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Our annual January preview issues keep getting bigger and bigger, and 2021 is no exception. After COVID-19 wreaked havoc on TV production schedules last year, fewer shows than usual premiered in the fall season. The good news is that many of your fav

Available now, Netflix LUSTIER THAN THE average Masterpiece, with tongue planted firmly in rouged cheek, Bridgerton is power producer Shonda Rhimes’ stylish if overwrought series debut at the Netflix ball. With show creator Chris Van Dusen (Scandal)

Falling The mystery-celebrity-with-a-mic series should stick to the competition. This week’s episode—a special holiday singalong where nobody was sent home—got its lowest numbers of the season. Falling The legal drama lost more than 1 million viewers

THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 8/7c, NBC At best, politics makes strange bedfellows. At worst, it makes the polarizing climate of 2020. But in Mr. Mayor, NBC’s new comedy starring Ted Danson as Los Angeles’ unlikeliest civil servant, it barely even makes an appea

HOW WOULD YOU cope if, at 25, you’d already survived run-ins with two monstrous killers? How would that shape the way you see the world? CBS’s psychological crime drama aims to answer those questions (and many others) as it delves into the post–Silen

KYRA SEDGWICK WASN’T looking for a sitcom as her next TV project. Yes, since her TNT drama The Closer wrapped in 2012, she’s admired Allison Janney’s work on Mom and guest starred on a dozen episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine as a rival to Andre Braugher

“We’re at each other’s throats, but we also need each other. Which is a great place to be for a comedy,” Kevin James says of the setup for NASCAR’s first sitcom. He stars as Kevin Gibson, the old-school crew chief of the middle-of-the-pack No. 74 Che

THE WILD WANDAVISION takes characters from Marvel’s comics and movies and drops them in fictional sitcoms inspired by everything from The Dick Van Dyke Show to Modern Family. The ever-changing show picks up after the events of the 2019 blockbuster Av

Can a community dispute over moving a historical statue be a laughing matter? Definitely, when the creators of this new comedy are The Office star Ed Helms, The Good Place mastermind Michael Schur and Superstore writer Sierra Teller Ornelas. The monu

Like a lot of us, Jane Krakowski (30 Rock) remembers watching classic quiz show Name That Tune while growing up. “My family would be yelling at the TV, trying to out-name the tunes,” she recalls. Now she’s hosting Fox’s revival, where contestants gue

SOULFUL, FUNNY AND sexy, this lively drama chronicles 30 years of the “you are my person” friendship between glamorous journalist Tully Hart (Katherine Heigl) and sweet wife and mom Kate Mularkey (Sarah Chalke), unlikely besties who met as teen neigh

Stephen Amell headlining a drama set in the world of professional wrestling won’t surprise those who know him well: The former Arrow star is a lifelong fan of the entertainment-sport spectacle—he’s even suited up in several big-time matches himself.

SUPERSTAR QUEEN LATIFAH brings her quiet confidence and don’t-mess-with-me vibe to this contemporary reimagining of the ’80s TV thriller The Equalizer. She’s Robyn McCall, an ex-CIA officer finished with a rigged system where only the privileged get

WHERE WE LEFT OFF San Francisco programmer Zoey Clarke (Jane Levy)—who can see people’s inner thoughts revealed via song-and-dance numbers—spent Season 1 of this joyful musical comedy torn between longtime friend Max Richman (Skylar Astin) and cowork

Could the latest task for Henry Cavill’s monster-hunting Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, be even more formidable than slaying beasts? In Season 2 of this fantasy drama (based on the video games and Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels), the solitary swordsman “has a

WHERE WE LEFT OFF Just with one of 2020’s most jaw-dropping twists! Traumatized criminal psychologist Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne) proved he’s not like his serial killer father, Dr. Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen), when he resisted shooting ruthless Nich

After gaining binge-favorite status on Netflix, this smart, scary and outrageously entertaining metaphysical thriller returns to CBS for its long-awaited second season. Work has crossed into the personal lives of the trio investigating unexplained ph

They handled an epic train crash in May’s finale. Season 4 is all downhill for L.A.’s first responders—literally: A massive landslide threatens everything in its path, including the famed Hollywood sign. “When a disaster of that kind hits,” hints sho

This just in: The addictive drama about the behind-the-scenes dysfunction in the (fictional) UBA network’s news division has added another powerhouse to the cast. As TV journalist Laura Peterson, Julianna Margulies brings “an amazing new spark” to th

The medical drama’s third season dives headfirst into the grim new normal for frontline healthcare workers. At New York City’s fictional New Amsterdam hospital, the doctors’ lives have been upended as they deal with the pandemic. “Everything has chan

Tuesday, Jan. 12, 8/7c, Fox TV Guide MaGazine was lucky enough to witness the first meeting between Barry’s Henry Winkler and The Resident’s Matt Czuchry back in 2018. Winkler, 75, spied Czuchry, 43, in our photo suite during the Television Critics A

Supergirl (TBA, The CW) After six seasons, it’s up, up and away for Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist). But first, she has to save the world at least one more time! When last we saw the Girl of Steel and her super crew, Brainy (Jesse Rath) was near death,

“He’s still a beast!” Coyote exec producer David Graziano says, marveling at the ex–Shield star’s fighting form in this nail-biting drama. Emmy winner Chiklis plays crusty Ben Clemens, retiring from a 32-year career as a border patrol agent when a pr

After a handful of well-received guest spots on The CW’s Supergirl and Arrowverse crossovers, Tyler Hoechlin (Teen Wolf) and Elizabeth Tulloch (Grimm) have been promoted to full-time gigs as DC Comics’ original supercouple! Unlike previous incarnatio

A Perfect Planet (Monday, Jan. 4, Discovery+) Sir David Attenborough narrates this stunning five-part look at how powerful natural forces found only on Earth allow animals to thrive. Men in Kilts (February, Starz) Sam Heughan reunites with former Out

“It’s undignified to hold on to the sleeve of someone who wants to leave,” observes one character in this four-part Masterpiece, nimbly adapted by David Nicholls from his novel. Nonetheless, Douglas Petersen (The Night Manager’s Tom Hollander) latche

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In the time it takes to dig out the remote from under your couch cushions, it seems like another streaming service pops up (Discovery+ comes January 4), a fan-favorite series moves online (History’s Vikings just dropped its final episodes on Prime Vi

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for honoring its ancestors. Netflix’s update of the girl we first loved on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch conjured up original cast members Beth Broderick and Caroline Rhea to reprise their roles as aunties Zelda and Hilda (above, from left: Miranda Otto