19 TV Shows to Watch in January

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – December 31, 2019

In the gallery above, our editors have selected the most interesting TV shows (including TV movies and specials) debuting this month, listed in order by premiere date.

8 of 20 photo by Bob Mahoney/HBO

The Outsider

Series debuts January 12 on HBO. Launching with back-to-back episodes, HBO's 10-hour adaptation of Stephen King's 2018 horror novel stars Ben Mendelsohn as a detective investigating the brutal murder of an 11-year-old boy found in the Georgia woods. Because it's an HBO show, the cast is pretty terrific: Jason Bateman, Cynthia Erivo, Bill Camp, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine, and Julianne Nicholson also star. Oh, and King himself claims that it's one of the best adaptations of his work, so there's that.

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