TELEVISION
— John Cena reprises his “The Suicide Squad” role in the DC universe spin-off series “Peacemaker.” No surprise to fans of the John Gunn movie, but there’s lots of violence, vulgarity and, yes, comedy. The cast includes Danielle Brooks (“Orange Is the New Black”) as newly introduced character Leota Adebayo; Freddie Stroma as Vigilante; Jennifer Holland as Harcourt, and Robert Patrick as Auggie Smith. The eight-episode series, written and largely directed by Gunn, debuts with three episodes Thursday on HBO Max, with the rest out on consecutive Thursdays.
— The best-ever inducement to check the attic or cruise garage sales is back. PBS’ “Antiques Road Show” is in its 26th season and again visiting U.S. cities for local treasures after working around a pandemic-caused travel hiatus. The series, which airs on Monday (check local listings for time), was taped at locations including the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown and Virginia’s Colonial Williamsburg. One very pricey find: A 1926 illustration featured on a “Saturday Evening Post” cover and appraised at $400,000 during a stop in Sands Point, New York.
— The BroadwayHD streaming service has a new and eclectic January slate of stage productions, musical films and documentaries. “The Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert,” taped in London in 2010 and available now, stars Alfie Boe as Jean Valjean, Lea Salonga as Fantine and Nick Jonas as Marius. Fans of Robert Morse on “Mad Men” should check out his performance as ambitious young J. Pierpoint Finch in the 1967 screen version of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” the Frank Loesser musical that a few years earlier earned Morse a Tony.