The first week of January always feels like a reset button — fresh calendars, fresh habits and, naturally, a fresh slate of new TV shows premiering on Netflix, Prime Video, other streaming services, broadcast and cable TV.
This week leans into that clean-slate energy with big swings and bigger stakes, from "The Pitt" returning for season 2 and "The Night Manager" finally back for a follow-up, to "Industry" season 4 raising the temperature and "The Traitors" season 4 delivering its usual cocktail of paranoia and betrayal.
Add the Golden Globes into the mix, and you’ve got prestige, spectacle and scheming all colliding at once. Here's our guide on the top new TV shows to check out this week.
‘Best Medicine’ (Fox)
“Best Medicine” leans hard into the familiar “big-city doctor in a quirky small town” setup. A remake of the long-running British favorite “Doc Martin,” it knows exactly what comfort-food lane it’s in. Josh Charles stars as Dr. Martin Best, a brilliant Boston surgeon who retreats to the Maine fishing village of his childhood summers and immediately offends just about everyone.
The locals are nosy, the cases are odd and Martin’s famously terrible bedside manner (plus an inconvenient fear of blood) doesn’t help. Abigail Spencer, Annie Potts and Josh Segarra round out the ensemble cast.
Episode 1 premieres Tuesday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox (via Sling, Fubo or YouTube TV)
‘Girl Taken’ (Paramount+)
In this British psychological thriller miniseries, the worst part isn’t the kidnapping — it’s what comes after. Adapted from Hollie Overton’s novel “Baby Doll,” it centers on twin sisters Lily and Abby after Lily escapes years of captivity by a trusted local teacher. She makes it home, but home has moved on without her.
The family has been shattered, the town is uneasy and the man who destroyed their lives is still free, spinning his own version of events. “Girl Taken” digs into trauma, sisterhood and the long shadow a crime leaves behind.
All 6 episodes premiere Thursday, Jan. 8 at 3 a.m. ET on Paramount+
‘His & Hers’ (Netflix)
Two sides to every story, and in this mystery thriller, neither feels especially trustworthy. Tessa Thompson stars as Anna Andrews, a once-familiar Atlanta news anchor living in self-imposed exile until a murder in her Georgia hometown jolts her back into the world and onto the case.
That world includes Jon Bernthal’s Jack Harper, the local detective and estranged husband who views Anna less as help and more as a problem. Set in oppressive Southern heat and thick with mistrust, this Alice Feeney adaptation is built on buried history and dueling truths. Pick a side if you dare.
All 6 episodes premiere Thursday, Jan. 8 at 3 a.m. ET on Netflix
‘The Pitt’ season 2 (HBO Max)
It’s time to scrub back in for another white-knuckle shift inside Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, and season 2 wastes no time amping up the adrenaline. Set over a chaotic Fourth of July weekend, the action kicks off as a cyberattack at a nearby hospital floods the ER with patients.
Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) is eyeing a much-needed sabbatical, Dana Evans is back after taking some time off, and a newly sober Dr. Langdon gets tossed straight into triage. Fireworks outside, controlled panic inside — business as usual on “The Pitt.”
Episode 1 premieres Thursday, Jan. 8 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO Max
‘The Traitors’ season 4 (Peacock)
“The Traitors” returns for season 4 with a fresh crop of suspicious Faithfuls, gleefully ruthless Traitors and absolutely zero chill. The castle fills up with reality TV chaos agents and unexpected wild cards, from “Real Housewives” Lisa Rinna and Porsha Williams to “Top Chef” winner/host Kristen Kish to Olympians Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski, all chasing a $250,000 prize.
Overseeing the mayhem, capes swishing and side-eyes sharp, Alan Cumming once again turns betrayal into high art inside the most dangerous castle on television.
