MUST-WATCH TITLES FOR JANUARY
JANUARY 1 – HBO Max’s HARRY POTTER 20TH ANNIVERSARY: RETURN TO HOGWARTS *Special Premiere*
- Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson join filmmaker Chris Columbus and other esteemed cast members across all eight Harry Potter films, as they travel back to Hogwarts for the first time to celebrate the anniversary of the franchise’s first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which premiered 20 years ago in November 2001. The retrospective special HARRY POTTER 20TH ANNIVERSARY: RETURN TO HOGWARTS tells an enchanting making-of story through all-new, in-depth interviews, and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey through one of the most beloved film franchises of all time. The highly anticipated retrospective is set to be a capstone event of the holiday season, dropping as the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Day, Saturday, Jan. 1. In addition, the Harry Potter Collection is now streaming on Crave, including all films and the four-part competition series, HARRY POTTER: HOGWARTS TOURNAMENT OF HOUSES, hosted by Academy Award®-winning actress Helen Mirren.
JANUARY 1 – DOCTOR WHO – *Special Premiere*
- The all-new DOCTOR WHO New Year’s Day special – ‘Eve of the Daleks’, premieres Saturday, Jan. 1 at 8 p.m. ET on Crave and CTV Sci-Fi Channel. In 2022, Sarah (Aisling Bea, This Way Up) who owns and runs ELF storage, and Nick, (Adjani Salmon, Dreaming Whilst Black) a customer who visits his unit every year on New Year ’s Eve, joins the TARDIS crew – the Doctor (Jodie Whitaker), Dan (John Bishop), and Yaz, (Mandip Gill) in a fight against the Daleks.
JANUARY 7 – THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK *Movie Premiere*
- Young Anthony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini) is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark’s history, becoming a man, just as rival gangsters begin to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family’s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities–and whose influence over his impressionable nephew helps make the teenager into the all-powerful mob boss that will later be known as Tony Soprano. All six seasons of HBO’s THE SOPRANOS are available for streaming on Crave.
JANUARY 7 – HBO Max’s SEARCH PARTY *Season 5 Premiere*
- The HBO Max Original series SEARCH PARTY stars Alia Shawkat, John Reynolds, John Early, and Meredith Hagner. The first three seasons followed best friends Dory (Shawkat), Drew (Reynolds), Elliott (Early), and Portia (Hagner) through a messy private investigation, semi-accidental murder, absurd cover-up and sensational trial. In Season 4, Dory was held prisoner by her psychotic stalker (Cole Escola), forcing Drew, Elliott, and Portia to again become a search party – but this time for Dory. The much-anticipated fifth and final season sees Dory (Shawkat) enter a very public business partnership with charismatic tech billionaire Tunnel Quinn, played by guest star Jeff Goldblum, on the other side of her near death experience. Dory folds her old friends Portia (Hagner), Elliott (Early), and Drew (Reynolds) into the venture as they embark on an altruistic but terrifying journey. All 10 episodes from Season 5 drop Friday, Jan. 7 on Crave.
JANUARY 9 – HBO’s EUPHORIA *Season 2 Premiere*
- HBO’s Emmy®-winning drama EUPHORIA returns for its eight-episode second season. Created, written, and directed by Sam Levinson, and starring Emmy®-winner Zendaya, Season 2 returns to the town of East Highland, where 17-year-old Rue (Zendaya) must find hope while balancing the pressures of love, loss, and addiction. Season 2 premieres on Sunday, Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. ET, with subsequent episodes droppings Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
JANUARY 9 – HBO’s THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES *Season 2 Premiere*
- Starring Danny McBride, John Goodman, Edi Patterson, and Adam Devine, the HBO Original series THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work. Season 2 finds the blessed Gemstone family threatened by outsiders from both the past and present who wish to destroy their empire. THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES premieres its nine-episode second season with two episodes on Sunday, Jan. 9, with subsequent new episodes dropping Sundays on Crave.
JANUARY 13 – HBO Max’s PEACEMAKER *Series Premiere*
- The new HBO Max Original series PEACEMAKER, written and directed by James Gunn and starring John Cena, debuts Thursday, January 13. The series explores the origins of the character that Cena first portrayed in James Gunn’s 2021 film, The Suicide Squad (available on Crave on December 24), a compellingly vainglorious man who believes in peace at any cost, no matter how many people he has to kill to get it.
JANUARY 14 – SHOWTIME’s RAY DONOVAN: THE MOVIE *Movie Premiere*
- Following its successful seven-season run on SHOWTIME, RAY DONOVAN: THE MOVIE premieres Friday, Jan. 14 at 9 p.m. ET. The film stars Liev Schreiber in his Emmy nominated role. Schreiber also co-wrote the script with series showrunner David Hollander, who directed the film. Original cast members reprising their roles include Eddie Marsan as Ray’s brother Terry, Dash Mihok as Ray’s brother Bunchy, Pooch Hall as the Donovan’s half-brother Daryll, Kerris Dorsey as Ray’s daughter Bridget, Katherine Moennig as Lena, along with Kerry Condon as Molly Sullivan, and Oscar-winner Jon Voight as Mickey Donovan.
