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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.
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December premieres
| SUN / December 30 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lake Erie Murders |
Reality | ID, 9p | |
| The Orville Trailer | Comedy/Sci-fi | ||
| Special two-hour premiere airs live coast to coast (meaning a likely 5p PT start) immediately following NFL football. The show will then air on Thursday nights at 9p beginning 1/3. | |||
| MON / December 31 | |||
| Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest |
Live event | ||
| Fox's New Year's Eve with Steve Harvey: Live From Times Square |
Live event | ||
| NBC's New Year's Eve |
Live event | ||
| NBC News Special: A Toast to 2018! |
News | ||
| New Year's Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen |
Live event | CNN, 8p | |
| Taylor Swift Reputation Stadium Tour |
Concert special | ||
January premieres
| TUE / January 1, 2019 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The 2019 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish |
Comedy/Live event | Funny or Die, 11a ET | |
| AKC National Championship |
Special | Animal Planet, 6p | |
| American Nightmare |
Reality | ID, 9p | |
| Bad Chad Customs |
Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| Comedians of the World |
Comedy specials | ||
| New series of stand-up comedy specials features 47 comics from around the globe. | |||
| Deadly Secrets |
Reality | ID, 6p | |
| Demon House |
Reality | Travel, 9p | |
| Evil Lives Here | Reality | ID, 8p | |
| From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2019 |
Music | ||
| Hometown Homicide |
Reality | ID, 11p | |
| I Am Jazz | Reality | TLC, 10p | |
| Killing Time |
Reality | ID, 7p | |
| Married at First Sight | Reality | Lifetime, 9p | |
| My Big Fat Fabulous Life | Reality | TLC, 8p | |
| Off the Grid, On the Beach |
Reality | HGTV, 5p | |
| Pinky Malinky |
Animation/Family | ||
| Pool in My House |
Reality | HGTV, 6p | |
| A Series of Unfortunate Events Trailer | Drama/Comedy | ||
| This seven-episode third season adapts the final four books in the Lemony Snicket series. | |||
| Tidying Up With Marie Kondo |
Reality | ||
| Windy City Rehab |
Reality | HGTV, 9p | |
| Your Worst Nightmare | Reality | ID, 4p | |
| WED / January 2 | |||
| American Beauty Star | Reality competition | Lifetime, 10p | |
| Black Ink Crew: Chicago | Reality | VH1, 9p | |
| Decoding Watson |
Documentary | ||
| Family by the Ton | Reality | TLC, 10p | |
| Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back | Reality | ||
| grown-ish | Comedy | Freeform, tbd | |
| Homestead Rescue | Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| Love & Hip Hop: Miami | Reality | VH1, 8p | |
| Man's Greatest Food | Reality | Cooking, 9p | |
| The Masked Singer |
Game show | ||
| This U.S. adaptation of an international format asks contestants to guess the identity of a celebrity who performs a song in front of them—but disguised head to toe in an elaborate costume. | |||
| Moonshiners | Reality | Discovery, 9p | |
| My 600-lb Life | Reality | TLC, 8p | |
| MythBusters Jr. |
Reality | Science, 9p | |
| MythBusters spinoff features six young regulars (aged 12-15) alongside returning host Adam Savage. | |||
| Nova | Documentary/Nature | ||
| Project Runway All Stars Trailer | Reality competition | Lifetime, 9p | |
| Psycho Mother-in-Law |
Drama | LMN, 8p | |
| True Life/Now |
Reality | MTV, 10p | |
| THU / January 3 | |||
| 60 Days In Trailer | Reality | A&E, 10p | |
| The Blacklist Trailer | Drama | ||
| Following tonight's premiere, the show will air at 9p weekly on its new night, Fridays (beginning tomorrow, Jan. 4). | |||
| Bringing Up Bates | Reality | UP, 9p | |
| Dr. Pimple Popper | Reality | TLC, 9p | |
| Flip or Flop Nashville | Reality | HGTV, 9p | |
| Gotham | Drama | ||
| Hitler's Secret Tunnels |
Documentary | History, 9p | |
| Impossible Engineering | Reality | Science, 9p | |
| The Last Days of JFK Jr. |
Documentary | ||
| Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles | Reality | Bravo, 9p | |
| Music City Trailer | Reality | CMT, 10p | |
| My Daughter's Ransom |
Drama | LMN, 8p | |
| Racing Wives |
Reality | CMT, 9p | |
| Survivng R. Kelly |
Documentary | Lifetime, 9p | |
| The Titan Games |
Reality competition | ||
| Physical competition series is produced by Dwayne Johnson, who also hosts. Note that Superstore (formerly in this timeslot) will go on hiatus until March. | |||
| Travel Man |
Reality | Ovation, 10p ET | |
| Actor/director Richard Ayoade (IT Crowd) hosts a travel series, which is making its U.S. broadcast debut. (Ovation will air four seasons in total.) | |||
| FRI / January 4 | |||
| And Breathe Normally |
Foreign/Drama | ||
| Call My Agent! | Foreign/Comedy | ||
| El Potro: Unstoppable |
Foreign/Drama | ||
| Gold Rush: White Water | Reality | Discovery, 10p | |
| Grown & Sexy |
Talk/Comedy | VH1, 9:30p | |
| The Hollywood Walk of Fame Honors |
Special | ||
| Lionheart |
Foreign/Drama/Comedy | ||
| My Lottery Dream Home | Reality | HGTV, 9p | |
| Ron Funches: Giggle Fit |
Comedy special | ||
| Saving My Baby |
Drama | LMN, 8p | |
| Young Justice: Outsiders |
Animation | DC Universe | |
