Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of January’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)
New to Amazon Prime Video
‘On Call’ Season 1
Starts streaming: Jan. 9
Wolf Entertainment — the production company behind the “Law & Order” and “FBI” franchises — takes a somewhat different approach to the police procedural with its latest series, “On Call.” Cocreated by Tim Walsh and Elliot Wolf, it follows a veteran Long Beach, Calif., beat cop, Traci Harmon (Troian Bellisario), and the rookie Alex Diaz (Brandon Larracuente) through typical shifts, as they do their best to take down criminals and to help people affected by drugs and guns — all while dealing with the tricky office politics within their department. Each episode is about a half-hour long, and each occasionally uses the perspective of the officers’ body-cams to add a touch of “you are there” realism.
Also arriving:
Jan. 2
“The Rig” Season 2
Jan. 16
“The Calendar Killer”
“Unstoppable”
Jan. 17
“Molly-Mae: Behind It All”
Jan. 23
“Harlem” Season 3
Jan. 27
“Tribunal Justice” Season 2
Jan. 30
“You’re Cordially Invited”
New to AMC+
‘Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches’ Season 2
Starts streaming: Jan. 5
The second of AMC’s interconnected shows set in the author Anne Rice’s gothic horror universe (after “Interview with the Vampire”) is based on a trilogy of novels, tracing the connections between multiple generations of magicians. Alexandra Daddario plays Rowan, a San Francisco surgeon whose life is upended when she discovers she has supernatural powers and previously unknown ties to an old, aristocratic New Orleans family. Jack Huston plays a mysterious shape-shifting demon known as Lasher, who has been haunting, seducing and manipulating Rowan’s ancestors for centuries. The first season of “Mayfair Witches” introduced the characters’ ancient power struggle. In Season 2, Lasher’s threat intensifies, as he possesses Rowan’s newborn child.
Also arriving:
Jan. 1
“Irreversible: The Straight Cut”
“The Others”
Jan. 3
“Skincare”
Jan. 5
“Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale” Season 1
Jan. 6
“Annika” Season 2
“The Brokenwood Mysteries” Season 10
Jan. 10
“Get Away”
Jan. 13
“Tia Mowry: My Next Act”
Jan. 14
“Red Rooms”
Jan. 15
“Deb’s House”
Jan. 17
“Memoir of a Snail”
Jan. 20
“Case Sensitive” Seasons 1 & 2
“The Gone”
Jan. 24
“Grafted”
Jan. 25
“Planet Earth: Asia”
Jan. 27
“The Catch”
“New Life”
Jan. 31
“Dark Match”
New to Apple TV+
‘Severance’ Season 2
Starts streaming: Jan. 17
Because of the multiple industry strikes, this Emmy-winning drama had a long layoff after its acclaimed first season debuted in early 2022. But while the details of every crazy cliffhanger may take a few scenes — or even a few episodes — for fans to recall, the premise of this show remains unforgettably clever. “Severance” is set at a corporation where the employees have the option to separate their consciousness into two, so that they have no memory of work when they get home and no memory of home at work. Season 1 ended with several of the office selves breaking corporate rules to dig deeper into the company’s secrets. Season 2 will deal with the repercussions of that mini-rebellion, while also introducing new characters played by Bob Balaban, Alia Shawkat and John Noble.
‘Mythic Quest’ Season 4
Starts streaming: Jan. 29
Over the course of three seasons, this workplace comedy has gone from being a knowing tech-industry satire — about the nerdy and needy geniuses running a video game company — to being a more ambitious and poignant look at creativity and collaboration. The series’ co-creator Rob McElhenney also stars as Ian, a pretentious but well-meaning entrepreneur who, alongside his brilliant programmer Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao), tries to lead his employees in a way that makes them feel like family, while also encouraging them to produce imaginative, thoughtful and profitable games. Throughout “Mythic Quest,” this team has fractured multiple times, but they keep reuniting, because they recognize that sometimes it takes the right combination of flawed people to make something special.
Also arriving:
Jan. 22
“Prime Target”
New to Disney+
‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Season 1
Starts streaming: Jan. 29
Spider-Man finally joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s television division … sort of. This animated series is set in a slightly different reality from the other MCU TV shows and movies — one in which the superpowered teenage genius Peter Parker (Hudson Thames) isn’t mentored by the honorable and avuncular Tony Stark, but instead seeks advice from the decidedly less heroic industrialist Norman Osborn (Colman Domingo). “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” is meant to mimic the look and the tone of the original 1960s Marvel Comics, when Peter struggled to balance his life as a bright young science student with his responsibilities as a superhero.
