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What to Watch January 2025: See what Netflix, Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and more are bringing you in the new year

Severance season 2, The Traitors season 3, and the first season of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man are all kicking off 2025 with January release dates. We'll tell you when and where you can check them out

Severance season 2
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Maybe it's just me, but isn't it wild that I'm sitting down to write (and you're sitting down to read) a list of what's streaming in January 2025? Take away the fact that that is a number that most dystopian movies didn't even reach, and take away the fact that it's shaping up to be an absolutely bonkers year in the news, and you're still left wondering didn't 2024 start ten minutes ago?

Whatever reason you've got for the reason time is speeding up (it's those aliens over Jersey, right?), January is indeed right around the corner, and with it, a host of January streaming premieres. Popverse is all caught up on those so you don't have to be, and if you can spare a couple rapidly-accelerating minutes, we'll tell you what to watch in January 2025.

What's streaming on Netflix in January 2025

Philomena Cunk Cunk on Earth
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Our pals in the UK are starting Netflix's year off with guaranteed laughs, as January sees the platform streaming both the latest Wallace & Gromit movie, Vengeance Most Fowl, and the much-anticipated return of mockumentarian Philomena Cunk in Cunk on Life. If what you're looking for is less funny, more shocking, then Netflix also has you covered with their upcoming Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, a docuseries exploring one of America's most controversial shows.

Maybe save Wallace & Gromit until after that one, actually. You might need a palette cleanser.

Title Streaming Date Type
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever January 1 Documentary
The Love Scam January 1 Live-action movie
Missing You January 1 Live-action series
Number 24 January 1 Live-action movie
Cunk on Life January 2 Mockumentary
Stranded with my Mother-in-Law, season 2 January 2 Reality series
Bandidos, season 2 January 3 Live-action series
Love is Blind: Germany January 3 Reality series
Shafted January 3 Live-action series
Selling the City January 3 Reality series
Umjolo: My Beginning, My End! January 3 Live-action movie
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl January 3 Animated movie
When the Stars Gossip January 4 Reality series
My Happy Marriage, season 2 January 6 Animated series
WWE Raw: 2025 January 6 Live sporting event
The Breakthrough January 7 Live-action series
Gabriel Iglesias: Legend of Fluffy January 7 Comedy special
Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action January 7 Docuseries
Dubai Bling, season 3 January 8 Reality series
Hound's Hill January 8 Live-action series
I am a Killer, season 6 January 8 Docuseries
Subteran January 8 Live-action series
American Primeval January 9 Live-action series
Asura January 9 Live-action series
I am Ilary January 9 Docuseries
The Upshaws, part 6 January 9 Live-action series
Ad Vitam January 10 Live-action movie
Alpha Males, season 3 January 10 Live-action series
Sakamoto Days January 11 Animated series
Ari Shaffir: America’s Sweetheart January 14 Comedy special
Singles Inferno, season 4 January 14 Reality series
Public Disorder January 15 Live-action series
XO, Kitty, season 2 January 16 Live-action series
Back in Action January 17 Live-action movie
Young, Famous & African, season 3 January 17 Reality series
W.A.G.s to Riches January 22 Reality series
The Night Agent, season 2 January 23 Live-action series
The Sand Castle January 24 Live-action movie
Liza Treyger: Night Owl January 28 Comedy special
Six Nations: Full Contact, season 2 January 29 Docuseries
Mo, season 2 January 30 Live-action series
The Recruit, season 2 January 30 Live-action series
The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse, season 2 January 30 Animated series
Lucca's World January 31 Live-action movie
The Snow Girl, season 2 January 31 Live-action series


What's streaming on Amazon Prime Video in January 2025

On Call
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Drama On Call kicks off Amazon Prime Video's January offerings, which will be followed by the third season of fellow drama Harlem and the second season of the likewise-grounded show The Rig, though a release date is not set for the latter. But if real-life drama is what you're after, documentary series Molly-Mae: Behind it All has you covered.

