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TV Calendar for January
With the New Year upon us, the major networks are gearing up for the return of their regular programming, the introduction of various new series and more made-for-TV movies. There is going to be a lot to watch on TV in the coming weeks so use the following as a guide for your viewing pleasure:
January 1 – An all-day marathon of The Lying Game will air on ABC Family from 9 AM to 7 PM
January 2 – Pretty Little Liars will air an all-day marathon on ABC Family from 11 AM to 8 PM followed by the return of all new episodes at 8 PM
January 2 – The Lying Game will be back with new episodes on ABC Family at 9 PM
January 2 – Hawaii Five-0 will be back with new episodes starting at 10 PM on CBS
January 3 – Parenthood will return with new episodes at 10 PM on NBC
January 3 – Body of Proof will be back on ABC at 10 PM
January 3 – Switched at Birth will return with new episodes on ABC Family at 8 PM
January 3 – The new drama Jane by Design will debut on ABC Family at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: Jane Quimby (Erica Dasher), a quirky teen with an eclectic chic fashion sense, who lands a job at a hip fashion house when they mistake her for an adult. Torn between her love of fashion and the need to finish high school, Jane conceals her true age to assist the demanding, but talented Gray Chandler Murray (Andie MacDowell), who travels the world in search of the next big style trend. Jane quickly learns that working for a successful executive in the cutthroat world of fashion is not a glamorous as she once thought. But with help from her best friend Billy Nutter (Nicholas Roux), Jane tries to keep up appearances as she toggles between two lives and guard her secret. Even with Billy’s support, will Jane’s ruse be a passing fad, or will she be able to fashion a career in the design business?
January 3 – NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and Unforgettable will all be back with new episodes on CBS at 8, 9 and 10 PM respectively
January 4 – The new drama Revenge will be back with new episodes on ABC at 10 PM
January 5 – The Vampire Diaries and The Secret Circle return with new episodes on The CW at 8 and 9 PM respectively
January 5 – Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice will both be back on ABC at 9 and 10 PM respectively
January 6 – Nikita and Supernatural are back on The CW with more new episodes at 8 and 9 PM respectively
January 6 – Merlin will be back with all new episodes starting on Syfy at 10 PM
January 6 – A Gifted Man, CSI: NY and Blue Bloods will all be back on CBS with new episodes at 8, 9 and 10 PM respectively
January 7 – The Hallmark Channel movie Fixing Pete will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Brooke Burns stars as an emerging fashion editor and notorious perfectionist who is assigned to makeover a disheveled and famously immature sports writer. The cast includes Dylan Bruno, (Numb3rs), Stacey Keibler, John Ratzenberger (Cheers), Charlie Schlatter (Diagnosis Murder) and Valerie Harper (Rhoda).
January 8 – Once Upon a Time, Desperate Housewives and Pan Am will all be back on ABC with more new episodes at 8, 9 and 10 PM respectively
January 8 – The new series The Firm will debut on NBC with a two-hour premiere at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: Picking up 10 years after the events of the 1993 feature film for which the show is based on the series finds lawyer Mitch McDeere, who worked with the FBI to bring down a Memphis law firm associated with the Chicago mob, coming out of near total isolation after his family spent a decade in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The cast includes Josh Lucas, Callum Keith Rennie, Molly Parker and Juliette Lewis.
January 8 – The award-winning mini-series Downton Abbey is back for another season (this time a 7-part run) on PBS starting tonight at 9 PM
Mini-Series Synopsis: The action will pick up two years after that fated garden party in which the Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) announced that England was at war with Germany.
January 8 – The Good Wife and CSI: Miami will be back with new episodes on CBS at 9 and 10 PM respectively
January 9 – Castle returns with new episodes on ABC at 10 PM
January 11 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will return at 10 PM on NBC
January 11 – The People’s Choice Award will be presented on CBS at 9 PM
January 11 – One Tree Hill will air its final season premiere on The CW at 8 PM
January 12 – The mid-season finale of Bones will air on FOX at 8 PM as a lead-in to its temporary replacement and spin-off The Finder which will debut at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: Geoff Stults (October Road) stars as Walter Sherman an Iraq war veteran who gained a reputation while in the Army Military Police as someone who was very good at tracking down insurgents, deserters and IED’s until one found him. The resulting brain damage from that explosion transformed him from someone skilled at recovering people and things into something much more extraordinary. Michael Clarke Duncan co-stars.
