Three Reasons to Binge: Mayor of Kingstown

ORIGINAL DRAMA There was no escaping the first installment of this Taylor Sheridan-Hugh Dillon prison-world thriller set in fictional Kingstown, Michigan, where the city's chief business is incarceration. Given last season's explosive finale, what will Season 2 bring? Available Sunday, Jan. 15

Special Forces: World's Toughest Test

PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 8/7C, FOX

The Company You Keep

PREMIERES SUNDAY, FEB. 19, 10/9c, ABC

The Pale Blue Eye

ORIGINAL FILM Just imagine if famed master of macabre fiction Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) had started his career as an aspiring poet....and a West Point cadet with a string of murders to investigate.

Star Trek: Picard

THURSDAY, FEB. 16, PARAMOUNT+

Fantasy Island

MONDAY, JAN. 2, 8/7C, FOX

AGT: All-Stars

PREMIERES MONDAY, JAN. 2, 8/7c, NBC

Your Honor

SUNDAY, JAN. 15, 9/8c, SHOWTIME

National Treasure: Edge of History

AMONG THE STREAMERS, Disney+ is where brands go to expand, sometimes for betterWanda Vision, Andor-sometimes not so much (The Book of Boba Fett).

NCIS, NCIS: HAWAI'I AND NCIS: LOS ANGELES

RETURN MONDAY, JAN. 9; 8/7c, 9/8c and 10/9c; CBS

Justified: City Primeval

PREMIERES SUMMER, FX

Vikings: Valhalla

RETURNS THURSDAY, JAN. 12, NETFLIX

Extraction 2

PREMIERES 2023, NETFLIX

Kaleidoscope

SUNDAY, JAN. 1

Onward and Upward With the Arts - Game Theory

Can a critically acclaimed video game be turned into a hit HBO series?

Will You Be Seeing Emancipation?

Less than a year after his infamous slap and weak apologies, Will Smith is back in a new Oscar contender. The star hasn't earned his way to redemption. But the movie tells a story that America urgently needs.

Primetime Dramageddon

How money, personality, and ego almost cost HBO its most acclaimed drama since Game of Thrones. An exclusive excerpt from the media read of the year.

Christina Ricci

Rarely does a performance, let alone one by a child actor, become a cultural reset for an entire generation.

Everything Has a Story in Wakanda Forever

Production designer Hannah Beachler breaks down the history hiding in the sequel's two worlds.

Winning Friends, Influencing People

How JJ Redick has gone from being one of basketball's most hated players to one of its most beloved commentators

I Made a Lifetime Christmas Movie!

Over 100 made-for-TV holiday movies will premiere this season Here's what it's like to work on one.

'The Crown' Returns to Blur the Line Between Royals, Fiction

When “The Crown” returns after a two-year absence, the splintering marriage of Charles and Diana and more woes for Queen Elizabeth II are in the drama’s elegant but intrusive spotlight.

Another Week in Paradise

The White Lotus returns.

Suddenly Sorta Spielberg

Gabriel LaBelle beat out 2,000 actors toplay a version of the famed director as a teen by embracing the meta-ness.

Can The Rock Steady the DC Universe With ‘Black Adam'?

In Hollywood’s superhero era thus far, there has been one particularly conspicuous absence: While a parade of big-name actors have taken their turns donning various spandex suits, Dwayne Johnson — arguably the biggest movie star in the world — has, until now, sat out the trend.

‘Black Adam,' a Superhero Franchise Born on a Rock

Not long into “Black Adam,” a preteen boy looks up at the muscled hulk of Dwayne Johnson and begs for his help: “We could use a superhero right now.” Speak for yourself, kid.

Podcasting Is Just Radio Now

It's been ages since the last blockbuster narrative show. What does that mean for the medium as an art form?

THE RIGHT STUFF?

Hugh Laurie is at his best when everything goes all wrong on the hilarious lost-in-space comedy Avenue 5

WHAT'S WORTH WATCHING

Your day-by-day guide to the week's best television

Walker Independence

9/8c, The CW