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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81 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017): Season 1

Patrick Warburton, Neil Patrick Harris, Malina Weissman, Joan Cusack, and Aasif Mandvi star in this adaptation of Daniel Handler's popular Lemony Snicket books. Handler himself penned the Netflix series (which will eventually span three seasons, with these first eight episodes covering the first four books), and Barry Sonnenfeld directs. Events was previously adapted into a feature film, but expect the series to be much darker in tone and more faithful to the original books.

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