Episodes 1-3 premiere Thursday, Jan. 8 at 9 p.m. ET on Peacock
‘Tehran’ season 3 (Apple TV)
After the season 2 finale blew up Tamar Rabinyan’s world, “Tehran” returns darker and even less forgiving. Season 3 finds Mossad hacker-turned-fugitive Tamar (Niv Sultan) scrambling to survive the city’s shadow war after losing her allies and safety net. To stay alive, she’ll have to reinvent herself and somehow claw back Mossad’s trust.
The tension ramps up with the arrival of Hugh Laurie as a nuclear inspector circling Iran’s underground program, while familiar adversaries like Faraz (Shaun Toub) keep the pressure relentless. It’s espionage that feels uncomfortably current — and all the more gripping for it.
Episode 1 premieres Friday, Jan. 9 at 3 a.m. ET on Apple TV
‘A Thousand Blows’ season 2 (Hulu)
One year after that gut-punch finale, Stephen Knight’s “A Thousand Blows” comes back swinging. Season 2 finds the East End in rougher shape than ever, with Sugar Goodson (Stephen Graham) drinking himself into oblivion and Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) hollowed out by grief.
Then, Mary Carr (Erin Doherty) storms back into town with Alice Diamond (Darci Shaw) at her side, ready to reclaim the Forty Elephants and her crown. The show doubles down on bad decisions and dangerous alliances, with every scheme carrying an even steeper price.
Episode 1 premieres Friday, Jan. 9 at 3 a.m. ET on Hulu
‘Coldwater’ (Paramount+)
What’s just as scary as zombies? “Friendly” neighbors. Andrew Lincoln, best known for leading “The Walking Dead,” headlines this British thriller as a stay-at-home dad who uproots his family from London to a remote Scottish town after a playground incident rattles him to the core.
There, he’s quickly drawn into the orbit of Tommy (Ewen Bremner), a charismatic local whose chumminess curdles into something far more unsettling. Sometimes a fresh start can become your biggest nightmare.
Episode 1 premieres Friday, Jan. 9 at 3 a.m. ET on Paramount+ Premium
‘The Night Manager’ season 2 (Prime Video)
Ten years after it first made a splash, “The Night Manager” slips back onto the screen like it never really left. Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) has traded the spotlight for a false name, quietly doing surveillance for MI6 and convincing himself that the ghosts of his past are finally at rest. They aren’t.
A familiar voice drags him back into the shadows, where a fresh arms-dealing web is taking shape around Colombian kingpin Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva). With Angela Burr (Olivia Colman) once again steering Pine toward danger and loyalties unraveling at every turn, season 2 proves that for a spy like Pine, retirement is just another cover story.
Episodes 1-3 premiere Sunday, Jan. 11 at 3 a.m. ET on Prime Video
‘The 83rd Annual Golden Globes’ (CBS)
Awards season kicks off in earnest with the Golden Globe Awards, a glamorous ceremony combining film and television honors. Nikki Glaser returns to host, which means the jokes should be sharp enough to kill (figuratively). This year also makes room for something new: the Globes’ first-ever Best Podcast category.
On the nomination front, “One Battle After Another” dominates the film field, while HBO’s glossy resort murder machine “The White Lotus” leads the TV side. Expect champagne-fueled speeches, bleeped-out expletives, heartwarming moments and divisive wins.
Special premieres Sunday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS (via Fubo or YouTube TV) or Paramount+ Premium
‘Industry’ season 4 (HBO)
“Industry” returns after burning down the house. From the ashes, a new, equally cutthroat story rises. The season 3 finale snapped shut the Pierpoint era and flung its characters into new circles where the money’s better and the morals somehow worse.
Harper (Myha’la) and Yasmin (Marisa Abela) resurface, wary of each other as a glossy fintech startup sparks a high-stakes, globe-hopping cash grab. Yasmin’s marriage to Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington) is strained almost on arrival, Harper drifts back toward self-distruction with familiar ease, and Eric (Ken Leung) keeps clawing for relevance. One chapter closed; the next looks even messier.
Episode 1 premieres Sunday, Jan. 11 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max
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