US launch date: January 14, Max

Death and Other Details

Mandy Patinkin goes full Hercule Poirot (minus the pristine mustache) as Rufus Cotesworth, the world’s biggest detective. He’s trapped on a luxurious ocean liner with a few of the world’s richest and strongest folks, one in every of whom could also be a assassin. It’s as much as Cotesworth and his sidekick to determine all of it out.

US launch date: January 16, Hulu

Expats

Nicole Kidman’s first huge transfer to the small display screen, in Big Little Lies, was a formidable feat for the Oscar winner. Her more moderen tv output, together with the second season of Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Nine Perfect Strangers, Roar, and the totally baffling Faraway Downs, has been extra miss than hit. Could this Prime collection, based mostly on Janice Y. Ok. Lee’s bestselling novel, flip it round? Kidman stars as Margaret, a part of a close-knit group of expatriates residing and loving in Hong Kong.

US launch date: January 26, Prime Video

Masters of the Air

More than a dozen years after The Pacific, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman are returning to World War II with Masters of the Air, the third miniseries of their struggle trilogy (which started with Band of Brothers in 2001). This time, they’re following the one centesimal Bomb Group, a gaggle that flew greater than 300 fight missions in the course of the struggle and misplaced greater than half that variety of plane, incomes them the nickname the “Bloody Hundredth.” The miniseries has been a very long time coming, with improvement first introduced by HBO again in 2012. One community change (it’s now an Apple TV+ manufacturing) and a number of other Covid-19 delays later, the huge 10-part manufacturing is lastly virtually right here with an equally huge roster of massive names, together with Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, Raff Law, and new Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa.