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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tbd Koala Man: Season 1

Animated comedy series debuts January 9 on Hulu

Adult Swim veteran Michael Cusack (creator of cult favorites YOLO: Crystal Fantasy and Smiling Friends) moves to Hulu for his latest adult animated series, which follows a middle-aged dad (voiced by Cusack) who moonlights as a relatively powerless superhero who dresses in a koala mask and seeks to snuff out petty crime in his small Australian town. Hugh Jackman (yes, the famous one), Sarah Snook, Jemaine Clement, and Demi Lardner also lend their voices to the eight-episode series, which counts Rick & Morty's Justin Roiland and Detective Pikachu's Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez among its producers.

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