What to Watch in January: 19 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – December 29, 2022

The month ahead will bring new TV shows from noted film directors Rian Johnson, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Hirokazu Kore-eda, plus the first TV adaptation of hit video game The Last of Us, a new comedy from the creators of Ted Lasso, 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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58 That '90s Show: Season 1

Comedy series debuts January 19 on Netflix

Netflix's sequel to the long-running Fox sitcom That '70s Show picks up the action 15 years later in the summer of 1995. Unlike the short-lived dud That '80s Show, the new series is set in the same world as the original show and will feature the return of Red and Kitty Forman, played once again by Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp. (Yes, their basement also returns.) Their teenage granddaughter Leia (Callie Haverda) and her friends—who are visiting on summer break—will be at the center of the story, but many other members of the original cast (including Ashton Kutcher, Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Mila Kunis, and Wilmer Valderrama) will make guest appearances, while Prepon also directs several of the 10 first-season episodes.

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