What to Watch in January: 16 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – December 31, 2021

The month ahead will bring a series spinoff from The Suicide Squad, a new Apple TV+ comedic murder mystery, a successor to Downton Abbey, the return of Resident Alien, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

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49 How I Met Your Father: Season 1

New series debuts January 18 on Hulu

Hilary Duff heads the cast of this Hulu comedy series that borrows the basic premise (albeit gender-reversed) from the long-running CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. The new show comes from Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger (This Is Us, Love Victor) and also stars Chris Lowell, Daniel Augustin, Josh Peck, and Ashley Reyes, while Kim Cattrall narrates the series from the future as the older version of Duff's character. (She'll also appear on screen in the series, unlike HIMYM narrator Bob Saget.)

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