| The nascent streaming service's second scripted original is actually a continuation of the Young Justice animated series that aired on Cartoon Network from 2010-2013. One new episode streams each Friday until January 25th, when four new episodes stream. (The series will then go on hiatus until June.) | |||
| SAT / January 5 | |||
| Cousins for Life |
Comedy/Family | Nickelodeon, 8:30p | |
| Say Yes to the Dress | Reality | TLC, 8p | |
| Vanished |
Reality | History, 9p | |
| Winter Castle |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| SUN / January 6 | |||
| 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards |
Live event | ||
| Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh co-host the broadcast. | |||
| Evil Lives Here | Reality | ID, 9p | |
| Houdini's Last Secrets |
Reality | Science, 10p | |
| UFO Cover-Ups: Secrets Revealed |
Reality | History, 9p | |
| Worst Cooks in America | Reality | Food, 9p | |
| MON / January 7 | |||
| America's Got Talent: The Champions | Live event | ||
| Terry Crews hosts a special edition of the competition series that brings in top acts from past seasons of the various international versions of America's Got Talent. | |||
| Antiques Roadshow | Reality | ||
| The Bachelor |
Reality competition | ||
| Special three-hour live premiere. | |||
| Cartel Crew |
Reality | VH1, 9p | |
| Kids Baking Championship | Reality competition | Food, 9p | |
| Last Call |
Comedy | Bounce, 9p | |
| No Offence Trailer | Comedy | Acorn TV | |
| SEMA: Battle of the Builders |
Reality | MotorTrend, 10p | |
| Winner Cake All |
Reality competition | Food, 10p | |
| TUE / January 8 | |||
| EA Sports Madden NFL 19 Classic |
Special | ||
| Ellen's Game of Games | Game show | ||
| Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Reality | ||
| Garage Rehab | Reality | Discovery, 8p | |
| Good Trouble |
Drama | Freeform, tbd | |
| Maia Mitchell and Cierra Ramirez star in a spinoff of The Fosters. Tonight's opener is directed by Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians). | |||
| The Haves and Have Nots | Drama | OWN, 9p | |
| How the Universe Works | Reality | Science, 10p | |
| Legend Hunter |
Reality | Travel, 10p | |
| Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club |
Reality | MTV, 8p | |
| Project Blue Book |
Drama | History, 10p | |
| History's new scripted series is based on what amounts to a real-life X-Files: a series of secret investigations into UFO sightings conducted by the Air Force in the 1950s and '60s. The drama comes from producer Robert Zemeckis and stars Aiden Gillen, Neal McDonough, and Michael Malarkey. | |||
| USS Indianapolis: The Final Chapter |
Documentary | ||
| What on Earth? | Reality | Science, 9p | |
| WED / January 9 | |||
| The Dictator's Playbook |
Documentary | ||
| Godzilla: The Planet Eater |
Sci-fi/Anime | ||
| I'm Sorry Trailer | Comedy | truTV, 10p | |
| Andrea Savage's excellent Curb Your Enthusiasm-style comedy series finally returns for a 2nd season that features guest appearances from Adam Scott, Scott Aukerman, Lennon Parham, June Diane Raphael, Rob Hubel, and Kurt Braunohler. | |||
| Jon Glaser Loves Gear Trailer | Reality | truTV, 10:30p | |
| Match Game | Game show | ||
| Nature: Attenborough and the Sea Dragon |
Documentary/Nature | ||
| Schooled |
Comedy | ||
| A spinoff from The Goldbergs set in the '90s at a private school in Philadelphia, Schooled stars Tim Meadows, Bryan Callen, Brett Dier, and AJ Michalka. | |||
| You're the Worst Trailer | Comedy | ||
| THU / January 10 | |||
| Brooklyn Nine-Nine Trailer | Comedy | ||
| The former Fox series moves to NBC for its sixth season. It will air in front of The Good Place, which shifts to 9:30p for its remaining episodes this month. Regular Chelsea Peretti will depart 9-9 this season, though she will appear in several episodes to wrap up her story. | |||
| Fam |
Comedy | ||
| Before they get married, a woman (Nina Dobrev of The Vampire Diaries) hopes to get in the good graces of her fiancé’s (Tone Bell) seemingly perfect family. But her chance to make a good impression is ruined when her out-of-control, teenage half-sister comes to live with her. The multi-camera comedy comes from writer Corinne Kingsbury (The Newsroom). | |||
| The First 48 | Reality | A&E, 8p | |
| The First 48 Presents: Homicide Squad Atlanta |
Reality | A&E, 9p | |
| Growing Up Hip Hop | Reality | WE, 9p | |
| Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition Trailer | Reality | WE, 10p | |
| The Rap Game | Reality competition/Music | Lifetime, 9p | |
| Roswell: Mysteries Decoded |
Reality | ||
| Truth and Lies: Monica |
News | ||
| When Heroes Fly |
Foreign/Drama | ||
| FRI / January 11 | |||
| Back With the Ex |
Reality | ||
| The Cleveland Orchestra Centennial Celebration |
Music | ||
| Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | Comedy/Musical | ||
| Friends From College Trailer | Comedy/Drama | ||
| Future Man Trailer | Comedy/Sci-fi | Hulu | |
| Hanging With the Hendersons |
Reality | Animal Planet, 9p | |
| Informer |
Drama | Prime Video | |
| Six-part British terrorism thriller stars Nabhaan Rizwan, Paddy Considine, and Bel Powley. | |||
| James Davis: Live From the Town |
Comedy special | ||
| The Last Laugh |
Comedy | ||
