JANUARY TV
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• "The Bachelor," ABC, 8 p.m.: The three-hour launch introduces the 30 would-be Mrs. Colton Underwoods vying for his one heart.
JAN. 8
• "Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club," MTV, 8 p.m.: MTV says it all about the reality series: "Welcome to Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club! It's her club. Done her way." It's also in Greece.
• "Project Blue Book," History, 10 p.m.: The rare scripted series on the cable network is, according to the network, based on true topsecret investigations into UFOS.
JAN. 9
•"Schooled," ABC, 8:30 p.m.: The "Goldbergs" spinoff, set in Philadelphia in the 1990s, stars Tim Meadows as the principal of an eccentric school.
JAN. 10
• "Brooklyn Nine-nine," NBC, 9 p.m.: The series starring Andy Samberg, canceled by Fox, is resurrected on NBC, with the gang mostly intact.
• "Fam," CBS, 9:30 p.m.: The new sitcom starring Nina Dobrev and Tone Bell centers on a woman who moves in with her older half-sister and the sister's fiance.
JAN. 11
• "Crazy Ex-girlfriend," CW, 9 p.m.: The critically adored show begins its final mad dash to the finish line, with nine episodes to go in the extended last season of 18 episodes.
• "Informer," Amazon Prime: In the six-episode British streamer, a second-generation South Asian, after having a brush with the law, is coerced by a counterterrorism official to become an informer.
• "Sex Education," Netflix: In another limited British production, Otis (Asa Butterfield) sets up an underground sex-therapy clinic at his school, with his mom (Gillian Anderson) serving as inspiration: She's a sex therapist.
JAN. 13
• "True Detective," HBO, 9 p.m.: Series creator Nic Pizzolatto writes and If you missed these
For viewers distracted by the year-end holiday last week, here are several shows whose premieres in the first five days of January you might want to catch up to:
• "A Series of Unfortunate Events," (Netflix)
• "The Masked Singer" (Fox)
• "Gotham" (Fox)
• "The Titan Games" (NBC)
• "The Blacklist" (NBC)
directs all but one episode of the third season, set in the Ozarks. The show stars Mahershala Ali ("Moonlight") as Wayne Hays, a state police detective investigating the disappearance of two missing children in 1980 (although the series covers three time periods).
• "Valley of the Boom," Natgeo, 9 p.m.: The scripted six-parter explores the 1990s tech bubble, with Bradley Whitford and Steve Zahn starring as tech entrepreneurs.
JAN. 14
• "The Passage," Fox, 9 p.m.: The pre-apocalyptic thriller, based on the Justin Cronin trilogy, revisits a government experiment to wipe out disease in the human race gone badly wrong. MarkPaul Gosselaar plays a fed serving as a surrogate dad to a 10-year old girl who is the test subject. JAN. 15
• "Roswell, New Mexico," CW, 9 p.m.: The semi-reboot of the original "Roswell" centers on Liz Ortecho (Jeanine Mason), a biomedical researcher, who returns to her hometown only to learn that her teenage crush, Max (Nathan Parsons) was an alien all along.
• "Temptation Island," USA, 10 p.m.: The full-on reboot of the execrable 2001 series of the same name features four couples who travel to Hawaii, where their relationships are tempted by 24 eligible bachelors and bachelorettes.
JAN. 16
• "Deadly Class," Syfy, 10 p.m.: The series is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Rick Remender and Wes Craig about a homeless teenage boy "recruited into an elite private academy populated by the offspring of the world's top crime families." Think high-school teen drama in which the cliques are armed.
JAN. 17
• "Star Trek: Discovery," CBS All Access: The second season makes its debut, with new episodes streaming weekly on Thursdays. The new and young Spock is portrayed by Ethan Peck (grandson of Gregory), and Anson Mount joins the cast as the Enterprise captain.
JAN. 18
• "Butterfly," Hulu: The British drama, starring Anna Friel and Emmett J. Scanlon, explores the challenges of a separated couple whose youngest child was born a boy but is now identifying as a girl.
• "Carmen Sandiego," Netflix: In this animated Netflix reboot, focusing on the title character's origin story, Gina Rodriguez ("Jane the Virgin") voices Carmen.
• "Girl," Netflix: The debut film by Belgian director Lukas Dhont — about a transgender teenager who wants to become a ballerina — made a splash at Cannes for its star, Victor Polster.
JAN. 19
• "Brexit," HBO, 9 p.m.:
The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings, the British political strategist who led the effort to disengage the U.K. from the European Union.
• "Dynasties," BBC America, 9 p.m.: The multipart series is sprawling and beautiful, following television's preeminent naturalist, David Attenborough, as he explores five imperiled species — penguins, chimpanzees, lions, painted wolves and tigers.
JAN. 20
• "Black Monday," Showtime, 10 p.m.: The raucous comedy series, with Don Cheadle and Regina Hall, was inspired by the 1987 stock-market crash. Paul Scheer and Andrew Rannells also star.
JAN. 22
• "Conan," TBS, 11 p.m.: After months of looking for friends (he says) and roaming the world, Conan O'brien returns to late night, this time without Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band. The 30-minute episodes put a priority on the comedy.
JAN. 24
• "Broad City," Comedy Central, 10 p.m.: The fifth and final season of the Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer series about two friends navigating life in New York City gets underway.
• "The Other Two," Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.: The new comedy from Chris Kelly and former "Saturday Night Live" writer Sarah Schneider showcases an aspiring actor (Drew Tarver) and his older sister (Broadway star Helene Yorke).
JAN. 25
• "Black Earth Rising," Netflix: The eight-episode British thriller focuses on Kate Ashby (Michaela Coel), who is rescued from Rwandan genocide and grows up the daughter of a famed human-rights lawyer — becoming a legal investigator herself, under the auspices of international lawyer Michael Ennis (John Goodman).
• "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," Netflix: The final six episodes drop of the series' fourth and final season about the exploits of the cheery title character (Ellie Kemper), who landed in New York City after escaping a doomsday cult.
JAN. 27
• "Rent: Live," Fox, 8 p.m.: The Jonathan Larson musical — originating from the Fox Studios and directed by Obie winner Michael Greif — stars Vanessa Hudgens, Tinashe, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kiersey Clemons, Joran Fisher, Mario and Valentina.
JAN. 28
• "I Am the Night," TNT, 9 p.m.: Patty Jenkins ("Wonder Woman") directs the sixepisode series — based on Fauna Hodel's autobiography — about a reporter, Jay Singletary (Chris Pine), who helps Hodel (India Eisley) investigate her mysterious past, which possibly involves the infamous "Black Dahlia" murder in Hollywood.