James R | On 02, Jan 2023

Netflix. Amazon Prime Video. BBC iPlayer. NOW. Apple TV+. Paramount+. All 4. There’s so much TV to watch these days in so many places that it can be hard to keep up. Every month, we boil down what’s on the box to the essentials you need in your streaming queue.

We’ve sorted through All The TV to bring you your January watchlist – what’s worth watching and where you can stream it online in the UK.

 

Week 1

Search Party: Season 1 to 5

The BBC has stepped in to pick up the UK TV rights to Search Party, the breakout murder mystery comedy thriller. The dark satire of millennial culture, full of escalating events and consequences, follows the disappearance of former college acquaintance Chantal, which leads several twenty-somethings to get entangled in the mystery.

Happy Valley: Season 3

Written and created by Sally Wainwright, featuring Sarah Lancashire in her iconic role of Sergeant Catherine Cawood, the six-part season will see Catherine discover the remains of a gangland murder victim in a drained reservoir, sparking a chain of events that leads her straight back to Tommy Lee Royce [James Norton]. Her grandson, Ryan [Rhys Connah], is now sixteen and has ideas of his own about the kind of relationship he wants to have with the man Catherine refuses to acknowledge as his father, leaving Catherine’s sister Clare (Siobhan Finneran) caught in the middle. In another part of the valley, a local pharmacist gets in over his head when a neighbour is arrested.

Old Enough: Season 2

This Japanese reality series that sends toddlers out on errands alone is a surprising, heartwarming delight.

Romantic Getaway: Season 1

Allison and Deacon are desperate for a baby, but they’ve run out of money to fund any more IVF treatment. So they decide to ‘borrow’ the £50k they need from their filthy rich boss Alfie, who they discover is illegally creaming off money from the company. And it works! Except that, on a whim, Deacon secretly adds an extra nought to the transfer, and actually steals half a million quid. And Allison is secretly starting to doubt whether she wants a baby after all. Their web of lies kicks off a downward spiral into the criminal underworld of suburban Britain, and pushes them, and their plans for their future together, to the limit. Romesh Ranganathan and Katherine Ryan star. All episodes available at once.

Kaleidoscope: Season 1

Loosely inspired by the real-life story where seventy billion dollars in bonds went missing in downtown Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy, Kaleidoscope comprises eight episodes spanning from 24 years before the heist to 6 months after. Created by Eric Garcia, the series follow a crew of masterful thieves and their attempt to crack a seemingly unbreakable vault for the biggest payday in history. Guarded by the world’s most powerful corporate security team, and with law enforcement on the case, every episode reveals a piece of an elaborate puzzle of corruption, greed, vengeance, scheming, loyalties and betrayals. How did the crew of thieves plan it? Who gets away with it? Who can be trusted?

Stonehouse

The life and times of disgraced Labour minister John Stonehouse are dramatised by acclaimed writer John Preston with BAFTA award-winning and Emmy-nominated Matthew Macfadyen (Succession, Quiz) in the leading role and co-starring Keeley Hawes (Honour, It’s A Sin) as Stonehouse’s wife Barbara. The MP for Walsall North left behind his loving wife Barbara and three young children as a shocked public and media presumed he had drowned or been eaten by sharks. Charismatic, oozing with charm and brimming with confidence, Stonehouse had impressed Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Labour stalwarts from an early stage in his parliamentary career. From a working-class background, he’d graduated from the London School of Economics, was in the RAF during the War and seemed the ideal candidate for a life in politics. As the drama unfolds, it becomes apparent his reputation as a devoted family man masked the truth, as he’d embarked on an extra marital affair with his secretary, Sheila Buckley, and acted as a spy for the Czech Secret Service in the 1960s.

Our Flag Means Death: Season 1

From creator David Jenkins and executive producer Taika Waititi, Our Flag Means Death is a comedy loosely based on the true adventures of 18th-century would-be pirate, Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby). Audiences will join Stede and his crew as they attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas. After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard (Taika Waititi), history’s greatest pirate.

Reservation Dogs: Season 2

Older, but not necessarily wiser. Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s comedy returns to continue following the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California. The show’s first-of-its-kind Indigenous creative team invites audiences into a surprisingly familiar and funny world.

The Bad Batch: Season 2

The animated series follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (first introduced in The Clone Wars) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. When the new season opens, months have passed since the events on Kamino, and the Bad Batch continue their journey navigating the Empire after the fall of the Republic. They will cross paths with friends and foes, both new and familiar, as they take on a variety of thrilling mercenary missions that will take them to unexpected and dangerous new places. Episodes 1 and 2 arrive together, following by episodes weekly.

A Murder in the Family

Each stand alone film in this new true crime series investigates three shocking murders, where the victim and perpetrator are family, telling stories of ordinary relationships that take extraordinary and ultimately tragic turns.

Using found footage – from victim’s social media videos and police bodycam film, text messages or call recordings, each story is pieced together from the victim’s point of view, without voiceover, allowing the victim, friends and family to tell their stories in their own immediate and intimate way.