| Chevy Chase, Richard Dreyfuss, Andie MacDowell, and Kate Micucci star in a Netflix original film about a retired, aging comedian who reluctantly agrees to go on one last stand-up tour. | |||
| Sex Education |
Drama/Comedy | ||
| This coming-of-age dramedy set in an English high school stars Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson. The latter plays a sex therapist, while Butterfield is her socially awkward son, who teams with a classmate (newcomer Emma Mackey) to start an "underground sex therapy clinic" at his school to assist their fellow students with their problems. All eight one-hour episodes stream today. | |||
| Solo |
Foreign/Adventure/Drama | ||
| SAT / January 12 | |||
| Iyanla: Fix My Life | Reality | OWN, 9p | |
| Love & Marriage: Huntsville |
Reality | OWN, 10p | |
| My Mother's Split Personalities |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| One Winter Proposal |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| SUN / January 13 | |||
| 24th Annual Critics' Choice Awards |
Live event | ||
| American Style |
Documentary | CNN, 9p | |
| Best Friend's Betrayal |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Disasters at Sea |
Reality | Smithsonian, 9p | |
| Three's Complicated |
Rom-com | TV One, 7p | |
| Tigtone |
Comedy/Animation | Adult Swim, midnight | |
| Total Bellas | Reality | E!, 9p | |
| True Detective Trailer | Drama | ||
| HBO's up-and-down anthology series returns a bit late for its third season, which is written in its entirety by series creator Nic Pizzolatto (save for one David Milch-penned episode, which arrives in three weeks). Pizzolatto also makes his debut as a director, sharing those duties with Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room) and, in a last-minute substitution after Saulnier departed early due to creative differences, Daniel Sackheim. The new story is set in the Ozarks across three separate time periods and stars Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Stephen Dorff, Carmen Ejogo, Scoot McNairy, Ray Fisher, and Mamie Gummer. | |||
| Valley of the Boom |
Drama/Documentary | Nat Geo, 9p | |
| Blending documentary and scripted drama, this six-part series chronicles the 1990s tech bubble in Silicon Valley. Bradley Whitford, Steve Zahn, and Lamorne Morris star. | |||
| Victoria Trailer | Drama | ||
| Victoria & Albert: The Wedding |
Drama/Documentary | ||
| MON / January 14 | |||
| Dirty John, The Dirty Truth |
Documentary | Oxygen, 8p | |
| Donna Summer: Disco Queen |
Documentary/Music | Reelz, 9p ET | |
| The Good Doctor | Drama | ||
| Home Town | Reality | HGTV, 9p | |
| Lost Gold |
Reality | Travel, 10p | |
| Made in Staten Island |
Reality | MTV, 10p | |
| The Passage |
Drama | ||
| Produced by Ridley Scott and Matt Reeves, The Passage is based on Justin Cronin's genre-blending vampire(-ish) book trilogy of the same name (though will seemingly focus on just the first part of the story). Mark-Paul Gosselaar stars as federal agent Brad Wolgast, who finds himself serving as a surrogate father to a 10-year-old girl who is a test subject for a secret government medical experiment that has the potential to eliminate all disease—or wipe out the human race. Emmanuelle Chriqui and Vincent Piazza also star. The adaptation comes from Liz Heldens (Deception, Mercy). | |||
| Sidelined |
Reality | Lifetime, 10p | |
| Those Who Can't Trailer | Comedy | truTV, 10p | |
| TUE / January 15 | |||
| American Experience | Documentary | ||
| Bird vs. Plane: Miracle on the Hudson |
Documentary | Smithsonian, 9p | |
| Corporate | Comedy | ||
| Drunk History Trailer | Comedy | ||
| The Flash | Drama | ||
| Revenger |
Foreign/Action | ||
| Roswell, New Mexico |
Drama | ||
| It's a semi-reboot of Roswell, the cult series which ran for three seasons on both The WB and UPN at the turn of the century. Like the prior show, it's an adaptation of the Roswell High novels by Melinda Metz. In the new series, which centers on slightly older characters this time, the daughter of undocumented immigrants (Jeanine Mason, Grey's Anatomy) relocates to her hometown, where she discovers that her one-time crush (Nathan Parsons, The Originals) is secretly an alien of another sort. (The space kind.) And he's not the only one. This new adaptation comes from Carina MacKenzie, a writer on The Originals. | |||
| Sebastian Maniscalco: Stay Hungry |
Comedy special | ||
| Teachers | Comedy | TV Land, 10p | |
| Temptation Island Trailer | Reality | USA, 10p | |
| Reboot of the former Fox reality series returns the original host, Mark Walberg (no, not that one). | |||
| This Is Us | Drama | ||
| WED / January 16 | |||
| All American | Drama | ||
| Deadly Class |
Drama | Syfy, 10p | |
| This Russo brothers-produced adaptation of the Image Comics graphic novel (about a homeless teen boy who is recruited into an elite private academy for assassins, populated by the offspring of the world's top crime families) stars Benjamin Wadsworth, Benedict Wong, and Lana Condor. | |||
| In Pursuit With John Walsh |
Reality | ID, 10p | |
| Riverdale | Drama | ||
| Schitt's Creek | Comedy | Pop, 10p | |
| THU / January 17 | |||
| Backyard Envy |
Reality | Bravo, 10p | |
| Bring It | Reality | Lifetime, 9p | |
| A Discovery of Witches |
Drama/Fantasy | Shudder/Sundance Now | |