Also arriving:
Jan. 1
“Morphie: Shorts” Season 1
Jan. 9
“UFOs: Investigating the Unknown” Season 2
Jan. 10
“Goosebumps: The Vanishing”
Jan. 11
“My Best Friend’s an Animal” Season 1
Jan. 15
“A Real Bug’s Life” Season 2
Jan. 18
“Me & Winnie the Pooh” Season 2
Jan. 22
“Kiff: Lore of the Ring Light”
“To Catch a Smuggler: Tropical Takedown” Season 1
Jan. 29
“Foods that Built America” Season 5
“Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup” Season 1
“Pirates: Behind the Legends” Season 1
New to Hulu
‘Paradise’ Season 1
Starts streaming: Jan. 28
In this twisty political thriller, Sterling K. Brown plays Xavier Collins, a Secret Service agent who has been the personal guard to the former president, Cal Bradford (James Marsden), since his second term in office. When Bradford is found killed on Collins’s watch, the agent scrambles to solve the mystery with his team, without calling too much attention to himself or unsettling the placid gated community where they all live. Created by Dan Fogelman (who previously worked with Brown on the drama “This Is Us”), “Paradise” features flashbacks that provide crucial and often startling context for the crime, having to do with the complicated relationship between the former president and his guard, and the terrible secrets they share.
Also arriving:
Jan. 7
“Dead Pixels”
Jan. 17
“Roy Wood Jr.: Lonely Flowers”
Jan. 22
“Whiskey on the Rocks” Season 1
New to Max
‘The Pitt’ Season 1
Starts streaming: Jan. 9
The “ER” producer John Wells teams up again with R. Scott Gemmill (one of the writers on “ER”) and Noah Wyle (the series’ longest-serving actor) for another medical drama set in an emergency room. The big difference between “The Pitt” and “ER” — besides it being an HBO show, and able to go harder with the language and the gore — is that the first season takes place over the course of one 15-hour shift in a Pittsburgh trauma hospital. Wyle plays Dr. Michael Rabinavitch, a.k.a. Robby, who leads a team struggling to cope with the challenges of modern medicine. The cast includes some talented younger actors, including Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones and Fiona Dourif; but the main focus is on Robby, an experienced, exhausted physician, trying the help the next generation handle the stresses of the job better than he does.
Also arriving:
Jan. 2
“Isadora Moon”
Jan. 3
“The Front Room”
Jan. 9
“Sons of Ecstasy”
Jan. 10
“Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?”
“Look Into My Eyes”
Jan. 15
“An Update on Our Family”
Jan. 16
“Harley Quinn” Season 5
“Mermicorno: Starfall”
Jan. 17
“A Different Man”
Jan. 23
“C.B. Strike: The Ink Black Heart”
Jan. 30
“Memicorno: Starfall”
New to Paramount+
‘Star Trek: Section 31’
Starts streaming: Jan. 24
Most “Star Trek” devotees are aware of Section 31, the secret division of Starfleet that bends Federation laws to protect the galaxy from extreme threats. Previously featured in scattered TV episodes, movies and books, this covert agency takes center stage in “Star Trek: Section 31,” a feature film that also brings back a fan-favorite character from the series “Discovery” — Philippa Georgiou. Michelle Yeoh returns to the role of Georgiou, a mirror-universe emperor who reluctantly relinquished her tyrannical ways when she crossed over into the primary “Star Trek” dimension. Recruited by Section 31 to help thwart an insidious, galaxy-wide conspiracy, Georgiou joins a team of misfits, each in their own way trying to atone for mistakes.
Also arriving:
Jan. 1
“Murder Company”
“Slingshot”
Jan. 17
“Henry Danger: The Movie”
New to Peacock
‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’
Starts streaming: Jan. 2
When a trans-Atlantic Pan Am flight exploded over a small Scottish town in 1988, the loss of life both in the air and on the ground sparked a lengthy investigation, involving multiple nations and complicated politics. The mini-series “Lockerbie: A Search for Truth” is based on a book cowritten by Jim Swire, an English doctor whose daughter was on that plane, and who became an advocate for other victims’ families. Colin Firth plays Swire, a mild-mannered man whose frustration over governmental stonewalling and foot-dragging leads him to challenge the authorities, sometimes controversially. Over the course of five episodes, the series captures Swire’s evolving attitude toward the case, as he begins to suspect that no one is trying hard enough to find out what really happened.
‘The Traitors’ Season 3
Starts streaming: Jan. 9
The American version of this popular reality competition franchise won Emmys in 2024 for outstanding reality competition program and outstanding host (for the hilariously campy Alan Cumming). Given how competitive those categories are each year, the quick rise of “The Traitors” to “best in class” statues is impressive. But it’s also well-deserved, given how entertaining the show is, with its cutthroat, high-stakes version of an old-fashioned murder-mystery party game. With contestants mostly drawn from other reality TV series — and thus skilled at lies and betrayal — “The Traitors” is a real treat for fans of the genre. The Season 3 cast includes Rob Mariano from “Survivor,” Tom Sandoval from “Vanderpump Rules,” Bob the Drag Queen from “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” and multiple “Real Housewives” housewives.
Also arriving:
Jan. 14
“Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy”
Jan. 15
“Love Island All Stars” Season 2
Jan. 16
“SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night”
“Team Mekbots: Animal Rescue” Season 1
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