Jan. 10 – Jan. 16
A ‘Star Wars’ marathon, the worm turns for P. Diddy & bugs come to ‘Life’
All times Eastern.
FRIDAY, Jan. 10
Goosebumps: The Vanishing
New season begins tonight of the scarifying anthology series based on books by R.L. Stein and starring David Schwimmer, Ana Ortiz and more (Hulu).
SATURDAY, Jan. 11
Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story
Knock knock! Who’s there? Terror, you dope! Dascha Polanco from Orange is the New Black stars in this true-story thriller about a woman who makes a life-or-death decision to protect her family when robbers break into the home (Lifetime).
Star Wars Movie Marathon
Spend a day with Star Wars and Rouge One: A Star Wars Story, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (starts 11:30 a.m., TBS).
SUNDAY, Jan. 12
Rogue Heroes
Season two takes wing of this military drama about the British Army’s Special Air Forces in World War II. Starring Connor Swindells, Jack O’Connell and Gwilyn Lee (MGM+).
MONDAY, Jan. 13
Without Arrows
Follow the journey of a traditional “grass dancer” from Philadelphia who embraces his cultural roots as a Lakota and returns to the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota (10 p.m., PBS).
Death By Fame
New season of the series probing the dark undersides of Hollywood murder and celebrity misfortune (9 p.m., ID).
TUESDAY, Jan. 14
Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy
What did Diddy do? Find out the dark forces, detours and influences that shaped the once-successful rapper and music mogul (above) into the jailed man now charged with underage sex trafficking and racketeering in this 90-minute documentary with interviews from people who know him, knew him and now reveal his troubling past (Peacock).
Journey to America
Newt and Callista Gingrich narrate this documentary about individuals who’ve pursued the American dream and contributed to the fabric of its society (10 p.m., PBS).
The Curious Case of…
Real-life scandals suggest that truth is far more chilling than fiction (Max).
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 15
A Real Bug’s Life
Meet more tiny heroes with huge dramas in season two about the weird, wild and wonderful world of insects, narrated by Awkwafina (Disney+),
An Update on Our Family
Explore the symbiotic world of vlogging where families share a steady stream of lifestyle videos on their social media channels and subscribers give them money to continue. Are they making themselves too public? (Max).
THURSDAY, Jan. 16
Long Bright River
Amanda Seyfried stars in new suspense series as a Philly cop investigating a series of murders—and discovering that her own past may become part of a case (Peacock).
Harley Quinn
Kaley Cuoco returns the voice of the female superhero in this new season of this adult-oriented animated series (above) based on DC Comics characters (Max).
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Acclaimed for his gritty, sometimes unflinching black-and-white pictures of New York street life in the 1930s and ‘40s, from slums to cops and crime victims, the photographer known as Weegee gets a thorough examination in Weegee: Society of the Spectacle (Thames & Hudson). Later, in Hollywood, he became a photo “trickster” and a chronicler of the high life. Find out the two sides of this fascinating man who saw the world—the highs and the lows, the bad and the good—through his camera.
Monkey see, monkey do—and monkey make monkeyshines, as you’ll find out in Monkey Tales from Around the World (McFarland), a simian-centric compendium of all the ways apes, chimps and others from our closet genetic kin have enriched our folklore and pop culture as jesters, troublemakers or even heroes…and what they teach us about being human.
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