Watching This Week #136

Welcome to the January 8, 2024, edition of Watching This Week, the weekly newsletter from Where Can I Watch – covering the latest news on where TV shows and movies will be available in Canada.

As with our December 25 newsletter, this is an abbreviated edition prepared in advance, due to pre-planned travel. We intend to resume our regular newsletter format next Monday.

What's new this week – January 8–14

Compiled from our monthly listings and/or any subsequent updates we've come across. We strive for accuracy but schedules may change without notice. Some series/seasons may have weekly rollouts; we won't list new episodes every week (though we may note significant episodes such as series finales). *An asterisk denotes programming added in past weeks that we've learned about (or has been rescheduled) since our last newsletter.

• Netflix
  • Scripted series: Boy Swallows Universe (limited-series novel adaptation – Thursday); Champion (British musical drama series – Thursday); Sonic Prime (“chapter 3” – Thursday)
  • Unscripted series: Break Point (season 2 – Wednesday); The Trust: A Game of Greed (reality competition – Wednesdays through Jan. 24)
  • Films: The Kitchen (British sci-fi drama – Friday); Lift (Kevin Hart heist comedy – Friday);
• Disney+
  • Scripted series: Echo (Marvel series / Hawkeye spinoff – Tuesday); Bluey (new S3 episodes – Friday)
  • Unscripted series: Daughters of the Cult (Hulu true crime docuseries – Thursday); Science Fair: The Series (Nat Geo series, S1 – Wednesday)
• Crave
  • HBO content: Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (doc – Monday); True Detective: Night Country (Sundays)
  • Other series: The Traitors (U.S. season 2 – premieres Friday)
  • Films: The Karate Kid franchise (or at least most of it – Friday)
• Prime Video
  • Series: Hello Kitty: Super Style! (season 9) – Tuesday
  • Films: Girl’s Play (2017 Japanese film [maybe] – Thursday); Role Play (action comedy – Friday); Dumb Money (2023 dramatization of GameStop short squeeze – Saturday)
• CBC Gem
  • CBC TV series: One More Time (workplace comedy – Tuesdays); Run the Burbs (season 3 – Tuesdays); Son of a Critch (season 3 – Tuesdays); Wild Cards (crime drama – Wednesdays); Bollywed (season 2 – Sundays); Push (season 2 – Sundays)
  • Other series: Escape to the Country (season 30, part 1 – Wednesday); Summer Love (Australian anthology – Friday)
• Paramount+ (also available as a channel on Prime Video and Apple TV)
  • Films: Self Reliance (exclusive comedy thriller film – Friday)
  • Library: Epic Animal Migrations: Patagonia (Smithsonian Channel special – Wednesday)
• Apple TV+
  • Miniseries: Criminal Record (British thriller – Wednesdays)
• BritBox (also available as a channel on Prime Video and Apple TV)
  • Miniseries: Blind Spot (thriller – Wednesdany)
• CTV
  • Miniseries: Gordon Ramsay’s Road Trip: Spanish Vacation (this Thursday and next Thursday)
• CTV2
  • Series: La Brea (final season – Tuesdays)
• Showcase (also on StackTV)
  • Series: Ted (prequel series – Thursdays); Unwanted (Italy-produced drama – Fridays)
• W Network (also on StackTV)
  • Series: Smothered (British rom-com – Mondays)
• BBC First
  • Game shows: Jeopardy! (new British version – Wednesdays)
• Starz (also available as an add-on/channel on Crave, Prime Video, and Apple TV)
  • Series: Vigil (season 2 – Fridays)
  • Films: Cobweb (2023 horror film – Friday)

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