| This adaptation of the novel by Deborah Harkness stars Matthew Goode, Alex Kingston, and Teresa Palmer. The entire season is available to watch today on both streaming services. | |||
| Grey's Anatomy | Drama | ||
| How to Get Away With Murder | Drama | ||
| Lip Sync Battle | Game show | Paramount, 9p | |
| A Million Little Things | Drama | ||
| Moves to a new day and time. | |||
| Star Trek: Discovery Trailer | Sci-fi/Drama | CBS All Access, 8p ET | |
| The second season of the streaming Star Trek prequel series features a young version of Spock, played by Ethan Peck, while Anson Mount will play USS Enterprise captain Christopher Pike. Rebecca Romijn also joins the cast. New episodes stream weekly on Thursdays. | |||
| Supernatural | Drama | ||
| FRI / January 18 | |||
| Butterfly |
Drama | Hulu | |
| Separated parents must come to an agreement over how to approach their youngest child—who was born a boy but now identifies as a girl—in this British drama series that stars Anna Friel and Emmett J. Scanlon. | |||
| Carmen Sandiego |
Animation/Family | ||
| Gina Rodriguez voices the title character in this reboot of the animated series, which will focus on Carmen's origin story. | |||
| Chris Distefano: Size 38 Waist |
Comedy special | ||
| Close |
Action/Thriller | ||
| Noomi Rapace stars as a top counter-terrorism expert charged with protecting a young heiress. | |||
| Dynasty | Drama | ||
| Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened |
Documentary | ||
| This Vice-produced documentary from director Chris Smith (Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond) looks at the infamous failed music festival. | |||
| Girl |
Foreign/Drama | ||
| One of several 2018 Cannes hits picked up by the streaming service, Girl won the festival's Caméra d’Or award for best first feature. Lukas Dhont's drama centers on Laura, a 15-year-old girl born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina. Teenage star Victor Polster also won an award at Cannes for his impressive performance as Laura. | |||
| Grace and Frankie | Comedy | ||
| The Grand Tour Trailer | Reality | Prime Video | |
| Howie Mandel Presents Howie Mandel at the Howie Mandel Comedy Club |
Comedy special | ||
| IO |
Sci-fi | ||
| A teenage girl (Margaret Qualley) must decide whether to evacuate a dying Earth on the last shuttle off the planet—or remain behind, alone, in an attempt to find a solution that will save Earth. | |||
| Orphée et Euridyce from Lyric Opera of Chicago |
Music | ||
| Real Time With Bill Maher | Talk | ||
| Soni |
Foreign/Drama | ||
| Trigger Warning With Killer Mike |
Reality/Comedy | ||
| Trolls: The Beat Goes On! | Animation/Family | ||
| A Winter Princess |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| The World's Most Extraordinary Homes | Reality | ||
| Yummy Mummies |
Reality | ||
| SAT / January 19 | |||
| Brexit |
Drama | ||
| Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a HBO/BBC feature that centers on key members of the "Leave" and "Remain" campaigns in the lead-up to the Brexit vote in 2016. | |||
| Dynasties |
Documentary/Nature | BBC America, 9p | |
| The network's latest David Attenborough-narrated nature miniseries follows five different species of endangered animals around the globe. | |||
| Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie |
Documentary/Music | Reelz, 9p ET | |
| Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt for Justice |
Reality | Oxygen, 7p | |
| Winter Love Story |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| SUN / January 20 | |||
| Black Monday |
Comedy | ||
| Don Cheadle heads the cast of a comedy set in Wall Street during the 1987 stock market crash, which comes from writer/producers David Caspe (Happy Endings) and Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend's Girl). Regina Hall, Paul Scheer, and Andrew Rannells also star. Tonight's opener is directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. | |||
| Charmed | Drama | ||
| Crashing Trailer | Comedy | ||
| Deadly Match |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| High Maintenance Trailer | Comedy | ||
| Mark of a Killer |
Reality | Oxygen, 7p | |
| Ruby Herring Mysteries: Silent Witness |
Drama | HMM, 9p | |
| Seeking Sister Wife | Reality | TLC, 10p | |
| Shameless | Drama/Comedy | ||
| Sister Wives | Reality | TLC, 8p | |
| SMILF Trailer | Comedy | ||
| Supergirl | Drama | ||
| MON / January 21 | |||
| Arrow | Drama | ||
| Black Lightning | Drama | ||
| Moves to a new timeslot. | |||
| Celebrity Big Brother | Reality | ||
| Dating #NoFilter |
Reality | E!, 10:30p | |
| Justice |
Foreign/Drama | ||
| Pawn Stars | Reality | History, 10p | |
| TUE / January 22 | |||
| Conan | Talk/Comedy | TBS, 11p | |
| Conan O'Brien's nightly talk show returns after a multi-month hiatus in its new half-hour format, which (among other changes) jettisons the in-house band and places a greater emphasis on comedy. | |||
| Food Truck Nation |
Reality | Cooking, 9p ET | |
| Many Sides of Jane |
Reality | A&E, 10p | |
| Siesta Key | Reality | MTV, 9p | |
| WED / January 23 | |||
| Knight Fight |
Reality | History, 10p | |
| The Magicians Trailer | Drama | Syfy, 9p | |
| Suits | Drama | USA, 10p | |
| THU / January 24 | |||
| Broad City Trailer | Comedy | ||
| Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes |
Documentary | ||
