1

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RETURNING FAVORITES

the investigation in 1980, during a reopening of the case in 1990 and during the filming of It’s been nearly three and a half years since the a documentary in 2015. As the years progress, last episode of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective Hays’ memories of the events change until he can aired. After the generally disappointing Season no longer trust the version of the story he’s had 2, it appeared for a time that the series wouldn’t to live through. live to find redemption. Fortunately, that’s not Carmen Ejogo (the Fantastic Beasts films) the case. stars as Amelia Reardon, an English teacher After some tumult (director Jeremy Saulnier whose involvement in the case leads to an left the production after two episodes), HBO unlikely romance with Hays. “You have this quite at last delivers Season 3, which has Pizzolatto macabre backdrop that two people are falling in venturing into new territory while also returning love against,” Ejogo says. It’s not exactly a fairy to Season 1’s first-rate storytelling. tale romance when a horrible crime is at the The new installment stars Mahershala Ali, center of your “how we first met” story.

Oscar winner for Moonlight and 2019 Golden “There’s something somewhat disjointed Globe nominee for Green Book, as Arkansas about their relationship onscreen,” Ejogo says.

State Police Detective Wayne Hays. Hays and his “They’re not the most suited personas for each partner (Stephen Dorff) take the lead on the case other. It was a fascinating experience to bring to of two children who went missing in a small town life a couple that know each other well but don’t in the Ozarks. really know each other at all.”

The story plays out in three decades: During Premieres on HBO Jan. 13

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True Detective

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ON DEMAND

(Horror) Four decades earlier, Michael Myers stalked the small town of Haddonfield, and Laurie Strode narrowly escaped his clutches. Now she returns for one final confrontation with the masked killer. Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak (R, 1:46) Premieres Jan. 15

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Halloween

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January NEW RELEASES

First Man

The Hate U Give

Overlord

(Drama) Neil Armstrong is known for being the first man to walk on the moon. This is a look at his life leading up to the legendary space mission.

Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke (PG-13, 2:21) Premieres Jan. 22

(Drama) Starr takes on two different personas in two very different worlds: one at her mostly white private school and another in the presence of her friends in her poor, black neighborhood. After an incident, she is forced to make a stand for what’s right.

Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby (PG-13, 2:13) Premieres Jan. 22

(Action) When American paratroopers are shot down behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day, they stumble upon a sinister Nazi experiment involving an undead army. Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier (R, 1:50) Premieres Jan. 29

WHAT’S NEW THIS MONTH PREMIERES

BEGINNING

Bad Times At The El Royale. . . . . . . 1/1 Killers Within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/1 Scaffolding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/1 State Like Sleep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/1 The Untold Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/1 Where Hands Touch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/1 Almost Almost Famous . . . . . . . . . . 1/4 American Hangman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/4 Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable . . . . . . . . . . 1/4 The Vanishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/4 A Long Road to Freedom: “The Advocate” Celebrates 50 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/6 The Car: Road To Revenge. . . . . . . . 1/8 Hell Fest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/8 The Last Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/8 Mid90s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/8 Monsters And Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/8

PREMIERES

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Oddsockeaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/8 Shine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/8 Still. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/8 Summer ’03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/8 We Are Three. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/8 What They Had . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/8 Anthem Of A Teenage Prophet . . .1/11 Ashes In The Snow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/11 The Aspern Papers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/11 Norm Of The North: Keys To The Kingdom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/11 Sgt. Will Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/11 Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween . . . . . . . . . . 1/15 Halloween . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/15 The Old Man & The Gun . . . . . . . . . 1/15 Once Upon A Deadpool . . . . . . . . . 1/15 Black Tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/18 I Hate Kids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/18

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The Standoff At Sparrow Creek. . 1/18 Cecil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/22 First Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/22 Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer . . . . . . . . . . .1/22 The Hate U Give . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/22 I Am Not A Witch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/22 Johnny English Strikes Again . . . .1/22 Steve Trevino: ’Til Death . . . . . . . . .1/22 Wild Honey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/22 Wine Calling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/22 King Of Thieves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/25 Reality Queen! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/25 Boy Erased . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/28 Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls .1/29 Hunter Killer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/29 Outlaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/29 Overlord. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/29 The Wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/29 15

(Drama) Seven strangers with secrets end up at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale hotel. In this hotel with a dark past, everyone will have a last shot at redemption.

Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson (R, 2:21) Premieres Jan. 1

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January NEW RELEASES

ON DEMAND

Hunter Killer

Hell Fest

(Action) When the Russian president is taken in a coup attempt, it puts one American submarine captain and his team of Navy SEALS to the test.

They will attempt to rescue the president while trying to avoid starting a world war. Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common Premieres Jan. 29 (R, 2:02)

(Horror) Friends journey to a traveling amusement park for a scary good time, but when the screams turn real, they will struggle just to get out alive. Bex Taylor-Klaus, Reign Edwards, Tony Todd (R, 1:29) Premieres Jan. 8

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The Old Man & the Gun (Drama) Forrest Tucker robs banks. Now over 70 years young, he is still doing what he is good at, and he is polite when he does it. As law enforcement tries to get to the bottom of matters, does Tucker have the ability to keep one step ahead? Based on a true story. Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek (PG-13, Premieres Jan. 15 1:33)

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(Drama) When a man finds out he has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, his wife, who is equally talented, thinks back on her own life choices and what she has given up for his successes. Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater Premieres Jan. 29 (R, 1:40)

(Comedy) Stevie finds a new group of friends at a skate shop and tries to fit in with them while dealing with the realities of his troubled life at home.

Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges, Katherine Waterston (R, 1:25) Premieres Jan. 8

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Crashing

For the third season of the hit anthology series, the action heads to the Ozarks. The story follows an Arkansas schoolteacher linked to two missing children in 1980. Mahershala Ali, Carmen Ejogo, Stephen Dorff (TV-MA) Premieres on HBO Jan. 13

In Season 3 of the hit series, a once struggling comedian (Pete Holmes, playing a fictionalized version of himself) finds that being successful leads to a whole new set of challenges. Also stars Artie Lange, George Basil (TV-MA) Premieres on HBO Jan. 20

It’s a brand-new season of the comedy series about the private lives of a group of New Yorkers with one thing in common: their weed dealer (Ben Sinclair). Guest stars this season include Jemima Kirke and Ken Leung. (TV-MA) Premieres on HBO Jan. 20

Tag A group of friends has been playing a game of tag for over 30 years. Now the group vows to get the one member who has never been tagged and who wants to retire on top. Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner (R) Premieres on HBO Jan. 26

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High Maintenance

True Detective: Credit: Warrick Page.

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High Maintenance: © HBO Credit: David Russell

Tag: © 2018 Warner Bros.

True Detective

Den of Thieves

I Feel Pretty

An elite unit within the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department looks to get to the bottom of a string of bank robberies in a cat-and-mouse game between the best criminals and the best cops. Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O’Shea Jackson Jr. (R) Premieres on Showtime Jan. 4

Renee Bennett struggles with insecurity, but a strange fall makes her believe she is the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet. Her new outlook inspires her to live fearlessly. Amy Schumer, Aidy Bryant, Michelle Williams (PG-13) Premieres on Showtime Jan. 12

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I Feel Pretty: Motion Picture Artwork © 2017 STX Financing, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Credit: Mark Schäfer

Black Monday: © 2018 Showtime. Credit: Miller Mobley/Showtime

SMILF: © 2017 SHOWTIME Credit: Colleen Hayes

January

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SEASON PREMIERE

Black Monday

SMILF

This new 10-episode comedy series looks at the worst stock market crash in the history of Wall Street on “Black Monday,” Oct. 19, 1987 — and the (fictional) outsiders who caused it. Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, Regina Hall (TV-MA) Premieres on Showtime Jan. 20

Season 2 finds Bridgette trying to move forward and focus on her future while attempting to exorcise old ghosts and atone for past misdeeds, and Tutu rallying after a heartbreaking setback.

