New TV for January 2023 | Arts & Entertainment

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It’s a new year, so you should be catching up on some new TV. Or maybe you don’t—I don’t know you. Regardless, here are six new series that will premiere in January 2023 and are worth checking out.Not bad considering the only good shows that premiered last January were HBO Max shows peacemaker and Apple TV+’s after party. We all forgot Fox’s joe millionaire reboot, right? Be nice to us.

Mayfair Witch (AMC+; Sunday, Jan. 8): Beyond witches and the paranormal, the biggest suspense request Mayfair Witch Possibly Alexandra Daddario (white lotus) as a brain doctor.In this adaptation of Anne Rice’s The Life of the Faile Witch, saucer-eyed neurosurgeon Ron Fielding (D’Addario) learns that she is descended from a powerful dynasty of witches. On the downside, the Mayfairs (including Harry Hamlin and Annabeth Gish) are haunted by a dark spirit – the family always has problems.

Koala (Hulu; Monday, January 9): Middle-aged dad Kevin (voiced by Michael Cusack) puts on a koala mask and fights lowlowA super-crime takes place in his small Australian town – who said the superhero genre had run out?except for anyone who has experienced black adam? In addition to show creator Cusack (YOLO: Crystal Fantasy, smiling friends), animation Koala Also features the Australian and New Zealand voices of Jemaine Clement (The Flight of the Harmony), Sarah Snook (succession), and Hugh Jackman (swordfish).

Verma (HBO Max; Thursday, Jan. 12): It doesn’t look like HBO Max will be canceled yet everything. This new adult animated series traces the high school years of Velma Dinkley (voiced by Mindy Kaling), the future brain and lesbian icon of the Scooby-Doo gang.Scooby-doo himself does not appear, but the modern set and meta Verma There are indeed Fred (Glenn Howerton), Daphne (Constance Wu), Shaggy (Sam Richardson), and an intentionally diverse guest voice. Scooby-doo purists – do they exist? — might hate it.

last survivor (HBO, HBO Max; Sunday, January 15): Set 20 years after the fall of civilization in a fungal pandemic, last survivor (Based on the PlayStation video game) follows a smuggler (Pedro Pascal, without his mandalorian helmet) hired to transport a teenage girl (Bella Ramsay, game of Thrones) from Quarantine into A’s post-apocalyptic America. In addition to expansive sets and mutating monsters, last survivor Also starring Anna Torv, Nick Offerman and Melanie Lynskey. The nine-episode first season cost just $100 million to make, so there was no pressure.

poker face (Peacock; Thursday, Jan. 26): Like Colombo stumbling on the road — Wikibay, kids — Charlie Kyle (Natasha Lyonne) travels the country solving criminal cases, using her natural talent for spotting someone A gift for lying. Sounds like a quaint American cybercrime throwback? Think again: poker face Written and partially directed by Rian Johnson, who brings us Knife out almost as good as The Glass Onion: The Mystery of Wilderness Action (Let’s not discuss the whole thing here). Peacock may finally have a winner.

pack of wolves (Paramount+; Thursday, January 26): It’s about teenage werewolves, and it’s from the same showrunners — but pack of wolves already there is nothing and teen wolf. pack of wolvesbased on the 2004 novel by Edo van Belkom, has a subtle message of environmental impact, with werewolves displaced from the wild by forest fires and logging companies —so California, it’s shocking that the Red Hot Chili Peppers haven’t written a song about it yet.hype pack of wolves is Sarah Michelle Gellar’s TV return, buffy the vampire slayer Herself. Could we get a furry Seth Green cameo?