| Kindred Spirits | Reality | Travel, 10p | |
| Legacies | Drama | ||
| The Other Two |
Comedy | ||
| Former SNL writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider are the creators of this new scripted series about an aspiring actor (Drew Tarver) who struggles to land anything other than a bit role—and his adult sister (Heléne York), who struggles to find any meaningful career path—as their 13-year-old brother (Case Walker) achieves instant, massive internet stardom. Molly Shannon and Ken Marino also star. | |||
| Siren Trailer | Drama | Freeform, tbd | |
| FRI / January 25 | |||
| Ánimas |
Foreign/Horror | ||
| Black Earth Rising |
Drama | ||
| Eight-episode British thriller about the prosecution of an African warlord in the International Criminal Court comes from The Honourable Woman creator Hugo Blick and stars John Goodman and Michaela Coel. | |||
| Club de Cuervos (Club of Crows) | Foreign/Comedy | ||
| Doubt from Minnesota Opera |
Music | ||
| Four More Shots Please! |
Foreign/Drama | Prime Video | |
| I Lived With a Killer |
Reality | Reelz, 8p ET | |
| Kingdom |
Foreign/Drama/Horror | ||
| Korean zombie thriller (which has already been renewed for a second season) is set during medieval times. | |||
| Medici: The Magnificent | Foreign/Drama | ||
| Season 2 of the Italian historial drama series that began with "Medici: Masters of Florence." | |||
| Polar |
Action/Thriller | ||
| Roy Wood Jr.: No One Loves You |
Comedy special | ||
| Soft Focus With Jena Friedman 2 |
Comedy | Adult Swim, midnight | |
| Strike Back Trailer | Drama | Cinemax, 10p | |
| Sydney to the Max |
Comedy/Family | Disney, 8:30p | |
| Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | Comedy | ||
| The final six episodes of the Tina Fey-created comedy series stream today. | |||
| SAT / January 26 | |||
| Amanda Seales: I Be Knowin' |
Comedy special | ||
| Destination France: The Birthplace of Luxury |
Reality | Ovation, 10p ET | |
| Love You to Death |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| Slenderman Stabbing: The Untold Story |
Reality | Reelz, 8p ET | |
| Snowcoming |
Drama | Hallmark, 8p | |
| SUN / January 27 | |||
| 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards |
Live event | TBS/TNT, 8p ET | |
| Mystery 101 |
Drama | HMM, 9p | |
| Rent |
Musical/Live event | ||
| Three-hour live production of the mutliple-award-winning musical stars Kiersey Clemons, Tinashe, Brandon Victor Dixon, and Vanessa Hudgens. | |||
| MON / January 28 | |||
| Agatha Raisin and the Curious Curate |
Drama/Comedy | Acorn TV | |
| The Best Thing I Ever Ate | Reality | Cooking, 9p | |
| Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists |
Documentary | ||
| I Am the Night |
Drama | TNT, 9p | |
| Director Patty Jenkins reunites with one of her Wonder Woman stars, Chris Pine, for a six-episode period crime drama that follows a white teenage girl (India Eisley) who was given away at birth to a black restroom attendant in a Nevada casino in 1949 and now finds herself drawn into an increasingly sinister mystery involving her birth mother, an infamous Hollywood gynecologist, and—possibly—the Black Dahlia murder. Pine plays a reporter investigating the case. It's not as fanciful as it sounds; the story is based on Fauna Hodel's autobiography. | |||
| TUE / January 29 | |||
| Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias: One Show Fits All |
Comedy special | ||
| Super Bowl Greatest Commercials 2019 |
Special | ||
| WED / January 30 | |||
| Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television Trailer | Comedy | YouTube | |
| THU / January 31 | |||
| 30 for 30: Deion Sanders |
Documentary/Sports | ESPN, 9p ET | |
| Famous Fortune Fights |
Reality | Reelz, 9p ET | |
| Swamp People | Reality | History, 9p | |
| Will & Grace | Comedy | ||
| Returns from a brief hiatus in a new timeslot. | |||
February premieres
| FRI / February 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The ABC Murders |
Drama | Prime Video | |
| John Malkovich stars as detective Hercule Poirot in this BBC-produced limited series based on the Agatha Christie novel about Poirot's hunt for a serial murderer in the 1930s. Rupert Grint, Eamon Farren, and Andrew Buchan also star. The adaptation comes from writer Sarah Phelps (The Casual Vacancy) and director Alex Gabassi (The Frankenstein Chronicles). | |||
| Into the Dark: Down | Horror | Hulu | |
| Russian Doll |
Comedy/Drama | ||
| Natasha Lyonne stars as a guest of honor at a never-ending party—well, technically, it does end, with her death, only for it to restart again each time with her unharmed—in this eight-episode comedy that she created with Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland (Bachelorette). | |||
| Siempre Bruja: Always a Witch |
Foreign/Drama | ||
| SAT / February 2 | |||
| Death of a Cheerleader |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| SUN / February 3 | |||
| Super Bowl LIII |
Sports/Live event | ||
| The World's Best |
Reality competition | ||
| New talent competition series hosted by James Corden airs immediately following Super Bowl coverage nationwide (* time approximate). Judges include Drew Barrymore, RuPaul Charles, and Faith Hill. Subsequent episodes will air Wednesdays at 8p (beginning Feb. 6). | |||
| MON / February 4 | |||
| Elvis Goes There |
