The 5 New and Under-the-Radar TV Shows You Can’t Miss in January

By Amy Amatangelo  |  January 3, 2025 | 9:30am
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The 5 New and Under-the-Radar TV Shows You Can’t Miss in January

I hope no one made a new year’s resolution to watch less TV in 2025, because television is coming in hot this January.

Noah Wyle returns to his roots as an ER doc in Max’s new series The Pitt on January 9. Severance finally returns with its second season, three years after the first debuted on Apple TV+. After a two-year absence, Netflix’s The Night Agent finally returns for season two on January 23. Disney+ has Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on January 29. Harley Quinn, Mythic Quest, and The Traitors are all back this month. And, lest we forget, the 2025 reboot of a certain dark and dystopian political drama begins its second run on January 20, after a too-brief four-year gap.

And that barely scratches the surface. With so much happening on TV this month, you might need a guide—and here are our picks for the five new TV shows you can’t miss this month. 

1. Going Dutch

Stars:  Denis Leary, Taylor Misiak, Danny Pudi, Laci Mosley and Hal Cumpston

Premiere Date:  January 2 at 9:30 p.m. on FOX

For the most part, Fox took the fall off from launching any new shows. The network is making up for lost time by premiering two new series this January: the medical drama Doc on January 8 and Going Dutch. Denis Leary, last seen causing all sorts of trouble on Netflix’s No Good Deed, headlines and executive produces this new comedy. Leary stars as Colonel Patrick Quinn, a career military man who, after his profanity-laced comments get caught on camera, gets reassigned to a base in the Netherlands—a.k.a. “the least important base in the world.” He not only takes command of a military base that has no weapons or purpose, but once there he also must try to forge a relationship with his estranged daughter Captain Maggie Quinn (Taylor Misiak). Joe Morton guests as Patrick’s commanding officer/nemesis who freely admits he reassigned Patrick to the Netherlands because he knew it would drive him insane.

2. Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

Stars:  Colin Firth, Catherine McCormack, Rosanna Adams, Jemma Carlton, Harry Redding, Sam Troughton, Mark Bonner, Ardalan Esmaili, and Selwa Jghalef

Premiere Date:  All five episodes premiere January 2 on Peacock 

One December 21, 1988, 270 people (259 passengers and crew and 11 people on the ground) were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland. It was the largest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom. This five episode series, a joint production between Peacock and Sky, follows Dr. Jim Swire’s (Colin Firth) relentless quest to find out what really happened on that fatal flight. Swire’s oldest daughter Flora (Rosanna Adams) was a medical student on her way to spend Christmas with her boyfriend when she died. Although the drama offers several different perspectives on what actually happened, Swire’s determination to uncover the truth drives the series. 

3. Hollywood Squares

Stars:  Drew Barrymore and Nate Burleson

Premiere Date:  January 9 at 8:00 p.m. on CBS

Everything old is new again in this CBS’s remake of the popular game show that dominated pop culture in the 1960s and ‘70s and has had several reincarnations since then, mostly recently in the early 2000’s with Whoopi Goldberg in the center square. In each episode, two contestants play a real life version of tic-tac-toe and choose celebrities to answer their questions. Nate Burleson hosts and Drew Barrymore takes over the famed center square. Celebrities in the first run of episodes include Tyra Banks, Julie Bowen, Whitney Cummings, Tiffany Haddish, Thomas Lennon, Ms. Pat, Tichina Arnold, Nicole Byer, Drew Carey, Pete Holmes, Debi Mazar, Bobby Moynihan and Chelsea Peretti.

4. The Couple Next Door

Stars:  Sam Heughan, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jessica De Gouw and Alfred Enoch

Premiere Date: January 17 at 9 p.m. on Starz

Premiering on Starz immediately after the seventh season finale of Outlander, this six-part psychological thriller about two couples whose fates become intertwined finally comes to America over a year after its UK debut. After Evie (Eleanor Tomlinson) and Pete (Alfred Enoch) move into a seemingly idyllic neighborhood, they befriend Danny (Sam Heughan) and Becka (Jessica De Gouw). But, as is often the case in TV versions of suburbia (see Desperate Housewives), nothing is as innocent as it seems. They soon learn Danny and Becka have an open marriage and, well, you can probably do the math from there. 

5. Prime Target

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Stars:  Leo Woodall, Quintessa Swindel, Stephen Rea, David Morrissey, Martha Plimpton, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Jason Flemyng, Harry Lloyd, Ali Suliman, Fra Fee and Joseph Mydell 

Premiere Date: The first two episodes premiere January 22, 2025 on AppleTV+  followed by one episode weekly every Wednesday until the finale on March 5.

Who knew math could be this dramatic? Leo Woodall stars as Edward Brooks, a mathematics graduate student who finds himself as the center of a global conspiracy when he realizes his discovery of a prime number pattern may hold the key to every computer in the world. Quintessa Swindel co-stars as the NSA agent charged with monitoring Edward’s behavior. Woodall will next be seen opposite Renee Zellweger in the upcoming fourth Bridget Jones movie. 

Amy Amatangelo, the TV Gal®, is a Boston-based freelance writer and a member of the Television Critics Association. She wasn’t allowed to watch much TV as a child and now her parents have to live with this as her career. You can follow her on Twitter (@AmyTVGal).

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