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What To Watch This Week

Sunday

The third season of the acclaimed, then not-so acclaimed, series True Detective returns tonight.

The National Geographic mini-series Valley of the Boom about tech companies in the 1990s premieres Sunday.

Monday

From the novel of the same name, the FOX series about vampires threatening an apocalypse The Passage premiers today.

Tuesday

The reboot of the popular early 2000s The WB series Roswell launches tonight as Roswell, New Mexico on The CW.

Wednesday

Based on the comic book of the same name about a teen school for assassins, Wanted , Deadly Class debuts on Syfy today.

The fifth (!!!) season of the enjoyable Canadian sitcom Schitt’s Creek premiers tonight on POP.

Described as one of the scariest movies ever made, The Haunting from 1963 airs this evening on TCM.

Thursday

The second season of the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery launches today.

Friday

All episodes of the second season of The Punisher are available on Netflix Friday.

The M. Night Shyamalan film Glass that’s a sequel to Split which itself was a secret sequel to Unbreakable premiers in theaters today.

TV

What We Do in the Shadows teaser

Punisher second season commercial

Movies

Captain Marvel trailer

The Reading & Watch List

• Before Social Media Killed Hollywood Nightlife: Never-Before-Seen Photos of Young Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Gosling and More
• SEEN, READ 2018
• The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons & Dragons makes its way to the Inland Northwest
• David Chase on ‘The Sopranos,’ Trump and, Yes, That Ending

Cool Posters of the Week

Movies

Remember when movie stars used to shun doing TV commercials since they were more interested in credibility than the extra few bucks a commercial would bring? Now stars will shill for anything from booze to hotels.

What To Watch This Week

Tuesday

he fictional History channel series about the real-life government investigation of UFOs in the 1950s and 1960s Project Blue Book premiers today.

The Ryan Gosling starring Neil Armstrong biopic First Man is available for digital download today.

Wednesday

The second attempt at a 1990s The Goldbergs spin-off premiers tonight as Schooled on ABC. (The first attempt aired as an episode of The Goldbergs early last year entitled “The Goldbergs: 1990-Something.”)

The final season of the show You’re the Worst debuts on FXX tonight.

Thursday

The sixth season of the former FOX series Brooklyn Nine-Nine premiers tonight on its new network NBC.

TV

The Punisher second season commercial

Stranger Things third season date announcement

The Reading & Watch List

• The US military put a fake Chinese J–20 stealth fighter at a Georgia airbase
• The Man Behind Most of the Ski Maps in America
• Chilling discovery: ice house found under London street

Cool Movie & TV Posters of the Week

What To Watch This Week

Because it’s right in the middle of the holiday season here in the US, there’s not a whole lot new to watch this week.

Thursday

The fifth and final season of Gotham debuts on FOX tonight. I was surprised to see this one already has over 80 episodes in it.

Friday

After an absence of nearly SIX years, the third season of the animated series Young Justice, now called Young Justice: Outsiders premieres on the DC Universe streaming service today. Young Justice was one of my favorite animated series and I’m excited about its return.

Movies

Us movie trailer

Cool Sites

• The Fabuleous Fifties:I am a Dutch television writer, who has written about comics and television for a number of publications here in Holland and in the US.

The Reading & Watch List

• Universal Bombs With Its Two VFX-Driven Films: ‘Mortal Engines’ And ‘Welcome To Marwen’

Cool Movie & TV Posters of the Week