Reality | Epix, 10p | |
| Film critic Elvis Mitchell joins filmmakers Paul Feig, Sofia Coppola, Ryan Coogler and Guillermo del Toro on trips around the world to places that influenced their work. | |||
| Man With a Plan | Comedy | ||
| TUE / February 5 | |||
| American Housewife | Comedy | ||
| Moves to a new day and time. | |||
| American Soul |
Drama/Music | BET, 9p | |
| Sinqua Walls stars as Don Cornelius in this series dramatizing the life of the Soul Train creator and host. | |||
| FRI / February 8 | |||
| High Flying Bird |
Drama/Sports | ||
| Directed by Steven Soderbergh from a script by Tarell Alvin McCraney (who wrote the play upon which the film Moonlight was based), this Netflix original film follows a sports agent (André Holland) and his NBA rookie client (Melvin Gregg) during a labor dispute that shuts down the league. Zazie Beetz, Zachary Quinto, Sonja Sohn, Bill Duke, and Kyle MacLachlan also star. | |||
| One Day at a Time Trailer | Comedy | ||
| PEN15 |
Comedy | Hulu | |
| All 10 episodes stream today for this Lonely Island-produced comedy series set in middle school. The catch? Two of the 7th graders are played by fully grown adults (and the show's creators) Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine, who star as versions of their real selves in the year 2000. (Their classmates are played by actual 13-year-olds.) | |||
| SAT / February 9 | |||
| Victoria Gotti: My Father's Daughter |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| SUN / February 10 | |||
| 61st Annual Grammy Awards |
Music/Live event | ||
| Autopsy: The Last Hours Of... | Reality | Reelz, 9p ET | |
| Hustle |
Reality | Viceland, 9p | |
| Margaret: The Rebel Princess |
Documentary | ||
| Price of Fame | Reality | Reelz, 10p ET | |
| Ride With Norman Reedus | Reality | ||
| The Walking Dead | Drama/Horror | ||
| MON / February 11 | |||
| American Dad! | Animation/Comedy | TBS, 10p | |
| TUE / February 12 | |||
| The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti |
Documentary/Sports | ||
| Miracle Workers |
Comedy | TBS, 10:30p | |
| It's your typical workplace comedy, except that the workplace is heaven, and the uninspiring, checked-out boss is God (played by Steve Buscemi, replacing the originally cast Owen Wilson). Daniel Radcliffe stars as a low-level employee/angel charged with handling all of humanity's prayers. The Lorne Michaels-produced series comes from Man Seeking Woman creator Simon Rich (which he adapts from his own book, What in God's Name), and it will feature Tituss Burgess, Margaret Cho, Tim Meadows, Chris Parnell, and Angela Kinsey as recurring guests. TBS considers it an anthology, so a hypothetical future season would feature a different cast. | |||
| The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills | Reality | Bravo, 9p | |
| THU / February 14 | |||
| The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook |
Documentary | Ovation, 10p ET | |
| FRI / February 15 | |||
| Doom Patrol |
Drama | DC Universe | |
| The next live-action original series from the new streaming service centers on heroes Robotman (voiced by Brendan Fraser and played by Riley Shanahan), Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Elasti-Woman (fka Elasti-Girl) (April Bowlby), and Crazy Jane (Orange Is the New Black's Diane Guerrero). Alan Tudyk also stars as villain Eric Morden/Mr. Nobody, while former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton plays The Chief. It's yet another Greg Berlanti production, and it comes from Jeremy Carver (Frequency). New episodes stream weekly. | |||
| Kim Possible |
Comedy/Action/Family | Disney, 8p | |
| Live-action movie is based on the animated series. | |||
| Proven Innocent |
Drama | ||
| Created by David Elliot (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) and is produced by Danny Strong (Empire), TV's latest legal procedural is set at a law firm that specializes in representing wrongfully convicted clients. Late addition Kelsey Grammer joins a cast that also features Rachelle Lefevre (Under the Dome), Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), Russell Hornsby (Grimm), Nikki M. James (BrainDead), Laurie Holden (The Americans), and Riley Smith (Frequency). | |||
| The Umbrella Academy |
Drama | ||
| This Netflix original is a 10-episode, live-action adaptation of the award-winning graphic novels (about a family of superheroes) by My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way. The cast includes Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, Mary J. Blige, Emmy Raver-Lampman, and Kate Walsh. | |||
| SAT / February 16 | |||
| Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted to You |
Drama | Lifetime, 8p | |
| SUN / February 17 | |||
| Elvis All-Star Tribute Special |
Music | ||
| TUE / February 19 | |||
| American Masters: Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me |
Documentary | ||
| At Home With Amy Sedaris | Comedy | truTV, 10p | |
| WED / February 20 | |||
| Documentary Now! | Comedy | IFC, 10p | |
| The seven-episode "52nd" (aka third) season of the documentary spoof series includes parodies of recent Netflix hit Wild Wild Country, D.A. Pennebaker's Original Cast Album: Company, bowling doc League of Ordinary Gentlemen, and Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present. Guests include Cate Blanchett, Michael C. Hall, Michael Keaton, Owen Wilson, Tim Robinson, Bobby Moynihan, Natasha Lyonne, and John Mulaney. | |||