January 12 – The Firm will move to its regular timeslot at 10 PM on NBC
January 12 – Person of Interest and The Mentalist will be back with new episodes on CBS at 9 and 10 PM respectively
January 13 – Fringe returns with more new episodes on FOX at 9 PM
January 14 – The US premiere of the BBC series The Fades will debut on BBC America at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: Seventeen-year old geek Paul (Iain De Caestecker) is haunted by apocalyptic dreams that his therapist can’t explain. Neither can best friend and fellow social outcast, Mac (Daniel Kaluuya) or unsympathetic and much cooler twin sister, Anna (Lily Loveless). To make matters worse, Paul has started seeing the spirits of the dead (known as Fades) all around him.
January 14 – The Hallmark Channel movie A Taste of Romance will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Teri Polo stars a uptight French chef Sara Westbrook, who gets fired up when her upscale café, Chez Varenne, is suddenly overshadowed by a new restaurant moving in next door run by a group of rowdy firemen. Led by handsome former fire fighter Gill Callahan (James Patrick Stuart) and his friend Danny (Rockmond Dunbar), The Five Alarm Grill is soon a big success while Sara and Patsy (Rosy Rosemont), her pastry chef, struggle to bring in customers. Sara suddenly softens when she meets Gill’s ten-year-old daughter Hannah (Bailee Madison) who she can’t help but take under her wing when she learns Hannah, like herself, is growing up without a mom. Ignoring the obvious tension between her dad and Sara, Hannah is soon playing matchmaker.
January 15 – The Golden Globe Awards will be presented on NBC at 8 PM
January 15 – Leverage will be back on TNT at 9 PM
January 15 – The first two seasons of the BBC series Mistresses will air on BBC America from 9 AM to 8 PM in preparation for the debut of season 3 of the series on January 18
January 16 – Being Human (the US version) will be back for the start of its second season on Syfy at 9 PM followed by the debut of season 1 of the hit Canadian series Lost Girl at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: The series follows supernatural seductress Bo (Anna Silk) a Succubus who feeds on the sexual energy (sometimes called “Chi”) of humans. Growing up with human parents, Bo has no reason to believe she’s anything other than the girl next door – until she drains her boyfriend to death in their first sexual encounter. Once she hits the road, Bo discovers she is one of the Fae, creatures of legend and folklore, who pass as humans while feeding off them secretly, as they have for millennia. Relieved yet horrified to find out that she is not alone, Bo is faced with choosing an allegiance between the Dark and Light Fae clans. Bo decides to take the middle path between the humans and the Fae while embarking on a personal mission to unlock the secrets of her origin. With the help of her human sidekick, Kenzi (Ksenia Solo), Bo takes on a challenge every week helping a Fae or human client who comes to her to solve a mystery, or to right a wrong. Already in a love triangle with Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried), a sexy Fae working as a human police detective, and the beautiful human scientist, Lauren (Zoie Palmer) who works for the Fae, Bo’s love life is about to get even more complicated.
January 16 – Gossip Girl will be back with new episodes on The CW at 8 PM
January 16 – The two-hour debut of the new FOX drama Alcatraz will debut at 8 PM
Show Synopsis: Sarah Jones (Sons of Anarchy), Jorge Garcia (Lost) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) star as a unique team investigating the shocking reappearance of Alcatraz’s most notorious prisoners, 50 years after they vanished.