Title Streaming Date Type
On Call January 9 Live-action series
LOL: Who will laugh last?, season 3 January 10 Reality series 
Molly-Mae: Behind it All January 17 Docuseries
Harlem, season 3 January 23 Live-action series
The Rig, season 2 January TBD LIve-action series


What's streaming on Hulu in January 2025

Paradise Hulu
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Top of the list for Hulu thrill-seekers next month is no doubt Paradise, the murder mystery/social commentary starring Sterling K. Brown, James Marsden, and Julianne Nicholson. Brown also produced the series, along with his This is US collaborator Dan Fogelman. And if you prefer your thrillls a little (well, a lot) less grounded, anime The Misfit of Demon King Academy will also be streaming come January 23.

Title Streaming Date Type
Unmasked, season 1 January 15 Live-action series
Roy Wood Jr.: Lonely Flowers January 17 Comedy special
Whiskey on the Rocks January 22 Live-action series
The Misfit of Demon King Academy January 23 Animated series
Paradise January 28 Live-action series


What's streaming on Max in January 2025

Harley Quinn Poison Ivy season 5
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A24's A Different Man finds a streaming home this coming month at Max, and if Oscar-contender is your vibe when it comes to movies, then you might want to give it a look. But if you're keeping up with all of Max's DC offerings, the what you're probably most excited about is the return of Harley Quinn, which promises a wild season 5. And if medical dramas scratch that need-to-watch itch for you, then brand new series The Pitt should be on your radar.

Title Streaming Date Type
Isadora Moon January 1 Animated series
The Front Room January 3 Live-action movie
The Pitt  January 9 Live-action series
Look Into My Eyes January 10 Documentary
A Different Man January 11 Live-action movie
Harley Quinn, season 5 January 16 Animated series
Mermicorno: Starfall January 16 Animated series
Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This? January TBD Comedy special


What's streaming on Disney+ in January 2025

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
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Yeah, we know, you're all lined up outside the metaphorical streaming theater all webbed-up with anticipation for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. With good cause, too, the animated series chronicling the earliest days of Peter Parker as Marvel's wall-crawler drops January 29. But won't you spare a thought (or a bing session) toward Goosebumps's upcoming Vanishing series, a show that promises to bring both body horror and longer-form frights to younger audiences? Thank you so much.

Title Streaming Date Type
Morphle: Shorts January 1 Animated shorts
UFOs: Investigating the Unknown, season 2 January 9 Docuseries
Goosebumps: The Vanishing January 10 Live-action series
My Best Friend’s An Animal January 11 Docuseries
A Real Bug’s Life January 15 Docuseries
History’s Greatest Mysteries, season 5 January 15 Docuseries
Me & Winnie the Pooh, season 2 January 18 Animated series
Kiff: Lore of the Ring Light January 22 Animated series
To Catch a Smuggler: Tropical Takedown January 22 Docuseries
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man January 29 Animated series
Foods that Built America, season 5 January 29 Docuseries
Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup January 29 Docuseries
Pirates: Behind the Legends January 29 Docuseries


What's coming to Apple TV+ in January 2025

Severance
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Apple TV+ has been proving itself more and more as the streaming world's home for prestige science fiction drama, perhaps best exemplified in the Adam Scott-starring dystopian workplace thriller Severance. After almost a three-year wait, fans are finally getting the chance to plumb its mysteries the coming January. And not for nothing, award winning comedy Mythic Quest is also returning - it may not be science fiction, but it is about the behind-the-scenes of a popular gaming franchise, which we'd say is pretty close.

Title Streaming Date Type
Severance, season 2 January 17 Live-action series
Prime Target  January 22 Live-action series
Eva the Owlet, season 2 January 24 Animated series
Mythic Quest, season 4 January 24 Live-action series


What's coming to Peacock in January 2025

The Traitors Alan Cumming
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Severance this, Spider-Man that, yours truly is here to watch Alan Cumming be mean to people in a castle. I guess that's why I'm so excited fro the return of backstabathon The Traitors, Peacock's smash hit reality show that puts stars of the genre in a game of deception and distraction. Maybe the other shows on this list have a bit of that going on too, but do any of them have Alan's style?

I thought not.

Title Streaming Date Type
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth January 2 Live-action series
The Traitors, season 3 January 9 Live-action series

 


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Grant DeArmitt

Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. As Popverse's Staff Writer, he criss-crosses the pop culture landscape bringing you the news and opinions about the big things (and the next big things). In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.

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