| Survivor | Reality competition | ||
| THU / February 21 | |||
| Desus & Mero |
Talk | ||
| The TV/podcast duo bring their topical, comedic talk show from Viceland to Showtime, where it will air weekly on Thursday nights. | |||
| Flack |
Drama | Pop, 10p | |
| Six-episode series stars Anna Paquin as an American publicist in London. Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) directs. | |||
| The Oath | Drama | Crackle | |
| FRI / February 22 | |||
| American Masters: Charley Pride: I'm Just Me |
Documentary | ||
| SAT / February 23 | |||
| 34th Independent Spirit Awards |
Live event | IFC, 5p ET | |
| Aubrey Plaza hosts. | |||
| O.G. |
Drama | ||
| Jeffrey Wright stars as a convict serving out the final days of a 24-year sentence. A companion documentary (filmed at the same location, Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility), airs on HBO on Monday night (and streams tonight following O.G.). | |||
| SUN / February 24 | |||
| 91st Annual Academy Awards |
Live event | ||
| MON / February 25 | |||
| The Enemy Within |
Drama | ||
| Created by Ken Woodruff (Gotham) and directed by Mark Pellington (Arlington Road), this thriller stars Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter) as a CIA agent-turned-traitor who is freed from a life sentence in a Supermax prison by an FBI agent (Morris Chestnut) who wants her assistance in tracking down a dangerous criminal. | |||
| It's a Hard Truth Ain't It |
Documentary | ||
| Shadowhunters | Drama | Freeform, tbd | |
| The Voice | Reality competition | ||
| John Legend joins the judge panel. Note that after next week's episode (March 5), the show will go on hiatus for over a month before returning on April 23rd. | |||
| TUE / February 26 | |||
| World of Dance | Reality competition | ||
| Subsequent episodes will air Sundays at 8p (beginning March 3rd). | |||
| WED / February 27 | |||
| Whiskey Cavalier |
Drama | ||
| An hourlong action-dramedy from TV veteran David Hemingson (The Catch, Kitchen Confidential) and produced by Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Cougar Town), Whiskey Cavalier centers on an FBI/CIA inter-agency task force led by Scott Foley (Scandal) and Lauren Cohan (The Walking Dead). | |||
| THU / February 28 | |||
| Wife Swap |
Reality | CMT, 9p | |
| Revival of the "classic" reality series. | |||
Spring premieres
| FRI / March 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| American Masters: Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives |
Documentary | ||
| Into the Dark: Treehouse | Horror | Hulu | |
| SUN / March 3 | |||
| American Idol | Reality competition | ||
| Cosmos: Possible Worlds |
Documentary | ||
| Neil deGrasse Tyson returns to host a follow-up to the 2014 miniseries based on Carl Sagan's original. | |||
| Good Girls | Drama | ||
| THU / March 7 | |||
| A.P. Bio | Comedy | ||
| For the People | Drama | ||
| Station 19 | Drama | ||
| SUN / March 10 | |||
| American Gods | Drama | Starz, 8p | |
| The Neil Gaiman adaptation's delayed second season follows some behind-the-scenes turmoil, which saw several different showrunners (including last season's Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, and then their replacement, Jesse Alexander) depart the project and the episode count trimmed from 10 to 8 amid budget overruns. Also gone are cast members Gillian Anderson and Kristin Chenoweth. Newcomers include Dean Winters and Kahyun Kim. | |||
| Now Apocalypse |
Comedy | Starz, 9p | |
| Created by veteran indie film director Gregg Araki and produced by Steven Soderbergh and Gregory Jacobs, this unique coming-of-age comedy series follows four people on their quest for "love, sex and fame" in a very surreal version of Los Angeles—and one that may be in the throes of a dark conspiracy. Araki directs all 10 episodes, which he co-wrote with Vogue sex columnist Karley Sciortino (Slutever). The series will debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January. | |||
| MON / March 11 | |||
| Punk |
Documentary/Music | Epix, 10p | |
| TUE / March 12 | |||
| The Village |
Drama | ||
| NBC's latest attempt to duplicate its This Is Us magic is a sentimental ensemble drama that follows the (sometimes interconnected) lives of a diverse group of residents of a Brooklyn apartment building. Is there a single mom raising a pregnant teen, an injured war veteran, a law student with a much older roommate, and an undocumented immigrant? You bet. The series comes from Mike Daniels (Sons of Anarchy, Shades of Blue) and stars Moran Atias, Dominic Chianese, Warren Christie, Frankie Faison, Jerod Haynes, Daren Kagasoff, Michaela McManus, Lorraine Toussaint, and Grace Van Dien. Special premiere; the series will return in its regular timeslot on April 2nd at 9p. | |||
| THU / March 14 | |||
| 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards |
Live event/Music | ||
| FRI / March 15 | |||
| Shrill |
Comedy | Hulu | |
| SNL's Aidy Bryant stars in an adaptation of Lindy West's memoir. All six episodes stream today. | |||
| SAT / March 16 | |||
| Murder Made Me Famous | Reality | Reelz, 9p ET | |
| Notorious |
Reality | Reelz, 10p ET | |