Copenhagen Cowboy: Season 1

Nicolas Winding Refn’s six-episode neon-noir series follows enigmatic young heroine, Miu. After a lifetime of servitude and on the verge of a new beginning, she traverses the ominous landscape of Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld. Searching for justice and enacting vengeance, she encounters her nemesis, Rakel, as they embark on an odyssey through the natural and the supernatural. The past ultimately transforms and defines their future, as the two women discover they are not alone, they are many.

The Rig

Rose (Emily Hampshire), Magnus (Iain Glen) and Fulmer (Martin Compston) are among many others working on an oil rig off the coast of Scotland. When the time comes for them to return back to land, the oil rig becomes engulfed by a supernatural mist. Will they make it back? All episode arrive at once.

Week 2

Welcome to Chippendales

A sprawling true-crime saga, Welcome to Chippendales tells the outrageous story of Somen “Steve” Banerjee, an Indian immigrant who became the unlikely founder of the world’s greatest male-stripping empire—and let nothing stand in his way in the process.

Snowfall: Season 5

It’s 1986. Will Franklin’s (Damson Idris) dreams become nightmares? In Season 5, he and the family are rich beyond their wildest dreams and on the verge of having everything they’ve wanted, just as the ground begins to fall out from beneath their feet. The streets of South Central Los Angeles have never been so dangerous, but the biggest threat the family faces are each other as they try not to let greed, resentment and ego tear them all apart.

Vikings: Valhalla: Season 2

The follow-up to History’s hit original series begins in the early 11th century and chronicles the legendary adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived – Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), his fiery and headstrong sister Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustavsson) and the ambitious Nordic prince Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter).

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House: Season 1

Hirokazu Kore-eda serves as showrunner, director, and writer for this nine-episode series, based on the manga by Aiko Koyama. Set in the Geiko district of Kyoto, the protagonist Kiyo becomes a Makanai (person who cooks meals) at a house where Maiko (apprentice Geikos) live together. The story depicts the everyday life of Kiyo Maiko Sumire, her childhood friend who came with her from Aomori to Kyoto, amid a vibrant world of Geiko and Maiko courtesans and delicious food. Alongside Kore-eda, Genki Kawamura (Confessions, Villain, Your Name, MIRAI) will be producing. Up-and-coming directors such as Megumi Tsuno (Ten Years Japan), Hiroshi Okuyama (Jesus), and Takuma Sato (Any Crybabies Around?) are directing individual episodes.

The Reunion (2022)

The French Riviera-set series adapted from Guillaume Musso’s bestselling novel stars Ioan Gruffudd, Ivanna Sakhno, and Grégory Fitouss, Dervla Kiwan, Vahina Giocante, Rupert Graves, Shemss Audat, Cosimo Fusco, and Salóme Gunnarrsdóttir. The story opens in the present day, at a high school reunion in the south of France where three former friends reconnect. They grew apart and lost touch, but they are still bound by a tragic secret tied to the disappearance of a high school girl who went missing 25 years ago in the region.

Break Point: Part 1

Travel alongside some of the world’s most talented tennis players as they swing for greatness and Grand Slams through an action-packed season.

The Traitors US

The series will see 20 of America’s most cunning contestants, a mix of famous faces and everyday Americans, play the ultimate murder mystery game of deception and suspicion. Hosted by Alan Cumming at an ancient castle in Scotland, they will work together on exhilarating missions to build a prize fund worth up to $250,000. But hidden amongst the Faithful contestants are the Traitors, whose goal is to eliminate the Faithful and claim the prize for themselves, all the while remaining undetected. Under the cover of darkness, the Traitors will murder the Faithful one by one, and alongside this treacherous spree the players must try to uncover the Traitors and banish them from the game. If the Faithful contestants banish all the Traitors, they will share the prize fund but if a Traitor makes it to the end, they will steal all the money. It will air on BBC One as double-bills on Wednesday nights at 10.40pm for 5 weeks from 25th January. It will be available on BBC Three across three weeks as follows: Tuesday 24th January, Wednesday 25th January and Thursday 26th January, then Mon 30th January, Tuesday 31st January, Wednesday 1st February and finally Thursday 2nd February, Monday 6th February, Tuesday 7th February and Wednesday 8th February. Or the whole box set is on BBC iPlayer.

Servant: Season 4

Following the suspenseful Season 3 finale, Season 4 brings the Turner story to an epic and emotional conclusion. Leanne’s war with the Church of Lesser Saints heightens, threatening Spruce street, the city of Philadelphia and beyond. Meanwhile, the Turner family must not only confront the increasing threat of Leanne, but the certain reality that Dorothy is waking up. As the Turner family brownstone continues to crumble, questions are finally answered: who is Leanne Grayson and who is the child in their home? Episodes arrive weekly until the finale on 17th March.

Super League: The War for Football: Season 1

This four-part docuseries will document the high-stakes battle that was set off when plans for a breakaway league emerged and the past, present and future of European football collided, leaving the game’s most powerful leaders to defend, or upend, the traditions of the sport. With unprecedented access to league presidents, club owners and the architects behind the European Super League, the series brings fans the yet untold story of how and why this idea was hatched and the battle plans that were formed to fight it. All episodes arrive together.

Hunters: Season 2

The conspiracy thriller, created by David Weil and exec-produced by Academy Award-winner Jordan Peele, follows a diverse band of Nazi Hunters in 1977 New York City. The group discovers that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the USA. The eclectic team sets out on a bloody quest to bring them to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans. After an accident derails their exploits in Europe, Season 2 sees the Hunters band back together to hunt down Adolf Hitler, who’s hiding in South America. Meanwhile, a look to the past reveals Meyer Offerman (Al Pacino) encountering a dangerous threat that could unravel his secret, with explosive reverberations for the Hunters. All episodes of the final chapter arrive at once.

Week 3

The Last of Us: Season 1

Based on the critically acclaimed video game of the same name, The Last of Us takes place 20 years after modern civilisation has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal and heartbreaking journey as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey star. Episodes arrive weekly.

Mayor of Kingstown: Season 2

This crime drama follows the McLusky family, power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Jeremy Renner and Dianne West lead the cast. Episodes arrive weekly.

That 90s Show: Season 1

This legacy sequel series from That 70s Show creators Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner will see Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp reprise their roles as Red Forman and Kitty Forman. Set in 1995, it follows Leia Forman, daughter of Eric and Donna, who is visiting her grandparents for the summer, where she bonds with a new generation of Point Place kids under the watchful eye of Kitty and the stern glare of Red.

The Sex Lives of College Girls: Season 2

Created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, The Sex Lives of College Girls follows four college roommates at New England’s prestigious Essex College. The new season picks up with the students returning after their Fall break, tackling the challenges thrown their way at the end of season one, and facing their next semester filled with new faces, parties and predicaments. The series stars Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp, and Alyah Chanelle Scott. Additional series regulars for season two include Mekki Leeper, Christopher Meyer, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Lolo Spencer, Renika Williams and Mitchell Slaggert.

The Legend of Vox Machina: Season 2

After saving the realm from evil and destruction at the hands of the most terrifying power couple in Exandria, Vox Machina is faced with saving the world once again—this time, from a sinister group of dragons known as the Chroma Conclave. Episodes arrive weekly.

Truth Be Told: Season 3

Octavia Spencer reprise her role as investigative reporter turned true crime podcaster (Poppy Scoville), to take on a new case. In Season 3, Poppy, frustrated by the lack of media attention for several young missing Black girls, teams with an unorthodox principal (Gabrielle Union) to keep the victims’ names in the public eye while chasing down leads to a suspected sex trafficking ring that may have ensnared them. In addition to Union, returning cast members include series regulars Mekhi Phifer, David Lyons, Ron Cephas Jones, Merle Dandridge, Tracie Thoms, Haneefah Wood, Mychala Faith Lee and Tami Roman. Episodes arrive weekly until the finale on 24th March.

Week 4

Everyone Else Burns: Season 1

Meet the Lewises: your average, everyday Manchester family who belong to an ultra-religious order. Oh, and they reckon the world’s going to end in the next 10 years. Simon Bird, Kate O’Flynn, Amy James-Kelly and Harry Connor star in this six-part comedy, along with Morgana Robinson, Kadiff Kirwan and Lolly Adefope.
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Extraordinary: Season 1

Welcome to a world where everyone over the age of 18 develops a superpower. Everyone except for 25-year-old Jen, who feels like she’s being left behind. Luckily, Jen’s flatmates – Carrie, Kash, and a mysterious stray – keep her from falling into a well of self-pity. Adrift in a big, confusing world, and armed with nothing but a bit of hope and a lot of desperation, Jen begins her journey to find her maybe-superpower. But in doing so, she might discover the joy of simply being ordinary instead.

Shrinking: Season 1

Written by Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Ted Lasso), Brett Goldstein and Segel, this 10-episode comedy follows a grieving therapist (Jason Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives… including his own. Harrison Ford co-stars. Episodes 1 and 2 arrive together, followed by episodes weekly.

Wolf Pack: Season 1

Based on the book series by Edo Van Belkom, Wolf Pack follows a teenage boy and girl whose lives are forever changed when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature. With a cast that includes Sarah Michelle Gellar, episodes arrive weekly.

Lockwood & Co: Season 1

Based on Jonathan Stroud’s books, and written and directed by Joe Cornish, the series sees a girl with extraordinary psychic abilities join two gifted teen boys at a small ghost-hunting agency to fight the many deadly spirits haunting London. The detective thriller stars Ruby Stokes, Cameron Chapman, and Ali Hadji-Heshmati set to star alongside Ivanno Jeremiah, Luke Treadaway and Morven Christie.

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