January 17 – White Collar will be back for the remainder of its current season on the USA Network at 9 PM
January 17 – Southland will be back on TNT at 10 PM
January 17 – 90210 will be back on The CW at 8 PM
January 17 – A new season of Justified will start at 10 PM on FX
January 17 – Glee will be back with new episodes on FOX at 8 PM
January 18 – The season 3 US premiere of the BBC series Mistresses will debut on BBC America at 10 PM
Show Synopsis: Shelley Conn (Terra Nova), Orla Brady (Fringe), Sharon Small (About a Boy) and Sarah Parish (The Pillars of the Earth) return in the third and final season of the sexy and sophisticated drama Mistresses. The drama opens as Katie calls the girls together having not seen each other for five months, before slipping back into the past to reveal what happened. When one of the girls reveals a secret, will they realize they’re better off with than without each
other?
January 18 – Royal Pains will be back with new episodes on the USA Network at 10 PM
January 18 – Criminal Minds and CSI will be back with new episodes on CBS at 9 and 10 PM
January 21 – The Lifetime movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Rob Lowe will star in this true story that follows the fascinating tale of police officer Drew Peterson’s fall from grace after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife. Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) co-stars.
January 22 – The movie A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song on ABC Family will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Over-worked, harried and terrified of being put in foster care, 17-year-old Katie Gibbs (Lucy Hale) does her stepmother Gail (Missi Pyle) and step-siblings Beverly’s (Megan Park) bidding without complaining. She’s constantly harassed by her stepbrother. At school, Guy Morgan, the owner at the Massive Records Company enrolls his son into the school where Gail is headmistress. Katie sneaks her own-made tape into Guy’s briefcase. Guy wants his son, Luke (Freddie Stroma) to produce the showcase and start following in his footsteps which Luke is less than excited about.
January 23 – The new CW series Hart of Dixie will be back with new episodes at 9 PM
January 23 – House will be back with new episodes on FOX at 8 PM with Alcatraz moving to its regular timeslot at 9 PM
January 25 – The new FOX series Touch will have a special preview at 9 PM [the series will premiere on March 19]
Show Synopsis: Kiefer Sutherland plays a widower and single father who is haunted by an inability to connect to his mute 11-year-old son. But everything changes when he discovers that his son possesses the gift of staggering genius – the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events.
January 27 – The final two episodes of Chuck will air on NBC at 8 and 9 PM
January 27 – Spartacus: Vengeance will premiere at 10 PM on Starz
January 28 – The Hallmark Movie Channel will debut the sequel film Goodnight for Justice: The Measure of a Man at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Luke Perry returns to the lawless frontier in this sequel about a once fun-loving lawyer, but now-respectable Circuit Judge John Goodnight, who has become a stickler for the lawbooks with an aversion to arrogant attorneys. Traveling alone through the Wild West,
Goodnight is unhappy when he finds himself in a dusty town’s courtroom with Lucius Breed, a malicious prosecutor. Things brighten up for Goodnight when he spots a beautiful girl and realizes she is Callie Bluepoint, a former flame from his Chicago days who he learns is now a widow. Before John has much time to preside over Breed’s tireless cases or spend more time with Callie, he witnesses a murderous bank robbery by the dangerous masked outlaw Deke
Spradling and his gang of bandits, who have been terrorizing the town for months
January 28 – The Lifetime movie The Pregnancy Pact will debut at 8 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Based on the true story of Gaby Rodriguez, the 18-year-old Washington state high school student who pretended to be pregnant in an effort to explore conventional stereotypes and the treatment of pregnant teens. Alexa Vega (Spy Kids franchise) and Judy Reyes (Scrubs) star.
January 29 – The SAG Awards will be aired on TNT and TBS at 8 PM
January 29 – The new HBO series Luck will air its official series premiere at 9 PM
Show Synopsis: A TV series centered around characters who are tied to the same horse-racing track. The series stars Dustin Hoffman, Nick Nolte, Dennis Farina and Jason Gedrick.
January 29 – The Hallmark Hall of Fame movie A Smile as Big as the Moon will debut on ABC at 9 PM
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: John Corbett (Sex and the City and Northern Exposure) stars as a high school football coach and special-education teacher who worked to achieve an impossible dream — to take a class of special-education students to NASA’s Space Camp. The cast includes Jessy Schram (Falling Skies) and Cynthia Watros (Lost).
January 31 – Ringer will be back with new episodes on The CW at 9 PM
Mark your calendar!
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