JANUARY 23 – SHOWTIME’s BILLIONS *Season 6 Premiere*
- On the heels of the shocking Season 5 finale the hit series returns for its sixth season on Sunday, Jan. 23 at 9 p.m. ET. Starring Oscar nominee and Emmy®-winner Paul Giamatti, Corey Stoll, and Maggie Siff, the new season sees the dust clear to reveal a world that has evolved. With Axe (Damian Lewis) gone, and Michael Prince assuming his place, Chuck (Giamatti) must develop a new strategy that is keener and more sophisticated than before. All the players, from Wags (David Costabile) to Wendy (Siff), from Taylor (Asia Kate Dillon) to Sacker (Condola Rashad), and of course Senior (Jeffrey DeMunn), must sharpen their weapons and look for new alliances in order to survive. BILLIONS follows a weekly release schedule, with new episodes dropping Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
JANUARY 24 – HBO’s THE GILDED AGE *Series Premiere*
- Written by DOWNTON ABBEY creator Julian Fellowes with Sonja Warfield, HBO’s THE GILDED AGE premieres Monday, Jan. 24. The nine-episode drama series stars an ensemble cast including Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Denée Benton, Taissa Farmiga, Jack Gilpin, Cynthia Nixon, and Christine Baranski. The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and of huge fortunes made and lost. Against the backdrop of this transformation, THE GILDED AGE begins in 1882 with young Marian Brook (Jacobson) moving from rural Pennsylvania to New York City after the death of her father to live with her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn (Baranski) and Ada Brook (Nixon). Accompanied by Peggy Scott (Benton), an aspiring writer seeking a fresh start, Marian inadvertently becomes enmeshed in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old money set, and her stupendously rich neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George (Spector) and Bertha Russell (Coon). Exposed to a world on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path?
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HIGHLIGHTS
JANUARY 1 – Kids TV, Preschool Fun, and DC Superheroes Collection
- Throughout the month of January, Crave expands its kids collection with more great family-friendly content, including the addition of ABBY HATCHER (Season 2), BOB THE BUILDER (Season 2, Episodes 13-32), BLIPPI VISITS (Season 1, Episodes 1-20), CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG (Season 1), DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD (Season 1, Episode 1-20), THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (Season 1), and more.
JANUARY 14 – NOBODY *Movie Premiere*
- Emmy winner Bob Odenkirk (BETTER CALL SAUL) stars as Hutch Mansell, an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life’s indignities on the chin and never pushing back. A nobody. When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake (Gage Munroe, The Shack), is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca (Connie Nielsen, Wonder Woman), seems to pull only further away. The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch’s long-simmering rage, triggering dormant instincts and propelling him on a brutal path that will surface dark secrets and lethal skills.
JANUARY 16 – HBO’s SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE *Series Premiere*
- Starring and executive produced by comedian and singer Bridget Everett, the seven-episode HBO original comedy series SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE premieres Sunday, January 16 at 10:30 p.m. ET. The series follows Sam (Everett), a true Kansan on the surface, but, beneath it all, struggling to fit the hometown mold. Grappling with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam’s saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a community of outsiders who don’t fit in but don’t give up, showing that finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible. Anywhere. Somewhere.
JANUARY 17 – FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK *Crave Original Documentary Premiere*
- Sometime in the 1960s, in sunny Sacramento, two Filipina-American sisters got together with other teenage girls to play music. Little did they know their garage band would evolve into the legendary rock group Fanny, the first all-women band to release an LP with a major record label (Warner/Reprise, 1970). Despite releasing five critically-acclaimed albums over five years, touring with famed bands from SLADE to CHICAGO, and amassing a dedicated fan base of music legends including David Bowie, Fanny’s groundbreaking impact in music was written out of history, until the bandmades decided to reunite 50 years later, with a new record deal. Following its premiere earlier this year at the 2021 Hot Docs Festival, FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK includes incredible archival footage of the band’s rocking past, intercut with its next chapter releasing a new LP, and interviews with a large cadre of music icons, including: Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott; Bonnie Raitt; The Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine; Todd Rundgren; The Runaways’ Cherie Currie; Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian; The B52’s Kate Pierson; and Charles Neville and David Bowie guitarist and bassist Earl Slick and Gail Ann Dorsey.
JANUARY 21 – BOLLYWOOD BONANZA COLLECTION
- Crave’s international Bollywood Bonanza Collection expands with new titles on Friday, Jan. 21. The collection, which features movies and series in Hindi, will include additional film titles such as Action Jackson, Agneepath (2012), Badlapur, Bajirao Mastani, Dabaang, Happy Bhaag jayegi, Housefull 1 & 2, Ki & Ka, Manmarzian, Ram Leela, Sarkar 3, Singham Returns, Son of Sardaar, and Yeh Jawwani Hai Dewwani.