| SUN / March 17 | |||
| Billions Trailer | Drama | ||
| MON / March 18 | |||
| The Fix |
Drama | ||
| Former prosecutor Marcia Clark (yes, that one) teams with the duo of Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain (Dollhouse, Lie to Me) for a serialized legal drama that shares a few similarities with Clark's own life. Robin Tunney (The Mentalist) stars as a Los Angeles district attorney who loses a high-profile murder trial featuring a celebrity suspect (Lost's Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). (He's an actor, not a football player, in case you were wondering.) Devastated, she relocates to the Pacific Northwest for a quieter life out of the spotlight, only to be drawn back into the case eight years later when the celebrity is suspected of another killing. Merrin Dungey, Adam Rayner, and Breckin Meyer also star. | |||
| WED / March 20 | |||
| The Act |
Drama | Hulu | |
| Hulu's new true-crime anthology series begins with an eight-episode story of a toxic mother-daughter relationship, adapted from Michelle Dean's article "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered." Patricia Arquette, Joey King, Chloe Sevigny, AnnaSophia Robb and Calum Worthy star. New episodes stream weekly. | |||
| MON / March 25 | |||
| Women, War & Peace II |
Documentary | ||
| WED / March 27 | |||
| Million Dollar Mile |
Reality competition | ||
| Tim Tebow hosts a new obstacle course competition series in which every contestant has a chance at winning one million dollars. | |||
| SUN / March 31 | |||
| Call the Midwife | Drama | ||
| Mrs. Wilson |
Drama | ||
| MON / April 1 | |||
| Cannon Busters |
Anime | ||
| Ultraman |
Anime | ||
| FRI / April 5 | |||
| Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Trailer | Drama | ||
| Our Planet |
Documentary/Nature | ||
| The streaming service borrows the narrator (David Attenborough), production company, and (presumably) Emmy aspirations behind the BBC's recent nature miniseries hits Planet Earth and Blue Planet for a similarly ambitious wildlife series filmed (in 4K video) across a wide range of habitats on all seven continents over a four-year period. | |||
| SUN / April 7 | |||
| 54th Academy of Country Music Awards |
Music/Live event | ||
| WED / April 10 | |||
| Ozone Hole: How We Save the Planet |
Documentary | ||
| FRI / April 12 | |||
| American Masters: Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People |
Documentary | ||
| SUN / April 14 | |||
| Les Misérables |
Drama | ||
| Airing on Masterpiece, this six-part, non-musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel stars Dominic West, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins, and Olivia Colman. The adaptation comes from Andrew Davies (Bleak House, the original House of Cards, Mr. Selfridge). | |||
| WED / April 17 | |||
| Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World |
Documentary | ||
| FRI / April 19 | |||
| American Masters: Gary Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable |
Documentary | ||
| Rilakkuma and Kaoru |
Anime | ||
| TUE / April 23 | |||
| History of African American Business |
Documentary | ||
Summer premieres
| FRI / May 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Emilio & Gloria Estefan: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song |
Music | ||
| FRI / May 17 | |||
| American Masters: Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices |
Documentary | ||
| SUN / May 19 | |||
| Hair Live! |
Musical | ||
| WED / May 22 | |||
| The Amazing Race | Reality competition | ||
| SUN / May 26 | |||
| National Memorial Day Concert 2019 |
Music | ||
| MON / May 27 | |||
| Korea: The Never-Ending War |
Documentary | ||
| WED / May 29 | |||
| Light Falls |
Documentary/Drama | ||
| SUN / June 9 | |||
| 73rd Annual Tony Awards |
Live event | ||
| MON / June 17 | |||
| Grand Hotel |
Drama | ||
| Based on a Spanish series and produced by Eva Longoria, this primetime soap is set inside a family-owned luxury Miami Beach hotel. Demián Bichir heads the cast as the hotel's wealthy owner while Roselyn Sanchez plays his (current) second wife, and the upstairs/downstairs storylines will revolve around their family as well as the hotel's staff and guests. The adaptation comes from Brian Tanen (Devious Maids, Ugly Betty). | |||
Fall premieres
| TUE / September 17 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Game |
Documentary/Sports | ESPN, tbd | |
| Eleven-episode series (airing weekly on Tuesdays) examines the history of college football. | |||
| THU / September 19 | |||
| The Greatest |
Documentary/Sports | ESPN, tbd | |
| SUN / September 22 | |||
| 71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards |
Live event | ||
| FRI / October 4 | |||
| WWE SmackDown Live | "Sports" | ||
| Moves to Fox from USA. | |||
2020 premieres
| SUN / January 26, 2020 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 62nd Annual Grammy Awards |
Music/Live event | ||
| SUN / February 9 | |||
| 92nd Annual Academy Awards |
Live event | ||
2021 premieres
| SUN / Janaury 31, 2021 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 63rd Annual Grammy Awards |
Music/Live event | ||
| SUN / February 28 | |||
| 93rd Annual Academy Awards |
Live event | ||
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