Winter TV Preview: 20 Notable Shows

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – January 1, 2017

Are you ready for not one, not two, but three different reinventions of the comic book TV series? How about period dramas starring Tom Hardy and Christina Ricci? A look at the life of another English queen, or a fictitious American pope? The return of The Good Wife and 24? Or perhaps all you need is a Series of Unfortunate Events.

Those concepts and more are headed to the small screen between now and early March. Find details on 20 noteworthy upcoming shows (both new and returning series, plus miniseries) below, ordered by date. And, for more premiere dates and details on every upcoming show (including those not profiled here), visit our 2017 TV Premiere Calendar.

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66 Santa Clarita Diet: Season 1

Created by Victor Fresco (best known for the short-lived cult classics Better Off Ted and Andy Richter Controls the Universe), this Netflix comedy stars Timothy Olyphant and Drew Barrymore as suburban married Realtors who experience a change that sends "both their lives down a road of death and destruction ... but in a good way." Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) directs.

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