Frankie Shaw, Rosie O’Donnell, Miguel Gomez (TV-MA) Premieres on Showtime Jan. 20

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This modern-day remake of the classic 1972 film follows Priest as he attempts one last score, putting him up against a new crew with connections to a Mexican drug cartel. Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Lex Scott Davis (R) Premieres on Starz Jan. 5

The Padre

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

A con man on the run steals a car, not knowing there’s a 16-year-old girl in the back seat. The two embark on a heist bigger than any that have come before. Tim Roth, Valeria Henríquez, Nick Nolte (R) Premieres on Starz Jan. 12

On the U.S.-Mexico border, the cartels begin trafficking terrorists in addition to drugs. To combat this problem, CIA operative Matt Graver enlists the help of his friend Alejandro. Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Moner (R) Premieres on Starz Jan. 19

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A group of elite firefighters known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots risks everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire. Based on a true story. Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges (PG-13) Premieres on Starz Jan. 1

SuperFly: © 2018 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. Credit: Quantrell D. Colbert

SuperFly

Only the Brave: © 2017 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. Credit: Richard Foreman

Only the Brave

Sicario: Day of the Soldado: © 2017 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Credit: Richard Foreman, Jr. SMPSP

PREMIUMS

Dunkirk

American Animals

When Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, Canada and France are surrounded by the German army, those at home must help bring their loved ones back. Fionn Whitehead, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy (PG-13) Premieres on Cinemax Jan. 4

Four young men, bored and looking for personal glory, attempt to steal some rare books from their university’s library. Based on a true story.

Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Barry Keoghan (R) Premieres on Cinemax Jan. 11

Truth or Dare

Blade Runner 2049

When a game of Truth or Dare between friends seemingly starts punishing those who don’t answer truthfully or complete the dares proposed, events take a deadly turn. Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane (PG-13) Premieres on Cinemax Jan. 18

K, a young blade runner, discovers a long-buried secret that could destroy society, and that sends him looking for another blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas (R) Premieres on Cinemax Jan. 25

Dunkirk: © 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Ratpac-Dune Entertainment LLC and Ratpac Entertainment, LLC Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon

American Animals: Credit: WILSON WEBB

Truth or Dare: © 2018 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Credit: Peter Iovino

Blade Runner 2049: © 2017 ALCON ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. Credit: Stephen Vaughan

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Revenger Girl

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Soni

Animas

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Incredibles 2

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Jan. 11

Jan. 18

Solo: A Star Wars American Story Gangster

Jan. 16

Jan. 4 Jan. 11

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Jan. 4

And Breathe Normally, El Potro: Unstoppable, Lionheart, ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium, Solo, Girl, Close, IO, Soni, Animas: Credit: Netflix.

ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium

The Last Laugh: Credit: Patti Perret/Netflix.

Lionheart

Ant-Man and the Wasp: © Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. All Rights Reserved.

Jan. 4

El Potro: Unstoppable

American Gangster: © 2007 Universal Studios. All rights reserved. Credit: David Lee

And Breathe Normally

Solo: A Star Wars Story: © 2017 Lucasfilm Ltd. & ™, Credit: Jonathan Olley.

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Comedians of the Pinky Malinky Season 1 World Season 1 Jan. 1

Jan. 1

Tidying Up With Marie Kondo

Sex Education

Trigger Warning With Killer Mike

Carmen Sandiego Kingdom

Season 1 Jan. 11

Season 1 Jan. 18

Season 1 Jan. 1

When Heroes Fly Season 1 Jan. 10

Season 1 Jan. 18

Season 1 Jan. 25

Friends From College

Grace and Frankie

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A Series of Unfortunate Events

Call My Agent!

Trolls: The Beat Goes On!

The World’s Most Unbreakable Extraordinary Kimmy Schmidt Season 4, Part 2 Homes

Season 3 Jan. 4

Season 3 Jan. 1

Season 2 Jan. 11

Season 5 Jan. 18

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Credit: Netflix/Eike Schroter.

Grace and Frankie: Credit: Melissa Moseley/Netflix.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Credit: Eric Liebowitz/Netflix.

Tidying Up With Marie Kondo: Credit: Denise Crew/Netflix.

Sex Education: Credit: Jon Hall/Netflix.

Kingdom: Credit: JUHAN NOH/Netflix.

Comedians of the World, Pinky Malinky, When Heroes Fly, Trigger Warning With Killer Mike, Carmen Sandiego, Call My Agent!, Friends From College, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!, The World’s Most Estraordinary Homes : Credit: Netflix.

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