New ER series on HBO Max with Noah Wylie is The Pitt

The Pitt

An HBO version of ER set against the real-time clock of 24, The Pitt stars Noah Wylie as frazzled emergency room doc in a Pittsburgh trauma hospital — with each episode capturing one hour in a 12 –hour shift.  It will feel fresh to those who never saw (or don’t remember) ER, and it delivers

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Military sitcom going Dutch on hulu

Going Dutch

Denis Leary plays an outspoken U.S. Army Colonel who, after an off-the-rails rant, is reassigned to the least important army base in the world – the Netherlands — where he has to work with his estranged daughter. It’s a classic broadcast sitcom with an off-beat sense of humor, and a Dad Watch that younger generations

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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

A new twist on the long-running, iconic series goes deeper than previous incarnations and will inspire some tears as it prompts your own New Year’s reboots. Featuring The Home Edit co-founders as hosts, Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin help families facing serious hardships rebuild their homes and lives.  Thursdays on ABC at 8pm. Streaming Fridays

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Colin Firth lockerbie drama streaming on peacock

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

The first of two dramas about the aftermath of the worst terror attack in the UK’s history, the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Scotland, this one stars Colin Firth as Jim Swire, the controversial representative of the families who has spent decades pursuing the truth behind the tragedy — convinced of the

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Darby and Joan

A retired Australian detective and a widowed English nurse form an unlikely friendship as they set out across Queensland solving mysteries, facing dangers, and testing their relationships as they try and clear the detective’s good name. A “cozy mystery series” that escapes the gloom of British crime dramas and drops you into the picturesque world

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One Piece

A richly imaginative and immersive live-action adaptation that both first-time anime viewers and hardcore fans will appreciate, One Piece brings to vivid life a timeless masterpiece, transporting its vast and complex pirate-centric universe into the future.

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severance season 2 trailer

Severance S2

After ending on a cliffhanger, Apple’s breakout hit from 2022 finally returns January 17th, and you will want to play catch-up with Season 1.  The plot follows Mark (Adam Scott), a recent widower who leads a team of corporate employees whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious

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BBC crime thriller The Jetty cold case podcast

The Jetty

A compelling four-episode BBC thriller with comedic undertones that follows a recently widowed female detective on the case of a missing pregnant teenager, which draws parallels to a cold case involving another missing teen and the detective’s own fraught past. From The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan:  “The Jetty becomes a study in power relations, exploitation, innocence,

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Lisa Kudrow Ray romano no good deed netflix comedy

No Good Deed

Try and resist this ensemble comedy with an edge. Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano play empty nesters ready to sell their dreamy home in Los Angeles when they come up against three families fiercely competing to buy the place and an unexplained mystery surrounded the house.  Coming from Dead to Me‘s Liz Feldman, it comes

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Secret Level Amazon game

Secret Level

It drops you into eight different animated worlds in quick, stand-alone episodes — each of them based on a popular video game. From the 80s classic Pac-Man to Mega Man, The Outer Worlds and newer games like New World: Aeternum, the idea is a “something for everyone” sampler anthology, but you’ll be surprised by the

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